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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 474 › COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES v. KLING
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES v. KLING, 474 U.S. 936 (1985)
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES v. KLING , 474 U.S. 936 (1985)
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES et al.
Mary L. KLING.
Rehearing Denied Jan. 21, 1986.
See 474 U.S. 1097.
On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The petition for writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is reversed. Anderson v. Bessemer City, 470 U.S. 564 ( 1985).
Opinion on remand, 782 F.2d 1510.
Respondent is afflicted with Crohn's disease. Although originally accepted, her application for admission to the Los Angeles County School of Nursing was ultimately denied, at least in part, because of the school physician's opinion that the school program was "too stressful" for her. Finding of Fact No. 12, App. to Pet. for Cert. D-40. Nevertheless, the District Court concluded that respondent had "failed to show that she was denied admission to the School solely by reason of her affliction or because she had Crohn's disease." Finding of Fact No. 18, App. to Pet. for Cert. D-43. Based on this critical finding, the District Court denied respondent any relief under 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U. S.C. 794.
Page 474 U.S. 936 , 937
Justice MARSHALL dissents from this summary disposition, which has been ordered without affording the parties prior notice or an opportunity to file briefs on the merits. See Maggio v. Fulford, 462 U.S. 111, 120- 121, 2265-2266 (1983) (MARSHALL, J., dissenting); Wyrick v. Fields, 459 U.S. 42, 51-52, 398 (1982) (MARSHALL, J., dissenting).
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed. After reviewing the prior history of the case and explaining why it had previously reversed the District Court's order denying respondent's motion for a preliminary injunction, the Court of Appeals wrote:
"The trial in the district court did not produce substantially different evidence from that which we considered in Kling I. The district court's findings are clearly erroneous and in many instances are inconsistent. We find that Mary Kling is an 'otherwise qualified handicapped individual' within the meaning of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act 1 and that she was denied admission to the School of Nursing solely because of her handicap. [Footnote 2] The school's physician, Dr. Crary, rejected Kling because she suffers from Crohn's Disease. He assumed that merely because of her disease she would be unable to complete the school's program. He did not evaluate her on an individual basis and even testified that had he known more about Kling's medical history, he would have been 'swayed very strongly toward acceptance.' It is precisely this type of general assumption about a handicapped person's ability that section 504 was designed to avoid. See [474 U.S. 936 , 938]
"The trial in the district court did not produce substantially different evidence from that which we considered in Kling I. The district court's findings are clearly erroneous and in many instances are inconsistent. We find that Mary Kling is an 'otherwise qualified handicapped individual' within the meaning of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act 1 and that she was denied admission to the School of Nursing solely because of her handicap. [Footnote 2] The school's physician, Dr. Crary, rejected Kling because she suffers from Crohn's Disease. He assumed that merely because of her disease she would be unable to complete the school's program. He did not evaluate her on an individual basis and even testified that had he known more about Kling's medical history, he would have been 'swayed very strongly toward acceptance.' It is precisely this type of general assumption about a handicapped person's ability that section 504 was designed to avoid. See
Bentivegna v. United States Department of Labor, 694 F.2d 619 (9th Cir.1982); Pushkin v. Board of Regents of the University of Colorado, 658 F.2d 1372, 1385 (10th Cir.1981). This district court's legal conclusions are similarly erroneous.
"1 29 U.S.C. 794. See 34 CFR 104.3(j).
"2 The School of Nursing's claim that Kling was not otherwise qualified because she failed to meet the mathematical entrance requirement is meritless. Because Kling was rejected solely because of her handicap and because this decision was made without regard to her mathematical deficiency and before she had an opportunity to submit evidence that she had or had not remedied the deficiency, it is irrelevant that the deficiency may have existed." App. to Pet. for Cert. A-6-A-7, and nn. 1, 2.
As this Court's summary disposition today demonstrates, the Court of Appeals would have been well advised to discuss the record in greater depth. One reason it failed to do so is that the members of the panel decided that the issues presented by this case did not warrant discussion in a published opinion that could be "cited to or by the courts of this circuit, save as provided by Rule 21(c)." Id., at A-2, n. **. That decision not to publish the opinion or permit it to be cited-like the decision to promulgate a rule spawning a body of secret law-was plainly wrong. [Footnote 1]
The brevity of analysis in the Court of Appeals' unpublished, noncitable opinion, however, does not justify the Court's summary reversal. 2 Presumably, the Court's reversal is not based on
a view that the Court of Appeals misapprehended the governing standard: as the Ninth Circuit stated, findings of fact by the District Court are reviewable to determine if they are "clearly erroneous." Fed.Rule Civ. Proc. 52(a). Apparently, the Court disagrees with the Ninth Circuit's application of that standard. However, the Court's reversal is not accompanied by a review of the District Court's factual findings or a determination that they are not, in fact, "clearly erroneous." The Court is thus spared the necessity of explaining the apparent inconsistencies in the District Court's findings. [Footnote 3] The Court is thus spared the necessity of addressing the fact that petitioners' own rendition of the incidents in question suggests that the District Court's findings give a less than complete accounting of certain events-events that may well influence a court's view of the matter at hand. [Footnote 4]
Finally, the Court is spared the necessity of analyzing the District Court's factual findings in the context of the record. The absence of such an analysis is somewhat puzzling. The entirety of the majority's analysis is a reference to Anderson v. Bessemer City, 470 U.S. 564, 105 S. Ct. 1504 (1985). In that case, the Court found it necessary to review the record before it reversed the Court of Appeals' conclusion that the District Court's findings were clearly erroneous. Id., at 576-581-1515. The Court's refusal to undertake such a review for its summary disposition in the case before us is especially disturbing when it is recalled that, under current Court practice, the petitioner does not usually file the record with a petition for certiorari. [Footnote 5]
In my judgment, this Court does not use its scarce resources wisely when it undertakes to engage in the de novo review of factual records in relatively routine litigation. Cf. United States v. Hasting, 461 U.S. 499, 516-518, 1984-1985 (1983) (STEVENS, J., concurring in judgment). When such review is necessary to a disposition, however, and the Court fails to provide it, the problems of this Court's review are still more troubling. For, like a court of appeals that issues an opinion that may not be printed or cited, this Court then engages in decision-making without the discipline and accountability that the preparation of opinions requires. [Footnote 6]
I respectfully dissent from the Court's summary reversal.
Justice BRENNAN dissents from the Court's summary reversal substantially for the reasons stated by Justice STEVENS.
Footnote 1 The proliferation of this secret law has prompted extensive comment. See, e.g., R. Posner, The Federal Courts 120-126 (1985); Wald, The Problem with the Courts: Black-robed Bureaucracy, or Collegiality Under Challenge?, 42 Md.L.Rev. 766, 781-783 (1983); Reynolds & Richman, An Evaluation of Limited Publication in the United States Courts of Appeals: The Price of Reform, 48 U.Chi.L.Rev. 573 (1981); Reynolds & Richman, The Non-Precedential Precedent-Limited Publication and No- Citation Rules in the United States Courts of Appeals, 78 Colum.L.Rev. 1167 (1978); Stevens, Address to the Illinois State Bar Association's Centennial Dinner, 65 Ill. Bar J. 508, 510 (1977). Cf. Grodin, The Depublication Practice of the California Supreme Court, 72 Calif.L.Rev. 514 (1984).
Footnote 2 The petition for certiorari submitted the Ninth Circuit's opinion as it was issued, with the footnote explaining that the opinion could not be published or cited. Two days after the petition for certiorari was filed, the Ninth Circuit panel issued an order, as part of the publication of the slip opinion, that "redesignated" the earlier decision as "an authored opinion." See Kling v. County of Los Angeles, No. 83-6193, Order and Opinion (Aug. 23, 1985). The opinion is now published. See 769 F.2d 532 (1985).
Footnote 3 Compare Finding of Fact No. 16, App. to Pet. for Cert. D-42 (" Plaintiff has failed to show that she is a person who has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of her major life activities, or has a record of such impairment or is regarded as having such an impairment") with Finding of Fact No. 4, App. to Pet. for Cert. D- 36 ("Plaintiff at all times herein mentioned suffered from Crohn's disease, an inflamatory [sic] bowel disorder involving the digestive tract which prevents passage and absorption of food and causes in plaintiff unpredictable episodes of nausea, vomiting, fever, headaches, loss of weight and acute abdominal pain among other things and which can require rest, medication, treatment, and hospitalization") and Finding of Fact No. 10, App. to Pet. for Cert. D-39 ("The record reflected that in the ten months preceding Dr. Crary's review, plaintiff had been hospitalized four times for Crohn's disease, although plaintiff only reported three hospitalizations").
Compare also Finding of Fact No. 12, App. to Pet. for Cert. D-40-D-41 ( Dr. Crary's "rejection of plaintiff as a candidate for the School on June 11, 1979 was for health reasons, because he believed it was unlikely she could complete the rigorous program and because he believed her health would be endangered if she attempted to complete the program") and Finding of Fact No. 13, App. to Pet. for Cert. D-41 ("Neither the Admissions Committee nor Mary Duncan, Registrar, had the authority to overrule Dr. Crary's medical decision") with Finding of Fact No. 18, App. to Pet. for Cert. D-43 ("Plaintiff has failed to show that she was denied admission to the School solely by reason of her affliction or because she had Crohn's disease").
Footnote 4 Compare Finding of Fact No. 7, App. to Pet. for Cert. D-37 (" Plaintiff's application was considered by the Admissions Committee of the School on April 5, 1979. Her acceptance academically by the School was conditional due to her failure to achieve a passing score in mathematics") with Pet. for Cert. 4-5 ("In April, 1979, by mistake, respondent was given a letter unconditionally accepting her application, even though her score on a mathematics portion of the entrance examination was deficient, and even though she had not been cleared for admission by the School's Student Health Physician, Gerald C. Crary, M.D.. . .. In an interview on April 20, 1979, the School's Registrar, Mary J. Duncan, told respondent that her acceptance was actually conditional on her presenting evidence of tutoring and testing to establish the requisite thirteenth-grade level of proficiency in mathematics concepts and problems, and on her passing the physical requirements").
Footnote 5 See this Court's Rule 21; Stevens, The Life Span of a Judge-Made Rule, 58 N.Y.U.L.Rev. 1, 13 (1983); R. Stern & E. Gressman, Supreme Court Practice 424-429 (5th ed.1978).
Footnote 6 "In our law the opinion has in addition a central forward-looking function which reaches far beyond the cause in hand: the opinion has as one if not its major office to show how like cases are properly to be decided in the future. This also frequently casts its shadow before, and affects the deciding of the cause in hand. (If I cannot give a reason I should be willing to stand to, I must shrink from the very result which otherwise seems good.) Thus the opinion serves as a steadying factor which aids reckonability." K. Llewellyn, The Common Law Tradition 26 ( 1960), quoted in Reynolds & Richman, supra n. 1, at 1204.
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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 72 › Insurance Company v. Ritchie
Insurance Company v. Ritchie, 72 U.S. 541 (1866)
Insurance Company v. Ritchie, 72 U.S. 5 Wall. 541 541 (1866)
Insurance Company v. Ritchie
The jurisdiction of the circuit courts in original suits between citizens of the same state in internal revenue cases conferred or made clear by the Act of June 30, 1864, "to provide internal revenue," &c., 13 Stat
at Large 241, was taken away by the Act of July 13, 1866, "to reduce internal taxation and to amend an act to provide internal revenue," &c., 14 id. 172. And suits originally brought in the circuit courts, and pending at the passage of this act, fell.
This was an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Massachusetts dismissing a bill in equity filed by the Merchants' Insurance Company, a corporation created by the laws of Massachusetts and having its place of business in the City of Boston in that state against James Ritchie and E. L. Pierce, the assessor and collector of internal revenue for the third collection district of that same commonwealth, and both citizens of it, praying that they might be enjoined from the distraint and sale of the complainant's property for nonpayment of a certain tax. The defendants demurred for the reason that the bill disclosed no ground for equitable relief. The demurrer was sustained and the bill dismissed.
Coming here, the case was elaborately argued by Mr. Stanbery, A. G., and Mr. Ashton, Assistant A. G., for the assessor and collector, and by Messrs. S. Bartlett and F. W. Palfrey (by brief) for the Insurance Company, the argument turning chiefly on the matter of public policy, on the one hand, in allowing officers of the government to be embarrassed in the prompt collection of its revenues by the strong and summary process of injunction, and on the other hand on the matter of private rights of the citizen in precluding him from adequate remedy against clearly illegal proceedings of government agents in the assessment and collection of these revenues.
But a preliminary question, the question namely whether the suit as an internal revenue case could, under the statutes of the United States as now existing, be maintained at all -- the parties all being citizens of the same state -- cut off decision on these points, and renders a report of the principal argument irrelative.
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT
COURT FOR MASSACHUSETTS
THE CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the opinion of the Court.
We meet upon the threshold of this cause a question of jurisdiction.
The record discloses a suit in equity by the Merchants' Insurance Company, a corporation under the laws of Massachusetts, having its place of business in the City of Boston, against James Ritchie and E. L. Pierce, assessor and collector of internal revenue in the third collection district of that commonwealth. The corporation constructively, [Footnote 1] and Ritchie and Pierce actually, are citizens of Massachusetts. And the question is whether this suit, as a revenue case, can be maintained by a citizen of Massachusetts against citizens of the same state.
The Judiciary Act of 1789 limited the jurisdiction of national courts, so far as determined by citizenship, to "suits between a citizen of the state in which the suit is brought and a citizen of another state." And except in relation to revenue cases, this limitation has remained unchanged.
In 1833, an attempted nullification of the laws for the collection of duties on imports led to the enactment of a law one of the provisions of which conferred on the circuit courts jurisdiction of "all cases in law or equity arising under the revenue laws of the United States for which other provisions had not been already made." [Footnote 2]
Until the passage of this act, no original action by a citizen of any state against a citizen of the same state could be maintained in a national court, at law or in equity, for injuries arising from the illegal exaction of duties by collectors of revenue. Redress of such injuries could be obtained only in the state courts, and the revisory jurisdiction of this Court could be invoked only under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act.
The act of 1833 made the right of action to depend not altogether, as previously, upon the character of the parties
as citizens or aliens, but also on the nature of the controversy, without regard to citizenship or alienage. Under that act, citizens of the same state might sue each other for causes arising under the revenue laws. A citizen injured by the proceedings of a collector might have an action against him for the injury, though a citizen of the same state with himself.
And the third section of the same act gave the right to collectors or others who might be sued in any state court, on account of any act done under the revenue laws, to remove the action by a proper proceeding into a national court.
The right to remove causes from state into national courts had been long before given by the Judiciary Act, but it was limited to certain classes of cases, which did not include those arising under the laws for the collection of duties.
After the act of 1833, many suits, brought in the state courts against collectors, were removed into the circuit courts. The cases of Elliott v. Swartwout [Footnote 3] and Bend v. Hoyt [Footnote 4] were of this description. They were suits originally instituted in the Superior Court of New York but removed to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District to recover from collectors of the port of New York duties alleged to have been illegally exacted.
Under that act, suits in equity in proper cases, as well as actions at law, might have been maintained against collectors of customs by citizens of the same state, and upon the enactment, under the exigencies created by civil war, of the existing internal revenue laws, it became a question whether the general provisions of that act giving jurisdiction of cases under the revenue laws extended to cases under the new enactments.
This question was resolved by the internal revenue act of 1864, in the fiftieth section of which it was provided that the provisions of the act of 1833 should extend to all cases arising under the laws for the collection of internal duties. [Footnote 5]
It was while this section of the act of 1864 was in force that the suit in the present record was brought. Had it been suffered to remain in force, the question of jurisdiction now under consideration could not have arisen.
But it was repealed by the act of 1866, [Footnote 6] without any saving of such causes as that before us. And not only was there no such saving, but it was expressly provided that "the act of 1833 shall not be so construed as to apply to cases" arising under the act of 1864, or any amendatory acts, "nor to any case in which the validity or interpretation of such act or acts shall be in issue."
The case before us is a case under the act of 1864. It is a case of which, because of the fact that the appellants and appellees are citizens of the same state, we have no jurisdiction except under the act of 1833. And the act of 1866 declares that the act of 1833 shall not be construed so as to apply to such a case.
This is equivalent to a repeal of an act giving jurisdiction of a pending suit. It is an express prohibition of the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by the act of 1833 in cases arising under the internal revenue laws.
It is clear that when the jurisdiction of a cause depends upon a statute, the repeal of the statute takes away the jurisdiction. [Footnote 7] And it is equally clear that where a jurisdiction conferred by statute is prohibited by a subsequent statute, the prohibition is so far a repeal of the statute conferring the jurisdiction.
It is quite possible that this effect of the act of 1866 was not contemplated by Congress. The jurisdiction given by the act of 1833 in cases arising under the customs revenue laws is not taken away or affected by it. In these cases, suits may still be maintained against collectors by citizens of the same state. It is certainly difficult to perceive a reason for discrimination between such suits and suits under the internal
revenue laws, but when terms are unambiguous, we may not speculate on probabilities of intention.
The rules of interpretation settled and established in the construction of statutes deny to us jurisdiction of the controversy in the record, because it is a suit between citizens of the same state, and the jurisdiction of such suits in internal revenue cases, conferred by the acts of 1833 and 1864, is taken away by the act of 1866.
The appeal in this cause must therefore be
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
Louisville Railroad Company v. Letson, 2 How. 554; Marshall v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., 16 How. 314.
Rex v. Justices of London, 3 Burrow 1456; Norris v. Crocker, 13 How. 429.
72 U.S. 541
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Biomedical Breakthroughs: “Biological” Pacemakers
Since they were first developed some forty years ago, pacemakers have served an invaluable medical function. By stimulating the heart with electrical stimulation, they ensure that the recipients heart continues to beat at a steady rate. However, the implantation process calls for a major medical procedure, and the presence of the machine inside the body can lead to complications – i.e. infections.
Little wonder then why researchers are looking to create a better design to replace it with. However, up until now, proposed upgrades have focused on eliminating batteries (that require additional surgery to be replaced) with perpetual motion or piezeoelectric-powered devices. But this most recent proposal, which comes from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles, looks to use the heart’s own cells to regulate it and keep it in working order.
In an effort that was apparently the result of “dozens of years” worth of research, Dr. Eduardo Marbán and his research team used genes injected into the defective hearts of pigs to convert unspecialized heart cells into “biological pacemakers”. The pigs, all of which suffered from complete heart blocks, had the gene TBX18 injected into their hearts via what is described as a minimally invasive catheter procedure.
This caused some of the existing unspecialized cardiac cells to transform into sinuatrial node cells, which consist of tissue that initiates the electrical impulses that set the rhythm of the heart. The day after the procedure, the recipient pigs’ hearts were already beating faster than those of a control group and lasted for the duration of the 14-day study – indicating that the treatment could be a longer-term solution than previously thought.
Initially, Marbán and his colleagues conceived of it more as a temporary fix for patients who were having problems with their man-made pacemakers. Now, they’re considering the possibility that it could be a long-term biological treatment. It could also be used on infants still in the womb, who can’t currently receive mechanical pacemakers. And while the research has so far been confined to pigs, human clinical studies could begin in as soon as three years.
In keeping with a trends in modern medicine, this gene therapy offers a potential third alternative to medical machiners and biomimetics. The one seeks to enhance the workings of our biological bodies through the addition of machinery while the other seeks to create machinery that mimics the bodies natural functions. But by simply programming the body to perform the role of machinery, we can cut out the middle man.
Sources: gizmag.com, cedars-sinai.edu
By storiesbywilliamsin Medicine, News, Technology August 1, 2014 424 WordsLeave a comment
The Future is Here: FDA Approves Human Suspended Animation
We’ve all heard about it, read about it, and seen it in the movies. Suspended Animation. The ability to put someone in a tank and chill them to the point where their heart rate, breathing, and metabolism are reduced to an absolute minimum, preserving their life or prolonging it artificially. It’s a common science fiction concept, but could such a technique ever be made feasible? That is what a team of researchers from UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, with FDA approval, are attempting to answer.
The purpose of this research is to see if suspended animation can deliver on its main promise – namely, keeping a patient alive long enough to receive life-saving treatment or surgery. Oftentimes with disease and traumatic injuries, the difference between life and death is a simple matter of timing. And for those patients who simply cannot be helped with the current level of technology and pharmacology, it is also a race against time, trying to stay alive long enough to see science catch up with the illness.
This Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation (EPR) technique isn’t quite as extreme as what we’ve come to know from science fiction franchises. Instead of reducing a patient’s temperature to near-freezing levels, it involves reducing body temperature to 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) by inserting a cannula into the aorta and flushing cold saline into the system. This will slow the blood flow, which will prevent the body from bleeding out and slow other biological processes as well.
So far, the result have been pretty subdued – with the EPR state of induced hypothermia only being sustainable for about two hours. While this isn’t as dramatic as some may have expected, that could easily provide enough time for surgeons to perform emergency lifesaving surgery. Trauma patients who suffer cardiac arrest have a 7% chance of survival, and administering this technique could have some very real and amazing implications.
This technique was first tested by Peter Rhee in 2000 using 40 pigs, the results of which were published in 2006. After inflicting a lethal wound to simulate real-world trauma scenarios, the pigs were cooled down so the surgeons could operate then resuscitate them. While all of the control pigs died, the surgeons were able to save 90% of the pigs who had undergone suspension. None of the surviving pigs were reported to have sustained cognitive or physical impairment either.
And as per usual, animal testing is followed by human trials to see if success can be replicated. Due to the extremely time-sensitive and dire nature of the injuries of the test subjects, the FDA has declared that the surgeons will not require informed consent. As a precaution, the team took out advertisements to inform the public of the upcoming study, and even set up a website that would allow people to opt out, if desired. As of yet, nobody has opted out.
The plan for testing this process is for the team to the technique on 10 trauma patients whose injuries would be otherwise fatal. That group will be compared against 10 other patients who are not able to undergo EPR, due to the surgical team not being available. After the first increments of 10 EPR and 10 control patients, the technique will be analyzed and refined until enough data points have been collected which will allow them to analyze the efficacy of suspending life in this manner.
Should things work out, we can expect to see EPR becoming a regular part of modern medicine. And with further refinements, it may even be possible to place people in suspended animation for longer (or even indefinite) periods of time. If not, then I guess it will be just become one more of those many, many sci-fi fantasies that (like a patients in a story) will be put away until such time as the technology catches up to the fantasy.
Sources: dailycaller.com, iflscience.com
By storiesbywilliamsin Medicine, News, Sci-Fi, Science June 11, 2014 645 WordsLeave a comment
The Future of Medicine: Gene Therapy and Treatments
Imagine a world where all known diseases were curable, where health problems could be treated in a non-invasive manner, and life could be extended significantly? Thanks to ongoing research into the human genome, and treatments arising out of it, that day may be coming soon. That’s the idea behind gene therapy and pharmacoperones – two treatment procedures that may make disease obsolete in the near future.
The first comes to us from the Utah School of Medicine, where researcher Amit Patel recently developed a non-invasive, naked DNA approach to deal with treating heart problems. His process was recently tested o Ernie Lively, an actor suffering from heart damage, who made a full recovered afterwards without ever having to go under the knife.
In short, Patel’s method relies on a catheter, which he used to access the main cardiac vein (or coronary sinus), where a balloon is inflated to halt the flow of blood and isolate the area. A high dose of naked DNA, which codes for a protein called SDF-1, is then delivered. SDF-1, which stands for stromal cell-derived factor, is a potent attractant both for stem cells circulating in the bloodstream, and for those developing in the bone marrow.
Stromal cells, which manufacture SDF-1, are the creative force which knit together our fibrous connective tissues. The problem is they do not make enough of this SDF-1 under normal conditions, nor do specifically deliver it in just the right places for repair of a mature heart. By introducing a dose of these cells directly into the heart, Patel was able to give Lively what his heart needed, where it needed it.
Compared to other gene therapies, the introduction of SDF-1 into cells was done without the assistance of a virus. These “viral vector” method have had trouble in the past due to the fact that after the virus helps target specific cells for treatment, the remnant viral components can draw unwanted attention from the immune system, leading to complications.
But of course, there is still much to be learned about the SDF-1 treatment and others like it before it can be considered a viable replacement for things like open-heart surgery. For one, the yield – the number or percentage of cells that take up the DNA – remains unknown. Neither are the precise mechanisms of uptake and integration within the cell known here.
Fortunately, a great deal of research is being done, particularly by neuroscientists who are looking to control brain cells through the use of raw DNA as well. Given time, additional research, and several clinical trials, a refined version of this process could be the cure for heart-related diseases, Alzheimer’s, and other disorders that are currently thought to be incurable, or require surgery.
Another breakthrough treatment that is expected to revolutionize medicine comes in the form of pharmacoperones (aka. “protein chaperones”). a new field of drugs that have the ability to enter cells and fix misfolded proteins. These kind of mutations usually result in proteins becoming inactive; but in some cases, can lead to toxic functionality or even diseases.
Basically, proteins adopt their functional 3-D structure by folding linear chains of amino acids, and gene mutation can cause this folding process to go awry, resulting in “misfolding”. Up until recently, scientists believed these proteins were simply non-functional. But thanks to ongoing research, it is now known their inactivity is due to the cell’s quality control system misrouting them within the cell.
Although this process has been observed under a microscope in recent years, a team led by Doctor P. Michael Conn while at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) was the first to demonstrate it in a living laboratory animal. The team was able to cure mice of a disease that makes the males unable to father offspring, and believe the technique will also work on human beings.
The team says neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s, as well as certain types of diabetes, inherited cataracts and cystic fibrosis are just a few of the diseases that could potentially be cured using the new approach. Now working at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), Conn and his team are looking to conduct human trials.
One of the hallmarks of the coming age of science, technology and medicine is the idea that people will be living in post-mortality age, where all diseases and conditions are curable and life can be extended almost indefinitely. Might still sound like science fiction, but all of this research is indicative of the burgeoning trend where things that were once thought to be “treatable but not curable” is a thing of the past.
It’s an exciting time to be living in, almost as exciting as the world our children will be inhabiting – assuming things go according to plan. And in the meantime, check out this video of the SDF-1 gene therapy in action, courtesy of the University of Utah School of Medicine:
Sources: extremetech.com, gizmag.com
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Verdon Secret 3D: The Premiere will take place on March 26, 2016
Written by Benoit Michel. Posted in Documentary
The Verdon Secret 3D Premiere will take place at the Cinéma Ecociné Verdon (Gréoux-les-Bains, France). The first showing at 17:00 is now sold out, so a second viewing at 19:00 is now open for pre-booking.
Verdon Secret was a technical challenge because it required shooting in very wet and inaccessible places : the film crew was helped by a team of kayakers and mountain professionals.
For the first time, the Verdon Narrows (Gorges du Verdon, France) and its 1,000 feet cliffs will serve as the backdrop for a stereoscopic 3D movie. Principal photography took place at the end of the summer in 2015. Watch the trailer here under.
Hidalgo (played by Nicolas Robin), an introverted young man, wants to return on the footsteps of Alfred Martel, the father of spelunking who made the first descent of the Verdon in 1905. Trained as a carpenter, it manufactures a replica of the original canoe and starts the adventure equipped as were the pioneers. Obviously, nothing happens as he had hoped, and he meets on his road Clara (Assa Sylla), a young open and modern girl who will help him find his way.
Prebooking and More Info
Verdon Secret is the common work of director François Bertrand and producer Jean-Marc Paris. François Bertrand has already directed several films and documentaries for Arte and France Télévisions, whose "I, Van Gogh" was the first iMax first film about an artist' life.
Verdon Secret 3D will be featured at the Géode (Paris, France) and at several IMAX venues around the world.
Visit VerdonSecret for prebooking and more info. Verson Secret is on Facebook too.
Source : 20minutes.fr.
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Lisée accuses Couillard of having “chosen to Air Canada”
News 5 February, 2018
Marc-André Gagnon
Monday, 5 February 2018 16:41
Monday, February 5, 2018 16:55
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Jean-François Lisée is accusing Philippe Couillard of having “chosen by Air Canada to the detriment of small carriers and those who wish to put an end to the” scandal of the price much too high ” regional air connectivity.
Mr. Lisée suspect also a former political advisor to Jean Charest and other lobbyists for the company to have convinced the government Couillard to avoid their harm, last Friday, at the Summit on the regional air transport.
“They have succeeded! Is it that it is legal what they have done? Yes. Is it that they have a right to do so? Yes. They have won”, said Mr. Lisée in arriving at the caucus of the return of the Parti québécois.
Copies of entries in the register of lobbyists in hand, Mr. Lisée pointed to two names : David Rheault, who before finding himself on the direction of government affairs, Air Canada, has advised the prime minister Charest (2005-06), and the CEO of Air Canada, Calin Rovinescu.
Twenty-four hours of the resumption of hostilities parliamentarians, Mr. Lisée has launched first question for Mr. Couillard. “He (the CEO of Air Canada), it does not meet the officials, then I would like to know, has asked Mr. Lisée : is that Mr. Couillard met with Mr. Rovinescu, and how many times. “
Legislate a price floor
The Parti québécois is not the only one to be yelling against Air Canada. At the Summit on the regional air transport, the mayor of Québec, Régis Labeaume, has called to “break the monopoly of Air Canada”, “people who abuse completely from the system,” said the chief magistrate.
Rather than promising rate decreases regional air connectivity, with measures which will not be encrypted in the next budget, as did Philippe Couillard at the closing ceremony of the summit, the official opposition proposes to legislate a price floor that would prevent Air Canada to lower its prices to scare off the competition.
The spokesman of the parti québecois in the field of transport Martin Ouellet, accused Mr. Couillard of having “shoveled” the “concrete” in the establishment of a working group.
In a press conference at the end of its caucus back to school, Jean-François Lisée has said repeatedly that he did not see how the government could reduce taxes without reducing services to the State. To the contrary, “it is clear that you don’t want to raise the tax burden of Quebecers”, said the head of the parti québecois.
More than a month to do his taxes
QMI agency
Saturday, 31 march 2018, 10:08
Elections of 7 June: the liberals warm up to the conservatives, Doug Ford Ontario
File Photo by Michael Peake
According to the poll, the conservatives, Doug Ford remporteraient the election if it were held today, ...
Of the animals bought for Easter often abandoned
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Fire suspect in St. Thomas: the fire is to be continued in the embers
Photo Agence QMI, Pascal Girard
A former mp accused of a fraud of $1.1 million
Russia expels four canadian diplomats
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Effective: January 31, 2018
These Customer Terms of Service (the “Customer Terms”) describe your rights and responsibilities when using our online workplace productivity tools and platform (the “Services”). Please read them carefully. If you are a Customer (defined below), these Customer Terms govern your access and use of our Services. If you are being invited to a workspace set up by a Customer, the User Terms of Service (the “User Terms”) govern your access and use of the Services. We are grateful you’re here.
These “Customer Terms” Form a Part of a Binding “Contract”
These Customer Terms (or, if applicable, your written agreement with us) and any Order Form(s) (defined below) together form a binding “Contract” between Customer and us. If any terms in the Customer-Specific Supplement apply to Customer (e.g., if Customer is a U.S. government entity), those terms are also incorporated herein by reference and form part of the Contract. “We,” “our” and “us” refers to the applicable Slack entity in the section entitled “Which Slack Entity is Customer Contracting With?” below.
Your Agreement On Behalf of “Customer”
If you purchase subscription(s), create a workspace (i.e., a digital space where a group of users may access the Services, as further described in our Help Center pages), invite users to that workspace, or use or allow use of that workspace after being notified of a change to these Customer Terms, you acknowledge your understanding of the then-current Contract and agree to the Contract on behalf of Customer. Please make sure you have the necessary authority to enter into the Contract on behalf of Customer before proceeding.
Customer Choices and Instructions
Who is “Customer”? (Hint: There can be only one)
“Customer” is the organization that you represent in agreeing to the Contract. If your workspace is being set up by someone who is not formally affiliated with an organization, Customer is the individual creating the workspace. For example, if you signed up using a personal email address and invited a couple of friends to work on a new startup idea but haven't formed a company yet, you are the Customer.
Signing Up Using a Corporate Email Domain
If you signed up for a plan using your corporate email domain, your organization is Customer, and Customer can modify and re-assign roles on your workspace (including your role) and otherwise exercise its rights under the Contract. If Customer elects to replace you as the representative with ultimate authority for the workspace, we will provide you with notice following such election and you agree to take any actions reasonably requested by us or Customer to facilitate the transfer of authority to a new representative of Customer.
What This Means for Customer—and for Us
Individuals authorized by Customer to access the Services (an “Authorized User”) may submit content or information to the Services, such as messages or files (“Customer Data”), and Customer may exclusively provide us with instructions on what to do with it. For example, Customer may provision or deprovision access to the Services, enable or disable third party integrations, manage permissions, retention and export settings, transfer or assign workspaces, share channels, or consolidate workspaces or channels with other workspaces or channels. Since these choices and instructions may result in the access, use, disclosure, modification or deletion of certain or all Customer Data, please review the Help Center pages for more information about these choices and instructions.
Customer will (a) inform Authorized Users of all Customer policies and practices that are relevant to their use of the Services and of any settings that may impact the processing of Customer Data; and (b) ensure the transfer and processing of Customer Data under the Contract is lawful.
Ordering Subscriptions
A subscription allows an Authorized User to access the Services. No matter the role, a subscription is required for each Authorized User. A subscription may be procured through the Services interface, or in some cases, via an order form entered into between Customer and us (each, an “Order Form”). Please see the Help Center for more information on procuring subscriptions and inviting new Authorized Users. Each Authorized User must agree to the User Terms to activate their subscription. Subscriptions commence when we make them available to Customer and continue for the term specified in the Services “check-out” interface or in the Order Form, as applicable. Each subscription is for a single Authorized User for a specified term and is personal to that Authorized User. We sometimes enter into other kinds of ordering arrangements, but that would need to be spelled out and agreed to in an Order Form. During an active subscription term, adding more subscriptions is fairly easy. Unless the Order Form says otherwise, Customer may purchase more subscriptions at the same price stated in the Order Form and all will terminate on the same date. Check out our Help Center pages for additional information on setting up a workspace and assigning roles.
We may share information about our future product plans because we like transparency. Our public statements about those product plans are an expression of intent, but do not rely on them when making a purchase. If Customer decides to buy our Services, that decision should be based on the functionality or features we have made available today and not on the delivery of any future functionality or features.
Choosing to be a Beta Tester
Occasionally, we look for beta testers to help us test our new features. These features will be identified as “beta” or “pre-release,” or words or phrases with similar meanings (each, a “Beta Product”). Beta Products may not be ready for prime time so they are made available “as is,” and any warranties or contractual commitments we make for other Services do not apply. Should Customer encounter any faults with our Beta Products, we would love to hear about them; our primary reason for running any beta programs is to iron out issues before making a new feature widely available.
The more suggestions our customers make, the better the Services become. If Customer sends us any feedback or suggestions regarding the Services, there is a chance we will use it, so Customer grants us (for itself and all of its Authorized Users and other Customer personnel) an unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, sublicensable, transferable, royalty-free license to use any such feedback or suggestions for any purpose without any obligation or compensation to Customer, any Authorized User or other Customer personnel. If we choose not to implement the suggestion, please don’t take it personally. We appreciate it nonetheless.
Non-Slack Products
Our Services include a platform that third parties may use to develop applications and software that complement Customer’s use of the Services (each, a “Non-Slack Product”). We also maintain a directory called the Slack App Directory where some Non-Slack Products are available for installation. THESE ARE NOT OUR SERVICES, SO WE DO NOT WARRANT OR SUPPORT NON-SLACK PRODUCTS, AND, ULTIMATELY, CUSTOMER (AND NOT US) WILL DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO ENABLE THEM. ANY USE OF A NON-SLACK PRODUCT IS SOLELY BETWEEN CUSTOMER AND THE APPLICABLE THIRD PARTY PROVIDER.
If a Non-Slack Product is enabled for Customer’s workspace, please be mindful of any Customer Data that will be shared with the third party provider and the purposes for which the provider requires access. We will not be responsible for any use, disclosure, modification or deletion of Customer Data that is transmitted to, or accessed by, a Non-Slack Product. Check out our Help Center pages for more information.
Please review our Privacy Policy for more information on how we collect and use data relating to the use and performance of our websites and products.
Customer and Authorized Users
Customer must comply with the Contract and ensure that its Authorized Users comply with the Contract and the User Terms. We may review conduct for compliance purposes, but we have no obligation to do so. We aren't responsible for the content of any Customer Data or the way Customer or its Authorized Users choose to use the Services to store or process any Customer Data. The Services are not intended for and should not be used by anyone under the age of 16. Customer must ensure that all Authorized Users are over 16 years old. Customer is solely responsible for providing high speed internet service for itself and its Authorized Users to access and use the Services.
Our Removal Rights
If we believe that there is a violation of the Contract that can simply be remedied by Customer’s removal of certain Customer Data or Customer’s disabling of a Non-Slack Product, we will, in most cases, ask Customer to take direct action rather than intervene. However, we may directly step in and take what we determine to be appropriate action, if Customer does not take appropriate action, or if we believe there is a credible risk of harm to us, the Services, Authorized Users, or any third parties.
Payment Obligations
For Customers that purchase our Services, fees are specified at the Services interface “check-out” and in the Order Form(s) — and must be paid in advance. Payment obligations are non-cancelable and, except as expressly stated in the Contract, fees paid are non-refundable. For clarity, in the event Customer downgrades any subscriptions from a paid plan to a free plan, Customer will remain responsible for any unpaid fees under the paid plan, and Services under the paid plan will be deemed fully performed and delivered upon expiration of the initial paid plan subscription term. Check out our Help Center pages for more information about payment options. If we agree to invoice Customer by email, full payment must be received within thirty (30) days from the invoice date. Fees are stated exclusive of any taxes, levies, duties, or similar governmental assessments of any nature, including, for example, value-added, sales, use or withholding taxes, assessable by any jurisdiction (collectively, “Taxes”). Customer will be responsible for paying all Taxes associated with its purchases, except for those taxes based on our net income. Should any payment for the Services be subject to withholding tax by any government, Customer will reimburse us for such withholding tax.
Fair Billing Policy
We believe customers should only pay for subscriptions that are actually used, so we offer a Fair Billing Policy. Certain exceptions and conditions may apply, as noted in the Services interface “check-out” or in an Order Form.
Any credits that may accrue to Customer’s account (for example, from a promotion or application of the Fair Billing Policy), will expire following expiration or termination of the applicable Contract, will have no currency or exchange value, and will not be transferable or refundable. Credits accrued to a workspace on a free subscription plan will expire if the workspace’s plan is not upgraded to a paid plan within ninety (90) days of accrual, unless otherwise specified. For more information on credits, please see the Help Center.
Downgrade for Non-Payment
If any fees owed to us by Customer (excluding amounts disputed reasonably and in good faith) are thirty (30) days or more overdue, we may, without limiting our other rights and remedies, downgrade any fee-based Services to free plans until those amounts are paid in full, so long as we have given Customer ten (10) or more days’ prior notice that its account is overdue. Notwithstanding the second paragraph of the “Providing the Services” section below, Customer acknowledges and agrees that a downgrade will result in a decrease in certain features and functionality and potential loss of access to Customer Data, as illustrated by comparing the plans in the Pricing Guide.
Providing the Services
Customer isn’t the only one with responsibilities; we have some, too. We will (a) make the Services available to Customer and its Authorized Users as described in the Contract; and (b) not use or process Customer Data for any purpose without Customer’s prior written instructions; provided, however, that “prior written instructions” will be deemed to include use of the Services by Authorized Users and any processing related to such use or otherwise necessary for the performance of the Contract.
Be assured that (a) the Services will perform materially in accordance with our then-current Help Center pages; and (b) subject to the “Non-Slack Products” and “Downgrade for Non-Payment” sections, we will not materially decrease the functionality of a Service during a subscription term. For any breach of a warranty in this section, Customer’s exclusive remedies are those described in the sections titled “Termination for Cause” and “Effect of Termination”.
Keeping the Services Available
As further described in our Help Center pages, for some of our Services, we also offer specific uptime commitments paired with credits, if we fall short. In those cases, the credits will serve as what the lawyers call liquidated damages and will be Customer’s sole remedy for the downtime and related inconvenience. For all Service plans, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to make the Services available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, excluding planned downtime. We expect planned downtime to be infrequent but will endeavor to provide Customer with advance notice (e.g., through the Services), if we think it may exceed five (5) continuous minutes.
Protecting Customer Data
The protection of Customer Data is a top priority for us so we will maintain administrative, physical, and technical safeguards at a level not materially less protective than as described in our Security Practices page. Those safeguards will include measures for preventing unauthorized access, use, modification, deletion and disclosure of Customer Data by our personnel. Before sharing Customer Data with any of our third party service providers, we will ensure that the third party maintains, at a minimum, reasonable data practices for maintaining the confidentiality and security of Customer Data and preventing unauthorized access. Customer (not us) bears sole responsibility for adequate security, protection and backup of Customer Data when in Customer’s or its representatives’ or agents’ possession or control. We are not responsible for what Customer’s Authorized Users or Non-Slack Products do with Customer Data. That is Customer’s responsibility.
The Slack Extended Family
We may leverage our employees, those of our corporate affiliates and third party contractors (the “Slack Extended Family”) in exercising our rights and performing our obligations under the Contract. We will be responsible for the Slack Extended Family’s compliance with our obligations under the Contract.
Ownership and Proprietary Rights
What’s Yours is Yours…
As between us on the one hand, and Customer and any Authorized Users on the other, Customer will own all Customer Data. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Contract, Customer (for itself and all of its Authorized Users) grants us and the Slack Extended Family a worldwide, non-exclusive, limited term license to access, use, process, copy, distribute, perform, export and display Customer Data, and any Non-Slack Products created by or for Customer, only as reasonably necessary (a) to provide, maintain and update the Services; (b) to prevent or address service, security, support or technical issues; (c) as required by law or as permitted by the Data Request Policy; and (d) as expressly permitted in writing by Customer. Customer represents and warrants that it has secured all rights in and to Customer Data from its Authorized Users as may be necessary to grant this license.
And What’s Ours is Ours
We own and will continue to own our Services, including all related intellectual property rights. We may make software components available, via app stores or other channels, as part of the Services. We grant to Customer a non-sublicensable, non-transferable, non-exclusive, limited license for Customer and its Authorized Users to use the object code version of these components, but solely as necessary to use the Services and in accordance with the Contract and the User Terms. All of our rights not expressly granted by this license are hereby retained.
As further described below, a free subscription continues until terminated, while a paid subscription has a term that may expire or be terminated. The Contract remains effective until all subscriptions ordered under the Contract have expired or been terminated or the Contract itself terminates. Termination of the Contract will terminate all subscriptions and all Order Forms.
Auto-Renewal
Unless an Order Form says something different, (a) all subscriptions automatically renew (without the need to go through the Services-interface “check-out” or execute a renewal Order Form) for additional periods equal to one (1) year or the preceding term, whichever is shorter; and (b) the per-unit pricing during any automatic renewal term will remain the same as it was during the immediately prior term. Either party can give the other notice of non-renewal at least thirty (30) days before the end of a subscription term to stop the subscriptions from automatically renewing.
Termination for Cause
We or Customer may terminate the Contract on notice to the other party if the other party materially breaches the Contract and such breach is not cured within thirty (30) days after the non-breaching party provides notice of the breach. Customer is responsible for its Authorized Users, including for any breaches of this Contract caused by its Authorized Users. We may terminate the Contract immediately on notice to Customer if we reasonably believe that the Services are being used by Customer or its Authorized Users in violation of applicable law.
Termination Without Cause
Customer may terminate its free subscriptions immediately without cause. We may also terminate Customer’s free subscriptions without cause, but we will provide Customer with thirty (30) days prior written notice.
Upon any termination for cause by Customer, we will refund Customer any prepaid fees covering the remainder of the term of all subscriptions after the effective date of termination. Upon any termination for cause by us, Customer will pay any unpaid fees covering the remainder of the term of those subscriptions after the effective date of termination. In no event will any termination relieve Customer of the obligation to pay any fees payable to us for the period prior to the effective date of termination.
Data Portability and Deletion
We are custodians of Customer Data. During the term of a workspace’s subscriptions, Customer will be permitted to export or share certain Customer Data from the Services; provided, however, that because we have different products with varying features and Customer has different retention options, Customer acknowledges and agrees that the ability to export or share Customer Data may be limited or unavailable depending on the type of Services plan in effect and the data retention, sharing or invite settings enabled. Following termination or expiration of a workspace’s subscriptions, we will have no obligation to maintain or provide any Customer Data and may thereafter, unless legally prohibited, delete all Customer Data in our systems or otherwise in our possession or under our control. Please review our Security Practices page for more information on how Customer itself can initiate deletion.
Representations Disclaimer of Warranties
Customer represents and warrants that it has validly entered into the Contract and has the legal power to do so. Customer further represents and warrants that it is responsible for the conduct of its Authorized Users and their compliance with the terms of this Contract and the User Terms.
EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED FOR HEREIN, THE SERVICES AND ALL RELATED COMPONENTS AND INFORMATION ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, AND WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. CUSTOMER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE.
OTHER THAN IN CONNECTION WITH A PARTY’S INDEMNIFICATION OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER, IN NO EVENT WILL EITHER CUSTOMER’S OR THE SLACK EXTENDED FAMILY’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE CONTRACT OR THE USER TERMS (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR UNDER ANY OTHER THEORY OF LIABILITY) EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY CUSTOMER HEREUNDER IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE LAST EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY. THE FOREGOING WILL NOT LIMIT CUSTOMER’S PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE “PAYMENT TERMS” SECTION ABOVE.
IN NO EVENT WILL EITHER CUSTOMER OR ANY MEMBER OF THE SLACK EXTENDED FAMILY HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO THE OTHER PARTY OR TO ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR REVENUES OR FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, COVER OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES HOWEVER CAUSED, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR UNDER ANY OTHER THEORY OF LIABILITY, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THE FOREGOING DISCLAIMER WILL NOT APPLY TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
The Services support logins using two-factor authentication (“2FA”), which is known to reduce the risk of unauthorized use of or access to the Services. We therefore will not be responsible for any damages, losses or liability to Customer, Authorized Users, or anyone else if any event leading to such damages, losses or liability would have been prevented by the use of 2FA. Additionally, Customer is responsible for all login credentials, including usernames and passwords, for administrator accounts as well the accounts of your Authorized Users. We will not be responsible for any damages, losses or liability to Customer, Authorized Users, or anyone else, if such information is not kept confidential by Customer or its Authorized Users, or if such information is correctly provided by an unauthorized third party logging into and accessing the Services.
The limitations under this “Limitation of Liability” section apply with respect to all legal theories, whether in contract, tort or otherwise, and to the extent permitted by law. The provisions of this “Limitation of Liability” section allocate the risks under this Contract between the parties, and the parties have relied on these limitations in determining whether to enter into this Contract and the pricing for the Services.
Our Indemnification of Customer
We will defend Customer from and against any and all third party claims, actions, suits, proceedings, and demands alleging that the use of the Services as permitted under the Contract infringes or misappropriates a third party’s intellectual property rights (a “Claim Against Customer”), and will indemnify Customer for all reasonable attorney’s fees incurred and damages and other costs finally awarded against Customer in connection with or as a result of, and for amounts paid by Customer under a settlement we approve of in connection with, a Claim Against Customer; provided, however, that we will have no liability if a Claim Against Customer arises from (a) Customer Data or Non-Slack Products; and (b) any modification, combination or development of the Services that is not performed by us, including in the use of any application programming interface (API). Customer must provide us with prompt written notice of any Claim Against Customer and allow us the right to assume the exclusive defense and control, and cooperate with any reasonable requests assisting our defense and settlement of such matter. This section states our sole liability with respect to, and Customer’s exclusive remedy against us and the Slack Extended Family for, any Claim Against Customer.
Customer's Indemnification of Us
Customer will defend Slack and the members of the Slack Extended Family (collectively, the “Slack Indemnified Parties”) from and against any and all third party claims, actions, suits, proceedings, and demands arising from or related to Customer’s or any of its Authorized Users’ violation of the Contract or the User Terms (a “Claim Against Us”), and will indemnify the Slack Indemnified Parties for all reasonable attorney’s fees incurred and damages and other costs finally awarded against a Slack Indemnified Party in connection with or as a result of, and for amounts paid by a Slack Indemnified Party under a settlement Customer approves of in connection with, a Claim Against Us. We must provide Customer with prompt written notice of any Claim Against Us and allow Customer the right to assume the exclusive defense and control, and cooperate with any reasonable requests assisting Customer’s defense and settlement of such matter. This section states your sole liability with respect to, and the Slack Indemnified Parties’ exclusive remedy against Customer for, any Claim Against Us.
Limitations on Indemnifications
Notwithstanding anything contained in the two preceding sections, (a) an indemnified party will always be free to choose its own counsel if it pays for the cost of such counsel; and (b) no settlement may be entered into by an indemnifying party, without the express written consent of the indemnified parties (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), if (i) the third party asserting the claim is a government agency, (ii) the settlement arguably involves the making of admissions by the indemnified parties, (iii) the settlement does not include a full release of liability for the indemnified parties, or (iv) the settlement includes terms other than a full release of liability for the indemnified parties and the payment of money.
