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__label__cc	0.736362	0.263638	The Alden Shoe Company was founded in 1884 by Charles H. Alden in Middleborough, Massachusetts. It is difficult to imagine just how active and important the shoe industry was in Massachusetts so long ago. Early New England shoemaking was a trade based upon one craftsman making a pair a day in one room cottages (called “ten footers”). Beginning in 1850 a series of inventions led to mechanized stitching and lasting operations and the birth of New England shoe industry followed rapidly. The productivity gains over the traditional shoemaker were on the order of 500 – 700%, yet the new methods also led to an extraordinary improvement in both quality and consistency. The explosive growth of the shoe industry in eastern Massachusetts at the turn of the century was impressive. Numerous companies were being started, and demand soared as product made its way west and south on newly expanded rail routes. Charles Alden’s factory prospered, adding children’s shoes to their offering of men’s shoes and custom boots. By 1933, at Charles Alden’s retirement, operations moved to Brockton, Massachusetts and joined with the Old Colony factory. The Great Depression took a toll on countless shoe companies in New England. Although production demand increased during World War II, by the late 40’s renewed consumer demand had fueled the search for manufacturing regions offering lower labor costs. Over the remainder of the century attrition would take hold as manufacturers looked farther and farther away in search of low cost labor and materials to meet the insatiable demand in the U.S.A. for low cost, mass-market consumer footwear. Most of the companies who remained in New England could not compete in the demanding post-war economy. Yet Alden prospered by relying not on lower quality mass-markets but on high quality dress shoes, and excelling in specialties such as orthopedic and medical footwear. It was a period of growth and intensive development at Alden, especially in the design of comfortable, orthopedically correct lasts. In 1970 a new factory was constructed in Middleborough, Massachusetts where production continues today. Alden is now the only original New England shoe and bootmaker remaining of the hundreds who began so long ago. Still a family owned business, still carrying forward a tradition of quality genuine-welted shoemaking that is exceptional in every way.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line569
__label__cc	0.642209	0.357791	It takes a system to save a life Last month saw pre-hospital and emergency care professionals from around the globe gather for the first European Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Congress in Copenhagen. Opened by Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, the 3-day event aimed to set new standards for research and treatment, as well as to establish an EMS Leadership Network in Europe, targeted at strengthening cross-national collaboration. Running under the theme of ‘It takes a system to save a life’, presentations emphasised the need for cooperation between the dispatch centre, ambulance services and the emergency departments for lives to be saved. Denmark has made an impressive contribution to the field of resuscitation medicine. The congress was used as a platform to highlight the latest figures from the Danish Cardiac Arrest Registry, which collects nationwide data relating to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. They revealed that in Denmark nearly one in four survive sudden cardiac arrest in public spaces. This is due, in part, because of the remarkable increase in the number of bystanders performing CPR before the arrival of EMS (19.4%–65.8% from 2001–2014). This is worth taking note, as approximately 1 in 8 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients survive if bystander CPR is initiated, compared to 1 in 30 when it is not. This provides a valid argument for implementing CPR training in schools, as well as illustrating how involvement of the community should be an integral part of any EMS. The congress was also used to launch the Global Resuscitation Alliance, a network focused on collaborating to increase survival from sudden cardiac arrest. This agreement, signed in Copenhagen at an Utstein meeting prior to the congress, constitutes the culmination of three decades of international work, and is a major and decisive step in global efforts to save more lives from sudden cardiac arrest. Participants of the alliance have committed themselves to the ambitious target of increasing survival rates by 50%. Alongside the scientific programme, sponsored symposia and workshops offered delegates the opportunity to expand their knowledge on areas such as managing the everyday critically ill patient, and improve their competence with a hands-on procedural cadaver lab. Additionally, 13 teams from around the world competed in the European EMS Championship. The competition consisted of scenario-based events that tested each team’s ability to manage patients in various circumstances with common critical medical conditions and trauma. London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS) walked away with the top prize, fighting off stiff competition from Turkey and Denmark in the final. Judges praised LAS for their extraordinary skills and team work in the final scenario: a canoe accident on a Copenhagen beach. This would easily have been enough to satisfy those attending the congress, yet a number of excellent social events were also added to the mix. From morning runs and swims to an emergency management scenario at Copenhagen City Hall Square and a Gala Dinner, organisers went to every effort to ensure the event was a success. Delegates will undoubtedly be itching to return in 2017. Taken from International Paramedic Practice, published 22 June 2016. Filed under Editorial Tagged with Danish Cardiac Arrest Registry, EMS, EMS2016, European Emergency Medical Services Congress, Global Resuscitation Alliance, Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, International Paramedic Practice, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust Caring for Calais Photo Credit: Rose Oloumi Earlier this month I accompanied a group of student paramedics who were spending their weekend providing first aid at the refugee and migrant camp on the outskirts of Calais, France. Situated adjacent to a motorway and in the vicinity of a chemical factory, the camp is colloquially referred to as the ‘Jungle’ by outsiders, as well as those who have been forced to call it home. While semi-permanent structures made of converted shipping containers were introduced by the French Government at the beginning of the year, the vast majority of people live in makeshift shelters and tents in squalid, overcrowded conditions. Current figures estimate the number of refugees and migrants living in the area as anything between 6000 and 8000, with many more arriving each day. Médecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) have provided essential medical help to refugees and migrants living in and around Calais and Dunkirk since 2003. Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) have provided aid more recently and run a health clinic that is open Monday to Friday within the main Calais camp. However, there is no official system in place over the weekend. As a result, health professionals offer their time and services, providing first aid from three caravans located within the ‘Jungle’. Patients are predominantly treated for minor ailments such as colds, lice and the various coughs referred to as ‘Jungle lung’, as well as bruises, cuts and broken bones sustained from attempts at crossing the border into the UK. In the case of more serious incidents, patients are transported to an emergency department in the city. Shadowing the paramedics for two days as they wandered through the camp providing care, one was made acutely aware of how desperate circumstances for those living there are. The recent demolition of the southern part of the camp highlighted the general sentiment that the refugees and migrants are not welcome there. However, by evicting them from their homes the police are simply moving the problem, not addressing it. For the refugees and migrants, this means the Sisyphian task of constantly having to rebuild their homes. What is most disheartening on a personal level is that the current situation in places such as Calais in France or Idomeni in Greece appears somewhat hopeless. While countless people offer their time, money and professional expertise to provide care and support for the thousands of refugees and migrants who have come to Europe seeking work or asylum, it does not get to the root of the problem. It reminded me of a line in Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe’s book Anthills on the Savannah: ‘While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.’ This dispiriting quote is notably poignant in light of what the Western media has dubbed the ‘migrant crisis’. The lack of willingness for many European countries (including Britain) to grant asylum to people, many of whom have fled their country as a result of their lives or human rights being seriously at risk, means the end result will be the continued living, for many, in conditions that no person should have to experience. Refugees have been present in Calais since 1999 and they continue to be in Calais in 2016. How long will this continue and when will this change? Taken from International Paramedic Practice, published 30 March 2016. Filed under Editorial Tagged with Anthills on the Savannah, Asylum, Calais, Calais Jungle, Chinua Achebe, Doctors of the World, Doctors without Borders, Dunkirk, Idomeni, International Paramedic Practice, Médecins du Monde, Médecins Sans Frontières, migrant crisis, Migrants, Refugees Managing mass-casualty incidents As first responders, emergency medical services (EMS) play a key role in the management of mass-casualty incidents, being responsible for the triage, treatment, and transportation of patients to emergency care. Sadly 2015 has been littered with reports in the media of incidents involving large numbers of casualties. For example, the US alone has seen 353 mass shootings this year, the most recent on 2 December at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, where 14 people were killed and 17 injured (Mass Shootings Tracker, 2015). Additionally, November will be remembered for the worst attack on France since World War II and the deadliest in the European Union since the Madrid train bombings in 2004. On Friday 13 November, multi-site terrorist shootings in Paris left 130 people killed and over 300 in intensive care. A state of emergency was declared by President François Hollande, and temporary border checks introduced. Beyond mass shootings, the extent of natural disasters will be most remembered by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal’s capital Kathmandu and its surrounding areas on 25 April. Here thousands of people lost their lives with many more thousands left injured and homeless. While the difference between the types of mass-casualty incidents and number of casualties attended by EMS can vary considerably, their fundamental role remains the same. Key to the effective management of these situations is leadership, teamwork and professionalism. Although the outcome of the attacks in Paris left the country devastated, it is worth highlighting the proficiency at which the EMS organised an effective medical response to the attacks, which ensured that many lives could be saved. Triage and pre-hospital care for victims of the attacks was organised by the emergency medical services (service d’aide médical d’urgence, SAMU). SAMU were mobilised immediately following discovery of the attacks, and the crisis cell at the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP) was opened. The APHP crisis unit has the ability to coordinate 40 hospitals with a total of 100 000 health professionals, a capacity of 22 000 beds and 200 operating rooms (Hirsche et al, 2015). Remarkably, it was reported that there were only four deaths (1%) among the 302 injured patients, including two deaths on arrival at hospital (Hirsch et al, 2015). What is clear from reading about the medical response to these attacks is that professionalism and preparedness lay at the heart of the successful patient outcomes. It is also worth noting that many lessons can be learned from the subsequent scientific publications following mass-casualty incidents, and the role they play in the improvement of medical strategies. Additionally, the importance of effective and unified EMS in mass-casualty situations cannot be underestimated. While the challenge for EMS in managing scenarios involving multiple casualties will remain, through teamwork, adequate training and effective leadership, we can ensure the maximum number of lives can be saved. Hirsch M, Carli P, Nizard R et al (2015) The medical response to multisite terrorist attacks in Paris. Lancet. Published online first. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)01063-6 Mass Shooting Tracker (2015) Mass shootings in 2015. http://www.shootingtracker.com/wiki/Mass_Shootings_in_2015 (accessed 16 December 2015) Taken from International Paramedic Practice, published 22 December 2015. Filed under Editorial Tagged with Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Emergency Medical Services, EMS, First responders, International Paramedic Practice, London bombings, Madrid bombings, Mass Shootings, Mass-casualty incidents, Natural disasters, Paris attacks, Preparedness, Professionalism, SAMU, San Bernadino Shootings, Service d'aide médical d'urgence, Unified EMS What we can learn from each other As globalisation continues to rise year on year, the benefit of international learning and collaboration has become increasingly apparent. Within health services, the sharing of research between countries undoubtedly helps improve medical practice, policy and education, both on a national and international level. Within paramedicine, organisations such as International Paramedic have been created to: ‘address the challenges and opportunities facing the paramedic profession by looking to best practice and current evidence shared by its international members who are not limited by the geopolitical barriers of province, state, region or country’ (Acker, 2014). International exchange programmes are a regular occurrence within higher education institutions, due to their ability to offer students intercultural awareness and the development of global issues related to the student’s field of study (Lord et al, 2013). Within paramedicine, a number of successful exchange programmes have been documented (Owen and Woodyatt, 2012; Ashton et al, 2013; Jones and McGillis, 2013; Lord et al, 2013; Rice, 2014). The advent of the internet and social media has also helped health professionals, such as paramedics, develop their personal learning network. While a certain level of quality control must be ensured, the ability for information to be readily shared and discussions of issues relating to pre-hospital practice to be had, offers a great opportunity for personal development. In this issue of International Paramedic Practice, Rayneau et al recount their experience competing at the Šumava National Park of the Czech Republic for the Pilsen Cup of Paramedics. This is a yearly competition for student paramedics from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, based around remote medicine, patient assessment, treatment and extrication techniques, which this year was open to three students outside the participating countries. The authors praised the event, highlighting that to their knowledge there is little in the way of this type of intensive training used in the UK. As a result of taking part in this event, Coventry University staff and students are in talks about producing something similar in the UK. This is just one example of the potential benefit of international learning. It is apparent that many opportunities exist for international learning, whether through research, attending conferences, or the sharing of information electronically. Through international collaboration, the development of the profession on a global scale can be achieved and patient care improved. Acker J (2014) International Paramedic: connecting the world. International Paramedic Practice 4(1): 3–4 Ashton K, Davies R, Corkhill S (2013) International student paramedic exchange: the student perspective. Journal of Paramedic Practice 5(5): 286–9 Jones P, McGillis W (2013) International learning: bridging the gap through exchange programmes. International Paramedic Practice 3(2): 53–5 Lord B, Williams J, Jones S, Chittenden M (2013) A pilot international exchange programme for paramedic students. Journal of Paramedic Practice 5(8): 470–5 Owen T, Woodyatt A (2012) Observations from a student exchange programme: UK and Sweden prehospital care. Journal of Paramedic Practice 4(2): 105–10 Rice A (2014) The transnational delivery of paramedic education: the Gibraltar case study. Journal of Paramedic Practice 6(2): 90–92 Taken from International Paramedic Practice, published 23 July 2015. Filed under Editorial Tagged with Coventry University, Czech Republic, Gobalisation, International exchange programmes, International Paramedic, International Paramedic Practice, Internet, Pilsen Cup of Paramedics, Social Media, Šumava National Park Surge in overseas recruitment Ambulance services within the UK are increasingly looking overseas to recruit staff as a result of a nationwide shortage of paramedics. The need for the drive has been brought on, in part, following the recommendation for paramedics to be added to the shortage occupation list for the first time (Migratory Advisory Committee, 2015). Significant increases in demand for ambulances in the UK following the shift in focus to treat people at home rather than in A&E; high staff attrition due to work pressures and stress brought on by longer working hours; and growing opportunities for paramedics to take on roles in alternative areas, have all contributed to the shortage. While only one paramedic was recruited from overseas from 2013–2014, 183 have already been recruited from 2014–2015, with additional recruitment planned for the rest of the year (Renaud-Komiya and Calkin, 2015). Many of the staff now employed by the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS) have come over from Australia and New Zealand, where paramedics share a similar skillset with the UK. There is also the added benefit of a mutual language. Conversely, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has turned to Poland to help combat their shortage of paramedics. The assessment process within the LAS involves completing a clinical paper, a lifting assessment, and a practical assessment on advanced life support, as well as an oral interview. However, it is worth noting that the migration of healthcare workers brings with it ethical issues, as services abroad may suffer as a result of their own falling numbers (Peate, 2014). An article in the Herald Sun referred to the ‘aggressive’ campaign being undertaken by LAS as an attempt to ‘poach’ Victorian paramedics (Van den Berg, 2014). The UK is not alone in looking overseas for recruitment. Many paramedics who trained in the UK now work in countries such as Australia or the United Arab Emirates. However, the extent at which paramedics from other countries are being targeted for recruitment is certainly an anomaly within the UK. While it certainly offers a short-term solution for the current shortage ‘crisis’, it is questionable whether it presents a real answer to the problem. It is undoubted that national investment is needed in the paramedic profession. That being said, the positives of overseas recruitment shouldn’t be overlooked. Working abroad, even if only temporarily, offers opportunities for intercultural awareness and the development of global perspectives of issues, as well as an insight into alternative pathways of care, service provision and paramedic practice to one’s own country. Migratory Advisory Committee (2015) Partial review of the Shortage Occupation Lists for the UK and Scotland. MAC, London. http://tinyurl.com/qdaqbbl (accessed 26 March 2015) Peate I (2014) Ethical recruitment and employment of internationally educated paramedics. Journal of Paramedic Practice 6(10): 500–501. doi: 10.12968/jpar.2014.6.10.500 Renaud-Komiya N, Calkin S (2015) Trusts forced to look overseas to plug paramedic gaps. HSJ. http://tinyurl.com/pqeo4k5 (accessed 27 March 2015) Van den Berg L (2014) London in bid to lure Victorian paramedics. Herald Sun. http:// http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/londonin- bid-to-lure-victorian-paramedics/storyfni0fit3- 1227011369042 (accessed 17 September 2014) Taken from International Paramedic Practice, published 8 April 2015. Filed under Editorial Tagged with Australia, Herald Sun, International Paramedic Practice, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Migratory Advisory Committee, New Zealand, Overseas recruitment, Poland, Shortage occupation list, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, United Arab Emirates Expanding the role of paramedics As populations worldwide continue to grow and life expectancy rises, there has been a corresponding demand placed on health care services. Emergency medical services (EMS) in particular have found themselves under increasing pressure, with some ambulance services experiencing a rise in the number of emergency calls received by as much as 8% annually (Department of Health, 2004). Traditionally, EMS systems have focused on providing patient care for acute illnesses and emergencies. However, studies have suggested that 10–40% of EMS responses are for non-emergent situations (Joint Committee on Rural Emergency Care and National Association of State EMS Officials (JCREC and NASEMSO), 2010). The need for an EMS role, which can improve individual and community health, reduce unnecessary hospitalisations and emergency department visits, and reduce health care costs, has led to the introduction of community paramedic programmes in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In the United Kingdom, similar work has been carried out by paramedic practitioners and/or emergency care practitioners, although without the same level of community engagement found in the community paramedic role. The inaugural meeting of the International Roundtable on Community Paramedicine (IRCP) in 2005 gave the opportunity for the international exchange of ideas on integrating rural EMS providers into rural health care delivery systems (IRCP, 2014). The IRCP has continued to meet annually, promoting the international exchange of information and experience related to the provision of flexible and reliable health care services to residents of rural and remote areas using novel health care delivery models, and acting as a resource to Government agencies, emergency service providers, and others (IRCP, 2014). In this issue of International Paramedic Practice, O’Meara conducts a scoping review of the emergence of community paramedics and their potential impact. His findings illustrate that although there are few empirical studies on community paramedics, with much of the literature consisting of commentaries and opinion papers, there is still an emerging research literature that is contributing to the development of community paramedicine programme models and the evaluation tools that will contribute to the future evolution of the model. Also in this issue, Raynovich et al present the findings of a survey of community course offerings and planned offerings sent to every recipient of a standardised community paramedic curriculum. The responses indicated that many community paramedic courses were in the planning stages by programmes that had received the standardised curriculum, both in the United States and Internationally. Both these papers illustrate the need for further research to examine the impact of community paramedicine, but also highlight the potential of extended scope of practice of paramedics who are based in the community. Department of Health (2004) Statistical Bulletin Ambulance Services, England 2003–04. DH, London, UK International Roundtable on Community Paramedicine (2014) IRCP History. http://www.ircp. info (accessed 20 May 2014) Joint Committee on Rural Emergency Care, National Association of State EMS Officials (2010) Beyond 911: State and Community Strategies for Expanding the Primary Care Role of First Responders. National Conference of State Legislators December 2010 Taken from International Paramedic Practice, published 21 May 2014. Filed under Editorial Tagged with Community paramedic programmes, Community paramedicine, Editorial, Extended scope of practice, International Paramedic Practice, International Roundtable on Community Paramedicine, IRCP Paramedics and professionalisation Since the birth of organised pre-hospital emergency care the question of its professionalisation has been met with ambiguity. From its origins in military history as a transport service to its development into the current practitioner role that has become an integral part of the health care sector, the need for its recognition as a profession has become increasingly important. One of the main concerns regarding professionalisation is that it has no clear definition. Sociologists of professions will dispute the requirements necessary for an occupation to be seen as a profession and so it remains questionable as to how much it relies simply on perception. According to Evetts (2012), professionalisation involves the protection of practitioners of an occupation by only making it possible to practice that occupation if you are trained in that particular category of knowledge. However, surely professionalisation extends beyond mere training? Within the UK, the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) was formed as a statutory regulator of health and care professionals, standardising the education and training received by members of the National Health Service (NHS) workforce and moving that training into the university sector (HCPC, 2013). The HCPC liaises with professional bodies for all the professions that the registrar is responsible for. These organisations do work which may include promoting the profession, representing members, curriculum frameworks, post-registration education and training and continuing professional development (HCPC, 2013). The College of Paramedics (then the British Paramedic Association) was set up as the professional body for the ambulance profession. According to the College of Paramedics, having a professional body has given them the opportunity to change the way that education, training and associated awards are established (College of Paramedics, 2013). In this issue of International Paramedic Practice, Pip Lyndon James looks at the issue of professionalisation for Australian paramedics. She comments on how at present the Australian paramedic discipline is not considered a full profession by the national or state governments. Despite frequent public misassumption that paramedicine is a registered, highly-regulated industry credited with professional status, this is currently not the case. It is clear that steps are gradually being taken to reach this ultimate aim. Moving in the direction of other health disciplines, such as medicine and nursing, the advent of paramedic degrees worldwide that are replacing the traditional older in-house training conducted by ambulance services is surely a move in the right direction. While paramedicine has not yet received the professional status it deserves, it is important to bear in mind the distinction between professionalism and professionalisation. Until paramedicine receives professionalisation, it is integral that paramedics continue to act in a professional manner, adhering to codes of conduct and striving towards ongoing professional development. College of Paramedics (2013) About us. http://www.collegeofparamedics.co.uk/about_us/ (accessed 21 August 2013) Evetts J (2012) Similarities in Contexts and Theorizing: Professionalism and Inequality. Professions and Professionalism 2(2) Health and Care Professions Council (2013) Aims and vision. http://www.hcpc-uk.org/aboutus/aimsandvision/ (accessed 21 August 2013) Taken from International Paramedic Practice, published 28 August 2013. Filed under Editorial Tagged with College of Paramedics, Editorial, HCPC, Health and Care Professions Council, International Paramedic Practice, Pip Lyndon James, Professionalisation	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line574
__label__cc	0.57556	0.42444	Woman “Eaten Alive” By Mites As Nursing Home Staff Let It Happen A lawsuit claims that the nursing home knew of the woman's affliction, and did nothing to stop it. YouTubeRebecca Zeni in her room at the nursing home, holding teddy bears as nursing staff surround her. In what a medical examiner described as “one of the most horrendous things” he’s ever seen in his career, a woman was literally eaten alive by millions of parasitic mites while the staff at her nursing home looked on, according to a shocking investigative report by WXIA-TV in Atlanta. Rebecca Zeni, 93, died in 2015 from “septicemia due to crusted scabies.” Now, her family has filed a lawsuit, saying that the Shepherd Hills Nursing home in Georgia knew about Zeni’s disease and failed to do anything to stop it. Scabies, a painful but treatable condition, is caused when parasitic mites burrow into the skin, lay eggs, and essentially make your body their home. In most cases, the affliction is minor and easily treated with no lasting effects — in fact, it’s the third most common skin disease in children and the elderly. When left untreated, however, the damage can be severe, resulting in a crust of flaky skin forming on the body. In Zeni’s case, this crust caused damage that was extensive and horrifying. Zeni’s right hand, covered in blackened, crusted skin as a result of scabies. Photographs of Zeni before her death show various body parts covered in a blackened crust, especially her hands. In the photos, her fingernails are long and blackened by the disease, and the parts of her skin that aren’t crusted are red and raw. Even more horrifying than the photos, however, is the fact that the nursing home staff knew about them and did nothing to stop it. According to the family’s lawyer, attorney Stephen Chance, the staff had been ordered not to attend to Zeni’s skin. “There was a conversation at this nursing home with a healthcare provider about being careful about touching Ms. Zeni’s hand for fear that it might fall off her body,” Chance said in an interview. The idea that the staff is responsible for Zeni’s death was echoed by the medical examiner who performed her autopsy. “This is one of the most horrendous things I’ve ever seen in my career as a forensic pathologist,” said Dr. Kris Sperry, former chief medical examiner for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. He believes that at the time of her death, over one million mites were living in Zen’s body and that, as a result, she likely would have died a most painful death. “Having seen what I’ve seen with Ms. Zeni, I think that is frankly a good characterization,” said Sperry. “I would seriously consider calling this a homicide by neglect.” According to documents obtained from the Georgia Department of Public Health, state officials had been notified of a scabies outbreak at the Shepherd Hills Nursing Home in 2013, and in 2015, the same year Zeni died. The report claims that at least 35 residents and staff were exposed to scabies. However, no inspection was ever made. Instead, a treatment manual was emailed to the facility staff. Next read about the young woman who died after being embalmed alive. Then, check out the monks who ritualistically mummify themselves alive. Was Johnny Frank Garrett A Sadistic Nun-Killer Or An Innocent Man Put To Death? "Their Chests Were Carved Open" — Biggest Mass Child Sacrifice Ever Found	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line576
__label__wiki	0.759415	0.759415	IPAF hosts eighth nadwa at Qasr Al Sarab, a desert retreat in Abu Dhabi Writers’ workshop led by leading Arab writers Mohammed Hasan Alwan and Hammour Ziada A group of six emerging Arab authors gathered this week in Abu Dhabi to take part in the annual nadwa, organised by the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The week-long workshop brings together writers from Bahrain, Morocco, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Once again the workshop was sponsored by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Ruler's Representative in the Western Region, and took place at Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort. The workshop was led by two leading names in Arabic literature, who have previously been shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, Mohammed Hasan Alwan (Saudi Arabia) and Hammour Ziada (Sudan). The six participating writers range in age from 30 to 38 years old. They have been identified by the organisers as emerging talent, following an application process. The workshop involves daily group discussions, as well as the opportunity for one-on-one guidance with the mentors. The annual workshop in Abu Dhabi has, to date, nurtured a number of writers who have gone on to be shortlisted and even win the annual prize. Previous participants have included Ahmed Saadawi, Mansoura Ez Eldin, Mohammed Hasan Alwan, Mohammed Rabie and Shahla Ujayli. The week follows Nadwa: Jordan, IPAF’s first ever writers’ workshop in Jordan, which took place in July 2016. Hammour Ziada, Sudanese writer and journalist, comments: “The writing workshop is not a collective endeavour to create a piece of writing. Rather, it is like winds blowing from different directions, turning the pages of the novel as it is being written, or water flowing from various channels onto a single plant.” Mohammed Hasan Alwan comments: “A nadwa such as this reaffirms to us that writing is an activity worth travelling and taking time out for in an isolated location, something that has become an unthinkable luxury in today's world. Since writing a novel is a lengthy project, it sorely needs the different perspectives offered by six writers who have withdrawn from the routine of their daily lives and joined the nadwa purely for the sake of writing. In a single week the nadwa's special programme puts writing under two microscopes: the writer alone with his text in deliberate isolation and the other writers who read the text as it is going through initial birth pangs, identifying with the writer in his moments of confidence and doubt.” The International Prize for Arabic Fiction is the leading international prize for Arabic literature. Sponsored by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) and run in association with the Booker Prize Foundation in the UK, the Prize aims to celebrate the very best of contemporary Arabic fiction and encourage wider international readership of Arabic literature through translation. Further information on the Prize can be found at www.arabicfiction.org and on Facebook www.facebook.com/InternationalPrizeArabicFiction. Mohammed Hasan Alwan (Saudi Arabia) is a Saudi Arabian novelist, born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1979. He graduated with a doctorate in International Marketing from the University of Carleton, Canada. Alwan has published five novels to date: The Ceiling of Sufficiency (2002), Sophia (2004), The Collar of Purity (2007), The Beaver (2011), and A Small Death (2016), as well as a non-fiction work, Migration: theories and key factors (2014). His work has appeared in translation in Banipal magazine (Blonde Grass and Statistics, translated by Ali Azeriah), in The Guardian (Oil Field, translated by Peter Clark), and in Words Without Borders (Mukhtar translated by William M. Hutchins). In 2009-10, Alwan was chosen as one of the 39 best Arab authors under the age of 40 by the Beirut39 project and his work was published in the Beirut 39 anthology. He was also a participant in the first IPAF Nadwa in 2009. In 2013, The Beaver was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and in 2015, its French edition (translated by Stéphanie Dujols) won the Prix de la Littérature Arabe awarded in Paris for the best Arabic novel translated into French for that year. Hammour Ziada (Sudan) is a Sudanese writer and journalist, born in Khartoum in 1977. He has worked for charitable and civil society organisations, and as a journalist for a number of Sudanese newspapers, including Al-Mustaqilla, Ajras al-Horriya, and Al-Jarida. He was Chief Editor of the cultural section of the Sudanese Al-Akhbar paper. He is the author of several works of fiction: A Life Story from Omdurman (short stories, 2008), Al-Kunj (a novel, 2010), Sleeping at the Foot of the Mountain (short stories, 2014). His second novel, The Longing of the Dervish (2014), won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2014 and was shortlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Eyad Abdulrahman (Saudi Arabia) is a writer and novelist, born in Medina, Saudi Arabia, in 1987. He obtained a BA in Computer Engineering from Utah University, an MA in Software Engineering from Chicago University, and a second MA in Computer Science and Education Technology from Harvard University. He is currently finishing his doctorate from Harvard University, focusing on the same field of study. His published works of fiction include a collection of prose texts entitled Emancipation (2012) and two novels, The Misfortune of Life (2014) and The Caliph (2015). Nidaa Abu Ali (Saudi Arabia) is a writer and diplomat, born in 1983. In 2009, she obtained an MA in Strategic Studies, specialising in counter terrorism, from Singapore, and worked as a political analyst at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism as well as at the Middle East Institute in Singapore. She is the author of four novels: The Days Passed (published in 1998 when she was 15), The Heart Has Other Faces (also 1998), Paper Flutes (2003) and Shadow and Mirror (2011). She also works as a journalist, publishing literature and film reviews and political analysis. Rabab Haidar (Syria) is a writer and translator, born in 1977. She has a BA in English Literature and is a translator accredited by the Palace of Justice in Damascus. In 2013, she published two books in translation: The Book of the Female, the translation into English of a volume of poetry by the Bahraini poet Iman Aseeri, and (from English to Arabic) the autobiography of a contestant on the Arabic ‘Survival’ programme. Her first novel Land of the Pomegranate was published in 2012. Leila al-Mutawa (Bahrain) is a novelist and journalist, born in 1986. She is well known for her articles and writings defending women's rights, which have been widely translated, and she writes several blogs. She has one published novel My Heart is Not for Sale (2012) and has mentored aspiring writers on the Al-Jil workshop project. The Saudi writer Fahd 'Arishi wrote about her life in his book of biographies of influential people, Dreams Do Not Die (2015). Hecham Mechbal (Morocco) is a researcher and novelist, born in 1979. He obtained a PhD in Rhetoric and Discourse Analysis from Tetouan University, where he is a member of the Rhetoric and Discourse Analysis forum. His field of research is rhetoric and narrative. As well as a number of academic studies, he is the author of a biography of a political prisoner, Dreams of the Darkness (2003) and two novels: The Free Bird (2009) and Bells of Fear (2014). He is a regular contributor to academic journals and participant in seminars in Morocco and abroad. His novel The Free Bird won the Moroccan Channel 2 Prize in its third edition, and in 2010 he was awarded the Abdelmalek Essaadi University Award for Excellence. Lamees Yousef (UAE) is a presenter and novelist. After studying Media at Sharjah University, Lamees Yousef worked in media and events management at the Dubai World Trade Centre. She researched and presented ‘Cultural Dimensions’, a programme for Sama Dubai TV in collaboration with the Dubai Cultural and Scientific Association, which won the 2015 Al-Owais Award for Creativity. In 2014, she published a novel, Rock, Paper, Scissors, and her next novel, White Clothes in the Cooking Pot will be launched at the 2016 Sharjah Book Fair.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line579
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__label__cc	0.749156	0.250844	S1 Ep. 8 Robin Landsong--Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers An episode of Hello Beautiful Light-Filled Souls! By Tricia Barker www.triciabarkernde.com This is a show about spiritually transformative moments, near-death experiences, creativity, meditation, & healing. This station will also include interviews with other near-death experiencers and healers. My book, Angels in the OR, launched this April and is available as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 Angels in the OR is a bestseller on Audible www.audible.com/pd/Angels-in-the-OR-Audiobook/B07QGGSCNP S2 Ep. 14 Robert Kopecky--Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers (Live at the IANDS Conference 2018) Welcome to Season Two! This season I will post interviews and talks with healers, near-death experiencers, mediums, teachers, and mystics. Thank you so much for your interest and support of my book, Angels in the OR, which just launched this April. I love hearing from readers. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 It is also available as an Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Angels-in-the-OR-Audiobook/B07QGGSCNP The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit Q and A session is over, but the videos are still available for purchase. If you would like to see these interviews, click here for more information. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 My guest in this podcast is Robert Kopecky, a three time near-death experiencer. You can find his books on Amazon at this link. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=B00I3QCA24&i=digital-text&_encoding=UTF8&shoppingPortalEnabled=true To follow his blog, please check out this link. http://robertkopecky.blogspot.com/?m=1 I would love to stay in touch with you on social media. Here are my links. Website: https://triciabarkernde.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TriciaTeacher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S2 Ep. 13 Ingrid Honkala --Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers (Live at the IANDS Conference 2018) Welcome to Season Two! This season I will post interviews and talks with healers, near-death experiencers, mediums, teachers, and mystics. Thank you so much for your interest and support of my book, Angels in the OR, which just launched this April. I love hearing from readers. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 It is also available as an Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Angels-in-the-OR-Audiobook/B07QGGSCNP The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit Q and A session is over, but the videos are still available for purchase. If you would like to see these interviews, click here for more information. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 My guest in this podcast is Ingrid Honkala when we were at the IANDS conference in 2018. For more information about Ingrid Honkala, you can follow her blog at https://www.ingridhonkala.com/ Here is a link to buy her book titled A Brightly Guided Life https://www.amazon.com/Brightly-Guided-Life-Scientist-Learned/dp/1976058368 I would love to stay in touch with you on social media. Here are my links. Website: https://triciabarkernde.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TriciaTeacher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S2 Ep. 12 --Robert Schwartz -- Tricia Barker's Conversations about Spirituality, Mediumship, and Soul Plans Welcome to Season Two! This season I will post interviews and talks with healers, near-death experiencers, mediums, teachers, and mystics. Thank you so much for your interest and support of my book, Angels in the OR, which just launched this April. I love hearing from readers. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 It is also available as an Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Angels-in-the-OR-Audiobook/B07QGGSCNP The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit Q and A session is over, but the videos are still available for purchase. If you would like to see these interviews, click here for more information. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 My guest in this podcast is Robert Schwartz. For more information about Robert Schwartz and his two books, check out his website which has lots of wonderful resources and information. https://www.yoursoulsplan.com/ I would love to stay in touch with you on social media. Website: https://triciabarkernde.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TriciaTeacher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S 2 Ep. 11 Michael Quinn ----Tricia Barker's Conversations about Spirituality, Death, and Dying Welcome to Season Two! This season I will post interviews and talks with healers, near-death experiencers, mediums, teachers, and mystics. Thank you so much for your interest and support of my book, Angels in the OR, which just launched this spring. I love hearing from readers. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 It is also available as an Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Angels-in-the-OR-Audiobook/B07QGGSCNP My guest in this podcast is Michael Quinn. Michael is the author of "The Journey Home: Inspiring Passages From Near-Death Experiences to Comfort the Dying" talks about his work in hospice and important messages from near-death experiences. https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Home-Inspiring-Near-Death-Experiences/dp/1512189871 The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit Q and A session is over, but the videos are still available for purchase. If you would like to see these interviews, click here for more information. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 I would love to stay in touch with you on social media. Website: https://triciabarkernde.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TriciaTeacher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S 2 Ep. 10 Ken Leth ---Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers Welcome to Season Two! This season I will post interviews and talks with healers, near-death experiencers, mediums, teachers, and mystics. Thank you so much for your interest and support of my book, Angels in the OR, which just launched this spring. I love hearing from readers. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 It is also available as an Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Angels-in-the-OR-Audiobook/B07QGGSCNP My guest in this podcast is Keneth Leth. You can also see this interview on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH3G5coJX5Y&t=167s The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit Q and A session is over, but the videos are still available for purchase. If you would like to see these interviews, click here for more information. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 I would love to stay in touch with you on social media. Website: https://triciabarkernde.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TriciaTeacher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S 2 Ep. 9 Ines Beyer ---Tricia Barker's Conversations about Spirituality Welcome to Season Two! This season I will post interviews and talks with healers, near-death experiencers, mediums, teachers, and mystics. Thank you so much for your interest and support of my book, Angels in the OR, which just launched this spring. I love hearing from readers. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 It is also available as an Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Angels-in-the-OR-Audiobook/B07QGGSCNP My guest in this podcast is Ines Beyer, M.Sc. Ines is the author of the book “Death is Not the End,” and winner of the International Excellence Body, Mind, Spirit Book Award. She volunteers and teaches at the International Academy of Consciousness (IAC), a leading non-profit organization in the field of Consciousness Science. Born in Germany, she brings her passion for education, personal growth, and writing to Los Angeles, where she has earned her Master’s in Metaphysical Sciences. Here is a link to her book https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/death-is-not-the-end-ines-beyer/1125279014 The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit Q and A session is over, but the videos are still available for purchase. If you would like to see these interviews, click here for more information. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 I would love to stay in touch with you on social media. Website: https://triciabarkernde.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TriciaTeacher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S2 Ep. 8 Houman Emami ---Tricia Barker's Conversations about Spirituality Hey Everyone! I can’t begin to express how much I appreciate all your support. I'm excited that Simon & Schuster has provided a link to pre-order from many different outlets. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 Amazon Link: http://amzn.com/1642931594 Barnes & Noble Link: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/angels-in-the-or-tricia-barker/1130045767?ean=9781642931594#/ I also have a YouTube Channel. If you feel moved to support my channel and podcast, here is a donation link. https://triciabarkernde.com/donate/ Here is Houman Z. Emami's website if you would like to keep up with him. https://sites.google.com/site/houmanzemami/ Here is Houman's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/huza If you would like to follow me on social media, here are the links. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ Or Twitter @TriciaTeacher You can still watch all the videos from The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit. S2 Ep. 7 Lisa Smartt---Tricia Barker's Conversations about Spirituality and NDE Research Welcome to Season Two! This season I will post interviews and talks with healers, near-death experiencers, researchers, mediums, teachers, and mystics. I hope you will join us for The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit on June 23rd. Over 13 hours of videos are available ahead of time. Click here for more information. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 My guest in this podcast is Lisa Smartt, and you can find her book Words at the Threshold at this link. Lisa Smart and Dr. Raymond Moody can be found at https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/ You can follow Lisa Smartt on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/wordsatthethreshold/ Thank you so much for your interest and support of my book, Angels in the OR, which just launched this spring. I love hearing from readers. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 My book is also available as an Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Angels-in-the-OR-Audiobook/B07QGGSCNP Here are my social media links! I would love to stay in touch with you. Website: https://triciabarkernde.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TriciaTeacher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S2 Ep. 6 Dr. Jeff O'Driscoll ---Tricia Barker's Conversations about NDEs and Spirituality Welcome to Season Two! This season I will post interviews and talks with healers, near-death experiencers, researchers, mediums, teachers, and mystics. I hope you will join us for The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit on June 23rd. Over 13 hours of videos are available ahead of time. Click here for more information. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 Thank you so much for your interest and support of my book, Angels in the OR, which just launched this spring. I love hearing from readers. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 It is also available as an Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Angels-in-the-OR-Audiobook/B07QGGSCNP My guest in this podcast is Dr. Jeff O’Driscoll, and you can find out more about his best-books and speaking events on his website at https://www.jeffodriscoll.com/home Here are my social media links! I would love to stay in touch with you. Website: https://triciabarkernde.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TriciaTeacher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S2 Ep. 5 Dr. Jeffrey Long ---Converstations with Tricia Barker about Near-Death Experiences Welcome to Season Two! This season I will post interviews and talks with healers, near-death experiencers, researchers, mediums, teachers, and mystics. I hope you will join us for The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit on June 23rd. Over 13 hours of videos are available ahead of time. Click here for more information. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 Thank you so much for your interest and support of my book, Angels in the OR, which just launched this spring. I love hearing from readers. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 It is also available as an Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Angels-in-the-OR-Audiobook/B07QGGSCNP My guest in this podcast is Dr. Jeffrey Long, and you can find out more about his best-selling books and in-depth NDE research at https://www.nderf.org/ Here are my social media links! I would love to stay in touch with you. Website: https://triciabarkernde.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TriciaTeacher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S2 Ep. 4 Curtis Childs: Conversations about Swedenborg, NDEs, and Spirituality Welcome to Season Two! This season I will post interviews and talks with healers, near-death experiencers, mediums, teachers, and mystics. I hope you will join us for The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit on June 23rd. Many videos are available ahead of time. Click here for more information. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 Thank you so much for your interest and support of my book, Angels in the OR, which just launched this spring. I love hearing from readers. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 It is also available as an Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Angels-in-the-OR-Audiobook/B07QGGSCNP My guest in this podcast is Curtis Childs, and you can find out more about his popular YouTube channel at this link. https://www.youtube.com/user/offTheLeftEye His website can be found at this link https://swedenborg.com/sl/curtis-childs-bio-appearances/ Here are my social media links! I would love to stay in touch with you. Website: https://triciabarkernde.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TriciaTeacher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S2 Ep. 3 Tara Rose --Tricia Barker's Conversations about NDEs, Spirituality, and Twin Flames Welcome to Season Two! This season I will post interviews and talks with healers, near-death experiencers, mediums, teachers, and mystics. I hope you will join us for The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit n June 23rd. Many videos are available ahead of time. Click here for more information. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 Thank you so much for your interest and support of my book, Angels in the OR, which just launched this spring. I love hearing from readers. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 It is also available as an Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Angels-in-the-OR-Audiobook/B07QGGSCNP My guest in this podcast is Tara Rose, and we talked about unconditional love, her NDE, twin flames, and more. http://www.healertararose.com/ You can follow her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/healertararose/ Here are my social media links! I would love to stay in touch with you. Website: https://triciabarkernde.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TriciaTeacher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S2 Ep. 2 Raymond Moody---Tricia Barker's Conversations about Near-Death Experiences Welcome to Season Two! This season I will post interviews and talks with healers, near-death experiencers, mediums, teachers, and mystics. I hope you will join us for The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit n June 23rd. Many videos are available ahead of time. Click here for more information. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 Thank you so much for your interest and support of my book, Angels in the OR, which just launched this spring. I love hearing from readers. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 My guest in this podcast is Dr. Raymond Moody who is best-selling author and near-death researcher. He is a world-renowned scholar, lecturer, and researcher, and he is widely recognized as the leading authority on near-death experiences. He is the best- selling author of Life after Life, Coming Back, Paranormal, Glimpses of Eternity and The Light Beyond. You can find his contact information at this link. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/ You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ If you would like to keep up with me on social media, here are my links. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIstVbBhilo1gdUmazkReQ?view_as=subscriber Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ May you be blessed! S2 Ep. 1 Laura Powers --Tricia Barker's Conversations About Spirituality Welcome to Season Two! This season I will post interviews and talks with healers, near-death experiencers, mediums, teachers, and mystics. I hope you will join us for The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit n June 23rd. Many videos are available ahead of time. Click here for more information. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 Thank you so much for your interest and support of my book, Angels in the OR, which just launched this spring. I love hearing from readers. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 My guest is Laura Powers, a celebrity psychic, host of a wonderful podcast, entertainer, and writer. To learn more about her story, please see her website. https://www.healingpowers.net/laurapowers You can find Laura Power's podcast at the following links https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healing-powers-podcast/id434913262?mt=2 https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/laura-powers-2/healing-powers-podcast You can follow Laura Powers on Twitter https://twitter.com/ThatLauraPowers Instagram https://www.instagram.com/laurapowers44/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/realhealingpowers/ You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ If you would like to keep up with me on social media, here are my links. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIstVbBhilo1gdUmazkReQ?view_as=subscriber Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ May you be blessed! S1 Ep. 20 Aftereffects of Near-Death Experiences Hello Beautiful Light-filled Souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. This is the audio from one of the early videos I uploaded to YouTube about three years ago. It discusses common psychological/spiritual changes after a NDE including becoming less materialistic, experiencing out of body episodes, psychic abilities, increased intuition, childlike states of love for all people, and electrical sensitivities and energy surges. Most NDErs immediately feel like an immortal soul residing in a finite, material form. Many NDErs no longer fear death and want to be of service to others, if only to remind others of their connection to the world beyond form. In many ways, NDErs become more childlike and have to learn how to live again as many of the old rules for living no longer apply or make sense. They have to integrate a profound experience into the reality of their day to day lives. My memoir , Angels in the OR, is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 I'm also excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ If you would like to keep up with me on social media, here are my links. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIstVbBhilo1gdUmazkReQ?view_as=subscriber Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S1 Ep. 19 Lessons from Tricia's Near-Death Experience Hello Beautiful Light-filled Souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. This is the audio from one of the early videos I uploaded to YouTube about three years ago. It is a brief description of the primary messages from my near-death experience. My memoir launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything about my life. Angels in the OR is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 I'm also excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ If you would like to keep up with me on social media, here are my links. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIstVbBhilo1gdUmazkReQ?view_as=subscriber Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S1 Ep. 18 The Angels from Tricia's Near-Death Experience Hello Beautiful Light-filled Souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. This is the audio from one of the early videos I uploaded to YouTube about three years ago. It is a brief description of the angels I saw during surgery. My memoir launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything about my life. Angels in the OR is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 I'm also excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ If you would like to keep up with me on social media, here are my links. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIstVbBhilo1gdUmazkReQ?view_as=subscriber Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S1 Ep. 17 Tricia Barker's Near-Death Experience Hello Beautiful Light-filled Souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. This is the first video I uploaded to YouTube about three years ago. It is a brief description of my NDE. Many people share their NDE stories to give others comfort about dying. My NDE story has been featured on I Survived: Beyond and Back, National Geographic Magazine, The Dr. Oz Show, Women's World Magazine, Simple Grace Magazine, Coast to Coast AM, Midnight in the Desert, Sunny in Seattle, and many other magazines, podcasts and radio shows. My memoir launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything about my life. Angels in the OR is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 I'm also excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ If you would like to keep up with me on social media, here are my links. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIstVbBhilo1gdUmazkReQ?view_as=subscriber Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S1 Ep. 16 Sunny in Seattle's Interview with Tricia Barker Hello Beautiful Light-Filled Souls! Sunny in Seattle interviewed me on May 31, 2019 and here is a recording of that interview. You can also find it on SoundCloud. Sunny Joy McMillan is an attorney-turned-life coach who left a career in law in search of more soul-fulfilling work. She found her calling in life coaching and completed her training and certification through Dr. Martha Beck’s program. Through her radio show, as well as her coaching practice, Sunny’s mission is to connect people with who they really are so they may lead lives filled with love, joy, peace, freedom, purpose and growth. Each week her show features coaches, authors, healers and teachers on the leading edge of thought who will bring you helpful, educational and inspiring messages to connect you to your best life! Tune in Fridays at 9 a.m. and for more information, please log on to www.goldenoversoul.com. You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. We would love to have you join us! https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 My memoir, Angels in the OR, is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 Social Media Links! YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIstVbBhilo1gdUmazkReQ?view_as=subscriber Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S 1 Ep. 15 Janet Tarantino ---Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers Hello Beautiful Light-filled Souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. My memoir launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything about my life. Angels in the OR is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ I'm also excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 You can find out more about Janet Tarantino at https://www.janettarantino.com/ Janet Tarantino's life was changed dramatically after her near-death experience. And, after more than 15 years of investigating near-death experiences and the many different facets involved therein, she now understands the intricate details of everything that happened- or at least most of what happened. But, as is often the case, more has been revealed over time- at just the right time, according to the heavens. Check out her website to learn more. If you would like to keep up with me on social media, here are my links. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIstVbBhilo1gdUmazkReQ?view_as=subscriber Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S 1 Ep. 14 --Jose Hernandez -- Tricia Barker's Conversations with Near-Death Experiencers Hello Beautiful Light-filled Souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. My memoir launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything about my life. Angels in the OR is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ I'm also excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 You can find out more about Jose Hernandez on his website at https://www.innerimmersion.com Jose Hernandez is an authentic intuitive and talented artist. He has spent two decades integrating his NDE. Jose learned how to live with one foot here and one foot on the other side. He became an ordained Inter-faith minister in 2005 and began speaking across the US, sharing his personal experience and speaking on the importance of art and mindfulness in the healing and recovery environment. He met and married a kindred spirit, Anastasia, in 2008. Together they developed the Inner Immersion mindfulness modality to share this experience with others, to offer LMHPs an effective breakthrough mindfulness tool and to continue his healing practice. Jose has worked with over 1,000 clients and has evolved Inner Immersion to its current form which has proven to be a highly effective tool to get to underlying issues and provide his clients with tools to help themselves connect with their authentic self. Jose has a deep compassion for the condition of humanity and speaks credibly to the skeptic and scientifically minded. If you would like to keep up with me on social media, here are my links. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIstVbBhilo1gdUmazkReQ?view_as=subscriber Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S1 Ep. 13 Jeffrey Olsen ---Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers Hello Beautiful Light-filled Souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. My memoir launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything about my life. Angels in the OR is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ I'm also excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 In this episode, I am talking with Jeffrey Olsen, a near-death experiencer and best-selling author who inspires audiences internationally with his intriguing story of perseverance and inner strength. After a horrific automobile accident took the lives of his wife and youngest son, also inflicting multiple life-threatening injuries to Jeff, including the amputation of his left leg, he found the courage to survive over 18 surgeries to eventually heal, both physically and emotionally, to thrive in his career and community contributions. Jeff has appeared on many national and international television and radio programs sharing his insights. Here is his website. https://www.envoypublishing.com/ Here is Jeffrey Olsen's professional Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/AuthorSpeakerJefferyOlsen/ Jeffrey Olsen's LinkedIn Page https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffery-olsen-045a365/ If you would like to keep up with me on social media, here are my links. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIstVbBhilo1gdUmazkReQ?view_as=subscriber Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S1 Ep. 12 Brother Ed Salisbury ---Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers Hello Beautiful Light-filled Souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. My memoir launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything for me. Angels in the OR is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ I'm also excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 In this episode, I am talking with Ed Salisbury D. Div., F.D. Ed Salisbury is a hospice minister, yoga coach, and funeral director. Having experienced multiple NDEs, he’s been drawn to work closely with the dying. Ed has served on served on local and international association boards of directors for grief recovery, Near Death Experiencers (IANDS), funeral consumer, and hospice care organizations. If you would like to keep up with me on social media, here are my links. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIstVbBhilo1gdUmazkReQ?view_as=subscriber Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S1 Ep. 11 Cherie Aimée--Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers Hello Beautiful Light-filled Souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. My memoir launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything for me. Angels in the OR is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ I'm also excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 In this episode, Cherie Aimee shares her profound near-death experience and a few lessons from the afterlife, including living from the heart and manifesting without attachment to specific outcomes. Keep up with her to follow her amazing journey. http://cherieaimee.com/ You can follow Cherie Aimee on Twitter @xocherieaimee You can keep up with me on social media at the following links. Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ Twitter @TriciaTeacher S1 Ep. 10 Howard Storm--Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers Hello Beautiful Light-filled Souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. My memoir launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything for me. Angels in the OR is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ I'm also excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 In this episode, I am talking with Howard Storm, who is one of the speakers at The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit. Howard Storm is an American Christian minister, writer, and painter. He is a former professor and chairman of the art department at Northern Kentucky University. In 2000, he authored My Descent Into Death, which chronicles his near-death experience Here is Howard Storm’s website. http://howardstorm.com/ You can keep up with me on social media at the following links. Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ S1 Ep. 9 Nancy Rynes--Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers Hello Beautiful Light-filled Souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. My memoir launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything for me. Angels in the OR is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ I'm also excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 In this episode, I am talking with Nancy Rynes, who is one of the speakers at The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit. Nancy Rynes is a leading voice for personalizing the wisdom of Near Death Experiences (NDEs), developing our heart-centered intuition, and living a life of inspiration and creativity. Recently featured on the TODAY show, Nancy is known for her inspiring keynote speeches, workshops and presentations on how to live a more purposeful, joyful, and Heaven-inspired life. To keep up with Nancy on social media, here are her links. Website: http://nancyrynes.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NancyRynesArtist/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nancyrynes/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-rynes-2b838a39/ You can keep up with me on social media as well. Here are my links. Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-barker-44953b21/ Hello Beautiful Light-filled Souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. My memoir launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything for me. Angels in the OR is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ I'm also excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. In this episode, I am talking with Robin Landsong. To learn more about her and view her artwork, please check out her website. http://www.robinlandsong.com/ You can also follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CreateBelonging/ You can follow me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc You can follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ S1 Ep. 7 Ishtar Ishaya--Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers Hello Beautiful Light-filled Souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. My memoir launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything for me. Angels in the OR is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ I'm also excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 If you prefer YouTube, you can view our talk there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH_-1GAo8RQ In this episode, I am talking with Ishtar Ishaya. Here are the links to find out more about Ishtar Ishaya's meditation teachings and intuitive astrology offerings. http://www.ascension-meditation.com/ https://www.awakenedlightastrology.com/ You can follow me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc You can follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ S1 Ep. 6 Tony Woody--Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers Hello Beautiful light-filled souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. My memoir launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything for me. Angels in the OR is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Angels-in-the-OR-Audiobook/B07QGGSCNP You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ I'm also excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 In this episode, I am talking with retired Chief Petty Officer Tony Woody who talks about his near fatal crash landing, his NDE at the time, and the continuing unfolding of his spiritually transformative experience a few days later when he encountered the Being of Light. CPO Woody also discusses his decades long struggle with the aftereffects caused by this profound life changing spiritual experience and how he learned to integrate it into his life in a positive way. He wants to share his experience with other American Warriors who’ve had similar spiritual experiences and are currently struggling to understand what happened to them to help them overcome their own “experience” aftereffects in a healthy way. Tony also speaks of the "Saint Germain Series" books available at the following link https://www.saintgermainpress.com/books/saint-germain-series/ which is where he got his answers after well over three decades of seeking answers that made sense in Light of his Experiences. The Saint Germain Foundation website is here. https://www.saintgermainfoundation.org/ You can follow me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc You can follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ S1 Ep. 5 Peter Panagore--Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers Hello Beautiful light-filled souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. It is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. You can get a free trial of Audible for 30 days if you haven’t tried Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Angels-in-the-OR-Audiobook/B07QGGSCNP You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ In this episode, I am talking with Peter Panagore, 2x Near Death Experiencer, Professional Speaker, Best Selling International Author and Broadcaster TV/FM/AM/YouTube ~ Forty Years of Meditation, Thirty Million Views Annually, Eighty Thousand Daily TV Viewers. You can find Peter on his website at https://www.peterpanagore.love/ I am a near-death experiencer who has interviewed over 40 NDErs, mediums, healers, and teachers on my YouTube Channel. I'm also an English professor with a mission from God to work as a teacher. My memoir, Angels in the OR, launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything for me. I'm excited to let you know that I am hosting The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with The University of Heaven. Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, and Howard Storm are some of the speakers featured at this event. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 You can follow me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc You can follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ You can follow Peter on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/peter.baldwin.panagore.author/ You can follow Peter on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/pbpanagore/ S1 Ep. 4 Daniel Giroux ---Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers Hello Beautiful light-filled souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. It is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ You can find my guest, Daniel Giroux's contact information on his website https://danielgiroux.net/ Since 2017, I have interviewed over 40 NDErs, mediums, healers, and teachers on my YouTube Channel. I'm also an English professor who loves talking about healing and the afterlife with others. My memoir, Angels in the OR, launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything for me. I'm excited to let you know about The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, Howard Storm, and your host, Tricia Barker. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 You can follow me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc You can follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ S1 Ep. 3 Carolyn Clapper--Tricia Barker's Conversions with Near-Death Experiencers Hello Beautiful light-filled souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. It is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ You can find my guest, Carolyn Clapper's information on her website at http://thenextworldmedium.com/ Carolyn Clapper is an evidential medium, psychic, and medical medium. Be sure to check out some of the testimonials on her website. You will be blown away by some of these stories! Since 2017, I have interviewed over 40 NDErs, mediums, healers, and teachers on my YouTube Channel. I'm also an English professor who loves talking about healing and the afterlife with others. My memoir, Angels in the OR, launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything for me. I'm excited to let you know about The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, Howard Storm, and your host, Tricia Barker. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 You can follow Carolyn Calpper on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nextworldmedium/ You can follow me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc You can follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde Raymond Moody--How His Research Helped Him Better Understand God Hello Beautiful light-filled souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. It is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 I'm excited to let you know about The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, Howard Storm, and your host, Tricia Barker. To keep up with Dr. Raymond Moody, please find him on his website The University of Heaven. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 My guest in this podcast is Dr. Raymond Moody who is best-selling author and near-death researcher. He is a world-renowned scholar, lecturer, and researcher, and he is widely recognized as the leading authority on near-death experiences. He is the best- selling author of Life after Life, Coming Back, Paranormal, Glimpses of Eternity and The Light Beyond. You can find his contact information at this link. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/ You can find my contact information on my website at https://triciabarkernde.com/ You can follow me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc You can follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ S1 Ep. 2 Jane Thompson--Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers Hello Beautiful light-filled souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir titled Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation that recently launched. It is available in several outlets as an e-book, paperback, and Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 You can find my contact information on my website https://triciabarkernde.com/ I am a near-death experiencer who has interviewed over 40 NDErs, mediums, healers, and teachers on my YouTube Channel. I'm also an English professor who loves talking about the light with others. My memoir, Angels in the OR, launched this April 2019 exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. I was an agnostic at the time of my death, and that moment in the afterlife changed everything for me. I'm also excited to let you know about The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with Dr. Raymond Moody, Lisa Smartt, Paul Perry, Dr. Jeffrey Long, John Burke, Dr. Eben Alexander, Karen Newell, Jose Hernandez, Nancy Rynes, Dr. Tony Cicoria, Lesley Lupo, David Ditchfield, Kimberly Clark Sharp, Howard Storm, and your host, Tricia Barker. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 This will occur on June 23, 2019 in an online format. You can watch several videos ahead of time. In this episode of Conversations with Near-Death Experiencers, I am talking with Jane Thompson. Be sure to check out her website, and if you want to receive your free copy of Spirit Signs which explains the 4 common ways that spirit tries to connect with you, here is the link http://www.safehandshealing.com/ You can also follow Jane on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1124910754220948/ You can follow Jane on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/janessafehandshealing/ You can follow me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc You can follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/ S1 Ep. 1 Jim Owen--Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers Hello Beautiful light-filled souls! If you don't know me, I'm Tricia Barker, and I have a YouTube channel called Near-Death Experiences: Healed by the Light and a memoir that launched in April 2019 called Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation. This book is available an an e-book, paperback, and Audible. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angels-in-the-OR/Tricia-Barker/9781642931594 You can contact me on my website. https://triciabarkernde.com/ To learn more about my guest, Jim Owen, please check out his website. https://jjenergy.net/ About two years ago, I told my near-death experience story on YouTube, and I was encouraged by the response. After that, I began to interview other experiencers and the energy was beautiful. I loved being reminded of my time in the afterlife while listening to their stories. I feel that experiencers are often my brothers and sisters in the light. Because I enjoyed the experience of interviewing others so much, I created The Second Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit with Dr. Raymond Moody and Lisa Smartt at The University of Heaven. Lots of videos are ready to watch and a live Q and A session will occur on June 23rd from Noon to 3 p.m. Central Time. https://www.theuniversityofheaven.com/NDE-Summit2019 I am an English Professor, and I have longed to find the time to write a book for quite some time. Finally, I made time to write my memoir, found an literary agent and a landed a publisher. Angels in the OR launched in April of 2019 which is exactly 25 years after my near-death experience. It is available in e-book, paperback, and Audible. My memoir tells the story of my near-death experience, but it also examines healing in realistic ways. The near-death experience is a profound spiritual experience, but translating this light from the other side into a world with deep sociological problems can be challenging. My memoir shows how healing is possible from PTSD, C-PTSD, and many forms of trauma. The love from the afterlife is one of the greatest healers, and the mission of many of my fellow near-death experiencers is to bring healing to this world in some way. I think you will hear in this episode that Jim Owen's mission is also one of healing. May you all be blessed by these podcasts and blessed on your journeys. You can follow me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TriciaBarkerNDE/?pnref=lhc You can follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/triciabarker_nde/	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line586
__label__wiki	0.535369	0.535369	Fake at the Courtauld In 2009 I posted about the likelihood of the picture known as the Procuress, at the Courtauld Institute, being real, not the fake it had been considered to be. After watching last night’s episode of Fake or Fortune,[1] I can see that this view will have to be revised. With the aid of the curatorial departments of the Courtauld and the Rijksmuseum, Philip Mould and his team were able to establish that the picture- which looks like a Dirk van Barburen- contained one element that was not known to the 17th century- bakelite. To my knowledge there is only one 20th century artist who is known to have used bakelite: the notorious forger, Han van Meegeren, the subject of last night’s programme. As Jonathan Lopez explains in his book on the forger: “A forerunner to postwar thermoplastics, Bakelite was used during the twenties and thirties to make everything from telephone handsets to brightly coloured costume jewellery. Bakelite was impervious to just about anything. The alcohol test would have had no effect on a Bakelite fake. And unlike gelatin glue, Bakelite didn’t soften in water either. Indeed, a film of hardened Bakelite behaved almost exactly like an oil paint surface hundreds of years old. By grinding period-appropriate pigments into liquid Bakelite and then using the resulting mixture on re-cycled seventeenth-century canvases, Van Meegeren was suddenly able to create fakes that virtually no scientist could have proved fraudulent, at least not using the methods ordinarily employed in the conservation laboratories of the 1930s. In short, Van Meegeren had hit the technological jackpot.”[2] Conservation technology has moved on since the 1930s, so, on the face of it, the scientific evidence would seem to be irrefutable because of the 20th century deposit. There’s a Holy Family in the National Gallery, once thought to have been painted by Poussin until Prussian blue was detected in it. So the scientific testing carries a lot of weight, and yet, and yet. When I look at the Procuress, it doesn’t look one of Van Meegeren’s fakes. They never match the original, and this Courtauld picture seems so close to van Barburen in its look, that it’s untypical of this forger. This year I’ve taught classes on the forger, and I’ve read a lot on him and I was extremely surprised to learn that not only was it a fake, but by the Amsterdam art crook. I would have put money that the Dutch curators were going to rule it out as a 20th century forgery. It’s this aspect of art crime- forgery- that fascinates me most because it involves connoisseurship and a deep knowledge of the canon of art, which I’ve trained myself to know. If this Procuress is by van Meegeren, then it’s the closest he ever came to the original, because all his other forgeries, of Vermeer, Hals, De Hooch, are always slightly off key. You know instinctively that they’re not by the original masters. Consequently, I’m completely thrown! I wish Fake or Fortune had addressed that side of the problem, i.e. the role of connoisseurship more, but full marks to them for an engrossing series. And, well, bakelite is bakelite! Mention should be also made of John Myatt –above-, forger and catspaw of the cunning art conman John Drewe. A rueful Myatt told Fiona Bruce he’d regretted what he’d done, before going off to attempt to paint Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring, literally under laboratory conditions. That was absolutely fascinating. [1] Fake or Fortune, BBC, 3/7/11 [2] Jonathan Lopez, The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren, 2009, 109-110. Posted at 11:22 AM in 17th Century Painting, art conservation, art crime, Dirck van Barburen, John Myatt, Van Meegeren, Vermeer \| Permalink \| Comments (5) Forging a Reputation: The Man Who Made Vermeers. Reading Jonathan Lopez's book about the master forger Han van Meegeren, The Man who made Vermeers, I was reminded of the opening sequence of the 70s T.V. series Tinker Tailor, Soldier, Spy; this featured a doll that contained other versions of itself with slightly different expressions, until we get to the last one which has a blank face. Van Meegeren seems to have been like that. I bet that you could never pin down the real McCoy; he seems to have been skilful at manufacturing different versions of himself just as much as imitations of his favourite, Jan Vermeer. "Made" in this sense was not solely about faking paintings, but also creating bogus identities, mythologizing one's achievements, leaving a trail of false clues. So many roles: embittered forger producing fake Vermeers to spite the critics; millionaire decadent organizing parties for prostitutes in Amsterdam; Dutch folk hero playing to his fans at his trail in 1947, while surrounded by his own art; Nazi sympathizer writing inscriptions to Adolf Hitler in books embellished by fascist hieroglyphs. It's the focus on the Nazi dimension that makes Lopez's book so distinctive and compelling. He's really sharp- and persuasive- on van Meegeren's association with the Nazi aesthetic. In a probing analysis, the author shows how the forger's most infamous work, the Supper at Emmaus, an expressionist re-imagining of early Vermeer with spectral forms with ghoulish faces, approaches the Volkgeist, or the spirit of the people tied to Germanic customs. A comparison between a later painting, Mealtime at the Farm of 1942- a kind of Louis Le Nain peasant meal meets the spirit of Mein Kampf- and the Supper at Emmaus, makes that Nazi connection very convincing. In his time van Meegeren fooled not only leading players like Hermann Goering who owned one of his Vermeer forgeries, The Woman taken in Adultery, but also eminent art historians. None were more elevated and acclaimed than Abraham Bredius, one of the architects of Rembrandt scholarship- his paintings have Bredius numbers- and a man responsible for helping to purchase an uncontested Vermeer, the Allegory of Faith. Bredius has suffered the eternal humiliation of declaring the Supper at Emmaus a true Vermeer; he wrote an article in the bible of connoisseurship, The Burlington Magazine, in 1937, proclaiming its autograph status. As Lopez says, history and art history has been very rough on Bredius because he was conned by a clever psychologist who knew how to exploit the great Dutch art historian's weakness. Van Meegeren knew that Bredius expected religious pictures to emerge from Vermeer's early career, the one period of his career where pictures were scarce. And there was a lot riding on that "Vermeer"; not only an end-of-career coup for Bredius, but the making of the Boymans Museum in Rotterdam and its new Director Dirk Hannema, who eventually bought the painting on Bredius's advice for what would be the equivalent of $4 million today. When everything unraveled, Bredius saw his world crumble to dust around him; I suspect that his major gaffe was partly why the Rembrandt Research project was set up, because some of his attributions must have been doubted in the light of his mistake in 1937. To be fair to Bredius though, he was responsible in the 1930s for cutting Rembrandt's hyper inflated oeuvre, a sad irony. There's something about art history set against World War II that makes books like this read like thrillers at times. This is a world not only of curators and dealers but murderers, thieves and the military police. There are hairbreath scrapes like the time van Meegeren arouses Goering's suspicions about the provenance of the Adulteress. Who doesn't feel the same chill as van Meegeren when he is ordered by the Reichsmarschall to write a letter detailing the picture's history of ownership? How does one invent a provenance of a picture one has forged recently? Characteristically, van Meegeren hits on a brilliant solution: he writes Goering a letter saying that he will reveal the name of the owner within two year's time from the date of purchase. This is a masterstroke because it will confirm Goering's suspicions about the criminal origins of the Adulteress, while giving him an out with the letter; but it will draw attention away from the picture as a fake. This is a typical van Meegeren ploy betraying his attitude to life- an inveterate optimist sure of his ability to escape from the worst of all possible predicaments by guile and sense of the moment opportunism. The forger's luck ran out when the Allies apprehended Goering's picture dealer Alois Miedl, whose confession allowed the Adulteress to be traced back to van Meegeren. Miedl, quite a character himself, lived out the rest of life in sunny Spain bolstered by the proceeds accumulated through his dodgy wartime dealing. Others who had done the same were not so fortunate. Hannema was punished for collaborating with the Nazis and for sending art directly to them from Holland, his part was a revelation to me. Soon everybody was running for cover, collaborators, morally bankrupt dealers, women who had literally slept with the enemy, against a Holland of vengeful cruelty gradually ceding to leniency, a mood brilliantly evoked by Lopez with his sympathetic summary of the situation and use of harrowing photos of traitors suffering at the hands of the wrathful Dutch. This is one of the best descriptions of the war time Dutch art scene since parts of Lynne Nicholas's indispensable The Rape of Europa. I've read a few books on van Meegeren, mainly for a current course I'm teaching on art crime, but I still can't really fathom how he succeeded beyond the dreams of most forgers. His Supper at Emmaus looks nothing like a Vermeer, but the forger managed to fool Bredius into believing it was. You'll find some possible reasons by another van Meegeren scholar, Errol Morris here, and lots more besides, including more from Jonathan Lopez. There's also a humorous and insightful film by the Boyman's Museum here. Van Meegeren's fabrications now inhabit a curious world of tainted celebrity. Pictures like the Lacemaker, one of his earliest forgeries from 1926, are immensely appealing; and in such pictures perhaps we can detect an honest desire to emulate Vermeer to the best of the forger's abilities. It is a tragedy that van Meegeren could only discover his artistic ability through forgeries- his paintings under his own name hardly quicken the pulse. Lopez pulls no punches here, but he is impartial and objective. Yet, at the end of his book, we seem to encounter the blank face of the final TTSS doll, not somebody with a face or real identity. Van Meegeren's most successful forgery was the portrait of himself he presented to the world. Posted at 07:29 PM in 17th Century Painting, art and World War II, art crime, Books, Van Meegeren, Vermeer \| Permalink \| Comments (16) Inside the Mind of a Forger As a kind of parallel to ARCA's article on why people steal paintings, I've been thinking about Han van Meegeren, who I blogged about a few posts back. Why did van Meegeren become a master forger? You may think the answer is clear-cut- to make money, improve social standing, get a new car, house etc. Well, there is that prime economic motivation, but I've been reading an essay on him by Mark Roskill, in his What is Art History? According to this source, Van Meegeren was not only motivated by the need to make money, but also had other reasons for setting out on the path of art crime. Below are a number of reasons why van Meegeren may have turned to a life of art crime. Van Meegeren had an inferiority complex caused by his frail constitution; he suffered with a weak heart as a child, and was delicate and stunted. He wanted to wreak revenge on the art world that had slighted his abilities as a painter of biblical subjects. When he divorced in 1923, he took the wife of an art critic as his mistress- he subsequently married her. His fabrication of old masters was a rebuke against modern art and its critics. His first forgeries were "experiments in the artificial ageing of old master paintings." He needed money to support his first wife and child, and also funds to help maintain his ambitious life style. Van Meegeren became a forger of Vermeer's art because he shared the same signature as the artist HVM. Van Meegeren identified himself with Vermeer, even to the extent of keeping Vermeer- like props in his studio. He regarded forgery as a duel with the experts; he believed that his powers as a forger would render him undetectable. Of course, none of these reasons excuses van Meegeren's criminal activities. Forgery distorts and although romanticism accrues to it, it is wrong. There's the other reason that forgeries, though having novelty and aesthetic value, do not culturally age well; anyone looking at van Meegeren's "experiments" like his "Jesus among the Doctors"- above- would wonder why these badly drawn men and women with their death-mask faces were regarded as products of Vermeer's hand back in the 1930s. Today, nobody would be fooled. Art forgeries are time-locked, interesting but curious remnants of their own era. Posted at 10:13 PM in art crime, Van Meegeren \| Permalink \| Comments (0) Fake Is Real! The Independent reports on the revelation that a hitherto regarded fake at the Courtauld Institute, has turned out to be a genuine masterpiece. The painting, The Procuress- above- is now thought to be a work from the 17thcentury. It entered the Courtauld just after the war as a registered fake, a copy thought to have been produced by one of the most infamous of forgers- Hans van Meegeren. The Dutch forger went in for imitations of Vermeer with a dash of Caravaggio, most notably the forger's Supper at Emmaus of 1937. The fusion of different styles was one of the factors that led to van Meegeren's downfall. You just couldn't have blatant Caravaggesque effects in Vermeer's art. Another reason may have been HVM's figures looked nothing like HVM, the master. The fact that they shared the same initials may inspired van Meegeren to become a Vermeer forger. The Courtauld now believe that this "fake" Procuress may even have hung in Vermeer's own house. A similar painting by Dirk van Barburen of the School of Utrecht, can be seen in our National Gallery's- A Woman Seated at the Virginal, of 1671. That may be so, but it's ridiculous to say this once fake work was actually painted by the Master of Delft himself as one journalist has reported. The expert opinion is that it is an anonymous artist of the 17thcentury, although wether it's actually by van Barburen himself remains a matter of speculation. The Independent has this on the history of the painting: The painting was presented to the Courtauld by Professor Geoffrey Webb, a specialist on historic architecture. He had been a senior arts officer in Germany just after the Second World War, and apparently received it in the Netherlands as a gift for helping with the restitution of works of art. He believed it was a Van Meegeren fake which had been recovered by the Dutch authorities in 1945 from the forger's villa in Nice. When Anthony Blunt, the then-director of the Courtauld, accepted The Procuress, few questions were asked. A few suspicious queries raised in the 1970s by the Dutch scholar Marijke van den Brandhofwere not followed up, as all appeared convinced it was a product of the forger. It was later lent to three exhibitions on fakes as a fine example of a forgery. Two other versions of The Procuress were thought to be the original until now. The first was owned by the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam, but in 1949 another emerged from an English private collection. It was auctioned at Christie's before being bought by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. I'm vastly amused by the fact that a real masterpiece was lent to exhibitions as an example of a fake; but what makes me smile much more is the mention of Blunt. What I find funny is that the Procuress hung on the Courtauld's walls during Blunt's directorship- a real artwork which was deemed fake. But in Blunt's flat above the Courtauld, a painting by Poussin- now known to be fake- hung over Blunt's mantelpiece regarded by the director, who was convinced it was real. Posted at 10:56 PM in 17th Century Painting, Anthony Blunt, art crime, Courtauld Institute, London, National Gallery, Van Meegeren, Vermeer \| Permalink \| Comments (0)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line592
__label__wiki	0.807351	0.807351	Samsung heir faces high price for cold noodles in Pyongyang South Korean leader wants conglomerate to lead investments in the North KIM JAEWON, Nikkei staff writer September 20, 2018 20:38 JST Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, second from right, enjoys a lunch of cold noodles with South Korean business leaders and North Korean officials at a restaurant in Pyongyang on Wednesday. (Pyongyang Press Corps.) SEOUL -- As Lee Jae-yong tucked into a lunch of sweet-and-sour cold noodles in Pyongyang on Wednesday, all eyes were on him. The vice chairman of Samsung Electronics is under the spotlight as the key companion to President Moon Jae-in on his third summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Lee is part of a 200-member South Korean delegation Moon brought on his three-day visit to the North Korean capital that ends on Thursday. But the 50-year-old may have bitten off more than he could chew. The price of the classic North Korean dish of buckwheat noodles with egg and beef? Samsung's commitment to North Korea's development. Sources close to Samsung said Lee is under pressure from the Moon government to present a large-scale investment plan in North Korea after he returns to Seoul, a prospect the business leader is said to be unsure of. "Samsung is under pressure to show something big after Lee's return from Pyongyang. That's what the government expects from the company and why it brought the vice chairman to North Korea," said a source familiar with the matter who did not want to be named. "It should be a blueprint for investments in North Korea, even though it will not be realized soon." Lee's invitation as a key delegate was fraught with controversy as the presidential Blue House came under fire for seeming to favor him. The Samsung heir is, after all, awaiting a final ruling from the Supreme Court over corruption charges. He was set free from prison earlier this year after the Seoul High Court suspended his two-and-a-half year jail term for bribery and embezzlement. Cold noodles are a traditional Korean dish. Moon, on the other hand, had upheld anti-corruption as one of his key government policies. He had swept into power in May 2017 on promises of rooting out entrenched corruption and cronyism in South Korea's political system. Keeping Lee close to him during this trip may not sit well with voters. Before the summit, Samsung had been careful in vocalizing any support for the South's plans for economic development in the North, only saying that it was monitoring events. Despite its reticence, Samsung isn't new to North Korea. It assembled its televisions in Pyongyang for a decade from 2000 but was forced to withdraw from the country after the North allegedly sank a South Korean warship, killing 46 servicemen. Wednesday's lunch took place an hour after the two Koreas agreed to push for joint economic projects. Several carrots were also dangled by the North. As soon as "conditions are met," the Kaesong Industrial Park in the North will be reopened and South Koreans will be allowed to tour Mount Kumgang. Until 2016, South Korea had collaborated in operating the industrial park. Mount Kumgang had been open to South Korean and other tourists from 1998. But after a South Korean tourist was killed by a North Korean soldier in 2008, South Koreans were no longer allowed to tour the area. Also in the plans are a launch ceremony, agreed by the two leaders, to be held before the end of the year for a project to link the countries' railways and roads along the eastern and western coast. The agreement to link transportation lines was forged when the two men met in April. In addition, Seoul and Pyongyang will discuss setting up two joint economic zones -- a fish market in the Yellow Sea and a tourism complex on the east coast. Unlike Samsung, other South Korean conglomerates see North Korea as their new El Dorado, and are keen to seize business opportunities ahead of their rivals from China, Japan and the U.S. Lotte Group and KT Corp. have launched internal groups to focus on projects in North Korea. Lotte is interested in developing resorts and hotels in the North while KT wants to set up telecommunications infrastructure there. "We have experience in setting up telecom infrastructure in the Kaesoong Industrial Complex. We are ready to do so in the other regions of North Korea," said a KT executive who also did not want to be named. But analysts sounded a word of caution. Even though the inter-Korean Pyongyang summit has reduced military tensions on the peninsula considerably and there is much optimism over the budding relationship between the two sides, North Korea is still subject to international sanctions that could be held in place for some time yet. The U.S. would want to keep North Korea in check until it sees more substantial action toward denuclearization, but Kim has said he won't budge in that direction until Washington declares an end to the Korean War. "Both North and South Korea have agreed to further measures to promote peace and eliminate confrontation, providing concrete steps toward denuclearization," said Christian de Guzman, a vice president at Moody's. "However, a permanent peace settlement remains unlikely in the foreseeable future, in the context of uncertainties in the bilateral relations between the United States and North Korea." 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__label__wiki	0.657444	0.657444	China's population forecast to peak at 1.44bn in 2029 'Unstoppable' decline to begin following year, say government researchers January 05, 2019 20:16 JST Visitors throng the Bund, Shanghai's waterfront, on the second day of the "Golden Week" holiday on Oct. 2, 2018. © Reuters SHANGHAI (Reuters) -- China's population is set to reach a peak of 1.442 billion in 2029 and start a long period of "unstoppable" decline in 2030, government scholars said in a research report published on Friday. The world's most populous country must now draw up policies to try to cope with a declining labor force and a rapidly aging population, according to the summary of the latest edition of the "Green Book of Population and Labor" published by the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Growth in the working population had now stagnated, the report said, and the rising number of elderly people will have a far-reaching impact on the social and economic development in the country, especially if fertility rates remain low. "From a theoretical point of view, the long-term population decline, especially when it is accompanied by a continuously aging population, is bound to cause very unfavorable social and economic consequences," it said. China's population is expected to fall back to 1.36 billion by the middle of the century, it said, which could mean a decline in the workforce of as much as 200 million. If fertility rates remain unchanged, the population could fall to 1.17 billion by 2065, it said. China decided in 2016 to relax a controversial "one-child policy" aimed at curbing population growth and allow all couples to have two children. However, the country's birthrate still fell 3.5 percent in 2017 and is expected to have fallen again last year. China's "dependency rate" -- or the proportion of nonworking people, including children and the elderly, in the total population -- rose for the first time in more than 30 years in 2011, and is widely predicted to increase further for at least the next few decades. The proportion of retirees is projected to rise until 2060, the CASS report said, and while the decision to relax "one-child" rules was designed to rebalance China's age structure, in the short term it will also lead to a greater dependency rate. According to previous forecasts, China's elderly population is expected to reach 400 million by the end of 2035, up from around 240 million last year. Hong Kong protests spread, possibly affecting next election Pence tears into China over treatment of Uighurs China suspends three e-book platforms, citing 'obscene' content TPP-EU alliance makes good sense in fight against protectionism	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line594
__label__cc	0.712206	0.287794	Detachment – Wow, this was a crazy-angry movie. Adrien Brody plays a substitute teacher who keeps severing his connection to the students by moving on from one job to the next. This movie shows a one-month period in a high school where the students are apathetic (at best) and the staff (including principle Marcia Gay Harden, counsellor Lucy Lui and teacher Christina Hendricks, all excellent) are all burnt out. It’s tough to watch; director Tony Kaye slaps us over and over in the face with such consant degradation that we too become detached, and the sorrow is less effective. This is an ode to the failures of the public school system, and though I know it has its flaws, it seems downright impossible that there is nary a student nor administrator in all of Queens who has ever experienced even a singular moment of happiness. Nothing here is implausible, it’s just that not every bad thing can possibly happen does happen, and certainly not all before lunch. It’s like Kaye has gleefully scraped together a big pile of dog shit, and he’s intent on rubbing our noses in it for as long as we hold out (which makes me feel dumb for sticking it out). There’s a lot going on stylistically – the chalkboard occasionally gets animated, and there are sporadic interviews that made me wonder at first if I’d accidentally stumbled onto a documentary. But then the drama kicks in, and we quickly overdose from it. Tony Kaye is notoriously difficult to work with (the only other feature film he was able to bring to screen forced Edward Norton to pull rank and recut American History X himself)., so it’s suprising so many stars returned his calls to get this film done. It would seem, however, that some have sincelearned their lesson. Bryan Cranston has said that he has not seen the film “Because I felt that Carl Lund, the writer of Detachment, wrote a really beautiful, haunting script. And I didn’t feel that it was honored. I was upset with that. I really was. And so I didn’t see the movie. Tony Kaye is a very complicated… interesting fellow. I don’t believe that I’ll be working with him again. I didn’t not get along with him on a personal level. But I just honor the writing. I really think that writing is the most important element there is. It is the springboard. It is where everything starts. And if you don’t honor that – which I didn’t feel it was – then where are you? And I’m not the only actor on that film to feel that way.” Half Nelson – Ryan Gosling’s character in Half Nelson, Dan, is a lot like Adrien Brody’s in Detachment. They can both get it together in their rough classrooms, but their personal lives are in tatters. An ex-girlfriend rattles Dan to the point of getting high in the school locker room, where he’s discovered by his student, Drey (Shareeka Epps). The friendship that grows out of this encounter is sweet and wary, and Dan feels understandbly uncomfortable being so vulnerable in front of one of his kids. Drey sees his addiction the way Dan sees the bad influence of drug dealer Frank (Anthony Mackie) in her life, but they can’t seem to resist going down their own wrong paths, let alone keep each other from doing the same. Dan is terrific with his students but can’t get through a day without freebasing cocaine. It’s tough to watch, but so much more rewarding than Detachment, because although we see real gritty misery, there are also small veins for hope. Although I enjoyed the performaces in Detachment, there were almost too many sub-plots to serve any one story well. Bryan Cranston and Blythe Danner and James Caan were pratically throw-aways. In Half Nelson, Gosling, Epps, and Mackie dazzle with performances that are really nuanced and subtle. You get the sense that Kaye wants to knock you over the head with his themes whereas Half Nelson is more comfortable asking you to make your own decisions. There may not be any great heralding sense of triumph, but neither do we bask in self-pity. Gosling earned an Oscar nomination for his work on the film; and it was scored by a talented Canadian band by the name of Broken Social Scene. So there you have it, two uplifting movies just in time for back to school! Are you ready for a new school year at your house? Did you have a favourite teacher growing up? Were they mostly sober? How about a favourite school movie? This entry was posted in Jay and tagged Ryan Gosling on August 31, 2015 by Jay. ← Irrational Man A Walk In The Woods → 20 thoughts on “Back to School” Carrie Rubin August 31, 2015 at 1:19 pm I loved Half Nelson. Thought it was so well done. Haven’t heard of Detachment. Definitely has a stellar cast, though. Wow. Amy Reese August 31, 2015 at 4:00 pm Perhaps, you will just felt a bit detached watching that “Detachment” movie. Get it, get it. Ha ha. Maybe that was the point, or perhaps they needed some comic relief or it took itself too seriously. I live my movie watching through you, because I haven’t seen either of these. Jay Post author August 31, 2015 at 4:13 pm I WISH that was the point. Might actually be clever then. But I’m not giving Kaye that much credit. I think he just doesn’t know the meaning of stop! Amy Reese September 1, 2015 at 11:59 am Ha ha. I always like to think the best of people. 🙂 ruth August 31, 2015 at 4:53 pm I haven’t seen either one of these but I might give Detachment a shot. No love for Gosling from moi, so that’ll be a skip. Hmmm, I don’t have kids in my house so I’m practically oblivious about back-to-school stuff. Does Somekind of Wonderful count? That’s set in high school and I quite like that movie 😉 J. August 31, 2015 at 5:13 pm I was considering watching Detachment at the weekend there. Opted for Horns instead. Anyhoo, it’s one that’s on my list. As for Half Nelson, I like that one. Grim, but it was right good. Favourite school movie … Heathers, I reckon. Or the straight up crazy Faculty. Wendell August 31, 2015 at 7:37 pm Guess I’m the only one who expected a review of the Rodney Dangerfield/Robert Downey Jr. “classic” Back to School, lol. I love Half Nelson Both Gosling and Epps deliver amazing performances. Haven’t seen Detachment. Reading your review was like a warning to stay away, but then I read that Bryan Cranston quote. Wow. Now, I’m morbidly curious. I recently watched Teacher of the Year on Netflix. It is a solid, if unspectacular, flick about a teacher who won the titular award and is entertaining the idea of accepting a job that will capitalize on his win, but take him out of the classroom. SLIP/THROUGH - Dan September 1, 2015 at 6:02 pm Haha I thought the same thing (re: Rodney Dangerfield movie)… but a review of that? Kinda unlikely. Like the man used to say he “get(s) no respect.” Brittani August 31, 2015 at 10:06 pm I haven’t seen Detachment, but I loved Half Nelson. Gosling was amazing in that film. Chris September 1, 2015 at 9:12 am Detachment I found quite moving, I know I’m in the minority liking it though. The premise is nothing new, but struck a chord with me. I give the film extra points for bringing us close to the suffering. Kind of a sad movie, so it probably won’t be for everyone. Good catch on the Half Nelson comparisons. The Telltale Mind September 1, 2015 at 9:36 am I’ve wanted to see these two for a while now but haven’t been able to. They sound pretty good. In My Cluttered Attic September 1, 2015 at 4:24 pm The movie may be flawed, and apparently not very entertaining, but as for pointing out the deficiencies in our public school system, it may be dead on. And that perhaps, is more sad than the movie. ;o) Great review. Didn’t Kaye direct American History X? His work on Detachment sounds bold, if infuriating 😉 Compelling analysis rhough. I have to see that one still. Thanks for the reminder. Half Nelson on the other hand was amazing. Gosling and the young girl were brilliant. This unlikely relationship was so captivating.. This movie is a great hidden gem. Thanks for spotlighting it. Have you seen Gosling in the Believer? That was a very interesting early performance. Best school movie? Stand and Deliver with Edward James Olmos. To Sir With Love starring Sidney Pottier.. idioglossiablog September 1, 2015 at 6:26 pm I love Marcia Gay Harden. She’s one of those great supporting actresses who really doesn’t receive acknowledgement equal to her talent. G-uno. Khalid September 2, 2015 at 12:41 pm Half Nelson is the best I’ve seen of Ryan Gosling, I agree that it’s very subtle and nuanced. Jay Post author September 2, 2015 at 1:06 pm His performance isn’t exactly consistent, but maybe that’s what makes us notice him. He’s clearly a man on a ledge, and he makes his situation believable, depraved as it is. Pingback: Everybody’s Chattin + Spotlight on ‘Macbeth’ First Official US Trailer \| Mr Tookles September 2, 2015 at 2:38 pm Oh crap.. I shouldn’t have visited your blog.. must study can’t watch movies. Oh forget it.. going to watch it now! kmSalvatore September 2, 2015 at 3:02 pm I haven’t seen either movie;( And my favorite school movie was the one that got us out of class ;))) I went to Catholic grammar and public high schools .. I was mediocre at best reocochran September 3, 2015 at 12:14 am I like the 2 movies being compared and have not seen either one. I trust your opinions and soon will need to get or see “Half Nelson.