Each party (“Disclosing Party”) may disclose “Confidential Information” to the other party (“Receiving Party”) in connection with the Contract, which is anything that reasonably should be understood to be confidential given the nature of the information and the circumstances of disclosure including all Order Forms, as well as non-public business, product, technology and marketing information.Confidential Information of Customer includes Customer Data. If something is labeled “Confidential,” that’s a clear indicator to the Receiving Party that the material is confidential. Notwithstanding the above, Confidential Information does not include information that (a) is or becomes generally available to the public without breach of any obligation owed to the Disclosing Party; (b) was known to the Receiving Party prior to its disclosure by the Disclosing Party without breach of any obligation owed to the Disclosing Party; (c) is received from a third party without breach of any obligation owed to the Disclosing Party; or (d) was independently developed by the Receiving Party.
Protection and Use of Confidential Information
The Receiving Party will (a) take at least reasonable measures to prevent the unauthorized disclosure or use of Confidential Information, and limit access to those employees, affiliates and contractors who need to know such information in connection with the Contract; and (b) not use or disclose any Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party for any purpose outside the scope of this Contract. Nothing above will prevent either party from sharing Confidential Information with financial and legal advisors; provided, however, that the advisors are bound to confidentiality obligations at least as restrictive as those in the Contract.
Compelled Access or Disclosure
The Receiving Party may access or disclose Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party if it is required by law; provided, however, that the Receiving Party gives the Disclosing Party prior notice of the compelled access or disclosure (to the extent legally permitted) and reasonable assistance, at the Disclosing Party's cost, if the Disclosing Party wishes to contest the access or disclosure. Without limiting the foregoing, please review the Data Request Policy for details on how requests may be made for the disclosure of Customer Data and how we will handle those requests. If the Receiving Party is compelled by law to access or disclose the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information, the Disclosing Party will reimburse the Receiving Party for its reasonable cost of compiling and providing access to such Confidential Information as well as the reasonable cost for any support provided in connection with the Disclosing Party seeking a protective order or confidential treatment for the Confidential Information to be produced.
The sections titled “Feedback is Welcome,” “Non-Slack Products,” “Our Removal Rights,” “A Condition of Use,” “Payment Terms,” “Credits,” “The Slack Extended Family,” “What’s Yours is Yours…,” “And What’s Ours is Ours,” “Effect of Termination,” “Data Portability and Deletion,” “Representations; Disclaimer of Warranties,” “Limitation of Liability,” “Our Indemnification of Customer,” “Customer’s Indemnification of Us,” “Limitations on Indemnifications,” “Confidentiality” and “Survival,” as well as all of the provisions under the general heading “General Provisions,” will survive any termination or expiration of the Contract.
Customer grants us the right to use Customer’s company name and logo as a reference for marketing or promotional purposes on our website and in other public or private communications with our existing or potential customers, subject to Customer’s standard trademark usage guidelines as provided to us from time-to-time. We don’t want to list customers who don’t want to be listed, so Customer may send us an email to feedback@slack.com stating that it does not wish to be used as a reference.
Neither us nor Customer will be liable by reason of any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations on account of events beyond the reasonable control of a party, which may include denial-of-service attacks, a failure by a third party hosting provider or utility provider, strikes, shortages, riots, fires, acts of God, war, terrorism, and governmental action.
Relationship of the Parties; No Third Party Beneficiaries
The parties are independent contractors. The Contract does not create a partnership, franchise, joint venture, agency, fiduciary or employment relationship between the parties. There are no third party beneficiaries to the Contract.
Email and Slack Messages
Except as otherwise set forth herein, all notices under the Contract will be by email, although we may instead choose to provide notice to Customer through the Services (e.g., a slackbot notification). Notices to Slack will be sent to feedback@slack.com, except for legal notices, such as notices of termination or an indemnifiable claim, which must be sent to legal@slack.com. Notices will be deemed to have been duly given (a) the day after it is sent, in the case of notices through email; and (b) the same day, in the case of notices through the Services.
As our business evolves, we may change these Customer Terms and the other components of the Contract (except any Order Forms). If we make a material change to the Contract, we will provide Customer with reasonable notice prior to the change taking effect, either by emailing the email address associated with Customer’s account or by messaging Customer through the Services. Customer can review the most current version of the Customer Terms at any time by visiting this page and by visiting the most current versions of the other pages that are referenced in the Contract. The materially revised Contract will become effective on the date set forth in our notice, and all other changes will become effective upon posting of the change. If Customer (or any Authorized User) accesses or uses the Services after the effective date, that use will constitute Customer’s acceptance of any revised terms and conditions.
No failure or delay by either party in exercising any right under the Contract will constitute a waiver of that right. No waiver under the Contract will be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the party being deemed to have granted the waiver.
The Contract will be enforced to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law. If any provision of the Contract is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, the provision will be modified by the court and interpreted so as best to accomplish the objectives of the original provision to the fullest extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions of the Contract will remain in effect.
Except with respect to the Slack Extended Family, neither party may assign or delegate any of its rights or obligations hereunder, whether by operation of law or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the other party (not to be unreasonably withheld). Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may assign the Contract in its entirety (including all Order Forms), without consent of the other party, to a corporate affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, or sale of all or substantially all of its assets. Customer will keep its billing and contact information current at all times by notifying Slack of any changes. Any purported assignment in violation of this section is void. A party’s sole remedy for any purported assignment by the other party in breach of this section will be, at the non-assigning party’s election, termination of the Contract upon written notice to the assigning party. In the event of such a termination by Customer, we will refund Customer any prepaid fees covering the remainder of the term of all subscriptions after the effective date of termination. Subject to the foregoing, the Contract will bind and inure to the benefit of the parties, their respective successors and permitted assigns.
Which Slack Entity is Customer Contracting With?
All references to ‘Slack,’ ‘we,’ or ‘us’ under the Contract, what law will apply in any dispute or lawsuit arising out of or in connection with the Contract, and which courts have jurisdiction over any such dispute or lawsuit, depend on where Customer is domiciled.
Slack Contracting Entity
Slack Technologies, Inc.
San Francisco County, California
Slack Technologies Limited
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Pentagon Not Trying to Delay Key Niger Ambush Report, Shanahan Says
Pentagon Not Trying to Delay Key Niger Ambush Report, Shanahan Says by Kyle Rempfer - Military Times
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan told reporters Monday that he’s not trying to delay the release of a report on the October 2017 Niger ambush, which is expected to include decisions on reprimands and awards.
“To the families, I’m not trying to delay a report," Shanahan, who came into the defense secretary role in January, said.
“When I undertook the role, I wanted time to review the investigation," he added. “Really this is just an expedited way for me to make sure I have enough time to understand the reports and the details, so I expect this to go very, very quickly."
Former Defense Secretary James Mattis convened a review on the ambush that was supposed to include recommendations for awards and punishments. However, when that review was brought to Shanahan after he assumed control over the Pentagon, he did not find it satisfactory.
Rumors have circulated in Washington, D.C., that the final punishments would single out junior officers, but leave senior leadership untouched for the failures that led to the deaths of four U.S. soldiers, including two Army Green Berets…
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Philly’s “Soda Tax”: Not Popular, Not Fiscally Sound, Not Legal
Here's What Happened When a CNN Anchor Tried to Get a Group of Trump-Supporting Women to Admit He's Racist
Jerry Rogers
Posted: Jun 28, 2016 12:01 AM
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Marina Medvin
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In Philadelphia, a 1.5-cents-per-ounce tax on beverages goes into effect January 1, 2017. The regressive, highly unpopular tax will add 18 cents to the cost of a can of soda, $1.08 for a six-pack or $1.02 for a two-liter bottle. The new “soda tax” will be added on top of the already excessive 8% sales tax that applies to beverages in Pennsylvania.
Yes, the tax is unpopular – 58% of residents oppose the measure. Yes, the tax will disproportionately harm poor residents – economic studies show that low-income Americans spend a larger portion of their income on consumer goods like soda. No, the tax revenue—as the mayor promised—is not being reserved exclusively for an expanded pre-K program or city parks and recreational facilities. More than half the tax revenue will be used to plug the city’s deteriorating finances. No, the tax is not legal – experts are calling the tax unconstitutional.
Mayor Jim Kenney (D-Philadelphia) might have persuaded the City Council to support a “soda tax” with back-room deals and eleventh-hour concessions to individual council members. However, such sweet-deals and political horse-trading will be out-of-bounds in the judicial system. What will matter in the end is if the mayor’s legal team can persuade the courts that the grocery tax is legal under Pennsylvania law.
Ronald Castille, former Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania high court, has acknowledged that the “soda tax” is a de facto sales tax and preempted by the state. He wrote in Philly.com that the grocery tax is clearly a sales tax.
Many legal experts, including the former Chief Justice, have affirmed that the Philly tax violates Pennsylvania’s state Constitution. Specifically, Article VIII, Section 1 — or the Uniformity clause — which holds:
“All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be collected under general laws.”
Even before the City Council gave final approval to the grocery tax, Justice Castille, wrote in Philly.com that theMayor and Council were pushing an unconstitutional soda tax.
The tax is not only illegal, but it is also an economic disaster in the making.
The Kenney administration's finance director, Rob Dubow, has admitted the city expects stores to close because of lost revenue, and smaller grocery shops, convenience stores, and street vendors will be hit the hardest. The businesses that provide services in low-income communities, hire local residents, and pay a significant amount in taxes. These businesses will fail under the burden of Philly’s regressive, unpopular “soda tax”. When they go out of business, more Philadelphians will be without jobs, neighborhoods without stores, and a city government without a tax base.
It’s happened in other cities, like Baltimore, Maryland.
Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, writes in Philly.com:
“Consider what happened in Baltimore, which enacted a bottle tax in 2010 (with the excuse, in part, of funding school repairs). Critics, including the National Federation of Independent Business and American Beverage Association, predicted that commerce in the city would be harmed, and that's exactly what happened. Painfully, the landmark 83-year-old Santoni's Supermarket in Highlandtown was among the losses. Owner Rob Santoni said the tax had caused an ‘irreversible’ decline in business as customers fled for suburban stores; beverage sales had slumped 28 percent and customer traffic 20 percent. Eighty workers would lose their jobs. ‘What has taken 83 years to build has been torn down by one person [the mayor] and one bad law,’ he told the Baltimore Sun.
More recently, Walmart closed its only Baltimore location, and local grocery chain Mars announced that it would close all its Baltimore stores.
Can you guess what's happened now? Right: Baltimore this winter offered huge one-off tax breaks to supermarkets willing to locate in the city to help solve what was said to be the public health crisis of ‘food deserts.’”
Philadelphia’s Mayor Kenney and the City Council are determined to see the tax implemented this January, and the Kenney administration will defend the “soda tax” in court. If the mayor wins, the city loses. Philadelphia will be burdened with a grocery tax that hurts the poor, causes businesses to close, and sends jobs fleeing. Philly will have its own, self-inflicted “health crisis of food deserts.” And for what? Not an expanded, universal pre-Kindergarten program, like the mayor promised, but to cover the gaping holes in the city’s ramshackle, bloated budget.
Philadelphia is a great city, and its people deserve better from Mayor Kenney and the City Council. “Let brotherly love endure” and let justice be served in the courts.
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C6000 Embedded Design Workshop
1 C6000 Embedded Design Workshop
1.1. Introduction to C6000 Architecture (1 of 15)
1.2. C6000 Architecture (2 of 15)
1.3. C6000 Optimizations - Overview (3 of 15)
1.4. C6000 Optimizations - Part 1 (4 of 15)
1.6. C6000 Optimizations - Lab (6 of 15)
1.7. C6000 Cache - Overview (7 of 15)
1.8. C6000 Cache - Part 1 (8 of 15)
1.10. C6000 Cache - Part 3 (10 of 15)
1.11. C6000 Cache - Lab (11 of 15)
1.12. Using C6000 EDMA3 - Overview (12 of 15)
1.13. Using C6000 EDMA3 - Part 1 (13 of 15)
1.8 C6000 Cache - Part 1 (8 of 15)
[MUSIC PLAYING] So Scott, here we are at a different part of Garden of the Gods. We're actually at the visitor's center. And behind us is the kissing camel's rock. No kissing. No, no, no. No. Not right now, especially. So we're going to talk-- we're just getting ready to start part one. Part one. Which is looking at the basics of cache, some of the terminology like lines, and tags, and blocks, and such. Then we're going to look at an example of how caches work. A very simple example, but it gives you a feel for how basic caches work. That's right. So if you've never really figured out how caches work, this is the good part of the chapter to look at. And then we're going to look at the specifics later and some advanced topics. Let's do it. All right, Scott, part 1. OK. Cache Basics. We're going to learn a little bit about the basics of cache. This is-- actually, to a large extent, this isn't even C6000 specific. This is just kind of how caches work, although it does kind of correlate to how the C6000 cache works. So it leads right into our next part where we'll talk about the specifics of the C6000 caches. The poor guy, he's still writing down there. I will always enable the cache. I will always enable the cache. When you get done with that lab exercise, you will always enable the cache. That is true. You're always going to do that. And again, we haven't told them how to disable it or enable it. That comes in the advanced part three. It's funny that we would tell them how to turn on the cache in the advanced part. Yeah, but we want to keep them all the way through. OK. All right. So as a quick review, what we're going to do here in the part one basics is we're going to look at the cache basics. I guess that's why we named it basics. And in an example, to kind of just get a sense of the flow of how caches work. And then again we'll come back and look at the rest of the chapter in the next two parts of our cache videos. So what is the cache anyway? You can see, like in the middle of this diagram, there's a box that says cache hardware. And there's some cache hardware on the part. There's some RAM memory that's on the upper left hand corner. There's some RAM memory that we're going to call or set up as the cache. And the cache hardware is going to fill that force as we need it. And sometimes you can call that the cache controller. So, yeah, the cache hardware is oftentimes called the cache controller. Yes. So in the CPU, it's going to look for something. It's going to look to see if it's in the cache already. So that means if I'm using the cache, it's almost like I'm not going to be able to use anything out of the cache unless I've already used it at least once before. True. So that's basically the way the caches work. So I go look for something. If it was already used before, I'll find it in the cache. I can reuse it. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. Because if that's like L1 memory that's zero wait state. Correct. Very, very fast. If what I want isn't there, well, the cash controller-- the cache hardware is going to have to go off to either the L2 memory, in our case, or external memory, get what we want, and bring it into the cache for us where we can make use of it in the CPU. So in this case were showing functions over there in the external memory. So I can cache program code. Or we can also cache data. That's just not the example we're showing here. So that's the overall sense of the cache hardware. And we'll give you a lot more details of that as we go through this chapter. So, yes, you're going to see these words, addresses, if you look down below to the bullets down there. So the addresses and the memory map are associated. Fancy word. It's outlined, or it's in blue, with locations in the cache. And we'll talk about what that association stuff means here in a minute. And, as I think we kind of implied if you were if you watched the cache intro part, cache locations don't have their own addresses. So when we turn the cache on, the RAM memory associated with that cache, that part of the cache controller, those disappear from the memory map. So that's what we're talking about there. So let's start off with some of the basic concepts of a cache. So we can see here, we're going to talk about blocks, lines, and indexes. But let's start off with the cache block first. You can see that the cache block, well, in this case, it looks like we've got a cache block size of 0 to f, so 16. And let's just say it's a byte wide, you know. 16 lines. 16 lines. You can think of it as 16 bytes in this example. That's what we're looking at. But we'll talk later about the line size can be more than a single byte, so. Thankfully. Thankfully. Yeah. But so the cache block is what we call that, well, all the memory in this particular part of the cache. And what we do is we actually go over to our external memory in this case. And we're going to chunk it up into block sizes. And that's kind of where the concept of the cache comes from. Depending on the size of my cache, I'm going to create or think of my external memory in block size chunks. I almost think of it as like a little cookie cutter. The cache size ends up being the thing I'm going to cut that external memory up by. And so you can see we have our addresses, in this case, 8,000, 8,010, 8,020. And so you can see those are 16 byte blocks that we're seeing over there on the right hand side. Now each line of the cache, in this case, each byte, but each line is called a cache line. I guess defining. That's literally where you were going with that. Yeah. But so each, in this case, each element of the cache is a cache line. And you can see that there's actually this association here between a line of the cache and a line in external memory. Or an address in external memory. Correct. Correct. So the particular line is associated with a particular address over in the external memory. And we try to highlight that with the dark brown line coloration. And then the last thing is what line of the cache are we talking about. So that's oftentimes called an index, or I probably more often call it a line number. But you hear index or line number. We really mean the same thing in this case. So that's our cache, the definition of the cache block, the cache line, and the cache index. And these are pretty fundamental terms that we're going to be using. Exactly. So how do we know which block is cached? So it looks like I have an association as we see here. So in this case, I see the dark line in my cache block. And I see it also over the external memory. But if that block size could represent the 8,000 block or the 8,010 block or the 8,020 block, how do we know which block it's associated with? That's why I'm taking this training. I have no clue. You have no clue. No clue. There's got to be something that says this is the zeroth one, the one, the first one, the second block, something. So we're going to have to have some mechanism to keep track of them. You've got to tag it somehow. Tag it. Yes. You're leading me to it, trying to help me get there. And it's called the cache tag. And that's what we see here. So we have a cache tag. And each line of our cache, actually-- not all caches work this way. Some caches have one tag for the whole block. And that would be the least expensive way to go. It would be the cheapest way to do it. And we've had processors in the past that had that type of. That's true. Program memory cache. That's true. The bad thing with that though is that if I get, and this looks like 8,000 hex, and put that into the cache. And then I go for 8, 0, 1, 1. Guess what? If I only had one tag, I'd have to erase the cache and now work on caching the next block. Very cheap but not very efficient. Yeah. It just-- it's not very flexible. That's right. So in our case, we actually have a cache tag. And we have a tag for each one of the lines of our cache. Makes it more flexible. That's right. So that's-- and you can kind of see here, I kind of think this is interesting. When you think about that external address, and we talk about having the external address associated with the cache. The whole address actually gets associated in the cache because the lower part of the addresses end up being the index. And the upper part of the addresses end up being in the tag. Makes sense to me. So in the end-- now having said that, our whole goal in creating these things is to try and make that tag as simple-- use as little memory as possible. And we get pretty creative in those areas. But that's nothing we have to worry about. That's the advanced topic. No. That's the designer topic. OK. We're not designing caches, we're just going to use them. So we won't have to worry about that. So yeah. So each line in the cache is associated with its own location, external memory. And the cache tag helps us with those upper address bits. Now how do we know the line is valid? So you can see I've got 801 of the tags, the first one, and then 801 in the next one. But how do we know that 0, if there was 0 in there, that wouldn't be valid or whatever other number. We're going to have to have some way of keeping track what we've put into the cache, you know. And then probably that's when we flush the cache or get rid of the data that's probably what we clear as well. So, yeah, we're going to have a valid. Some of you may have already guessed this. We're going to have a way of saying what's valid, and we call that The valid bit. The valid bit. Right. So the valid bit is where we're going to keep track of what's accurate or real in the cache and what's not-- what's just empty memory in this particular case. So another thing that you're going to hear a lot when we work with caches. Now finally what is this type of cache called when we use this type of cache here with our cache tags, our valids, and the lines, and the blocks and all the things we talked about? We call this a direct-mapped cache. So in a direct-mapped cache, kind of the unique aspect of this type of cache is there's one unique cache index for every single address. Or another way to put it, you point any address in the external memory, and I can show you exactly where it's going to end up in that cache. So that's really our direct-mapped cache. And if you can remember back to the intro, we're going to get back to this in a few minutes, but if you can remember back to the intro, all of the L1P caches, when I say all of them, I mean for all of our 6000 generations, happen to use this direct-mapped cache scheme. For L1P. They're a little wider than a byte because you said that would be nice. And they're a little longer than 16 inches. They're a little longer than 16. Yeah. But they are using this type of direct-mapped cache. So, hopefully, we've kind of given you good sense of how this cache works. But, at least for me, to really fully understand the logic of the cache. Need some sort of example. Yeah. I'd like. You got an example? No. Do you? I do. OK. I do. Yes. All right. OK. So let's look at an example. Cache example. We should probably say direct-mapped cache example. Now we're going to be a little bit arbitrary here. So just for you guys, again, this is not the size or the width. This is getting across the concepts of how direct-mapped cache works. That's right. Not the specifics of the C6000 addresses and sources of tags and everything. And we'll talk about those specifics in part two. Right. Of our caches videos. The other thing is is we're going to just use a 16-bit address. Again, the real C6000 uses 32-bit addresses. Right. A little bit larger. So just keep mind-- actually, this works out real nice because I can have one hex digit represent the index. And the rest of the hex digits of that 16-bit address represent the tag value. How convenient. How do we come up with that? I don't know. I don't know. It just happened that way. Yeah. So once again, just driving point-- have we got this point across? It's arbitrary. It's an arbitrary direct-mapped cache example. Do not send any messages to the forums asking about this example. That's right. I want to do a more accurate one. Guys, I'm sorry about that. But I had a really tough time trying to fit 32k locations on this PowerPoint slide. Come on, Scott. I know. You can [INAUDIBLE]. I guess I was lazy. Yeah. We already know that. Yeah. Valet. OK. So again, our conceptual example code for our conceptual example-- we just have some simple code here. This is not-- these are real instruction names, but this is not how code actually works on the C6000 per se. So here we're just going to do a load, multiply, add. But the real key, as you can see, there are a couple of branches in here. And we want to use those branches because that's kind of a corner case for caches a little bit. So we're going to come back and see how that works within our code. And then here's our-- we shrunk the code down here into the left hand corner. And here's our cache. We've got our index, or tag location, and a place for a valid. So how do we start this off? The first thing, the cache is empty. The cache is empty. So the CPU wants to go fetch this LDH instruction. Right. Is that where we're starting? That's exactly where we're starting. So when we-- you could either reset the cache or when you power on the device, the cache is going to be empty. It's one of those things done at reset. So here we've got a cache empty. And we're going to go do an LDH. We go off, and we look at. What indexes that we got for our first LDH. Number three? Number three. So we're going to go over to line 3. Yeah. Oh. There's no valid bit set. There's no tag, but it really doesn't matter because it's not valid anyway. It's not valid anyway. In fact, I doubt that the tags are even erased when we erase the cache. We only erase the valid bits. So this is the first time we're filling it up. So this would be considered a miss. Yeah. And we actually come up with names for our misses. We do. We have a slide coming up on that. Yes, we do. That is true. Hint. No. I was thinking of a bad pun. But I actually held back. Believe it or not. That's very good. Yeah. OK. So we've got three, what's this called? This is going to be called a compulsory miss. I can't help but do this miss. Now why do we get crazy and actually name the types of misses we have? It's because when we go look at the cache user's guide, and we'll point that out in a later-- you can go look at it online if you want. But we'll point that out in a later chapter or a later part of our video. We have different techniques on how to help you overcome different types of misses. And I guess we didn't really explain what is a miss. And this is when I want something in the cache and it isn't there. What would we call it if what I wanted was there? That's called a. Hit. Yeah. Exactly. G4. Hit. Yeah. Or like baseball. Right. OK. No. I was thinking Battleship. Oh, Battleship. OK. I get it. OK. So that's the compulsory miss. That means we have to go off ship, get our LDH instruction. Bring it into the CPU. And on it's way in. It's going to put the tag in there and set the value. So if I ever wanted to go back to that label L1 and grab LDH again, I'd probably get a hit, the nice kind. I'd get a hit and, boom, we'd be right there. OK. And we're going to see that as we work through our code down there. We'll get back to this point. So the next one, MPY, that's index for-- I'm not going to drag this one out. It's not there. First time, it's going to be another compulsory miss. It'll have to go off and get it, bring it back into the CPU. Same thing with ADD. Same thing with ADD. Same thing with branch. So we go there and looks like the branch takes us down to L2. OK. Now when we look at the label L2, what's the index of that value? So if I wanted to go off and fetch the ADD instruction, the index would be 6. Oh. I got validate data at 6. Can I just go use that? Well, let's check it all out. The index is 6. It's valid, but you've got to match the tags. Oh. Yeah. It's a 000 in the cache. It's a 0002. Eh. Thanks for playing. So that's another miss. So we'll put it in a different spot. I can only put an index 6 on the 6 location. Oh. It's a direct map. So we only have one index. There's one unique location. Yeah. So in this case, [INAUDIBLE] So do I just keep the branch here, or do I use the new one? There's only one spot, one parking spot. But which one-- do I use the 0, 0, 2 tag or do I keep the 0,0, 0, 1 in there. Well, if I fetch the ADD instruction, and ADD replaces the branch. I'm going to have to update the tag. You just answered my question. I did. The new one's going to replace the old one. Yes. That's right. I wasn't listening to you. I was just talking. You just wanted to say your own thing. Yes. And it actually kind of goes with the way caches work. Caches tend to be, what's they call that, temporal locality or whatever. Whatever's the thing we most recently used, that's the one we're most likely going to use again. It isn't 100% of the time, but it is more often going to be that way. So that's how caches work. So this would cause some sort of conflict, I would imagine. Yeah. So you can see, we do the overwrite just like you said. And we're going to call that a conflict miss. We're going to have to throw something out. What word do we like to use? Thrash. Evict. We're going to thrash in a second. So when I throw something out, we call it an evict [INAUDIBLE]. So we're going to evict, in this case, the branch instruction, put the ADD in there. That's our conflict. OK. Yeah. And we'll get to thrash in a second because that's the ultimate thing we don't like. OK. OK. So we got? We got subtract. The next thing is sub. Again, that's not in there. So we're going to have to go get our subtract. Evict 7. And then the index 8 is a branch. So we're going to do a branch again. OK. Yeah. So. So that one's OK. That [INAUDIBLE] come in. So then we have to go off. We get the branch that comes in. We squeeze the code down in the corner. We know that. But where does the branch at 0, 0, 28 hexie send us to? It goes back to the label L1. Oh. It goes back to L1. Woo hoo. So when I. You're so excited about that. Well, because when I go back to L1, I look there-- You're looking at an index of 3. --to line 3. And it's tag of 0. And it's valid. I get some reuse. High-five! I get some reuse! Yeah. Get to reuse that. And so, well, that means if I ever have a loop, I'd actually get some pretty good use out of this cache. Wouldn't I? Absolutely. What do we do a lot of in [INAUDIBLE]. Lots of loops. Lots of loops. We love loops. Yes. And that's why program memory, LNP, being a direct-mapped cache actually makes sense. Yes. It works quite well. Yeah. Exactly. OK so that means that I don't have all that code up anymore. I can reuse the [? load. ?] I can reuse the multiply. I can reuse the ADD. Well, but the next one, we can't see it here, but wasn't-- when I go from 3 to 4 to 5, don't I really need the branch that was in there that got evicted last time? Oh. So we're going to evict the ADD and put in a [INAUDIBLE] branch. You've got to evict the ADD and put the branch back in. Yeah. Yeah. Now that's thrashing when we go back and forth and back and forth. It's just like a fish splashing around on a dock or something like that or in the boat. That's the ultimate bad thing. OK. Now as much as bad as thrashing is, and we don't like it. And that does happen in real life at times. If we think about some notes of this example, we can say that we contrived this example. Can you believe that? That it was contrived. No. No. No. But what we want to do is we want to show thrashing. We want to see what that look like so that we can get a sense of, well, how the cache works. As we show here, the second bullet, code thrashing is minimized. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. But we can minimize it by making the C6000 have really large caches. And in fact, in the third bullet, what we talk about here is because code tends to be pretty continuous, between contiguous and large sizes, we don't tend to have as many thrashes. And that's why, as you said, we can get away using L1P being direct-mapped cache. It works out really well. So with that in mind, let's go back and review what were the types of cache misses we had. Compulsory-- so the first time I go to get something when it's empty. Yeah. And there's some specific special techniques we can use for that. We'll talk about that. Conflict-- when something gets evicted so that we can put something new in there. And you can see that there are things that we can do, like change the memory layout or add more lines for each index. You probably can't do that yourself, but we're going to talk about how maybe we've done that to help you out in the C6000. And then the one we didn't see in this example is what happens when the cache gets totally filled up. Effectively, it's a conflict miss because I start throwing things out to put new things in. But we just called it a capacity miss because, well, it's a special version of conflict, is the way I would think about it. So that's kind of a quick synopsis of some of the terms [? end ?] that we use for caches and how the cache works, the flow and logic of the cache. With that, it looks like we're at the end of part 1, the basics of how caches work. But. Are we going to cover anything else in any other videos? If we had part 1, I'm guessing there's probably another part. So in part 2, we're going to look at the specifics of the C6000 cache. We had one quick slide on each of these in our intro, just to kind of give you the 10 minute overview of the whole chapter. But we're going to come back and look at each of those and define a few terms that we kind of glossed over in the intro. So that's what we'll do when we come back and talk about C6000 specifics. Come back and join us for the next part. In part 2. Sounds good, Scott. Great. Thanks, Eric.
Watch the next video in the series:
C6000 Cache - Part 2 (9 of 15)
There are 15 parts to this series:
Introduction to C6000 Architecture (1 of 15)
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Virginia men’s basketball team won’t visit White House to celebrate national championship
"We would have to respectfully decline an invitation.”
Lindsay Gibbs Twitter Apr 27, 2019, 9:59 am
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - APRIL 08: Head coach Tony Bennett of the Virginia Cavaliers places his teams name as National Champion on the bracket after his teams 85-77 win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders during the 2019 NCAA men's Final Four National Championship game at U.S. Bank Stadium on April 08, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
On Friday evening, the University of Virginia men’s basketball team announced that it would not be visiting the White House to celebrate its national championship.
“We have received inquiries about a visit to the White House. With several players either pursuing pro opportunities or moving on from UVA, it would be difficult, if not impossible to get everyone back together,” head coach Tony Bennett said in a statement. “We would have to respectfully decline an invitation.”
The university is located in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a deadly white supremacist rally took place two summers ago. President Donald Trump infamously responded to that rally by saying that there had been “very fine people on both sides” — drawing an equivalence between the group wielding torches and screaming “Jews will not replace us,” and the people there protesting the hateful slogans.
While Bennett did not mention the president or politics in his statement, it was released just hours after Trump once again defended his comments on Charlottesville.
“I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee,” Trump told reporters on Friday. “People there were protesting the taking down of the monument to Robert E. Lee. Everybody knows that.”
It is unclear if Trump ever formally extended an invitation to the Cavaliers. It is customary for teams that win championships on the collegiate and professional level to be invited to the White House for a celebratory photo opportunity. However, in the age of Trump, it seems that the White House does not even send a formal invitation unless it is clear the team will accept it.
For example, Trump has not invited a single women’s national championship team for a solo celebration at the White House during his time in office. However, after the Baylor women’s basketball team won the national championship in April, head coach Kim Mulkey made it well known that she would be honored to visit the White House. On Monday, the Baylor Bears will have that opportunity.
In 2018, Trump abruptly cancelled a ceremony featuring the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles less than 24 hours before the event, after it was reported that only a handful of Eagles players were actually going to attend.
Earlier this year, the Clemson football team did attend the White House to celebrate their national championship. Trump marked the occasion by serving them Big Macs.
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TWU in the Headlines
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TWU Athletics Director to lead new Pioneer MoneyWise Center
April 16, 2019 - DENTON - Texas Woman's University officials today announced the creation of a new center to help students manage their finances and have appointed Chalese Connors to lead the strategic effort.
Connors has served the university for more than two decades, including the past 18 years as director of athletics. In her new role, she will be charged with building a center that will educate students about financial literacy and student loan debt.
"Helping our students learn to successfully manage their financial situations is one of our strategic initiatives," said TWU Chancellor Carine M. Feyten. "To lead this effort, we need someone who has a strong record of leadership and who is familiar with scholarship management, our students, their needs and the barriers that they face."
Connors plans to continue serving as director of athletics until a replacement is found. Then she will assume her new duties as director of the Pioneer MoneyWise Center.
"Leading TWU Athletics has been extremely fulfilling and one of the most rewarding periods of my life," said Connors. "I'm very proud of what we've accomplished, and I'm ready to stretch myself professionally and take on something new."
According to LendEDU, the national student loan debt has climbed to $1.45 trillion. Additionally, the average college student holds $27,975 in student loan debt. It's becoming increasingly clear that that information, education and guidance in financial decision-making is absolutely needed.
The MoneyWise Center will seek to promote financial wellness by providing students with resources, workshops and the advice they need to avoid unexpected financial constraints. As ranked by LendEDU, Texas is home to three of the top 10 college financial literacy programs in the nation, and TWU will seek to implement best practices.
"There is such a huge need to help our students understand and manage their financial choices, and I'm eager to be part of this new venture," said Connors.
During Connors' tenure as director of athletics, TWU racked up five national gymnastics championships, two Lone Star Conference championships, two Midwest Independent Conference titles, one NCAA Division II national championship appearance, four NCAA Woman of the Year nominees and numerous regional and conference tournament appearances for teams and individuals. Additionally, TWU added soccer and moved from partially-funded student scholarships to fully-funded squads that are competitive and respected in NCAA Division II.
Texas Woman's will conduct a national search for a new director of athletics.
Amy Evans
Director of Student Life Communications
aevans18@twu.edu
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September 15 Asia@Noon: Roundtable with Dauji Gupta
September 9, 2017 Asia@Noon, LecturesHindi, Lucknow, Urban Studies, Urduwalterha
Lucknow: A Historic Indian City in the Twenty-first Century
A Roundtable Asia@Noon presentation featuring:
Dr. Dauji Gupta, Former Mayor of Lucknow
Dr. Walter Hakala, UB Department of English and Asian Studies Program
Dr. Ashima Krishna, UB Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Ms. Kayleigh Reed, UB Asian Studies Program, Boren SAFLI Fellow in Lucknow
September 15, 12 pm in 280 Park Hall, UB North Campus
Dr. Dauji Gupta is a former mayor of Lucknow, served as a State Senator, and is an author, poet, and linguist. His PhD is from the University of Lucknow, and he also has studied in Lucknow Christian College and the University of Vermont. In addition to his work as a politician and a scholar, Dr. Gupta led and was a member of movement for the emancipation of Dalits and the abolition of the caste system in India. Dr. Gupta was born in Lucknow, grew up there, and is deeply influenced by the cultural traditions of the city.
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Current industrial reports
Portion of title:
Copper controlled materials
v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
United States -- Bureau of the Census
United States -- Bureau of Industrial Economics
The Bureau :
For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.
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Copper industry and trade -- Statistics -- Periodicals -- United States ( lcsh )
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Citation/Reference:
Chemical abstracts
American statistics index
Predicasts
Statement of Responsibility:
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
1st quarter 1979-
Issuing Body:
2nd quarter 1979- issued jointly with the Bureau of Industrial Economics.
Vols. for 1987- issued jointly with the Bureau of Domestic Business Development.
Previously classed C 3.158:DIB-9008
Title from caption.
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Preceded by:
Copper-base mills and foundry products.
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BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION
The statistics in this publication are based on a s i
known producers of brass mill products, and a 95-percent
of producers of wire mill products. The figures represent to
U.S. shipments of copper-base and foundry products.
Copper Controlled
9I ITA9008(87)-2
/ F Issued September 1987
4, scription of the survey methodology and related informa-
may be found in the first quarter publication, ITA9008(87)-1,
issued June 1987.
Table 1. SUMMARY OF SHIPMENTS OF COPPER-BASE MILL AND FOUNDRY PRODUCTS: 1987 AND 1986
(Millions of pounds--metal weight)
Brass mill products Copper wire mill products
Brass and
Quarter and year Insulated Other bronze
communi- insulated foundry
Total Alloyed Unalloyed Bare wire cation wire wire products
Second quarter........................... r1,450 481 344 38 80 367 140
First quarter............................ 1,377 r502 r270 34 78 361 132
Total............................... .. 4,578 1,359 949 136 345 1,311 478
Fourth quarter........................... 1,129 315 244 38 88 319 125
Third quarter............................ 1,143 316 262 32 93 328 112
Second quarter............................ 1,136 361 220 35 72 323 125
First quarter............................ 1,170 367 223 31 92 341 116
Note: Detail may not add to totals due to independent rounding.
Revised by 5 percent or more from previously published figures.
2Represents copper content weight, rather than metal weight.
2Represents uninsulated, bare, tinned, and/or alloy coated wire.
3Source: Bureau of the Census, Current Industrial Report Series, M33E, Nonferrous Castings.
Address inquiries concerning these figures to U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, Materials Division, Washington,
D.C. 20230, or to the Bureau of the Census, Industry Division, Washington, D.C. 20233, or call Carol Beasley, (301) 763-5434.
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.
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Table 2. SHIPMENTS OF COPPER-BASE MILL AND FOUNDRY PRODUCTS
(Millions of pounds--Eetal weight)
Second First
Product description quarter quarter
Total shipments .................................................... 1,450 r1,377
Copper-base ili products ............................................ 825 r772
Copper-base alloy:
Sheet nd strip................................................. 262 27
Rod, bar, and ire............................................... 197 203
Tube a .nd pipe.................................................... 22 25
Unalloyed copper:
Sheet a d strip ............................ ..................... 57 5
S r ............................... .... ...... 17 7
ibe and pipea..................................................... 270 198
Copper .ire il products3 ........................................... 485 473
Bare ire-. ............ ................................................. 3.8 34
insulated c ica..ion wire ....................................... 80... 78
ther isu ated wire ...... ............................................. 3.. .67 361
Brass and bronze foundry products ................................... 14) 132
ote: Detail ay add to totals due to independent rounding.
revised by 5 percent or =ore fro- previously published figures.
iitry ar ion cups and discs are included on a net-weight basis, i.e. excluding the eight of the
we bing scrap generatedd in the cupping and discing.
-Does no include electrical -ire.
Reported in copper content ae'aht rather than metal weight.
"Represents uninsulated, bare, tinned, and/or alloy coated wire.
Source: Bureau of he Census, Curren Industrial eport Series, M33E, Nonferrous Castings.
Table 3. SHIPMENTS, EXPORTS, IMPORTS, AND APPARENT CONSUMPTION OF COPPER-BASE MILL AND FOUNDRY PRODUCTS: 1987
(Quantity in millions of pounds)
Percent Percent
Exports of exports to imports to
Product description Manufacturers' domestic manufacturers' Imports for Apparent apparent
shipments merchandise 2 shipments consumption 3 consumption consumption
Copper-base mill products ..................... 8b3 31 4 112 944 12
Brass mill products:
Sheet and strip............................. 262 4 2 27 285 9
Rod, bar, and wire.......................... 197 4 2 15 208 7
Tube and pipe............................... 22 3 14 15 34 44
Sheet and strip............................. 57 (Z) 11 19 85 22
Rod, bar, and wire........................ .. 17 8 )
Tube and pipe............................................ 270 4 1 24 290 8
Copper wire mill products, bare wire ........... 38 8 21 12 42 29
Copper-base mill products ...................... r8)0b 30 4 108 884 12
Sheet and strip............................ 274 4 1 30 300 10
Sheet and strip............................ 55 (Z) 17 82 21
Rod, bar, and wire.......................... 17 7 )
Tube and pipe.............................. 198 3 2 24 219 11
Copper wire mill products, bare wire ........... 34 8 24 II 37 30
rRevised by 5 percent or more from previously published figures.
(Z) Less than 500 thousand pounds.
IFor comparison of domestic manufacturers' shipment, export numbers, and import numbers for copper-base
table 4 in the first quarter 1987 report, ITA9008(87)-1, issued June 1987.
2Source: Bureau of the Census report EM 546, U.S. Exports.
3Source: Bureau of the Census report IM 146, U.S. Imports for Consumption.
4Apparent consumption is derived by subtracting exports from the total of net shipments plus imports.
5This total does not include either insulated wire and cable or brass and bronze foundry products.
mill and foundry products, see
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December 31, 2018 / 12:05 PM / in 7 months
Saudi Aramco buys remaining 50 percent of rubber joint venture from Lanxess
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Saudi Aramco is seen at Aramco headquarters in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia May 23, 2018. Picture taken May 23, 2018. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Aramco has completed its acquisition of a 50 percent stake in Arlanxeo, its Netherlands-based joint venture with chemicals firm Lanxess, to become the full owner of the company, it said in a statement on Monday.
Lanxess’s share in the synthetic rubber and elastomer products venture was valued at 1.5 billion euros ($1.72 billion), Aramco said. Arlanxeo will maintain its current base in Maastricht.
Reporting by Asma Alsharif; Writing by Katie Paul; Editing by Jan Harvey
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Home Articles Articles by H.P. Blavatsky [On the Brahmo Samaj and Theosophical Society]
Theosophist, March, 1881
In the Sunday Mirror of February 20, we find a paragraph in which Sir Richard Temple’s opinion on the Brahmo Samaj is quoted from his India in 1880 to the effect that “quite recently they (the Brahmos) have adopted the name of Theosophists.” This, one of the many inaccurate statements made in his book by Sir Richard Temple upon India in general and Indian religions especially, seems to have spurred the Brahmos to a quick repudiation of any connection whatever with the Theosophists. The able organ of the New Dispensation says:—“The reference to the Theosophists is a mistake. The Brahmos have never identified themselves with the Theosophists.”
Amen. Nor have the Theosophists identified themselves with them. But whether either the one or the other have acted the most wisely in this, is another question. The Theosophical Society includes members of nearly every known religion, sect, and philosophy, none of them clashing or interfering with the other, but each trying to live in peace with his neighbour. The universal tolerance preached by us is but the active protest against mental slavery. We have as is known, purely Buddhistic, purely Christian, and purely orthodox Hindu branches, and societies allied with us; and union is strength. But of this anon. For the present we would be glad to learn from our esteemed friends and Brothers—if unhappily not allies—the Brahmos, why, while hastening to repudiate Sir Richard’s connection of them with us, they have allowed to pass unnoticed another still more serious “mistake” made by the ex-Governor of Bombay. Speaking of them in his lecture (in furtherance of the Oxford mission to Calcutta) he said that the Brahmos “are almost, though not entirely, Christians”. . . “lingering upon the very threshold of Christianity” . . . “almost persuaded to be Christians.” Unless there has been a like repudiation of the uncalled-for charge which has escaped our notice, is it possible that the latter should have been passed over only because Christianity is popular among the British rulers and Theosophy—is not?
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The Top 10 Secrets of 280 Broadway, an NYC Architectural Gem
jeff reuben 02/08/2017 Advertisement, New York, News
280 Broadway, the Stewart Building (1893). From British Library via Wikimedia Commons
It is not only New York’s famous buildings that make it such an exciting city to explore, but at least as much its forgotten landmarks waiting to be discovered. Such a building is 280 Broadway, which sits just north of City Hall Park on a full block front between Chambers and Reade streets. Ask New Yorkers about the building and most would probably give a blank stare. Calling it by one of its historic names, the Stewart or Sun Building, probably won’t help many recognize it either.
Yet this “marble palace” was once one of the most celebrated buildings in New York and is viewed by architectural historians as one of the most influential of the 19th century. It is credited as the first department store in the country, built by retailer Alexander Turney Stewart after his dry goods business, A.T. Stewart & Co., outgrew a smaller space on Broadway.
Stewart developed the building at 280 Broadway in three phases, with the initial section at Broadway and Reade Street opening on September 21st, 1846. He expanded it south to Chambers Street in 1850 and east to the center of the block in 1853. He became one of the richest men of his time and in 1862 he opened a bigger store at Broadway and 10th Street, with 280 Broadway becoming home to his substantial wholesale and office operations.
Following Stewart’s death in 1876, it was converted to offices and two stories were added in 1884. It housed a mix of city agencies and private companies for the next few decades. The New York Sun newspaper moved there in 1919 and renamed it the Sun Building in 1928. That title still appears on the building, despite the fact the Sun left in 1950 when it was absorbed by the World-Telegram and the City of New York has owned it since 1966.
Regardless of what one calls it, 280 Broadway is one of the oldest non-residential buildings in New York City and full of interesting and unexpected history. Here are ten of its most intriguing secrets.
10. 280 Broadway Sits on Part of the African Burial Ground
National Park Service from Wikimedia Commons
280 Broadway sits on part of the African Burial Ground, which was used by New York City’s population of enslaved and free blacks for about 100 years, from the late 17th to the late 18th centuries. The 6.6-acre cemetery extended from Broadway to Centre Street and was located on the outskirts of the city. However, the black community, which had few other options for burial of its dead, did not own the plot so as the City grew in the late 1700s new buildings and streets were built there, removing all visible traces while the burials remained beneath.
Detail from Robinson and Pidgeon Atlas (1893)
During construction of a new federal building directly north of 280 Broadway in the 1990s, extensive remains from the graveyard were uncovered, leading to the creation of the African Burial Ground National Monument. Given that part of 280 Broadway lies directly on the cemetery, it is likely that there are burials underneath it.
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Illinois becomes 37th state to make FirstNet ‘opt-in’ decision
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner announces that he has accepted the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) deployment plan offered by FirstNet and AT&T on behalf of his state, making Illinois the 37th state—not including two territories—to “opt-in” to the FirstNet system.
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner today announced that he has accepted the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) deployment plan offered by FirstNet and AT&T on behalf of his state, making Illinois the 37th state—not including two territories—to “opt-in” to the FirstNet system.
“Opting in to the FirstNet emergency responder network is an important advance for public safety in Illinois,” Gov. Rauner said in a prepared statement. “FirstNet’s technology will help us keep important lines of communication open when we most need them.”
Under the law that established FirstNet, governors in all 56 states and territories have the choice of making an “opt-in” decision—accepting the FirstNet deployment plan and allowing AT&T to build the LTE radio access network (RAN) within the state’s borders at no cost to the state—or pursuing the “opt-out” alternative, which would require the state to be responsible for building and maintaining the RAN for the next 25 years.
With Rauner’s decision, governors in only four states have not announced an “opt-in” decision or had state officials issue an RFP seeking a potential alternative RAN vendor: Delaware, Florida, New York and North Dakota.
"Gov. Rauner's decision to join FirstNet demonstrates his strong support and dedication to public safety throughout the state," FirstNet CEO Mike Poth said in a prepared statement. "We are honored to serve Illinois' first responders and deliver to them a reliable, broadband communications network that will help them save lives and protect communities.”
FirstNet released its initial state plans on June 19 and made them actionable, so governors would have the opportunity to “opt-in” to FirstNet prior to the final state plans being released on Sept. 29. Governors in 53 states and territories that received initial state plans on June 19 are required to make their “opt-in/opt-out” decisions by Dec. 28. The Pacific territories of Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Island must make “opt-in/opt-out” decisions by March 12.
Prior to the Illinois decision, 36 other states—Virginia, Wyoming, Arkansas, Kentucky, Iowa, New Jersey, West Virginia, New Mexico, Michigan, Maine, Montana, Arizona, Kansas, Nevada, Hawaii, Alaska, Tennessee, Nebraska, Maryland, Idaho, Texas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Alabama, Indiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, North Carolina, Georgia, Vermont, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin and South Dakota—had announced their “opt-in” decisions, as did the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico territories.
Earlier this month, New Hampshire became the first state to have its governor announce plans to pursue the “opt-out” alternative.
Last week, Wisconsin became the 10th state to announce an “opt-in” decision after issuing a request for proposals (RFP) seeking bids from vendors willing to deploy and maintain an alternative RAN. Previously, the states of Michigan, Arizona, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Georgia, Vermont and Missouri issued RFPs but later had their governors announce “opt-in” decisions.
DCSERKITS 19th December 2017 @ 5:36 pm
As an Illinois user of AT&T
As an Illinois user of AT&T services, I truly hope they improve their dismal performance from what we are used to seeing for 9-1-1 support and connectivity for PS-LMR radio systems. Their current wireless broadband is largely useless in much of our area. We’ve been assured that FirstNet/Illinois-AT&T will perform much better than their history has proven. We’ll see. They have a long way to go before they gain trust from many of us.
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Jerry Ferrara Lands Role in Eastwood’s ‘Sully,’ Will Return to Starz’s ‘Power’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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Looking to keep his film and television slate filled, “Entourage” star Jerry Ferrara has not only signed up to return for seasons three and four of the Starz drama “Power” but has also landed a key role in Clint Eastwood’s “Sully.”
Ferrara joined “Power” this season in a recurring role as attorney Joe Proctor. His turn was so well received by fans that producers decided to have Ferrara return as Proctor over the next two seasons.
The show, which stars Omari Hardwick as a New York City nightclub owner who doubles as a drug kingpin for an elite clientele, recently became the network’s most popular show, drawing 2.39 million viewers in Nielsen’s “live plus-3” estimates.
As for “Sully,” details about his role remain unknown. Based on the book by Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow, the biopic follows Sullenberger as he becomes a national hero after his plane began to malfunction shortly after takeoff and he was forced to take drastic measures in order to save the passengers.
Tom Hanks stars as Sullenberger along with Laura Linney and Aaron Eckhart. Eastwood is directing with Frank Marshall producing.
Ferrara has always wanted to act for Eastwood. He read for parts in “Jersey Boys” and “American Sniper,” but neither panned out for him. Though he had missed out on past Eastwood pics, the director had always liked Ferrara and hoped to find a part for him.
Besides the most recent season of “Power,” Ferrara was most recently seen in Warner Bros.’ “Entourage” movie. He is also developing an untitled biopic on legendary boxer Arturo Gatti.
He is repped by WME, Leverage Management and Ziffren Brittenham.
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A rare map of the Pacific Northwest of America and the Northeast of Asia that is derived from the unofficial map, commonly referred to as the “Legendary Lost Chart of James Cook” of Lieutenant Henry Roberts depicting Captain James Cook’s third voyage in search of the Northwest Passage.
Franz Anton Schraembl’s map was published in his Allgemeiner Grosseer Atlas which began to be assembled as early 1786 but had a limited circulation due to its prohibitive costs.