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line597
__label__cc	0.611226	0.388774	October 2, 2015 12:08 am 2 Oct 2015 Artist News, Latest, Movie Review, Music Related News ALABAMA SHAKES, All Songs Considered, Amanda Palmer, Atypical Beasts Agency, atypicalsounds, Brittany Howard, Businesswoman, career, COURTNEY BARNETT, female musicians, Kickstarter, Mimi Parker, NPR, Sharon van etten, Side job, WOMEN, Zooey DeSchanel 0 As I came above ground on the B train to Brooklyn, I flipped through episodes of NPR’s All Songs Considered to see if there was anything I could quickly download before we ducked back underground. The fan-girl in me saw the name Sharon Van Etten and immediately clicked “download.” I watched as the remaining two megabytes of space on my phone was eaten up by what I prayed would last through the remainder of my commute. The title of the episode “All Songs + 1: Sharon Van Etten Interviews Low’s Mimi Parker.” What I expected: a captivating conversation between two of my favorite musicians out there, Singer-Songwriter Sharon Van Etten and Indie-Rock veteran Mimi Parker (drummer and vocalist of the band Low). What I did not expect: the topic of conversation to be “how to balance being a musician and a mother.” Typically, I roll my eyes at this kind of piece. You don’t see male rock-stars being hounded by the media with questions like “who takes care of your kids while you’re on the road?” or “what’s it like being away from your child for months at a time?” God forbid the father stay home and care for his child while the mother went out and earned a living. But as I listened, I was slapped in the face with the privilege of my youth and child-less status. This wasn’t the media forcing two women in the workforce to confine their conversation to the subject of motherhood. No, here was Van Etten vulnerably and honestly confessing her deep fear of subjecting her child to the permanent stain of parental inadequacy. Here was a woman, anxiously anticipating her biological clock as it approaches the station. Any strong woman in her position would have asked for any words of wisdom that could potentially help make the most difficult decision of her life – pursue her dreams and give up on having a child or have a child and risk losing her entire career. Is it possible to do both? Parker’s band Low came up in the 90s when album sales were huge. Hell, Parker could afford a nanny to accompany them on tour and watch the kids while she soundchecked, performed, did press shots, signings, meet and greets, etc. Plus, Parker’s husband was also in the band which made touring a happy family affair. Van Etten, admittedly, couldn’t afford that kind of help. In fact, she even mentioned needing to pick up a second form of income to provide for her family. A famous musician with a day job… is Yuppie the new rock and roll? It’s a shame. Whether we like it or not, today’s music artist has to be more than her moniker. She must be a shrewd businesswoman, a marketing guru, a self-promoter, an entrepreneur. She needs to know not only how to make music but also how to have her music make her money. The following female indie musicians have successfully been able to strike that balance between art and industry, integrating their creative eye with their business acumen. We are choosing to focus on indie musicians because they have been able to engage with the business side of things without the massive corporate backing and brand partnerships that a major label provides. We are focusing on women because as tough as it is for dudes to make it in this industry, imagine how hard it is to overcome the same obstacles as the dudes plus the added weight of both sexism and/or carrying a child to term. So take a peek into the side-endeavors of just a few of your favorite female indie rockers and allow yourself to become inspired by their creativity and their work ethic. I know I am. Courtney Barnett – Breakout indie rocker of 2015, Courtney Barnett captured the hearts of millions with her neo-Dylan talk-singing, psychedelic melodies, and proto-punk electric guitar riffs. But did you know she also co-founded Milk! Records with her girlfriend, Jen Cloher and their friends. Their website outlines how they are an “independent label where you can buy direct from the artist.” They also “occasionally curate special events, compilations, split 7” vinyl releases and artist designed t-shirts and curios from friends and artists we love.” A group of friends self-releasing their own material and selling it to a DIY-hungry audience sounds like the dream to me. Zooey Deschanel – You may think I’m going to talk about her highly lucrative career as an actress, but I’m not. Not only is Zooey a fabulous musician and infectious actress, but she also founded hellogiggles, a “positive online community for women (although men are always welcome!) covering DIY and crafting projects, beauty, friendship, sex & relationships, tips on savvy and stylish living meant to inspire a smile.” Sure that sounds like the quirk-heavy Zooey that polarizes many women across the country, but you can’t really argue with the numbers and with how much traffic her site gets, that’s one hell of a side-gig. Amanda Palmer – You may know her as lead singer of The Dresden Dolls. You may know her from her infamous kickstarter campaign which raised nearly 1.2 million dollars. Or perhaps you know her from the countless controversies she has encountered like her publicized dispute with Roadrunner Records or her Poem for Dzhokkar. Palmer has captured our attention over the years for countless reasons, one of which she turned into a book. Following the success of her highly viewed Ted Talk special “The Art of Asking,” Palmer turned her speech into a book with the same title. The book garnered mixed reviews but sure enough it climbed its way onto the New York Times bestsellers list. Not bad for a first time author. Brittany Howard – Lead singer and guitarist of the acclaimed Alabama Shakes recently announced her side-project, Thunderbitch. Thunderbitch is the old-school rock outlet for a collective of seasoned acts including Fly Golden Eagle and Clear Plastic Masks. Their website bio reads “Thunderbitch. Rock ‘n’ Roll. The end.” Thunderbitch is not tied to any known label (indie or otherwise) and seems to be running the whole operation on its own. While she’s left me with more questions than I’d like, I’m definitely stoked to see what this side-endeavor evolves into.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line600
__label__cc	0.618519	0.381481	Judge Approves $11 Million Settlement With Principal Financial in ERISA Class Action A class-action lawsuit accused the insurance company of overcharging employees for retirement investments in its own funds. On November 18, U.S. District Judge John Jarvey granted final approval to a settlement negotiated with Principal Financial, which had been accused of violating its fiduciary obligations by charging excessive administrative fees to employees investing their retirement plans in Principal funds in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Employees of Principal only had the option of investing in Principal-branded funds for their company-sponsored retirement plans. More than 15,000 employees were invested in these funds, which had nearly $2 billion in assets. These plans paid much higher investment management and advisor fees than other defined-contribution funds of similar size. Because of this settlement, Principal employees will have broader options and pay lower fees moving forward. Retirement money that had been lost to excessive fees will instead earn returns on investment. The settlement involves a payout of $3 million into a settlement fund and an agreement by Principal to slash such fees going forward by at least $8.1 million — though the employees will most likely save even more as their plans gain value. They will also be able to invest in non-Principal funds. The lawsuit was brought by Bailey & Glasser partner Gregory Porter of the firm’s Washington, D.C., office on behalf of Krystal Anderson and other class members. The negotiated settlement in this complex case came after nearly 18 months of active litigation.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line603
__label__wiki	0.505588	0.505588	Muslim Communities of Grace: The Sufi Brotherhoods in Islamic Religious Life Jamil M. Abun-Nasr Columbia University Press, 2007 - History - 280 pages Since the eighteenth century, adherence to Sufism, the mystical tradition of Islam, has been associated with membership in one of the Sufi brotherhoods. These brotherhoods constitute distinct religious communities within the general community of Islam. Jamil M. Abun-Nasr describes them as "communities of grace" because his readings in Sufi hagiographies have convinced him that divine grace is the central element of their system of beliefs. In his reconstruction of the development of the Sufi tradition, Abun-Nasr examines the emergence of Sufism's central tenets and the factors that account for their appeal to Muslims in different lands. Drawing on original Sufi sources, he contends that, in their formative period, Sufi tenets were shaped by the caliphs' inability to live up to the ideal the Prophet represented in the Muslim community: that political leadership was a subordinate function of religious guidance. He also contends that the Sufi brotherhoods' form of religious communalism emerged from the adaptation of the spiritual authority that Sufis ascribed to their leaders to the Muslims' major pious concerns. In the last two chapters Abun-Nasr examines the reaction of the Sufi brotherhoods' shaykhs to European colonial rule, the campaign directed against them by Muslim reformers of the Salafiyya school, and the reliance of the independent Muslim states' rulers on their support in counteracting the hostility of the Muslim reformers, as well as, since the 1970s, the Islamists, to their secular development plans. Jamil M. Abun-Nasr is emeritus professor of Islamic studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He is the author of a number of books, including A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period and The Tijaniyya: A Sufi Order in the Modern World, and is coeditor of Law, Society, and National Identity in Africa. Title Muslim Communities of Grace: The Sufi Brotherhoods in Islamic Religious Life Author Jamil M. Abun-Nasr Publisher Columbia University Press, 2007 History / Middle East / General Religion / Islam / General Social Science / General	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line617
__label__wiki	0.521858	0.521858	Tag Archives: Eric the Red The Cape Otway Lighthouse Take one lighthouse, a harbour and some boats, stir in Eric the Red and the City of Rayville, and what do you get ? Answer – The Cape Otway Lighthouse. The Cape Otway Lightstation is the oldest, surviving lighthouse in mainland Australia. The light, which has been in continuous operation since 1848, is perched on towering sea cliffs where Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean collide. For thousands of immigrants, including my ancestors, after many months at sea, Cape Otway was their first sight of land after leaving Europe. Quoted fromThe Cape Otway Lightstation Note Some readers have questioned the use of oldest above so I have added some further notes at the end of the page. The closest settlement to the lighthouse was Krambruk, later known as Apollo Bay, and some of my ancestors settled in the area. The lighthouse became a place to take visitors. (1) From the family album -the lighthouse in Jan 1948. And a recent photo (2) That tall radio mast has now disappeared. Up the tower in Jan 1948 And the same view to the north-east in recent times.(3) There were many shipwrecks along the Australian coast and the reefs around Cape Otway had their fair share.. As Apollo Bay was a fishing village the fishing boats became used to turning out to help ships in trouble. Some of the shipwrecks were quite notable. In September 1880 Eric the Red was heading to Melbourne with American exhibits for an International Trade Exhibition in Melbourne when it went down two miles from Cape Otway with the loss of four lives. There was plenty of wreckage from the Eric to be found along the coast which was salvaged and used in the construction of houses and sheds around Apollo Bay, including Milford House (since burnt down in bushfires), which had furniture and fittings from the ship, and the dining room floor made out of its timbers. A ketch named the Apollo was also built from its timbers and subsequently used in Tasmanian waters.. Waste not, want not ! A relation, Claud Telford, is reputed at the age of fifteen to have walked to Cape Otway from Apollo Bay on 3 or 4 days to help in the recovery. (just oral history). (4) Another major shipwreck occurred in 1940. Look at the photo of these survivors photographed beside the distinctive foreshore trees at Apollo Bay. I found in The State Library of Victoria in a collection from the now defunct Argus under Wartime Rescue Photos. Early in the war a German minelayer had laid 40 mines off Cape Otway, as well as at other select places along the Victorian coast (5) These men have the distinction of having been rescued from SS City of Rayville, the first American ship to be sunk in the Second World War, more than a year before Pearl Harbour . Only one life was lost. The lighthouse keeper at Cape Otway saw the flames from the explosion when the ship hit a mine and billiard players in Apollo Bay heard the explosion. Three boats set out from Apollo Bay and found the ship’s crew had been able to take to their lifeboats. These lifeboats with 37 sailors were then towed back to Apollo Bay, arriving at dawn on November 9th, 1940. (6) The survivors were well looked after. This photo, loaned to me by a Telford relation whose mother is in the photo, shows a mixture of the sailors, hotel staff and others, taken outside the hotel. The ship had been laden with Australian lead from Port Pirie and took only 35 minutes to sink. (1) View of the Lighthouse from the Cape Otway Lightstation site (2) Thanks Flickr (3) As seen on Flickr (4) Heritage Victoria has a good description of the incident using the Captain’s own words describing the incident. (5) Photo of survivors from the Argus collection at the State Library of Victoria (6) A detailed report on the City of Rayville incident There is also an Age report in 2009 about the diver who eventually discovered the wreckage and a video from Deakin University exploring the wreckage, I wonder what became of these sailors and their families ? Further Notes They started building the Cape Otway Lighthouse in 1846 and the first light shone in 1848. It was the second lighthouse completed but is the oldest surviving lighthouse. It was decommissioned in January 1994 after being the longest continuous operating light on the Australian mainland. It has been replaced by a low powered solar light in front of the original tower Meanwhile the Macquarie Lighthouse began as a tripod mounted iron basket which originally burned wood, and later coal. A sandstone lighthouse was built and began operation in 1818 but the sandstone eventually crumbled and a new lighthouse was built 4 metres away from the first one, lighting up in 1883 when the following photo was taken. Hey, hey, two lighthouses side by side, switch one off, switch the other on, so depriving NSW of that word continuous.. Woud I be right in saying Macquarie can claim the continuous area title and Cape Otway can have the continuous building/light title ! In 1976 the Macquarie Lighthouse was fully automated This entry was posted in Genealogy, History, Lighthouses, Shipwreck, Uncategorized and tagged 1880, 1940, Apollo Bay, Bass Strait, Cape Otway, City of Raysville, Eric the Red, fishermen, lead ingot, life raft, Lighthouse, lightstation, shipwreck, survivor, Telford on August 3, 2013 by lazycoffees.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line618
__label__wiki	0.50359	0.50359	What is causing the rising demand for women in tech? Lana Burgess Growing awareness of the gender gap in STEM professions is spurring a rising demand for women in tech. But how did diversity in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) fall by the wayside? And was it always this way? Read on as we explore why there are so few women in tech and celebrate those helping to change this. Where are all the women in tech? There is nothing innately male about technology. Many computing pioneers were women, including the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. Women were heavily involved in the development of modern computing at Bletchley Park. Computer science used to be a subject that women studied in growing numbers. Fast forward to 2017 and a diversity report by the British Computer Society revealed that only 17 percent of employees in the tech sector were female. So, what drove women away from technology? Something changed in the 1980s. The number of women studying computer science flattened. Women began to leave the technology industry in greater numbers than they were entering it. The tech sector rapidly became male dominated. Stereotypes in marketing and the media One theory is that this gender imbalance emerged because of the way personal computers were first marketed: as toys for boys. Marketing is powerful. It seeps into the public consciousness and informs the stories surrounding a product. For technology, early campaigns targeting boys have meant that when people think of computers, they think of boys. Popular eighties movies like Weird Science, where the male hero was a computer geek, reinforced these stereotypes. Gender stereotypes surrounding technology endured the nineties and still resonate today. Just take the IT Crowd, for example. Not enough women in the pipeline Naturally, children internalise gender stereotypes from the media. And this may impact which subjects they choose to study. Only 35 percent of girls study STEM subjects beyond GCSE, compared with 80 percent of boys. This trend continues into university. A mere 25 percent of STEM graduates are women. The gender imbalance in STEM education impacts the technology pipeline. Recruiters have a gender biased talent pool when it comes to filling roles in the tech sector. The result? Far more men than women end up entering the technology industry. Unconscious bias and workplace culture Some believe that the lack of women in tech is more than a just a pipeline problem. Unconscious bias and even overt sexism may play a role in technology’s diversity problem. A study published in the American Sociological Review found that hiring managers tend to recruit people who are culturally similar to them. So, male hiring managers may be more likely to hire other men. In some companies, the lack of gender diversity allows a macho culture to develop. This can mean women employees feel less welcome, more isolated, and find it harder to progress. A Guardian survey found that 73 percent of people believe that the technology industry is sexist. This may explain why a reported 45 percent of women entering STEM are more likely to leave within a year than men. Campaigning for change Fortunately, things are changing. A growing body of research is showing the industry that gender diversity makes business sense. Women-led companies have been found to perform better than those led by men. And gender diverse research and development teams are known to increase innovation. Campaigning organisations, like WISE, have done much to raise women’s representation in tech. Event-led communities like She Says and Brighton Digital Women are springing up nationwide to support women to succeed in the sector. Outspoken women in tech like Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, have raised the profile of the cause: “No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.” As a result of growing awareness of the tech gender gap, more women are publicly sharing their experiences to support their sisters entering the industry. Websites like Women in Technology are brimming with useful resources. Our own blog shines a light on why more women are needed in AI, shares insight from senior female industry figures, and discusses how to succeed as a woman in tech. The tide is turning for women in tech as the pipeline is becomes more gender balanced. Research shows the number of female STEM students has increased from 6.5 percent to 11.8 percent in the last five years. Women are entering the tech industry in greater numbers. According to the WISE campaign, there were 61,430 more women working in STEM in 2017 than in 2016. As demand for women in tech continues to rise, now is a great time to consider a career in the industry. Technology companies are increasingly aware of the need to provide a supportive working environment that empowers women to succeed. If you’re keen to step into the technology industry, updating your skills can give you a competitive edge. Get in touch with our expert career consultants today. Topics: #IT, #careeradvice What is the Festival of Learning? Advance your career by coming off the tools Elevate your career with the updated CompTIA A+ certification	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line622
__label__wiki	0.628215	0.628215	The Public Domain and the WIPO Development Agenda July 5, 2010, by Guest The following guest post is from Séverine Dusollier, who is a Professor in Law at the University of Namur and a member of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Working Group on the Public Domain. She recently completed a Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain commissioned as part of the WIPO Development Agenda (particularly its recommendations 16 and 20). We asked her to write about her findings… The purpose of this study was mainly to assess the role, history, and justification of the public domain in copyright, to identify its main components and the obstacles that might interfere with the access and use of the copyright-related public domain, and finally to formulate recommendations in regard to future activities on the public domain in relation to copyright that may be carried out by the World Intellectual Property Organization. The public domain has been described as including the following components: The ontological public domain, composed of ideas, methods, rules, principles, style, facts, information, etc., and news of the day; The subject-matter public domain, composed of non original works (and incidentally of foreign works not covered by applicable Treaties and of unfixed works in some countries); The temporal public domain, composed of works whose term of protection has expired; The policy public domain, composed of official texts (except for some countries) The voluntary public domain, composed of works in which the author has relinquished her copyight. Such mapping in copyright has particularly underlined the shifting boundaries of each part of the public domain due to the intervention of many legal intricacies and national oddities (e.g., the appropriation of raw data in protected databases, the impossibility to definitively determine the expiration of copyright, the legal uncertainty of the validity of copyright relinquishment). The unclear boundaries of the public domain are one of the first concerns for its identification and availability. They also makes them ill-equipped to encounter challenges from other legal or technical mechanisms, that might interfere with the free access of use of the public domain. The study has namely surveyed some legal means of control that might subsist in public domain material, and erode its “publicness”, such as (depending in some cases of the countries): the perpetual moral right, the domaine public payant, the European protection of so-called posthumous works, property rights in the embodiment of the work, the technological measures of protection, the related rights, including the sui generis right in databases, the trademark protection. In many of such mechanisms, the study has however demonstrated that the interference was generally limited. Beyond the public domain as legally delineated by the contours of the copyright protection, some tools have been developed to promote a better access to and free use of creative works, thereby encouraging the development of the public domain. Open licensing has played a great part: even though its subject matter is generally not within the public domain, such licensing model grants freedom of use under more flexible conditions approaching that of the public domain. Other tools have been developed to help identify, locate or collect public domain material, trying to make its functioning more efficient. Such tools come at a considerable cost, sometimes borne by individuals or non-governmental organisations, or by public institutions such as libraries or national registries. Any project to promote the public domain will have necessarily to address this cost or find ways to provide incentives for non-public actors to participate. The last part of the study was dedicated to some propositions to protect and preserve the public domain from encroachment and erosion. Existing protection, either by case law or in some national laws, has been surveyed. But mainly, the following objectives for building a regime for the public domain has been put forward: A need for certainty in identification of public domain material and ascertaining its scope; A need for availability and sustainability of public domain material; A need to legally guarantee that the public domain material will be protected by two key principles: the non-exclusivity (ensuring its free use) and the non-rivalry (ensuring an effective collective use and access) To pursue these objectives, the study concludes by formulating some policy recommendations that could be undertaken at international level. Some examples of the recommendations are: the voluntary relinquishment of copyright in works and dedication to the public domain should be recognised as a legitimate exercise of authorship and copyright exclusivity and be recognised in countries other than the country of origin of the work. international endeavours should be devoted to developing technical or informational tools to identify the contents of the public domain, particularly as far as the duration of copyright is concerned. the role of cultural heritage institutions, and mainly libraries, in the labelling, cataloguing, preserving and making available of public domain works, and the role of the legal deposit should be recognised and supported, particularly in the digital environment. any extension of the scope or duration of copyright and related rights, both at international and national level, should take into account the empirical effects on the sustainability of the public domain. legal means should be found to prevent the recapture of exclusivity in works that have fallen into the public domain, whether through another intellectual property right (trademark or right in databases), property rights, other legal entitlements or technical protection, if such exclusivity is similar in scope or effect to that of copyright or is detrimental to non-rivalrous or concurrent uses of the public domain work. the 1996 WIPO Treaties should be amended to prohibit a technical impediment to reproduce, publicly communicate or making available a work that has fallen into the public domain. If you would like to discuss this study — or any of the issues it touches upon — you can join the OKF’s public domain discussion list. Posted in: Public Domain, WG Public Domain One thought on “The Public Domain and the WIPO Development Agenda” Pingback: Tweets that mention Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » The Public Domain and the WIPO Development Agenda -- Topsy.com About Guest This post is by a guest poster. If you would like to write something for the Open Knowledge Foundation blog, please see the submissions page.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line624
__label__wiki	0.572143	0.572143	Rufus Pollock named Tech Hero for Good March 20, 2014, by Theodora Middleton Nesta, the UK innovation charity, has announced it’s Ten Tech Heroes for Good – and Founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation, Rufus Pollock, is on the list! We’re really proud that the achievements of Rufus and the Open Knowledge Foundation have been recognised in this way: focusing on the power of openness to achieve positive social change. As Nesta say in their blog: One of the truths we believe in at Nesta is: Technology won’t save us, people will. It’s a truth that’s often misunderstood by the tech evangelists, the singularity obsessives, and all the dystopian bandwagoners who think that technology is an alien force that we have to fight to control, otherwise it will eventually control us. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Technology is an enabling force that allows us to improve the world around us. It is part of our human fabric, not some alien species. That’s why we wanted to pick out some of the brightest and best talents around the UK and show the great ideas they’ve come up with that use digital technology as the enabling force to improve how we live. The selection panel was made up of Nesta experts, and set out to identify tech leaders with revolutionary ideas across the board. Rufus was recognised particularly for the groundbreaking work at CKAN, the open source platform which powers many open data portals around the world, including the UK government, the US government, and the EU Open Data Portal. CKAN is a key driver of collaborative and transparent government in the 21st century, providing the foundations of an open data ecosystem. Other Open Knowledge Foundation projects which received special mention were Where Does My Money Go?, our budget visualisation tool which was the starting point of our bigger OpenSpending project to map all government transactions around the world; Open Data Commons which provides the legal tools that enable the open publication of data; and Open Shakespeare, our free online database of all the Bard’s works. Other Tech Heroes celebrated in the Nesta list were Eben Upton, the inventor of the Raspberry Pi credit card computer; Iris Lapinski, CEO of Apps for Good, an open-source education technology programme; Linda Sandvik, co-Founder of CodeClub, a free national after-school programme teaching programing; Chris Lintott, founder of the Zooniverse citizen science platform; Sue Black, leading advocate for women in computing; Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, co-founder of Patients Know Best which is revolutionising patient-doctor relationships; Emma Mulqueeny, founder of Rewired Reality, bringing together skilled innovators with the organisations who need them; Tom Farrand, co-founder of Good for Nothing, building communities to help grassroots innovators achieve social good; and Dominic Campbell, co-founder of Patchwork HQ, a tool to enable better coordination among social care professionals. Many of these projects include open source and open data elements, and all of them are using technology to empower people and create more just societies. We are really excited to be part of this movement. Posted in: News, Our Work About Theodora Middleton Theodora is press officer at the Open Knowledge Foundation, based in London. Get in touch via press@okfn.org	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line625
__label__wiki	0.732309	0.732309	As I reported in a recent article, the Australian Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Act 2012 came full effect on Monday, 15 April 2013. Among the many reforms introduced by the Raising the Bar Act was a change to the procedure for assessing inventive step, which raises standards to bring Australia’s laws more into line with major trading partners such as the US and Europe. Of course, it would be unjust to make the changes retrospective – there could be many patents previously granted, and applications previously filed, which would have been rendered invalid overnight. So the new laws apply only to those applications and patents in which a request for examination is filed on or after 15 April 2013. My previous article on this topic included some astonishing statistics on the number of new applications filed in the weeks leading up to commencement of the Raising the Bar reforms. I have since heard that in the first two weeks of April, around 16,000 requests for examination were filed. To put this in perspective, in 2012 IP Australia granted a total of 17,724 patents, so those two weeks’ of requests alone added the better part of a year’s worth of examination work to the pipeline. If you have only a casual interest in Australian patent law, or you have not been following the subject for very long, you might think that there are now two different standards of inventive step to keep in mind when considering the validity of Australian patents and applications. However, you would be wrong. In fact, right now there are live Australian applications and patents variously subject to no fewer than four different standards of inventive step. The 1952 Act Standard The current Patents Act 1990 came into force on 30 April 1991, repealing the former Patents Act 1952. At the time, patents had only a 16 year maximum term, however this was subsequently increased to 20 years. In addition, the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Act 1998 introduced the system for extension of term of patents relating to pharmaceutical substances by up to five years. As a result, there remains a handful of patents filed prior to the commencement of the 1990 Act which are still in force. Right now, in fact, there are 51 such patents. Technically, since the 1952 Act was repealed, the 1990 Act applies to these archaic patents. However, under the transitional provisions in sections 233 and 234 of the 1990 Act, no patent originally filed under the 1952 Act can be found invalid on any ground that would not have been available under the earlier Act. The High Court settled the interpretation of these provisions in Aktiebolaget Hässle v Alphapharm Pty Ltd [2002] HCA 59. Essentially, the law of inventive step established under the 1952 Act in Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co v Beiersdorf (Australia) Ltd [1980] HCA 9 continues to apply to patents granted under the old Act. The standard for inventive step that was developed under the 1952 Act was very low. The claimed invention can be compared only with the common general knowledge of the person skilled in the art in Australia, i.e. the everyday stock-in-trade of the relevant Australian worker in the field. It is not permissible to compare a claimed invention against prior art, such as pre-existing published documents or products, unless it can be shown (by suitable evidence) that these are part of the common knowledge in Australia. No matter how obvious a claimed invention might be when compared with a prior publication, the claim cannot be invalidated on this basis unless the publication is proven to be notoriously well-known. The Original 1990 Act Standard With the 1990 Act, the government of the day sought to raise the standard of inventiveness required for a valid patent above the low-water-mark set by the Minnesota Mining decision. For patents filed in the early years of the 1990 Act – on or after 30 April 1991 – inventive step may be assessed not only against the common general knowledge in the art, but also against a single item of prior art information (typically a single document, or a single public act), so long as ‘the skilled person … could, before the priority date of the relevant claim, be reasonably expected to have ascertained, understood and regarded as relevant to work in the relevant art in the patent area’ (Patents Act 1990, original section 7). The ‘patent area’ means ‘Australia’, and as originally enacted, the Patents Act 1990 still requires that the person skilled in the art, and the common general knowledge, be limited to Australia. Also, while prior art documents could, in principle, be published anywhere in the world, prior acts (e.g. public use or sale) remained limited to Australia. Furthermore, prior art information is only admissible if it can be shown that it would have been ‘ascertained, understood and regarded as relevant’ by the skilled worker. This requirement has routinely proven to be a stumbling block, particularly in fields of endeavour in which it is not common for workers to conduct searches, or refer to the patent literature, when developing new ideas. The most extreme example of this is probably the Emperor Sports case (Commissioner of Patents v Emperor Sports Pty Ltd [2006] FCAFC 26, on appeal to a Full Bench of the Federal Court of Australia). There, the alleged invention involved tear-off strips of material for use in touch Australian rules football and rugby games. The court found that the relevant ‘person skilled in the art’ was a football coach, who could not be expected to have found a prior US patent document disclosing essentially the same invention, but intended for use in American football. As a result, the claims were found to be inventive! The Revised 1990 Act Standard In the early 2000’s, the Howard government made a further attempt to raise the requirement of inventive step in Australia. A draft of the bill which became the Patents Amendment Act 2001 originally sought to delete the requirement that prior art information be ‘ascertained, understood and regarded as relevant’. However, a political compromise to secure the support of the (now defunct) Australian Democrats party in the Senate led to this language being retained. Nonetheless, from 1 April 2002 it became permissible, when assessing inventive step, to combine the teachings two or more items of prior art information, so long as the skilled person could ‘be reasonably expected’ to have done so – after, of course, having already ‘ascertained, understood and regarded as relevant’ the multiple sources of information sought to be combined. Additionally, the 2001 Amendment Act expanded prior use to include public disclosure by acts occurring anywhere in the world, and not just within Australia. The ‘Raising the Bar’ Standard As of 15 April 2013, Australia finally has a standard of inventive step which is comparable to other developed nations: all prior art information is available as the basis for assessment, whether in or outside Australia, and whether or not the inventor should or could have known about it and/or it would have been ‘ascertained, understood and regarded as relevant’; sources of prior art information may be freely combined – although this will presumably only be permissible where it would be obvious for the skilled person to do so; and the relevant common general knowledge assumed to be available to the skilled worker is based on a global standard, rather than being limited to Australia. While it is likely to be some time before a court considers the effect of these reforms, the intention is that the standard of inventive step be aligned with that in comparable developed countries. Notably, the Australian Patent Examiner’s Manual, in Section 2.5.2.5A, cites the UK case of Pfizer Ltd’s Patent [2001] FSR 16: A real worker in the field may never look at a piece of prior art: for example he may never look at the contents of a particular public library or he