Lt. Henry Roberts, who had attained the rank of Masters Mate and sailed along with James Cook on the HMS Resolution, had originally been commissioned to draw the chart describing the official version of Cook’s ill fated third voyage and was slated to be published in the Atlas that was to accompany A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean…, London, 1784. However, it is claimed that “because of disputes among the editors, it was not included in the final publication of the official account.”
As it was, the Roberts’ plate was sold to William Faden who went on to publish the chart separately in the same year as a Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia explored in the Years 1778 & 1779, the official version that was included in the above mentioned Atlas. The differences between the two version are important.
Roberts’ depiction includes the Arctic discoveries of Samuel Hearne, a full decade before his journal and maps were to be published. Hearne, a fur trader for the Hudson’s Bay Company, is known as the first European to reach the Arctic Ocean by an overland route via the Coppermine River in Northern Canada. As such, Roberts’ chart is the first to publish, what had until then been only drawn in manuscript form by Hearne, of the impossibility of a Northwest passage through Hudson’s Bay. Furthermore, Roberts’ chart depicts in much greater detail the interior of the North where traders for the Hudson’s Bay Company plied their trade.
The question as to why Roberts’ chart may have been dismissed from the official account could be a result of the involvement of Alexander Dalrymple in the selection process. On one hand, Dalrymple may have harboured ill feelings towards Cook for having been chosen, instead of him, to lead the Second Pacific Voyage in 1772-75 that ultimately disproved the myth propounded by the likes of Dalrymple himself, of Terra Australis Icognita. As such, Dalrymple may have wanted to downplay Cook’s achievements and discoveries. Secondly, it could be argued that the Hudson’s Bay Company may have willfully tried to suppress information relating to the Northern interior to protect their commercial interests.
It is thus quite fitting that when Roberts’ chart and derivatives published by the likes of Schraembl, are compared to the official published version of James Cook’s Third voyage, it is this unofficial chart that is historically more precise, aesthetically pleasing and coveted by collectors for their rarity. It could also be argued that it was the decision by cartographers such as Schraembl to use Henry’s unofficial map of James Cook’s third voyage in their Atlases, that helped promote a more precise depiction of the Pacific Northwest.
(Sources:Wagner, Northwest Coast #700, BLR#30001, Cohen&Taliaferro Catalogue#62, Campbell A Cook Mystery Solved , Sep.85 )
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"Together as one, we have to fight against all odds and work towards the fulfilment of children's rights"
Global Youth Ambassadors are a network of young people advocating and campaigning for education change
— Photo credit: Theirworld
Abhilash Borah
Global Youth Ambassador from India
In a farewell blog after three years as one of Theirworld's Global Youth Ambassadors, Abhilash Bora writes about the challenges, successes and lessons learned by this movement of young people.
It has been three years since I joined the amazing network of Global Youth Ambassadors in 2014 with hopes, expectations and dreams.
It was a hope that a voice could bring a change, a voice could break the barriers of ignorance, a voice could help to amplify many other voices to make it a resounding voice of youth who are committed to speak against and raise concerns for the millions of children who are out of school and are lost somewhere.
Today when I look back at the past three years, with all the memories that I possess, I feel the journey into the unknown has been an enriching, enlightening and encouraging one.
Though the destination which we are destined to reach is delayed a little bit, I am sure we are on track to reach the ultimate destination which we as Global Youth Ambassadors have dreamt of.
To see a world where every child is able to get quality education, where one child can dream and get the things of his/her choice, where gender equality would be achieved, where no child goes hungry, where clean water and sanitary facilities would be accessible and available for all, along with a healthy life.
These are not just dreams which we dream but a reality that needs to happen without delay.
In a previous blog Abhilash wrote about how children suffered in the flood waters of Assam
— Photo credit: Abhilash Borah
The Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 must be highly valued and our policies need to be aligned with them in order to achieve the desired results.
Humanity in the 21st century has been transcending through periods of turbulence, grief and horror. It is up to us how we see the problems, face the challenges which lie ahead with optimism and work towards a better tomorrow.
It is possible. With hopes and dreams, we can achieve what we are after and certainly the world is going to be a better place than it has ever been before.
We have enormous challenges and for this we have a potential pool of resources as well. To tap into the resources and mobilise should be our prime concern. If this aspect is taken care of, I believe the work is half-done.
Together as one, we have to fight against all odds and work towards the fulfilment of children's rights.
I am in pain because of what we have been seeing - for example, the horrific incidences of chemical attacks in Syria which have killed a many futures.
As I write this letter, I have no words to express my distress - but at the core of my heart, I believe things will change because each and every child in every corner of the earth cannot live in fear and each has the right to have a peaceful and quality life.
I have become an entirely new person with new perspectives on issues of global importance and gained tons of knowledge
Abhilash Bora, Global Youth Ambassador from India
As my time has come to an end, I must say I have enjoyed the companionship of amazing young leaders from Tanzania, Nigeria, the United States of America, Pakistan and many other places.
The three-year term has been an awesome one and even though this chapter has come to a close, the next chapter is certainly going to be a big and interesting one.
What the A World At School movement has given me is something I’ll cheer for my entire life with fond memories. I have become an entirely new person with new perspectives on issues of global importance and gained tons of knowledge.
Making the #UpForSchool global education campaign the biggest education advocacy petition in the world - and getting it approved at the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 in the presence of the then Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - is something which makes me smile with pride.
#UpForSchool campaign
The #UpForSchool campaign urged people to tell world leaders to keep to their promise to get every child a primary school education by the end of 2015.
The #UpForSchool petition collected more than 10 million signatures and was delivered to the United Nations in September 2015. It helped to spotlight the right of every child in the world to be in school and learning.
Read more about the #UpForSchool Campaign
That whole year was marvellous! And that day was the red letter day, when I was invited to attend the UNGA 2015 as a Global Youth Ambassador.
It’s hard to sign out but time goes on and we have to venture out into new avenues.
With optimism, I believe we can do what we dreamt of. Until then, with hopes towards a brighter tomorrow.
Former Global Youth Ambassador from India
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Former President Donald Trump and a Truly “Bully” Pulpit
As terrible as it is to have this moron as President of the United States for the next three years plus change, I suspect that we will survive. Barring a war with N Korea, I am almost certain he will serve only one term, having discovered that there isn’t that much money to be made as a sitting president.
We have a resilient nation. After all, we survived James Buchanan’s one-term presidency. Okay, his presidency (in which he did almost nothing to alleviate the growing tensions in the nation) did set the stage for the cataclysmic brutality of the American Civil War.
Our nation (led by Lincoln) was left to clean up the mess that Buchanan largely ignored, but the national hurricane that Lincoln faced had its roots buried deeply in American soil before Buchanan took office.
President Grant (1868-1876), always thought the most powerful seeds of the Civil War were really sown in the Mexican-American war (1846-1848), not by Buchanan. It was a war where Grant fought gallantly, but one he abhorred. He believed that war gave the slave states a vision of coast-to-coast expansion for their “peculiar institution” and for its existence in perpetuity. Lincoln objections to that expansion were the match that lit the fuse on the Rebellion.
If one doubts this, remember the Knights of the Golden Circle and their grand plan. These noble fellows, prior to the Rebellion, called for the creation of a “golden circle” of slave territories that extended from Texas down through central America and circled back across the ocean to encompass Cuba and other island territories before it completed the circle of slave chains with a line back to Florida.
The heart of the Golden Circle was formed in the Mexican war. It was, after all, Elkanah Greer, future general in the army of the Confederate States of America, who organized 21 “castles” and 4,000 knights in Texas and Louisiana. Oh, and remember that Greer served with Jefferson Davis and his Mississippi Volunteers in the Mexican-American War.
Sorry for drifting from the mains issue here, but new leaders must always deal with the misdeeds and miscalculations of previous presidents. Trump’s pseudo-populism and his evident racism have allowed those despicable emotions, which we have largely kept simmering beneath a boil among a non-trivial proportion of our society, to rise up as seemingly meaningful aspects of American culture.
Angry white guys have been around for a good while now; they basically see the world as a zero-sum game, where any benefit that goes to others comes out of their empty pockets. These folks are not going away anytime soon, but we all need to remember that they are maybe 1/3 of the Republican party electorate. Their ascendancy in 2017 was a fluke.
More important that those Bozos, someone will need to reinstate all those Obama era policies that DJT has so happily reversed. Seriously, don’t be surprised if he kills a Thanksgiving turkey on the White House lawn for Fox News, just because Obama pardoned one there. His antipathy to that “outsider’s” presidency is that intense and mindless.
Putting the issues noted above aside, most former presidents fade into the woodwork after they leave office. The presidential authors (e.g., Buchanan, Hoover, and Nixon) of serious misdeeds and miscalculations have almost always slipped beneath the pages of history after their errors and miscalculations.
Look at the Bush presidents, Clinton, and Obama. They each find ways to occupy their time after leaving office without endlessly assailing the public with their visage or their pontifications. Poppy Bush took up sky-diving and trying to provide enough flame for a thousand points of light. George W is painting and not that well I fear. Clinton immediately started piling up book deals, speaking fees, and feeding the Clinton Foundation. Obama seems so far to be hooking book deals and speaking fees, while leaning a bit toward some not-for-profit enterprise.
Unfortunately, that is not what I expect for our future with the current occupant of the White House. I fear that what we must look forward to is the possibility of a former president, no matter how disastrous his term and his policies or how low his approval rating, who will constantly seek all the limelight that Fox News and all the rest of the media reserve for former presidents. Barring a fatal illness, we will have in our future, for at least an additional decade, an inability to ban that orange visage from our video devices.
He will tweet; he will give interviews; he will issue statements about everything his successors do or don’t do. He will tout his “huuge” accomplishments and belittle whatever his successors do. He will seek out every possible opportunity to feed his ego. All that he does do will be ideology-free, but it will, like his current pronouncements, be the truly objectionable self-promotion, self-aggrandizement, and venomous Neolithic tripe that feeds his narcissistic soul and makes his diehard supporters ready to “kick some ass.”
Four years now seems almost intolerable. But, remember that HRC won the popular vote by almost 2 million votes. DJT won with less than 80,000 votes in key states. I doubt that Democratic strategist will make that mistake again. So, I expect a D to take the White House in 2020, if they can keep the D primaries from being a circular firing squad. I think we will all be able to drink a toast after the next presidential election, rather than drown our sorrows. But, that will not be the end of DJT.
We need to remember that the continual playing of loud, metal or hair band music was a part of the enhanced interrogation techniques we now see as torture. But, having to listen to this self-aggrandizing asshat for a decade and a half, at a minimum, seems like the horrible type of experience that I am sure the World Court in The Hague would judge to be torture. I’ll admit that 15 years of Trumpisms versus 15 years of continually listening to “We are the Champions” at high volume seems more humane, to me, than having to listen to DJT for the next decade and one-half.
Of course, the only thing that might stem the flow of that obnoxious verbiage would be an impeachment or a criminal conviction with a prison term. He would continue to bloviate, but all he would talk about is how unjust it all was. He will not be able to stop himself. Remember, he is still pissed about stories about the size of the crowd at his inauguration. But, his attempts to cry “foul!” over how he was treated by the courts or congress. That is not a topic that I doubt will keep the news channels attention for long.
We can only hope. There are, after all, only a limited number of times over the next 15 years that you can substitute Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Comedy Central for MSNBC.
SOME PERSONAL HISTORY: A TRUE SON OF THE SOUTH SPEAKS ABOUT STATUES, “OUR HERITAGE,” AND UNC’S “SILENT SAM.”
ALL IS NOT QUIET ON THE FRONT
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I am a Former U.S. Marine – what about you?
Recently, on another blog, I was chastised in a reply to one of my comments where I mentioned I was a former Marine. The Blog post was about Trump wanting to arm teachers to protect our public schools. I was against that insane, stupid idea from the serial lying, Orange Dumpster who is also known to me as the Kremlin’s Agent Orange. I have no respect for Donald Trump. I despise this poor excuse for a human being.
My anonymous critic was allegedly a she, and she had never been a U.S. Marine because she pointed out in her comment that all the Marines she knew referred to themselves as inactive Marines and that she had never heard anyone refer to themselves as a former Marine. The way she wrote her comment made it sound like I was a liar and had never been a U.S. Marine.
To be clear, I have been an active Marine, an inactive Marine, and finally a former Marine. I’ve been a former Marine for a long time and it is going to stay that way up to my last heart beat and breathe. I wouldn’t accept one million dollars to become an active Marine again, but I also wouldn’t accept a million dollars to sell my experiences as a U.S. Marine to someone else.
An active U.S. Marine is still in uniform and belongs to the U.S. government. Believe me when I say that when you join any of the branches of the U.S. military, you basically become a slave with a wage, and my DD-214 clearly shows I was an active Marine from May 1965 to May 1968 when I was released from active duty and became an inactive Marine until the end of my reserve obligation. During the years I was in the inactive reserves, I could have been called back to active duty at any time.
That inactive duty ended on January 20, 1971 when I became a free civilian again and was officially a former Marine.
The VA says, “A person who is active duty is in the military full time. They work for the military full time, may live on a military base, and can be deployed at any time. Persons in the Reserve or National Guard are not full-time active duty military personnel, although they can be deployed at any time should the need arise.”
The U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve says, “The Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) is a category of the Ready Reserve of the Reserve Component of the Armed Forces of the United States composed of former active duty or reserve military personnel, and is authorized under 10 U.S.Code Section 1005. The IRR is composed of enlisted personnel and officers, from all ranges of Military Occupational Specialties including combat arms, combat support, and combat service support.
“Individuals assigned to the IRR receive no pay and are not obligated to drill, conduct annual training, or participate in any military activities (except for periodic Muster activities) until ordered by Presidential Authority. Individuals who are assigned to an “Inactive Status” are entitled to limited benefits. These benefits include: Entitlement to a Military ID Card, ID Cards for their dependents, PX (Exchange) benefits, Commissary benefits, and MWR (Morale Welfare and Recreation) Benefits.”
My inactive status as a U.S. Marine ended forty-seven years ago in 1971. That was when I became a former Marine. Any former Marine that claims they are an inactive Marine and they are not in the IRR or the Ready Reserve is technically wrong. It doesn’t matter what they think, they are wrong if they call themselves an inactive Marine once they become a civilian again with no official, legal ties to the Marine Corps. I was once an active Marine and will always think and react like a Marine. Marines belong to a unique tribe, a brotherhood of warriors trained to kill in combat, but once we leave active or inactive duty, we are a former Marine.
My Honorable Discharge is dated January 20, 1971 … not May 17, 1968 when I left active duty for inactive duty.
Here’s why I’m writing this post. If there are former Marines out there calling themselves inactive Marines and they are not in the Marine reserves, they are doing real inactive Marines a disservice because those Marine are still in a position to be called up and sent into harm’s way on a moment’s notice, while former Marines are not in that same situation. If a former Marine wants to serve again, they have to return to active or inactive duty if the U.S. Marines will take them back.
Posted on March 9, 2018 by Lloyd Lofthouse. This entry was posted in Lloyd Lofthouse, military service, military veterans, U.S. Marine Corps and tagged How hard is it to become a US Marine, What does it take to become a U.S. Marine, What does once a Marine always a Marine mean, What is the difference between a former Marine and an inactive Marine, What makes a US Marine to tough, Why do US Marines always think of themselves as Marines for the rest of their lives. Bookmark the permalink.
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4 thoughts on “I am a Former U.S. Marine – what about you?”
Jim Hasse, a former Army NCO says:
Great explanation, Lloyd! Very clear. Thanks.
You are welcome and thanks.
Your article is mainly about how one can call himself (or herself) a Marine at various stages in the experience: active, inactive, or former. Yet you also say you “… will always think and act like a Marine.” You belong “… to a unique tribe, a brotherhood of warriors trained to kill in combat.” Are you saying that when you became a former Marine you no longer thought and reacted like a Marine? Because that’s not what you said right before that statement. You said that you were once an active Marine. You said you would ALWAYS think and react like a Marine. I’m confused. Once a Marine, always a Marine?
Acting like an active Marine (in combat or stationed in the states or another friendly country that isn’t at war) is not the same thing as being influenced by having been a Marine.
The U.S. Marine Corps boot camp is designed to break those young civilians that joined and then rebuilding them into a cog in a well-oiled, obedient machine designed to destroy anything and everyone in its path in a combat situation.
Once an honorably discharged Marine leaves the military and returns to civilian life, they do not become the person they were before they went to boot camp. That experience in the Marines has changed them and they have become a different person. If that Marine Corps experience includes combat in a war zone, then the changes are even more extreme.
After becoming a former Marine, we learn (consciously and/or unconsciously) how to reintegrate with civilian society but we will never be like civilians that never served and fought. That Marine experience changed us for the rest of our lives and some of us are extremely damaged.
Once we have become a Marine, our mindset is always that of a Marine. There is no turning back to whatever we were before we went to boot camp.
Marine Corps boot camp is the longest of the U.S. military branches. I’ve talked to younger Marines from other generations and Marine Corps boot camp is just as brutal and ruthless as it was in 1965 when I went through it.
The only training that’s longer and much tougher is special forces and those troops go through even more extreme changes so it would be correct to say once in Speical forces, always in Speical Forces (at least in your mind, how you think, react, and who you are).
A recruit that joins the military and survives to leave it is a different person than the one that comes out the other end.
One of my younger friends who is also a former Marine and who went on to join special forces for almost a decade says that what we endured, the ruthless brutalization, in boot camp was the beginning of our PTSD and going through special forces training just digs a deeper hole for the PTSD that combat doesn’t help.
Troops that make it through special forces training also go through SERE (survival, evasion, resistance and escape training) and that includes being tortured (electric shock, sleep deprivation, waterboarding) so they know what they will face if they are taken, prisoner. My friend that went through SERE said that was enough by itself to cause PTSD without even going into combat and he was sent into combat too and special forces teams face situations that are way more dangerous than what most of the military faces in combat.
Since most if not all civilians who never served will never understand us, we seldom if ever share the experiences that happened to us with them. When we do, those innocent civilians often fall silent and look at us as if we are insane or nuts. That’s why the best support for combat vets is through the VA in organized peer support groups with other combat vets. We have been through the fire and we understand how that changes us so we can listen to the horrors that another combat vet experienced and the horrible things those horrors did to them and not judge them for what they did because we have all been there. I’ve also learned not to trust any counselors that never served in the military. It has been my experience that the best PTSD counselors are former military and/or combat vets themselves.
The military life is a different world from the civilian one. Most if not all the freedoms that U.S.Constution protects are suspended when you are in the military. The law in the military is the uniform code of military justice and that isn’t the same as what the U.S constitution says. Many civilians also operate on the flawed assumption that freedom means they can do whatever they want. Once you’ve been in the miliary you should know that isn’t the fact. There are always limits on whatever freedom we are allowed to have.
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Sunny Days Ahead for Blossoming China–Nepal Ties
It is no coincidence that Chinese aid is flowing into Nepal at a rapid rate. China prioritizes relations with Nepal due to its geo-strategic location, lying between India and China’s autonomous region of Tibet. Chinese interest in Nepal has been stoked by national security concerns related to the free Tibet movements.
Posted on 04/3/16
By Bishal Chalise | Via East Asia Forum
A view of the Kali Gandaki dam, completed in 2002. Nepal is seeking Chinese investment in the energy sector, because it is facing serious power crisis. (image by ADB)
One concerning aspect of China’s rising prominence is its troublesome relations with its neighbours. It has fought both real and legal battles on territorial and ideological grounds on several fronts including in India, Vietnam and on the Korean peninsula in the past, and currently is causing controversy with its maritime expansion. But one break in this pattern is the country’s long-standing relationship with Nepal.
Although the two countries share pre-historic ties that date back to the seventh century, modern-day Sino–Nepal relations began with an exchange of diplomatic missions in 1955 and the signing of the treaty of peace and friendship in 1960.
China prioritizes relations with Nepal due to its geo-strategic location, lying between India and China’s autonomous region of Tibet. Chinese interest in Nepal has been stoked by national security concerns related to the free Tibet movements. The two countries share 1400 kilometers of remote and relatively unguarded borders. This has provided a safe passage for refugees fleeing Tibet to go to India or Nepal since China’s reclamation of the territory in 1959.
Nepal hosts around 20,000 Tibetan refugees in different camps around the country. The most concerning issue for China is the continuing anti-Chinese protests by Tibetan refugees in Kathmandu, who are joined by free Tibet activists from Dharamsala in India — home to the majority of the exiled Tibetan population. The porous border between India and Nepal has placed Kathmandu as a vantage point for the free-Tibet movement to conduct their operations with relative ease.
Thanks to successful Chinese diplomacy, Nepal steadfastly maintains a ‘One China’ policy by curbing all kinds of anti-China protest. Nepal maintains vigilance over the Tibetan community as exemplified by the ultra-high security arrangement in Kathmandu at the outset of the Beijing Olympics Games in 2008.
It is no coincidence that Chinese aid, including in the security sector, is flowing into Nepal at a rapid rate. China is constructing a training centre for Nepal’s Armed Police Force, a paramilitary force created to combat Maoist rebellions 15 years ago. It also invites high-ranking members of the Nepalese army to do various courses in its military academy. Keeping anti-Chinese activism in check has thus remained the focal point of Chinese foreign policy in Nepal.
Recently, other aspects of the relationship are also burgeoning. On the economic front, the two countries are making strides. Trade is rising and China is now the second largest trading partner of Nepal after India. The number of Chinese tourists visiting Nepal has increased 15 fold since 2003, giving a much needed impetus to the sluggish Nepalese economy.
China recently became the largest foreign investor in Nepal, a position long held by regional rival India. China is investing heavily in infrastructure projects, including in the two largest hydropower projects in Nepal. The two countries have agreed to develop a cross-border transmission line, the construction of an international airport in Nepal’s second largest city of Pokhara, and the extension of the Qinghai–Tibet rail network through the Himalayas to the border town of Lasha and on to the capital Kathmandu.
These infrastructure projects are part of China’s long-term plan to connect to broader South Asia as a part of its Silk Road Economic Belt policy. The projects, if successful, would have huge strategic and economic implications for Chinese relations with Nepal as well as its other South Asian neighbors. And they would provide land-locked Nepal with an alternative route to connect to the outer world without having to rely solely on India.
In return, Nepal played a catalytic role in giving China observatory status in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), an apex body of eight South Asian countries including India and Pakistan. Nepal also strongly advocated for granting China full membership of the association given its repeated and explicit desire to play a more influential role in the region through SAARC.
The weakest link in China–Nepal relations has been a minimal connection among the general public in the two countries, with bilateral exchanges largely limited to the official level. Not only are the people on either side of the Himalayas largely oblivious about each other’s language and culture, they often stumble over the geographic location.
Still, both governments have been making attempts to change that scenario in recent years. A branch of the Confucius Institute, a not-for-profit organization under China’s Ministry of Education, has been set-up in Kathmandu to promote Chinese language and culture. The institute runs regular language classes teaching Mandarin and also organizes cultural events across the country.
Increasingly large numbers of students from both countries are traveling under various cultural and educational exchange programs. Many Nepalese students head to Chinese universities on their own for higher education in medicine and engineering.
The Nepalese public are generally positive about their country’s relationship with China. This is due in part to China’s impressive economic success and modernization in recent decades, and more importantly, the perception that China employs a ‘cooperation without intervention’ policy. This policy in particular has enabled China to accumulate considerable soft power in Nepal.
Considering the often-tense relations China shares with most of the neighbours, having at least one trouble-free relationship in its backyard must be a gratifying success for Chinese diplomacy.
Bishal Chalise is a Masters student at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the ANU
This article first appeared at the East Asia Forum. Click here to go to the original.
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What Makes Your Content Go Viral?
Think of some of the viral content you have seen in the last few years. What comes to mind? Heman’s ‘What’s Going On’, Where The Hell Is Matt?, Gangnum Style…everyone has seen these videos, and they are still getting regular views. But they are only a small collection of examples, and they are all completely different. What is it that made them hit viral status, and how can you emulate their formula for your own videos?
I always find this a really hard question to answer. Mainly because people don’t always like what I have to say about it. The biggest element I think applies to viral content is luck, plain and simple. Sometimes the cards are just dealt in such a way that it boosts a video into superstar status. All while similar or even near identical videos remain in obscurity, never finding the success of that single clip that caught so much attention.
After all, did the Literal Music Video craze, even with the popularity of Dustin McLean’s original Aha version, really take off until David A Scott released his Total Eclipse of the Heart dub? It certainly didn’t spike in the mainstream media until that point, launching the videos that came before it into greater infamy.
However, I don’t want to make you think that luck is the only factor. It isn’t; high quality can definitely play a part. While occasionally you will have something with low production values or straight-up badly made launch into the viral consciousness, it is a rarity. Usually something with more time and effort put in will gain a better foothold.
The Jonah Berger Factor
You may have never heard of Jonah Berger, but he is one of the leading experts in viral content and social media sharing. Professor of Marketing at Wharton University of Pennsylvania, he released a paper talking about the different elements that make up a viral video or piece of ‘contageous content’.
According to him, there are certain things more likely to launch something into popularity. These are: positive messages or themes, anything that evokes a powerful emotional response, and something offering a practical explanation of how something works or how to do something.
These all make sense. Remembering the many viral videos that have taken the web by storm, they all seem to fit into these categories. Especially when you think about the things that are shared on sites like Facebook, which are usually emotionally based or feel-goody in the extreme. Or the millions of practical DIY photos and links that are littering Pinterest. Then of course the videos that get the most views on YouTube, which are usually funny, inspiring, frightening or heart warming; all intense emotional reactions.
I think that Professor Berger is certainly onto something. But keep in mind that you might hit every one of these ticks, while still maintaining an awesome quality in your content, and it might never reach viral status. That is where I think luck really does come in; sometimes the stars just seem aligned, so to speak.
Very true. Those feel-good pictures and quotes (especially with cute kids or kittens or puppies) really do go viral on Facebook. I’ve also noticed that the quality of the image (i.e. it could be grainy, have a crumpled corner, if scanned in, etc.) does not affect the viral aspect, further indicating that it is the emotional response (in this case “feel good”) that seems to propel the viral nature. Good analysis, Ann. 🙂
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Annexed by the city in 1954, West Dallas is an established and proud community that has long been overlooked by its more urban counterparts on the other side of the Trinity River. An unfortunate legacy of segregation, crime, widespread industrial lead pollution, and difficult living conditions contributed to the historical neglect this community has weathered. Averaged across all six census tracts, over 60% of adults do not have a high school diploma, 30% of families live in poverty, and 13% of people are unemployed, making West Dallas one of the most economically disadvantaged communities in the nation. Moreover, over half of West Dallas has been designated as a “food desert,” meaning that residents have limited access to fresh and affordable food. These statistics highlight the barriers to opportunity that have been created by generational poverty and the effects they can have on a community.
In 2012, the $200 million Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge connected West Dallas with the rest of the city. With this newly established corridor to downtown Dallas, investors and developers have turned their attention to this long-neglected community. The area is being rapidly gentrified and redeveloped, largely at the expense of its current residents. New businesses and housing are being targeted to a more affluent demographic, and people are being priced out of their generational homes.
In order to mitigate the effects of this gentrification, Dallas City Homes (DCH), the City of Dallas, and the La Bajada Urban Youth Farm are partnering to redevelop a section of medians in West Dallas along Topeka Ave into a multistage community garden and public park space. The mission of these gardens is threefold: 1) to teach teens how to grow and consume their own produce 2) to create job opportunities for at-risk youth and 3) to create a sense of community and ownership in this quickly gentrifying neighborhood.
Topeka Community Gardens area is a small part of a large-scale vision of community reinvestment in West Dallas. The idea originally started when Dallas City Homes began developing a community center located at 3115 Topeka Ave, contiguous to the proposed Topeka gardens. The garden construction is hoping to begin by the end of 2019, contingent upon Dallas City Homes raising the necessary development funds. The La Bajada Urban Youth farm is already operating on a privately-owned site nearby and will relocate to our site along the medians of Topeka Ave. One section of the project is designated to be the green spaces that will be the site for the youth farm. The plan is to combine 3 phases with an overall square footage of 152,861 square feet.
One of the services that will be offered at this community center is a senior feeding program, operated by Wesley-Rankin (a local West Dallas non-profit), that will feed 75 seniors’ breakfast and lunch Monday through Friday which will be more convenient than driving the distance to the nearest food bank. Topeka Community Gardens intends to extend their produce to reach the meals packed in the school lunches distributed by the local non-profit Hunger Busters, served in local restaurants, and put into the hands of the community. In addition, they would like to offer plots in the garden to community members and give them the ability to grow their own fresh produce. Furthermore, Dallas City Homes is interested in developing a local café that can serve/sell the food produced in garden, offer new employment opportunities to the community, and create an additional space for the community to come together.
If this project is successful, the next step would be pulling case studies from this project and replicating it in other neighborhoods in Texas.
An intern at La Bajada Urban Farm pulling weeds in the garden
Community Impact:
Topeka Community Gardens is projected to impact all residents in West Dallas with a population of approximately 24,063 people. The garden will provide the community with better access to healthy food, beautifying their neighborhood, and raising environmental awareness with gardening.
The community gardens will serve as a safe place for new populations of renters to build community along with the families that have lived there for generations. The community gardens will also provide a source of income for at-risk teens in the neighborhood, resulting in increased financial security for their families and reducing their risk of dropping out of school.
Money is saved for the community member and garden participants by providing them easy access to low-cost nutritious fruits and vegetables and reducing the number of miles food must travel before reaching the consumer.
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Facebook & Netflix CEOs Give, Congress Takes Away
By David A. Tomar
It seems the folks who made "grumpy cat" status updates and House of Cards binge-watching possible care more about your children than your elected officials do. That’s the takeaway from two current, interrelated, and antithetical trends. On the one hand, the federal government has gleefully slashed the nation’s budget for public education at rates that far exceed general spending cuts. On the other hand, the super-rich are stepping into the lurch, donating hundreds of millions (even billions) of dollars to the cause.
In early January, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings established a $100 million philanthropic fund dedicated to improving the educational plight of disadvantaged students. The chief executive of the streaming media pioneer kicked off his efforts by dedicating $1.5 million to the United Negro College Fund and the Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley.
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Hastings joined Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, who together announced this past December that they would be channeling 99% of their company shares into a fund that would improve public health, education, and community development. Their shares are collectively valued at roughly $45 billion dollars, an amount which comes pretty close to equaling half of the nation’s total federal budget for education.
Of course, it is tempting to find the catch in all of this. What do these tech sultans have to gain? Well, critics do have their fair share of concerns and we’ll get to those.
But it’s even more tempting to point out the hideous failure of our federal government to provide for our children, ensure our future, or even feign interest in our flagging educational standards.
So let’s do that first.
“F” is for Funding
2.67% of our country's budget goes to #education. Not enough!
As long as we’re assigning letter grades to stuff, the federal government gets a big fat “F” for funding. Fairly compelling evidence abounds to suggest that the federal government doesn’t much care to fund your child’s education. If you’re curious about where exactly your tax dollars are hardest at work, nationalpriorities.org says that about 33% goes toward Social Security, Unemployment & Labor. Medicare and other Health costs amount to roughly 27%. The military enjoys just a shade under 16% of all federal spending.
Education falls pretty low on the totem at 2.67% of the nation’s total spending budget. That’s about the equivalent of your household’s annual expenditure on decorative throw pillows and Hallmark cards.
And that number is the product of five years of steady slashing. Between 2011 and 2015, Congress has seen fit to shrink the federal budget for education by nearly 20%. This exceeds the rate of federal spending cuts elsewhere by a rate of five to one. While it’s hard to wrap the brain around this pattern, we can only deduce that the government thinks things are going really well in education.
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Some of America’s wealthiest entrepreneurs see things quite differently. Zuckerberg and Chan, for their part, have already made a practice of donating enormous sums to educational causes.
In just the last five years, Zuckerberg and Chan have pledged $7.5 million toward college scholarships for undocumented immigrants, $120 million to schools in low-income Bay Area communities, and $100 million to New Jersey schools in Newark’s larger metropolitan region. Last year, the couple also announced a $20 million donation to Education Super Highway, a nonprofit organization that helps public schools pay for high-speed Internet.
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These donations underscore the Facebook family’s dedication to a cause which seems a great deal less important to the federal government. Zuckerberg and Chan have stated their commitment to confronting poverty and its irreversible developmental impact on America’s youth. They have expressed particular interest in helping to create more individualized opportunities for students in typically underserved contexts.
The couple has been criticized in the past for diving into the education pool with little experience. In particular, observers roundly lambasted their venture in Newark for its failure to involve community leaders in key decisions. Many have argued that the public schools which were the recipients of the Zuckerberg-Chan donation effectively squandered a fortune without delivering on the program’s stated goals. Though Zuckerberg acknowledges that more steps should have been taken to consult and involve members of the surrounding communities, he also points out that Newark’s graduation rate increased by 13% across the life of the donation.
In the charitable ventures that have followed, Zuckerberg and Chan have been far more conscientious about community needs and have taken steps to ensure that local leaders are closely involved in their endeavors.
This, of course, has not shielded the couple from criticism. Indeed, their newly created fund has been established as a Limited Liability Corporation, rather than as a traditional non-profit foundation. The move has earned some scrutiny, though Zuckerberg attests that the classification merely allows the organization more freedom and flexibility in effecting policy change.
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Zuckerberg has said that his overarching motives for donating extraordinary sums of private money to educational causes are to unlock human potential and promote equality.
Over at Netflix, Reed Hastings is approaching education with a similar intent. Hastings’ interest in education has been well-established given his background. Before standing atop the digital media empire, Hastings served as president of the California State Board of Education. From this post, he earned a reputation as a staunch supporter of the state’s charter school system.
Though this predilection has earned him scrutiny from public education advocates, he also used that post to push for greater accountability for charter schools. Much of his work at the time emphasized the need to curtail inappropriate spending by charter schools.
While some critics fear that Hastings’ newly created fund would only further elevate charter schools at the expense of traditional public education, his initial contributions are earmarked for improving college access for otherwise disadvantaged demographics.
Hold Your Fire
As critics stand back and scan for ulterior motives, the long and short of it is that these motives don’t matter. Schools are starving for resources and policy initiatives at the federal level—whether operating under the name No Child Left Behind or Common Core—seem perversely intent on magnifying rather than confronting inequality.
Educational funding cuts are particularly popular on Capitol Hill, where five years of gutting have had a tangible impact on our schools. Bipartisan advocacy group First Focus reported in its mid-2015 analysis of federal budgetary spending, that public school districts have been forced to lay off teachers and support staff, increase class sizes, and eliminate tutoring, athletics, and after school programs in order to sustain these cuts.
Schools are dying for funding and policy at the federal level.
While President Obama’s 2016 budget offers slight funding increases to some of the most aggressively slashed or defunded programs, House and Senate appropriations bills have countered with continued cuts. No matter how you slice it, federal lawmakers have shown their hostility toward our schools, our teachers, and our students.
It is into this particularly inhospitable void that wealthy donors like Zuckerberg-Chan and Hastings have stepped. It is not just the impressive sums that distinguish these donors from federal lawmakers. Zuckerberg-Chan and Hastings are also differentiated by their recognition that circumstances like poverty and familial instability play a direct role in educational outcomes. This is a fact that federal lawmakers seem dedicated to overlooking.
Whatever scrutiny is visited upon these donations, it should be invested in constructive critique, as opposed to cynical opposition. Save the latter for your elected officials.
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Upsetting the Theory: Rights for Housing and Queers
September 12, 2016 August 2, 2017 / Anthony J. Langlois
The second post on our forum on Joe Hoover’s Reconstructing Human Rights, from DoT’s Anthony Langlois. You can read Joe’s opening post here and Karen Zivi’s commentary here.
As I was reading Joseph Hoover’s fabulous new book, a critical debate was going on at the peak human rights institution of the global political system. The Human Rights Council, an institution to which UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon suggests “all victims of human rights abuse should be able to look…as a forum and springboard for action”, was debating a resolution to establish a UN Independent Expert on Protection Against Violence and Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. On June 30, 2016, after extensive debate, in which much opposition was expressed, the Human Rights Council voted in favour of this UN Special Procedure, establishing the office of the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI).
It is a harsh reality that in many countries around the world, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans* and others of queer and diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (LGBTQ) are not able to look to human rights institutions for support and protection, or, those institutions find themselves constrained and unable to offer such support and protection openly, or at all. The creation of the SOGI expert by the UN is in part a recognition of this, and it is seen by many as a critical further step in the UN’s recent activism on this routinely neglected area of human rights concern.
But as well as allegedly being “progress” in the human rights agenda of freedom and emancipation, it should cause us to pause and think. What does it mean that Human Rights have only come lately to queer communities, if at all?
Hoover does not directly consider this question. But the debate about gay rights, human rights for queers more broadly, and their place in IR, plays a role like that which Hoover shows the right to housing to play. Hoover uses the right to housing to destabilise, challenge, pluralize, democratize and reconfigure our received ideas of human rights. I would suggest that this is also precisely what happens, or, at least, what can happen, when human rights meets sexual orientation and gender identity expression, as well.
Despite this possibility, gay rights are typically subsumed into the standard progress narrative of liberal internationalism, co-opted by all the exclusions, essentialisms, certainties and the sense of righteousness which Hoover critiques and warns against. Hilary Clinton’s “Gay rights are Human Rights” speech to the UN General Assembly while she was Secretary of State, is perhaps the consummate performance in this genre. (There is a terrific reading of it in Cynthia Weber’s new Queer IR book). But for many queers, being figured in this way, as a gay human rights holder within the neo-liberal global political architecture, takes away, rather than gives, the hope and radical fight which might otherwise be associated with the notionally emancipatory and radically democratic ethos of human rights.
Hoover articulates this tension and some of its implications well when he says:
On the one hand, human rights can encourage a technocratic neo-liberal order based in a conception of the rights holder as individualised, depoliticized, and vulnerable, such that we need powerful institutions run by elite experts to provide for our security and well-being. While on the other hand, human rights can also inspire struggles for community power, political participation, and emancipation from complex systems of social control and exclusion (p12).
To focus the matter further, the idea of being a queer who is also a bearer of human rights, can sit very bizarrely with the experience of those who, only yesterday (or perhaps even this morning), were being told that they could not possibly qualify for human rights, because their sexual orientation and activity, their gender identity and expression, their queer, misfit, broken, deformed, diseased and sinful status disqualified them (us) from being relevantly human. It is an odd sensation to go from being damned to hell, one moment, and held up in the next as an international trophy of human rights achievement. The queer must then be forgiven for developing quite a different take on what it might mean to become a normal bearer of human rights. And for queers with theoretical inclinations, such a dramatic turnaround in fortunes begs a great many questions.
What it means to be queer is, notoriously, a moot point; the following sketch is drawn from the introduction to a fascinating new book which collects writings by artists using queer for political and institutional critique:
Outlaw sensibilities, self-made kinships, chosen lineages, utopic futurity, exilic commitment, and rage at institutions that police the borders of the normal – these are among the attitudes that make up ‘queer’ in its contemporary usage. The activist stance of ‘queer’ was developed as a mode of resistance to the oppression and erasure of sexual minorities. Importantly, however, it was concurrently posited as a rejection of assimilationism proposed by many in the gay and lesbian communities who aspired to be just ‘normal’. Since its formulation in the crucible of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, ‘queer’ has an ongoing political and cultural currency that continues to prove catalytic to artists and thinkers. It signals a defiance to the mainstream and an embrace of difference, uniqueness and self-determination. Still contentious today in LGBTI politics and culture, the defining trait of ‘queer’ is its rejection of attempts to enforce (or value) normalcy. Within artistic practice, queer tactics and attitudes have energized artists who create work that flouts ‘common’ sense, and makes the private public and political, and that brashly embraces disruption as a tactic. (Getsy 2016)
Outlaw sensibilities, rage, resistance, the rejection of assimilation, defiance toward the mainstream, the rejection of normalcy…. Do we think that the queer-as-newly-recognised-rights-bearer will easily take to being told what their human rights are, why they have them, and how they should be exercised? – particularly when the agents doing the telling (philosophers or state-functionaries alike) will often be the same agents that previously had quite a different message?
For those of us who identify with outlaw sensibilities and the rejection of “normalcy”, and yet who also hold on to a sense that in our time we cannot not want human rights, that human rights do or at least can have significant value for us, Hoover’s insightful interventions in the theorisation of how they may be of value are rich and fruitful.
Hoover proceeds by setting out the thinking of a range of contemporary human rights theorists, critiquing their substantive achievements on their own terms, as well as contending that in general they are mistaken in their quest. That quest is for certain, secure, justified and universally applicable principles; it is critically problematic, Hoover argues, because of the ways in which such principles are inevitably used to authorise and legitimate systems of political order and authority, necessitating force and violence.
This dynamic can be readily illustrated. Many jurisdictions now seek to address SOGI human rights issues, but the attempt to do so repeatedly results in significant numbers of people ending up further disenfranchised, victimised and injured by official governmental institutions and processes. Typically this is because of attempts to employ someone‘s allegedly certain, secure, universally applicable ideas about sexual orientation or gender identity and expression to determine whether someone else has been victimised or is at risk of persecution. Cases involving asylum seekers and refugees are some of the most egregious examples. For many victims of persecution, neither the ends nor the means of these SOGI related human rights procedures end up being emancipatory or rights-giving.
By reconstructing the idea of human rights as a democratizing ethos, Hoover seeks to address the way that human rights – acting as a license for authoritative intervention – often end up generating more human rights abuse. Instead of the quest for certainty, the main role of which is to legitimise political authority, he offers an approach in which “the central ideals of human rights are opened up as sites of contestation rather than closed down as sites of authority.” (21) In the end, this leads to an agonistic, radically democratic and plural vision of human rights; rather than anticipating a uniform global human rights regime, human rights are multifaceted, doing different things in different ways in different times and places.
Hoover’s account of this is rich and suggestive; there is much to be mulled over and debated, although I don’t intend to directly enter these debates here. What I really like about the book is the way in which the appeal to and practice of the human right to housing is used to illustrate Hoover’s critique and reconstruction. The range of themes that are canvassed as the implications of using the right to housing to secure radical political claims are drawn out are remarkably (although not unsurprisingly) similar to concerns which occupy some queer theorists, and others working on SOGI rights. In my space here I want to point to a few of these parallels, indicating the potential for rich detailed engagement.
Starting points: where do we go when we want to think about human rights? Contemporary theorists tend to go to the canonical literature and the established and authoritative international instruments. What if these don’t work for you? As Hoover indicates, the right to housing is often dismissed or at least discounted. Similarly, while sexuality and gender get the occasional nod of recognition, there has till recently been little more from “authorities”. (The 2006 Yogyakarta Principles was an attempt by independent international law experts to force the hand of the powers that be, by showing how existing human rights protections in international law should protect the human rights of LGBTQ persons and communities.) Starting with what is missed or abused by the cannon, starting with those who dare to press for rights not considered real rights, starting with those fighting for freedom rather than in a position to exercise authority, will set us on a significantly different journey.
Is housing properly understood as a substantive human rights? Much has been written about getting the list of rights right – but what is this “right”? Hoover comments on Habermas for example that his “project is haunted by its longing for a sense of wholeness and righteousness.” This nostalgia is really not going to work for queers who have suffered interminably at the hands of those whose longing for some lost righteousness is repeatedly translated into obsessive violence against sexual and gender diversity. Hoover sets the alarm bells ringing at their most polite level when he says: “If we do not desire such wholeness or fear the confidence of the righteous, then [Habermas’] project’s presumed undeniable rational force may begin to seem more threat than liberation.” (57)
I’m not wishing particularly to pick on Habermas, but Hoover makes another critical point when discussing him. Habermas sees constitutions and democracy as self-correcting, leading to expansions of freedom. But as Hoover critically points out, drawing on Bonnie Honig, “it is important to see who and what does that correcting… in nearly all cases it is actually the work of activists who are remaking social and political practices.” (62) The “correcting” that has led to sexuality and gender diverse people being seen as fully human and equal citizens in some states has not come from the rules and procedures, but by queer defiance against the rules and procedures of standardly homophobic states, often at enormous cost.
Similar reflections are generated by Hoover’s use of the right to housing in his engagement with Walzer. Hoover observes (95) that Walzer’s “appeal to a single identity that grounds the value of community elides the exclusions and silences that prioritizing (and constructing) one common identity creates.” Beyond this, Hoover argues, “… the communities of colour fighting in places like New York City… are not looking for inclusion…. Rather, they are demanding recognition of their experience, enacting new claims, challenging the dominant discourse, and demanding change in established institutions.” Once again, resonances with LGBTQ politics abound – and they cut in many different directions, including within the LGBTQ “community”, where a critical, interminable debate has concerned the questions of identity and community, exclusions and silences.
In the second part of the book Hoover begins his Deweyan reconstruction of human rights, and here too there are many parallels between the account he develops and themes which emerge out of queer reflection. Deep pluralism’s grappling with uncertainty and contestability, rather than seeking to elide or hide it, for example; its embrace of those otherwise remaindered as sources of value and insight, “not mistakes to be disciplined or eccentricities to be tolerated” (112); and much could be said in an engagement with the theoretical resources of expressive sovereignty.
A critical point which the right to housing repeatedly brings out is the role of economic and social issues in rights struggles. This is vital for queer communities, where being cast out of housing, losing one’s job, being denied access to health care or social support, being thrown out of one’s parent’s home and subsequently losing school enrolment,
disaffiliation from one’s religious community, and so on, are critical factors. It is vital to pause and reflect here, because of the way in which LGBT rights are often figured as primarily civil and political rights, whereas the damage is often being done to people in the domain of economic and social rights. Consequently, the granting of LGBT rights, as civil and political rights, may change nothing for marginalised queer populations who suffer continuing disenfranchisement attendant upon their material exclusion. (On this see the resources at Against Equality).
This list of possible parallels barely scratches the surface, and draws upon only a few of the observations Hoover makes which are pertinent to the debates surrounding LGBTQ and SOGI rights. Hoover’s reconstruction project is particularly valuable for those of us committed to human rights and yet wary of their traditional exclusions and blind spots. As Hoover comments at one point, “Numerous theorists tell us that human rights offer vital protections, ensuring the well-being and protecting the dignity of the abused and oppressed in the world. Yet, in many human rights studies these people do not appear.” (174) Queers are well acquainted with this phenomenon.
As indicated at the outset, the grand institutions of the global human rights regime have finally seen fit to write LGBTQ populations and SOGI concerns into the human rights agenda. There is much to celebrate in this. At the same time, Hoover’s study provides a salutary theoretical resource for interpreting this significant development with due caution; it is a sober and erudite guide to the ambiguities that this justly celebrated victory will also bring.
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Jesse Nguyen
Could you please disclose what book you are talking about. I hear Hoover many times, but never get a reference to the book.
Anthony J. Langlois
Jesse- the link to the book is at the top of the post, immediately under the title.
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David Bowie: The man who fell to Earth – and started an internet revolution
Along with millions of his fans and followers the world over, my heart sank on Monday morning when I learnt of musical legend, David Bowie’s passing. An icon whom I’ve revered since my teens, Bowie leaves behind a legacy of awe-inspiring music, legendary style, ethereal lyrics (not to mention some downright sensational lipstick goals) and unbeknownst to some, a contribution to technology that was well ahead of his time.
Take his online platform BowieNet, for example. Back in 1998, during the time that music forgot (Westlife and B*Witched, I’m looking at you!), Bowie launched his own ground-breaking internet service which gave his fans the opportunity to personally engage with the superstar. At a time when less than half of Americans had internet access, for a monthly fee users gained access to exclusive audio recordings, music videos and chat rooms, which Bowie himself was known to frequent under the handle ‘Sailor’. Competing against AOL and Claranet, Bowie’s influential movement online sparked the trend for more and more musicians to interact with their fans through technology.
He didn’t stop there. While I doubt any of us can ever dream of penning a song as striking as ‘Space Oddity’, that isn’t to say that Bowie didn’t give his fans the opportunity. In 1999, some 80,000 followers took part in a contest by submitting lyrics online to the BowieNet ‘cyber song’ contest in a bid to co-write a track with Bowie. To add to the excitement, the winning lyricist, Alex Grant, was invited to New York to lay down the track with Bowie for a webcast, which audiences could view in real-time and comment on the recording.
Although today’s artists are no strangers to the plethora of technology readily available to connect with their fans, Bowie’s innovative contributions to the internet, online music creation and cyber audience interaction led to his ‘Online Pioneer of the Year’ award from Yahoo back in 2000, highlighting just how cutting-edge his vision was.
As the word spread on Monday, Twitter was filled with tributes to the rock legend, and online music giant Spotify noted an astronomical 2700{20156fe61baea400d2663eb990f17abdabeb6ef183a2129287a793abd8ac1d8a} increase in streams of Bowie’s music. His final album ‘Blackstar’, a parting gift to us mere mortals, is already set to charge like a battering ram to the top of the download charts – safe to say that the internet, in which he held such a vested interest, exploded with the news of his death.
As we reel from his departure, it’s clear that the tremors from his music and fashion will continue to reverberate through the Earth’s core in his wake, and though he may not be remembered for his foresight of a digital revolution, it is certainly a credit to his lifetime of boundary-pushing, transcendent achievements.
Bowie, we cyber-salute you.
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The Prescott newspaper covers the Granite Mountain 19
This is the front page of Prescott’s newspaper, the Daily Courier today, Monday, July 8 — the day after the bodies of the 19 firefighters were escorted from Phoenix to Prescott, and the day before the scheduled memorial service on Tuesday.
Prescott’s Daily Courier, front page, July 8, 2013
Author Bill GabbertPosted on July 8, 2013 July 9, 2013 Tags Arizona, Yarnell Fire
Honor Escort for the Granite Mountain 19
The 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots that died on the Yarnell Hill Fire June 30 were escorted back to Prescott today, closer to their home base. They were moved from the medical examiner’s office in Phoenix to the medical examiner’s office in Prescott, a distance of approximately 100 miles. A helicopter was circling overhead. The first part of the ground escort was about 20 officers on motorcycles.
These first three photos were taken on Highway 89 five miles north of Yarnell, Arizona.
Honor Escort, motorcycle officers
A few vehicles after the bikes was a Granite Mountain Hotshots’ crew carrier.
Honor Escort, Granite Mountain Hotshots’ crew carrier and the 19 hearses.
And then the 19 hearses, each with a sign in the window identifying the Hotshot inside.
Hearses for the Granite Mountain Hotshots
Yarnell Hill Fire-7-7-2013-Arizona Public Service company cranes with flags draped wait for the procession of hearses carrying the 19 fallen firefighters travels through Yarnell on highway 89 Sunday afternoon, on its way to Prescott.
Photo by Tom Tingle/The Arizona Republic. Used with permission.
A memorial service for the Granite Mountain 19 will be held in Prescott Tuesday. We will remain in the area reporting on this historic event.
The first three photos were taken by Bill Gabbert.
Author Bill GabbertPosted on July 7, 2013 July 7, 2013 Tags Arizona, Photo by Bill G, Yarnell Fire4 Comments on Honor Escort for the Granite Mountain 19
The Yarnell Hill tragedy; examining the wind and topography
(UPDATE at 9:14 p.m. MDT, July 6, 2013)
We added this photo of the entrapment site on the Yarnell Hill Fire. The dozer line was punched in after the incident to facilitate the removal of the bodies, which were at the end of the line. The photo was taken by Wade Ward of the Prescott FD, and is used here with permission.
(Originally published at 8:53 MDT, July 6, 2013)
Robert Ford, who grew up in Prescott, studied some of the information that is available about the wind when the 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots were killed on the Yarnell Fire June 30. His message is below, with a few notes from me [in brackets].
“A graphic showing the “safety zone” and shelter deployment site is here.”
[Note from Bill: the times in that article are approximately 6 hours in error. We were told by Carrie Dennett of the Arizona State Forestry Division that their office received notice that shelters had been deployed at 4:47 local time, Mountain STANDARD Time. But they were not in direct communication with firefighters. The information had to travel up a chain of command and may have been delayed. I have not seen definitive word on when the deployment took place.]
“A Google Earth rough approximation of the high res photo above is attached.
Approximate location of shelter deployment. Google Earth.
Looking due west, eye altitude about 5400 feet. The approx. shelter site is 34.221416,-112.775796. The Landsat imagery was acquired last May; note the fuel, when compared to the Facebook photo above.
If you have Google Earth, it is also easy to duplicate the camera location of the time-lapse video (posted on your site) [embedded again above] purportedly shot from “Congress”; actually I’ve determined it was shot just west of the Date Creek Road (dirt – you can see the dust clouds from passing vehicles) just North of the intersection with Highway 89. The time-lapse video, looking N45E, shows the fire just cresting the ridge starting about one mile due Northwest of the shelter deployment site, then flashing to the right (southeast) along the ridge-line towards the deploy site. The smoke then obscures how the fire must have flashed over the ridge just 1500 feet west of the deploy site. In any event, the video shows how very rapidly the wind moved through the natural basin of the deploy site; probably aided by a natural venturi effect from the walls of the basin; also note that by the end of the video a trailing vortice formed off the ridge crest has actually moved the plume locally down (by 2000 feet !) to about the elevation of the Camera. It was an amphitheater of death for all of those brave men. This also explains why some men were found “outside” their shelters; that’s because a wind of unimaginable proportion, moving locally upward, lifted their shelters away.
Well thank you and you are very welcome to use whatever of this information you please. I have learned so very much from your site; it contains absolutely the best no-nonsense web coverage of this fire. In the event you wondered, I used to model the effects of wind on the topography surrounding astronomical observatories; but I never had to deal with a surface boundary condition as defined by a wildfire: that adds an order of magnitude of complexity to the simulation. I would like to presume the Feds will realize the importance of contracting a surface topography wind effect model for this fire, as a component of their investigation; If you have any say in the matter I am happy to recommend the best people; it’s not cheap as it requires supercomputer time.
Finally, I needed to relate that I grew up in Prescott; fighting fires was a rite of passage. You would have thought that by now the FS would have developed a weather-topography-fuel load model to deal with this sort of thing.
Well now they will do so.”
In a follow-up message, Mr. Ford wrote:
Yarnell Hill Fire photo texted at 4:04 p.m. by Granite Mountain HS
“For your information, I was able to determine the approximate vantage point of the photo [added above] as looking due East from 34.227291,-112.788630, at an eye elevation of 5,510 feet.
Screen capture from Google Earth. Approximate location of the previous photo.
This location [above] is just off (east of) the trail on the ridge crest-line, and is located about 0.82 miles Northwest (as the crow flies; longer by trail) of the shelter deploy site (subject of my previous post). Now given the vantage point vector as due East, the plume appears to be moving southeast; thus the fire front (barely visible in the photo) is being driven directly towards Glen ilah.”
Follow-up from Bill:
A comment left on one of our posts by “lone ranger” found an article that included information provided by the National Fire Administration, which is the first I’ve head that they had anything to do with this incident. I would be hesitant to trust this information. The report says the firefighters initially took refuge in a burned area, the black, then left that site and deployed their fire shelters later in another area as they headed toward a ranch which was to be their safety zone.
There continues to be confusion about the times. This may be partly due to the fact that Arizona is not on Daylight Savings Time like most of the United States. They use Mountain STANDARD Time.
A blog called Cliff Mass posted a very clear and detailed explanation of the weather. His last line in the article:
A number of media outlets called the strong winds unpredictable and random. This is not correct, as shown by the information I provided above.
Chuck Bushey told us that once upon a time there were:
…Fire Behavior Service Centers in various regions, warning crews in real time about t-storms (or other events) heading their direction that they couldn’t yet see and getting them into the black. The Southwest use to run a FBSC with a qualified Fire Behavior Analyst (FBAN) but I think they dropped it as did everyone else.
Author Bill GabbertPosted on July 6, 2013 February 21, 2015 Tags Arizona, time-lapse, Yarnell Fire4 Comments on The Yarnell Hill tragedy; examining the wind and topography
Weather conditions during the tragedy at Yarnell Hill, and where do we go from here
We first wrote about the thunderstorm that may have contributed to the June 30 deaths of the 19 firefighters on the Yarnell Hill Fire, June 30 at 6:58 MST. But since that information is buried in a long article about the fire, and a little more information has emerged, we are summarizing the facts about the weather conditions that tragic Sunday afternoon. We also have some suggestions for providing firefighters with weather warning information that could save lives.
The formal investigation into the deaths, what caused them and any lessons to be learned, is just beginning. The results will probably not be known for many months. We will leave it up to the investigators to determine why it happened and what decisions were made before and during the incident. But the facts about the weather that day have already been recorded in various ways.
Carrie Dennett, a Fire Information Officer with the Arizona State Forestry Division, said the Arizona Dispatch Center received a call at 4:47 p.m. MST, June 30, that firefighters on the Yarnell Hill Fire had deployed fire shelters. The Dispatch Center was not in direct communication with firefighters on the ground at the fire. The information would typically have been relayed from the local Yarnell Hill Fire organization up through lower level dispatch offices.
Radar at 4 p.m. MST, June 30, 2013 The pointer is at Yarnell, Arizona. WeatherUnderground.
The radar map above from WeatherUnderground at 4 p.m. MST June 30 shows a large thunderstorm cell north and northeast of the fire at Yarnell, Arizona. The pointer is at Yarnell. At 10:55 a.m., according to data from the MODIS satellite, the fire was approximately a mile or so north and northeast of the town, between the town and the approaching thunderstorm. At that time and until after 4 p.m., the wind blowing from the south-southwest and the southwest, most likely would have caused the primary spread of the fire to be toward the northeast.
Animations of weather satellite images that afternoon HERE and HERE, show the development and movement of the thunderstorm into the fire area. The red “X” and circle mark the approximate location of the fire.
Before and after 4 p.m. the cell was moving toward the southwest, and may have produced strong winds that changed the wind direction by 180 degrees (see below) and may have been the reason the fire moved into Yarnell. It also could have caught firefighters by surprise.
From 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. local time at the Stanton RAWS weather station four miles south of the fire, the wind was from the south-southwest or southwest, but between 4:01 p.m. and 5:01 p.m. it began blowing from the north-northeast at 22 to 26 mph gusting up to 43 mph — a 180-degree change in the wind direction.
Data from the Stanton RAWS weather station, four miles south of Yarnell, AZ, June 30, 2013
We were told by a spokesperson for the fire that the location of the firefighters when they died was between the fire and Yarnell, which would put them north or northeast of the town. Michelle Lee of the Arizona Republic told us that they were about one quarter mile southwest of Glen Ilah estates, “in the mountains”. Glen Ilah is on the southwest side of Yarnell. Anyone in that area between 4 and 5 p.m., who previously had the wind at their backs for seven hours with the fire moving away from them, may have suddenly and unexpectedly found the fire heading toward them at a rapid rate, pushed by winds gusting over 40 mph. Wind direction changes like this can be caused by strong outflowing winds from a thunderstorm in the dissipating stage.
At 5:01 p.m. the temperature was 95 degrees and the relative humidity was 17 percent. That, coupled with sustained winds of 26 mph with gusts over 40 mph, could have caused the rate of spread to increase to the point where it would have been impossible for any firefighting resources, in the air or on the ground, to implement any kind of effective fire suppression action, especially at the head of the fire which was moving rapidly toward Yarnell.
The Weather Forecast
A Type 3 Incident Management Team transitioned to assume command of the fire at 10 a.m. on June 30. That morning the fire had burned less than 1,000 acres. Incident Meteorologists from the National Weather Service, IMETs, are frequently assigned to large wildfires. While they are on site they can provide a great deal of very detailed weather information to firefighters, monitoring the conditions closely and in constant communication with the IMTeam.
It would have been unusual for an IMET to be assigned to a fire of that size on June 30, and with a small Type 3 IMTeam. The next morning, however, an IMET did receive an order to respond to the fire along with a much larger Type 1 IMTeam.
But even without an on-scene IMET, firefighters have the capability to request from the National Weather Service a special “spot forecast” for a fire, and at least two were provided before the fatalities occurred, one at 8:33 p.m. MST on June 29, and another at 9:45 a.m. June 30. The latter one, according to the information at the top of the forecast, was requested at 9:39 a.m. MST and produced six minutes later, a remarkably short turnaround.
The spot forecast for the morning of the incident predicted “isolated thunderstorm activity”, and, “Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon”. The predicted wind was “east winds around 5 mph…becoming southwest with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon”.
It is extremely difficult or even impossible for meteorologists to predict exactly where and when thunderstorms will occur, especially if they are “isolated”, or few in number. It is also difficult to forecast the exact wind speed and direction under any conditions.
Firefighters need to know when there is a sudden change in weather conditions that can threaten their safety. Since it will never be possible to have an IMET at every fire, there needs to be a concerted interagency effort involving the National Weather Service and the *land management agencies, state, local, and federal, to develop a system to provide firefighters with the situational awareness information they must have to reduce the probability that they will be surprised by a life-threatening change in the weather.
Firefighter’s Emergency Situational Awareness Device — FESAD
We may need new developments in hardware for firefighters so that they can receive weather warning data directly from the source without going through layers of bureaucracy. The military probably already has something like this, but I envision a device with a 7-inch display that could receive satellite transmissions anywhere there is a clear view of the sky. Each firefighter would not need to have a Firefighter’s Emergency Situational Awareness Device, a FESAD — just provide one for every fire. It could be based on a satellite phone, would have a GPS receiver (like in most smart phones), and be capable of receiving text and images. A deluxe version might also function as a satellite telephone, so that the firefighter could call the weather forecaster to get more information. The person sending the data to the fire would not have to know the phone number of the receiver, but would draw a box on a map and any devices within that box would receive the data, without bothering others that would not be affected by the warning. When the FESAD arrives at a fire, the user could have it send a message registering its location so that warnings for that area could be received. This would also alert the on-duty Remote-IMET to add it to their watch list.
Alert who?
Remote-IMET (R-IMET)
The warning data could be sent to the fire by an NWS forecaster always on duty with the primary responsibility to remotely monitor weather conditions near multiple fires. (The NWS already does this for the entire nation for severe storm, tornado, and hurricane warnings.) For fires, let’s call them Remote-IMETS. Some of the Geographic Area Coordination Centers already employ full time fire meteorologists. With the right software they could perform this function.
An R-IMET would have the technology available to instantly transmit text and graphical data about an emerging dangerous condition directly to those on the ground without relying on telephones to filter the information down through various layers. An R-IMET would not have time to handle all of the IMET duties normally performed by an on-scene IMET, but would concentrate primarily on issuing urgent warnings that could affect the safety of firefighters.
What if …. there had been a FESAD and R-IMET available for the Yarnell Hill Fire
FESADs and R-IMETs could save lives.
The iron is hot
There is a great deal of national interest right now in the deaths of the Granite Mountain 19. If any new initiatives that would cost money are going to be implemented, our Fire Leaders must strike now while the iron is hot. There may be a small window of two to four weeks during which there will be some sympathy nationwide and citizens and lawmakers are open to enhancing the safety of wildland firefighters, even if it involves spending money.
An example of a rapidly closing window of opportunity is the movement for controlling gun violence after a gunman fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. If the administration and lawmakers had taken action quickly, meaningful legislation would have had a much better chance of passing. Instead, they waited months, and achieved little.
*A side note
It pains me to describe the federal fire departments as “land management agencies”. Organizations whose primary mission is to grow trees, clean campground toilets, or manage visitors, do not have at the top of their To-Do List, “Provide real-time weather warning information for firefighters”. We need a National Fire Service.
Author Bill GabbertPosted on July 4, 2013 January 26, 2014 Tags Arizona, safety, weather, Yarnell Fire21 Comments on Weather conditions during the tragedy at Yarnell Hill, and where do we go from here
Sole survivor of Yarnell Hill Fire identified
Brendan McDonough, surviving member of the Granite Mountain Hotshots on the Yarnell Hill Fire. Photo courtesy of Brendan’s father, who placed the photo on his Facebook page.
The only member of the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew to survive the Yarnell Hill Fire has been identified as 21-year old Brendan McDonough. Contrary to earlier reports that he had been assigned to move equipment when the other 19 members of the crew became entrapped and were killed, Mr. McDonough was serving as a lookout.
The duties of a lookout on a wildland fire are to observe the fire and the weather and to notify the crew about changes that could jeopardize their safety. Typically they find a high vantage point from which they can see both the fire and the location of the other firefighters.
In a briefing Tuesday, Prescott Fire Department Public Information Officer Wade Ward said Brendan, who is in his third season with the crew, did “exactly what he was supposed to do”. When he arrived at the lookout point he identified a trigger point for himself and decided that when the fire reached that location he would have to leave for his own safety. Later in the day when the fire reached that trigger point, he radioed the crew Superintendent, telling him that the weather was changing rapidly and the direction of spread of the fire had changed because the wind direction had changed. Brendan told him that he had to leave his lookout location and that if the crew needed anything to contact him. That was his last communication with the crew, after which he walked out and met the Blue Ridge Hot Shots. He looked back and saw that the point where he had been had already burned over. He then got in the Blue Ridge Hotshots’ vehicle and was taken to a safety zone. Brendan was not injured and did not have to deploy his fire shelter.
“The wind changed,” said Prescott Fire Battalion Chief Ralph Lucas, explaining the movement of the fire. “We had a thunderstorm that was above. They have a tendency to push winds around, just because of the dynamics of nature, and that may have been what occurred during that time period, that brought fire up toward his trigger point, indicating that it was time for him to leave his lookout point.”
Mr. Ward implored the audience to protect Brendan’s privacy and to leave him alone, which precipitated applause from the crowd. Then he said, “Give him some time. And when I mean time, it’s going to take weeks, if not longer”.
Author Bill GabbertPosted on July 2, 2013 April 21, 2015 Tags Arizona, Brendan McDonough, Yarnell Fire1 Comment on Sole survivor of Yarnell Hill Fire identified
Multiple firefighter fatalities on the Yarnell Fire in Arizona
(This article was updated numerous times over a couple of weeks, beginning June 30, 2017. To read it in chronological order, scroll to the bottom. The first entry was posted at 9:32 p.m. MDT, June 30, 2013)
(UPDATED at 2:26 p.m. MDT, July 15, 2013)
Most of the funerals are over for the 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots that were killed on the Yarnell Hill Fire June 30. From information provided by the incident management team that organized the services, the firefighters are listed below.
The incident management team has posted hundreds of photos of the memorial service, the procession, and the planning.
(UPDATED at 10:20 a.m. MDT, July 5, 2013)
An article in the LA Times has some previously unpublished information about the last moments of the Granite Mountain 19. Apparently the crew was attempting to establish an anchor point, presumably at what had previously been the heel, or rear of the fire. They were constructing fireline and may have been burning out that day. A photo that I had not seen before that was texted to the father of one of the firefighters father at 4:04 p.m. shows a firefighter in what appears to be a burned area, looking at the fire. The text said: “This thing is running straight for Yarnell”. By 4:47 p.m. the Arizona State Forestry Division received word sent up through channels that fire shelters had been deployed on the Yarnell Hill Fire.
Below is an excerpt from the article:
Team leader [Crew Superintendent] Eric Marsh told his commanders via radio that the group had a predetermined safety zone. “He was calm, cool and collected,” Ward said. “They all stayed together. Nobody ran.”
Moments later — Ward doesn’t know how long — Marsh radioed his superiors a second time. This message was different: He and his men were going to deploy the small emergency shelters that were their last resort against an advancing fire.
“From what I’ve heard, it was the calmest they’ve ever heard Eric,” Ward said. “They were in a tight spot and everyone knew this was going to be a bitch. But his voice was very calm: ‘We’re deploying.’ ”
Fire officials tried desperately to save the men.
Danny Parker, a fire battalion chief from the nearby Chino Valley Fire Department whose son Wade Parker died with the other Granite Mountain crew members, said he learned from colleagues that his son was in trouble.
“They had deployed their emergency shelters, and helicopter crews were trying desperately to spot them through dense smoke,” he said, wiping tears from his eyes.
He said he was told that Sikorsky helicopters were making water drops in areas where they thought the trapped firefighters might be.
“They weren’t sure about the men’s position because they couldn’t see through the smoke,” he said.
Their bodies were found in a single group, huddled together.
An Associated Press article provides some information about the autopsies of the firefighters:
Cari Gerchick, a spokeswoman for the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office in Phoenix, said the Hotshots died from burns, carbon monoxide poisoning or oxygen deprivation, or a combination of the factors. The autopsies were performed Tuesday, but more detailed autopsy reports should be released in three months, pending lab work.
The Prescott Fire Department has brought in an Incident Management Team to help plan the events related to the deaths of the firefighters. They have established a web site that appears to be devoted to the scheduled events, as well as a Facebook page for photos and other information.
Their web site said that on Sunday, June 7 the remains of the 19 fallen fire fighters will be escorted with full Honor Guard from Phoenix to the Yavapai County Medical Examiner’s Office in Prescott. The procession will begin at 10 a.m. but the exact route is still being planned.
AZCentral has an article about a photo that has stirred some controversy. It shows flags draped over what appear to be body bags containing the 19 dead firefighters. They said the photo appeared on a Facebook page described on the site as “a community, news, and donation page (that) is not directly related to the Granite Mountain Hotshots personally.” AZCentral did not provide a link to the page or give its exact name but they do have a copy of the photo.
(UPDATED at 7 p.m. MDT, July 3, 2013)
(Information about the Yarnell Hill Fire itself is in our main article about the fire. This one is devoted to the 19 firefighters that died.)
The memorial service, not the funerals, for the Granite Mountain 19 will be held Tuesday, July 9 from 11 am to 1 pm at the Tim’s Toyota Center in Prescott Valley. There will be seating for 6,000 attendees with room for overflow outside.
According to the Professional Fire Fighters of Arizona, the 3 official fundraising efforts to help the families of the fallen have raised about $700,000.
The 100 Club has raised approximately $500,000.
The Wildland Firefighters Foundation (52 Club) has raised approximately $120,000.
The United Phoenix Fire Fighters and Prescott Firefighters Charities have raised approximately $80,000. They can receive donations through PayPal.
In the Prescott/Yarnell area, two local fundraising events have been scheduled for this week.
4th of July Fireworks at Pioneer Park from 12 noon to 10 pm.
Whiskey Row Street Dance on Saturday, July 6th 5-11pm
Other fundraising events will be announced in the days to come.
Residents of Yarnell can obtain updates on the status of their property by calling the County Emergency Operations Center at 928-777-7481.
In the first 24 hours following the entrapment there were reports that up to six people had been injured and were being treated in hospitals, but there were no injuries, according to a spokesperson for the fire. There were 19 fatalities.
The crew carriers of the Granite Mountain Hotshots were removed from the fire where they had been parked by the crew, to Prescott today. Prescott Fire, Prescott Interagency Hotshot Crew, and Ironwood Hotshot Crew escorted the group from the Yarnell Hill Fire to the City of Prescott.
On Sunday, July 6, the Granite Mountain 19 will be escorted from the Medical Examiner’s Office in Phoenix to the Medical Examiner’s Office in Prescott. There will be 19 hearses, each with an honor guard member to accompany the fallen firefighter.
The last members of the nine person team that will be investigating the fatalities of the 19 firefighters on the Yarnell Hill fire arrived Tuesday and received an inbriefing in Phoenix from the Arizona State Forester. One of their main objectives will be to explore lessons learned and how to prevent a similar tragedy in the future.
Described as an “independent investigation” in a news release, it will be led by Florida State Forester Jim Karels. Mike Dudley, Acting Director of Cooperative Forestry for the USDA Forest Service, will be the secondary team lead. Other entities participating in the investigation include the U.S. Forest Service’s Missoula Technology and Development Center, the Missoula Fire Department, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health. Some of the team members are technical specialists and fire behavior analysts.
The local liaisons to the nine-member Yarnell Hill Investigation Team are Arizona State Forester Scott Hunt and Prescott Fire Chief Dan Fraijo.
Carrie Dennett, a Fire Information Officer with the Arizona State Forestry Division, said the Arizona Dispatch Center first received a call at 4:47 p.m. June 30, that firefighters on the Yarnell Hill Fire had deployed fire shelters. The Dispatch Center was not in direct communication with firefighters on the ground at the fire. The information would typically have been relayed from the local Yarnell Hill Fire organization up through lower level dispatch offices.
Another spokesperson for the fire said the fatalities occurred between where the fire was at the time and the town. That would put the firefighters N, NW, or E of the town — between an approaching thunderstorm and the town. (UPDATE July 15, 2013: the possible but unconfirmed location is: Lat: 34.220392 Long:-112.777690 )
Radar at 4 pm MST, June 30, 2013. The pointer is at Yarnell, Arizona. The thunderstorm was moving toward the southwest. Radar image from WeatherUnderground.
Continue reading “Multiple firefighter fatalities on the Yarnell Fire in Arizona”
Author Bill GabbertPosted on June 30, 2013 September 27, 2017 Tags Arizona, fatality, Jim Karels, lodd, Yarnell Fire19 Comments on Multiple firefighter fatalities on the Yarnell Fire in Arizona
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This image shows the relative position of the planets on January 30, 2001.
Image courtesy of Solar System Live, which was implemented by John Walker and is Copyright © 1989 by Jef Poskanzer
How far is the Earth from the Sun, the Moon and all the other planets? How far are all of the planets from the Sun? Do you know of a software that tracks the planets in real-time?
There is a really neat internet program called Solar System Live that shows the position of all of the planets and the Sun for any given day. If you go to that page, you'll see an image similar to the one on the left. I always change "Show" to "images", because sometimes it's easier to see a picture of the planets instead of its symbol. I also change "Size" to "640" for a larger picture (then hit "Update").
Down below the image produced, you'll see the distance from the Sun, the Moon and all of the planets to Earth. It's given in the measure of an A.U. (Astronomical Unit), except for the Moon's distance to Earth which is given in the measure of Earth radius (one Earth radius is 6,376.5 kilometers).
So, let's take an example. It says that today Saturn is 8.833 A.U. away from Earth. To get that distance in kilometers, multiply the A.U. distance by 149,600,000. To get that distance in miles, multiply the A.U. distance by 93,000,000. So Saturn is 1,321,416,800 kilometers from Earth (8.833x149,600,000) and 821,190,000 miles from Earth today (8.833x93,000,000). The same set of calculations can be done for all of the planets.
The minimum and maximum distance of the planets from the Sun is given on their planetary facts pages: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
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Bob Seger Adds A Third Show at DTE Energy Music Theater
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Bob Seger is adding a third show at DTE Energy Music Theater to the end of his "Roll Me Away - The Final Tour".
In addition to the already announced shows on June 6 and June 8, Seger will now add Wednesday, June 12 to his itinerary. Tickets for all three shows go on sale Saturday, February 23 at 10:00 AM...that is, if the Fan Club doesn't snag them all up Wednesday, February 20 at 10:00 AM. There is a four-ticket limit per sale.
The addition of the third show will round Seger's number of performances at "The Knob" to 30. For full event and ticket details, visit this link to 313presents.com.
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Home Editor's Picks WR Blog: You say it’s your birthday
WR Blog: You say it’s your birthday
The state of New Jersey began in 1664 as a royal gift from Charles II of England to his brother James, Duke of York. The sizeable land parcel was then given to two loyal noblemen, Sir George Carteret and John Lord Berkeley, both of whom have had towns and streets named after them. Of course, the area wasn’t really new because the land already supported a diverse population, but the document that records the 1664 transaction proclaims “said Tract of Land is hereafter to be called by the name or names of New Cesarea or New Jersey” and that made it official.
New Jersey wasn’t going to let this year go by without some recognition so a website was created, www.officialnj350.com, which lists a year’s worth of events and celebrations in honor of our 350th anniversary. The themes are innovation, diversity and liberty. After all, New Jersey is one of the original 13 states and the first to ratify the Bill of Rights in 1789. Here were the first organized baseball and basketball games, the first boardwalk, first drive-in movie theater (in fact, the first movie!), the first brewery, the first town lighted by electricity, and many more firsts. And when we refer to the Jersey Shore we’re not talking about a bunch of stupid kids and their drunken antics but well over a hundred miles of prime shoreline.
Early on, New Jersey became known as the Garden State and we’re still world famous for our tomatoes, corn and cranberries. Much of the state is now industrialized and we have the highest population density of any state in the country, as well as the highest number of toxic dumps in the U.S. It is said that when truckers enter New Jersey via one of the bridges or tunnels they radio, “We’re in the Garbage State.” Yet New Jersey has done a pretty good job of saving a lot of our wilderness areas. In South Jersey, 1.1 million acres of the Pine Barrens are preserved in perpetuity. And there are dozens of state and county parks and forests, many that I’ve enjoyed while hiking and camping.
Throughout the 21 years I’ve lived here, countless smartasses have asked, “You’re from Jersey? What exit?” It is true we have the densest highway system in the country. Did you know the Jersey barrier was invented here? And the jughandle? But once you leave the limited-access highways with their service areas featuring fast-food chains and stick to local roads, you get to experience the phenomenon known as the Jersey Diner. With an estimated 400 such establishments, New Jersey is known as the Diner Capital of the World. In fact, the official 350th anniversary website lists several events dedicated to the Jersey diner. Did you know that hundreds of diners—those stainless steel beauties—were manufactured here in the 20th century, and that of those originals, only a few dozen remain?
Yet to bikers, diners represent something else entirely. They are excellent meet-up spots. They offer comfort food during cold rides. Cheap eats—mostly. Nonjudgmental staff and no dress codes. To me, they evoke nostalgia and sometimes intrigue. Take the Tick Tock Diner, an art deco structure built in 1947 on Route 3 in Clifton. It’s where I went on my first Match.com date (a disaster), and had to take my first-ever night ride home to my Hoboken condo, solo on my Sportster. The Tick Tock is one of the top-rated diners in the state and was featured on Guy Fieri’s Food Network show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. It was also the place where, years later, the manager of the diner was arrested for plotting to kill his uncle, one of the diner’s co-owners. He’d hired a hitman to kill his uncle and hide the body because he thought he was keeping too much of the profits. Part of the ill-conceived plan was to torture him into revealing the combination to the safe.
Then there’s the Hibernia Diner in Rockaway, just a few minutes from my current home. I’ve enjoyed numerous breakfasts there and it’s a frequent meet-up spot for my motorcycle club’s rides. This is a typical family diner and we think it was perfect the way it was, but now it is being completely renovated from the inside out. The entire town is waiting for its reopening.
The state has seen fit to recognize our distinguished diner heritage and has sponsored a few events honoring this New Jersey institution. Sadly (yet not surprisingly), the 350th anniversary website does not list any motorcycle-related events. So a while back I made a subtle suggestion to one of the dealerships in the area. “Hey, New Jersey is celebrating its 350th birthday. You should have an event around that.” I was politely thanked for “a wonderful idea” and since then haven’t heard a thing.
So I propose a tour to discover the wonderful world of Jersey diners, traversing the seven official scenic byways in the state along with lesser-known back roads. The state is 70 miles wide and 170 miles long and there is much fabulous riding here—from High Point in the northwest corner of the state, through state forests near the Delaware, to the Pinelands in south Jersey, along the shore and many areas in between.
While we’re down south we can stop at the Vincentown Diner that features organic foods, locally grown produce, pasture-fed beef and Jersey-vinted wine. You can go into the diner and find a variety of locally produced culinary delicacies being sold next to the front counter. Up north in Hasbrouck Heights is the Bendix Diner, a typical stainless steel railroad car-like structure. And there are so many more. One could spend years riding the thousands of miles and visiting the hundreds of diners here. I think that from a motorcyclist’s point of view, it’s a fitting tribute to the 350th anniversary of my adopted state.
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Officials confirm case of measles in East Tennessee
Posted 10:30 am, April 19, 2019, by Eryn Taylor, CNN Wire and AP
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Tennessee Department of Health has confirmed the state’s first case of the measles, the agency announced on Thursday.
The department tweeted that the investigation is currently just focusing on that portion of the state, but encouraged all Tennesseans to know the symptoms and to take action if an up to date MMR vaccine if needed.
Officials said only 15 other cases have been diagnosed in the state in the last decade. The largest and most recent outbreak consisted of seven cases in Shelby County in 2016.
The announcement came as the number of cases across the nation surge and are on pace to set a record for most illnesses in 25 years. Health officials on Monday said 555 measles cases have been confirmed in the U.S. so far this year.
Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable respiratory illness characterized by a rash of flat red spots. Symptoms may include fever, cough, runny nose and watery eyes. If you develop these symptoms, you are encouraged to call your doctor first before visiting a health care facility, where others could be exposed to the illness.
We are investigating a case of measles after the State Public Health Laboratory confirmed a positive test for the illness in a resident of the East TN. While the investigation is currently centered in East Tennessee, all Tennesseans should be aware of measles and its symptoms. pic.twitter.com/JxAutnwjhE
— TN Dept. of Health (@TNDeptofHealth) April 18, 2019
Topics: Measles, Tennessee
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Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-3T5 plane crash
Burbank, California, USA
Updated on 30th January 2010
The plane was on a passenger flight from Las Vegas, NV to Burbank, CA. Arriving in Burbank, the crew was told to expect the visual approach to runway 08. Approximately 10 NM from the field, while descending to 3000 feet, the crew was instructed to maintain 230 knots until further advised. One minute later, the crew was cleared for the visual approach to runway 08, with an instruction to maintain 3,000 feet until passing the Van Nuys VOR (approx 6 NM from the runway).
But the flight crew passed the VOR and failed to start their descent from 3000 feet. 3.9 NM from the runway threshold, at an airspeed of 230 knots and an altitude of 3000 feet, the crew began their descent to land. Due to the steep nature of the descent (nearly 7°, instead of the standard 3°), the crew received two "sink rate" warnings at approximately 400 ft AGL (Above Ground Level), and a "pull up" warning at 190 ft AGL. The aircraft touched down 2800 ft down the 6032 ft runway with a groundspeed of 181 knots.
Despite using max reverse thrust, spoilers, and brakes, the crew was unable to stop the aircraft before the end of the runway. The plane broke through a blast fence at approximately 40 knots, skidded across Hollywood Way, and came to rest 38 ft from a gasoline station. The aircraft was evacuated via the escape slides. There is no fatality among the 142 people onboard.
Burbank, California, USA (Red dot on map)
Photos of the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 crash
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Leslie Jones Sang ‘Como La Flor’ In An Interview And We Approve
By Jorge Rodriguez-Jimenez July 15, 2016 at 5:46 pm
Who knew that Leslie Jones was such a Selena fan?
Leslie Jones was ALL of us when she did her interview with a Spanish-language media outlet, giving all the fans something they’ll never forget. Kate McKinnon and Jones might not be the most fluent in Spanish, but that didn’t stop them from giving one of the best interviews you’ll ever see. It makes sense that they’re targeting Latinos, since we’re the demographic most likely to go to the movies
People on social media are loving it.
@Lesdoggg This Mexican girl loves you for this! ? https://t.co/De1km9JWdy #Selena
— YIRLA RUBI (@YIRLARUBI) July 14, 2016
And, in turn, falling in love with her.
I love Leslie Jones even more for singing Selena Quintanilla's Como la Flor: https://t.co/U6deEdbWTZ
— Alyssa Morin (@alyssawritesxo) July 12, 2016
It is seriously the must-see interview of the year.
READ: Flaca Can Sing! Listen to Jackie Cruz Doing a Cover of Selena’s “Como La Flor”
Tags: Selena Quintanilla, funny, Movies, Music, Selena
Cardi B Stands Behind Bernie Sanders Because Of His Desire To Fight For All People And Their Rights
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Cardi B refuses to be boxed into any archetype. The Afro-Dominican rapper has used her platform in the past to talk about the injustices of America’s healthcare system. This Monday, she effectively put her weight behind Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders by telling her 6.7 million Twitter followers that she feels “really sad” about “how we let him down in 2016.”
Claro, Cardi B’s endorsement of the progressive Democratic socialist candidate has ignited a firestorm of responses from fans and haters alike.
In a single tweet, Cardi acknowledged the authenticity of Bernie’s platform–which has remained consistent throughout decades of politics.
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Often, voters feel isolated from politics because political speech is too pedantic to resonate with. Cardi was speaking from the heart of America when she said that Bernie’s issues are not a “front” for a campaign to win. She believes Bernie’s passion to creating a safer America for all is genuine.
Bernie Sanders narrowly lost the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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It’s no secret that, after Trump won, the Democratic party experienced a deep disillusionment over party ideals. Bernie brought a much more progressive stance than establishment Democrats, advocating for free healthcare as an American right, free college tuition and equality for all. The Senator thanked her in a tweet that read, “Thank you @iamcardib! Our fight for justice is far from over and we are not giving up.”
The conversation continued after a critic pointed out that Cardi has once complained about high taxes.
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The Twitter user seemed to think that Cardi’s disdain for high taxes would be in direct conflict with Bernie Sanders’s outspoken platform to raise taxes on the rich to effectively redistribute to the masses in the form of free healthcare and education. He was wrong.
His didn’t get away with going up against Cardi and Bernie without a good dog walk from Latinas in charge.
Credit: @JulieSmithM / Twitter
It’s the name of the game–perception is a reality in politics. The perks of being a civilian are being able to say things like “que chinguen a su madre” to anyone who twists your words.
Cardi clapped back by saying that she’s here for high taxes, but only if she can see her dollar effect positive change.
With a large chunk of our taxes going to the military, subsidizing the dying dairy and meat industries, and a clear lack of funds directed towards the humanitarian crisis on the border, Cardi wants someone in power who will improve the quality of life for as many Americans as possible. She wants to see what she’s paying for.
Of course, the sexism and racism came out to play in the comment threads.
Credit: @iamblakemarie / Twitter
This user claimed that “hood rats” are implicitly lacking the “mentality” to have political opinions. “I wish some people would stay in their lane,” is tantamount to someone like Trump telling The Squad to “go back” to “where they came from.” It implies that you’re born into the limits on your own agency, and it’s toxic thinking.
The Bardi Gang came through to defend Cardi’s right to use her political voice.
Credit: @Genadievna_ / Twitter
Cardi B is an Afro-Latina woman who worked her way to fame by stripping at the club across from her high school. Her work has invited criticism from conservative pundits, claiming her body and sex-positive messaging is anti-feminist. As a black woman taking up space in the world, everything she does is overanalyzed.
They also offered her support amidst all the “hate.”
Credit: @TwinklingTania / Twitter
Other politically invested folks came through with comments like “Girl read about ELIZABETH WARREN,” and “Kamala2020 get down read up on her.” Sprinkled throughout were messages of support for Bernie, happy that 6.7 million followers could #FeelTheBern thanks to Cardi.
Cardi might be a celebrity, but she’s also a constituent who wants to see her taxes put an end to bankruptcy by medical and student loan debt.
Credit: @iamcardib / Instagram
With 2020 around the corner, campaign season is in full swing again. As always, we are mitú and we want everyone to educate themselves about every candidate and get out the vote!
Tags: Bernie Sanders, Cardi B, politics, Music
Selena Gomez Is Fighting To Make Sure That Everyone Can Speak Openly And Honestly About Getting Help For Their Mental Health
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Selena Marie Gomez (born in Texas in 1992) has been in the public eye for as long as she can remember. She has been a role model for young girls as a singer and an actress and now is involved in more risqué films such as Spring Breakers, a delirious film by indie filmmaker Harmony Korine. Besides having a strong onscreen persona, Gomez has been in relationships with the likes of Justin Bieber, which of course turned the paparazzi attention and cameras to her. Suddenly, when she was barely a teenager her every move was being followed. Her life was sort of predestined to be great when she was named after the great late Selena Quintanilla. However, she has had to deal with divorce (her parents separated when she was five-years-old) and with weak health, as she was diagnosed with lupus, an auto-immune disease, which ultimately forced her to get a kidney transplant. She found strength in her mom. Gomez has said that her mother “was really strong around me. Having me at 16 had to have been a big responsibility. She gave up everything for me, had three jobs, supported me, sacrificed her life for me.” That must provide so much strength for a woman of barely 26 but who has gone through more in her lifetime than many 50-year-olds.
This must not be easy for anyone, even more so for a Latino woman. Gomez knows that she has a microphone and that she can get to other girls and women. “The older I get, the prouder I am to be a woman in the industry. When I was younger and running around all the time on tour, I don’t think I took the time to notice how being a woman in my position is really a gift. I want to make sure I utilize all that power,” the young Latina star told Into the Gloss. She has used this position of privilege to raise awareness on mental health issues, including suicide prevention, both as a celebrity and as a producer. She is also a supporter of associations such as Make A Wish (which grants children diagnosed with life-threatening conditions), the Alliance for Children’s Rights and the Ryan Seacrest Foundation.
Selena Gomez fights for friendships above anything else: girl power.
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Gomez values friendship and spreads the word. She has such loyal friends that one even donated a kidney when Gomez needed a transplant. She says: “People are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons”: Selena, we couldn’t agree more.
She gets politically enraged when it matters.
Gomez knows that a lot of mental health issues concerning young women are related to the policing of their sexuality and reproductive rights. She gets political when she feels the need to, particularly with issues concerning the mental health and general wellbeing of young women like herself.
She asks her fans to be strong, but to also look for help when needed.
Her advice: “I’ve learned there’s power deep down inside yourself, and you can find it when you don’t give up on yourself and when you ask for help.” This is so real it hurts: even someone like her, who in the eyes of her fans might seem to have it all, needs to be humble and honest in reaching out to others when the world seems bleak. There is always someone who cares if you are OK.
She stands up for migrants.
Gomez doesn’t get political often, but when she does she always stands up for the minority communities. She has been a vocal advocate for migrant rights and the rights of women. She even wore a 1973 necklace as one of very few Latina celebs speaking up for abortion rights.
She even takes a stand from DACA recipients and Dreamers.
She has used her social media accounts, which have followers in the millions, to call her fans to action. She is clearly showing the world that she does care and she is paying attention.
She delivers a message of self-acceptance, which led her to produce 13 Reasons Why.
Gomez’s mother, Amanda, had her when she was just 16, and then raised her by herself. She was also the one that gave Gomez the book on which the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why is based. The show was controversial because it spoke about mental health issues and suicide, topics that are fundamental to discuss with young vulnerable populations but that remain a taboo. However, Gomez’s message is optimistic. She has said: “I promise you that each and every one of you is made to be who you are and that’s what’s so attractive and beautiful.” Preach!
13 Reasons Why put mental health issues at the forefront of public media debate.
“I get it all day, every day, that I’m not sexy enough, or I’m not cool enough, or if I did this I would be accepted… I promise you that each and every one of you is made to be who you are and that’s what’s so attractive and beautiful. Please don’t forget that, even when it gets hard,” she said in an interview for the Huffington Post. And this is exactly the message that she conveys in her project. Taking on Jay Asher’s literary world, she and the series creative team were able to show mental health and suicide from all possible angles.
She takes fame with a grain of salt.
She has been famous for a big portion of her life, but she knows that todo es pasajero, and that at the end who you are does not depend merely on adulation: “You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a ‘Like,’ by a comment. That does not define you.”
Body positivity is her mantra.
“I feel very empowered and confident and comfortable with where I am. And I think it took me a long time to get there because, you know, the past year was so interesting because I’ve never been body-shamed before… I did gain weight, but I don’t care,” she said at On Air with Ryan Seacrest. This is a great, positive message for someone who is followed by millions of young women throughout the world, particularly in a day and age when standards of beauty are twisted and self-love is hard to achieve.
She is an active advocate of girl power.
Perhaps following the example of her mother, who basically raised her alone while holding down as many jobs as necessary to make ends meet, Gomez says: “I don’t want to become little or hurt or a victim. I want to be strong for girls…I just want them to know that there is an option of standing up for yourself.” Additionally, she was named a United Nations Ambassador in 2009, and in this role, she has worked particularly in empowering vulnerable children by helping provide clean water, education, and medical services.
You learn from your mistakes.
Perhaps most importantly, she knows that many see her as a role model and that this brings a huge deal of responsibility. “I’m human, I’m not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I’m already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids,” she told E! Online.
READ: “13 Reasons Why” Does Much More Than Glorify Suicide, Selena Gomez Explained
Tags: Mental Health, Suicide Awareness, Movies, Music, Selena Gomez, TV
As Disney Is Rumored To Cast Harry Styles As Prince Eric, Here Are Our Handsome Picks To Play The Disney Character
Recently, there’s been a lot of news surrounding the controversial casting of African-American actress Halle Bailey as Ariel in the upcoming live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid”. As you’ve probably seen, there’s been more than a few haters taking to their keyboards to voice their opinions about Ariel’s updated look under the hashtag #NotMyAriel. We […]
People Are Freaking Out About The High-Pitched Character Danny Trejo, AKA Machete, Voices In The New “Dora The Explorer” Movie
The second trailer for the “Dora the Explorer: Lost City of Gold” is out and the adventure is going to be one that no one will be able to forget.
People Who Worked On ‘Toy Story 4’ Hinted At Bonnie’s Dad Being Latino
Bonnie’s dad from “Toy Story 4” reminded viewers of their own fathers so, of course, everyone is speculating if he is Latino and he just might be.
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Filming Has Wrapped On Doctor Who Season 11
Production on Doctor Who season 11 has now officially wrapped. The show’s Twitter account made the announcement by sharing an image (seen below) of a clapperboard with the message “That’s a wrap!” written across it. Also note the colorful stripe which references the rainbow-striped shirt Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor wears.
Filming on season 11 has been underway since November 2017, meaning this revamped run follows the pattern set by previous seasons where each year’s batch of episodes takes nine months of hard work to produce. Likewise, the show’s base of operations remains in Cardiff, Wales. However, it’s believed that the crew ventured overseas this time around, too, with footage filmed in both South Africa and Spain.
From what we understand, the last few weeks of production were focused on putting together this year’s traditional Doctor Who Christmas special. Despite it being an annual institution, the fact that there would be another festive installment this year was curiously kept under wraps for a long time before it was finally revealed, albeit in non-committal terms, at San Diego Comic-Con.
As this suggests, new showrunner Chris Chibnall has done his utmost to keep spoilers for the Thirteenth Doctor’s debut run to a minimum. All that he’s officially told us so far is that the 10 episode season will be made up of standalone outings that’ll be aimed at a fresh audience. Which means we won’t even see the Time Lord’s deadliest enemies, the Daleks.
From set photos and leaked info, though, we’ve been able to work out the plot of a couple of episodes. It looks like one will see the TARDIS travel to 1960s America to explore the Rosa Parks incident, while another will visit the English Civil War apparently, as Alan Cumming accidentally let slip he was playing King James I.
We’ve still got no word on when we can expect Doctor Who to return to our screens, though it’s thought that it’ll premiere in either September or October. Hopefully now that filming has wrapped, Chibnall will be a bit more forthcoming with the details.
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Paul Genoni, from the launch of Jo Jones’s ‘Falling Backwards’
Paul Genoni’s speech for the launch of Falling Backwards
Crow Books, 10 September 2018
I recall the first time I met Jo Jones quite clearly. It was over a decade ago, at a time when the so-called ‘history wars’ were raging, just a couple of years after Stewart MacIntyre’s book The History Wars had been published, and at a point when the debate had focused, in the wake of Kate Grenville’s novel The Secret River, on the respective claims of history and fiction to report the ‘truth’ of the Australian frontier.
Jo came to my office to see me in my role as Post-graduate Coordinator for what was then (I think) the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts, and she was looking to enrol in a PhD. This enquiry led to a discussion of her topic. I was immediately engaged by two things—other than the topic itself. The first was her very appealing readiness to undertake the proposed research. Jo had a very clear vision of exactly what she wanted to do, and even the fictional texts on which her research would focus. I do recall throwing a couple of other novels into the discussion for her consideration, but I also recall that the suggestions were gently rebuffed. She knew what she wanted to do.
Secondly I was impressed by her intellectual maturity and passion for her subject matter. Even before embarking on the research proper there was a sophistication to the ideas that she was bringing to the discussion that belied both her youth and the fledgling status of her project.
In due course, under the direction of Tim Dolin, Jo wrote an exceptionally fine thesis, and now with a little more crafting it has been turned into an exceptionally fine book. To a remarkable extent, the project we discussed at that initial meeting is the same one that has reached maturity in Falling Backwards.
It must be said that it is brave book. Although the history wars might have receded a little they are not going away anytime soon. It is in the DNA of Australian cultural and political life to contest the nature of our colonial experience, to the point where whether one aligns with the so called ‘black armband’ or ‘white blindfold’ versions of the national narrative has been a cornerstone of the identity of academics, journalists, cultural commentators, Prime Ministers or indeed Australians at large. And it has been of course not only a debate around the substance of Australia’s past, but also about who has authority over that past. Who is it that owns the archive; reconstructs the matters of detail, motive and culpability; who reconciles the wins against the losses; who embalms the national narrative?
The debates that emerged around the role that fiction might play in representing elements of the colonial experience was a seemingly academic point that eventually reached well outside the academy. In a way that is quite uncommon in the Australian public sphere, literature suddenly found it was on the front pages, dividing opinion columns, a centrepiece of editorials. This is the debate into which Falling Backwards injects itself, and as I am sure Jo is very well aware, will permanently align her with certain intellectual positions within the academy, and with wider political positions beyond it. It is to the credit of Falling Backwards that the debate is engaged as the context of the book, but that the purpose is passionately pro-literature, rather than in any sense ‘anti-history’. The intention is to demonstrate what good fiction is capable of doing, rather than taking on debates regarding the failing of any other genre or discipline.
In looking for a neat quote from the book itself that can summarise its argument, I chose this—perhaps not surprisingly from the Introduction.
Thus, the terrain of the postmodern and historical sublime—of loss and uncertainty—is one in which historical fiction can perform an important political and ethical role. […] The space which lies beyond history, the space of those who are often unrepresented, often victims, often silent, is an abyss into which fiction, particularly historical fiction, is sometimes able imaginatively, and also ethically, to descend. (27)
The challenge raised in those sentences is in the use of the word ‘sometimes’. As is argued in Falling Backwards, the use of fiction as form of empathising agent on behalf of liberal humanism is far from a straightforward proposition. Indeed it is ethically fraught, particularly when the Enlightenment is also partly responsible for bequeathing us the realist historical novel, a very imperfect tool for the task.
One of the important rhetorical strategies of Falling Backwards is to constantly recall the very particular trajectory of Australian colonialism that came about because of its grounding in the Enlightenment, which Jo importantly and correctly distinguishes from the ‘Enlightenment project’. If the modern Australian historical novel is rightly seen as by-product of liberal humanism that took root in the Enlightenment, then we can locate its antecedents in the very same intellectual developments that created the economic, social and scientific drivers of the colonial frontier. These in turn became spaces in which Enlightenment values often all too quickly retreated or were subsumed by other imperatives and the Australian frontier became a space in which the values of the Enlightenment project were constantly contested. The results were sometimes catastrophic, although as reading Falling Backwards reminds us, there were of course winners and losers in this process, but in a psychological sense the winners also often ended up counting their losses.