may be put off because it is in a language he does not know. But the notional addressee is taken to have done so. This is a reflection of part of the policy underlying the law of obviousness. Anything which is obvious over what is available to the public cannot subsequently be the subject of valid patent protection even if, in practice, few would have bothered looking through the prior art or would have found the particular items relied on. When assessing ‘obviousness’ of claims in an Australian application or patent, it is necessary to determine which version of the law applies. if the patent has a filing date earlier than 30 April 1991, then the 1952 Act’s ‘common general knowledge only’ standard applies. if the patent has a filing date on or after 30 April 1991, but prior to 1 April 2002, then the original 1990 Act standard or ‘common general knowledge plus one, ascertained/understood/relevant item’ standard applies; if the patent or application has a filing date on or after 1 April 2002, and a request for examination was filed prior to 15 April 2013, then the revised 1990 Act standard of ‘common general knowledge plus one or more, ascertained/ understood/relevant items’ standard applies; and if the patent or application was filed after 15 April 2013, or was filed before this date but examination was requested after 15 April 2013, then the ‘Raising the Bar’ standard applies, permitting more flexible selection and combination of prior art information. All four different standards will continue to be relevant in Australia, until the last of the 1952 Act patents finally expires, sometime in early 2016. The original 1990 Act standard could be with us until 2027 (with extensions of term), while the revised 1990 Act standard will remain relevant until perhaps 2038. I hope to be retired before then! Image Copyright (c) 123RF Stock Photos Tags: Australia, Law reform, Obviousness, Raising the Bar Name said... Has 'raising the bar' standard provided any concrete examples to clarify 'when' it would be obvious for the skilled person to produce the claimed invention by combining known elements? As yet we have very little guidance, although approaches taken in Europe and the US are likely to be relevant. The Explanatory Memorandum to the Raising the Bar Bill had this to say on the subject: Importantly, the changes are not intended to substantially change the operation of the existing tests for inventive step as applied to the prior art base or to permit hindsight analysis. While a skilled person is essentially deemed to be aware of and to have carefully read the publicly available information, the inventive step tests are otherwise applied in the context of what the skilled person would have known and done before the priority date of the claims in question. The tests will therefore continue to take account of factors such as whether the skilled person would have understood and appreciated the relevance of the prior art to the problem the invention was seeking to solve and whether it would be considered a worthy starting point for further investigation or development. It also remains the case that individual pieces of prior art information can only be combined where the skilled person would have been reasonably expected to have combined them. I would also suggest having a look at the relevant section of the European Guidelines for Examination, given that the Australian Examiner's Manual generally endorses the use of a similar 'problem-solution' approach (see section 2.5.2.3.1A). In short, under the new regime all prior art is on the table, and the test should be whether it would have been obvious for the skilled person to select and combine the relevant pieces of information. In a few of your posts, you seem to suggest that the massive increase in the number of patent applications will put a huge lag on the examination process over the next few years. Do you think we will see a corresponding drop in patent applications over the next year, as many applications (which would have been put through over that period) were likely rushed through the door in the last few weeks to get in before the deadline? The thing about patent filings is that you cannot file for what you have not yet invented! And since it is important to secure a priority date before any form of public disclosure or commercial use of an invention, patent applications are often filed at the earliest available opportunity. Some applicants might have been in a position to bring new filings forward by a few months. Additionally, there would have been a proportion of Australian national phase filings from existing international applications that were brought forward, as well as early filings of divisional applications, and applications based on existing foreign applications and provisional applications filed during the preceding 12 months. I would therefore expect that there will be some lull in new applications over the next 6-12 months, and it will be interesting to see whether it is significant. However, the bulk of new examination work created for IP Australia is due to requests for examination filed on already pending applications. It is important to understand that none of this will change the rate at which applications are examined, and patents granted, by IP Australia. By the end of last year, the Commissioner was issuing directions for applicants to request exam at around 3-4 years from filing, and once examination was requested a first examination report was typically issuing within 12 months. So in a normal case, the delay from filing until the first report was around 4-5 years. IP Australia stopped issuing directions to request exam late last year, in anticipation of the rush on voluntary requests. Now, instead of a long delay between filing and requesting exam, there will be a long delay between requesting exam and receiving a first exam report. That is, of course, in an 'average' case. There will no doubt be some applications that had already been pending for four years or more on 15 April 2013. If the applicant in those cases waited until the very last minute to request exam under the old law, they could now be waiting a further three years or more for a first report. ak said... I hope you never retire.. Your blog is always worth reading. On the matter of common general knowledge (CGK) in Australia for cases prior to 15th April 2013, it may be quite difficult to exactly say whether a particular subject is CGK in Aust. or otherwise and does the onus lie on the attorney or examiner to prove this? I remember reading something in the Australian Patents Manual that matters considered as pertaining to international dimension such as chemistry is regarded as global and part of CGK in Australia?	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line627
__label__cc	0.641258	0.358742	About Baba Mazari Foundation Baba Mazari Foundation Baba Mazari Foundation (BMF) is a not-for-profit incorporated organisation that is the figurehead of the the Baba Mazari Charitable Trust (BMCT). BMF is a charity organisation that began as a community initiative but has since evolved into a beacon of hope for many people in need. BMF is established and run by a group of passionate volunteers, with strong member base and generous community support. We work with the main objective of promoting a culture of prosperity for all and charity for the good of our humanity. Our funds go towards helping impoverished families, child labourers and disadvantaged students in Afghanistan. In less than a year, the foundation has sponsored the education of 50 disadvantaged children including child labourers in Afghanistan, provided emergency relief and medical aid to those affected by crises. ABOUT BMF BMF is founded with the aim to promote a culture of prosperity for all and charity for the good of our humanity. Our aim is to devise effective means of and empowering the most vulnerable, foster sustainable change by making educational opportunities available to the disadvantaged, and to provide emergency relief for victims of terror attacks Engaging in public benevolent activities Helping the relief of suffering, poverty and other misfortune of those persons who suffer these Raising funds to help disadvantaged and vulnerable people generally with a special focus on minorities Focusing on human rights and justice for all Promoting peace and peaceful solutions through dialogue and other initiatives Seeking justice for the disadvantaged, for refugees and asylum seekers overall purposes Advance social justice objectives Promote peace and harmony among diverse people using a variety of initiatives based on community needs Coordinate the initiatives and run programs based on the social, cultural and other needs of our community in Australia Undertake national and international projects and programs in pursuit of objectives. Seek justice and raise funds for the disadvantaged with a special focus on victims of terrorist attacks Run a trust called Baba Mazari Charitable Trust as a trustee, which would receive funds from the fundraising events and also membership fees, donations and contributions. Your loose change can save a life	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line628
__label__wiki	0.537151	0.537151	Bob Emiliani Speed Leadership Lean Professor Critique of “Dealing with Lean’s Crazy Relatives” September 29, 2016 by Bob Emiliani 3 Comments What follows is a critique of the article “Dealing with Lean’s Crazy Relatives” by James P. Womack published on Planet Lean, 26 September 2016 (Note: bold text is in the original article): Dealing with Lean’s Crazy Relatives Comment: Disrespectful title. Blames people; should blame the process instead. Diminishes the important work of great contributors to the development of America, the creation of the discipline of industrial engineering, the science of process improvement, and modern industrial management. It ignores the fact that Taylor and Ford’s work were necessary steps on the road to Toyota’s Production System (but not Lean). WOMACK’S YOKOTEN – The author reflects on how the legacy of Taylor and Ford still poses challenges to the lean movement, and why critics should move past a simplistic view of lean as mere standardization. Comment: It is unlikely that critics will move past the legacy of Taylor and Ford. They are convenient excuses to assure the status quo is maintained. Every family has a few members who are eccentric and problematic – like the proverbial crazy uncle locked in the attic. While this makes for fun conversations at family events – provided these folks don’t attend! – crazy relatives can become a real problem if their antics reflect on the whole family. In the lean movement my two candidates for crazy relatives are Frederick Taylor and Henry Ford, who continue to cause us trouble 101 and 69 years after passing from this life. Comment: Poor analogy; mental health nothing to joke about. Taylor and Ford are not the ones causing trouble to the Lean movement. There are systemic contributors to the broad-based misunderstanding of Lean. These span social, economic, political, and historical factors, as I explained in Moving Forward Faster. The ills of Lean cannot rightly be attributed to two people, Taylor and Ford, as it is managers who struggle to put Lean (or any other challenging idea) into practice, driven by preconceptions that they do not question or are unable to destroy. Frederick Taylor, most famous for The Principles of Scientific Management published in 1911, did one good thing – he focused on how people did their work. This was in contrast with big company practice in his time of managers paying piece rates to encourage workers to work as hard and fast as possible but without knowledge of or interest in how they actually did the work. Taylor wanted to change this by observing each job in an organization – typically in large manufacturing companies like Bethlehem Steel – to find out who performed the job the most effectively, what Taylor called “the one best way”. He then wanted to standardize this practice and direct everyone else to follow it while setting a higher production target to qualify for a bonus. He believed that everyone could make the bonus by following his standard work and everyone would be better off. Comment: Taylor did many good things, not just one. This includes working tirelessly to improve relations between management and workers, and to assure that workers received a “square deal” (non-zero-sim, win-win outcome). Literature from the 1910s and 1920s contain detailed examples of twenty or so of organizations that successfully “installed” Scientific Management – but never in its entirety, as Taylor saw it (about the same number of organizations today to practice TPS or Lean well). It is not factually correct to focus on “the one best way,” which is how Taylor saw standards, because by about five years after Taylor’s death his followers began to speak of “continuous improvement” and “worker participation” in improvement. The “one best way” evolved. What was wrong with Taylor’s approach? Just about everything. Comment: Incorrect. Taylor’s work was the foundation upon which ideas and practices evolved. Large portions of Taylor’s work (and Gilbreth and others) – industrial engineering – remain as the foundation of TPS (and kaizen). It is inappropriate and unfair to judge Taylor’s thinking and actions then in today’s context, which benefit from 101 years of evolution in thought and practice. Taylor was convinced that most workers hated to work and were therefore “soldiering”, pretending they were working as hard as they could. It was management’s job to make them work harder and this required a sharp distinction between those doing the work and the managers thinking about how to get them to do the work. Thus the need for the manager to actually understand the work by observing the work. Comment: Taylor knew about “soldiering” first-hand, as he started as a machinist on the shop floor and worked his way up to executive. He viewed soldiering, which still exists today among both employees and managers, as greatly diminishing employer and employees’ economic and non-economic interests. In Taylor’s day, it made sense for an educated person to figure out how people should work. Don’t forget, in the late 1800s, some 90 percent of the U.S. population had less than a high school education, and therefore the English literacy and numeracy rate was very low by today’s standard. Taylor had the progressive view that management’s job was to make the work easier, not harder. This meant in practice that the person doing the work the “best” way would effectively have his knowledge appropriated for use by everyone else without any reward. And everyone else would be mindlessly and grumpily following the instructions of the manager-expert based on the best way of the best worker. A great formula for mass misery. Comment: The “best” way of doing the work was merely an alternate expression, then, for the word “standard.” In TPS, standards remain of fundamental importance. “Mass misery” was not the result in organizations where Taylor’s system was “installed” properly. It was the result in organizations where Taylor’s system was misunderstood and misapplied. In testimony to the U.S. Congress, Taylor said: “It ceases to be scientific management the moment it is used for bad.” But Taylor didn’t stop there. He envisioned the work needed to create a completed product as a set of isolated, discrete steps, not as a continuous flow. Comment: This is true. But implicit in Womack’s criticism is that Taylor should have figured that work should be made to flow continuously. At the time, the need did not exist because most markets were sellers’ markets, so batch-and-queue processing made perfect sense. Taylor did his part, and others who followed built upon his work which soon resulted in continuous flow (in final assembly, but not in upstream processes. An exception was engine manufacturing at Morris Motors in the U.K.). So there was no need to align and tightly connect all of the work with everyone working at the same rate (known to us today as takt time.) Comment: Frank George Woollard, who built on Ford’s and Taylor’s work, paced work according to a takt time in the U.K. automotive industry in the 1920s. He concluded that process village layouts were fine if progress was monitored with accurate “travelers” and production schedules for each step (later automated as MRP) and that the really important task for managers was to make full use of the assets in each village, both technical and human. Comment: That’s right. The reason why that made sense at the time is stated below. This led to chronic overproduction to keep every machine and worker busy. Comment: Back then (1880s through the 1930s), it was a sellers’ market. So, in general, batch-and-queue processing and overproduction were OK. When markets go from sellers’ to buyer’s, batch-and-queue production and overproduction causes many problems, as we all now know. That transition started to occur in the U.S. in the 1930s and in Japan after World War II. To make the best of a bad thing, Taylor also invented standard-cost, absorption accounting, which judged managers on how fully they utilized labor and machines and then treated in-process inventories, no matter how unnecessary, as assets. And, as Dr. Deming pointed out, the focus on production without reference to the quality of the production was corrosive both to quality and to improvement. Comment: Taylor did not invent standard cost absorption accounting. That distinction belongs to G. Charter Harrison. It was invented in relation to the sellers’ markets that existed at the time. It was a good way to account for costs in batch-and-queue production, and, as we all know, a terrible way to account for costs with flow production. As for improvement beyond current best practice, this was to be done by experts making observations without consultation with workers or line managers and, in Taylor’s case, by external consultants. Indeed, Taylor invented the modern consulting industry as the first management consultant, in addition to being the first process consultant. Comment: As noted earlier, in Taylor’s day it made sense for experts to think of new and better methods. But this approach changed soon after Taylor’s death. Yes, Taylor invented the modern management consulting industry. But, it’s worth noting the difference between Taylor’s consulting work (virtuous and financially unsuccessful) and that of amazingly successful “charlatans and fakirs” such as Charles Bedaux. Oh, and finally, Taylor was a notorious cheat who doctored his results regarding productivity gains. (See Matthew Stewart’s The Management Myth and Jill Lepore’s “Not So Fast” in the [sic] New Yorker, October 12, 2009, for the lurid details.) Good grief. A really bad relative. Comment: Irrespective of these citations (no doubt provided as biased confirming evidence), industrial engineering – Taylor’s invention – which is the basis for kaizen, has proven successful in dramatically improving productivity. In the right hands, and with the right mindset, industrial engineering also improves worker’s lives and their economic condition. Henry Ford had no use for Taylor. He observed that the hard work of Taylor’s classic worker, Schmidt the pig iron handler, would be unnecessary if the pigs were put down in the right place to begin with. If there was no in-process inventory between production steps and if everything from the previous step was delivered directly to the next step there would be no pigs or anything else to lift. Moving from process villages to cells and continuous flow for each product family was the solution, leaving out many wasteful steps altogether. And in the early days, until the Highland Park complex was completed in 1914, Ford’s line managers and workers consulted intensively about the best way to do each task in Ford’s new flow production system by working backwards from the work itself, not by observing many workers to see who did the work the best way. But as his company grew in size, managers began to simply tell workers what to do and how to improve their work based on the analysis of industrial engineers. Workers were to keep their heads down and keep working – Taylor had come in through the back door. Comment: It is not Taylor who had “come through the back door.” Managers telling workers what to do pre-dates Taylor – by thousands of years. Ford was one of those folks who lived beyond his time in other ways as well, thinking that he knew what customers needed, specifically a completely standardized product with no options offered for years on end with no change. And he loved political systems that could supply the stability needed to make his system run smoothly. He was awarded medals for boosting industrial productivity by both Hitler and Stalin. And he was notoriously anti-Semitic and anti-labor and anti- a lot of other groups as well. In short his reputation would have been better served, the world would have been a better place, and lean thinkers would have had an easier time if he had been run over by a Model T in 1914 rather than living another 33 years to be become progressively more eccentric and destructive. Comment: I think it odd, very unkind, and inappropriate to wish for anyone’s premature death. It is up to people like you and me to sort out the useful from the useless in one’s lifetime of work. Today, we suffer from Taylor and Ford when critics rely on pattern recognition to brand us as “Taylorists” or “Fordists”, always focusing on the issue of work design and management. They see one dimension of one small piece of lean’s tool kit – standardizing individual jobs – as the whole. But they never ask about how standardization can work when work content varies (it can) and they never ask about the total process of value creation and how work and the management of work can be connected from end to end (they can) for the benefit of everyone, through shared inquiry about the work. Comment: As I have noted in one of my blog posts, Lean movement leaders such as James P. Womack would be wise to embrace Taylor and Ford, despite their professional and personal imperfections (which we all have), rather than run away from them – which is likely impossible to do anyway. This critique seems to be heard more frequently as lean thinking is applied to professional work, where “professional” for many has meant the opportunity to do their work in their own way with no one else knowing what they are doing. Comment: Professionals, like most people, tend to seek or prefer zero-sum (win-lose) outcomes. Therefore, few will ask “how standardization can work when work content varies… the total process of value creation and how work and the management of work can be connected from end to end (they can) for the benefit of everyone, through shared inquiry about the work.” Those sound like exam questions in a university course on operations management. I recently encountered a lovely example in a government organization that regulates drugs and medical devices critical to human health. The hundreds of doctors and PhD’s involved in making determinations about efficacy and toxicity worked in one-desk rooms behind closed doors. The senior management actually had very little knowledge of what they did, how the many steps were connected, why it took so long, and why many items authorized for use after years of analysis produced unanticipated side effects. I was called in for a second opinion after efforts to improve professional work by traditional management consultants had led to the development of standard operating procedures without actually understanding the work, KPIs for performance of each step, complaints of “speed ups”, and no improvement in results. I explained that managers and value-creators needed to begin by actually understanding the work and its impediments through intense dialogue. Comment: This example illustrates the difficulty that people have – whether employees or consultants – in understanding work. We think we know what it is and how to improve it, but we do not. Shingijutsu is the best that I have ever seen when it comes to understanding work, and people, and improving both. Professional work – that of the engineer, the doctor, the app designer, the manager too – is particularly important for lean thinkers to tackle because over time office and professional work have become a larger and larger fraction of the total work done in society. And in the future, as automation proceeds, touch labor in manufacturing and other manual work will probably go the way of farm work to become a very small part of economic activity. So if we can’t improve professional work we reach a limit, perhaps the reason the world’s most highly developed economies are showing only slight gains in productivity in recent decades despite many new technologies. How can we deal with this problem? First, let’s make sure that we are not secretly Taylorists or Fordists ourselves. In my visits to companies I sometimes hear members of our community slipping into “I will tell them how to do the work and I will also think about how to do the work better” mode. Block that urge. It’s disrespectful to people and it leads to bad results. Comment: Rather than associate ourselves with these two great pioneers of industrial management in a negative way, it is better for us to say that we should make sure we are not complacent and commit ourselves to learning by trying new things. Then let’s be clearer with everyone we meet about the nature of lean. We need to explain that it always involves intense collaboration between everyone – line managers, front-line value creators (from assembly workers to surgeons), contributors from support functions – to deeply understand the work and then to rethink and align complex streams of work involving many people with different skills. The objective must be to produce a better result for the customer, better work experience for employees, and better performance for the organization, all by removing waste. We must help organizations achieve all three objectives or we haven’t done our most important work as lean thinkers. Comment: I would put it this way: Lean must produce non-zero-sum (win-win) results for all stakeholders; Lean must do no harm. And, Lean must evolve from our current understanding of removing waste to a solution for any information flow problem, and, ultimately as a system for improving human health in organizations. My vision for Lean is simple: People leave work physically and mentally healthier than when they arrived. The lean movement over 100 years has moved a long ways beyond our crazy American relatives, Taylor and Ford, by going to Japan and back and by adapting lean principles to practically every type of value-creating activity across the world. So let’s invite our critics to come along with us, beyond simple pattern recognition and kneejerk responses to the very notion of standardized work, to a higher level of understanding about the nature of human work and how to it make better. Comment: Womack’s article fails to put distance between Lean and its antecedents, and does not overcome a common source of resistance to Lean (nor does it address dozens of other sources of resistance). His article succeeds only in further advancing misconceptions and mischaracterizations about Taylor and his work, rather than eliminating them. In terms of their professional work, Taylor and Ford were not crazy. Far from it. They worked diligently, over many years, to solve the most pressing problems in industrial management of the day. And we are following in their footsteps whether we like it or not. Finally, if Womack’s true objective is to separate Lean from Taylor and Ford, then he must also separate Lean from Toyota. I invite you to learn more about Taylor’s life and work by clicking here. I hope you found my critique of Womack’s article to be insightful and educational. Filed Under: BobEmiliani.com, Continuous Improvement, Lean Leadership, Real Lean v. Fake Lean, Respect for People William Ryan says Hi and thanks again for the most interesting article that I do know a bit more about because I worked 35 years for Ford and was time studies many times in my earlier years. Secondly my family fathers also worked for Ford at Highland Park Plant and the Rouge Plant. Both plants were the state of the art cutting edge technology of auto manufacturing at the time. I can tell you many stories that will go untold but your interview is very correct and factual in my opinion. Sid Joynson says I think Jim Womack is the crazy relative. How can he rubbish Ford and Taylor? Let us hope Lean does as much for human prosperity as Taylor & Ford have done over the last 120 years. Taylorism has been used as the dumping ground for many ideas that have nothing to do with him. His work in the late 19th century laid the foundation upon which others have built. He was also a product of his time in terms of the management and worker divisions and attitudes. Attitudes we now find unacceptable; but this is 120 years later. We should not let this detract from excellence of most of his original basic thinking. I still think he deserves the title, ‘Father of scientific management’. As a young work-study engineer and rate-fixer in the 1960’s, my main sources of information was not Taylor’s original material, but all my trainers and the authors of my study material referred to Taylor and the Gilbreth’s as the original source for ‘Scientific Thinking’ and ‘Time and Motion Study’. I cannot have been alone in finding this material inspiring. When I move into the metal cutting industry, I used Taylor’s tool life equation and its expanded form, as an essential tool for analysing tooling performance and metal cutting economics. A point often missed about Taylor was his visionary abilities. This is best explained in his own words. In 1912 he was called before a Senate committee to explain his system for improving productivity. Some years ago the BBC broadcast a radio programme about Taylor and the effect of his teachings called, ‘The time and motion man’. Part of it included dialogue based upon transcripts from this investigation. I recorded it at the time and the comments below I documented yesterday. Chairman Wilson.. “What is the economic necessity for increasing production?” Taylor. “The world suffers now, as it always has from underproduction. Underproduction is responsible for low wages, and the reason the poor have fewer things in terms of the basics and luxuries to live on. Have poorer food to eat, pay higher rents and can afford fewer clothes. The only way to bring these things into the world is to increase output. Scientific management is about increasing the output of the man without increasing his effort. I firmly believe in the next 100 years the wealth of the world will grow to such an extent that the workman of the day will live almost as well as the high class businessman lives now; both as the necessities and luxuries of life”. I will leave the final word to someone we all admire; and is considered by many to be the father of modern management: “In 1881, an American, Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), first applied knowledge to the study of work, the analysis of work, and the engineering of work. Darwin, Marx, Freud form the trinity often cited as the’ makers of the modern world’. Marx would be taken out and replaced by Taylor if there were any justice in the world. But that Taylor is not given his due is a minor matter. It is a serious matter that far too few people realise that the application of knowledge to work created developed economies by setting off the productivity explosion of the last hundred years.” — Peter Drucker On my first few visit to Japan to study the Toyota Production System, I quickly appreciated that they had developed their own form of ‘Scientific Management Thinking’. The main difference to the Taylor model was that they had engaged all their people positively in the process. Dick Danjin says Sid,could not agree with you more.All seminal/original thinking like a seed in the ground,the original DNA if you will is what is brought forward historically.The combustion engine motor vehicle of 1900 is still the combustion engine motor vehicle of todayBoth China and Japan had adapted Scientific Management by the 1920’s as did Europe and America. 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__label__wiki	0.518006	0.518006	Tag: social reform  The End of History? \| Francis Fukuyama Read The End of History? by Francis Fukuyama (The National Interest \| No. 16 (Summer 1989), pp. 3-18) IN WATCHING the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history. The past year has seen a flood of articles commemorating the end of the Cold War, and the fact that "peace" seems to be breaking out in many regions of the world. Most of these analyses lack any larger conceptual framework for distinguishing between what is essential and what is contingent or accidental in world history, and are predictably superficial. If Mr. Gorbachev were ousted from the Kremlin or a new Ayatollah proclaimed the millennium from a desolate Middle Eastern capital, these same commentators would scramble to announce the rebirth of a new era of conflict. And yet, all of these people sense dimly that there is some larger process at work, a process that gives coherence and order to the daily headlines. The twentieth century saw the developed world descend into a paroxysm of ideological violence, as liberalism contended first with the remnants of absolutism, then bolshevism and fascism, and finally an updated Marxism that threatened to lead to the ultimate apocalypse of nuclear war. But the century that began full of self-confidence in the ultimate triumph of Western liberal democracy seems at its close to be returning full circle to where it started: not to an "end of ideology" or a convergence between capitalism and socialism, as earlier predicted, but to an unabashed victory of economic and political liberalism. In general, while I’ve been reading Stuart Kauffmann’s At Home in the Universe, I can’t help but thinking about the cascading extinctions he describes and wonder if political extinctions of ideas like Communism or other forms of government or even economies might follow the same types of outcomes described there? ❧ August 29, 2018 at 09:37AM Building on this, could we create a list of governments and empires and rank them in order of the length of their spans? There may be subtleties in changes of regimes in some eras, but generally things are probably reasonably well laid out. I wonder if the length of life of particular governments follows a power law? One would suspect it might. ❧ Highlights, Quotes, Annotations, & Marginalia The triumph of the West, of the Western idea, is evident first of all in the total exhaustion of viable systematic alternatives to Western liberalism. ❧ Total exhaustion? What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government. ❧ What if, in fact, we’ve only just found a local maximum? What if in the changing landscape there are other places we could potentially get to competitively that supply greater maxima? And possibly worse, what if we need to lose value to get from here to unlock even more value there? Hegel believed that history culminated in an absolute moment – a moment in which a final, rational form of society and state became victorious. ❧ and probably not a bad outcome in an earlier era that thought of things in terms of clockwork and lacked the ideas of quantum theory and its attendant uncertainties. Believing that there was no more work for philosophers as well, since Hegel (correctly understood) had already achieved absolute knowledge, Kojève left teaching after the war and spent the remainder of his life working as a bureaucrat in the European Economic Community, until his death in 1968. ❧ This is depressing on so many levels. Paul Kennedy’s hugely successful “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers”, which ascribes the decline of great powers to simple economic overextension. ❧ Curious how this may relate to the more recent “The End of Power” by Moisés Naím. It doesn’t escape one that the title of the book somewhat echoes the title of this particular essay. But whether a highly productive modern industrial society chooses to spend 3 or 7 percent of its GNP on defense rather than consumption is entirely a matter of that society’s political priorities, which are in turn determined in the realm of consciousness. ❧ It’s not so much the percentage on produced defense goods, but how quickly could a society ramp up production of goods, services, and people to defend itself compared to the militaries of its potential aggressors. In particular, most of the effort should go to the innovation side of war materiel. The innovation of the atomic bomb is a particularly nice example in that as a result of conceptualizing and then executing on it it allowed the US to win the war in the Pacific and hasten the end of war in Europe. Even if we otherwise had massive stockpiles of people or other weapons, our enemies could potentially have equaled them and dragged the war on interminably. It was the unknown unknown via innovation that unseated Japan and could potentially do the same to us based on innovation coming out of almost any country in the modern age. Weber notes that according to any economic theory that posited man as a rational profit-maximizer, raising the piece-work rate should increase labor productivity. But in fact, in many traditional peasant communities, raising the piece-work rate actually had the opposite effect of lowering labor productivity: at the higher rate, a peasant accustomed to earning two and one-half marks per day found he could earn the same amount by working less, and did so because he valued leisure more than income. The choices of leisure over income, or of the militaristic life of the Spartan hoplite over the wealth of the Athenian trader, or even the ascetic life of the early capitalist entrepreneur over that of a traditional leisured aristocrat, cannot possibly be explained by the impersonal working of material forces, ❧ Science could learn something from this. Science is too far focused on the idealized positive outcomes that it isn’t paying attention to the negative outcomes and using that to better define its outline or overall shape. We need to define a scientific opportunity cost and apply it to the negative side of research to better understand and define what we’re searching for. Of course, how can we define a new scientific method (or amend/extend it) to better take into account negative results–particularly in an age when so many results aren’t even reproducible? FAILURE to understand that the roots of economic behavior lie in the realm of consciousness and culture leads to the common mistake of attributing material causes to phenomena that are essentially ideal in nature. ❧ “Protestant” life of wealth and risk over the “Catholic” path of poverty and security.