The challenge for the contemporary historical novel is to navigate the ethical quicksands of representation across gaps of time and place, fraught racial histories, and changed understandings of identity and subjectivity, all at a time when underlying political positions appear increasingly entrenched and reactive. If mishandled the Australian historical novel runs the risk of re-inscribing some of the more problematic aspects of the colonial enterprise, and further dividing a nation in need of the broadest form of reconciliation. One of the really intriguing elements of Falling Backwards is that Jo speculates, and encourages deep thinking, about the type or style of fiction that might be up-to-the-task of ethically representing the Australian colonial experience in all its vexatious manifestations.
She does this by reading and discussing in the broad context of the history wars novels by Richard Flanagan, Kate Grenville, David Malouf, Kim Scott and Rodney Hall. I won’t use this occasion to go any further in detailing the complex, readable, illuminating and generous discussion that ensues, other than to say that read individually or together, they are a remarkable sequence of essays that will be widely influential on subsequent critical work undertaken about these important writers. As someone who is just embarking on some work on Rodney Hall, I am certain that Falling Backwards will be my constant companion over coming months.
So I wish Falling Backwards all the best as it goes forward. It is impeccable scholarship, but also scholarship that is accessible and important, and should be read by anyone who wishes to engage with the place of literature in the national discourse.
Paul Genoni has taught at Curtin University since 1993, where he is an Associate Professor within the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry. He is a Past President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, and with Tanya Dalziell co-author of Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955 – 1964 (Monash University Publishing, 2018).
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Mattia Perin is an Italian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Italian national team. He began his career with Genoa in 2010, and has remained at the club ever since, aside from two season-long loan spells with Padova in 2011–12, and Pescara in 2012–13. At international level, he was an unused member of the Italy national team that took part at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and made his senior debut later that year.
Born in Latina and a product of the Genoa youth system, Perin was promoted to first team squad on January 2010, as a third-choice goalkeeper, and received the 88 jersey. Considered one of the most promising young Italian players in his position, Perin is an agile and dynamic keeper, who is highly regarded for his excellent reactions, positional sense and consistency; possessing good technique, he is gifted with strong all-round fundamental goalkeeping skills, and is also known for his speed and ability to come off his line to collect the ball. Due to his attributes and playing style, he has been compared to Walter Zenga.
The style of this shirt was exclusively designed by LOTTO for the Genoa’s goalkeeper. The design on front represents the Genova’s sea.
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Trudeau offers Canadian lumber, steel to help rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral
by The Canadian Press
Posted May 15, 2019 8:52 am EDT
Last Updated May 15, 2019 at 2:31 pm EDT
PARIS — Canada is offering homegrown softwood lumber and steel to help with the reconstruction of Paris’s famed Notre Dame Cathedral, which was partially destroyed by fire in mid-April.
In a letter sent to French President Emmanuel Macron this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada was proud to support France in the reconstruction of the iconic monument.
The Canadian Steel Producers Association and the Forest Products Association of Canada have already indicated their support for the Canadian government initiative.
Trudeau is in Paris today and Thursday to take part in a series of meetings in the fight against extremism and online violence, some two months after an attack at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, left 51 dead.
Not long after arriving in Paris today, Trudeau made a visit to Notre Dame alongside the cathedral’s rector, Patrick Chauvet, and French Culture Minister Franck Riester.
The prime minister will also take part in the Christchurch Call to Action summit co-hosted by Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
He’s also scheduled to speak at the VivaTech summit, an annual event celebrating innovation that brings together startups and leaders.
Trudeau also has several bilateral meetings scheduled with the leaders of Jordan and Norway today, and France and New Zealand on Thursday.
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7Summits Noted as Multi-Platform Partner in Gartner’s Market Guide for Enterprise Social Networking Applications
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN (PRWEB) MARCH 06, 2017
7Summits, the leading online community solution provider, today announced that the company is referenced as a muti-platform partner in the October 2016 Gartner’s Market Guide for Enterprise Social Networking Applications. The Market Guide is considered one of the industry’s leading, objective perspectives of technology leaders in the Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) space.
In the Market Guide for ESN Applications, Gartner defines ESN applications that “facilitate, capture and organize open conversations and information sharing between individual workers and groups within an organization.” Gartner also noted, “One aspect that more clearly differentiates these applications, however, is the nature of their alignment with particular work contexts through integration with other applications. The use of social networking applications in ‘other’ work contexts is likely to become a more important source of value for users, and a source of differentiation for vendors.”
Our focus on deriving business value through our proven approach to social community development and our understanding of stakeholder journeys has made us an important partner to a growing number of companies.
-Paul Stillmank, CEO and Founder of 7Summits.
7Summits’ solutions go well beyond platform implementations, providing community plans that link processes together across customers, partners, and employees. “Our focus on deriving business value through our proven approach to social community development and our understanding of stakeholder journeys has made us an important partner to a growing number of companies. ” By focusing on business process evolution first, 7Summits is able to understand stakeholder friction points and create an integrated, personalized experience that allows companies to engage, support and service their stakeholders in a uniquely compelling way throughout their journey. This provides a more complete understanding of cross functional interactions and provides companies with the deep insights necessary to unlock tremendous business value in their markets.
7Summits is the leading online community solutions provider, guiding companies to engage their customers, partners and employees to grow their business and become more fully networked enterprises. 7Summits partners with premier technology companies like Salesforce.com and Jive Software to create business solutions that deliver top line revenue growth and bottom-line productivity improvements. The company is a valued strategic partner of Fortune 500 companies and has received investment funding from both Sverica International and salesforce.com. 7Summits is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with an extended presence in Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Denver, Washington DC, California, Seattle, and Michigan.
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Rapper 50 Cent 'Wouldn't Care' If His Son Marquise Died
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - MAY 03: Actor/producer Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson attends For Your Consideration event For Starz's 'Power' at The Jeremy Hotel on May 3, 2018 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by JC Olivera/Getty Images)
Looks like 50 Cent won’t be getting a Christmas Card from his eldest son this year…
50 Cent’s 21-year-old son Marquise Jackson posed for a photo with the son of the rapper’s long-time rival Kenneth ‘Supreme’ McGriff, igniting a pretty aggressive comment from the ‘Candy Shop’ artist.
The 43-year-old commented on the Instagram post: “If both these little n*****s got hit by a bus, I wouldn’t have a bad day.”
50 Cent’s relationship with his 21-year-old son has been publicly strained since 2008, when 50 Cent and Shaniqua (Marquise Jackson’s mother) had a bitter breakup.
It has been reported that when Marquise was 16, the rapper texted his son vile and threatening messages, with one stating: “I’m taking you and your mother’s daughter out of my inheritance.”
A year later, the rapper allegedly sent even more abusive messages to his son when he refused to come out of his house to greet him.
“I don’t have a son anymore,” he wrote.
In 2014, Marquise Jackson revealed that his father was not present at his graduation.
“Yeah I broke down,” he posted online. “I was really excited to see my pops at my graduation today, but he never showed up smh [shaking my head]. My sister and mamma is always there for me, just know that you wasn’t. I did it without you.”
He threw even more shade at his dad on Father’s Day this year, posting an image of himself at a restaurant with two empty plates.
Ironically, 50 Cent’s character in the Stan show ‘Power’ shot his son in the fifth season of the show. Just one month after the episode aired, he commented on his son’s Instagram post with one of his character’s quotes: “Don’t play with me boy. Kanan.”
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A day out: Edinburgh
As a born and bred southerner, having been raised in the East Anglian countryside, I'm pretty ashamed to say that prior to May 2018, the furthest north I'd ever travelled was to Newcastle. I know, I know, I was majorly missing out. However, at the end of last month I was lucky enough to spend a few days in Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city. I spent four action-packed days in the home of bagpipes, haggis, and whiskey, meeting up with a couple of my wonderful blogging friends along the way. I completely fell in love with Edinburgh, walking out of Edinburgh Waverly train station and taking in the amazing landscape and stunning architecture was a "WOW" moment that I'll never forget. I certainly didn't manage to visit everything on my hit-list in the city, but I did cram quite a lot into a very short space of time. In the past I've really enjoyed writing posts about my days out in Oxford, Salisbury, and Norwich, so I couldn't resist putting together a sightseeing guide to Edinburgh as well. Keep reading to find out where my travels took me!
Calton Hill
To take in the best views of Edinburgh, I was told that climbing Arthur's Seat would be essential. However, as two of my days in the city were entirely occupied with PhD training, I just didn't have the time to take the four hour round trip to the top of the peak. Instead, the lovely Charlene and I wandered to the top of Calton Hill and the views from here certainly didn't disappoint. Calton Hill is located right in the city center and provides panoramic views of Edinburgh. It is home to an art gallery, the city observatory, and a monument commemorating Nelson which was erected after the Battle of Trafalgar. Also atop this hill is the unfinished National Monument of Scotland, which was intended to be a replica of the famous Parthenon in Athens. However, building work was abandoned shortly after it began, leaving just a few columns on the top of the hill. The walk up Calton Hill took no time at all and I would heartily recommend it as an alternative to Arthur's Seat for the time-strapped traveller.
Mary King's Close
A spooky yet fascinating glimpse into Edinburgh's past is in store for visitors to the Real Mary King's Close. The wonderful Beth booked us a pair of tickets to travel back in time and discover Edinburgh's history, hidden away where you'd least expect it. Descending below the street level, a costumed guide (a seventeenth century wine merchant, no less) walked us through the old streets and houses of the city which are still preserved today. We were able to get under the skin of the plague epidemic, learn about the rather rudimentary toilet facilites in the old town, enter a room supposedly populated by a terrifying ghost, and uncover how all social classes lived together stacked on top of each other in tenements that are said to have been the world’s first skyscrapers. No cameras were allowed inside the tour so I have to apologise for the lack of photos, but this was such a fantastic experience that I never would have considered without Beth's suggestion. I have her to thank for a truly memorable morning!
Greyfriars Bobby
Are you ready for a story that will break your heart? If you're an animal lover, have your tissues at the ready. A well-known Edinburgh tale dating from the ninteenth century inspired the erection of this statue of a Skye terrier and the pub that bears his name. The story goes as follows: Bobby the terrier belonged to a man named John Gray who worked for the Edinburgh Police as a nightwatchman. When John Gray died, he was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard and Bobby, who survived him, spent the rest of his life, fourteen long years, sitting at his master's grave. Bobby died in 1872 and was buried close to his beloved master. A year later, an Englishwoman, Lady Burdett-Coutts, erected at a water fountain topped with a statue of Bobby at a junction close to Greyfriars to commemorate him. When I heard this story, I just had to pay Bobby a visit. He is both a heartwarming and heartbreaking piece of Edinburgh's history and definitely worth a look.
St Andrews Square
If wandering around the city has taken its toll on you and you're looking for a sunny spot to sit down and rest your legs, you're in luck as Edinburgh has plenty of green oases. St Andrews Square is a beautiful spot on a sunny afternoon, marked out by the impressive statue of the Viscount Melville that stands in the centre. Although the square is surrounded by commercial offices and banks, the picturesque grassy area was mostly populated by tourists and families during my time in the city, eating ice creams and enjoying the gardens. I would definitely return!
National Galleries
As a museum studies PhD student, it would probably be heresy not to mention at least one museum or gallery in this blog post! If you follow my Instagram stories, you'll have seen how much I enjoyed my visit to the National Museum of Scotland. The architecture of the place was absolutely breathtaking and they had some amazing exhibits too, including Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal ever successfully cloned from an adult cell, and an incredible room dedicated to contemporary fashion, design, and textiles. The National Portrait Galleries were another highlight for me, especially as during my training sessions, I was able to hear about how the exhibitions and displays were put together from the gallery's curators. The Scottish national pride was very evident in the Portrait Gallery, as Scots past and present were commemorated in pictorial form. I especially enjoyed seeing the portrait of Naomi Mitchison, a novelist, poet, and social rights activist who played a key role in campaigning for womens' access to birth control. I didn't have the chance to see everything I'd have liked to in these museums so I'll definitely be back!
St Giles Cathedral
Last but by no means least on my whistle-stop tour of Edinburgh comes St Giles Cathedral. Also known as the High Kirk of Edinbugh, the Cathedral stands on the Royal Mile, the main thoroughfare in the city. The Cathedral was first built way back in 1124, and is dedicated (surprise, surprise) to Saint Giles, who is patron saint not only of the city of Edinburgh but also of lepers. The Cathedral has a very colourful history as it was the scene of riots in the seventeenth century due to religious reform. The action supposedly kicked off after a market seller threw a stool at the preacher's head when he began to read to the congregation from an Anglican book of prayer! Now I don't know about you, but that's something I would've loved to witness! Today, the Cathedral is an absolutely beautiful place to visit due to the stunning stained glass windows. The ceiling also put a big smile on my face as it is painted blue with white crosses, recalling the Scottish flag.
I had an absolutely fantastic time in Edinburgh, thanks in no small part to the wonderful people that I was able to spend time with. It was a real pleasure to finally meet Beth and Charlene, two ladies that I've known from the very beginning of my blogging career, who I've come to consider some of my closest friends. Edinburgh, I will be back! I just hope Beth and Charlene don't get sick of the sight of me!
Have you ever been to Edinburgh? Where should I make sure to visit on my next trip? Comment down below!
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Dems, Gov. in showdown over budget
By Dan Boyd / Journal Capitol Bureau Chief
Published: Thursday, March 14th, 2013 at 12:05am
Updated: Thursday, March 14th, 2013 at 9:17am
SANTA FE – The Democrat-controlled Legislature set up a stare-down with Gov. Susana Martinez on Wednesday, signing off on a $5.9 billion budget despite threats from the Republican governor that she will veto the big-ticket bill.
With just two days left in the 60-day legislative session, Martinez blasted Democratic lawmakers for approving a pay raise for state employees while refusing to approve education and tax initiatives she has proposed.
“I’m very disappointed in the lack of compromise by the other party, and by the unbalanced approach to our state budget taken by many lawmakers,” Martinez said in a statement.
The first-term governor also said she is willing to meet leading Democratic legislators halfway on the budget and other high-profile issues, but said compromise must be a “two-way street.”
However, House Democrats pointed out during debate Wednesday that the $5.9 billion spending plan for the coming fiscal year was approved earlier this week on a unanimous vote in the Senate.
They also questioned Republican concerns over education funding in the budget, pointing out that money was earmarked for several academic programs sought by Martinez.
“I feel there’s nothing wrong with this bill,” said Rep. Henry “Kiki” Saavedra, D-Albuquerque, chairman of the House Appropriations and Finance Committee.
Though they had already approved the legislation, House members had to vote Wednesday on whether to accept changes made in the Senate to the budget bill, which would increase state spending by $246 million – or 4.4 percent – for the coming year.
The final vote of 37-33 to sign off on the Senate amendments was mostly along party lines, with one House Democrat – Rep. Sandra Jeff of Crownpoint – joining the chamber’s 32 House Republicans in voting “no.”
If the House had not agreed with the Senate changes to the spending plan, a conference committee would have been set up to resolve differences between the two versions of the bill.
Instead, the budget bill will be sent to Martinez’s desk. If the governor were to veto the measure, lawmakers would have to start over again in crafting a spending plan for next year, likely in a special legislative session.
House GOP Whip Nate Gentry of Albuquerque cited the special session issue while urging colleagues to oppose concurrence on Wednesday, saying, “I fear … this budget will be vetoed and we’ll be brought back here at enormous expense to the taxpayer.”
In its current form, the budget includes a 1 percent pay raise for all state workers, including teachers, and a 4 percent pay hike for certain law enforcement officials. State employees have not received a base salary increase since 2008.
In addition to increases in other areas, public education spending would rise by roughly $112 million during the coming year. That would bring the state’s total spending on public schools to nearly $2.6 billion.
During Wednesday’s debate, House Republicans criticized the Senate for scrapping a $3 million provision for a Martinez-backed merit pay pilot program that would have been tied to a teacher evaluation system. Instead, the Senate turned it into a $2 million stipend that would be available for experienced teachers who take jobs at low-ranked schools.
The GOP criticisms prompted Democratic Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton of Albuquerque to accuse the Republicans of being “ridiculous.”
Meanwhile, a key point of contention between top-ranking Democratic legislators and the Governor’s Office appears to be a tax package sought by Martinez that is pending in the Senate.
Martinez has criticized the current package as being “gimmicky” and not doing enough to make the state more economically competitive with its neighbors, though Senate Finance Committee Chairman John Arthur Smith, a Deming Democrat, said Wednesday the bill could be tweaked during the session’s final days.
“We’re still talking, and that’s encouraging,” Smith told reporters.
However, he warned that some Senate Democrats are wary of cutting taxes while the state struggles to emerge from an economic downturn.
— This article appeared on page A1 of the Albuquerque Journal
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Cumbres & Toltec RR Under New Management
Published: Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at 6:06am
Updated: Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at 6:07am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — American Heritage Railways, which owns the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, has reached an agreement to manage the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, which runs between Chama, N.M., and Antonito, Colo., The Durango Herald reported.
“We’re really excited about it,” Al Harper, CEO of American Heritage Railways, told The Herald. “It’s all about the preservation of history.”
An oral agreement was reached Tuesday between Harper and the chairman of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Commission, which operated the railroad for the states of New Mexico and Colorado, joint owners of the railroad, the paper reported.
The agreement tentatively calls for American Heritage Railways to operate the line for five years, beginning Jan. 1, Harper told The Herald.
The 64-mile line between Chama and Antonito travels over the 10,015-foot Cumbres Pass.
The Cumbres & Toltec, a narrow-gauge railroad like the Durango & Silverton line, averages about 40,000 passengers a year, but ridership has been down the past two years because of a fire last year and the down economy, railroad spokesman Nick Quintana told The Herald.
The Denver & Rio Grande built the railroad in 1880, and it was linked to Durango in 1881, according to The Herald. Most of the track was dismantled around 1969, but a scenic portion of the line was saved and purchased in 1970 by the neighboring states for historic preservation.
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Jim Florentine
JIM FLORENTINE is a stand-up comedian, TV host, actor, podcaster and voice artist. He is best known for co-hosting VH1 Classic’s heavy metal talk show series “That Metal Show” that ran from 2008-2015. JIM FLORENTINE is also known for his work on Comedy Central’s show Crank Yankers where he performed the voice of Special Ed and Bobby Fletcher. Recently, JIM FLORENTINE has appeared in the hit movie Trainwreck as the one night stand guy and on the critically acclaimed TV series Inside Amy Schumer and Louie on FX. He was submitted for an Emmy for best supporting actor for his role of Kenny on Louie. JIM FLORENTINE appeared on an episode of Girls in 2014. JIM FLORENTINE also appears in the feature film “A Little Help” starring Jenna Fischer (Pam Beesley of The Office). JIM FLORENTINE plays the character Brian, who is Jenna Fischer’s love interest in the film. A Little Help won best film in several different film festivals. JIM FLORENTINE played a pimp on an episode of Californication in 2014. JIM FLORENTINE played a Cop on an episode of Red Oaks on Amazon in 2015.
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New Okhla Industrial Development Authority Vs. Harkishan (D) through LRS. & Ors.
[Civil Appeal No. 5170 of 2010]
A.K. SIKRI, J.
This appeal has a chequered history. Matter pertains to the acquisition of the land of the respondents, which was acquired way back in the year 1990. Notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as the 'Act') proposing to acquire the land of the respondents, as well as some other persons, was issued on January 05, 1991. It was followed by declaration under Section 6 issued on January 07, 1992. Even award, thereafter, was pronounced on August 17, 1996. The acquisition proceedings were challenged by the respondents by filing writ petition in the High Court, which was dismissed by the High Court, and the appeal there against was dismissed by this Court also on July 15, 1998.
In this first round of litigation, while dismissing the appeal, this Court left open a little window for the respondents herein by permitting them to make a representation to the State Government under Section 48(1) of the Act. The respondents, thus, made a representation for release of the land, which was considered by the State Government. The State Government, however rejected the same vide orders dated December 03, 1999. Second round of litigation started when this rejection was again challenged by the respondents by filing writ petitions.
This time again attempts of the respondents failed as the writ petitions were dismissed by the High Court and those orders were affirmed by this Court vide judgment dated March 12, 2003, reported as Ved Prakash & Ors. v. Ministry of Industry, Lucknow & Anr.[1]. Undeterred by the aforesaid dismissals, the respondents started third round of litigation by approaching the High Court by way of another writ petition filed in the year 2004. This time, the validity of the award passed in the year 1996 was challenged on the ground that the said award was not passed within the period of two years as prescribed under Section 11A of the Act and, therefore, acquisition proceedings lapsed.
In this attempt, the respondents have succeeded before the High Court inasmuch as vide its judgment dated June 30, 2009, the High Court has accepted the aforesaid contention of the respondents thereby allowing the writ petitions and directing the Collector to issue fresh notifications under Sections 4 and 6 of the Act and thereafter make an award under Section 11 of the Act which, according to the High Court, will cure the defect that has crept in on account of delay in making the award beyond the period prescribed under Section 11 of the Act. It is this judgment which is assailed by the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority, at whose behest the land in question was acquired.
Neat question of law which is raised is that the petition filed in the year 2004, after having lost twice, was not even maintainable as it suffered from unexplained delays and latches and was also barred by the provisions of Order II Rule 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. For proper appreciation of this submission, we recount the events in some detail hereinafter. A notification dated January 05, 1991 was issued under the provisions of Section 4(1) read with Section 17 of the Act, invoking urgency provisions, to acquire about 790 bighas (496 acres) of land in village Chalera Banger, Tehsil Dadri, District Gautam Budh Nagar, including the land belonging to the respondents herein, i.e. khasra No. 279 (measuring 2-13-10 bigha) and khasra No. 280 (measuring 2-6-10 bigha).
The aforesaid notification was followed by issuance of declaration dated January 07, 1992 under Section 6 read with Section 17 of the Act. The respondents herein filed a writ petition before the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad challenging the acquisition on the ground that the emergency provision, thereby depriving them of their right to file objections under Section 5A of the Act, was illegal.
This writ petition, along with certain other writ petitions, was dismissed by the High Court by common judgment dated August 24, 1995. Possession of the acquired land was taken over by the State Government and handed over to the appellant on November 18, 1995. Aggrieved with the judgment dated August 24, 1995, the respondents approached this Court by filing Special Leave Petition (Civil) No. 1874 of 1996, in which leave was granted and numbered as Civil Appeal No. 3263 of 1998. While this appeal was pending, in which there was no stay, the State Government went ahead to complete the acquisition process.
An award dated August 17, 1996, in respect of all the acquired land vide declaration dated January 07, 1992, was passed by the Additional District Magistrate (Land Acquisition), Ghaziabad. The aforesaid appeal came up for final hearing in the year 1998. By a common judgment dated July 15, 1998 passed in a batch of civil appeals, lead case being Civil Appeal No. 3261 of 1998 (which batch included Civil Appeal No. 3263 of 1998 that was filed by respondent Nos. 1 to 3 herein), this Court, while dismissing the appeals, granted liberty to the respondents to file a representation under Section 48(1) of the Act.
Thus, acquisition was upheld, but at the same time, permission to file a representation was given. Relevant portion of the order, which is material for deciding this appeal, is reproduced below: "Section 4 Notification in the present cases is dated 5th January, 1991. It is followed by Section 6 Notification dated 7th January, 1992. In between the appellants went to the High Court and got status quo order since 31st March 1992. Results is that till today even after the expiry of 6 years and more, the land acquisition proceedings qua the appellants' lands have remained stagnant.
It is also to be kept in view that the impugned notification under Section 6 of the Act was issued for the purpose of planned development of District Ghaziabad through NOIDA and by the said notification, 496 acres of land spread over hundreds of plot numbers have been acquired. Out of 494.26 acres of land under acquisition, only the present appellants owning about 50 acres, making a grievance about acquisition of their lands have gone to the Court. Thus, almost 9/10th of the acquired lands have stood validly acquired under the land acquisition proceedings and only dispute centers round 1/10th of these acquired lands owned by the present appellants. It is a comprehensive project for the further planned development in the district.
We are informed by learned senior counsel Shri Mohta for NOIDA that a lot of construction work has been done on the undisputed land under acquisition and pipelines and other infrastructure have been put up. That the disputed lands belonging to the appellants may have stray constructions spread over different pockets of his huge complex of lands sought to be acquired. That if notification under Section 4(1) read with Section 17(4) is set aside qua these pockets of lands then the entire development activity in the complex will come to a grinding halt and that would not be in the interest of anyone. ...That we cannot permit upsetting the entire apple cart of acquisition of 500 acres only at the behest of 1/10th of landowners whose lands are sought to be acquired.
We may also keep in view the further salient fact that all the appellants have filed references for additional compensation under Section 18 of the Act." Respondent Nos. 1 to 3, pursuant to the liberty granted by this Court, filed representation dated August 28, 1998 before the State Government. This representation was ultimately decided vide order dated December 03, 1999. By that order, the State Government rejected the representation filed by respondent Nos. 1 to 3. The respondents, and other similarly situated persons, whose representations had met the same fate, felt dissatisfied with the rejection.
As a result, a number of writ petitions were filed by the erstwhile land owners challenging the order dated December 03, 1999 passed by the State Government whereby their representations had been rejected. All the writ petitions were clubbed together and dismissed by a common order passed by the High Court. Dissatisfied landowners, whose lands were acquired, again approached this Court. A number of special leave petitions were filed challenging the aforesaid dismissal of the writ petitions wherein leave was granted. Civil Appeal No. 999 of 2001 was treated as the lead case. All the civil appeals, special leave petitions and the contempt petitions were dismissed by this Court by a common judgment dated March 12, 2003.
A perusal of this judgment would show that focus of this Court was on the validity of Office Order dated December 03, 1999 passed by the State Government vide which representations of the respondents and others under Section 48(1) of the Act had been dismissed and after examining the matter at length, this Court concluded that there was no infirmity in the order of the State Government rejecting the representations on the ground that it was not feasible to release the lands of the respondents and others from acquisition under Section 48(1) of the Act.
The court referred to its earlier judgment dated July 15, 1998 wherein challenge to the acquisition laid by the respondents was repelled but an opportunity was given to the respondents to make a representation under Section 48(1) of the Act. Extensively quoting from the earlier judgment, the Court found that all the aspects which the State Government was supposed to consider, as per the directions given in the earlier judgment, were duly dealt with and considered by the State Government and there was no reason to interfere with the same. We would also like to reproduce some of the discussion contained in the said judgment:
"19. The 1976 Act provides for the constitution of an authority for the development of certain areas in the State. A notification was published in the Gazette dated 17-4-1976 under the Act declaring the area comprising the villages mentioned in the Schedule called the "New Okhla Industrial Development Area". Village Chalera Bangar is one of the villages included in the Schedule and the lands in question are in the same village. The function of the authority under Section 6 of the Act is to acquire the land in the notified area by the agreement or through the proceedings under the Land Acquisition Act, to prepare a plan for the development of the industrial area, to provide infrastructure for industrial, commercial and residential purposes, to regulate the erection of buildings and setting up of the industries and to lay down the purpose for which a particular site or plot of land shall be used, namely, for industrial, commercial or residential or for any other specified purpose in such area.
Section 8 authorises the authority to issue directions such as the alignment of buildings on any site, the restrictions and conditions in regard to open spaces to be maintained in and around buildings and height and character of buildings and the number of residential buildings that may be erected on any site. Section 9 imposes a ban on erection of buildings in contravention of regulations. As is evident from this section, no person could erect or occupy any building in the industrial development area in contravention of any building regulation made under the Act. Regulation 4 of the Building Regulations shows that no person shall erect any building without obtaining a prior building permit thereof from the Chief Executive Officer in the manner provided.
20. There is no material to show that the constructions and structures said to be existing in the abadi area were existing prior to the notification issued on 17-4-1976 as no village map or other documents show the same in the large area of abadi claimed by the appellants. Certain provisions of the U.P. Land Revenue Act are already extracted above. Looking to the said provisions, it is clear that field-books, maps, record- of-rights and annual register had to be maintained. There could be resurvey and revision of map and records.
The argument was advanced on behalf of the appellants that abadi existing long back could not continue to be the same; over the years when families grew, population increased, necessarily corresponding abadi area also increased; new constructions and structures came up. If that be so then the same thing could have been reflected in the records and the map maintained under the 1901 Act. Similarly, it is not shown that such structures or constructions were put up with the permission as required under the provisions of the Act and the Regulations. Section 10 of the Act even provides for ordering proper maintenance of site or building if it appears to the authority that the condition or use of any site or building is prejudicially affecting or is likely to affect the proper planning or the maintenance in any part of the industrial development area or the interest of the general public thereto requires that the authority could direct the transferee or occupier of the site or building to take steps within the period specified to maintain a site or building in such manner as may be specified.
When the large area of about 496 acres of land was acquired for planned development of industrial area called the New Okhla Industrial Development Area and the object and purpose of the Act is sought to be achieved as provided in the Act, the authority has power to acquire the lands and to give necessary direction or take steps to maintain and regulate the sites and buildings in the area. The State authority having elaborately considered the evidence available on record found that the claim of the appellants as to abadi is spread over in a scattered manner in a large area apart from being whether that was an abadi or not and whether it was existing prior to the issue of notification in 1976.
Having regard to all aspects, the authority found that it was not feasible to release the lands of the appellants from acquisition under Section 48(1) of the Act. As is evident even from the survey report that boongas, bitooras, thatched huts, thatched sheds etc. occupied a small area but were spread over a long distance.
The photographs show that large area is open land even in the so-called abadi area, so an individual assuming could claim some area as abadi that could be a small area appurtenant to his residential house or a farm house or any cattle-shed etc. but the appellants claim for large area covering few acres of land as abadi, is untenable. All the more so, when it could not be legitimately claimed or asserted that they were regularly living in those structures of very kacha type. The nature of the construction, their age from its appearance etc. give an impression that they were hurriedly planted at later dates only to circumvent the land acquisition proceedings.
21. As already stated above, the competent authority in compliance with the directions given by this Court in Om Prakash case in the light of observations made therein having considered the evidence placed on record and after hearing the parties, recorded findings and held that it was not feasible to release the lands of the appellants from acquisition. From the impugned judgment of the High Court it is clear that the High Court kept in view the scope and judicial review in dealing with the impugned order dated 3-12-1999, passed by the competent authority. In CIT v. Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. [(1983) 4 SCC 392] this Court, while stating that by now, the parameters of the Court's power of judicial review of administrative or executive action or decision and the grounds on which the Court can interfere with the same are well settled, proceeded to say further in para 11, thus: (SCC p. 402)
"11.... Indisputably, it is a settled position that if the action or decision is perverse or is such that no reasonable body of persons, properly informed, could come to or has been arrived at by the authority misdirecting itself by adopting a wrong approach or has been influenced by irrelevant or extraneous matters the Court would be justified in interfering with the same." In the same decision it is also stated that in examining the validity of an order in such matters the test is to see whether there is any infirmity in the decision-making process and not the decision itself. From this decision it is also clear that when choices are open to the authority it is for that authority to decide upon the choice and not for the court to substitute its view. The High Court keeping in view the scope of judicial review in such matters considered the respective contentions raised before it.
On finding that the authority passed the impugned order dated 3-12-1999 on proper consideration of the evidence placed before it and after hearing the parties in the light of the directions given and observations made by this Court in the case of Om Prakash did not consider it appropriate to interfere with the impugned order. We do not find any good or valid reason so as to interfere with the impugned judgment of the High Court affirming the order passed by the authority." It becomes clear from the above that in the first round of litigation, when acquisition was challenged by the respondents, they failed in their attempt.
At that time, not only declaration under Section 6 of the Act had been passed, the writ petitions were also dismissed by the High Court on August 24, 1995. Thereafter, possession of the land was taken on November 18, 1995. Subsequently, the award was also passed on August 17, 1996. This Court passed the judgment dated July 15, 1998 thereby affirming the judgment of the High Court. No doubt, event of the passing of the award dated August 17, 1996 had taken place during pendency of the appeals in this Court. Fact remains that this was not questioned at the time of arguments advanced by the parties.
Even for a moment it is accepted that the subject matter of the civil appeals in the first round of litigation in this Court was validity of notifications issued under Sections 4 and 6 of the Act, what is to be borne in mind is that the entire gamut of controversy was gone into and the only permission which was given to the respondents was to make a suitable representation before the appropriate State authorities under Section 48(1) of the Act. More importantly, when the respondents made the representation, it was dealt with and rejected by the State Government vide order dated December 03, 1999. At that time, award had been passed.
However, in the second round of writ petitions preferred by the respondents, they chose to challenge only Office Order dated December 03, 1999 vide which their representation under Section 48 of the Act had been rejected and it never dawned on them to challenge the validity of the award on the ground that the same was not passed within the prescribed period of limitation. As noted above, in the second round of litigation also, the respondents failed in their attempt, inasmuch as, this Court put its imprimatur to the rejection order dated December 03, 1999 vide its judgment dated March 12, 2003. At that time, even the possession of land had been taken.
If the respondents wanted to challenge the validity of the award on the ground that it was passed beyond the period of limitation, they should have done so immediately and, in any case, in the second round of writ petitions filed by them. Filing fresh writ petition challenging the validity of the award for the first time in the year 2004 would, therefore, not only be barred by the provisions of Order II Rule 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, but would also be barred on the doctrine of laches and delays as well.
There is yet another serious infirmity in the impugned judgment. In the instant case, the land was acquired by invoking urgency clause under Section 17 of the Act and dispensing with the requirement of filing the objections under Section 5A of the Act. This action on the part of the Government was upheld by this Court in the first round of litigation. Once possession is taken under Section 17(1) of the Act, Section 11A is not even attracted and, therefore, acquisition proceedings would not lapse on failure to make award within the period prescribed therein.
This is so held in Satendra Prasad Jain & Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors.[2], which view is affirmed in Awadh Bihari Yadav & Ors. v. State of Bihar & Ors.[3] For all these reasons, we find fault with the approach of the High Court in entertaining the writ petitions, which were clearly barred in law, and allowing the same. The appeal is, accordingly, allowed setting aside the judgment of the High Court.
No costs.
...........................................J. (A.K. SIKRI)
...........................................J. (R.K. AGRAWAL)
[1] (2003) 9 SCC 542
[3] (1995) 6 SCC 31
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Legal disclaimer: Although the following information could be viewed as encouragement for the purpose of distribution of copy-protected video assets to family, friends, colleagues and strangers, that is certainly not the intent, nor does Allgaier Consulting condone or endorse such illegal activities. More information here.
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I think it's safe to say that most of us at some point have downloaded video content (TV shows, movies, music videos, etc) from the iTunes store. And why not?! The collection is fairly vast, especially when it comes to newer content. I dread to think of how much I have spent on such content over the last few years alone. Needless to say, our iTunes video library is pretty extensive. Unlike music that is purchased and downloaded from the same store, video content is still copy-protected using DRM (Digital Rights Management). In other words, it's tied to your specific Apple ID account. This makes it difficult to share with friends and family. That is, of course, the purpose of DRM.
Ordinarily, I'm completely fine with DRM, at least in concept. The problem I have with it, however, is it does completely lock you in to iTunes and Apple. I don't see that as an issue right now, but as you know, technology changes quickly and frequently. I can't guarantee that I will be as happy with that lock-in 2 years from now as I am now. To manage that risk, there's a utility that allows you to remove the DRM protection from this video content (allowing you to view the same purchased content on non-Apple hardware and software). It's called NoteBurner ($39, available for Mac and PC).
It's really easy to use. First, you need to Quit iTunes (not just close/hide, but Quit). When you launch NoteBurner, it will automatically re-launch iTunes (which is part of its processing for reading your iTunes library). Once NoteBurner opens, you will click on the "Add Files" button at the bottom to choose the video (or videos) to de-DRM. When ready, click "Convert" then "Start" to begin the process.
Below is a step-by-step video showing you how.
As you can see, beginning the process is very quick and painless. The actual DRM removal process can take up to an hour or so, depending on system resources and movie length. Most titles on my MacBook Pro with Retina (which uses SSD) will take around 45 minutes or so to complete.
The basic version of NoteBurner will remove DRM protection from titles that you have purchased. If you want to remove DRM from titles that you have rented, you will need to spend an extra $10 for the Plus version.
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31 October, 2016 - 20:55 Oleksandr Klykavka
The Ancient Earthworks of Ukraine May Be the Biggest Solar Observatory in the World
Some believe that the era of the greatest archaeological discoveries is over. Many tombs have been excavated and ancient architectural complexes have been discovered. In our time of digital technologies, many mysteries of ancient civilizations have been unraveled. But modern technologies also help us to open new pages in the book that historical science has put on the shelf to gather dust. New research methods allow us to have a different look at civilizations of the ancient world.
In 2012, my attention was attracted by a group of mounds of unusual shape and with an interesting location. They are located on a plateau called Bezvodovka near the town of Ichnia, Chernigiv region, Ukraine. The barrows, instead of the usual conical shape, are cup-shaped and arranged in a circle with a diameter of up to two hundred meters. Dark spots can be seen on the aerial photographs, possibly more of the site destroyed by time and plow mounds. An 1861 topographic map of Schubert's confirms the existence of other mounds in this complex.
Schubert’s 1861 topographic map, which shows more mounds than what can be seen today.
The questions arise: are these barrows burial mounds? If so, why don’t they look like other graves in the region? And why are they surrounded by earthen walls? Are they defenses? If so, why are they scattered over a large area, which does not conform with the rules of warfare?
If you stand in the center of the circle and measure the azimuth of each mound (the direction of a celestial object from the observer, expressed as an angular distance), you find that they coincide with azimuths of sunrise and sunset during the summer and winter solstices. It also coincides with the azimuths of the spring and autumn equinox. On Schubert’s map, many other embankments can be identified within a radius of several kilometers from the group of mounds. These repeat the azimuths of the mounds of the center circle. The conclusion is unequivocal - an ancient solar observatory, the system near and distant targets for astronomical research.
Sunset at Bezvodovka on the Summer solstice, June 22. Credit: Oleksandr Klykavka
The principle of the work is as follows. At the center of a mound circle is an observer that marks the points of sunrise and sunset, the moonrise and the moonset and other celestial bodies on the horizon. At the time of sunrise and sunset on the days of the astronomically significant events of the solstices and equinoxes, a distant landmark, a near reference point and the observer's eye align in one line. The same working principle is the basis of alignments at Stonehenge and other ancient observatories, of which there are many in Europe. But the horizon observatory of Bezvodovka is different by its scale.
More than thirty man-made hills with different forms were located in an area of about twenty square kilometers. And the hills are not scattered randomly. They are organized by mathematical proportions and create the sacred geometry of Bezvodovka. The diameter of the central circle is 185 meters, equivalent to the ancient Greek measurement of the length of a stadium. The distance from the nearest western landmark to the furthest western landmark is 740 m, equivalent to 4 stadiums. The distance from the center to the north and south landmarks is 9 stadiums, or 1665 meters, and twice as long as the distance from the center to the furthest western landmark which is 832 meters. The distance from the center to the north-east and north-west and two southern distant landmarks is exactly 16 stadiums. The distance from the center to the south-east and south-west distant landmarks is 18 stadiums; this is twice as far as the distance between the center and the north landmark.
The mounds of Bezvodovka plateau, Ukraine. Credit: Oleksandr Klykavka. Credit: Oleksandr Klykavka
On the days close to the equinox, the sun moves rapidly across the horizon, and marking this movement is fairly easy. But approaching the days of the solstices, each new day the sunrise goes with a deviation of only a few minutes of arc, and then completely stops for a few days before starting on its way across the horizon line in the opposite direction. This explains why the landmarks indicating the solstices are four times further than the landmarks of the equinox. A distance of more than three kilometers gives the required accuracy of a few minutes of arc.
Ancient astronomers could use the observatory, not only as a solar calendar and for holding associated religious rites, but also as a tool to calculate the lunar cycle known as the Meton cycle, as well as to study the motion of the planets and stars in the sky. Long-term observation of the motion of celestial bodies, and knowledge of the laws of celestial mechanics, allowed the determination of the date of the lunar and solar eclipses and even the displacement of the equinoxes on the horizon due to variations in the Earth's axis called precession.
The series of mounds can be seen above on the Bezvodovka plateau. Credit: Oleksandr Klykavka
The horizon observatory of Bezvodovka was built by an ancient civilization of sun worshippers, which lived in harmony with nature and in line with the solar cycle. And their vision of the universe and its laws are embodied in the architecture of Bezvodovka. Now it remains to be solved who the original builders were, and how far into the past this leads us.
Top image: The mounds of Bezvodovka plateau, Ukraine. Credit: Oleksandr Klykavka
By Oleksandr Klykavka
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Oleksandr Klykavka
Oleksandr Klykavka is an agrochemist and soil scientist, who lives in Ukraine. He is passionate about history and started the research project on the Bezvodovka earthworks after discovering that they are an ancient solar observatory.
William Nichols wrote on 1 November, 2016 - 21:17 Permalink
It is another example of the ancient preoccupation with eclipses and equinoxes and solstices. also advanced knowledge of astronomy!
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Question Corner: No heaven?/A vengeful God?
Q. I am 86 years old. I was baptized as a child, educated for 12 years in Catholic schools and am still a regularly practicing Catholic. Some weeks ago, I read a column of yours that absolutely floored me and my family as well.
Since I was very young, I have always been taught to believe that St. Peter is at the “Golden Gate” to meet us, but you say that there is no “specific” heaven. Then what have we been aspiring toward, waiting for, longing for all these years if there is no place called heaven?
Has my faith all been in vain? And if one can’t go to heaven, then why not sin? Shame on you, Father Doyle, for what you wrote. Can you even imagine all the damage that your column did? (Richmond, Virginia)
A. The temptation is to dismiss such a letter quickly, to assure myself it was just this one particular reader who had misread the column. But I wish it were that easy; instead, a letter like this one prompts some distress on my part, together with a fair amount of reflection.
I went back and reread the column in question, asking myself if I might have expressed anything differently. Faith is a precious and a fragile thing; I want, of course, always to treat it with reverence and not threaten it.
The writer of the letter has a certain picture of heaven, which includes St. Peter greeting arrivals at a golden gate, and that is fine. But the futility comes with trying to express transcendent ideas in human pictures and words.
I did say in the column that heaven is not “some remote geographic corner of the physical universe.” I quoted the Catechism of the Catholic Church, that heaven “does not mean a place (‘space’) but a way of being,” and St. John Paul II, who said that heaven is “neither an abstraction nor a physical place in the clouds, but a living, personal relationship with the Holy Trinity.”
I want to assure the letter writer that I believe with all my heart that heaven does exist — and that my highest hope is one day to reach that goal, to be united with God in everlasting and perfect joy. What exactly that will look like, I do not know; I only know that it will be a whole lot better than I could ever dream it to be.
Q. I am a Catholic priest who has long been puzzled by Leviticus 20:9-21. In that passage, God gives Moses a long list of people who should be put to death: those who curse their parents, adulterers, homosexuals and many others.
In my own mind, God could not have given this order for two reasons: First, he would have been violating his own Fifth Commandment, which says “You shall not kill”; and secondly, these offenses do not deserve the death penalty.
I once asked a noted Catholic biblical scholar about this, and he said that this passage — like so many in the Old Testament — is a mystery, echoing the words of St. Augustine regarding the deception Jacob used to gain the inheritance of Esau. (“It’s not a lie, but a mystery.”)
This matter is very relevant since the church has been trying for decades to have the death penalty abolished. Your comments, please. (Little Rock, Arkansas)
A. I would not look to the Old Testament to situate the church’s current position on the death penalty. In fact, that position has developed over the centuries, to the point where now it is virtually one of total opposition.
Some of the church’s greatest theologians (notably Augustine and Aquinas) supported the right of society to use the death penalty, and even the current Catechism of the Catholic Church says that the death penalty may be used if that is the only possible way of defending society against an unjust aggressor.
However, that same section of the Catechism (No. 2267) is quick to point out — quoting St. John Paul II’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”) — that in today’s society, cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity “are very rare, if not practically nonexistent.”
In June 2016, Pope Francis told the World Congress Against the Death Penalty that “nowadays the death penalty is unacceptable, however grave the crime of the convicted person.”
I would look instead to the New Testament — to Matthew’s Gospel, for example, where Jesus teaches (5:38-39): “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on (your) right cheek, turn the other one to him as well.”
Passages like this one seem to argue for leaving vengeance and violence to God, the author of life. As to why the Old Testament differs so sharply, I would agree that it is something of a mystery.
Perhaps it had to do with the culture of the time and what people could then accept and understand. (I am reminded of the explanation Jesus gave in Mt 19 for why Moses had allowed divorce — because of the “hardness” of people’s hearts.)
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
Schoolbooks and Democratization in Multiethnic Central Europe
Charles Ingrao
History schoolbooks are part of a much broader legitimation process through which every society's ruling elite secures the uncritical acceptance of the existing political, social and economic system, together with the cultural attributes that re ect its hegemony. In central Europe, the need to justify the creation of nation-states at the beginning and end of the twentieth century has generated proprietary accounts that have pitted the region's national groups against one another. Post-communist democratization has intensi ed these divisions as political leaders feel obliged to employ hoary myths—and avoid inconvenient facts— about their country's history in order to survive the electoral process. In this way they succumb to the "Frankenstein Syndrome" by which the history taught in the schools destroys those who dare to challenge the arti cial constructs of the past. The article surveys history teaching throughout central Europe, with special emphasis on the Yugoslav successor states.
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Jewish Messianism and Revolutionary Utopias in Central Europe
Erich Fromm’s Early Writings (1922–1930)
Michael Löwy
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) is well known for his essays on social psychology, most of them written after his exile in the United States at the end of the 1930s. But his lesser known early works – from 1922 to 1930 – are very creative, as well as politically radical, and deserve to be discussed. They have some common aspects: a messianic understanding of Judaism; a Freudian-Marxist rejection of capitalism as a socio-economic system; and the revolutionary aspiration for a socialist utopia with religious roots. These elements together shaped an original and subversive thought.
The Ottoman Age in Southern Central Europe as Represented in Secondary School History Textbooks in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia
Gabriel Pirický
Local populations in Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, and to a lesser degree in the Czech Republic, experienced much interaction with Muslims throughout the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the Ottomans, as well as the Crimean Tatars, invaded the Kingdom of Hungary and waged wars against the Polish-Lithuanian state and the Habsburg Hereditary Lands. The Ottoman era has usually been reflected in the history textbooks of these four countries under the headings "Turkish Wars" or "Ottoman Expansion." Since the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989, all four ex-communist states have been involved in rewriting textbooks, although the perception of the Ottomans and Muslims has not changed in all cases. Without claiming to map the entire historical presentation of the Ottomans, this article demonstrates the polyphony found in the textbooks of this region. By analyzing secondary school educational materials in all four languages, it is possible to identify stereotypes, prejudices, and distortions within the perception of the Ottoman Turks.
Social Quality
A New Concern in Hungary
Zsuzsa Széman
Following the systemic change which affected Eastern and Central Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Western experts considered that individual countries had different chances of catching up to the West. According to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former US National Security Adviser, the Central European countries would take at least ten years to become pluralistic, free-market democracies. Five countries (Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Estonia) were thought to have better chances of transforming themselves into successful liberal democracies, and so to come near to Western standards in the foreseeable future.
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Peculiarities of the Translation and Adaptation of the Concept of Nation in East-Central Europe
The Hungarian and Romanian Cases in the Nineteenth Century
Victor Neumann
This article explores the controversial issue of concepts defining the East-Central European Romanian and Hungarian identities (nem, neam, popor, nép). It specifically focuses on the translation and adaptation of the German concept of nation by examining the inclusive or exclusive meanings this concept acquired in these two languages and political cultures during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Eruption of Creative Genius in Central Europe
Leon Yudkin
Following the First World War, writers sought to articulate both a personal position and a position within the public domain, well illustrated by the 'Prague Circle' in the heart of the failing Austro-Hungarian Empire. Jews occupied a liminal position in Czech society, straddling three identities: Jewish, Czech and German. Max Brod became the primary historian of this 'circle', which included writers as diverse as Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, Leo Perutz and Gustav Meyrink. Prague was central to their writings. Here was a borderland position crying out for a voice in the contemporary world.
From “Liberal Minimum” to the “Complete Catalog of Human Rights”
On Central Concepts of Hungarian Postdissident Liberals
Ferenc Laczó
This article analyzes how five leading Hungarian postdissident liberal thinkers conceptually constructed their view of liberalism in the early years of postcommunism. Studying Beszélő, the most signi cant liberal journal during the early years of representative democracy, it shows how they did so through references to political “threats” and the idea of a “liberal minimum” (János Kis), local liberal and democratic traditions and “progressive patriotism” (Miklós Szabó), the ongoing “liberal-conservative revolution” and the creation of a “new political community” (Gáspár Miklós Tamás), antipolitics and “expertise” (György Konrád), and the “complete catalog of human rights” and the agenda of “modernization” (István Eörsi), respectively. Next to its conceptual analysis of heavily influential individual thinkers, the article discusses the ambition of postdissident Hungarian liberals to harmonize liberal and democratic tenets. Last but not least, it elaborates on the left-wing origins of many of their central concepts that, as suggested here, ultimately hindered liberalism's assumption of a central position in the new political system.
The German Economy and East-Central Europe: The Development of Intra-Industry Trade from Ostpolitik to the Present
Stephen Gross
Over the past decade Germany has had one of the most successful
economies in the developed world. Despite the ongoing Euro crisis unemployment
has fallen below 7 percent, reaching its lowest levels since German
reunification in 1990. Germany’s youth unemployment is among the
lowest in Europe, far beneath the European average.1 One of the most
important engines of the German economy today, and in fact throughout
the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, has been its export sector. As Ludwig
Erhard, West Germany’s Economics Minister during the Wirtschaftswunder
of the 1950s remarked: “foreign trade is quite simply the core and
premise of our economic and social order.”2 According to various estimates,
today exports and imports of goods and services account for nearly a half of
German GDP—up from only a quarter in 1990. Germany is one of only three
economies that do over a trillion dollars worth of exports a year, the other
two being the United States and China.
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Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović, ed., Women, Violence and War: Wartime Victimization of Refugees in the Balkans, trans. Borislav Radović, Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2000, 300 pp., £13.95 (pb), ISBN 978-963-9116-60-3.
Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović, ed., Zene, nasilje i rat (Women, violence, and war), Belgrade: Institut za kriminološka i sociološka istraživanja, 1995, 207 pp., €10.00 (pb), no ISBN mentioned.
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The Extent of the Atonement
A Historical and Critical Review
by David L. Allen
Release Date: Nov 2016
The extent of Christs atoning work on the cross is one of the most divisive issues in evangelical Christianity. In The Extent of the Atonement: A Historical and Critical Review, David L. Allen makes a biblical, historical, theological, and practical case for a universal atonement. Through a comprehensive historical survey, Allen contends that universal atonement has always been the majority view of Christians, and that even among Calvinist theologians there is a considerable range of views. Marshalling evidence from Scripture and history, and critiquing arguments for a limited atonement, Allen affirms that an unlimited atonement is the best understanding of Christs saving work. He concludes by showing that an unlimited atonement provides the best foundation for evangelism, missions, and preaching.
David L. Allen
David Allen is dean of the School of Theology, professor of Preaching, and director of the Center of Biblical Preaching at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
“The issue of limited atonement has proved a controversial matter for many years and one that is unlikely to disappear at any time in the near future. One of the reasons for this is that the question it seeks to answer is one which developed over time and has a number of subtle and sophisticated facets. Like other doctrines such as the Trinity, an understanding of the history of the doctrine of atonement is thus key to the matter. While David Allen and I disagree on the matter, this work is an irenic and learned contribution to the topic which carries the historical, and thus doctrinal, discussion forward in an extremely helpful way. I am thus happy to recommend this work of a friendly critic. It deserves wide readership and careful engagement.”
—Carl R. Trueman, Paul Woolley Chair of Church History and professor of church history, Westminster Theological Seminary
“The Extent of the Atonement is among the most controversial questions in Reformed theology. It is probably also the most confusing and misunderstood. Is limited atonement the only Reformed position? What did John Calvin himself believe? For whom did Christ die? How do we preach the saving message of the cross to unbelievers? Does God love the world or not? Enter David Allen’s monumental book, an absolute tour de force. The Extent of the Atonement leaves no stone unturned in tracing the history of the doctrine, critiques every view and proponent with penetrating insight, and is written with a persuasive cogency throughout. The book is an education in how to do theology responsibly and how to read the Bible faithfully. To top it off, Allen writes with the heart of a pastor and the wit and wisdom of a seasoned preacher. A must read for anyone interested in the question of what the cross achieves.”
—Brian Rosner, principal, Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia
“In this comprehensive historiography, David Allen clarifies the views of Christian thinkers on the extent of the atonement. He argues convincingly from primary sources that unlimited atonement has been the dominant view in the history of the church, even among many Calvinists. Allen challenges readers to discern at which point precisely the atonement was limited—in its intent, extent, or application. Because of the implications for evangelism, he gives special attention to treatments of this doctrine in the Baptist tradition. Allen’s study will benefit anyone interested in the question, ‘For whom did Christ die?'”
—Adam Harwood, McFarland Chair of Theology, associate professor of theology, and director of the Baptist Center for Theology & Ministry, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
“Baptists have been debating the intent and extent of the atonement since almost the beginning of our movement. The recent popularity of Calvinism among conservative evangelicals—including many Southern Baptists—has helped make this historic debate a current family discussion. To my knowledge, David Allen’s The Extent of the Atonement: A Historical and Critical Review is the most extensive treatment of this topic that has been written—certainly by a Baptist. I confess I don’t agree with everything he argues in this book. However, I strongly agree with Allen that both the Reformed tradition and more Calvinistic Baptist movements have historically included advocates of both limited and universal atonement—a fact too often unrecognized in contemporary discussions about this topic. I’m confident this book will inspire renewed interest in what Baptists and others have believed about the atonement. I’m prayerful it will also encourage Southern Baptists to engage in brotherly dialogue, refine our respective views of what we ought to believe, and better partner together in proclaiming the gospel to this world that God so loves.”
—Nathan A. Finn, dean of the School of Theology and Missions and professor of Christian thought and tradition, Union University
“The Extent of the Atonement offers a penetrating and perceptive treatment of a thorny, divisive theological issue. David Allen’s command of the subject, as well as his ability to lay out clearly and fairly the competing theories and arguments, is masterful. I found his critique of the doctrine of limited atonement fully persuasive. This book is must reading for all who want to understand better the Calvinism debate.”
—Craig A. Evans, dean of the School of Christian Thought and John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins, Houston Baptist University
“This volume represents the fruit of years of careful research and writing, all with a view toward aiding and helping anyone who has wrestled deeply or has had a conversation about the extent of the atonement. David L. Allen has served his readers well by assembling The Extent of the Atonement: A Historical and Critical Review. I believe it will soon take its place among the library of volumes one must consult in any discussion related to the work of Christ.”
—Jason G. Duesing, provost and associate professor of historical theology, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
“This book is encyclopedic. There is nothing like it in depth and scope. One does not have to hold the author’s perspective (though I do) to benefit from his massive research. No one interested in the extent of the atonement can ignore Allen’s important contribution.”
—Daniel L. Akin, president, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
“David Allen’s The Extent of the Atonement is a tremendous accomplishment. He has given us a treasure trove of information on the doctrine of the extent of the atonement, tracing it in detail and providing incisive interaction with the exegetical and theological arguments for and against limited atonement that have been put forth, especially since the Reformation and by Calvinistic authors. As if this were not enough, he also treats us to an extensive and definitive critique of From Heaven He Came and Sought Her, which has been touted as the definitive modern work in support of limited atonement. Allen’s tome is now the book to own on the extent of the atonement and the place to turn for support of unlimited atonement and refutation of limited atonement.”
—Brian Abasciano, adjunct professor of New Testament, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; pastor, Faith Community Church; president, The Society of Evangelical Arminians
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Webster, Florida Resident Uses 2013 ACCESS Scholarship Win to Enroll in Medical Transcription Course Online
on Wednesday, 03 April 2013.
Ashworth College (http://www.ashworthcollege.edu), a leader in online education, selected Webster, Florida resident Tina Gorman as a recipient of the 2013 ACCESS Scholarship. She will be pursuing a career diploma in the online medical transcription course.
The Ashworth College Continuing Education for Student Success (ACCESS) Scholarship program was developed by the online school and awards up to $25,000 annually to new and prospective diploma and degree students who are interested in pursuing their education online in one of Ashworth College's 115+ diploma, degree and online certificate programs.
Since dropping out of high school at age 15, Gorman has worked hard to provide for her three children and eventually earn her GED. Now disabled and unable to work outside the home, Gorman decided that enrolling in Ashworth's Medical Transcription course may be the best way to choose a flexible career she could enjoy.
"I am hoping that the Medical Transcription course will allow me to earn the extra money needed to live not extravagantly, but at a more comfortable level. Any help that I receive would go a long way to improving my standard of living."
The nationally accredited Medical Transcription career diploma program from Ashworth College gives students the ability to understand basic medical terminology, transcribe medical records, comprehend the components of the healthcare record and more – all the skills needed to succeed in a medical transcription career.
"Education can take skills - and income - to the next level. We're excited that through the ACCESS Scholarship program we can help create learning opportunities for those students needing something tailored to their specific situation or needs," said Dr. Leslie Gargiulo, Ashworth College Chief Academic Officer. "The ACCESS Scholarship program has already proven to be an amazing opportunity for us to recognize deserving students and to help provide the educational foundation that will help set the course for their life ahead."
"The ACCESS Scholarship program was founded to honor Ashworth's late President and CEO, Gary Keisling's personal mission of opening the doors of education to the underserved education population of America. We're excited to present these scholarships," Dr. Gargiulo added.
About the Gary Keisling ACCESS scholarship program
Founded in 2011, the Gary Keisling ACCESS Scholarship program offers scholarships with a combined value of up to $25,000.
The ACCESS program honors the legacy of the online school's late Chairman of the Board, Gary Keisling, whose personal and professional mission was to offer affordable and accessible education to underserved populations who historically have had limited access to educational opportunities or an accredited diploma or degree.
For more than 25 years Keisling was regarded as an industry leader and advocate for continuing education. His influence on distance education will continue to benefit students for many years to come.
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Navy SEAL Foundation
The Navy SEAL Foundation seeks to provide education and motivation, and promote health and welfare programs for the Naval Special Warfare Community. The secondary purpose of the foundation is to keep the history and legacy of the US Naval Commandos alive. Most programs are focused on either health and welfare (including tragedy assistance), education and motivation (including scholarships) or history (including the funding of memorials and monuments). 86% of the foundation’s budget is dedicated to program expenses and 3.10% ($154K) is paid to the Executive Director.
Direct Relief
Direct Relief is California’s largest international humanitarian nonprofit, providing medical assistance to people struggling with poverty and disaster by partnering with local health providers, healthcare companies, and business leaders. Since 2000, Direct Relief has given more than $1.6 billion in resources, medicine, supplies, and equipment to those in need, focusing on maternal and child health. Currently, it’s working on numerous projects, including fighting Ebola in West Africa.
National Public Radio (NPR) is an internationally recognized creative workshop and distributor of noncommercial news, talk and entertainment programs, serving listeners with national and local programming. NPR is responsible for producing and distributing over 100 hours of original programming each week and some of its most popular radio segments include All Things Considered, Car Talk and TED Radio Hour.
The Institute of International Education (IIE) was founded in 1919 and is among the world’s largest international education and training organizations. IIE wants to strengthen the ties between institutions of higher learning around the world, rescue threatened scholars, advance academic freedom, and build the leadership skills of individuals and communities. 93.3% of the Institute’s budget goes toward program expenses and services.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) was founded in 1933 at the request of German patent clerk Albert Einstein. The IRC provides life-saving care to people in humanitarian crises, such as war or disaster. Today the IRC works in over 40 counties and in 22 US cities and has made it its mission to respond to disaster within 72 hours, helping people recover and rebuild their lives. In the US, it helps hundreds of thousands of newly arrived refugees start a new life. 91.5% of the organization’s budget goes toward program expenses.
Carnegie Institution for Science
The Carnegie Institution for Science pursues scientific discovery by providing exceptional individuals with the necessary resources that will allow them to explore the most important scientific questions in the fields of plant biology, earth and planetary sciences, astronomy, and ecology. The Carnegie Institution for Science tries to answer and ask important questions about the nature of the universe, the formation of planetary systems, the origin of life, the functioning of genes, and much more. It designates 86.2% of its budget toward program expenses and .46% ($457K) is paid to its President.
Harlem Children’s Zone
Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) is a community-based organization that offers education, social services, and community-strengthening programs to families in need. It offers programs for children and families in all stages of life, like an early childhood “baby college”, TRUCE Fitness and Nutrition Center for middle school kids, and Single Stop & Tax Preparation programs for adults. 84.3% of the HCZ’s budget goes to program expenses.
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Top 10: Architecture Capitals
10. Brasilia, Brazil
In less than four years, this place went from an idea to Brazil’s living and breathing capital city — and our No. 10 architecture capital. Thought up by urban planner Lucio Costa in 1957, with buildings designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer, the city was laid out as a cross, but better resembles a butterfly or airplane shape when seen from the air. While some have criticized the design, it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Some of this architecture capital's more notable buildings include: Palacio da Alvarado (the official residence of the president of Brazil), the Cultural Complex of the Republic, Cathedral Basilica, and Three Powers Square (all government work buildings). For its classic designs inspired by Le Corbusier, a French architect considered a forefather of modern architecture, and because it went from imagination to blueprint to building at warp speed, Brasilia earns a spot on our architecture capitals list.
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Our Typical Dwarf Star
Categories: Sun
In understanding our own star, solar physicists have one giant question: why is the outside hotter than the inside?
Since nuclear fusion in the core generates the heat, one might expect the atmosphere or corona to be cooler, not hotter, since it is farther away from where the heat comes from in the core. In fact, the Sun’s outer atmosphere ( the Corona ) is hotter than 1,000,000ºC (1,800,000ºF) while the visible surface has a temperature of only about 6000ºC (10,000ºF). One theory for why the heat might be greater farther out depends the action of solar flares, the spectacular, magnetically-tied explosions that uplift large masses and push them outward. Among these heating events, the largest are called coronal mass ejections.
Solar flares issue strong electromagnetic bursts.
Credit:SOHO
According to new data from the University of California, Berkeley’s RHESSI satellite, while the sun’s big, bright, explosive flares are the attention grabbers, the tiny, more numerous microflares may have nearly as much influence on the solar atmosphere.
Solar flares, the largest explosions in the solar system, propel energetic particles into space and are thought to be the main source of heat pumping the sun’s outer atmosphere to a few million degrees Celsius — hotter than the surface itself.
Click here for larger image. The Sun, a typical G2V dwarf. G stars are characterized by the presence of metallic lines and weak hydrogen.
Credit: Harvard University
Now, solar observations by the RHESSI (Reuven Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager) satellite show that microflares a million times smaller are far more frequent and may together provide a major portion of the heat in the corona.
“The big question for microflares is, are there enough of them? Do they occur frequently enough and dump enough energy into the corona?” said Robert Lin, professor of physics at UC Berkeley and principal investigator for RHESSI. “RHESSI can see these tiny flares to lower energies than before, and our observations are beginning to show that there is more energy released in these tiny flares than people had originally thought.”
Since solar flares play a major role in space weather, RHESSI‘s discoveries about flares and microflares could eventually help predict the big storms that interfere with radio communications on Earth.
Lin presented new data from RHESSI at the meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Sydney, Australia.
RHESSI, launched by NASA in February 2002 to study X-ray and gamma-ray emissions from flares, has observed more than 10,000 microflares in the past year and a half. These microflares are identified by the hard X-rays they emit, which RHESSI is able to detect with 10 to 500 times the sensitivity of any previous instruments flown in space.
These X-ray observations show that microflares are merely smaller versions of their larger cousins, Lin said. Some astronomers have suggested that microflares may be mainly thermal events, heating the sun but not accelerating particles like larger flares. If that were the case, they would produce more low-energy soft X-rays than high-energy hard X-rays. But they do not.
“We’ve noticed that microflares are very similar to big flares. In big flares, a lot of the energy, perhaps most of it, comes out in accelerated particles — electrons, protons and heavy nuclei,” Lin said. “We are finding the same to be true of microflares.”
Interestingly, a subset of microflares appears to be a different animal entirely and responsible for a type of radio burst from the sun studied intensively by pioneering Australian radio astronomer Paul Wild in the 1960s and 1970s. These so-called Type III bursts are characterized by radio signals that decrease in frequency, like the whistle from a departing train.
Flares reaching the dimension of our star.Credit: SOHO
RHESSI has seen many Type III bursts, and they appear to be associated with microflares that do very little heating of the solar atmosphere. Instead, the stream of high-speed particles they produce seems to jet unchecked out of the sun at speeds up to one-third the speed of light, exciting radio oscillations at lower and lower frequencies as the particles pass through lower and lower density plasma.
“This probably has to do with the magnetic field in the region around the microflare, since particles are pretty much tied to the field lines and have to run along them,” Lin said. “We think that for normal microflares, the particle acceleration occurs in a closed magnetic region so the electrons can’t get away; they do more heating that way. In Type III bursts, the electrons are accelerated in an open magnetic field, and they have an easy way to escape, so they do less heating in the corona.”
Aside from RHESSI’s numerous observations of microflares, the satellite’s X-ray and gamma-ray instruments have also captured several large flares. These have allowed the RHESSI team to investigate the relationship between flares and coronal mass ejections (CME), which are another type of large stellar explosion that sends shock waves into space. One conclusion, Lin said, is that the fastest coronal mass ejections — those moving at 1 to 5 million miles per hour (1.6 to 8 million kilometers per hour) — are linked directly to solar flares.
Flare Starts Everything Off
“With RHESSI, we can image the location of a flare’s initial release of energy and accelerated particles,” Lin said. “When we look at extremely big and fast coronal mass ejections and extrapolate back to the sun, we find that at the very point where the coronal mass ejection is initiated, that is exactly where the flare energy release happened. The flare starts everything off.”
The dotted magnetic structure of the sun, like an orange rind.Credit: SOHO
These largest of the mass ejections are the ones that have the greatest effect on Earth, exciting geomagnetic storms that can cause power outages and damage communications satellites. The shock wave from coronal mass ejections also produces energetic particles that pose a hazard to satellites and astronauts. R ecent history had shown how serious the sudden changes in space weather can be. In 1989, a solar storm tripped a protective switches in Canadian Hydro-Québec power company. For nine hours, the entire province of Québec was without power. The problem nearly spread to the United States through an interconnected grid, officials said at the time. In a 1997 solar storm, an AT&T Telestar 401 satellite used to broadcast television shows from networks to local affiliates was blacked out. A more serious breakdown of communications occurred in May 1998 when a space storm disabled PanAmSat’s Galaxy IV. Then, though SOHO was flying, researchers had not yet developed the sophisticated prediction abilities they have today. Among the Galaxy IV casualties: automated teller machines; gas station credit card handling services; 80 percent of all pagers in the United States; news wire service feeds; CNN’s airport network; and some airline weather tracking services.
Sun as source of energy for life on Earth. Credit: NASA
“If we understood the process, we could begin predicting when coronal mass ejections should happen,” Lin said. “We’re still a long way from that, but it makes it extremely interesting to discover the relationship between flares and coronal mass ejections.”
It is still unclear whether other types of coronal mass ejections are related to solar flares, he said.
Both flares and coronal mass ejections are produced by the roiling magnetic fields in the surface of the star. As the surface churns, magnetic field lines get twisted like rubber bands. When the tension becomes too great, they break, snapping and flinging charged particles outward in a solar flare.
Flares can trigger coronal mass ejections, which are massive rising bubbles of plasma entangled with the magnetic field. But some mass ejections seem unrelated to flares, Lin said. One possible explanation is that these come from magnetic fields that kink as they twist, so the magnetic field intensity doesn’t get compressed enough to explode into a flare.
“In this case, the magnetic fields slowly kink and eventually start to rise, dragging plasma with it them,” he said. “They’re not associated with a flare because they don’t break suddenly.
“The very fast, powerful CMEs are probably the breaking kind.”
RHESSI will continue its observations of solar flares for at least another two years, and probably longer.
The RHESSI scientific payload is a collaborative effort among UC Berkeley, NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The mission also involves additional scientific participation from France, Japan, The Netherlands, Scotland and Switzerland.
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Science Communicators Conference: The Frontiers of 21st Century Astronomy
NSF Invites Science Communicators to June 3rd Astronomy Conference in Washington, D.C.
"Future Science: The Frontiers of 21st Century Astronomy" will feature top experts addressing four grand challenges in the field
More information: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/astronomy/
The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites journalists to attend Future Science: The Frontiers of 21st Century Astronomy. This science communicators' conference will be moderated by Miles O'Brien, managing editor of Space Flight Now's "This Week in Space," and former chief technology and environment correspondent at CNN. Panelists will explore the current state of our understanding, the most recent results of ongoing research, and the future trajectory in this field. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute (Search for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) will be the lunch speaker. His talk is titled, "Searching for ET: the Agony and the Ecstasy."
What: Future Science: The Frontiers of 21st Century Astronomy
Who: Science Communicators
When: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
1608 Rhode Island Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
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Infestation level and population dynamics of aphid on mustard
E Mandal Department of Entomology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU), Gazipur 1706
MR Amin Department of Entomology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU), Gazipur 1706
H Rahman Department of Entomology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU), Gazipur 1706
AM Akanda Department of Plant Pathology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU), Gazipur 1706
Keywords: Abundance, Brassica juncea, infestation, Lipaphis erysimi
Mustard (Brassica juncea) variety BARI Shorisha-11 was cultivated during September 2016 to March 2017 in Gazipur, Bangladesh to find out the population dynamics of aphid and its infestation level on mustard. The aphid Lipaphis erysimi (Homoptera: Aphididae) was abundant in the field and caused infestation. The population of aphid in the mustard field showed fluctuation and reached to the peak at 22 December which was 289 per plant. Inflorescence had significantly higher level of infestation compared to individual siliqua and leaf. The daily mean temperature had significant negative, light intensity had insignificant negative and relative humidity had insignificant positive correlation with the abundance of aphid. The multiple linear regression analysis showed that the weather parameters namely temperature, light intensity and relative humidity individually as well as combindly contributed on the abundance of aphid, but the temperature had greater effect than other factors.
Mandal, E., Amin, M., Rahman, H., & Akanda, A. (2018). Infestation level and population dynamics of aphid on mustard. Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Research, 43(4), 611-618. https://doi.org/10.3329/bjar.v43i4.39160
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Thursday, Dec 06, 2018 07:44 AM
Notebook: Joltin' Joe Goes Straight Ahead; Re-Wind for Price, Vigil
Geoff Hobson
NFL Photos/2018 National Football League
Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon (28) celebrates during an NFL football game against the Denver Broncos, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018 in Cincinnati. (NFL Photos via AP)
Joe Mixon hails from the Bay Area, but the Bengals running back isn’t exactly California Cool. He’s more of a smoldering cauldron simmering with competitive intensity and could care less he’s returning to his native land for Sunday’s game (4:05 p.m.-Cincinnati’s Channel 12) in Los Angeles against the Chargers.
“It’s straight, but I’m not from there,” Mixon shrugged and the Bay Area Raiders coming in here next week doesn’t do it, either. “If it was back home in the Bay that’s different.”
Mixon is one of these heart-on-the-sleeve-guys who tells you exactly what’s on his mind, which he did before Wednesday’s practice when he said the Bengals have to play harder. There’s a long tradition of that in the get-it-off-the-chest Bengals backfield that stretches all the way back to Pete Johnson. James Brooks always gave it to you straight, Corey Dillon was always fourth-and-one with the media and Rudi Johnson and Cedric Benson never shied away from a safety or a question. Same with Mixon back-field mate Giovani Bernard.
In his second season, the straight-shooting Mixon is on that same here’s-how-I-feel 1,000-yard track and is coming off one of the strangest months for a Bengals back. He’s averaging five yards per carry on slightly more than a mere 12 carries per game in the last four games where his availability in three Paul Brown Stadium games has been curtailed by a pair of 28-0 second-quarter deficits against New Orleans and Cleveland and last Sunday’s six penalties on the offensive line.
“The play calling is going to be the play calling. I don't control that. I know one thing, we've got to stop playing behind the sticks,” Mixon said. “I just know we can't play behind the chains because we play behind the chains, of course it's going to be a pass every play. I know people want to see runs, but you've got to understand the game. If it's second-and-9, it makes it harder when it's third-and-9 if you get incompletions on second-and-9 or something like that. We've just got to stop playing behind the chains. I feel like that's been our focus. I feel like that's going to be a focus going in the week, that we have to improve in penalties pre-snap and stuff like that, but that's mostly everything.”
Even offensive coordinator Bill Lazor expects to hear the criticism about the lack of Mixon’s carries, but it shows how far Lazor has brought the running game. Last year they had the fewest rushing yards in team history on 3.6 yards per carry. Now, after spending an offseason blowing up the running scheme with new offensive line coach Frank Pollack the Bengals are at 4.7 yards per rush. The problem is they average just 95 yards per game on pace for 1,520 yards, still the fifth fewest for the franchise all-time and tying it for the second fewest in the Marvin Lewis Era with that ’08 season of the 0-8 start.
But Mixon is simmering and not blowing. He understands situations and he likes the new style of approach to the run. The Bengals are dictating and not the opponent.
“I've been paying attention more to details, rather than just trying to make something happen out of nothing. I feel like last year I was doing that all last year instead of just trusting and hoping something was going to work,” Mixon said. “But this year, we call it mastering the mundane so you do that with your eyes on tracks, being patient in your reads and then exploding through the holes when you have to, that's when everything else takes care of itself. My getting to the second level, that's on me.
“Honestly, we don't care who's on defense. We're not scared to run the football. We are going to dial it up, and we're going to run at you, but I feel like we've just got to keep staying consistent and playing in front of the chains and not behind. These past couple weeks, there's other factors that come with the game, When you go down, you can't expect from the run you can just come back so quick. But, at the same time, we can't go down, we can't play behind the chains, and I feel like over these past couple weeks, that's really been killing us.”
But, the man is a competitor. Just look at the numbers, keeping in mind he’s missed two games with a knee scope. Mixon is 12th in NFL rushing with 755 yards on 154 carries. Only the Chargers’ Melvin Gordon has fewer carries in front of him at 153. At 6.1 yards per carry, Denver’s Phillip Lindsay has the same 154, but the Bengals defense helped him along allowing that 65-yard no-touch TD run last week, a bit symbolic of Mixon’s struggles to get carries.
Just take a look at the Steelers’ James Conner with 201 carries and a fifth-best 909 yards rushing behind the Steelers’ vaunted offensive line. Give Mixon and his 4.9 yards per carry those 201 lugs and he’s at 985, third best behind Todd Gurley of the Rams (who really should be MVP) and Zeke Elliott.
Give Lazor a break, too. If Mixon hit his average of 15.4 carries in the two games he missed, he’d be at 184, sixth most in the league with 902 yards, just seven behind Conner.
“I think about it sometimes after the game. You look at the stat, what you had, your average, yards, sometimes us as competitive players we do that,” Mixon admitted. “At the same time I can’t let that focus wander off. At the end of the day, I won’t be as hungry. Even though I am getting 12 carries a game or whatever it is look at the average, look what I’m doing with it. You can only imagine what I can do with that amount of carries at the same time I got to be ready for it. I’m sure there is going to be a game they will put it in my hands that many times. At the same time I just got to be ready. I can’t be not ready and all of a sudden something happens. You just never know. I’m definitely more than ready when the time comes. Just have to stay patient, my time will be coming.”
As it is, his 1,057-yard pace is on track for the most Bengals’ rushing yards since 2012 and BenJarvus Green-Ellis’ 1,094. But Mixon is looking for another stat this month.
“I set a goal before the seasons. I just hope to finish one in December. Other than that, the wins are more important to me,” Mixon said. “If I’m doing my job and they doing the job, I have no doubt in my mind we can’t finish No. 1 in December. I just have to go out there and be the best player. Nothing else I can do.
“I don't really care for the individual stuff. I just want to win. If my rushing average was at 2.0, I wouldn't give a damn, honestly. I just want to win.”
Nick Vigil went back to work Wednesday as he bounces back from a knee injury.
RE-WIND: Two guys in the middle of some big plays last Sunday went back to the film room to get better. Rookie center Billy Price and third-year SAM linebacker Nick Vigil are here for the long haul and are going to be in the middle of any revamping plans for the future.
It was only Price’s sixth NFL start and he keeps learning. Take the sack he gave up to Denver’s Shelby Harris, the first for Harris this season.
“I overset a guy and gave up a sack and everybody wants my head,” Price said. “So I change my technique and we get back with Coach Pollack and make sure hey, let's focus on this this week and assess the type of rushers those guys are. Those are the things I can control. I don't control the play calling, I don't control who's the coach, I don't control where the ball goes, I just control what I can do and that's it.”
He also doesn’t control the officiating. His holding call wiped out running back Giovani Bernard’s 17-yard run, a penalty that Lewis said he’s still trying to find out the video. Huge play in a 0-0 game.
Week 14: Bengals Wednesday Practice
Practice at Paul Brown Stadium as the Bengals prepare for its week 14 matchup against the Los Angeles Chargers.
Guard Alex Redmond gives a thumbs up before practice at Paul Brown Stadium.
Linebacker Nick Vigil goes out in coverage at practice.
Quarterback Tom Savage enters practice at Paul Brown Stadium.
Head Coach Marvin Lewis and defensive tackle Andrew Billings enter practice.
Cody Core readies to catch a pass at practice from Paul Brown Stadium.
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Trey Hopkins and Brad Lundblade enter Paul Brown Stadium for practice in November 2018.
“I never question a ref,” Price said. “It’s still a 10-yard penalty whether I agree or disagree. We had our discussion in the film room on how I can improve here, here, here. They made a call and I have to live with it.”
Price says there is a difference between officiating in college and the NFL, just like everything else.
“The list goes on,” Price said of changes in defenses, calls, techniques. “(The officiating is) hit and miss. Some crews are quick trigger, other crews are not.”
College? Ohio State’s Price had to laugh.
“Depends if you’re home or away,” he said. “I played in Columbus. Come on.”
On the other side of the ball, Vigil played for the first time since he injured his knee on Oct. 14 and it’s clear he wasn’t 100 percent. Vigil shrugged when asked if it was 80 percent.
“I felt a little sluggish. I’m not moving as well as I did before the injury,” Vigil said. “You really can’t rep and get into shape with practice, especially not doing much for a month and a half. I think this week it will be a lot better.”
Regular Season Week 14: Bengals at Chargers [PDF]
It was obvious on the biggest play of what was mostly a scoreless first half. Denver quarterback Case Keenum’s third-and-10 scrambling completion to running back Devontae Booker for 30 yards that set up the first touchdown late in the half was a killer.
“I think if I hadn’t missed time, I definitely make that play,” Vigil said. “But it’s not an excuse. I have to make the play regardless. First I got the holding penalty, then I let him catch the ball. Then I missed the tackle. Just a bad play for me. I’m not going to sit here and make excuses. It is what it is.”
Then came Lindsay’s 65-yarder in the second half that blew the game open.
“That was a lot people mis-fitting,” Vigil said. “Me personally I ran under a block on the back side, which I can’t do. I have to go over the top and I probably would have had a chance to tackle him for a 10-yard gain. That’s what I mean. Guys out of run fits.”
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Sharpeville Massacre
Posted on February 22, 2009 March 16, 2019 by contributed by: Marissa Evans
Global African History: Global African History: Events
The Sharpeville Massacre, which occurred on March 21, 1960, in the township of Sharpeville, South Africa, was the incident that to that point resulted in the deaths of the largest number of South Africans in a protest against apartheid. It also came to symbolize that struggle.
Sharpeville, a black suburb outside of Vereeniging (about fifty miles south of Johannesburg), was through the 1950s a community untouched by anti-apartheid demonstrations that occurred in surrounding towns. By 1960, however, anti-apartheid activism reached the town. In March 1960, Robert Sobukwe, a leader in the anti-apartheid Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) organized the town’s first anti-apartheid protest. In order to reduce the possibility of violence he wrote a letter to the Sharpeville police commissioner announcing the upcoming protest and emphasizing that its participants would be non-violent.
On March 21, an estimated 7,000 Africans gathered in front of the Sharpeville police station to protest against the restrictive pass laws. Nearly 300 police officers arrived to put an end to the peaceful protest. As they attempted to disperse the crowd, a police officer was knocked down and many in the crowd began to move forward to see what had happened. Police witnesses claimed that stones were thrown, and in a panicked and rash reaction, the officers opened fire into the crowd. Other witnesses claimed there was no order to open fire, and the police did not fire a warning shot above the crowd. As the thousands of Africans tried to flee the violent scene, police continued to shoot into the crowd. Sixty-nine Africans were killed and 186 were wounded with most shot in the back.
The Sharpeville Massacre awakened the international community to the horrors of apartheid. The massacre also sparked hundreds of mass protests by black South Africans, many of which were ruthlessly and violently crushed by the South African police and military. On March 30, the South African government declared a state of emergency which made any protest illegal. The ban remained in effect until August 31, 1960. During those five months roughly 25,000 people were arrested throughout the nation. The South African government then created the Unlawful Organizations Act of 1960 which banned anti-apartheid groups such as the Pan Africanist Congress and the African National Congress.
The South African’s government’s repressive measures in response to the Sharpeville Massacre, however, intensified and expended the opposition to apartheid, ushering in three decades of resistance and protest in the country and increasing condemnation by world leaders. With the election of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa in 1994, the apartheid system ended. Symbolically in 1994, Mandela signed the nation’s first post-apartheid constitution near the site of the 1960 massacre.
Subjects: Global African History, EventsTerms: 20th Century (1900-1999), Music - Jazz, Civil Rights, Military units - Navy, Resistance/Rebellion, Civil Rights - SCLC, Africa - South Africa, Military units, Civil Rights - CORE, Musicians, Composers, and Performers
Evans, M. (2009, February 22) Sharpeville Massacre. Retrieved from https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/sharpeville-massacre/
Philip H. Frankel, An Ordinary Atrocity: Sharpeville and its Massacre (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001); Henry F. Jackson, From the Congo to Soweto: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Africa Since 1960 (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1982); Meredith Martin, The History of Apartheid: The Story of the Colour War in South Africa (New York: London House & Maxwell, 1962).
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Broadband boost for Aberdeenshire
Test projects will take place in Aberdeenshire
Published: 11:49 Monday 04 September 2017
Aberdeenshire has been chosen as one of six areas to pilot the UK's fastest broadband as part of a £200 million project.
Aberdeenshire has been chosen along with Aberdeen City, West Sussex, Coventry and Warwickshire, Bristol (including Bath and North East Somerset), West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.
Announced on Sunday, September 3, the projects will get around £10 million to test innovative ways of connecting offices and public sector buildings with the next generation of broadband - Full Fibre networks that run fibre connections straight to the doors of customers’ homes or businesses.
The result is an incredibly reliable connection that can offer speeds of 1 Gigabit or 1,000 Mb/Sec.
The announcement is the first step in a £200 million programme.
Unveiled by the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, at Spring Budget, it is part of the government’s four-year plan to stimulate the market and encourage the growth of full fibre up and down the country.
The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Jones MP, said: “How we live and work today is directly affected by how good our broadband connection is. Reliable connections enable new industries to flourish, help create jobs and give people flexibility in how and where they work.
“For our economy to thrive, it is vital we make smart investments to ensure our digital infrastructure is world class and fit for the future.
“Full fibre connections are the gold standard and we are proud to announce today the next step to get Britain better connected.”
Minister of State for Digital, Matt Hancock MP said: “We want to see more commercial investment in the gold standard connectivity that full fibre provides, and these innovative pilots will help create the right environment for this to happen.
"To keep Britain as the digital world leader that it is, we need to have the right infrastructure in place to allow us to keep up with the rapid advances in technology now and in the future."
The cutting-edge technology will make internet access more secure and enable more people to work remotely without disruption, as well as equipping the UK’s homes, businesses and public services for applications of the future.
Full fibre broadband could potentially allow hospitals to share HD quality graphics of medical scans in seconds to improve diagnosis speeds, businesses to reach ever more customers online, increasing transactions by uploading even the largest files quickly and easily, and school classrooms to see a vast increase the number of pupils who can stream educational videos at the same time.
This comes hot on the heels of the Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund announced in July, as well as new legislation to enable business rates relief for new fibre. Unlocking more than £1 billion for full fibre broadband, the fund has ignited interest from private finance to invest in the sector.
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New technology will help banks tackle a lot of the risks in bankers’ behaviour identified in the royal commission
Niranjan Deodhar, Open Orbit
Screenshot/Royal Commission
When a person such as Kenneth Madison Hayne AC QC says you have a problem, then maybe it’s time to admit you have a problem.
The former Justice of the High Court of Australia – the highest court in the Australian jurisprudential hierarchy – is better known these days in banking circles as Commissioner Hayne.
His rulings are likely to drastically alter the landscape of financial services as we know them.
Clearly this is no time for Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s first four stages – denial, anger, bargaining, and depression – it’s time to jump straight to Stage Five: acceptance.
The problem is that many of the professionals to whom we entrust our financial hopes and dreams seem to be responding to the Royal Commission with sluggish reluctance.
Waiting for regulatory change is only going to make the situation worse.
This is because there was always regulation in place – but the culture in some parts of these enterprises allowed it to be ignored when it was coming in the way of business targets.
Moreover, the processes in place did not provide adequate checks and balances to manage these cultural issues.
So, in the end, culture – one of the hardest beasts to shift – could be deemed the biggest culprit in this entire banking scandal.
The good news is that there is no need for financial services firms to wait for Commissioner Hayne’s final rulings to be handed down in February 2019 to make much-needed changes.
The time to act is now.
So, how can financial services firms act now to save themselves, and begin shifting their culture immediately?
Changing culture, from the inside out
Photo: Peter Parks / AFP / Getty Images.
Being a services industry (the clue is in the name – financial “services”), incumbents are heavily reliant on human decision-making and expertise.
Even widespread automation and disruption hasn’t taken away this crucial characteristic.
But fixing cultural issues around how judgment-based decisions are made is of course notoriously challenging. And hiring a team of expensive consultants doesn’t just burn holes in the back pocket.
It can also be extremely time-consuming, and is plagued with the same human error issues that are afflicting our financial institutions in the first place.
There are, however, new emerging technologies that are able to assist with these types of cultural changes.
They empower staff who are making these day to day decisions to think of their own work in a different way.
Expertise automation platforms optimise the highly cognitive tasks that knowledge workers perform that involve thinking, reasoning, decision-making, understanding, learning, and remembering.
They apply a problem-symptom-cause-remedy approach to finding and fixing problems in the business by guiding human thinking, and they reduce the time and cost of projects in the process.
To take just one example, a marketing campaign run by a global bank was expected to double mortgage application volumes.
To ensure that the business had the capacity to process this surge in volume, the project manager engaged an expertise automation platform to apply the problem-symptom-cause-remedy approach:
Problem: It was already known that there was a bottleneck somewhere in the bank’s capacity to process applications.
Symptoms: The project manager noted that the time taken for preparing individual letters of offer was double what it should have been, and the proportion of cases that had to be reworked was around 30 per cent.
It was suspected that the inefficiencies were caused by the plethora of templates being used to communicate with customers.
Cause: Analysis using the expertise automation platform revealed issues instead with how frontline sales staff ware entering data in some of the fields, and also with how the system was configured to auto-generate the letters of offer.
Remedy: By providing targeted re-training to frontline staff, and making adjustments to the auto-generation of letters, back-office “double handling” of applications was eliminated.
The capacity thereby released was used to process the additional volume created by the marketing campaign.
And the results?
An effective doubling of the bank’s capacity to process mortgage applications – as the marketing campaign was intended to do.
In the above example, it was the AI in the platform made all the difference. It ensured the analysis was completed in three weeks, instead of the usual three to four months.
Incorrect assumptions made at the start of the project were also replaced with correct root-cause analysis, which contributed to this vastly shorter timeframe.
And similar outcomes are being realised for improvements to compliance and controls across many different enterprises.
Through these technologies, cultural and operational change is possible at a fraction of what it currently costs to rectify such issues in the traditional way.
An urgent exercise
There is good reason to begin now. Firms that lead the way in changing ahead of their peers are likely to have a competitive advantage by being compliant and culturally ready once the ink on the final report is dry.
It’s up to each Chief Operating Officer of the nation’s financial services companies to make these changes, and ensure they are in place by February.
Because when Commissioner Hayne hands down his findings, there is no doubt that many Australian firms involved in banking, insurance, and superannuation – including much of the ASX top 50 – will be forced to make significant changes to their practices.
Protect yourself, and the industry as a whole, by getting on the front foot now.
Save yourself the depression.
Skip right to “acceptance” and Hayne-proof yourself before Commissioner Hayne’s ink has time to dry.
Niranjan Deodhar is the Founder of Open Orbit, an expertise automation platform for business process improvement in enterprises. It applies a problem-symptom-cause-remedy approach to solving business issues, optimising the highly cognitive tasks of knowledge workers that require thinking, reasoning, decision-making, understanding, learning, and remembering. This can reduce the time and cost of projects by up to 50 per cent.
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How to tell your child that they are adopted
Rachel Murphy
iStockTelling your child they’re adopted doesn’t have to involve a grand reveal.
Telling your child that they’re adopted doesn’t have to involve a grand gesture or dramatic reveal.
It’s better to be open and honest about your child’s adoption story in age-appropriate ways from the beginning.
Hanging photos from your child’s adoption journey and reading age-appropriate books about adoption can help.
If you have recently adopted a child – or are considering doing so in the future – you may have a few questions about how to tell your child that they are adopted. It can certainly seem like an overwhelming conversation to have with a child, but it may be easier than you think.
Maryanne Ludwig, a licensed social worker and director of family services at Wide Horizons for Children, an adoption agency in Waltham, Massachusetts said telling your child doesn’t need to be some grand sit-down discussion. In fact, Ludwig recommends doing quite the opposite.
Telling your child should be done simply and age appropriately- not in any sort of grand gesture
Travis Isaacs/Getty ImagesHaving photos on display from when you adopted your child can help.
“The goal is to never have a moment of telling your child,” Ludwig, who has worked at Wide Horizons for 18 years, told INSIDER. She said the goal is to tell your child in simple, age-appropriate ways starting from the moment you adopt them, even if they’re a baby.
This can be done is simple ways like displaying photos from when you went to pick the child up from the adoption agency or when you went to court to finalise their adoption. Ludwig, who was adopted herself, recommends that these items become a part of the things that are around your home.
Michael Thompson, a supervising psychologist at Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Massachusetts and a New York Times bestselling author agrees. When he and his wife adopted two children, the social worker assigned to their case told them to place photos around their home to serve as a reminder of the child’s story.
Additionally, Thompson recommends reading age-appropriate books about adoption with your child to help your children understand their adoption story.
“It’s much easier to talk to children at their level when you have a guide,” he told INSIDER.
You may want to regularly discuss your child’s adoption story
Both Ludwig and Thompson recommend that you oftentimes talk to your child about their story so that there is no specific moment of telling them that they’re adopted.
When Thompson and his wife adopted their children, the social worker advised them to always tell their children, “We are so glad we adopted you.”
He said it’s important to be honest about your child’s story from the beginning and to remind them that you’re grateful you adopted them.
Even if you aren’t adopting a baby or young child, Thompson and Ludwig agree that honesty is the best policy
iStockHonesty is important.
“The word about their adoption story should always be out there,” Thompson said. “A kid can understand adoption from a very early age.”
Ludwig also urges adoptive parents to be honest about their child’s story.
“When you make the child’s adoption a routine discussion, you normalize it. Talking about it builds their story. It should be part of the daily conversation so they get the opportunity to ask the questions about things they don’t understand,” said Ludwig.
“You as a family will have your own personal story as to why you decided to adopt. The child will have their own personal story of why they were available to adopt,” she added. “You have to weave those two together in a very honest way.”
It’s important to gradually build upon your child’s adoption story in age-appropriate ways
iStockIt can be helpful to tell your child in age-appropriate ways as they grow up.
Talking about a child’s adoption story in age-appropriate ways allows you to gradually build upon it. By the time they are able to embrace the whole story, they have all the bits and pieces they need. Ludwig calls this scaffolding.
“They will never feel like there was something that was withheld from them or that you’ve lied to them. They feel like they have always had an honest understanding,” she said.
For more complicated or uncomfortable situations, Ludwig suggests seeking assistance. Organisations that provide post-adoption services will likely have a therapist or social worker that can help.
“It’s not about, ‘How do I tell my child?’ It’s about how to make my child feel like they always knew,” said Ludwig.
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Tiny plastic particles are polluting the deepest point in the ocean
Peter Kotecki
Jan. 2, 2019, 11:22 AM
This April 24, 2016 image made available by NOAA shows a bioluminescent jellyfish during a deepwater exploration of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument area in the Pacific Ocean near Guam and Saipan.
NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research via AP
Nearly 18 billion pounds of plastic flow into the oceans every year.
The vast majority of this plastic is unaccounted for, scientists found in 2014.
A new research study suggests that tiny particles called microplastics have reached the deepest point of the ocean, located in the western Pacific Ocean.
A team of Chinese scientists recently discovered that human-made plastics have polluted the deepest point in the ocean.
Microplastics — tiny particles of plastic beads, fibers, and fragments — are smaller than 0.2 inches. According to the scientists, who published a study in the journal Geochemical Perspectives, as many as 2,000 microplastic pieces float in a quarter-gallon of water at the Challenger Deep, the world's deepest point in the western Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.
According to the researchers, the Mariana Trench could be one of the world's largest "microplastic sinks."
Global plastic manufacturing has skyrocketed in the last two decades; nearly 50% of all the plastic ever made has been created in the 21st century. But only 20% of plastic is recycled, according to National Geographic.
A 2015 study estimated that nearly 18 billion pounds of plastic flow from land into oceans each year. Nearly 99% of the plastic in the world's oceans, however, is unaccounted for, scientists found in 2014.
The recent findings could help scientists explain where this missing plastic is going. Of the 11 types of plastic examined, researchers found nine of them eventually sink to the bottom of the ocean.
Scientists are still working on determining the effects of microplastics on humans and marine ecosystems, though there is little research on microplastics in the deep sea.
Read more: Scientists say we are 'guinea pigs' in a worldwide experiment on microplastics — plastics invisible to the eye that have unknown health effects
Past studies have found that plastic is present in the food and drinks we consume, though it is unclear how microplastics affects our bodies. A 2018 study found evidence that microplastics may be accumulating in human feces.
"Manmade plastics have contaminated the most remote and deepest places on the planet," the Chinese scientists wrote. "The hadal zone is likely one of the largest sinks for microplastic debris on Earth, with unknown but potentially damaging impacts on this fragile ecosystem."
Read more about plastic pollution:
Sobering photos show what a week's worth of plastic looks like for typical families around the world
Bottled water from major brands like Aquafina, Nestle, and Dasani contains tiny plastic particles — here's what that does to your body
More: BI Innovation microplastics Oceans Plastic
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Cyntoia Brown Is Granted Clemency & She'll Be Released From Prison
By Lani Seelinger
NBC News/YouTube
After numerous advocates brought her story into the public eye, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has just announced that he will grant clemency to Cyntoia Brown, the woman who received a life sentence at only 16 for murdering a man who had forced her into prostitution.
“Cyntoia Brown committed, by her own admission, a horrific crime at the age of 16," Haslam said in a statement, according to The Tennessean. "Yet, imposing a life sentence on a juvenile that would require her to serve at least 51 years before even being eligible for parole consideration is too harsh, especially in light of the extraordinary steps Ms. Brown has taken to rebuild her life."
Brown's murder conviction came in 2006, and it led to a life sentence. Under that sentence, she wouldn't have been eligible for parole until she was 69. Her predicament first came into the public eye in 2011, when PBS aired a documentary about her called Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story. Her story surfaced again in November 2017, when it drew the attention of numerous celebrities, like Rihanna and Kim Kardashian, who saw Brown's case as emblematic of the ways in which the criminal justice system needed to be reformed.
Even though she was a minor and a victim of sex trafficking, a juvenile court ruled that Brown should be tried for murder as an adult, and prosecutors claimed that Brown killed her captor not out of self defense, but because she was robbing him, as CNN wrote. Since her imprisonment, Brown has acted as a model inmate, and she used her time in prison to work towards her GED and most of the way towards a bachelor's degree, as NBC News reported.
In May 2018, then, after months of advocacy work, Brown got the chance to present her case for clemency at a hearing with the Tennessee parole board, as Rewire.News reported at the time. The six members of the board who were present for the hearing were divided equally between three options: granting Brown full clemency, reducing her sentence to 25 years, or forcing her to serve the entire sentence. The divided ruling left the decision entirely in the hands of Haslam, who had no clear recommendation from the board to work with.
Brown's lawyer released a statement after Haslam announced his decision.
“Thank you, Governor Haslam, for your act of mercy in giving me a second chance. I will do everything I can to justify your faith in me," the statement read, according to The Tennessean. "I am thankful to my lawyers and their staffs, and all the others who, for the last decade have freely given of their time and expertise to help me get to this day."
Brown's statement also talked about the importance of her faith and thanked several other people who had helped facilitate her rehabilitation and education.
"With God’s help, I am committed to live the rest of my life helping others, especially young people," Brown said in the statement. "My hope is to help other young girls avoid ending up where I have been. Thank you.”
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With shades of Green Book, The Best of Enemies is a big ol' ball of yikes
Chris Knight: It’s Sam Rockwell’s trip to redemption, and didn’t he already get that in Three Billboards?
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Published on: April 12, 2019 | Last Updated: April 12, 2019 10:29 AM EDT
Rockwell, Henson. STX Films
If you learn one thing from this well-meaning, feel-good biopic about the black community organizer who became friends with the local leader of the Ku Klux Klan – well, it’ll be the meaning of charrette. Anything else, I’m going to guess you already know going in.
A charrette (I didn’t know either) is a working group of stakeholders convened to solve a problem. At issue in The Best of Enemies – set in Durham, N.C., in 1971 – was that a fire in the town’s all-black school led to talk of integration.
Arguing for, on the assumption that it would improve the lot of poor black students, is the voluble Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson). Her polar opposite is C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell), a KKK bigwig who runs a whites-only gas station whose oil-company motto – “Be Sure with Pure” – could double as a racial slogan.
Out-of-towner Bill Riddick (Babou Ceesay) decides to make these two the co-chairs of the charrette, which Rockwell’s character derides as a charade. But they agree rather than let the other have all the say in the issue. And of course, working closely with one another, darned if they don’t both start to see the other’s point of view.
There’s something about Rooney Mara’s Mary Magdalene and it’s not great
Little is an absolute riot with Big ambitions
There’s more than a little of Green Book’s DNA in Robin Bissell’s directing debut, and I was even more troubled in this case with the unbalanced narrative – it’s Rockwell’s trip to redemption, and didn’t he already get that in Three Billboards? – and with such easy touches as making Mrs. Ellis (Anne Heche) a level-headed non-racist, quietly pushing her husband from the home front to do the right thing.