[8] ❧ Is this simply a restatement of the idea that most of “the interesting things” happen at the border or edge of chaos? The Catholic ethic is firmly inside the stable arena while that of the Protestant ethic is pushing the boundaries. Hence it did not matter to Kojève that the consciousness of the postwar generation of Europeans had not been universalized throughout the world; if ideological development had in fact ended, the homogenous state would eventually become victorious throughout the material world. ❧ This presupposes that homeostasis could ever be achieved. One thinks of phrases like “The future is here, it just isn’t evenly distributed.” But everything we know about systems and evolving systems often indicates that homeostasis isn’t necessarily a good thing. In many cases, it means eventual “death” instead of evolving towards a longer term lifespan. Again, here Kauffmann’s ideas about co-evolving systems and evolving landscapes may provide some guidance. What if we’re just at a temporary local maximum, but changes in the landscape modify that fact? What then? Shouldn’t we be looking for other potential distant maxima as well? But that state of consciousness that permits the growth of liberalism seems to stabilize in the way one would expect at the end of history if it is underwritten by the abundance of a modern free market economy. ❧ Writers spend an awful lot of time focused too carefully on the free market economy, but don’t acknowledge a lot of the major benefits of the non-free market parts which are undertaken and executed often by governments and regulatory environments. (Hacker & Pierson, 2016) \August 29, 2018 at 10:02AM Are there, in other words, any fundamental “contradictions” in human life that cannot be resolved in the context of modern liberalism, that would be resolvable by an alternative political-economic structure? ❧ Churchill famously said “…democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time…” Even within this quote it is implicit that there are many others. In some sense he’s admitting that we might possibly be at a local maximum but we’ve just not explored the spaces beyond the adjacent possible. For our purposes, it matters very little what strange thoughts occur to people in Albania or Burkina Faso, for we are interested in what one could in some sense call the common ideological heritage of mankind. ❧ While this seems solid on it’s face, we don’t know what the future landscape will look like. What if climate change brings about massive destruction of homo sapiens? We need to be careful about how and why we explore both the adjacent possible as well as the distant possible. One day we may need them and our current local maximum may not serve us well. anomie ❧ I feel like this word captures very well the exact era of Trumpian Republicanism in which we find ourselves living. After the war, it seemed to most people that German fascism as well as its other European and Asian variants were bound to self-destruct. There was no material reason why new fascist movements could not have sprung up again after the war in other locales, but for the fact that expansionist ultranationalism, with its promise of unending conflict leading to disastrous military defeat, had completely lost its appeal. The ruins of the Reich chancellery as well as the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed this ideology on the level of consciousness as well as materially, and all of the pro-fascist movements spawned by the German and Japanese examples like the Peronist movement in Argentina or Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army withered after the war. ❧ And yet somehow we see these movements anew in America and around the world. What is the difference between then and now? This is not to say that there are not rich people and poor people in the United States, or that the gap between them has not grown in recent years. But the root causes of economic inequality do not have to do with the underlying legal and social structure of our society, which remains fundamentally egalitarian and moderately redistributionist, so much as with the cultural and social characteristics of the groups that make it up, which are in turn the historical legacy of premodern conditions. ❧ But those who believe that the future must inevitably be socialist tend to be very old, or very marginal to the real political discourse of their societies. ❧ and then there are the millennials… Beginning with the famous third plenum of the Tenth Central Committee in 1978, the Chinese Communist party set about decollectivizing agriculture for the 800 million Chinese who still lived in the countryside. The role of the state in agriculture was reduced to that of a tax collector, while production of consumer goods was sharply increased in order to give peasants a taste of the universal homogenous state and thereby an incentive to work. The reform doubled Chinese grain output in only five years, and in the process created for Deng Xiaoping a solid political base from which he was able to extend the reform to other parts of the economy. Economic Statistics do not begin to describe the dynamism, initiative, and openness evident in China since the reform began. ❧ At present, no more than 20 percent of its economy has been marketized, and most importantly it continues to be ruled by a self-appointed Communist party which has given no hint of wanting to devolve power. ❧ If Facebook were to continue to evolve at it’s current rate and with it’s potential power as well as political influence, I could see it attempting to work the way China does in a new political regime. IF WE ADMIT for the moment that the fascist and communist challenges to liberalism are dead, are there any other ideological competitors left? Or put another way, are there contradictions in liberal society beyond that of class that are not resolvable? Two possibilities suggest themselves, those of religion and nationalism. ❧ This school in effect applies a Hobbesian view of politics to international relations, and assumes that aggression and insecurity are universal characteristics of human societies rather than the product of specific historical circumstances. ❧ But whatever the particular ideological basis, every “developed” country believed in the acceptability of higher civilizations ruling lower ones ❧ Perhaps this very prospect of centuries of boredom at the end of history will serve to get history started once again. ❧ Has it started again with nationalism, racism, and Trump? Chris AldrichPosted on 12:48 pm August 29, 2018 September 3, 2018 Format LinkCategories Annotation, Complexity, Economics, Highlight, Read, Social StreamTags adjacent possible, aggression, anomie, Big History, bureaucracy, capitalism, Catholicism, chaos, China, communism, conflict, democracy, Donald J. Trump, End of Power, Facebook, fascism, Francis Fukuyama, free market economy, government regulation, Hegel, history, Hobbes, imperialism, inequality, innovation, liberal democracy, local maxima, Millennials, mixed economy, Moisés Naím, nationalism, negative results, open questions, opportunity cost, philosophy, political influence, Political reform, political science, political theory, politics, positive results, Protestant work ethic, Protestantism, quantum theory, racism, Reading.am, religion, reproducibility, scientific method, social reform, Socialism, Stuart Kauffman, war, Winston Churchill 1 Comment on  The End of History? \| Francis FukuyamaSyndicated copies to:  Episode 04 Carlos Doesn’t Remember \| Revisionist History Listened to Episode 04 Carlos Doesn't Remember by Malcolm Gladwell from Revisionist History If possible, click to play, otherwise your browser may be unable to play this audio file. Carlos is a brilliant student from South Los Angeles. He attends an exclusive private school on an academic scholarship. He is the kind of person the American meritocracy is supposed to reward. But in the hidden details of his life lies a cautionary tale about how hard it is to rise from the bottom to the top—and why the American school system, despite its best efforts, continues to leave an extraordinary amount of talent on the table. Eric Eisner and students from his YES Program featured above. Photo credit: David Lauridsen and Los Angeles Magazine “Carlos Doesn’t Remember” is the first in a three-part Revisionist History miniseries taking a critical look at the idea of capitalization—the measure of how well America is making use of its human potential. Certainly a stunning episode! Some of this is just painful to hear though. We should easily be able to make things simpler, fairer, and more resilient for a lot of the poor we’re overlooking in society. As a larger group competing against other countries, we’re heavily undervaluing a major portion of our populace, and we’re going to need them just to keep pace. America can’t be the “greatest” country without them. Chris AldrichPosted on 8:43 am May 1, 2018 May 16, 2018 Format AudioCategories Education, Listen, Social StreamTags education reform, privilege, Reading.am, Revisionist History, second chances, Social Justice, social reform, statistical mechanics Leave a response on  Episode 04 Carlos Doesn’t Remember \| Revisionist HistorySyndicated copies to:	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line630
__label__wiki	0.937039	0.937039	Scholastic Spotlight: Love for volleyball motivates Meyer Mark Mulville / Buffalo News St. Mary’s Leah Meyer is receiving national attention. By Amy Moritz\|Published Mon, Sep 24, 2012 Her face lights up when she talks about volleyball. Really, Leah Meyer could play volleyball all day, every day. She used to play basketball, too, but she gave that up quickly to focus on volleyball. There's something about the intensity of every point that speaks to Meyer's sense of competition and drive. Her passion for the sport - from the big picture to the minute detail - comes through easily. And it's no wonder why the sophomore at St. Mary's is getting national attention. Meyers has height, athleticism and a focused joy. It's part of what makes her a pretty good overall package. Meyer was named one of the Frosh 59 by the national publication, Prep Volleyball Magazine, recognizing her as one of the most outstanding volleyball freshmen for the 2011 fall season. Meyer helped St. Mary's win the state title last season, hitting .415 while averaging 2.6 blocks per match. And the national accolade was rather surprising. "It felt amazing because I had absolutely no idea that it was coming," Meyer said. "My dad showed me the article [in Prep Volleyball Magazine] and I was kind of in disbelief. I didn't know what to think of it. I was just so excited. It was just an amazing feeling to know that I'm with those top girls in the country." Amazing, yes. But not quite as amazing as winning that state title last year or playing with her St. Mary's teammates. For Meyer, volleyball began in sixth grade. She started playing for varsity last year and spends the rest of the year playing with her club team for Niagara Frontier Volleyball. The commitment to year-round volleyball is intense. "Most of these girls get recognized from playing club volleyball . and Leah's performed well against some of the best talent in the country," said St. Mary's coach Don Pieczynski. "That's where her name gets out there. They play so much more offseason than they do in season. Our high school season is fairly short. We only get 24 matches. You can play 24 matches in a couple of weekends in club volleyball." And all that experience pays off. Meyer always displayed natural athletic ability and her skill was enhanced by a growth spurt that puts her at 6-foot-2. A middle blocker by trade, she can swing from pretty much anywhere on the floor and has become an effective blocker, working on timing and reading plays in order to make the most of her size and athleticism. "She's just got the whole package. It's hard to really pick out any one point of her game," Pieczynski said. "She's got a good jump serve as well when she goes in the back row. She's a good attacker out of the back row. "She has the physical ability to make this game go in slow motion but she also has the experience. She sees a lot of things out there that a lot of players as sophomore won't necessarily see because of all the experience she has playing." Is all that experience tiring? Not for Meyer. She's anything but burned out on volleyball. After the long club season, she seems to cherish her high school season. From a development standpoint, she can work on perfecting aspects of her game, something she can't do as readily in the match-heavy club season. "I was having a lot of trouble with [timing] and coming into high school season just being able to work on it has helped me out a lot," Meyer said. "I was having a lot of trouble with my blocking and I can tell that it's getting better. I'm trying to improve every day on my footwork and speed to get out there. It's helped a whole lot, just to be able to be in school and work on that every day." More importantly for Meyer, though, is the sense of team she shares with her St. Mary's crew and her belief that they can win another state title. "My team for club was very close, but I feel like this team is so much closer," Meyer said. "I just love playing on this team so much because everyone is just like a family. If you're down, everyone just picks you right up. It's a wonderful feeling to have them all behind you. "I'm super excited for the rest of this season. I definitely think that we can go and win states again. We have the strongest bonded team that I've ever been on. I just feel like we have so much potential." email: amoritz@buffnews.com Amy Moritz – Amy Moritz, a native of Lockport, has covered colleges, baseball and hockey for The Buffalo News since 1999. An endurance athlete, she has completed an Ironman along with numerous marathons and half-marathons.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line637
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Focuses on issues that have mapped the diasporic experience of blacks in the United States, the world, and continental Africa in order to provide students with broad content to improve comprehension, writing, and analytical skills. Varied topics that cut across departmental concentration areas. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours. AAAD-A 198 Special Topics in Social and Historical Studies for African American and African Diaspora Studies (3 cr.) Focuses on issues that have shaped the diasporic experience of blacks in the United States, the world, and continental Africa in order to provide students with broad content to improve comprehension, writing, and analytical skills in preparing them for an interdisciplinary study of social and historical issues. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours. AAAD-A 199 Special Topics in Arts and Humanities for African American and African Diaspora Studies (3 cr.) Focuses on issues that have shaped the diasporic experience of blacks in the United States, the world, and continental Africa in order to provide students with broad content to improve comprehension, writing, and analytical skills in preparing them for an interdisciplinary study of arts and humanities issues. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours. AAAD-A 201 Introduction to African American and African Diaspora Studies (3 cr.) Introduction to African American and African Diaspora Studies as a field of study: epistemological considerations, theories, and methods that have come to form what is called Africana studies. AAAD-A 203 Studying Blacks of the New World: African Americans and Africans in the African Diaspora (3 cr.) A comparative study of the cultural, historical, and socioeconomic life patterns of African Americans and Diaspora-based Africans in the United States. AAAD-A 205 Black Electoral Politics (3 cr.) The course will explore black participation in the formal structures of American government and in the processes by which these structures are accessed. Black participation in local, state, and federal government arenas will be focused upon, and the political benefits to the black community of these involvements will be assessed. AAAD-A 210 Black Women in the Diaspora (3 cr.) Interdisciplinary examination of salient aspects of black women's history, identity, and experience, including policies, cultural assumptions, and knowledge systems that affect black women's lives. While the primary focus is North America, the lives of black women in other cultural settings within the African Diaspora are also examined. AAAD-A 221 Dance in the African Diaspora (3 cr.) Introduction to the history, culture, music, and body movements of dances in the African American and African Diaspora tradition with a focus on African-derived dances, primarily from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and America. 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__label__cc	0.527701	0.472299	Posts Tagged ‘Bruce Dickinson’ The Iron Maiden Cover that Offended the Tories Here’s a lesson for Tweezer and for any other politico who fancies prancing onto the stage to a rock or pop hit: popular music, like any other musical genre, comes from a variety of viewpoints. It can be simple, apolitical fun. But it can also be sharply, aggressively anti-establishment. And in 1980 Iron Maiden managed to upset the Tory party with the sleeve illustration to one of their singles, which showed Maggie Thatcher being struck with an axe. The incident is described by Ian Christe in his book, Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal (London: Allison & Busby 2004). He writes Touching the larger issues instigated by Punk, the NWOBHM bands also took a streetwise yet oblique approach to politics. The picture sleeves of “Sanctuary”, a single from Iron Maiden, depicted Prime Minister Thatcher being axed in an alleyway as she attempted to tear down an Iron Maiden flyer. The British government responded to the record’s popularity with an official censure, requiring that future editions place a black bar over the face of the tormented leader. For her troubles, Thatcher, who cut social programs, sold off government agencies and fought organized labour, was later nicknamed “the Iron Maiden” by the mainstream press. (p. 36). Well, he’s wrong about Thatcher being called ‘the Iron Maiden’ by the press, She wasn’t. She was called ‘the Iron Lady’. But it shows how touchy the Tories were even then about anyone daring to malign or blaspheme against the Prime Minister. And their decision to censor the cover art so as to obscure Thatcher’s face is an extraordinary piece of censorship. It does recall the outcry the Republicans raised over the other side of the Atlantic, which ended the career of the comedienne who was shot holding the bloody, severed head of Donald Trump. And returning to this side of the Pond, they also vociferously denounced Hilary Mantel when she published her short story, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, on the grounds that it might encourage terrorism. Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden’s front man, left the band in 1992 to be with his family. However, he was still active with an satirical slant. He made a novelty single for the election that year with Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. And he wrote two books about a transvestite English aristo, Lord Iffy Boatrace. Here’s the covers from Christe’s book, p. 212. For some reason the character’s name reminds me of that other Tory grandee, Jacob Rees-Mogg, though otherwise I’m sure the character bears no similarity to him whatsoever. Tags:'Lord Iffy Boatrace', 'Sound of the Beast', Bruce Dickinson, Censorship, Conservatives, Cuts, Donald Trump, Heavy Metal, Hilary Mantel, Ian Christe, Iron Maiden, Margaret Thatcher, Mr. Bean, Privatisation, Punk, Rowan Atkinson, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher', Theresa May Posted in America, Comedy, Industry, LIterature, Music, Politics, Popular Music, Television, The Press, Trade Unions, Welfare Benefits \| 1 Comment »	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line640
__label__wiki	0.764046	0.764046	Posts Tagged ‘Greg Hands’ Private Eye and Lobster on the Pinay Circle This fortnight’s Private Eye, for 25th January to 7th February 2019 also published a very interesting article for conspiracy watchers on the Pinay Circle, now simply known as ‘Le Cercle’. This is a secret organization of extreme right-wing politicians, intelligence agents and businessmen. The Eye’s article reports how two Tory MPs, Mark Garnier and Greg Hands, attended one of their meetings in Washington last June. The article, ‘Spooky Circles’ on page 11, runs DESPITE the convulsions in the Tory party, two former trade ministers still found time before Christmas to attend a secretive conference in the US stuffed with spies and business people. Wyre Forest MP Mark Garnier, sacked as international trade minister a year ago after calling his secretary “sugar tits” and asking her to buy sex toys, and Chelsea and Fulham MP Greg Hands, a minister in the same department until he resigned over Heathrow expansion last June, both attended a Washington meeting of Le Cercle, a hush-hush foreign affairs group with a strong interest in international security. According to the latest parliamentary register, the MPs’ four-to-five day trips cost 4,000 pounds per MP. Hands says he spoke on “international trade”. Given their former ministerial posts, it seems likely both men discussed the UK’s prospects post-Brexit. Le Cercle was founded in the 1950s by a former French prime minister and a former German chancellor as a pro-European body that would cement Franco-German relations and strengthen US-European alliances. Today it has strong links with the intelligence world and to hawkish US politicians. Former Tory minister Alan Clark claimed it was funded by the CIA. As Wikileaks revealed via a letter from former Tory defence secretary Michael Ancram, who chaired Le Cercle in 2012, its meetings are “attended by about 80 to 100 people” who are “largely European and American – Members of Parliament, diplomats, members of the intelligence community, commentators and businessmen from over 25 countries”. Who they are and what they discuss is never fully disclosed as “there is no Press and everything that is said is off the record”. Hawkish free marketer US politicians like Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld have been notable Le Cercle attendees. There is widespread suspicion the group receives corporate as well as intelligence funding, but the source is also secret. What better way for Tories to explore possible new trade relations with the US and Europe than a secretive trip to DC to meet un-named spies, Republicans and business people? Hands is particularly well placed to make sure multinationals influence new trade relations. In November, five months after resigning, he accepted a part-time job as a “political consultant/adviser” to giant French bank BNP Paribas which is reported paying him 108,000 pounds a year on top of his MP’s salary. The long-running conspiracies/parapolitical magazine Lobster has published several articles on the Pinay Circle, as it used to be called, way back in issues 11, 17, and 18. Issue 17 contained two reports from the German intelligence agencies on the circle, analyzing a piece of correspondence which suggested that it was running plots in Britain, Germany and elsewhere to promote right-wing politicians – Thatcher over here, and the notorious Franz-Josef Strauss in the Bundesrepublik. David Teacher’s article, ‘The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe’ in Lobster 18, page 22, contains more information on the Circle itself, and its possible involvement in various plots to destabilize left-wing or opposition governments across the world. This contained the following passage briefly describing the organization and its activities. The Pinacy Circle (also called the Cercle Violet) is an international right-wing propaganda group which brings together serving or retired intelligence officers and politicians with links to right-wing intelligence factions from most of the countries in Europe. The intelligence community has been represented by SIS Chief from 1978-82, Arthur ‘Dicke’ Franks, SIS Department Head Nicholas Elliott, CIA Director William Colby, Swiss Military Intelligence Chief of Provisions, Colonel Botta, SDECE chief from 1970-81 Alexandre de Marenches, and, last but not least, the man who took over the running of the Circle when Pinay got too old, Jean Violet, a Parisian Lawyer who worked for the SDECE from 1957-70. violet became so much an ’eminence grise’ in the SCESE that Alexandre de Marenches had to dispense with his services in order to assert his authority as new SDECE chief in 1970. This episode has however not prevented them from working together within the Circle. At the time the Langemann papers were written, both Franks and Marenches were serving heads of British and French intelligence respectively. On the political side, Pinay – a former French Prime Minister – forged links with Nixon, Kissinger and Pompidou. The Circle’s present members include Giulio Andreotti, former Italian Prime Minister; Portuguese putschist General Antonio de Spinola; former Franco minister and senior Opus Dei member Silvio Munoz; and Vatican prelate and BND agent Monsignore Brunello. Paul violet, Jean Violet’s son, is one of Chirac’s closest advisors, nicknamed ‘the adjutant’ by Canard Enchaine. Langemann also reports that Sir Arthur Franks and Nicholas Elliott were invited to Chequers for a working meeting with Mrs Thatcher, after her election. But perhaps the key political figure was the late Franz Josef Strauss, Bavarian Premier and Langemann’s boss. Strauss was a close friend of Alexandre de Marenches and was a frequ8ent visitor to the SDECE’s headquarters during Marenches’ time. The Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, the political trust attached to Strauss’ Christian Social Union party, is an important group in international parapolitical manipulation. Active in Latin America for the Contras, supporting Mobuto in Zaire, involved in the Fiji coup in 1987, it was caught diverting state development aid from Germany into right-wing party coffers in Ecuador in the same year. Strauss and CSU were the main beneficiaries of identified Pinay Circle activities; i.e. the promotion of right-wing European politicians through Brian Crozier, Robert Moss, Fred Luchsinger of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and Gerhard Luwenthal, anchorman on current affairs programmes for ZDF television, the major German network. The Pinacy Circle has a wide range of contacts and its members interlock with the whole panoply of right-wing/parallel intelligence and propaganda agencies – WACL, Heritage Foundation, Western Goals, ISC, Freedom Association, Interdoc, the Bilderberg Group, the Jonathan Institute, P2, Opus Dei, the Moonies’ front CAUSA, IGFM ((International Society for Human Rights), and Resistance International. Lowenthal, for instance, is a member of IGFM, Resistance International, WACL, CAUSA, the Jonathan Institute, Konservative Aktion and the European Institute on Security. The Pinay Circle’s significance lies in the fact that it is a forum which brings together the international linkmen of the Right like Crozier, Moss and Lowenthal, with secret service chiefs like Franks and Marenches. Through such contacts it can intervene by media action or covert funding whenever and wherever a political friend is in need of support. (p. 22). The minutes of the Pinay Circle’s meeting in Zurich in June 1980s discussed the possibilities of securing the election of Strauss in Germany and Ronald Reagan in the US. It also discussed the Saudis opening a radio transmitter to broadcast into Russia and supporting the Israeli intelligence unit. The evidence linking the Circle to attempts to remove left-wing politicians across the world was so strong that Teacher concluded that It is becoming more and more apparent that the treatment reserved for Harold Wilson at the hands of the intelligence services was only the UK end of an international phenomenon. Around 1973-5 a surprising number of governments were targeted by their own 9or others’) intelligence agencies because of their radical policies. If the world political scene in the 1960’s was one of the decolonization, then the 1970’s was the decade of destabilization. Among those cases of destabilization we were already aware of are: – the UK: the concerted effort by elements in the British intelligence and security services, with CIA and BOSS, to bring down Wilson, Thorpe and Heath. – the USA: the CIA’s Operation Chaos, the FBI’s Cointelpro programme and, of course, Watergate – Australia: the loans scandal and other destabilization of Gough Whitlam by the CIA and SIS. – West Germany: the destabilization of Willi Brandt because of his overture to ‘the other Germany’ through Ostpolitik. The CIA and MI5 (5) suspected Brandt of being recruited by Moscow during his wartime service with the resistance in Scandinavia. (p. 23). The article also pointed out that Nicholas Elliott was a member of the Wilkinson/McWhirter/Ivens group, the Research Foundation for the Study of Terrorism, and speculate whether the Pinay Circle was involved in attempts to destabilise Mitterand’s government in France in 1974, the murder of Olof Palme in Sweden, and a possible attempted Fascist coup in Belgium in 1973. Of this latter, Teacher writes Issue 17 of Celsius devotes six pages to the study of a coup d’état planned by gendarmerie officers and extreme right-wing groups in 1973. The article – ‘The big bad look of the 1970’s: the destabilization of the State’ – is based on the confessions of Martial Lekeu, a former gendarme who fled to the USA when sought for questioning in the ‘Killers of the Brabant Wallon’ enquiry. The killers, who specialized in holding-up supermarkets with maximum violence and minimum loot, killed 28 people between 1982 and 1985, always attacking the same chain of supermarkets on the same day of th week with the same kind of car, needlessly gunning people down and then escaping with cash rarely more than a few thousand pounds. Leukeu stated what many suspected: the killers were part of a political psy ops campaign aimed at reinforcing the State structures. Whether there is a link between the 1973 coup plans and the 1980’s destabilization remains to be seen: various parliamentary enquiries and comm9issions have so far failed to get to the bottom of the affair. (p. 24.) Teacher regrets, however, that information on the group and its activities are very limited, consisting of the 1972 ISC memo and the minutes released by Langemann in the Bavarian parliament in 1979-80. It’s clear from this that the Circle is a very sinister organization with connections to other extreme right-wing groups, like WACL, whose name stands for World Anti-Communist League, and whose members include real Fascists and Nazis. I’m not surprised that the Tories sent two of their MPs to its meeting last year. The Tories’ right wing has always overlapped with some deeply unpleasant groups and organisations. Western Goals, an American Republican organization, according to Lobster, had a British subsidiary, Western Goals UK, which was also linked to them. What is also interesting is that Private Eye published its piece on the Pinay Circle at all, considering how it called Nisar Malik a conspiracy theorist for believing in the Zionist control of the media. It seems the Eye is open to discussing real conspiracies, so long as they don’t involve the real, documented subterfuge and plotting of the Israeli state. 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__label__cc	0.681642	0.318358	Tag Archives: Stefan Molyneux Conservative Mistrust & Ideological Certainty (part 2) I have some further thoughts about the topic I wrote about in my last post: I started reading the introduction of Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. I immediately could tell that Hofstadter was a man who truly understood what intellectualism is about, but his book isn’t a paean to the glories of intellectualism. I sense that Hofstadter was trying to be fairminded even to those he is criticizing (a respectable trait that any intellectual should aspire towards). In this book, he is analyzing the specific history of intellectuality within the United States, the intellectuals themselves and those who opposed them. He doesn’t shy away from tough issues such as communism. He clarifies a number of points. I’ll discuss two of them. First, there generally isn’t a group of people who are entirely anti-intellectual. Those who use anti-intellectual arguments/rhetoric usually do so in response to some particular situation. The main opposition towards intellectuals is when they act as experts which goes against the populist grain of American culture (populist sentiments being particularly appealing to American conservatives). On the other hand, American intellectuals have at times been in alignment with this populism (e.g., the Progressive Era). Intellectualism isn’t inherently anti-populist and populism isn’t inherently anti-intellectual, but it’s obvious that in the US intellectualism and populism haven’t always gotten along. Second, he distinguishes intelligence from intellectuality. Intelligence is universally valued, but intellectuality is not. Someone can be one while not being the other. The central distinction is that intelligence has practical ends and so can be known by its results (can be observed or even measured) whereas intellectuality doesn’t seek external justification. Intellectuality has two attributes that balance eachother: piety and playfulness. There is an almost religious sense that the intellectual has towards the moral values underpinning intellectual endeavors: truth and honesty, justice and fairness, etc. The intellectual endeavor is extremely serious and many intellectuals will dedicate their lives to it for very little reward (unlike businessmen or media personalities, few intellectuals become wealthy). Intellectualism is a calling. However, it’s playfulness (creativity, imagination, experimentation, openness, etc) that keeps the intellectual from turning into a zealot or ideologue. Also, I’d say this playfulness relates to the ability at role-playing, the ability to see different perspectives, the ability to empathize and understand. The second point relates to psychological research which shows a correlation between liberalism and psychological factors such as the MBTI function Intuition, the FFM trait Openness to Experience, and Hartmann’s thin boundary type. I couldn’t help but think of MBTI Intution when reading Hofstadter’s description of intellectuality. Intuition is all about both the ability to think in terms of abstractions and imaginatively conceive of diverse possibilities. Intuitives tend to have a very playful sense of humor. Hofstadter’s seemed to be describing, in particular, the MBTI types INFP and INTP. There is other psychological research that I’m reminded of. There was a study that demonstrated a correlation between (as I recall) imagination, empathy (or emotional intelligence), and paranormal/spiritual experience… which makes sense according to Hartmann’s model of boundary types. Conservatives like to call liberals bleeding hearts and it’s true that liberals on average have a stronger empathetic response (which would imply a higher emotional intelligence in that people tend to personally care about others to the extent that they understand the felt experience of others… not to imply, though, that conservatives entirely lack this because to entirely lack it would mean you’re a sociopath). What is interesting is that intellectualism is strongly correlated, especially in the US, with liberalism. For example, most scientists self-identify as liberals. So, what is the connection between empathy and intellectualism? This connection would be most clearly represented by the MBTI NF types (INFP, INFJ, ENFP, ENFJ), but even NT types would have an above average ability to understand the perspectives of others even if they didn’t experience this on an emotional level. My guess, however, is that most objectivists and anarcho-capitalists are NT types which would explain why they don’t identify with the average conservative who is probably an ST type. I’ve noticed that some people speculate Ayn Rand was an INTJ. My dad, who has tested as an ENTJ, is fairly interested in Rand’s worldview. There is nothing comparable to the systematic logic of an INTJ or ENTJ… because these two types have Introverted Intuition which is a type of abstract thinking when taken to the extreme is utterly detached from outward reality and in some cases can lead to an idealization of outward reality. Let me use Rand as an example. Here are some quotes from the Wikipedia article titled “Objectivism (Ayn Rand)”: Rand’s philosophy begins with three axioms: existence, identity, and consciousness.[6] Rand defined an axiom as “a statement that identifies the base of knowledge and of any further statement pertaining to that knowledge, a statement necessarily contained in all others whether any particular speaker chooses to identify it or not. An axiom is a proposition that defeats its opponents by the fact that they have to accept it and use it in the process of any attempt to deny it.”[7] As Leonard Peikoff noted, Rand’s argument “is not a proof that the axioms of existence, consciousness, and identity are true. It is proof that they are axioms, that they are at the base of knowledge and thus inescapable.”[8] Like Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand likes axioms. To me, these are just ideas based on arguments. The problem with calling them axioms is that it gives me the sense that there are unstated assumptions underlying the argument for these axioms. These axioms don’t stand alone. For one, the very statement of these axioms is dependent on language (specifically, the English language in this case) and dependent on a philosophical tradition (specifically, the Western tradition in this case). If you put these axioms to a group of philosophy professors, they could debate them endlessly and never come to a conclusion about them. Rand’s perception that she defeats her opponents before even beginning the debate is just pure intellectual hubris. It’s a very simpleminded mentality. As Rand wrote, “A leaf … cannot be all red and green at the same time, it cannot freeze and burn at the same time. A is A.”[9] Essentially, this is binary (black/white) thinking. It’s easy to point out any number of examples that contradict this style of either/or philosophizing. Most issues in life consist of multiple categories and blurring between categories. Even something so simple as gender involves complexities such as hermaphrodites. Objectivism holds that the mind cannot create reality, but rather, it is a means of discovering reality.[14] This is such an over-simplification that I hardly know what to say about it. Our minds aren’t separate from the reality being perceived. Speaking about whether reality is created or not is pointless speculation, but what we can say is that the mind does create the perception of reality. To anyone who doesn’t understand this, I’d recommend reading the vast literature on the mind-body connection and I’d particularly recommend reading about enactivism. Objectivist philosophy derives its explanations of action and causation from the axiom of identity, calling causation “the law of identity applied to action.”[15] According to Rand, it is entities that act, and every action is the action of an entity. The way entities act is caused by the specific nature (or “identity”) of those entities; if they were different they would act differently.