The climax, where the committee members vote on the charrette’s proposal for integration, goes on longer than the debates in 2012’s Lincoln, and with about as much uncertainty as to the outcome. And while the actors do good work, nobody is really stepping outside their comfort zone here. Neither will white audiences be pushed anywhere they don’t want to go, or haven’t been already.
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RCHME Inventory Volumes
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 3, North East
Abberton
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 3, North East. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1922.
This free content was digitised by double rekeying and sponsored by English Heritage. All rights reserved.
AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN NORTH-EAST ESSEX.
ACCREDITED TO A DATE ANTERIOR TO 1714,
arranged by Parishes.
(Unless otherwise stated, the dimensions given in the Inventory are internal. Monuments with titles printed in italics are covered by an introductory sentence, to which reference should be made. The key plans of those churches which are not illustrated by historically hatched plans are drawn to a uniform scale of 48 ft. to the inch, with the monumental portions shown in solid black.)
1. ABBERTON. (D.d.)
(O.S. 6 in. xxxvi. N.E.)
Abberton is a small parish 4 m. S. of Colchester.
(1). Parish Church of St. Andrew stands near the N. end of the parish. The walls are of mixed rubble with dressings of limestone; the tower is of red brick. The roofs are tiled. The Nave and probably a chancel were built or rebuilt about the middle of the 14th century. Early in the 16th century the West Tower was added. The South Porch was added probably in the 18th century. The church was restored late in the 18th or early in the 19th century (when the chancel was rebuilt on the old foundations) and again subsequently.
The Church, Plan
Architectural Description—The Chancel (19 ft. by 15½ ft.) is modern, but the lower courses of the walls are those of the mediaeval building. The plastered, two-centred chancel-arch is of uncertain date.
The Nave (29½ ft. by 18 ft.) has in the N. wall a mid or late 14th-century window of two plain pointed lights in a two-centred head; further W. is the late 14th-century N. doorway, now blocked and with chamfered jambs, two-centred arch and moulded label. In the S. wall is a window similar to that in the N. wall; further W. is the late 14th-century S. doorway, with moulded jambs, two-centred arch and label with defaced head-stops.
The West Tower (8½ ft. square) is of red brick, with some diapering in black brick, and is of early 16th-century date; it is of three stages, with a modern parapet. The two-centred tower-arch is of four chamfered orders; the responds have plain splays. The W. window is of stone and of three cinquefoiled lights, with vertical tracery in a two-centred head with a moulded label; the W. doorway, below it, is of brick with chamfered jambs and two-centred arch. The second stage has in the W. wall a single-light window, with a four-centred head. The bell-chamber has on each side a window formerly of three lights and with a four-centred head; the mullions have been destroyed.
Fittings—Bell: one by Miles Graye, 1663. Chest: In S. porch, small, iron-bound, with two locks, probably 16th-century. Communion Table: with turned legs and moulded rail, early 17th-century. Door: In doorway to turret staircase, of overlapping battens, early 16th-century. Font : plain octagonal bowl, with moulded lower edge, stem and hollow-chamfered base, probably 15th-century. Monuments: In churchyard—(1) to George Kercley (?), 1701, head-stone with skull and cross-bones; (2) to G.K., 1707, head-stone. Plate : includes an Elizabethan cup, with a band of incised ornament.
Condition—Fairly good, some ivy on tower.
(2). Homestead Moat, at Abberton Hall, N. of the church.
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BRM Weekly: Saxophone Brothers + Dan Weiss
$15 | Film Screening- 7pm | Music- 8:30pm | BRM Weekly Raga Jam- 10pm
At 7pm, there will be a screening of A Home Away From Home, a documentary outlining the fusion and improvisation of music between two musicians from the New York alternative jazz scene and two maestros of Northern Indian classical music. The film alternates with discussions about mutual influencing, shared understanding and misunderstanding, the need for traditions to evolve, and thinking beyond musical genres. There will be a Q+A session following the screening, with the concert to follow.
Saxophone Brothers
Inspired by the spiritual revelations crying from John Coltrane’s saxophone in the late 60’s, the Saxophone Brothers, Jonathan and Andrew Kay have continued Coltrane’s search for a “multicultural theory of musical transcendence” in Kolkata, India, where for the past 6 years they have been living with their Guru, Pandit Shantanu Bhattacharyya learning the art of North Indian Raga music and developing its expression on the Soprano, Alto, and Tenor saxophones.
Being praised by many of India’s Maestros for their devotion and dedication to the tradition of Raga music, the Saxophone Brothers are emerging as the first to express the subtle and delicate nuances of the Ragas on the saxophone. They are already important contributors to the evolution of Raga music performance by rendering the entire Raga on Saxophone, in both the vocal and instrumental styles, innovating certain techniques hitherto not attempted. This includes the research and development of the first non-tempered saxophone, The Shruti-phone, designed to more perfectly express the subtle shrutis (micro-tones) of the Ragas.
Dan Weiss
Shifting Foundation grantee Dan Weiss has been hailed as one of the top five jazz drummers in The New York Times, and his large ensemble recording "Fourteen" made the top ten list of their best recordings of 2014. Weiss’s innovative drumming and forward thinking compositions have been pushing musical limits for years.
With his piano trio, he’s released two recordings entitled, "Now Yes When" (2006) and "Timshel" (2011), which have been critically acclaimed for their unique approach to song structure and endless creative improvisation. Weiss also leads his sixteen piece large ensemble that features some of NYC's most gifted musicians. The two albums " Fourteen" (2014) and "Sixteen: Drummers Suite" (2016) released on the Pi record label have made numerous critic polls. His newest project features Craig Taborn, Matt Mitchell, Ben Monder, and Trevor Dunn and is an amalgam of jazz, metal, and new music. The recording will be released on the Pi record label in the Spring of 2018.
BRM Weekly: Anita Aysola
Music in the Garden: Women's Raga Massive
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2017-02-26 Carnival
February 26, 2017 RadesonUncategorized
So in Portugal Carnival is celebrated, and as in Rio it’s a happy celebration, a party of music, dancing and parading in festive, colourful, imaginative costumes and masks. The party goes on for a couple of weeks and kids are off from school to take part in the celebrations.
The festivity has it’s origins in religion and although not quite inducible anymore with the costumes focusing more on the naked parts of the body than those with clothing on, it is actually the opportunity to feast before fasting – lent.
As in many other Christian countries Sweden has a variant of the celebration with about the same timing, derived as they all are from the Gregorian calendar. The Swedish variant means one particular Tuesday is assigned for eating a very heavy bun filled with sweet stuffing and topped with loads of cream, a fastlagsbulle.
That’s it. No dancing. No masks. No music. No party.
Sure, Swedes have one sanctioned party every year, Midsummer’s Eve, the longest day of the year, and also the day when it’s commonly allowed and incentivised to drink a lot and dance around a flower ornamented pole together with your children. But that’s not part of Christian tradition. It’s part of our hedonic heritage. The vikings where big on parties and lust and feasting, embracing pretty much all the deadly sins while enjoying life. Probably because it was so short, but anyway all the more reason to live it.
Then came Martin Luther. German. He didn’t believe in indulgences. At all. In fact he got kicked out of the Catholic church for being so harsh as to say that you can’t pay yourself out of sin and hence that the church cannot give forgiveness but instead that only faith could get you God’s forgiveness. Mind blowing stuff. And particularly annoying to the rich Roman Catholic church.
And Sweden amongst others embraced Lutheranism. Along with the values that life is not about indulgences, but rather, it’s hard and it’s a struggle and it has the sole purpose of achieving God’s forgiveness.
Today, Sweden is a country that in many ways has taken steps away from religion as an active part not only of society but to a large extent also from the private zone. A Swedish citizen does not have to belong to the Swedish church, neither as a tax payer nor as a social human being. Swedes can however still use the old churches and sanctuaries, and indeed, they are still often preferred for marriage or baptising, however with the instruction to the priest to leave out the main of the religious and confessionary parts where possible.
But from the other perspective Swedes are still quite strong on the struggle aspect of life. It should not be easy. Some things just must be done. Do’s and dont’s as part of the daily regime. A part of your free will being restrained, like being subdued. We even have a law, co-shared with the Danes, that states that you are better than nobody else. As in, do not think you are something special, you’ve got to work hard for everything, nothing is free, and nothing is easy.
Now, Sweden is a very modern country, well integrated with the rest of the Western world, and a fast adopter when it comes to picking up influences from outer parties. So no doubt things are changing, but still, it makes me wonder, how come Swedes quite easily left the faith parts of being religious but still kept hanging on to so many of the Lutheran values?
I mean, sure, the Carnival spirit doesn’t seem to be growing ground for efficient and prospering economic systems, but still, wouldn’t it be nice to get rid of at least some of the must and should and just, you know, Want?
Tagged carnival, catholicism, culture, fiesta, Lutheranism, protestantism, sweden
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2017-03-05 Vests
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By Bootie Cosgrove-Mather CBS January 17, 2003, 4:09 PM
A Blueprint For 9/11
The U.N. Security Council voted today for tighter sanctions against members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network and the former Taliban rulers in Afghanistan. The sanctions cover more than 300 groups and individuals.
CBS News Foreign Correspondent Tom Fenton reports one individual now of interest to Western intelligence, is a Saudi man with family ties to bin Laden and possible ties to al Qaeda.
Western intelligence experts say a restaurant owner in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah has connections that run deep into the heart of al Qaeda. He is a brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, and they trained together in the camps of Afghanistan in the 1980's. But that's as much as he admits, and the Osama he describes is very different from the public image.
"He's not a person who's aggressive. He is really selecting his words very carefully when he's talking. He's a really nice guy, a very nice guy," said Mohammed Jamal Khalifa.
Khalifa says he broke with Osama in 1986 when the "nice guy" turned terrorist.
But intelligence agencies say bin Laden sent him to the Philippines in 1988, where Khalifa helped set up an al Qaeda network that planned a spectacular series of attacks. They included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and a 1995 plot to assassinate the Pope in the Philippines and simultaneously hijack a dozen American airliners, crashing them into the Pacific, the Pentagon and the CIA. Intelligence experts say it was a blueprint for 9/11.
There are a number of allegations that Khalifa was behind a number of charities that were linked to al Qaeda and that these charities funded the initial plan of 9/11," said Rohan Gunaratna, author of "Inside Al Qaeda."
But no government had enough evidence to put him behind bars. Khalifa was arrested in America, in Jordan, and after 9/11, in Saudi Arabia, and on each occasion was eventually released. Today he is a free man -- just a businessman, he says -- who used to run charities.
"I am telling everybody, come and talk, I am not hiding!" he said.
He has no need to hide now. But experts say that if America had paid more attention to him and the plots being hatched in Southeast Asia, history might have taken a different course.
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Heat and LeBron: No Title and No MVP, GMs Say
October 7, 2010 / 1:09 PM / AP
The Lakers' Kobe Bryant will earn another ring and Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant will seize the MVP award away from LeBron James.
Those are among the opinions of NBA general managers who voted in the ninth annual NBA.com GM survey, which was released Wednesday. Los Angeles was picked by 63 percent of the respondents to repeat as champions, with 33 percent of the vote going to James and the new-look Miami Heat.
Durant, the MVP of the U.S. victory in the world basketball championship, received 67 percent of the MVP vote. James, the two-time MVP, was picked by only 4 percent.
Top pick John Wall was the overwhelming favorite for Rookie of the Year, claiming 68 percent.
The GMs picked Boston - a unanimous choice in the Atlantic - Chicago, Miami, the Lakers, Dallas and Oklahoma City as division champions.
First published on October 7, 2010 / 1:09 PM
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Home Entertainment Israel flies retaliatory attacks in the Gaza strip
Israel flies retaliatory attacks in the Gaza strip
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+++ 20.02 at: office of the Hamas leader Haniyeh with aerial attack +++
Israel’s air force destroyed, attacked, according to military data, the office of Ismail Haniyeh, head of Gaza’s ruling radical Islamic Hamas. Israeli fighter jets fired missiles at his headquarters in the city of Gaza, reported the Palestinian media. The building had been destroyed completely. There were no reports on possible casualties. Previously, two other buildings of Hamas in Gaza had been destroyed in air raids. Israel responded to a rocket attack from the Gaza strip, in a house North-East of Tel Aviv was demolished. Seven people suffered injuries, including small children.
+++ 19.11 PM: the lower house debate on further steps in the Brexit-processing +++
The British Parliament has begun the debate on the next steps in the planned EU-exit of the country. The vote is expected late on Monday night, against 23 clock. Parliament speaker John Bercow selected the three Amendments to the draft resolution of the government.
+++ 17.31 PM: Trump recognizes the sovereignty of Israel over the Golan +++
Donald Trump of Israel has recognized sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan heights. In the presence of the Israeli leaders Benjamin Netanyahu under Trump signed at the White house, a corresponding decree. The US President had spoken out on Thursday, since 1967, the occupied Golan heights as part of Israel to acknowledge and to international protests triggered.
+++ 17.07 PM: Israel flies retaliatory attacks in the Gaza strip +++
After the rocket attack in Tel Aviv, with seven injured in Israel’s retaliatory attacks in the Gaza strip has flown. The Israeli army declared on Monday that the attacks on “Hamas Terror targets” had begun. Israeli helicopters have attacked an institution of the military wing of the radical Islamic Palestinian organization in the West of the Gaza strip at least three Times, reported eye-witnesses.
+++ 16: 46: APR: not enough support for Brexit agreement +++
The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, still no adequate support for the contract package to the EU exit in their country. The May said in Parliament.
+++ 16.39 Uhr: Free Wi-Fi in all IC-trains from the end of 2021 +++
rail users will soon be able to use not only in ICE but also in the Intercity free Wi-Fi. Until the end of 2021, all of the IC shall be equipped trains for a total of 30 million euros, with the same Internet technology which is now installed in the ICE. A railway spokesman confirmed a report of the Funke media group, referred to for Details but in a press release, which should be released on Tuesday. Already since the middle of March, some of the IC trains with free Wi-Fi, according to the spark report. In the next three years, around 1000 intercity trains would be converted.
550-million-Euro Deal presented: On the way to the “Wow-effect”? The offer of the new long-distance trains of rail – and here you are. go Fullscreen
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©Computer Animation: Deutsche Bahn AG / Tricon AG PR +++ 15.04 PM: lawyer: Saudi sisters get asylum and leave Hong Kong +++
Two of the Islam’s rejection of the Saudi sisters, since September, in Hong Kong in hiding in an unnamed country of asylum “After six months, in which they had hidden from the Saudi authorities and their families in Hong Kong, have managed this strong, brave and determined young women to receive a humanitarian Visa for a third country,” said her lawyer, Michael Vidler in a statement.
The whereabouts of the sisters, the lawyer is not called in the interests of your safety. In Saudi Arabia, the death penalty threatens them, therefore, because of apostasy.
+++ 14.55 PM: customs covers more violations of minimum wage law +++
The customs has uncovered in the past year, more violations of the minimum wage law, as well as more cases of undeclared work and illegal employment. In the minimum wage, the number of 1316 cases in the year 2015 was increased to 6220 in the year 2018, informed the Federal Finance Ministry in Berlin. In 2744 cases, the minimum wage under the steps. In the context of the fight against undeclared work and illegal employment, therefore, approximately 111,000 investigation proceedings were initiated for criminal offences. In 2017, it was around 108,000.
+++ 14.54 watch: five-year-old disappears from the apartment – a large-scale search fizzles +++
An apartment missing child in Munich, a large-scale manhunt of the police. As the officials said, had left the mother of their five-year-old daughter alone at night in the apartment. As the 30-Year-old after two hours came back in on Sunday night, was gone the child. The woman alerted the police, who requested then the police helicopter and dog squad.
But then came: The child had not been, or kidnapped, ran away, but in the case of the neighbor. The woman had heard the five year old crying to you then. Whether the parent has violated their duty of supervision, will now be examined.
+++ 14.48 PM: gas pipeline damaged – a construction worker holding thumbs +++
A construction worker has sealed in Ratingen, near Düsseldorf, a leaking gas pipe with his thumb. “He has so prevents a greater amount of Gas could escape,” said a fire Department spokesman. When firefighters arrived at the site of operation, crouched on the construction workers in the pit and kept the thumb on the hole in the pipe.
With the help of the municipal utility was able to redeem the workers and to replace his thumb through the sealing material. For imitation, the fire brigade did not want to recommend the action, but: “This is a pragmatic solution and it works, as long as you caused no sparks.”
+++ 14.45: Thailand’s Ex-Prime Minister Thaksin speaks of “election fraud” +++
Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has accused the ruling military of electoral fraud on a large scale. The Ex-the head of government said this in an article for the “New York Times” (Tuesday), from numerous manipulations in the Parliamentary elections on Sunday. The military government of Prime Minister Chan-o-cha, he said: “you have no shame. You want to stay at any price.”
Thaksin was overthrown in 2006 by the military. He now lives abroad, with mixing in Thailand’s politics but will continue to be crucial. The company he founded, party, Pheu Thai, according to the military-established election Commission in the counting on the second place behind the party of the military. But hopes are still to come to the government. Since 2001, Shinawatra parties had won in Thailand every choice.
+++ 14.42 PM: Kramp-Karrenbauer: No difference to Schäuble in the case of EU-minimum wage +++
see The CDU-Chairman, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer no differences with President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) in the issue of a European minimum wage. You have not understood Schäuble, that he wanted a minimum wage across the whole of Europe, said in Berlin at the presentation of the common European election programme of the CDU and the CSU. The living conditions in the European countries would move towards each other, but with the system, there is no single European social. “In this Tradition, Wolfgang Schäuble.”
Schaeuble had called for the proposal of the French President, Emmanuel Macron, a European minimum wage, to introduce, in the “world on Sunday” is a “remarkable proposal”.
+++ 14.22 PM: Obama can’t get the Lanxess Arena is probably full of +++
Ex-US President Barack Obama, the Cologne Lanxess Arena gets during his appearance at the 4. April is not expected to be full. A total of 15,000 Tickets were for sale, said a spokesman for the organizers “Thought tank”. According to the current condition, we expect more than 10,000 visitors. The prices range from 70 to 5000 Euro.
The former President is on Thursday next week, for about an hour in the Lanxess-Arena interview. The conversation is part of a four-hour “World Leadership Summit”. It is the question of what is the meaning of good leadership today. Except Obama, among others, U.S. best-selling author John Strelecky (speaking of”The Café at the edge of the world”), the Bonn-based entrepreneurs Frank Thelen and Management trainer Sabine Asgodom.
+++ 13.45: at Least 13 Dead after severe weather in several Parts of Iran +++
In the case of storms and Floods in several Parts of Iran, there has been, according to official figures, at least 13 Dead and more than 40 injured. The most violent according to the media, the Flooding reports in the provinces of Golestan and Masandaran in the North of Iran and in Fars in the South. In the Northern provinces, two had come in the South, eleven people lost their lives. Because it was raining, there were on Monday also alerts for other provinces, including the capital Tehran. Many Iranians are due to the Persian new year holidays traveling.
+++ 13.22 PM: New search for Rebecca in the lake in East-Brandenburg +++
the search for The missing Berlin schoolgirl Rebecca has been continued on a small lake in East-Brandenburg. The police with sniffer dogs and assistance from Technical relief (THW) on heart lake road, said a police spokeswoman. According to the newspaper “B. Z.” should also be a diver. The police confirmed.
The heart lake is located to the East of the scharmützelsee lake. He is about one kilometre long and very narrow. In the local area, the police had already searched in the past week, with sniffer dogs.
+++ 12.28 PM: Rottweiler bites child dead – 18 months in prison for dog-owner +++
A dog owner after a deadly attack of your Rottweilers on a small child in Vienna who is accused of manslaughter, sentenced to 18 months in prison. A year of the land court of Vienna was, in its not final judgment, to probation. In addition, the parents and grandparents of the victim 65,000 euros sorrow were awarded for pain and suffering. The dog had attacked in September 2018 the 17-month-old boy who was in the company of his grandparents on the go, on the open road. The angeleinte animal had broken loose. The 49-year-old dog owner had a 1.4 per Mille of alcohol in the blood. The child suffered severe head and skull injuries and died two and a half weeks later in a hospital.
+++ 12.02 PM: Swedish soldier during a military exercise of tanks, hit +++
In a military exercise in Sweden, a female soldier is killed. As the Swedish military announced, she died last night, during the winter exercise “Northern Wind” in the Northern Swedish province of Norrbotten. Further injuries did not exist in the incident. The woman between the ages of 40 and 50 years, had been run over by a tank, said a military spokeswoman for the German press Agency (DPA). Further background to the disaster, were not initially known.
+++ 12.01 PM: liquidator: rescue the insolvent Airline Germania burst +++
The rescue of the insolvent Berlin-based airline Germania is to have failed. All reputable bidders have backed out, said the preliminary insolvency administrator Rüdiger wienberg. A shutdown is not averted. “The employees will now receive in the next few days, the cancellations and will be charged in addition to the beginning of April”, – stated in the message. At the beginning of February, the Airline had registered with nearly 1700 employees in insolvency. Germania was to many destinations in the Mediterranean. Every year, the Airline carried over four million passengers.
+++ 11.46 am: police conducts investigations to cruise drama in Norway a +++
The police in Norway has initiated the lightly outgoing, Drama of the cruise ship “Viking Sky” research. It was a routine procedure, said the police of the province of Møre og Romsdal according to several Norwegian media. There is a suspicion that someone had made a criminal offence, does not exist.
other authorities, such as the state emergency Commission, wanted to check how it was able to come on Saturday the engine problems the ship. The police wanted to investigate, in addition, also the motor accident involving another ship in the area of the freighter “Hagland Captain”,.
+++ 11.35 am: burglar luxury enjoys living in Prague Villa +++
A burglar has lived in a Villa in Prague for a weekend in luxury. He had slept in the double bed of the owner, the fridge is empty eaten and the fine suits of the house of the Lord tried, informed a spokesman of the Czech police. At the time of his arrest by the police the intruder was wearing a stripe tie from elegant nightlife wardrobe. The villas residents had the officials after returning from a weekend trip alarmt. As it turned out, it was reported the 67-year-old man in his home country of Poland, as a missing. In the case of a conviction for House breaking and up to two years in prison threaten him, according to investigators.
+++ 11.27 PM: a judge shall issue six arrest warrants after anti-terror RAID in the Rhine-Main-area +++
After the anti-terror RAID last Friday in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate, sitting, six of the initially arrested eleven Suspects in custody. A judge issued an arrest warrant against the six accused, as a spokeswoman for the Prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt said on Monday. The remaining five provisional findings of the judge were not taken, therefore, presented, and are again on the loose. With the RAID crossed the security agencies, apparently, the preparations for an Islamist attack. The main accused is a 21-Year-old from Offenbach, and two 31-year-old brothers from Wiesbaden to belong to the Salafist scene in the Rhine-Main area.
+++ 11.15 PM: würzburg child porn case: search for Victims at the centre +++
In the würzburg child porn case, the focus of the investigators currently on the search for the Victims. There is a “wide range of crime scenes”, a large number of contact options to children “and that over a period of years,” said attorney Christian Schorr of the Central office for Cybercrime of Bavaria to the General Prosecutor’s office of Bamberg. The two foster children of the Suspect were not among the findings, according to the operas. The 37-year-old speech therapist and his Partner had cared for for years, a four year old boy and a five year old girl.
The city of the rights of the child a medical examination, said a spokeswoman for the city. Both are physically and mentally well. They came with a willingness to foster parents.
+++ 10.38 PM: number of dead after chemical Explosion in China rises to 78 +++
After the Explosion in a Chinese industrial Park, the number of victims continued to increase. 78 people came to his life in the accident, informed the local government of the Eastern Chinese city of Yancheng. 56 of the dead were identified. More than 600 people had been injured in the Explosion last Thursday. About 100 of them were injured, according to official data difficult.
The pressure wave of the chemical Explosion damaged far outside of the plant, numerous cars and buildings. Was caused the accident, possibly by a fire in the factory of the company Jiangsu Tianjiayi.
+++ 10.35 PM: airline Ethiopian Airlines talks to Boeing, despite the crash of confidence +++
The Ethiopian airline, Ethiopian Airlines has issued the U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing despite the crash of a machine of the type 737 MAX 8 at the beginning of March the trust. The company’s CEO Tewolde placed Mariam said Ethiopian Airlines “believes that Boeing”. The U.S. manufacturer is “our Partner”. 10. March, a 737 MAX 8 of Ethiopian Airlines was crashed with 157 people on Board shortly after the Start in Addis Ababa. In October, Lion-Air-machine of the same type crashed in front of the Indonesian island of Java. The crashes had Similarities, which is why the entire fleet of the 737 MAX since a week and a half not allowed to fly more.
+++ 10.32 am: the aircraft occupants after crash-landing in the rain forest in Peru again. + + +
found After a crash landing in the Amazon rain forest in Peru have been rescued four occupants of a small plane safe and sound. “It is a miracle that we are alive,” said the almost uninjured Pilot Jeffrey Pinedo Pérez of the Peruvian transmitter PPP. His 15 years of experience as a Pilot and “God’s Hand” would have helped when landing in the middle of the forest.
The four occupants of the aircraft had been missing since Saturday. Bad weather had prevented the rescue operation in the Amazon area. In the tree tops verfangener wing had led, according to the Ministry of defence, two rescue were able to locate aircraft of the Peruvian air force, the pilot and his three passengers.
+++ 10.28 PM: Israel moved to the rocket attack, troops at the Gaza border +++
After a rocket attack from Gaza on a house in the North-East of Tel Aviv, Israel moved more troops close to the Palestinian area on the Mediterranean sea. An Israeli army spokeswoman said that they wanted two brigades send in infantry and tanks. In addition, a limited number of reservists should be convened in different units for specific tasks.
A Rafah in the southern Gaza strip fired rocket hit the house in the Communal village of mixed Meret directly, said the spokesperson. According to paramedics seven people were injured, including small children. The building was severely damaged.
+++ 9.44 PM: Boeing 787-900 of United Airlines long flight forced to land +++
route A Boeing 787-900 to the U.S. airline United Airlines, with 256 passengers on Board made an emergency landing in new Caledonia. The machine has been on a long flight from Australia to the USA route diverted in the French overseas territory in the Pacific ocean, because, apparently, smoke from the Cockpit came, as an employee of the operator company of the airport of Noumea, the AFP news Agency said. The passengers had left the aircraft after landing “at rest”.
The machine was launched in Melbourne, Australia and was supposed to fly on schedule to Los Angeles. Because of the Emergency, the plane was diverted to new Caledonia, approximately 2700 kilometres North East of Melbourne in the South Pacific. According to the website of the newspaper “Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes” were in the aircraft, the oxygen masks dropped. The radio station RRB reported that all the passengers are doing well. You would have to spend the night in Noumea because the aircraft will be technically examined.
+++ 8.32 PM: shark injured a 25-Year-old in the Great Barrier Reef hard +++
In the world’s largest coral reef the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s coast, a shark has attacked a swimmer. The 25-year-old man had to be associated with serious bite injuries to the hospital. According to the rescue services, no life is but the risk. The attack happened in the vicinity of the Whitsunday Islands, where it has been in the past few months, several such cases.
The man was, according to Reports in the Australian media for snorkeling or diving on the so-called Hardy Reef on the road, about 50 kilometres off the coast. There are many excursion boats leave every day with tourists. According to the information of rescue forces to the bite of the shark the 25-Year-old in the thigh. The man was then with a Rettungshubschrauber flown to a hospital on the mainland.
+++ 8.03 PM: Netanyahu announces after rocket attack on Israel “powerful” response to +++
After the rocket attack from the Gaza strip into Israel, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a “powerful” response. “Against the state of Israel is a crime perpetrated institutional attack, and we will respond with force,” said Netanyahu in his office released a Video-message.
Netanyahu is currently in Washington, where he wanted to come along on Monday with US President Donald Trump. “Due to the security incidents” in Israel, he will cut his U.S. visit, said Netanyahu. After the Meeting with Trump, he will return immediately to Israel “to conduct the operations from the vicinity”
+++ 8.00 am: Due to a Software glitch at air traffic control Lufthansa flights +++
Because of Software problems at the Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) sweeps the Lufthansa seeks to strike at the Frankfurt airport, 22 flights. This is a spokesperson confirmed on Monday morning. The company had already announced on Sunday evening, alone at Lufthansa, Germany’s largest Airport, a total of 2000 passengers were affected.
A Software Problem in the air traffic controller restricts the air traffic for days across large Parts of Germany. The safety of air traffic is not endangered, had stressed the DFS. Since Wednesday evening, the state-owned company has reduced the amount of Traffic for the airspace around a quarter of which is controlled by Langen near Frankfurt.
+++ 7.25 PM: Netanyahu is shortened due to missile attack, the US travel +++
After a rocket attack on a house in the North-East of Tel Aviv, Israel head of government Benjamin Netanyahu wants to shorten his US trip. “It was a vicious attack on the state of Israel, and we will respond strongly,” said Netanyahu, according to his office. “Given the security, political incidents, I decided my visit to the United States to shorten.” He wanted to travel directly to a Meeting with US President Donald Trump, “to guide our actions”.
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Trumps “dream gift” for Netanyahu – which means the recognition of the Golan heights
US President Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu makes a gift: the recognition of The Israeli-occupied Golan heights. Netanyahu is thrilled – after all, he is fighting at home for political Survival.
DPA +++ 6.38 PM: reports: house in Israel by rocket Seven injured +++
taken to have been made In the vicinity of the Israeli coastal metropolis of Tel Aviv, media reports of a house hit by a missile. Seven people were injured, reported, among other things, the left-liberal newspaper “Haaretz”. The rocket was apparently fired from Gaza. The Israeli army confirmed that it had detected a launch from the Gaza strip. In the area North of Tel Aviv, a rocket alarm had been triggered. Residents reported according to the newspaper of explosions.
According to the news site, “Israel national news” were among the injured, two slightly injured babies. In addition, some people were treated for shock. The beschossene house burn.
+++ 5.27 PM: Green measles see-vaccination compulsory sceptical +++
The Greens in the Bundestag distance to demands from the SPD, the vaccination of children against measles for duty. Instead of coercion and sanctions, the need to strengthen the trust in good advice and to the prevailing uncertainty to respond, said the Green-health expert, Kordula Schulz-ash, the Newspapers of the editorial network in Germany. “We need to have an appreciation of the Public health service, and better staffing.”
Schulz-ash emphasized at the same time, Vaccination is an act of social solidarity. “The more people are vaccinated, the greater the protection for the population, especially for those who can’t be vaccinated for health reasons.”
+++ 4.43 PM: Thailand is waiting for the result of parliamentary elections – the military is on the front +++
After the first parliamentary election in Thailand since a military coup five years ago, the state election Commission will announce on Monday a result. Preliminary Numbers from Sunday night, according to the party of military is commander-in-chief Prayut Chan-o-cha, with more than half a Million votes, the largest party of the democratic Opposition. The distribution of seats in Parliament, there is still no reliable information. The final result is expected in a few weeks.
+++ 4.17 PM: Two Russian military planes land in Venezuela +++
Two Russian military aircraft have landed in Venezuela. Spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Caracas, confirmed to the Moscow news Agency Sputnik, the arrival of the two machines. The normal processing of ongoing “technical-military” agreements.
According to Venezuelan media, it is a transport plane, Antonov 124 and an Ilyushin 62, the led 99 military and a cargo of 35 tons on Board. The Russian Delegation was under the leadership of the chief of staff of the land forces of Russia, Vasily Tonkoschkurow, told the Venezuelan television channel NTN24.
+++ 2.58 PM: the Congo: at Least eleven people by a lightning strike in school killed +++
at Least eleven people have been killed in a school in the Congo by a lightning strike. Among the Victims were seven students and a teacher, were the local authorities. Five other people were injured and taken to hospital. The Thunderstorm over the city of Kikwit, in the southwest of the country had discharged already on Friday.
+++ 1.25 PM: Prince Charles visited as the first member of the British Royal family Cuba +++
As the first member of the British Royal family, Prince Charles travelled on an official visit to Cuba. Charles and his wife Camilla landed at the international airport of the capital of Havana and were welcomed by the Cuban Deputy foreign Minister Ana Teresita González. Then, the heir to the throne of flowers laid at a Monument to Cuban national hero José Martí. For Monday, a dinner with President Miguel Díaz-Canel is planned.
the visit of the Prince to be honoured, according to British information, the growing bilateral relations and cultural ties between the two countries. The UK wants to invest in the US sanctions affected the socialist Caribbean state. Sectors, particularly tourism and energy. The visit to Cuba is part of a Caribbean tour of CCharles and Camilla.
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Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau meets members of 1stHKCSG
Established in 1991, Canadian International School of Hong Kong is a non-profit, private, independent, coeducational day school located on the south side of Hong Kong Island in Aberdeen.
CDNIS was founded upon the recommendation of the Hong Kong government, who wished to expand the number of international schools offering a North American curriculum. The School first opened its doors to just 81 students in small rented facilities in Causeway Bay.
Over the years, CDNIS grew and changed. Within a few years of opening, the School had achieved its “through-train” objective in 1999, providing education to students from Pre Reception through to Grade 12 graduation. The School also celebrated its first graduating class the same year, with the members of the Class of 1999 going on to pursue tertiary studies at prestigious universities around the world.
The challenges of operating a through-train school in several locations, along with the population growth, brought need for the School to look for a permanent location. A stunning space along a hillside that overlooked the spectacular backdrop of Aberdeen Harbour, Lamma Channel and outlying islands, was awarded to CDNIS and the task of developing an award-winning, 14-level campus that was uniquely Canadian began with the new campus opening in 1999. As the student population continued to expand, additional education facilities were completed including the Primary Tower (2002), Leo Lee Arts Centre (2005), Chinese Cultural Centre (2015) and Green Roof Garden (2015).
CDNIS is a fully authorized IB World School where all of our students from Pre Reception to Grade 12 benefit from the IB curriculum. CDNIS is one of only six through-train IB World Schools in Hong Kong and 250 worldwide. Complementing the IB curriculum, our Upper School curriculum conforms to the requirements of the Ontario Ministry of Education as CDNIS graduates receive both the IB Diploma (IB DP) and the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD).
CDNIS is also proud to be accredited by the Council of International Schools (CIS) and Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Being accredited by CIS and WASC means that CDNIS is comparable with many international schools that are accredited by CIS/WASC all over the world. Obtaining these accreditations certifies that CDNIS students are given an education that meets the most stringent international quality standards. To achieve accreditation, CDNIS had to meet rigorous standards and undergo a lengthy and in-depth review process. Accreditation not only focusses on the curriculum and the teaching, but the school’s Guiding Statements, governance, faculty, operational systems and partnerships with stakeholders were also rigorously evaluated.
Today, CDNIS ranks as one of Hong Kong’s most esteemed and well-respected private, international schools with a student population of 1,800 and more than 300 faculty and staff.
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Polyclonal Antibody Immunohistochemistry Paraffin b Cell Apoptosis
Polyclonal Antibody - Phospho-S6 Ribosomal Protein (Ser235/236) Antibody, UniProt ID P62753, Entrez ID 6194 #2211
Human, Monkey, Mouse, Rat, S. cerevisiae
Application Methods: Flow Cytometry, Immunofluorescence (Immunocytochemistry), Immunohistochemistry (Frozen), Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin), Immunoprecipitation, Western Blotting
Background: One way that growth factors and mitogens effectively promote sustained cell growth and proliferation is by upregulating mRNA translation (1,2). Growth factors and mitogens induce the activation of p70 S6 kinase and the subsequent phosphorylation of the S6 ribosomal protein. Phosphorylation of S6 ribosomal protein correlates with an increase in translation of mRNA transcripts that contain an oligopyrimidine tract in their 5' untranslated regions (2). These particular mRNA transcripts (5'TOP) encode proteins involved in cell cycle progression, as well as ribosomal proteins and elongation factors necessary for translation (2,3). Important S6 ribosomal protein phosphorylation sites include several residues (Ser235, Ser236, Ser240, and Ser244) located within a small, carboxy-terminal region of the S6 protein (4,5).
Polyclonal Antibody - FoxP1 Antibody, UniProt ID Q9H334, Entrez ID 27086 #2005
Human, Mouse
Application Methods: Flow Cytometry, Immunofluorescence (Immunocytochemistry), Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin), Immunoprecipitation, Western Blotting
Background: Forkhead box (Fox) proteins are a family of evolutionarily conserved transcription factors containing a sequence known as Forkhead box or winged helix DNA binding domain (1). The human genome contains 43 Fox proteins that are divided into subfamilies. The FoxP subfamily has four members, FoxP1 - FoxP4, which are broadly expressed and play important roles in organ development, immune response and cancer pathogenesis (2-4). The FoxP subfamily has several characteristics that are atypical among Fox proteins: their Forkhead domain is located at the carboxy-terminal region and they contain motifs that promote homo- and heterodimerization. FoxP proteins usually function as transcriptional repressors (4,5).
Polyclonal Antibody - Bax Antibody, UniProt ID Q07812, Entrez ID 581 #2774
Human, Monkey
Application Methods: Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin), Immunoprecipitation, Western Blotting
Background: Bax is a key component for cellular induced apoptosis through mitochondrial stress (1). Upon apoptotic stimulation, Bax forms oligomers and translocates from the cytosol to the mitochondrial membrane (2). Through interactions with pore proteins on the mitochondrial membrane, Bax increases the membrane's permeability, which leads to the release of cytochrome c from mitochondria, activation of caspase-9 and initiation of the caspase activation pathway for apoptosis (3,4).
Polyclonal Antibody - Phospho-HSP27 (Ser82) Antibody II, UniProt ID P04792, Entrez ID 3315 #2406
Human, Monkey, Mouse, Rat
Application Methods: Flow Cytometry, Immunofluorescence (Immunocytochemistry), Immunohistochemistry (Frozen), Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin), Western Blotting
Background: Heat shock protein (HSP) 27 is one of the small HSPs that are constitutively expressed at different levels in various cell types and tissues. Like other small HSPs, HSP27 is regulated at both the transcriptional and posttranslational levels (1). In response to stress, the HSP27 expression increases several-fold to confer cellular resistance to the adverse environmental change. HSP27 is phosphorylated at Ser15, Ser78, and Ser82 by MAPKAPK-2 as a result of the activation of the p38 MAP kinase pathway (2,3). Phosphorylation of HSP27 causes a change in its tertiary structure, which shifts from large homotypic multimers to dimers and monomers (4). It has been shown that phosphorylation and increased concentration of HSP27 modulates actin polymerization and reorganization (5,6).
Polyclonal Antibody - Glucagon Antibody, UniProt ID P01275, Entrez ID 2641 #2760
Application Methods: Immunofluorescence (Frozen), Immunohistochemistry (Frozen), Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin)
Background: Glucose homeostasis is regulated by a variety of hormones including glucagon. Glucagon is synthesized as the precursor molecule proglucagon and is proteolytically processed to yield the mature peptide in α cells of the pancreatic islets. Glucagon causes the release of glucose from glycogen and stimulates gluconeogenesis in the liver (1,2).
Polyclonal Antibody - AIF Antibody, UniProt ID O95831, Entrez ID 9131 #4642
Application Methods: Immunofluorescence (Immunocytochemistry), Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin), Immunoprecipitation, Western Blotting
Background: Apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF, PDCD8) is a ubiquitously expressed flavoprotein that plays a critical role in caspase-independent apoptosis (reviewed in 1,2). AIF is normally localized to the mitochondrial intermembrane space and released in response to apoptotic stimuli (3). Treatment of isolated nuclei with recombinant AIF leads to early apoptotic events, such as chromatin condensation and large-scale DNA fragmentation (3). Studies of AIF knockout mice have shown that the apoptotic activity of AIF is cell type and stimuli-dependent. Also noted was that AIF was required for embryoid body cavitation, representing the first wave of programmed cell death during embryonic morphogenesis (4). Structural analysis of AIF revealed two important regions, the first having oxidoreductase activity and the second being a potential DNA binding domain (3,5). While AIF is redox-active and can behave as an NADH oxidase, this activity is not required for inducing apoptosis (6). Instead, recent studies suggest that AIF has dual functions, a pro-apoptotic activity in the nucleus via its DNA binding and an anti-apoptotic activity via the scavenging of free radicals through its oxidoreductase activity (2,7).
Polyclonal Antibody - Phospho-HSP27 (Ser82) Antibody, UniProt ID P04792, Entrez ID 3315 #2401
Application Methods: Immunofluorescence (Immunocytochemistry), Immunohistochemistry (Frozen), Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin), Western Blotting
Polyclonal Antibody - Cytochrome c Antibody, UniProt ID P99999, Entrez ID 54205 #4272
D. melanogaster, Human, Monkey, Mouse, Rat
Application Methods: Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin), Western Blotting
Background: Cytochrome c is a well conserved electron-transport protein and is part of the respiratory chain localized to mitochondrial intermembrane space (1). Upon apoptotic stimulation, cytochrome c released from mitochondria associates with procaspase-9 (47 kDa)/Apaf 1. This complex processes caspase-9 from inactive proenzyme to its active form (2). This event further triggers caspase-3 activation and eventually leads to apoptosis (3).
Polyclonal Antibody - 14-3-3 τ Antibody, UniProt ID P27348, Entrez ID 10971 #9638
Background: The 14-3-3 family of proteins plays a key regulatory role in signal transduction, checkpoint control, apoptotic and nutrient-sensing pathways (1,2). 14-3-3 proteins are highly conserved and ubiquitously expressed. There are at least seven isoforms, β, γ, ε, σ, ζ, τ, and η that have been identified in mammals. The initially described α and δ isoforms are confirmed to be phosphorylated forms of β and ζ, respectively (3). Through their amino-terminal α helical region, 14-3-3 proteins form homo- or heterodimers that interact with a wide variety of proteins: transcription factors, metabolic enzymes, cytoskeletal proteins, kinases, phosphatases, and other signaling molecules (3,4). The interaction of 14-3-3 proteins with their targets is primarily through a phospho-Ser/Thr motif. However, binding to divergent phospho-Ser/Thr motifs, as well as phosphorylation independent interactions has been observed (4). 14-3-3 binding masks specific sequences of the target protein, and therefore, modulates target protein localization, phosphorylation state, stability, and molecular interactions (1-4). 14-3-3 proteins may also induce target protein conformational changes that modify target protein function (4,5). Distinct temporal and spatial expression patterns of 14-3-3 isoforms have been observed in development and in acute response to extracellular signals and drugs, suggesting that 14-3-3 isoforms may perform different functions despite their sequence similarities (4). Several studies suggest that 14-3-3 isoforms are differentially regulated in cancer and neurological syndromes (2,3).
Polyclonal Antibody - Cleaved Caspase-3 (Asp175) Antibody, UniProt ID P42574, Entrez ID 836 #9661
Background: Caspase-3 (CPP-32, Apoptain, Yama, SCA-1) is a critical executioner of apoptosis, as it is either partially or totally responsible for the proteolytic cleavage of many key proteins, such as the nuclear enzyme poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) (1). Activation of caspase-3 requires proteolytic processing of its inactive zymogen into activated p17 and p12 fragments. Cleavage of caspase-3 requires the aspartic acid residue at the P1 position (2).
Polyclonal Antibody - Lamin A/C Antibody, UniProt ID P02545, Entrez ID 4000 #2032
Background: Lamins are nuclear membrane structural components that are important in maintaining normal cell functions such as cell cycle control, DNA replication, and chromatin organization (1-3). Lamin A/C is cleaved by caspase-6 and serves as a marker for caspase-6 activation. During apoptosis, lamin A/C is specifically cleaved into a large (41-50 kDa) and a small (28 kDa) fragment (3,4). The cleavage of lamins results in nuclear dysregulation and cell death (5,6).
Polyclonal Antibody - Cleaved Lamin A (Small Subunit) Antibody, UniProt ID P02545, Entrez ID 4000 #2035
Application Methods: Immunofluorescence (Immunocytochemistry), Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin), Western Blotting
Application Methods: Flow Cytometry, Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin), Western Blotting
Polyclonal Antibody - PA28γ Antibody, UniProt ID P61289, Entrez ID 10197 #2412
Background: The 20S proteasome is the major proteolytic enzyme complex involved in intracellular protein degradation. PA700, PA28, and PA200 are three major protein complexes that function as activators of the 20S proteasome. There are three evolutionarily conserved subunits of PA28: PA28α (PSME1), PA28β (PSME2), and PA28γ (PSME3) (1,2). PA28α and PA28β form a heteroheptameric complex and function by binding to the 20S complex at its opening site(s). The PA28α/β complex is present throughout the cell and participates in MHC class I antigen presentation by promoting the generation of antigenic peptides from foreign proteins (2). PA28γ exists in the form of a homoheptamer and is mainly located in the nucleus. The PA28γ complex exerts its function by binding and guiding specific nuclear target proteins to the 20S proteasome for further degradation (3,4).
Polyclonal Antibody - NME1/NDKA (D98) Antibody, UniProt ID P15531, Entrez ID 4830 #3345
Background: The NDK/NME/NM23 kinase family (encoded by the NME gene family) consists of at least eight distinct proteins that exhibit different cellular localization (1). Members of this group inhibit metastasis in a variety of tumor cell types (2). All NDK/NME/NM23 proteins possess nucleoside diphosphatase kinase (NDK) activity and catalyze the phosphorylation of nucleoside diphosphate to the corresponding nucleoside triphosphate to regulate a diverse array of cellular events (3). At least four classes of NDK biochemical activities have been described, including protein-protein interactions (4-6), regulation of GTP-binding protein function (7-9), DNA-associated activities (10,11), and histidine-dependent protein phosphotransferase activity (12). NDK/NME proteins participate in the regulation of a broad spectrum of cellular responses, including development, differentiation, proliferation, endocytosis, and apoptosis (13). Because of its role in metastasis suppression and oncogenesis, NDKA (NME1/NM23-H1) has been widely studied (14). NDKA (NM23-H1) and NDKB (NM23-H2) are encoded by adjacent NME1 and NME2 genes and share 90% sequence identity. Two serine residues (Ser122 and Ser144) on NDKA/NM23-H1 can be phosphorylated by AMPKα1, but only phosphorylation at Ser122 determines whether NDKA channels ATP to AMPKα1. This regulates AMPKα1 activity towards ACC1, an important regulator of fatty acid metabolism (15). Mutation of NDKB/NM23-H2 at Ser122 (S122P) in melanoma cells results in altered phosphoryl transfer activity (16).
Polyclonal Antibody - Phospho-p63 (Ser160/162) Antibody, UniProt ID Q9H3D4, Entrez ID 8626 #4981
Background: The p53 tumor suppressor protein plays a major role in cellular response to DNA damage and other genomic aberrations. Activation of p53 can lead to either cell cycle arrest and DNA repair or apoptosis (1). In addition to p53, mammalian cells contain two p53 family members, p63 and p73, which are similar to p53 in both structure and function (2). While p63 can induce p53-responsive genes and apoptosis, mutation of p63 rarely results in tumors (2). Research investigators frequently observe amplification of the p63 gene in squamous cell carcinomas of the lung, head and neck (2,3). The p63 gene contains an alternative transcription initiation site that yields a truncated ΔNp63 lacking the transactivation domain, and alternative splicing at the carboxy-terminus yields the α, β, and γ isoforms (3,4).
Polyclonal Antibody - Phospho-HDAC3 (Ser424) Antibody, UniProt ID O15379, Entrez ID 8841 #3815
Background: Acetylation of the histone tail causes chromatin to adopt an "open" conformation, allowing increased accessibility of transcription factors to DNA. The identification of histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and their large multiprotein complexes has yielded important insights into how these enzymes regulate transcription (1,2). HAT complexes interact with sequence-specific activator proteins to target specific genes. In addition to histones, HATs can acetylate nonhistone proteins, suggesting multiple roles for these enzymes (3). In contrast, histone deacetylation promotes a "closed" chromatin conformation and typically leads to repression of gene activity (4). Mammalian histone deacetylases can be divided into three classes on the basis of their similarity to various yeast deacetylases (5). Class I proteins (HDACs 1, 2, 3, and 8) are related to the yeast Rpd3-like proteins, those in class II (HDACs 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10) are related to yeast Hda1-like proteins, and class III proteins are related to the yeast protein Sir2. Inhibitors of HDAC activity are now being explored as potential therapeutic cancer agents (6,7).
Polyclonal Antibody - Pan-Cadherin Antibody, UniProt ID P12830, Entrez ID 1000 #4068
Bovine, D. melanogaster, Human, Monkey, Mouse, Rat, Zebrafish
Background: Cadherins are a superfamily of transmembrane glycoproteins that contain cadherin repeats of approximately 100 residues in their extracellular domain. Cadherins mediate calcium-dependent cell-cell adhesion and play critical roles in normal tissue development (1). The classic cadherin subfamily includes N-, P-, R-, B-, and E-cadherins, as well as about ten other members that are found in adherens junctions, a cellular structure near the apical surface of polarized epithelial cells. The cytoplasmic domain of classical cadherins interacts with β-catenin, γ-catenin (also called plakoglobin), and p120 catenin. β-catenin and γ-catenin associate with α-catenin, which links the cadherin-catenin complex to the actin cytoskeleton (1,2). While β- and γ-catenin play structural roles in the junctional complex, p120 regulates cadherin adhesive activity and trafficking (1-4). Investigators consider E-cadherin an active suppressor of invasion and growth of many epithelial cancers (1-3). Research studies indicate that cancer cells have upregulated N-cadherin in addition to loss of E-cadherin. This change in cadherin expression is called the "cadherin switch." N-cadherin cooperates with the FGF receptor, leading to overexpression of MMP-9 and cellular invasion (3). Research studies have shown that in endothelial cells, VE-cadherin signaling, expression, and localization correlate with vascular permeability and tumor angiogenesis (5,6). Investigators have also demonstrated that expression of P-cadherin, which is normally present in epithelial cells, is also altered in ovarian and other human cancers (7,8).
Polyclonal Antibody - VDAC Antibody, UniProt ID P21796, Entrez ID 7416 #4866
Bovine, Human, Mouse, Rat
Background: Voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC), ubiquitously expressed and located in the outer mitochondrial membrane, is generally thought to be the primary means by which metabolites diffuse in and out of the mitochondria (1). In addition, this channel plays a role in apoptotic signaling. The change in mitochondrial permeability characteristic of apoptosis is mediated by Bcl-2 family proteins, which bind to VDAC, altering the channel kinetics (2). Homodimerization of VDAC may be a mechanism for changing mitochondrial permeability and supporting release of cytochrome c (3). In mammalian cells, there are three VDAC isoforms, VDAC1, which is the most widely expressed isoform, as well as VDAC2 and VDAC3 (4,5).
Polyclonal Antibody - HSP90 (E289) Antibody, UniProt ID P07900, Entrez ID 3320 #4875
Background: HSP70 and HSP90 are molecular chaperones expressed constitutively under normal conditions to maintain protein homeostasis and are induced upon environmental stress (1). Both HSP70 and HSP90 are able to interact with unfolded proteins to prevent irreversible aggregation and catalyze the refolding of their substrates in an ATP- and co-chaperone-dependent manner (1). HSP70 has a broad range of substrates including newly synthesized and denatured proteins, while HSP90 tends to have a more limited subset of substrates, most of which are signaling molecules. HSP70 and HSP90 often function collaboratively in a multi-chaperone system, which requires a minimal set of co-chaperones: HSP40, Hop, and p23 (2,3). The co-chaperones either regulate the intrinsic ATPase activity of the chaperones or recruit chaperones to specific substrates or subcellular compartments (1,4). When the ubiquitin ligase CHIP associates with the HSP70/HSP90 complex as a cofactor, the unfolded substrates are subjected to degradation by the proteasome (4). The biological functions of HSP70/HSP90 extend beyond their chaperone activity. They are essential for the maturation and inactivation of nuclear hormones and other signaling molecules (1,3). They also play a role in vesicle formation and protein trafficking (2).
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Home Uncategorized Like an over-caffeinated grandpa reading a bedtime story…
Like an over-caffeinated grandpa reading a bedtime story…
My unbridled enthusiasm for Teodoro Petkoff’s politics is matched only by my dismay at the guy’s abysmal electioneering skills. A little bird put this campaign ad and this other one in my inbox. It’s stunning – after all these years, the guy still manages to come off as both condescending and over-intellectual when he panders.
I can’t exactly put my finger on why I think these ads are so terrible. It’s not the message; though it could be better phrased, it’s what we’ve come to expect from him. Partly, it’s that – bizarrely – he’s dressed like a mortician.
Mostly, tough, it’s the impression you’re left with after watching them, the taste they leave in your mouth. There’s something about his intonation that makes him sound like an over-caffeinated grandpa reading a bedtime story. It’s terrible. You don’t feel like you’re watching a leader in waiting, you feel like you’re watching a pundit, a fantastically entertaining insider maybe…but not a leader.
One thing actively horrified me: he uses that ghastly formulation – “los más pobres” – to refer to the poor, and so unwittingly ends up talking about them, rather than to them – a estas alturas del partido! Teodoro, pana, you’re not at the Ateneo: you can’t talk to people whose votes you desperately need as though they’re not in the room!
My source isn’t sure if these ads are already running on Venezuelan TV, or if they’re just screen-tests. Note to Teodoro’s people: Teo is a disaster reading into a camera. You’d do much better going for more produced, voice-overed ads like this one.
Want s’more free advice? Get it through your heads: you can’t beat Chavez with brilliant analysis. You can sell a lot of newspapers that way, yes, but it won’t win you an election. Teo needs to use his ads to establish an emotional connection with the audience – because elections are won in the gut, not the head. That’s true not just in Venezuela, that’s true everywhere.
So show the guy walking through the Sur del Lago town where he grew up, show him emoting as he sees the conditions there, show him talking to poor folks, not about them. That might get you somewhere. But these ads – especially the first two – are seriously off on the wrong track.
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These Ontario Communities Don't Want Cannabis Stores, So The Gov't Is Letting Them Off The Hook (For Now)
Tess Allen
Municipal officials in a handful of Ontario municipalities are making it known they have no interest in playing host to cannabis stores. As a result, the provincial government has said it will delay opening retail outlets in those communities.
Richmond Hill Mayor Dave Barrow said his town council has been flooded with complaints from residents about the provincial government’s plan to open a cannabis store in the suburb north of Toronto.
"We have taken a stance of: We are not a willing host," said Barrow said in an interview. "…I don't know that we are going to get anywhere. But we had thousands [of people saying] we don't want it in our community, we don't want it near our schools, we don't want it here and why do we have to have it?"
Officials from the municipalities of Vaughan and Markham have also expressed their concerns or downright objections to having cannabis stores in their areas.
"We've sort of kept them at bay for now," said Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti said.
"I certainly conveyed to them that Markham didn't want to be the first… We've got a lot of questions about how it's going to work."
A spokeswoman for Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa says the government will not force municipalities to accept cannabis stores – at least not in the first wave of 40 outlets planned for Canada’s legalization deadline of July 1, 2018.
"If a municipality is not prepared to locate a store, the province will defer locating in that municipality," Jessica Martin, Sousa's press secretary, said in an e-mail. "As we roll-out the next phase of stores, we will continue to engage with municipalities on an ongoing basis, including with those municipalities who may not be ready for a store opening in July, 2018. Ultimately, our goal through a controlled model is to ensure a safe and sensible framework for cannabis legalization."
That said, it does not appear that municipalities will be able to refuse participation in the Ontario government’s plan to open 150 cannabis stores by 2020.
The Ontario government recently announced the first 14 municipalities where it planned to open cannabis stores: Barrie, Brampton, Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener, London, Mississauga, Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Vaughan and Windsor.
Municipalities across Ontario – including Toronto, Richmond Hill and Markham – have expressed concerns over a lack of cannabis revenues to cover higher policing costs.
h/t The Globe and Mail
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Canada forced to pay bigger share of F-35 fighter jet development costs — even though it may never buy any
Canada has pitched in more than half-a-billion dollars over the last 20 years.
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Published on: February 5, 2019 | Last Updated: February 5, 2019 4:58 PM EST
The unveiling of the first F-35 fighter plane to be delivered to the Netherlands, which is partnering with the United States in the fighter program, at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, Texas, Jan. 30. Max Faulkner/Associated Press
Canada is being forced to shoulder a bigger share of the costs of developing F-35 fighter jets even though it has not decided whether it will buy any.
Canada is one of nine partner countries in the F-35 project, each of which is required to cover a portion of the stealth fighter’s multibillion-dollar development costs to stay at the table.
Each country pays based on the number of F-35s it’s expecting to buy. Canada has pitched in more than half-a-billion dollars over the last 20 years, including $54 million last year.
But that amount was based on the Stephen Harper government’s plan to buy 65 new fighter jets to replace Canada’s aging CF-18s, which the Trudeau government has since officially increased to 88.
Even though Canada has not committed that those 88 jets will be F-35s, the Department of National Defence says that change means it will have to pay more to remain a partner — including about $72 million this year.
“Canada’s costs under the F-35 (partnership agreement) are based on an intended fleet size,” Defence Department spokeswoman Ashley Lemire said in an email.
“Canada changed its fleet size within the F-35 (agreement) from 65 to 88 aircraft to align with government decisions on the size of the intended permanent fighter fleet to be acquired through competition and the payment increased accordingly.”
Canada is being forced to shoulder a bigger share of the costs of developing the F-35 even though it has not decided whether it will actually buy the fighter jet. An F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is seen in a hangar in Ottawa on July 16, 2010. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
As each partner contribution is determined annually, based on the overall cost of the F-35 development program for that specific year, Lemire said she could not provide details how much more Canada will have to pay.
The F-35’s development costs have been a constant source of criticism over the life of the stealth-fighter program, which Canada first joined under the Chretien government in 1997. The entire program is believed to have already cost more than US$1 trillion.
The Trudeau government says it plans to keep Canada in the F-35 development effort until a replacement for the CF-18s is chosen — partners in the development work can buy the planes at a lower price and compete for work associated with their production and long-term maintenance.
Canadian companies have so far won more than $1.2 billion in contracts related to the F-35, according to the government.
The F-35 is one of four planes slated to participate in the $19-billion competition that the government plans to launch this spring, the others being Boeing’s Super Hornet, Eurofighter’s Typhoon and Saab’s Gripen.
The competition isn’t scheduled to select a winner until 2021 or 2022, meaning Canada will be on the hook for several more payments. The first new aircraft is expected in 2025 and the last in 2031, when the CF-18s will be phased out.
F-35 maker Lockheed Martin says more than 350 of the stealth fighters have been delivered to different countries, while Israel became the first country to use the plane in combat last year when two of the jets struck targets in neighbouring Syria.
Acting U.S. defence secretary Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, nonetheless criticized the program on Monday, saying it “has room for a lot more performance.”
“I am biased toward performance,” he was quoted as saying when asked if he is biased toward Boeing. “I am biased toward giving the taxpayer their money’s worth. And the F-35, unequivocally, I can say, has a lot of opportunity for more performance.”
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Review: True story eye-poppingly told in Burton's 'Big Eyes'
Dec 24, 2014 at 12:01 AM Dec 24, 2014 at 5:15 PM
You've likely seen the images, even if you have no idea who painted them: Those waifs with the huge, saucer-like eyes, appearing in oil paintings, posters, postcards, refrigerator magnets.
Actually, for years, nobody actually knew who painted them.
That's because Walter Keane, a showboating sociopath, claimed credit, when it was his wife, Margaret, who actually was the sole artist, closeted away in a home studio filled with turpentine fumes. It was an epic story of art fraud that ended with a dramatic 1986 trial in which Margaret proved her case by painting a doe-eyed child right in front of the judge.
It's interesting that in this season packed with movies based on real-life stories about genius and bravery, we have, in the same week, two high-profile films about painters. Yet the stories they tell could hardly be more different. Whereas Mike Leigh's "Mr. Turner" portrays an acclaimed genius, the prolific British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner, Tim Burton's "Big Eyes," about the Keanes, depicts a type of art that was decidedly middlebrow.
It's a different sort of art than we're used to seeing in movies: art as mass commerce. Art you can buy for a dollar. And art that's wholly in the eye of the beholder. At one point, Christoph Waltz's Walter says excitedly, as he discovers people will pay for cheaply produced posters: "They don't care if they're getting an original. They just want something they like."
It would have been nice if Burton explored that concept more deeply, but what he's given us is enjoyable and engaging: A visually stunning (no surprise there) evocation of the San Francisco art scene in the '60s, and an absorbing portrait of a disturbing marriage.
The main drawback comes with the calibration of the two lead performances. As Margaret, Amy Adams gives a sensitive, wide-eyed (no pun intended) portrayal of a woman with low self-esteem, driven primarily by the desire to protect and support her daughter. It's a necessarily restrained performance, and Adams, as usual, is extremely moving.
Waltz is suitably creepy as Walter. But consistently, and too early, he takes the performance over the top, to the point where it seems like he's appearing in a different, much zanier movie. It gets exhausting.
We meet Margaret in 1958 just as she's left her (unseen) first husband, and is heading with her daughter to San Francisco's culturally exciting North Beach. (Burton makes North Beach look so eye-poppingly gorgeous, we want to head over there right now.)
Sketching children at a street fair for pennies, she meets Walter, a flirtatious sort who intoxicates her with stories of studying art in Paris. In a flash, they're married.
Their work � he seems to specialize in generic Parisian street scenes � is ignored by snooty gallery owners (Jason Schwartzman is amusing as one of them), but Walter hits on the idea of renting walls at a nightclub. There, Margaret's waifs strike a chord with customers on their way to the john. She's made the mistake of signing them only "Keane." Walter convinces her that nobody will buy "lady art." And so, he becomes the artist.
While Margaret slaves away, Walter markets the works aggressively, earning the disdain of establishment types like New York Times art critic John Canaday (a deliciously icy Terence Stamp.) As the stakes rise, Walter becomes increasingly abusive, and after a harrowing encounter, Margaret escapes to Hawaii with her daughter.
There, she is finally inspired to come clean, telling a radio show in 1970 that she's the true artist. He responds that she's crazy.
The 1986 trial, Keane vs. Keane, is a hugely satisfying final act � how could it not be? The judge, after endless showboating from Walter, decides to give each spouse an hour to produce a big-eyed waif.
It's no secret how that turns out. But it's still a heck of a lot of fun to watch.
"Big Eyes," a Weinstein Co. release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America "for thematic elements and brief strong language." Running time: 105 minutes. Three stars out of four.
MPAA definition of PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
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Venom Breaks October Opening Record with $205 Million Globally!
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By Spencer Perry
Venom breaks October opening record with $205 million globally
Columbia Pictures’ Venom is officially the #1 movie in the world and has achieved the biggest opening in October both domestically and internationally. The Spider-Man less spin-off opened to $80 million domestically, obliterating the previous record for highest opening weekend in October set by Gravity (5$5.78 million back in 2013). Internationally, the film took in $125.2 million, beating out the life time gross of some high profile comic book adaptations in some markets. Directed by Ruben Fleischer, the film stars Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed, and Michelle Williams. Venom is produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach and Amy Pascal.
Warner Bros. Pictures’ A Star is Born opened in second place, with a still impressive haul of $41.25 million. The film added another $14 million internationally for a global debut of $54 million. A Star is Born stars four-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper and multiple award-winning, Oscar-nominated music superstar Lady Gaga (as Stefani Germanotta), in her first leading role in a major motion picture. Cooper helms the drama, marking his directorial debut.
Warner Bros. upcoming animated adventure Smallfoot fell from second to third place, adding another $14.9 million to its total for a domestic haul of $42.7 million. The animated adventure added $11.7 from international markets, giving it a worldwide total of $75 million. Smallfoot boasts an impressive voice cast, including Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya, Common, LeBron James, Gina Rodriguez, Danny DeVito, Yara Shahidi, Ely Henry, and Jimmy Tatro.
Universal Pictures‘ Night School fell an average 55% in its second weekend, slipping from first to fourth at the domestic box office with $12.2 million. The Kevin Hart comedy has now brought in $46 million at the domestic box office, putting it on the lower end of his filmography and far from the likes of Ride Along or Central Intelligence. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee, Night School also stars Tiffany Haddish, Taran Killam, Rob Riggle, Romany Malco, and Ben Schwartz
Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment’s The House with a Clock in its Walls third to fifth place in its third weekend of release, bringing in another $7.29 million. The film is now technically Eli Roth’s highest grossing movie (though factoring in inflation adjustments, 2006’s Hostel is still his highest with $66.9 million). The adaptation has now brought in $79.3 million worldwide, just behind Hostel’s worldwide gross of $80.6 million. Based on the beloved children’s classic written by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey, The House with a Clock in Its Walls is directed by Eli Roth and stars Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Kyle MacLachlan, Colleen Camp, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Vanessa Anne Williams and Sunny Suljic.
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American Dad! Sets Season 16 Premiere Date on TBS
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The animated sitcom American Dad! got a premiere date for the show’s 16th season. According to Variety, the long-running series will premiere February 11 on TBS. They’ve also released a teaser for its upcoming run, which you can check out in the trailer below!
The show first premiered on Fox back in 2005, where it ran for 11 seasons. It was then picked up by TBS in 2014, where its been on its schedule ever since.
American Dad! is known as irreverent, satirical, animated comedy created by Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, The Orville), Mike Barker (Off Centre, The PJs) and Matt Weitzman (Father of the Pride). The series is executive-produced by co-showrunner Brian Boyle along with creators MacFarlane and Weitzman.
The story centers on super patriotic CIA agent Stan Smith (voiced by MacFarlane) and the misadventures of his unconventional family in Langley Falls, Va. This includes his wife Francine (Wendy Schaal), their two children, the rebellious Hayley (Rachael MacFarlane) and her geeky brother Steve (Scott Grimes), as well as the family’s resident alien Roger (also voiced by MacFarlane).
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Lifetime Channel’s “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” will feature 10 new original movies this holiday
Lifetime today unveiled “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” the network’s major star-studded holiday movie slate featuring the world premieres of ten Lifetime Original Movies featuring such beloved stars as David Hasselhoff, Mira Sorvino, Haylie Duff, Ralph Macchio, Lea Thompson, Marilu Henner, Harry Hamlin and numerous others, including Shelley Long and George Wendt reuniting together for the first time since Cheers.
The largest holiday stunt in the network’s history, “It’s a Wonderful Lifetim”e will run from early November through December, during which Lifetime will telecast more than 50 holiday-themed films that capture everything about the holiday spirit.
Here is a rundown of the new films:
The Christmas Consultant
Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 8:00pm ET
Starring David Hasselhoff as a sought after consultant hired by a workaholic mother played by Caroline Rhea to get her and her family through the holidays. What she doesn’t bargain for are his taking over her role as head of the household and when Christmas and family collide, she realizes hiring him was the best decision she has ever made.
All About Christmas Eve
Starring Haylie Duff as Eve Wright, an over-extended New York City party planner who has to decide whether to jeopardize her career and go off on a romantic Christmas vacation or risk ending the relationship when a top client insists on throwing a huge Christmas Eve party 3,000 miles away in Los Angeles. Cameo appearances by American Idol finalists and real-life couple Ace Young and Diana DiGarmo.
Finding Mrs. Claus
When Mrs. Claus (Mira Sorvino) feels neglected by her less than attentive husband (Will Sasso), she goes to Las Vegas to help a little girl with her Christmas wish. But when Santa finds out and follows her to Sin City to make amends, he puts Christmas at risk when things don’t go quite as he planned.
Holiday High School Reunion
Rachel Boston, Marilu Henner and Harry Hamlin star. Georgia (Boston), returns home during Christmas just in time for her high school reunion, where she hopes to reunite with “the one that got away.” In a series of hilarious flashbacks, we’ll see her high school experience play out as Georgia discovers that maybe the one who got away was instead the one who was there all along.
Holiday Spin
In this heartwarming movie, Ralph Macchio stars as a former dance champion sidelined years ago by an injury. When his estranged son comes to live with him, he enlists his help in preparing for the Holiday Spin, a ballroom dance contest which takes place every Christmas Eve. Through teamwork, love and holiday cheer — and some pretty fancy dance moves by both father and son — they do what it takes to win the grand prize.
Holly’s Holiday
Claire Coffee stars as advertising executive Holly, who can’t quite imagine why she is so drawn to the handsome mannequin in the perfect holiday window display she passes every morning. When she is knocked unconscious by a falling icicle, her once fake window man becomes the man of her dreams, but she soon discovers that though his looks are perfect, his personality is still, well, plastic.
Love at the Christmas Table
Danica McKellar, Lea Thompson and Scott Patterson star in a romantic holiday tale about two best friends – Sam (Dustin Mulligan) and Katherine (McKellar) have spent every Christmas at the children’s table since they were toddlers. They grew up together sharing the highs and lows of young adulthood. Now nearly 30 years later, Sam realizes Katherine is the one… but he is afraid that the past will get in his way.
The March Sisters at Christmas
Stars Julie Marie Berman as eldest sister, Jo March, on a contemporary take of the timeless novel, Little Women. We follow the sisters (Kaitlin Doubleday, Melissa Farman and Molly Kunz) as they fight to save their family home, Orchard House, and search for love during Christmas time. John Shea co-stars.
Merry-In-Laws
In this laugh riot starring Shelley Long and George Wendt, together for the first time since Cheers, as Mr. and Mrs. Claus, who are about to meet their future daughter-in-law, a single, uber-intelligent mother and her equally Mensa-type son. Imagine saying “yes” to your boyfriend’s marriage proposal and then finding out that your future in-laws are Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus!
The Real St. Nick
Directed by Penelope Spheeris, stars Torrey Devito and Callard Harris. Devitto stars as psychiatrist Kate, who attends to a handsome but unconscious man in a Santa Claus suit who saved her during an earthquake. When he awakens and insists he is Santa Claus, he is placed in the hospital’s psychiatric wing, where his Christmas spirit soon “infects” everyone in the ward and Kate can’t help falling for the man even before she finds out his real identity.
Other movies scheduled to air on Lifetime during “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” include:
12 Men of Christmas, starring Kristin Chenoweth
Noel, with Penelope Cruz, Susan Sarandon, Alan Arkin and Robin Williams
The Perfect Holiday, featuring Queen Latifah
If You Believe, with Hayden Panettiere
The Christmas Hope, starring Madeleine Stowe
The Christmas Blessing, featuring Rob Lowe and Neil Patrick Harris
Nothing Like the Holidays, with Debra Messing and John Leguizamo
Recipe for a Perfect Christmas, featuring Christine Baranski and Bobby Cannavale
A Diva’s Christmas Carol, starring Vanessa Williams
Undercover Christmas, with Jami Gertz and Tyne Daly
A Very Married Christmas, with Joe Mantegna and Jean Smart
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brandy says:
I love the movie “Stealing Christmas” with Tony Danza and Betty White. It was one on my favorites to watch every holiday but I have not seen it air in a couple of years and I don’t remember what channel it first aired on.
I LOVE the Movie “Ebbie” with Susan Lucci. I haven’t seen it for years. I don’t remember what station used to show it but I would love to see it this year!
THis movie is being released under the title:
Miracle At Christmas: Ebbie’s Story,
and is available on Amazon for pre-order.
I just ordered a copy yesterday.
Happy Holidays Kelly!
corine smith says:
I love it, but can you play the most wonderful time of the year with brook burns and henry winkler
Mrs. Claus says:
We love that one too Corine! The Most Wonderful Time of the Year will be on the Hallmark Channel November 3rd and 4th. Check here for times: http://www.countdownuntilchristmas.com/christmas-movies-a-to-z/the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year/
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Lawrence Frederic Tagnon, husband of Ginette (Samson) Tagnon, passed away, Sunday, April 14, 2019 at Middlesex Hospital surrounded by his loving family. In addition to his wife, Larry is survived by his children, Johanne L. Tagnon-Gregor and Eric H. Tagnon, son in law, Jonathon J. Gregor, grandchildren Jordan P. Gregor and Jolene B. Tagnon. He was predeceased by his grandson, Ryan C. Maudsley. He is also survived by his sisters Judith Little of IA and Patricia Turnquist of CA and brothers in law, nieces and nephews in Quebec, Canada. Besides his family, he leaves many beloved friends, the Jones and the DeFrance families and Cheryl and Gary Wolcott. Larry was born in San Francisco, CA, November 1, 1938 at St. Francis Hospital. He spent his earlier years of life in Belgium and Canada to learn French. Following high school, he joined the US Navy and served for ten years where he was stationed overseas and in the US before moving to Connecticut. He joined the Air National Guard and retired as a Master Sergeant after twenty four years of service. He then went on to work for the State of Connecticut for seventeen years. He was an avid fan of camping and other outdoor activities. He was a Scout Master for Troop 10 in Middletown, CT for many years and a member of American Legion Post 75. He traveled to Quebec City, Canada often to see family and enjoy the country he loved so much. Following his retirement, he joined the Knights of Columbus, Council #3 and became Financial Secretary, Grand Knight and a Faithful Trustee of McFarland Assembly 98- 4th Degree. A Memorial Mass will be held at Saint Francis of Assisi Church, 10 Elm Street, Middletown on Tuesday May 14th at 11 a.m. There are no calling hours. Burial will be at the convenience of the family. Memorial donations may be made in Larry's name to CT Trees of Honor Memorial, Veteran's Park, Middletown, CT 06457 www.cttreesofhonor.com. Biega Funeral Home has care of the arrangements. To share memories or express condolences online please visit www.biegafuneralhome.com. Biega's Funeral Home - Middletown 3 Silver Street Middletown 06457 860-346-1055 Website
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Tip: Importance of Itemizing. Charitable contributions are deductible only if you itemize deductions on Form 1040, Schedule A. Those who take the standard deduction cannot deduct their contributions.
Internal Revenue Service, 2017
According to Giving USA 2017, Americans gave an estimated $390.05 billion to charity in 2016. That’s the highest total in more than 60 years since the report was first published.1
Americans give to charity for two main reasons: To support a cause or organization they care about, or to leave a legacy through their support.
When giving to charitable organizations, some people elect to support through cash donations. Others, however, understand that supporting an organization may generate tax benefits. They may opt to follow techniques that can maximize both the gift and the potential tax benefit. Here’s a quick review of a few charitable choices:
Direct gifts are just that: contributions made directly to charitable organizations. Direct gifts may be deductible from income taxes depending on your individual situation.
Charitable gift annuities are not related to annuities offered by insurance companies. Under this arrangement, the donor gives money, securities, or real estate, and in return, the charitable organization agrees to pay the donor a fixed income. Upon the death of the donor, the assets pass to the charitable organization. Charitable gift annuities enable donors to receive consistent income and potentially manage taxes.
Pooled-income funds pool contributions from various donors into a fund, which is invested by the charitable organization. Income from the fund is distributed to the donors according to their share of the fund. Pooled-income funds enable donors to receive income, potentially manage taxes, and make a future gift to charity.
Fast Fact: Contributions by individuals, couples, and families accounted for 72% of the $390.05 billion donated to charitable organizations in 2016.
Giving USA Foundation, 2017
Gifts in trust enable donors to contribute to a charity and leave assets to beneficiaries. Generally, these irrevocable trusts take one of two forms. With a charitable remainder trust, the donor can receive lifetime income from the assets in the trust, which then pass to the charity when the donor dies; in the case of a charitable lead trust, the charity receives the income from the assets in the trust, which then pass to the donor’s beneficiaries when the donor dies.
Donor-advised funds are funds administered by a charity to which a donor can make irrevocable contributions. This gift may have tax considerations, which is another benefit. The donor also can recommend that the fund make distributions to qualified charitable organizations.
Some people are comfortable with their current gifting strategies. Others, however, may want a more advanced strategy that can maximize their gift and generate potential tax benefits. A financial professional can help you assess which approach may work best for you.
Remember, the information in this article is not intended as tax or legal advice. And it may not be used for the purpose of avoiding any federal tax penalties. Please consult legal or tax professionals for specific information regarding your individual situation.
Giving and Net Worth
Charitable giving appears to trail household net worth by about one year. When household net worth dipped in 2008, charitable giving dipped in 2009.
Chart Source: Giving USA Foundation, 2017; Federal Reserve, 2017
The biggest percentage of charitable contributions — 32% — went to churches and religious organizations. A variety of different types of groups were on the receiving end of charitable gifts.
Chart Source: Giving USA Foundation, 2016
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PPP workers ignore party directives to vote for PML-N
Aamir YasinOctober 15, 2018
RAWALPINDI: Though the PPP had announced to support the PML-N in the by-elections in Punjab, including in Rawalpindi, its workers seemed divided as some supported the PTI’s candidate in NA-60 while others backed the PML-N.
No major PPP leader visited the polling camps of the PML-N on the day of the election and the workers went with their own choice.
A senor PPP leader told Dawn the party workers had wanted it to field a candidate of its own.
“It is the negligence of the PPP leadership that they did not field a candidate in NA-60. Mukhtar Abbas refused to contest the by-elections,” he said, adding that this will affect the party’s position in the upcoming local government elections.
He said the PPP should do its homework before the elections and appoint an in-charge for this in the various national and provincial assembly constituencies.
He said workers did not know the party’s candidates in the July 25 general elections and that there was also confusion about the party’s candidate for the by-polls till the eleventh hour.
He added that the party would have put up a good fight in the by-polls if it had fielded a strong candidate since the PTI is divided.
PPP city spokesperson Nasir Mir told Dawn that the party had not made the right decision and had repeated the mistake of 1985 when it left the field open for other parties.
“After the 1985 boycott of the elections, the PPP lost its strongholds in Punjab and the same was done in these by-polls,” he said, adding that the leadership should sit together and find ways to improve its position in the largest province.
In Rawalpindi, he said, workers were divided on whether they should support the PTI or PML-N. He said many local leaders had openly supported the Lal Haveli group led by Sheikh Rashid Ahmed while others voted for the PML-N.
He said the party will suffer in the next general elections due to the wrong decisions and that the party workers voted for no one other than Benazir Bhutto when she was alive.
However, the jialas have changed and support the stronger group in their area as there are no ideological voters in Rawalpindi.
“There is a leadership vacuum in the city and Cantt areas which the party needs to fill,” he said.
Published in Dawn, October 15th, 2018
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DOL “Investment Advice” FAQs: Considerations for Investment Advisers, Broker-Dealers and Insurance Companies
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued in April 2016 the final version of its controversial “investment advice” regulation and various related exemptions (collectively, Final Rules), which are widely expected to have a significant impact on the financial services industry. Recently, the DOL issued a first set of FAQs regarding the Final Rules.
As discussed in previous Dechert OnPoints, the Final Rules expand the universe of those considered to be “fiduciaries” under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and section 4975(e)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code), through the provision of investment advice to retirement investors (including retirement plans and individual retirement accounts (IRAs)). As a result, a financial institution or adviser dealing with a retirement investor must either: (i) avoid giving advice that results in fiduciary status under the Final Rules; or (ii) operate in compliance with the Final Rules (including the requirements of any exemption necessary to receive compensation or engage in a transaction that would otherwise be prohibited for an ERISA fiduciary).
Read "DOL “Investment Advice” FAQs: Considerations for Investment Advisers, Broker-Dealers and Insurance Companies."
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Charles Hazlewood is a conductor of international renown and a two times TED speaker who has conducted some of the greatest classical repertoire with some of the best orchestras in the world. He is also a visionary with a mission to bring the joy of orchestral music to new audiences and change lives and communities for the better.
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Charles believes that music can overcome barriers of language, class and culture and has proved this during his career: an opera company recruited from black townships in South Africa won the Golden Bear Award for best film at the Berlin Film Festival, a pay-what-you-can orchestral music festival attended by 1000's of people who had never heard an orchestra live before and the world's first orchestra of disabled musicians, who played alongside Coldplay at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympics. Charles is not only well known for what he has achieved, but how he achieved it. He has evolved a creative leadership style that has won the hearts and minds of many in the world of arts, business, education, sports, medicine and industry. Charles guest-conducts orchestras around the world and is a familiar figure on British TV and radio.
Charles draws from analogies between the workings of an office with that of an orchestra. Both music and business depend on individuals working as part of a whole, in pursuit of a common goal. His presentations on leadership, trust, creativity and change have inspired audiences from many of the world's leading organisations.
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Trump’s Jerusalem decision deprives US of leverage in peace talks, Trump sheds a presidential mask, Leave no one behind in the global clean energy transition, Rape by Myanmar’s armed forces must be addressed, The West’s hand in the Libyan slave market
A roundup of global commentary for the Dec. 25, 2017 weekly magazine.
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President Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Dec. 6, 2017, in Washington. Mr. Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital despite intense Arab, Muslim and European opposition to a move that would upend decades of US policy and risk potentially violent protests.
By Monitor Editors
The Japan Times / Tokyo
Trump’s Jerusalem decision deprives US of leverage in peace talks
“U.S. President Donald Trump announced [recently] that he would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel...,” states an editorial. “While Trump’s decision is a symbolic victory for Israelis, that does not make it a wise move, tactically or strategically.... The move reflects political and strategic calculations. The political ones are straightforward. Trump promised relocation and he needs to keep his base happy.... As a foreign policy matter, the verdict is less clear. Apart from Israel, no other government backed the move.... For those who worry about the end of the peace process, the truth is that there is not much of a peace process today.... Trump’s decision deprives the U.S. of leverage it could use in those talks....”
The Jordan Times / Amman, Jordan
In declaring Jerusalem Israel’s capital, Trump shed a presidential mask
“Now that US President Donald Trump has fully adopted the Israeli right-wing political discourse on Palestine, the Palestinian Authority is in a very tough spot...,” writes Ramzy Baroud. “Trump’s announcement [recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel] has ... laid to rest the illusion that the US was ever keen on achieving a just and lasting peace between Israel and its neighbours.... The Fateh movement of President Mahmoud Abbas declared a ‘day of rage’ in response.... Way to deflect attention from the real crisis at hand: the fact that the PA has miserably failed by leasing the fate of Palestine to Washington.... Trump has ... shed a mask that every US president has worn for decades.”
EUObserver / Brussels
During the global clean energy transition, no one should be left behind
“The world is changing at an unprecedented pace...,” writes Maros Sefcovic. “When it comes to energy, change is ... rapid with profound implications on our entire societal and economic model. I often refer to the energy transition as the ‘6Ds model’ [decarbonization, diversification, decentralization, digitization, democratization, and disruption].... The last D is tricky. Disruption is indeed important but it means that the process will be more difficult for some regions than for others. The challenge is particularly present in coal-intensive regions which will have to reinvent themselves.... Europe’s ability to lead the global energy transition depends not only on the front-runners. Our success also depends on the inclusiveness of this change, on ensuring no one is left behind.”
The Daily Star / Dhaka, Bangladesh
Rape by Myanmar’s armed forces must be addressed
“The horrific use of rape by Myanmar’s armed forces, both sweeping and methodical, as found out by The Associated Press (AP) while interviewing Rohingya women, is appalling,” states an editorial. “It must, however, be remembered that this is not the first time that such atrocities – that can only be described as war crimes – by the Myanmar armed forces have come to light.... We understand that all countries have their own geopolitical interests in every matter. However, what is difficult to fathom is how that can supersede the most basic humanitarian aspects that Myanmar has clearly violated.... The crimes committed against the Rohingyas must be addressed through the international criminal justice system....”
Daily Monitor / Kampala, Uganda
The West has a hand in the Libyan slave market
“Despite all the aggressive marketing of the ‘Africa rising’ mantra, the results on the ground tell a different story,” writes Nicholas Sengoba. “The latest contradiction is the case of the ignominious slave market in Libya.... Most of Africa ... has become the mouth of a shark.... Now the Western media is reporting the story like it is about heartless Africans setting on their brethren without moral remorse.... [I]t is not that straight forward.... Africa pays through the nose, especially in servicing interest on loans... Even if an African government means well, it finds itself financially constrained.... The result is that the young population becomes restless and seeks solace in crime, armed struggle.... They seek greener pastures in Europe....”
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The Bureau of International Labor Affairs leads the U.S. Department of Labor's efforts to ensure that workers around the world are treated fairly and are able to share in the benefits of the global economy. ILAB's mission is to improve global working conditions, raise living standards, protect workers' ability to exercise their rights, and address the workplace exploitation of children and other vulnerable populations. Our efforts help to ensure a fair playing field for American workers and contribute to stronger export markets for goods made in the United States. Our work is carried out by three functional offices: Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT)Office of Trade and Labor Affairs (OTLA)Office of International Relations (OIR) What we do Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking We are the world’s leading funder of innovative technical assistance programs to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Our programs provide increased access to education, improve enforcement of child labor laws, and support sustainable livelihoods for parents.We develop and implement U.S. government policies and engage strategically with governments, business, labor, and civil society to reduce child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking.We conduct research under Congressional mandates and Presidential directives that provides reliable and timely information to policymakers; consumers; and business, labor, and advocacy groups. Office of Trade and Labor Affairs We help shape and implement policies on international trade and investment that represent the interests and welfare of U.S. workers.We help enforce labor provisions of U.S. trade agreements and trade preference programs and prevent the exploitation of workers as an unfair means of attracting trade and investment.We provide services, information, expertise, and technical cooperation programs that effectively support U.S. foreign labor policy objectives, especially in the context of trade. Office of International Relations We lead U.S. engagement with the International Labor Organization and represent the U.S. government on employment and labor-related issues in other multilateral fora, including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Organization of American States, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, and the G20 Labor and Employment Ministerial process.We conduct bilateral dialogues on critical labor and employment issues with a number of strategic countries.We develop, coordinate, and advance Department of Labor positions on key global social and economic issues such as worker rights, social protection, sustainable development, youth employment, and job creation.
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Both sides in Sudan political crisis hail power-sharing deal
By Fay Abuelgasim and Noha Elhennawy
Published: July 5, 2019 6:39 am Updated: July 5, 2019 3:49 p.m.
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FILE - In this June 29, 2019, file photo, Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the military council, speaks during a military-backed rally, in Omdurman district, west of Khartoum, Sudan. An African Union envoy says Sudan's ruling military council and the country's pro-democracy movement have reached a power-sharing agreement, including a timetable for a transition to civilian rule. Mohammed el-Hassan Labat said early Friday, July 5, that both sides agreed to form a joint sovereign council that will rule the country for "three years or a little more." The sides agreed to five seats for the military and five for civilians with an additional seat going to a civilian with military background.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan's ruling military council and its pro-democracy movement both welcomed a new power-sharing agreement reached Friday, raising hopes that the deal would end a three-month political crisis that has paralyzed the country and led to scores of deaths following a violent crackdown on peaceful protesters by authorities.
News of the deal, which one analyst said followed regional and international pressure on both sides, touched off street celebrations in the capital of Khartoum with hundreds dancing and waving Sudan's flag as drivers honked their horns. The crisis has gripped Sudan ever since the military ousted longtime autocrat Omar el-Bashir in April.
The sides agreed to form a joint military and civilian sovereign council to lead the country during a transition period of three years and three months, said a statement by the Sudanese Professionals' Association, which has spearheaded the protests. The joint council had been a sticking point in the negotiations.
The council will include five civilians representing the protest movement and five military members. An 11th seat will go to a civilian chosen by both sides. A military member will preside over the council for the first 21 months, followed by a civilian member after that, according to the statement.
That suggested a significant concession by pro-democracy forces, which had insisted that the sovereign council have only a civilian president. But the deal also secured a key demand by protest leaders: that they select the members of a technocratic Cabinet to be formed independently from the generals.
The creation of a legislative council will be postponed for three months, during which time the sovereign council will make the nation's laws.
"Today, our revolution has won and our victory shines," the SPA said in the statement, which was posted on its Facebook page.
The generals also hailed the deal, with the military-controlled Al-Sudan TV channel playing national songs and rerunning excerpts of the news conference by both sides announcing the agreement, with the caption: "Congratulations to the Sudanese people."
"This deal will be comprehensive and will not exclude anyone and will meet the ambitions of the Sudanese people and their victorious revolution," said Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy chief of the ruling military council, speaking at the news conference with protest leaders and African mediators.
The talks had collapsed when security forces razed a protest camp outside the military headquarters in Khartoum on June 3, and protest leaders said more than 100 people have been killed since then. In the ensuing weeks, protesters stayed in the streets, demanding that the generals hand power to civilian leadership.
Omer El-Digair, a leader of the Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change, a coalition representing the protesters, said they hoped that forming the transitional institutions "marks the beginning of a new era."
"We hope it is an era where we can shut off the sound of pistols and destroy for good prisons of arbitrary detention," he said at the news conference.
Tarek Abdel Meguid, another FDFC leader, told The Associated Press that pro-democracy leaders had to make concessions to avoid further bloodshed.
"I am not fully satisfied but it is a step forward to bring peace to our people," Abdel Meguid said. "We had a civilian revolution, and the very idea of power sharing with the military was already rejected by the Sudanese people, but this is what the balance of power dictated."
Khaled Omar, a protest leader, told reporters in Khartoum that the deal was only "a first step."
"Power transfer to a civilian transitional authority ... means that the revolution has put it feet (on track) to achieve its principal goals," he said. Omar added that the FDFC does not seek revenge but wants "to achieve a comprehensive national reconciliation."
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hailed the deal and urged all sides to "ensure the timely, inclusive, and transparent implementation of the agreement and resolve any outstanding issues through dialogue." Guterres also congratulated the African Union and Ethiopia on their efforts to bring the parties back to the negotiating table.
The negotiations had resumed this week after tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of Sudan's main cities last weekend in the biggest demonstrations since the sit-in camp was razed. At least 11 people were killed in clashes with security forces, according to protest organizers.
Amani el-Taweel, a Sudan expert at Egypt's Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said regional and international pressures on both parties were the main reason the agreement was reached.
"Sudan has a sensitive geopolitical location, and leaving things as they were would have led to violence, which could undermine regional stability and lead to more terrorism," she said.
Also as part of the deal, both sides agreed to launch "a national independent investigation" into the killing of protesters since al-Bashir was ousted.
The New York-based Physicians for Human Rights voiced "cautious optimism" about the agreement and urged an "independent, impartial, international" investigation into the crackdown against protesters.
The lawmaking sovereign council could be "a bone of contention," el-Taweel said, "because each of the two parties will seek to maximize its political weight through the laws that will be passed."
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Two Utah airports get FAA improvement funds
By Jasen Lee @JasenLee1
Published: July 9, 2019 5:43 pm
The Delta Municipal Airport in Millard County is pictured in a Google Earth screenshot. The facility received a $4.16 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration's Airport Improvement Program to upgrade a runway and two taxiways.
SALT LAKE CITY — Two Utah airfields will get millions in federal funds to upgrade and improve safety at their facilities.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced the award of $477 million in airport infrastructure grants, including $4.3 million that will go toward improvements at two Utah facilities. In all, $3.18 billion in funding will be allocated for the Airport Improvement Program to airports across the United States, a news release stated.
The recipients in Utah include Delta Municipal Airport, which was awarded $4.16 million to repair the lighting on a taxiway and runway, as well as the rebuilding of a runway and a taxiway.
Originally built in the 1940s, the World War II-era facility has since in need of upgrades for years to its main runway and two adjoining taxiways, explained project engineer Dana Hartshorn. One of the main issues will be flattening out the grade to allow a complete line of sight from either end of the runway, in addition to reconfiguring the taxiways to allow smoother access to the runway from either end, he said.
"What this project does is take out that runway that created that line of sight issue and restores us back to the original length, and in doing so, we will raise that south elevation," he said. "Basically, we're going to take the hump out of just south of the middle and push it south and fill so that we can level out the runway as best we can."
He said the fix will regain 500 feet of the runway that had been lost for more than a decade, which will improve conditions for people flying to and from the airport. He said the project is set to begin next week and scheduled for completion in approximately three months.
The airport primarily serves general aviation patrons — private aircraft, along with aviation education and pilot training, he said.
"It's a nice place for flight training and it's a nice place to fly in and out of," Hartshorn said.
Also, a $150,936 grant was made to Spanish Fork Municipal Airport to repair a taxiway, build a taxiway and improve drainage at the facility.
"It's the refurbishment of our taxiway Alpha and for the construction of a small portion of taxiway Bravo," explained Spanish Fork Municipal Airport manager Cris Child. "The taxiway is the road you drive out on to get to the runway."
"(The improvements are) going to improve safety along the main runway," he added. The work to repair the taxiways and drainage will begin in late August and is expected to take about three months to complete, he said.
Child said each airport in the state receives federal funding annually for improvements and maintenance, though amounts vary from year to year. While this year focused on taxiways, next year's maintenance will likely include asphalt paving and repair, he added.
Spanish Fork airport serves mostly general aviation, as well as pilot education and training, he said.
In total, the program issued 276 grants to 264 airports across 44 states, the Pacific Islands, and the District of Columbia, the release stated. The project upgrades will include runway reconstruction and rehabilitation, along with construction of firefighting facilities and the maintenance of taxiways, aprons and terminals.
The FAA said the building and facilities supported by the monies are meant to improve airport safety and emergency response capabilities while increasing capacity. The funding could also bolster economic growth and development within each of the designated airport’s service region.
The agency stated that airport infrastructure across the U.S.'s 3,332 airports and 5,000 paved runways strengthens the nation's economic competitiveness and enhances the quality of life for nearby communities. The agency’s most recent economic analysis showed civil aviation nationwide accounting for $1.6 trillion in overall economic activity while supporting almost 11 million jobs.
The FAA noted that airports are eligible to receive designated amounts of improvement dollars every year based on activity levels and need. If capital project demands surpass the amount of available entitlement funds, the agency could supplement their allotment by adding discretionary funding, the release stated.
Officials said for the Beehive State, the monies will help local airports maintain sound operating environments.
“This significant investment in airport improvements in Utah will fund construction and rehabilitation projects that will help maintain high levels of safety in U.S. aviation,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
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Alexander Girard. A Designer’s Universe
Alexander Girard (1907–1993) was one of the most influential textile artists and interior designers of the twentieth century. He created worlds of colourful opulence in which everything was precisely and artfully coordinated, from the smallest details to the big picture. Examples include the Irwin Miller House in Columbus, Indiana (1953; architect Eero Saarinen) and the legendary restaurant La Fonda del Sol (1960) in New York. Girard designed furniture, small objects and fabrics, worked for companies like Herman Miller and Braniff International Airways and collaborated with such designers as Charles & Ray Eames and George Nelson. This major retrospective of Girard’s oeuvre draws on the Vitra Design Museum’s holdings from his private estate and presents furniture, textiles and sculptures as well as numerous sketches, drawings and collages never shown before. In addition to his own designs, it presents the creative universe from which Girard took his inspiration: folk art from all over the world, which the designer collected throughout his life.
A selection of 300 objects from his collection is also featured in the exhibition.
Raised in a cosmopolitan family with European and American roots, he grew up in Florence, studied architecture in London, and then lived in New York and Michigan before eventually settling in Santa Fe. Practising from the late 1920s until the late 1970s, he created stunning interiors for restaurants, private clients and corporations, as well as more than 300 textile designs – mostly for the American furniture company Herman Miller after becoming director of its textile division in 1951. Girard’s clients also included companies like Braniff International Airways and John Deere for which he handled a broad range of design activities – from interior design, textiles, furnishings and small objects to typography, corporate design and exhibitions.
Among Girard’s most well-known works are the interior design of the Irwin Miller House in Columbus, Indiana (1957, architect: Eero Saarinen), his own home in Santa Fe (from 1953) and the legendary restaurants La Fonda Del Sol (1960) and L’Etoile (1966) in New York, where even Andy Warhol was a frequent guest. In 1965, Girard developed the complete corporate design for Braniff, applying his characteristic visual language of vibrant colours and patterns to tickets, the lounge areas, and even the planes themselves. Yet he also created influential works on a much smaller scale, such as his design of the »love« motif, which remains one of Girard’s most well known graphic images to this day.
An important source of inspiration for Girard was his extensive collection of folk art objects, which he accumulated on his travels through Mexico, India, Egypt and other countries and which ultimately comprised more than 100,000 artefacts. Many of these objects were used by Girard in his interior design projects or in spectacular exhibitions, such as the »Textiles and Ornamental Arts of India« show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1954) or the »Magic of a People« pavilion he designed for the HemisFair World’s Fair (1968) in San Antonio, Texas, for which he meticulously displayed more than 10,000 of his collected artefacts. In 1982 the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe opened the exhibition “Multiple Visions: A Common Bond”, designed and mounted by Girard himself and still on display today.
Even if Girard’s work is less well known than that of prominent contemporaries such as Charles & Ray Eames, his oeuvre has experienced a revival in more recent years. Girard’s often underestimated significance lies in the fact that he restored what classical modernism had rejected in design – colour, decoration, opulent interiors. With an ingenious ease, he combined ostensible antagonists: craftsmanship and industry, pop culture and high culture, playful décor with masterful reduction. From today’s perspective Girard, anticipated many developments of the following decades: from the colourful language of postmodernism to the current debates on post-industrial design and the globalisation of our everyday aesthetic.
In 1996, the Vitra Design Museum took possession of Girard’s personal estate. The holdings encompass 5,000 drawings and photographs respectively, many never before shown personal sketches, several hundred textile samples, accessories, furniture items and folk art objects. This archive serves as the basis for the exhibition »Alexander Girard. A Designer’s Universe«. Further exhibition objects are on loan from the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe as well as Alexander Girard’s family.The exhibition design is being created by the London-based studio Raw Edges, headed by Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer. Like Girard, the duo’s work is characterized by a keen interest colours and patterns. Over the past years, Raw Edges has achieved international acclaim with its installations for such companies as Kvadrat, Moroso and Louis Vuitton.The exhibition is accompanied by an over 500-page catalogue. The publication provides the first scholarly examination of Girard’s oeuvre in the form of multiple essays, an extensive list of works and a comprehensive biography.
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Brushfire Records was born in 2002 at The Mango Tree studio in Hawaii when Jack Johnson and longtime friend Emmett Malloy wanted to create their own record label to release the soundtracks for surf films they had been making under The Moonshine Conspiracy banner. Brushfire Records not only gave them the opportunity to release music from their surf films but also to release Jack’s music, as well as connect and support other musicians, artists, and friends. In its ten years, Brushfire has since moved to Los Angeles where they have custom-built their own solar powered studio, The Solar Powered Plastic Plant, while continuing to release new music and films.
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Man and boy, 13, charged with GBH while man fights for life
Man from Basildon and 13-year-old boy charged while man from Laindon remains in critical condition
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Police have charged a man and a 13-year-old following an incident in Laindon where a man was seriously assaulted.
Keith Garrett, 39, was struck to the head in Deacon Drive at around 5.40am on Wednesday October 3.
He was taken to hospital where he remains in a critical condition.
Ricky Patmore, 22, of Nicholl Road, Basildon was arrested on Saturday October 6 and has now been charged with grievous bodily harm (GBH) without intent and burglary.
He has been remanded in custody and is due to appear at Basildon Magistrates’ Court on October 9.
A 13 year-old boy was arrested on Sunday October 7, and has been charged with burglary.
He has been released on bail to appear at Basildon Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday November 13.
A 23-year-old man from Gillingham was also arrested on suspicion of GBH without intent and burglary.
He has been released on bail until October 24.
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