[16] This touches upon Rothbard’s own axiom of “Humans act”. This variety of conservative is obsessed with action, with doing and achieving. In Rand’s view, mind and reality are separate to some extent which seems to relate to a more general focus on what separates, what makes “A is A” and what makes “B is B”. It’s why this type is so centrally focused on ownership. You can only own that which is somehow outside of the one who owns. Many of these people even speak of individuality in terms of self-ownership which is a truly bizarre concept. The self, like anything else, is just an object to be owned and to do with as one wishes (manipulated, used, destroyed, sold, etc). The self has no intrinsic value and so it’s only value is what it’s worth on the market. I’d suggest that this attitude is based in Hartmann’s thick boundary type. Research shows that the person with a thicker boundary has a stronger sense of separation between themselves and others, between themselves and the world, between the present and the past, between fantasy and reality, between body and mind. It’s a fundamentally distinct way of viewing and being in the world. It would seem that Rand had an impressively strong sense of thick boundary. Objectivist epistemology maintains that all knowledge is ultimately based on perception. “Percepts, not sensations, are the given, the self-evident.”[20] Rand considered the validity of the senses to be axiomatic, and claimed that purported arguments to the contrary all commit the fallacy of the “stolen concept”[21] by presupposing the validity of concepts that, in turn, presuppose the validity of the senses.[22] She thought that perception, being physiologically determined, is incapable of error. So optical illusions, for example, are errors in the conceptual identification of what is seen, not errors in sight itself.[23] Reality is what reality is (A is A). You see what you get. And there is nothing else According to Rand, attaining knowledge beyond what is given in perception requires both volition (or the exercise of free will) and adherence to a specific method of validation through observation, concept-formation, and the application of inductive and deductive logic. A belief in, say, dragons, however sincere, does not oblige reality to contain any dragons. For anything that cannot be directly observed, a process of “proof” identifying the basis in reality of the claimed item of knowledge is necessary in order to establish its truth.[25] Objectivism rejects both faith and “feeling” as sources of knowledge. Rand acknowledged the importance of emotion in human beings, but she maintained that emotions are a consequence of the conscious or subconscious ideas that a person already accepts, not a means of achieving awareness of reality. “Emotions are not tools of cognition.”[26] Peikoff uses “emotionalism”[27] as a synonym for irrationality. Truth is nothing more than the combination of perceived reality (A is A) and pure rationality. This is a very self-contained attitude. Rand or Rothbard is presenting something that they consider to be self-evident for anyone willing to see the obvious (the axiomatic truth) and able to logically deduce the inevitable conclusion (from those axioms). Integrating with this is Rand’s view that the primary focus of man’s free will is in the choice: to think or not to think. “Thinking is not an automatic function. In any hour and issue of his life, man is free to think or to evade that effort. Thinking requires a state of full, focused awareness. The act of focusing one’s consciousness is volitional. Man can focus his mind to a full, active, purposefully directed awareness of reality—or he can unfocus it and let himself drift in a semiconscious daze, merely reacting to any chance stimulus of the immediate moment, at the mercy of his undirected sensory-perceptual mechanism and of any random, associational connections it might happen to make.”[43] According to Rand, therefore, possessing free will, human beings must choose their values: one does not automatically hold his own life as his ultimate value. Whether in fact a person’s actions promote and fulfill his own life or not is a question of fact, as it is with all other organisms, but whether a person will act in order to promote his well-being is up to him, not hard-wired into his physiology. This is an extension of something along the lines of the axiom “humans act”. The idealizing of freedom and choosing seems to be a form of heroic existentialism as expressed with Sartre’s radical freedom (it’s because there is no inherent value that we are absolutely free). By acting, we define who we are and we claim self-ownership. The “undirected sensory-perceptual mechanism” is a passive experience that must be acted upon. Rand summarizes: If [man] chooses to live, a rational ethics will tell him what principles of action are required to implement his choice. If he does not choose to live, nature will take its course. Reality confronts a man with a great many ‘must’s’, but all of them are conditional: the formula of realistic necessity is: ‘you must, if -‘ and the if stands for man’s choice: ‘if you want to achieve a certain goal’.[46] Reality is what reality is, but reality in and of itself is separate from and opposed to rational self-interest. Nature must be tamed by man in order for him to attain his self-imposed goal. Reality is a world of objects and before anything else the object of the self must be taken control of. The method of taking control is rationality and hence actively forcing order upon one’s experience. What is most important in all of this is that everything from this perspective (whether objectivism or anarcho-capitalism) begins with the claim of self-evident axioms. This must be understood in it’s larger context. The more intelligent defenders of this position don’t claim that everything is limited to this axiomatic approach. Much of the hard sciences necessitate research that can lead to objective conclusions, but the social sciences are dismissed out of some generalized criticism of positivism. What this comes down to is that social scientists can’t come to absolute conclusions and therefore all social science is complete bunk. So, all psychology, all sociology, all anthropology, all Keynesian economics based on data about humans, all of it is meaningless. Humans can objectively study the physical world but humans can’t objectively study humans. Mises Non-Trivial Insight By Robert P. Murphy Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the economics of Ludwig von Mises is his insistence on the a priori approach. For Mises, economic “laws” must be logically deduced from antecedent axioms, so that—assuming the initial assumptions are true—the conclusions reached are just as valid as any result in Euclidean geometry.This stands in sharp contrast to the method of the positivists, a camp that includes most of today’s practicing economists. In their opinion, economics can only be “scientific” if it adopts the procedures used by the natural scientists. Roughly, the positivists feel that economists should form hypotheses with testable implications, and then collect data to measure the accuracy of their predictions. Those tendencies that enjoy the most success in this sense are then deemed to be better “laws” than conjectures that do not fit the data so well. Against the mainstream’s impressive mathematical tools and vast budgets spent on data collection, the Misesians meekly insist that economics must start from the premise that humans act. This action axiom lies at the core of “praxeology,” Mises’ term for the science of human action. The Misesians argue that all of the true economic laws can be derived from this simple axiom (sometimes with additional assumptions about the world, such as the fact that labor is onerous). I think the motivation in this is the desire to see humans as free agents that can’t be predicted and the fear that anyone who would want to predict humans would also want to control humans. That is the real issue and all of the rationalized argumentation is just window dressing. There is a comforting simplicity in this plea for axiomatic truths and logical conclusions. It’s not unlike the theologians desire to understand the perfection of God through the perfection of rationality bestowed upon man by that very same God. It’s a desire for the world to just make sense. The social scientists gather immense data and portray a complex world. The social scientists are experts who debate issues the common man can’t understand. It’s understandable that anti-intellectualism can be an attractive alternative in response to these experts in control of our fates. When politicians call upon experts, how can we know what they discuss behind closed doors? Why should we trust these experts who live their comfortable lives in their ivory towers? There really is no way to argue against this mistrust. It’s not unusual for this mistrust to be, especially during social turmoil and economic hard times, to turn into paranoid suspicion. It’s ultimate a sense of fear about what is beyond the individual. We do face many complex issues that have resulted from industrialization and globalization. It’s just a fact that we no longer live in a time when a single person can understand everything and can do everything for himself. It’s tempting to idealize the Jeffersonian libertarianism of a pre-industrial age or to idealize the simple unregulated capitalism when industrialization was barely taking hold. Once upon a time, Americans were innocently naive about environmental destruction, about pollution-related diseases, about the degradation of urbanization. The first century or so of American history seems almost utopian in hindsight. Why couldn’t that have continued? It would be nice to believe that capitalism, if left to its own devices, would’ve brought nothing but good. Why did the government have to ruin everything? These people may profess rationality, but human motivation ultimately is non-rational. George Lakoff makes a good argument for this in his book Moral Politics. All logic about political views comes down to rationalization. Lakoff argues that we begin with metaphors by which we frame our experiences and try to understand them, but in doing so we filter all of reality through this frame (or, as Robert Anton Wilson say it, through our “reality tunnel”). This framing is prior to our verbalization of it. This is further supported by the psychological research (yes, the social science that is dismissed by Mises and Rothbard). Studies show that humans are born with or else develop early on certain psychological traits, but you don’t have to trust the experts. Go to a hospital nursery or a playground where children are playing and you will observe for yourself the distinctive personalities. The only reason that the anarcho-capitalists and similar types can dismiss this science is because they’re ignorant of the scientific process. It really can’t be called anything other than anti-intellectualism. I don’t even know what they mean by positivism. They dismiss all social science based on the claim that it is positivist which is odd considering that there are anti-positivist social scientists such as Max Weber. Anyways, I don’t see how the world would be improved if we were able to somehow get rid of all social science and get rid of all the experts. So much of our society is built on social science. There is no aspect of capitalism or politics that isn’t informed by social science. Social science is the basis of all advertising and PR. Social science is used for product design and architecture. Social science is used in military training and military strategy. Social science helps city planners design efficient roadways and helps utility companies determine the patterns of customer behavior. There is this strange notion that social science is about abstract data disconnected from the practical world. If social science can be used to control people as some fear, that only proves how effective it is in a practical sense. The arguments against social science are distractions from the real moral issues. Those who don’t see themselves as experts fear those who sometimes act as experts. These people want self-control and self-ownership which is how they define freedom, but this ideal of freedom is itself an abstraction. These people can offer no real world examples of a society that operated according to their ideals. There is a serious disconnection here between American populism and intellectualism, but there is no reason it has to be this way. The average person can only have a negative view of intellectuality if he wasn’t ever taught intellectuality in his own schooling. If every American was taught how to think intellectually and taught to value intellectuality, then intellectualism would become a populist value. Most people have the capacity for intellectual thought. Even if the average person doesn’t desire to dedicate their life to intellectuality, it would still be of value for all citizens to get an intellectual education. The only way to counter fear and suspicion is through knowledge. June 14, 2010 Benjamin David Steele anarcho-capitalism, anti-intellectualism, Ayn Rand, conservatism, conservative, Democrat, liberal, liberalism, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Objectivism, praxeology, rational self-interest, Republican, Stefan Molyneux 7 Comments I’ve noticed a connection of attitudes in a certain type of person, but I’m not sure what it means. This post is largely speculation. I have a book by Richard Hofstadter on anti-intellectualism in the US and so I’ll write in more detail about this in the future. For now, I just want to point out some thoughts and observations. Many have noted for the past half century or so that America has a strain of anti-intellectualism that comes to the forefront every so often. I don’t know if this anti-intellectual attitude always correlates with conservatism, but it has in recent history going back to at least the beginnings of movement conservatism. Of course, movement conservatism laid the groundwork for the religious right to gain political power and obviously the religious right has had issues with science ever since science began. It’s true that many popular conservatives were religiously proud/righteous with an element of folksy anti-intellectualism (George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, etc), but it goes beyond just religion versus science. This critical attitude towards science, whether motivated by religious belief or not, expresses a basic sense of distrust about experts who claim to know more than the average person (implying they are somehow more worthy). This is the dreaded intellectual elite and scientists are just one variety. Other varieties of intellectual elitists are academics and even politicians. The conservative idealizes the businessman who has knowledge and experience of the real world. The intellectual elite (in academic ivory towers or far away in Washington) are disconnected from the real world and so they aren’t to be trusted. It’s why conservatives claim that government is the problem… not that it ever stops them from trying to elect their own to government or stop them from lobbying politicians. Beyond this point, it becomes a bit murky. It’s not limited to anti-intellectualism per se. There are even intellectual conservatives that express this attitude of mistrust. For the more intelligent conservative, they’ll express this mistrust epistemologically. They might not entirely dismiss science, but they think scientists overreach. What they do trust is cold hard facts. They even mistrust scientific research. There are various reasons for this which I don’t entirely understand, but one of them is a fear that scientists have agendas (projection?). A person can only mistrust the agendas of scientists if they mistrust the scientific process which is designed to filter out personal agendas (and other subjective biases) over time. This would seem to based on a fear that the entire scientific paradigm is an agenda not to be trusted or to be trusted with great wariness. Maybe science has a role, but it shouldn’t be as primary as we make it. Maybe it’s a belief that scientists should focus on more practical matters like doing research that can lead to technology rather than studying social issues or measuring atmospheric pollution. There might even be a religious element (or a religious holdover for non-religious conservatives) in that scientists are treading on the divine when they investigate beyond mundane subjects. This mistrust extends also to economics which is something I just realized today. I watched some videos and was involved with some discussions where this mistrust of science was put into the context of politics and economics. The issue with science was connected to economics by way of mathematics. It seems to be a mistrust about how (or if) mathematical models correlate to the sensate world. Even if there is scientific research that corroborates a correlation, doubt remains in terms of causation and explanation. A mathematical model remains an abstract theory and there potentially could be many abstract theories that correlate to the same real world phenomena. This same argument was being used against Keynesian economics because Keynesian theorists like to use mathematical models and to make predictions based on those models. Even though different reasons are given, I sense that all these varieties of mistrust originate from the same general attitude of mistrust. I’d assume that it relates to the fear traditioal conservatives have about radical change. Psychological research shows that conservatives have a stronger disgust response (for example, toward rotten fruit)… not that many conservatives would trust this particular psychological research. I’ve noted that conservatives tend not to have as much interest in psychology. Also, surveys have shown that most scientists self-identify as liberal. Is there something inherently “liberal” about science? Or is there something about a scientific education that encourages a liberal mindset? Furthermore, why do liberals seem more trusting of the governmnet, science, and of radical change? Does it come down to the simple fact that research has shown liberalism to correlate to the psychological trait “openness to experience”? Since research shows liberals are more open to experience, then what do conservatives mean by having more trust in the “real world”? It seems that conservatives define reality as being logical in that any fundamental truth should stand on it’s own. Any real truth would be obviously true. Many who make these arguments are minarchists or anarcho-capitalists, objectivists or libertarians… or something else along these lines (even mainstream Republicans will at times make these arguments). Two of the major influences for many of these people (either directly or indirectly) are Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. A popular website is the Ludwig von Mises Institute. The following is a section from an article on that website which demonstrates the style of argument: Psychology versus Praxeology Of course, even this experimental confirmation does not prove the universal truth of the bystander effect. It could be that, despite their best efforts, the psychologists did not really pick a representative sample of test subjects. Moreover, even if the bystander effect is indeed a fact for the current population of humans, there is nothing to prevent the emergence in one hundred years of a new breed of humans who, whether through culture or genetics, do not obey the bystander effect. Just like any “law” from the natural sciences, the “laws” of psychology (insofar as they are validated by the experimental method) are only tentative. In contrast, let us analyze a typical economic law: If the government runs a deficit, then interest rates will be higher than they otherwise would have been. Now this law too seems commonsensical (just as the bystander effect), but it is more than that: Once the economist takes care to precisely specify the definitions of the terms, he or she can actually prove the proposition as an exercise in pure logic. There is no reason to go out and “test” whether it is true, because this would miss the point. It would be as nonsensical as “testing” whether the interior angles of a triangle (in Euclidean geometry) add up to 180 degrees. From this perspective, science can only at best deal with relative truths. Logic, however, deals with absolute truths (i.e., axioms): Statistics, he pointed out, cannot trump logic. Contrary to the mainstream positivist position, in which all economic theories must lead to falsifiable predictions that can be tested, Ludwig von Mises believed that valid economic theorems must be deducible from the axiom, “Humans act.” Mathematical data and the scientific research it’s based upon can only ever at best be of secondary importance. These people demand their worldview be absolutely logically consisten, facts be damned. The problem is that the world is infinitely complex. The human ability to use logic is limited. A theory can be logically consistent and yet still be wrong. Also, this idea of axioms is strange. In what way is “Humans act” an axiom that is beyond questioning. There are tons of assumptions this so-called “axiom” is based upon. This way of argument reminds me of Christian apologists who sometimes are very intelligent and knowledgeable within their narrow frame of interest. Christian apologists often are great debaters and are capable of twisting around words. Their thinking is usually circular and self-contained… meaning it’s logically self-consistent. However, an apologist isn’t interested in new data. The apologists already knows everything that matters. The apologists “axioms” came from God himself. The axiom in both cases is seen as being unquestionable, a tenet of faith. I still feel confused about all of this. I don’t understand what motivates it. It’s an attitude about the world and not a specific worldview. People with the same attitude might entirely disagree about the worldview and yet still use the same style of argument to defend their own worldview. It’s very strange. Personally, I find it frustrating. No matter what data I bring up (about poverty or global warming or whatever) will usually be dismissed out of hand or else turned into a philosophical debate about postmodern epistemology. It’s like these people want to avoid the fundamental issues themselves. They feel safest within their system of thought and do everything to defend their system of thought from all that is external to it. The worst of these people are intellectually dishonest. They use logic as rhetoric, as apologetics, as sophistry. Some of them are quite clever at this game. However, not all of them seem intellectually dishonest. Some will accept scientific research when it accords with their own worldview. For example, Stefan Molyneux uses the psychological research on trauma and I agree with his understanding of this issue, but he uses it to defend a particular ideology which isn’t based on any real world examples. This attitude of mistrust towards institutions beyond the individual is coupled with a self-certainty held within the individual or within the group that the individual belongs to. The liberal attitude is different, but I’m not sure how to pinpoint this difference. Liberals can be extremely questioning of the same things conservatives question. So, why does liberal questioning begin and end in a sense of openness? Most liberal who are scientists or interested in science would openly state that science is imperfect. Still, there is a basic trust in the scientific process like there is a basic trust in the political process. I’ve pointed out in another blog how this plays out on the political level (the beginning of the blog post is posted below): Liberal Trust vs Conservative Mistrust The other day, I came across data that showed a difference between Republicans and Democrats (Republicans Support Big Government… just as long as Republicans are in power). Republicans support big government when there is a Republican president, but they fight, fear-monger, criticize and obstruct what they label as big government when a Democrat is president. Democrats, however, show more even support for big government no matter which party is in power. For example, almost the same number of Democrats support Obama as supported Reagan. This explains the point (which I think Cenk Uygur made) that bipartisanship is usually Democrats agreeing with Republicans but rarely the other way around. There is a fundamental difference in worldview. This probably relates as well to my argument that liberals are less dogmatic in their ideology (Liberal Pragmatism, Conservative Dogmatism). Conservatives seem more likely to see themselves as principled and so more willing to stand by their principles no matter what. It’s not that liberals aren’t principled, but a major liberal value is trying to understand the views of others and working towards a middle ground of agreement or at least acceptance. Liberals aren’t against big business in the same way or to the same degree as conservatives are against big government. Instead, liberals think capitalism and democracy need to work together without either being subsumed to the other. Obviously, there is a very fundamental difference in the conservative and liberal worldviews. Anarcho-capitalists, objectivists & (righwing) libertarians often criticize Republicans and mainstream conservatives, but nonetheless they are clearly conservatives themselves… even if they don’t like to label themselves as conservatives. Ignoring all the differences of ideology, what specifically makes a conservative a conservative and a liberal a liberal? Is it just a difference of psychological traits? Continued in part 2: June 11, 2010 Benjamin David Steele anarcho-capitalism, anti-intellectualism, conservatism, conservative, Democrat, liberal, liberalism, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Republican, Stefan Molyneux 6 Comments Self-Enclosed Stories, Self-Fulfilling Prophecies I often watch the videos of Stefan Molyneux. I highly admire some of his insights, but I’m also highly critical of the conclusions he bases on these insights. Here is a very high quality video he just made to which I have a mixed response. He tells a compelling story. It’s not unlike the story told by Alex Jones and other right-leaning libertarians. Stefan is essentially an intelligent conspiracy theorist which I don’t mean as an insult. It’s just an apt description. I have a cynical nature with a bit of intelligent paranoia thrown in. I’m quite fond of criticizing the government and the established system of modern civilization. So, I resonate with the general attitude of questioning as seen with Alex Jones or in a less bombastic way with Stefan Molyneux. I resonate, but I also feel repulsed by a tendency towards fear-mongering. At worst, this kind of fear-mongering leads to a dark sensationalism as portrayed in the above video. My own sensibility is not any less dark, but I lean leftwards away from this rightwing way of portraying a cultural narrative. I’m not sure exactly what the difference is. Liberals seem less prone to use overt emotional persuasion/manipulation. A particular kind of right-leaning libertarian makes progressive leftwingers such as Michael Moore seem like moderates. Noam Chomsky is no less critical of the government than Molyneux, but Chomsky would never make a video like the above. As another example, Derrick Jensen easily competes with Molyneux on the level of cynical analysis of our present society… and, yet, there is a difference. What is this difference? Both Chomsky and Jensen have a more open-ended analysis. They’re less likely to come to an absolute conclusion, less likely to tell an ideological narrative. Derrick Jensen explicitly says that no ideology is right, no single answer will solve our problems. Molyneux, however, is selling a specific ideology: anarcho-capitalism. So, the story Molyneux is telling leads to a specific ideological vision of how society should be. In this, I sense something like naivette. Molyneux believes in his ideological vision. He has faith in the theory of anarcho-capitalism even though there is no real-world evidence supporting it. The story told by Stefan Molyneux and by Alex Jones could be true. I have a strong suspicion that parts of it are true. My worry is that there are elements of truth mixed in with massive amounts of speculation. Alex Jones is particularly bad about ungrounded speculation, but even the more moderate Molyneux dangerously courts with the paranoid vision. The specific danger I see is that stories have a way of becoming self-enclosed worldviews which can lead to self-fulfilling prophecies. April 18, 2010 Benjamin David Steele Alex Jones, anarcho-capitalism, civilization, culture, Derrick Jensen, libertarian, narrative, Noam Chomsky, politics, rightwing, self-enclosed, self-fulfilling, self-fulfilling prophecy, society, Stefan Molyneux, story, Western civilization 3 Comments Victimization: Culture & Education “There is a good deal else that would not exist without “poisonous pedagogy.” It would be inconceivable, for example, for politicians mouthing empty clichés to attain the highest positions of power by democratic means. But since voters, who as children would normally have been capable of seeing through these clichés with the aid of their feelings, were specifically forbidden to do so in their early years, they lose this ability as adults. The capacity to experience the strong feelings of childhood and puberty (which are so often stifled by child-rearing methods, beatings, or even drugs) could provide the individual with an important means of orientation with which he or she could easily determine whether politicians are speaking from genuine experience or are merely parroting time-worn platitudes for the sake of manipulating voters. Our whole system of raising and educating children provides the power-hungry with a ready-made railway network they can use to reach the destination of their choice. They need only push the buttons that parents and educators have already installed.” ~ Alice Miller (as quoted from Poisonous pedagogy) This video is an insightful analysis. I don’t have in opinion about the book in question (The Catcher in the Rye) since it’s been many years since I read it. There is another video about it from the movie Six Degrees of Separation. I like what Will Smith’s character is saying about imagination. The two views of the book are a bit different, but maybe there is a connection. What kills the imagination? Imagination is very personal. For the imagination to become externalized and objectified (as entertainment or organized religion) implies that a violent disconnection has occurred. So, what about our society is responsible for this? Since I’m reading Derrick Jensen right now, I have been thinking about the connection between abuse and hierarchy. Jensen discusses it in terms of the victimization cycle of victims becoming victimizers and the culture of power and fear (in particular, Jensen discusses all of this in relation to child abuse including his own personal experience). Related to the imagination and the individual, Jensen also talks about the commodification of our culture. Imagination becomes a commodity as entertainment and people become commodities as workers. This process is largely dependent on proper ‘education’. The guy in the first video pointed out something I hadn’t heard before. He mentioned that both prostitutes and those who seek them out tend to have histories of sexual abuse as children. I had heard about this being true for sex workers, but it’s strange that sexually abused people would seek eachother out to form this kind of business relationship. I think it’s important that he connects abuse to general dysfunction both in the individual and society. Abuse early in life messes up a person psychologically and often turn to self-medication. Everyone blames the victim, says this guy… and he has a theory about it. “Of the three major kinds of abuse (verbal abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse), it is the verbal abuse victims who become the political leaders… Those who are physically abused become the workers… While those who are sexually abused often become the criminal class.” Civilization isn’t the normal state of the human species. People have to be formed correctly at a young age to fit into such an unnatural situation. Mostly this isn’t planned out in a conscious way (and conscious awareness of the process is discouraged by the system itself). Abuse is self-replicating. In a society based on victimization, it is easier for a victim to become a victimizer than it is for a victim to become a defender of victims. We are all victims in various ways as we live in a very oppressive society, but abuse makes for a good example because it’s more obvious (for anyone who wants to see). Child abuse is very common in our society and most often children are abused by their parents. A child is statistically safer around strangers. Rape, whether of children or adults, is also very common. If you blame the victimizers, you’d be blaming a large percentage of our entire society and most victimizers were also once victims. To go by the theory presented in the video, maybe blaming the victims in the first place promotes victims becoming victimizers. The separation between victims and victimizers is less than we like to think. There is the cartoon of the boss who yells at the employee who goes home to yell at his wife who yells at the kid who yells at the dog. That is a simplification of the process. Everyone wants to be in the position of the abuser rather than the abused. If the employee becomes the new boss, he will then yell at his employees. When the kid grows up to be a parent, he will yell at his kids or his wife. No single person can be blamed. The victimization is systemic to our entire culture. It can be seen in the news and in entertainment. It can be seen in politics and war. It can be seen in the police force and in business practices. It can be seen at work and at home. It’s all around us and we are all apart of it. The key point that Jensen makes is that we shouldn’t blame ourselves for being born into this society. We do what we can. We should understand that we all are the walking wounded and should be compassionate. I must admit that I find it difficult to be compassionate at times. I’m one of the walking wounded as well. My own suffering sometimes makes me more compassionate and sometimes less. I wish I were capable of always being kind and caring, but it is always a challenge. I found helpful the attitude expressed by Thomas Ligotti which comes down to hate the sin, not the sinner. In speaking about his own pessimism (which could be applied to Derrick Jensen’s pessimism), he writes: “It would be a sign of callousness to bemoan the fact that pessimistic writers do not rate and may be denounced in both good conscience and good company. This judgment makes every kind of sense in a world of card-carrying or crypto-optimists. Once you understand that, you can spare yourself from suffering excessively at the hands of ‘normal people’, a pestilent confederation of upstanding creatures who in concert keep the conspiracy going by rehashing their patented banalities and watchwords. This is not to say that such people do not have their struggles and responsibilities, their pains and sufferings, and their deaths by accident, murder, or disease, which only makes all the more pestilent their normal thinking that being alive is all right and that happiness should attend upon the arrival of life’s newcomers, who, it is always assumed, will be normal.” ~ “Thinking Horror” by Thomas Ligotti, Collapse IV (which is an extract from the soon to be available The Conspiracy Against the Human Race) If you criticize society, those who identify with society and promote it’s values will at the very least criticize you in return. But if this is all they do, be thankful. Many people throughout history (and in the present as well), have been ostracized and imprisoned, beaten and killed for criticizing society. As long as you merely criticize, those with vested interests often don’t care. But as soon as you attempt to act on those criticisms, prepare yourself be punished and put back in your place. Knowing this, you have two responses. You can go by Ligotti’s advice… Don’t provoke the dangerous animal! Or you can go by Jensen’s advice… Someone has to stop the dangerous animal from continuing to kill. I understand Jensen’s view, but I don’t have it in me to fight the system. I’ll write my criticisms and hope for the best. In conclusion, the following is a quote from an article that strengthens the argument about the connection between society, trauma, and addiction (I’ve written along similar lines in the post Homelessness and Civilization). Dislocation is one of the most fundamental aspects of victimization and one which Derrick Jensen speaks of in terms of destroying stable traditional cultures. The Roots of Addictionin Free Market Society by Bruce K. Alexander As free market globalization speeds up, so does the spread of dislocation and addiction. In order for “free markets” to be “free,” the exchange of labour, land, currency, and consumer goods must not be encumbered by elements of psychosocial integration such as clan loyalties, village responsibilities, guild or union rights, charity, family obligations, social roles, or religious values. Cultural traditions “distort” the free play of the laws of supply and demand, and thus must be suppressed. In free market economies, for example, people are expected to move to where jobs can be found, and to adjust their work lives and cultural tastes to the demands of a global market. People who cannot achieve psychosocial integration develop “substitute” lifestyles. Substitute lifestyles entail excessive habits including—butnot restricted to—drug use, and social relationships that are not sufficiently close, stable, or culturally acceptable to afford more than minimal psychosocial integration. People who can find no better way of achieving psychosocial integration cling to their substitute lifestyles with a tenacity that is properly called addiction. In case you’re interested in the evidence and arguments behind the view of the first video, the same guy made some other related videos: February 11, 2010 Benjamin David Steele abuse, child abuse, Derrick Jensen, education, Freedomain Radio, J.D. Salinger, pessimism, Stefan Molyneux, The Catcher in the Rye, Thomas Ligotti, victim, victimization, victimization cycle, victimizer, video 2 Comments	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line643
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__label__wiki	0.716754	0.716754	Wrecking a Summit: Poland, Israel, and the Past Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t do himself or his country any favors by accusing Poles of cooperating with the Germans during the Holocaust. Israel’s prime minister is a lucky man. At least by his standards. Forget that he is dogged by corruption scandals and faces reelection, which will be an uphill struggle. Dempsey is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and editor in chief of Strategic Europe. Forget too that he is repeatedly criticized by the EU for expanding illegal Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. Such policies undermine, if not make impossible, a negotiated and viable two-state solution in Israel and Palestine. With unconditional support from the Trump administration, Netanyahu has been able to plough further, literally and politically, into the West Bank. And with support from the V4, or the Visegrád countries (which consist of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic), Netanyahu has relied particularly upon Warsaw and Prague to bloc much tougher EU measures against Israel’s settlement policies. So, to the consternation of the Polish government, which recently pulled out all the stops to host a Middle East conference that had Israel and several other countries sitting at the same table, Netanyahu humiliated his hosts. Apart from arriving late and changing the seating arrangements—which his Polish hosts could just about accept—the prime minister really did upset them with his statements about their country’s role in the Holocaust. “The Poles cooperated with the Germans” during the Holocaust, Netanyahu said. Back home, in Jerusalem, the interim foreign minister, Israel Katz, said Poles “suckled anti-Semitism with their mother’s milk.” It was too much for the Polish government. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was furious. He criticized Katz for “reprehensible, unacceptable, and simply racist words.” He told reporters that “this is an example of racist anti-Polonism.” The upshot was that Poland, followed by the Czechs, pulled out of a V4-Israel summit planned on February 18-19 in Jerusalem. The meeting was written off. This cancellation was not in Israel’s interests. Over the past several years, ties between Israel and the V4 have deepened. What continues to bind them much more closely is the shared views about the EU’s policies on migration (which neither side likes), the status of Jerusalem, security, threat perceptions, and what remains of the so-called peace process. Moreover, Netanyahu’s nationalist policies, his curbing of non-governmental organizations, and his overall view of the EU’s liberal policies and values resonates with most of the Central Europeans. Indeed, the Hungarian, Jewish-born philanthropist George Soros has been demonized by Netanyahu, much to the delight of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Furthermore, the Czech and Hungarian parliaments have supported Israel by rejecting the labelling of Israeli goods originating in the settlements. Hungary and the Czech Republic blocked a joint EU statement condemning the U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem. V4 governments often abstain from voting in the U.N. General Assembly when it comes to Israeli-Palestinian issues. In short, the V4—especially Warsaw and Prague—have been consistent in challenging the EU’s policies toward Israel. And on important issues such as economic cooperation, during the V4-Israel summit in Budapest in 2017, lots of issues were on the table: transfer of Israeli technology, security cooperation, innovation, and artificial intelligence. “The V4 are looking for Israeli technological expertise and trade and in return they can provide the cheap, yet qualified labor force that is needed by innovative Israeli industries,” wrote Joanna Dyduch in a recent report by the German Institute for International Affairs. Yet for all that, V4 hasn’t broken ranks over the EU’s support for saving the Iran nuclear deal. Given these special ties with the V4 countries and their role in the EU, Netanyahu’s public criticism of Poland is puzzling. Yes, he can use his comments for electoral reasons back home. But could it change Poland's polices toward Israel in the EU? And what about the impact back in Poland and its relations with the Jewish community? Won’t there be a backlash, especially among supporters of the governing nationalist Law and Justice Party led by Jarosław Kaczyński? “Jews still feel safe here,” said Eugeniusz Smolar from the Center for European Relations in Warsaw. “There is verbal anti-Semitism and especially on the internet. I do worry about the impact. But look what is taking place in France.” There, physical attacks on Jews have increased, not to mention what is happening in the United Kingdom, where anti-Semitism is becoming a dangerous phenomenon in the political discourse, especially in the opposition Labour Party. What is even more surprising about Israel’s criticism of Poland’s treatment of Jews during the Nazi occupation is that both countries tried to move on after the Warsaw government last year issued a law in which anyone making claims about Poland’s responsibility for Nazi crimes would be punishable by law. A justifiable furor followed in Israel but also in Poland. Leaving aside Netanyahu’s and Katz’s comments, this spat is really about the past and memory. It is about how to deal with the Holocaust, which destroyed the Judeo-Christian tradition. In all its forms and tribulations, that symbiosis shaped Europe until 1938. Brandishing statements and instrumentalizing the past do little to address what is happening today among the Jewish communities in many European countries. steven horowitzTOI February 19, 20199:38 am European anti-Semitism was the home of the Holocaust. Its racist attitudes and anti-Israel rhetoric are far to prevalent today. In fact, half the land of the old Palestinian Mandate has been under dispute since the British Army left Palestine and moved eastward toward its base in something called "Jordan" -- technically Eastern Palestine according to the original geographic understanding of the League of Nations. In 1948 the British-led "Jordanian" forces attacked Jerusalem and the territories to the west and occupied the eastern part of the city (along with what then became known as the "Jordanian West Bank"). Jordan occupied this territory for the next nineteen years. Only Britain and Pakistan recognized this territory as sovereign Jordan. Under international law, no sovereignty was ever established for these territories or any part of Jerusalem. Yet, the EU has always taken the PLO position that the territory is somehow "occupied". However, no other state in the world has ever taken non-designated territory, only to be later accused of having the same territory called "occupied". And this designation was given to Israeli actions in the aftermath of a completely defensive war (1967), where it was threatened with a second Holocaust ("throw the Jews into the sea!"). In other words, Israel alone has been diplomatically isolated and branded under fallacious and dubious legal pretenses. In fact, the Oslo Accords, which turned the terrorist PLO into the legitimate PA, never had such blatant anti-Israel language. Neither did the Madrid Conference, which was international legal anchor for the Oslo Accords, nor did UN Security Council Resolution 242. Yet the EU persists with its total acceptance of the tired old PLO narrative that the West Bank is somehow Palestine. The EU does this while conveniently forgetting that the original two-state solution (1947) was refused by the Palestinians and accepted by the Israelis. Why is Israel being branded the aggressor by the EU? For the same reason that Europe can usurp the designation of Judaism as somehow a part of some long-held partnership between civilizations in something called the Judeo-Christian Heritage. How can a thousand years of European oppression ever be construed as the religious patrimony of two equal religious inheritances? Only American Christians can claim the mantle of such an inheritance. And only the US has the goodwill and diplomatic lift to bring the parties to peace. The EU is irrelevant. Andrzej Gieroczynski I think it is first honest and very close to heart of the matter article concerning Poland in Carnegie I have ever read. In my opinion, it is impartial analyzes situation. There are no political correctness I hate it in this article. I have not enough information about Poland’s role in counteracting EU’s position on Israel’s settlement policies. For me as a Pole it is very difficult share Jewish position on Pole’s role on Holocaust. I do not accept Mr. Katz position but I am sure that he expressed a way of thinking many of Israelis. Current turbulences roots between Poland and Israel it is a result of many years exercised Israeli’s education policy on history of the Second WW. Both of us, Poles and Israelis need to start work on preparing common view of common history. But it is a topic for another discussion. Very good article. Congratulations. Mirel Goldenberg ..."every Pole sucked anti-Semitism with his mother's milk." The un-diplomat vice-Foreign Minister Israel Katz quoted the ex-PM Yitzhak Shamir (that his father was killed just outside his birthplace in Ruzhany by villagers who had been his Polish childhood friends with an axe, after he had escaped from a German train transporting Jews to the death camps) . Katz forgot the res of the quote where Shamir is hoping for a new Poland and the quote destroyed the Netanyahu's clever strategy and Poland will never forgive mostly because is saying in the few words the simple TRUTH: The Polish nation massacred Jews before the Nazi occupation, during the Nazi occupation where they participated in massacres and even after the war when the survivant Jews returned to their homes. In the Polish nation were people that saved Jews during the war but Katz undiplomatic and true remark reflect a history that the Polish government want to wipe from their collective memory. We can "move further" by forgiving but not by forgetting; Poland may deny but Israel exist by never forgetting the past and future killers of the Jews. Your fake history about widespread Polish anti-semitism and massacre of Jews is the reason for the strong Polish reaction, and for an increasing rise in anti-Semitism. For your information Poland had no Quislings or SS volunteers. There was no Polish Vichy Regime nor Polish concentration camp guards which had Polish Christian inmates. Poland fought with the allies from 1939 to 1945. From 1942 to 1945 the First and Second Polish Armies fought alongside the Red Army all the way to Berlin. There was a Polish Secret State operating in occupied Poland that provided armed resistance as well as secondary and tertiary education in secret. There was even an underground judiciary which prosecuted and sentenced to death Polish traitors, including those who informed or blackmailed on Polish Resistance members or hiding Jews. These traitors were publicly executed in parks or on the busy streets as a warning to others. One such traitor was a Jew by the name of Dr Speigel. He sat with Gestapo agents at the Ostrowiec railway station identify Jews who had false identity papers issue to them by the Polish Underground. Many perished because of his actions. The he was found guilty by a secret Polish Court and secretly executed in 1940 to avoid German reprisals. Apart from 3 million Polish Jews, most of whom spoke Yiddish as their first language, there were some 2.5 million Poles murdered as well in the camps, during mass executions and as forced labourers sent to work in Germany. It is both sad and infuriating to know that many Jews believe that Poland, which fought Nazi German on both the Eastern and Western fronts and at home was a Nazi collaborating nation. Perhaps these Jews should explain how 150,000 Jews or part Jews served in Hitler's armies while their own were being murdered enmass. They should explain the Nazi collaborating Ghetto Judenrat who with their brutal Jewish Ghetto police rounded up hundred of thousands of Jews and put them on the trains destined for the German (not Polish) Death Camps. In the Warsaw Ghetto there were less than 600 German, Latvian and Ukrainian guards. So without Jewish help there was no way they could have forced the Jews on the trains. Then we have the notorious Jewish Ghetto ambulance service, and Jewish Gestapo agents trying to infiltrate the Polish Underground Zegota Organisation which was devoted to helping Jews. The truth many hysterical Jews can't face is that they themselves played a very significant collaboration role in the demise of their own people. Perhaps one can excuse Poles for being disgusted by the double standard of hysterical Jews condemning Polish informers when they had their own. For instance, Jewish Holocaust survivor, Luba Lis, recalls hiding in a bunker with 500 Jews in Przemysil. She and her mother climbed up a chimney to avoid detection after a Jew told the Germans about the hiding place. The traitorous Jew was shot by the Germans anyway and the 500 Jews he informed on were also killed. Remarkably under Israeli law even traitorous Jews, such as the Ghetto police, killed by the Germans are honoured as revered Holocaust victims. The world will see the truth soon no matter how loud the Jewish lies about Poland. I am of part Polish descent whose late Polish veteran father served with the Free Polish Forces fighting the Germans and their allies in the West. I am insulted and angered by largely Jewish lies that falsely defame the proud Polish nation. I know that many more informed Jews argue with their own to defend the Polish nation but they are losing the battle for truth. It seems that Poles and Jews are at loggerheads as the latter continue with anti-Polonism. But, the Poles and those around the world of Polish descent are fighting back, and they will win because the truth always does. And, yes, just as there were Polish collaborators there were also Jewish collaborators. Collaboration with an occupying enemy force is nothing new in human history. Clayton Miller First, under international law, Israelis are entitled to live anywhere in Judea and Samaria. There is no such thing as Palestinian land and never was. Judea and Samaria never belonged to any sovereign ruler after the British withdrew from mandatory Palestine; before that it was part of the Ottoman Empire. Second, Netanyahu does not really need lectures in morality from the Europeans. Netanyahu can do as he pleases and Israel will probably face the consequences sometime in the future. Deep in your heart of hearts you know this to be true. But where Israeli official anti-Polonism is concerned there is a diplomatic price for him and others in defaming the Polish nation. What Israel does or does not do is of no concern to the Poles as they have their own geopolitical destiny to consider. Also, there may not have been a Palestine but there are Palestinians and I am sure they will endure as all suppressed peoples willing to fight and die for their cause always do. They certainly have my sympathy and moral support.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line649
__label__wiki	0.501429	0.501429	Cache and Play Video game op-eds, reviews, and an ever growing backlog Giant Bomb The Cache Review – Abzu I found myself with a little extra time to sit down and game. With family members occupying the PC, I picked up the PS4 controller and decided to restart Abzu, a game I had started a while ago but never really progressed. What I found was a relaxing gaming experience full of color and wonder. Abzu was developed by Giant Squid Studios, co-founded by Matt Nava. The reason I mention this is that Matt Nava was formerly the art director at Thatgamecompany, which made Flower in 2009 and Journey in 2012. Anyone who has played either of those games instantly has an idea of the style of Abzu: an interactive experience where normal game tropes take a back seat to exploration, environmental story telling, and movement. Abzu is primarily set in an underwater world, most of which is teaming with life. The player takes control of an agile diver who swims across underwater landscapes complete with various species of fish and plants. The environment is immediately inviting, and I spent the first 30 minutes of gameplay largely just swimming through seaweed and with schools of fish. A swim break can be taken at “meditation” statues located in each area, at which point you can choose to have the camera follow various fish through the environment. Once an area has been explored, the next one is waiting with more varieties of sea life to see and swim alongside. There is an actual game in Abzu. Many areas require finding an item or two to move on to the next. There are collectibles to search for behind rocks and in caves. And there are antagonists that raise the tension a bit at times. The story itself is largely told through paintings on walls and the environment. There is no dialog or text explaining the history leading up to the game’s start or what is happening, but Abzu does a great job of just allowing the player to understand the character and the ultimate goal. Abzu is a short game coming in at two and a half hours, but a creative and fluid (no pun intended) experience that is very relaxing. If you have the game sitting in your library and have yet to give it a try, I certainly recommend putting in the time. Abzu, games, video games 48-Minute Cyberpunk 2077 Demo Video Review – Shardlight Cache on Twitter Get posts in your email!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line651
__label__cc	0.672288	0.327712	Entertainment Entertainment News Lyric Repertory Company Announces Jason Spelbring as Associate Artistic Director May 14, 2019 ALE 0 Comments artistic director, caine college of the arts, jason spelbring, Logan, lyric repertory company, Utah, Utah State University Logan – Jason Spelbring joins the Lyric Repertory Company (Lyric) at the Caine College of the Arts (CCA) as associate artistic director on May 13. Spelbring is welcomed by Adrianne Moore, artistic producer, and Richie Call, artistic director of the Lyric. An actor, producer, director and educator, Spelbring is currently an associate professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at Utah State University. He is a graduate of the actor training program at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and holds his BFA in acting from Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts and MFA in acting from the University of California, Irvine. In 2018, Spelbring directed An Iliad at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival, along with fight direction for Big River, The Foreigner and The Greenshow(British Isles). That same season, he joined the Lyric as fight director for Macbeth. “After time spent as a solo artistic director, it was apparent I couldn’t do everything on my own,” Call said. “Jason has an artistic eye that I don’t have, and he complements me in many of the same ways Dennis Hassan did. Jason is tireless and his energy and drive are an important addition to our administrative team.” Being a part of the Lyric team headed by Call was one of the main reasons Spelbring was eager to accept this new role. “I work really well with Richie and being able to help him realize his vision for the Lyric is something I’m excited to do,” Spelbring said. “His grandfather, W. Vosco Call, founded the company in 1967 and I find it remarkable that a live theater company has been working consecutively for 52 years in this valley. To be a part of that legacy is really appealing to me.” Call said Spelbring’s vision for growth focuses on inclusion (diversity and gender parity) in all areas of the company. “We want to be more inclusive in how we plan a season, how we cast a season and staff and where we fit in this movement,” Spelbring said. “We are aware of it and we are not resisting.” Spelbring has plans to increase Lyric’s individual donor base and nurture the business and corporate sponsor base as well. He would like to bring more of what the Lyric does to the people who live in Cache Valley. “He has already begun to implement plans to help with development, fundraising and donor cultivation,” Call said. “In short, Jason is going to take us to the next level.” As part of Lyric’s 2019 season, Spelbring directs/produces the Spotlight Concert, themed “On Broadway.” Patrons will hear numbers from shows currently playing on Broadway, along with special previews of the 2020 Lyric season. Spelbring also directs this summer’s highly anticipated musical, Mamma Mia! “Jason is a truly creative director and does not simply do what has already been done,” Call said. “He’s wonderful at doing the things I consider to be the most important elements of directing: identifying an author’s intent, exploring the world of the play and sharing the author’s vision with the rest of the creative team.” Call doesn’t stop there with his praise—he said Spelbring is perhaps the best director he has ever worked with when it comes to asking what a play means to us today and adding his unique “voice” to a production. “Jason is particularly adept at taking well established works and looking at them through a fresh, unique lens,” Call said. “I think one of the reasons for his success in this area is a genuine desire to collaborate with everyone on the team.” Opening June 14, the Lyric 2019 season includes A Raisin in the Sun, Mamma Mia!, Clybourne Park, Murder for Two, The Great Society (Staged Reading) and Size Matters. For more information or to purchase tickets for the 2019 season, go online to lyricrep.org or visit the Caine Lyric Theatre Box Office at 28 W. Center Street from May 15-August 3 on Mon.-Sat. from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. ← Control4 Welcomes the World to its Third C4Yourself Day Archives Select Month May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 December 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 August 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 August 2015 May 2015	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line652
__label__cc	0.53583	0.46417	Graduate and Postbaccalaureate Admission Requirements Home Graduate and Postbaccalaureate Admission Requirements Graduate and Postbaccalaureate Admission Requirements Page Navigation Admission to Master's Degree Programs Use of Social Security Number Enrollment in Distance & Online Education Courses International (Foreign) Student Admission Requirements Admission as an Auditor Transcript Retention Notice of Potential Changes Graduate and postbaccalaureate applicants may apply for a degree objective, a credential or certificate objective, or where approved, may have no program objective. Depending on the objective, the CSU will consider an application for admission as follows: General Requirements — The minimum requirements for admission to graduate and postbaccalaureate studies at a CSU campus are in accordance with university regulations as well as Title 5, Chapter 1, Subchapter 3 of the California Code of Regulations. Specifically, a student shall at the time of enrollment: (1) have completed a four-year college course of study and hold an acceptable baccalaureate degree from an institution accredited by a regional accrediting association, or shall have completed equivalent academic preparation as determined by appropriate campus authorities; (2) be in good academic standing at the last college or university attended; (3) have earned a grade point average of at least 2.5 on the last degree completed by the candidate or have attained a grade point average of at least 2.5 (A=4.0) in the last 60 semester (90 quarter) units attempted; and (4) satisfactorily meet the professional, personal, scholastic, and other standards for graduate study, including qualifying examinations, as appropriate campus authorities may prescribe. In unusual circumstances, a campus may make exceptions to these criteria. At CSU, Chico applicants to a master's degree program must have a grade point average of at least 3.0 in the last 30 semesters (45 quarter) units attempted and at least 2.75 in the last 60 semester (90 quarter) units attempted. Students who meet the minimum requirements for graduate and postbaccalaureate studies may be considered for admission in one of the four following categories: Graduate Classified – To pursue a graduate degree, applicants are required to fulfill all of the professional, personal, scholastic, and other standards, including qualifying examinations, prescribed by the campus; or Graduate Conditionally Classified – Applicants may be admitted to a graduate degree program in this category if, in the opinion of appropriate campus authority, deficiencies may be remedied by additional preparation; or Postbaccalaureate Classified, e.g. admission to an education credential program – Persons wishing to enroll in a credential or certificate program, will be required to satisfy additional professional, personal, scholastic, and other standards, including qualifying examinations, prescribed by the campus; or Postbaccalaureate Unclassified – To enroll in undergraduate courses as preparation for advanced degree programs or to enroll in graduate courses for professional or personal growth, applicants must be admitted as postbaccalaureate unclassified students. By meeting the general requirements, applicants are eligible for admission as postbaccalaureate unclassified students. Admission in this status does not constitute admission to, or assurance of consideration for admission to, any graduate degree or credential program (Most CSU campuses do not offer admission to unclassified postbaccalaureate students). (These and other CSU admission requirements are subject to change as policies are revised and laws are amended. The CSU Chancellor's Office website and the CSU admissions portal Cal State Apply are good sources for the most up-to-date information.) The Office of Graduate Studies officially notifies master's degree, certificate, and unclassified applicants of the admission decision. Credential applicants are notified of their admission to a particular credential program by the School of Education. Admission to any of the above categories is limited to the specific semester for which you have applied and been accepted. If you do not enroll in courses during the semester for which you are admitted, you will not be automatically readmitted for a subsequent semester but must reapply during the designated application period. If you do not hold a baccalaureate at the start of the semester for which you have been admitted, your postbaccalaureate admission will be canceled and your class level will be changed to senior. You must then reapply for postbaccalaureate admission if you wish to enroll after you receive the bachelor's degree. All graduate and postbaccalaureate applicants (e.g., Ed.D., joint Ph.D. applicants, master’s degree applicants, those seeking educational credentials or certificates, and where permitted, holders of baccalaureate degrees interested in taking courses for personal or professional growth) must file a complete graduate application as described in the graduate and postbaccalaureate admission materials at the Cal State Apply website. Applicants seeking a second bachelor’s degree should submit the undergraduate application for admission unless specifically requested to do otherwise. Applicants who completed undergraduate degree requirements and graduated the preceding term are also required to complete and submit an application and the $55 nonrefundable application fee. Since applicants for postbaccalaureate programs may be limited to the choice of a single campus on each application, re-routing to alternate campuses or later changes of campus choice are not guaranteed. To be assured of initial consideration by more than one campus, it is necessary to submit separate applications (including fees) to each. Applications submitted electronically are expected unless submission of an electronic application is impossible. An electronic version of the CSU graduate application is available on the Cal State Apply website. Credential applicants must also file a separate application for admission to their specific credential objective and should visit the School of Education website for additional information. Apply by the deadline given in the Academic Calendar and at the application website. You must also request that each postsecondary institution which you have previously attended send one official copy of your transcript directly to the Office of Graduate Studies (400 West First Street; California State University, Chico; Chico, CA 95929-0875) to arrive by the application deadline. NOTE: If you have attended CSU, Chico in the past, either as a graduate or an undergraduate student, you do not need to obtain additional copies of transcripts you have already had sent to the institution. Neither will you need to provide a transcript of your Chico record. If applying to a master's degree program, you may also be required to successfully complete a nationally standardized qualifying examination (e.g., Graduate Record Examination, Graduate Management Admissions Test, Miller Analogies Test), fulfill other admission criteria specified by the department, or submit additional supplemental application materials. Refer to the Academic Programs section in this catalog or visit Graduate Programs and Coordinators for information on specific departmental requirements. Test scores and all supplemental materials must also be submitted by the application deadline. The $55 non-refundable application fee in the form of a check, money order, or credit card payment to the California State University is required of all applicants, with the following exceptions: postbaccalaureate students currently enrolled at Chico who are changing their objectives; those who were previously enrolled as postbaccalaureate students, have broken enrollment at Chico only one semester, and have not attended any other schools in the interim; applicants filing as auditors; and applicants with an authorized application fee waiver. Completed files for master's program applicants are forwarded to the department for review. The department may recommend that you be admitted to one of the following categories: Graduate Conditionally Classified You may be admitted to a graduate degree program in conditionally classified status if your graduate department determines that you can remedy deficiencies by additional preparation. To be admitted as a conditionally classified master's degree student, you must meet the general requirements for admission to graduate and postbaccalaureate studies as specified in Admission Requirements above, as well as any specific requirements outlined by your major department for this category. While enrolled as a conditionally classified student, you will be required to complete 12 qualifying, letter-graded units of 400/500/600-level work with at least a 3.0 GPA and satisfy any departmentally specified criteria for admission to classified standing. You must also maintain at least a 3.0 GPA in each of the following three categories: all coursework taken at any accredited institution subsequent to admission to conditionally classified status; all coursework taken at CSU, Chico subsequent to admission to conditionally classified status; and all courses applied towards the degree requirements. Failure to meet these requirements may result in the termination of your enrollment in the master's degree program. Graduate Classified You are a classified master's degree student if you have been formally accepted by the department and the Office of Graduate Studies to pursue master's degree study. In addition to satisfying the general requirements for admission to graduate and postbaccalaureate studies as specified in "Admission Requirements" above, and all professional, personal, scholastic, and other standards, including qualifying examinations prescribed by the department, you must meet the following minimum requirements: Satisfactory grade point average as follows: An undergraduate grade point average of at least 3.0 in the last 30 semester units and a 2.75 in the last 60 semester units, or A postbaccalaureate grade point average of at least 3.0 in a minimum of 12 departmentally specified units of letter-graded graduate-level coursework, and In addition to "a" or "b" above, a grade point average of at least 3.0 in all postbaccalaureate, graduate-level coursework taken within the five years prior to admission to classified status. This coursework includes all graduate-level transfer work and all graduate-level courses completed in excess of baccalaureate requirements which have been approved for postbaccalaureate credit, whether or not they are applied to the master's degree. Approval by the department and the Office of Graduate Studies. You are required to maintain a minimum 3.0 GPA in each of the following three categories: all coursework taken at any accredited institution subsequent to admission to the master's program; all coursework taken at CSU, Chico subsequent to admission to the program; and all courses applied towards the degree requirements. While exceptional students may be granted candidacy immediately upon admission, master's degree students are normally advanced to candidacy after demonstrating ability and aptitude for the discipline as a classified master's degree student and meeting specific departmental requirements to become a candidate. Minimally, these will include: Classified graduate standing and completion at CSU, Chico of at least 9 units of the proposed program. Completion of departmental examinations, such as diagnostic examinations. A GPA of at least 3.0 in each of the following three categories: all coursework taken at any accredited institution subsequent to admission to the master's program; all coursework taken at CSU, Chico subsequent to admission to the program; and all courses applied towards the degree requirements. Applicants are required to include their correct Social Security numbers in designated places on applications for admission pursuant to the authority contained in Section 41201, Title 5, California Code of Regulations, and Section 6109 of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. 6109). The University uses the Social Security number to identify students and their records including identification for purposes of financial aid eligibility and disbursement and the repayment of financial aid and other debts payable to the institution. Also, the Internal Revenue Service requires the University to file information returns that include the student’s Social Security number and other information such as the amount paid for qualified tuition, related expenses, and interest on educational loans. This information is used by the IRS to help determine whether a student, or a person claiming a student as a dependent, may take a credit or deduction to reduce federal income taxes. Once you have applied, you will be assigned a nine digit Chico State ID number which will be used as the identifier for all of your University Records. Chico Distance & Online Education offers a variety of courses via the internet using various web-based applications. For information on current course offerings, contact Regional & Continuing Education. Students who are regularly enrolled in Chico Distance & Online Education courses receive resident credit and are held to the same application, transcript, and fee requirements as on-campus students. The CSU must assess the academic preparation of foreign students. For this purpose, "foreign students" include those who hold U.S. temporary visas as students, exchange visitors, or other nonimmigrant classifications. The CSU uses separate requirements and application filing dates in the admission of foreign students. Verification of English proficiency (see the section on the English Language Requirement for undergraduate applicants), financial resources, and academic performance are each important considerations for admission. More specific information for prospective students can be found at the International Student Services website. Official academic records from foreign institutions must be on file within one month of the application deadline. If your records are not in English, they must be accompanied by certified word-for-word English translations. Other examinations, such as the Graduate Management Admission Test, the Miller Analogies Test, and the Graduate Record Examination, may also be required by a department as a condition of admission. If you have attended a recognized foreign institution and have received a degree deemed equivalent to the U.S. baccalaureate, you may apply for admission as a graduate student. Prior university-level preparation should be appropriate to your graduate degree objective, and superior undergraduate grades are essential. Priority in admission is given to residents of California. There is little likelihood of nonresident applicants, including international students, being admitted either to impacted majors or to those majors or programs with limited openings. Graduate-Postbaccalaureate English Language Requirement All graduate and postbaccalaureate applicants, regardless of citizenship, whose native language is not English and whose preparatory education was principally in a language other than English must demonstrate competence in English. Those who do not possess a bachelor’s degree from a postsecondary institution where English is the principal language of instruction must provide proof of English language proficiency by receiving a qualifying score on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic), or the International English Language Testing Systems (IELTS). CSU, Chico interprets “where English is the principal language of instruction” to mean that a school is located in a country where English is the native language (the daily medium of communication of the majority of residents is English), and that the students received academic instruction in all subjects (except foreign language courses) at all levels of education in English. Though some programs may require a higher score, CSU, Chico minimum English Proficiency Test standards for graduate admission are: Band Score—6.5 PTEAcademic Minimum—59 An auditor is a student who enrolls in a course for informational purposes only. An auditor attends class sessions regularly but does not participate in the class, take examinations, or receive credit for the course. To qualify as an auditor, you must apply for admission (without paying the application processing fee required of credit students) and submit such transcripts as are necessary to show that you hold a baccalaureate. In addition, you must obtain permission of the instructor to register as an auditor in any course. Auditors pay the same registration fees as credit students. If you submit transcripts to the Office of Graduate Studies at Chico and then fail to submit an application, the transcripts will be retained for two years and will then be destroyed. If you complete an application file, but do not enroll for the semester for which you have been accepted, your transcripts will also be retained for two years and then destroyed. These and other CSU admissions requirements are subject to change as policies are revised and laws are amended. The CSU website http://www.calstate.edu and the CSU admissions portal Cal State Apply are good sources of the most up-to-date information.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line655
__label__wiki	0.972204	0.972204	/Allen Covered all the bases for more than 40 years Maury Allen '52 Maury Allen was one of the most prolific sportswriters to take a seat inside a press box. He covered sports for the New York Post for 27 years, then wrote for The Journal News, a newspaper in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam Counties for the next 12 years, and he contributed articles to a web site, Thecolumnists.com, until his death on Oct. 3, 2010 at the age of 78. He was a former chairman of the New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America and editor of its national journal. For a while he had a radio program and he was the go-to guy when someone needed a talking head for a sports documentary. While doing all that, Allen managed to turn out more than three dozen books, most of them about baseball. Although he carried a torch for the Brooklyn Dodgers long after they decamped for California, many of his books were about members of the New York Yankees, including Casey Stengel, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson, Ron Guidry and Lou Piniella, and, in 2004, “All Roads Lead to October: Boss Steinbrenner’s 25-Year Reign Over the New York Yankees.” He did not, however, neglect his beloved Dodgers. In 2005, Allen wrote “Brooklyn Remembered: The 1955 Days of the Dodgers.” He also wrote “Jackie Robinson: A Life Remembered” and was a contributor to “The Jackie Robinson Reader: Perspectives on an American Hero.” Allen (top right) with clockwise: baseball greats Tom Seaver, Casey Stengel and Gil Hodges, circa 1970 During his career of more than half a century reporting on America’s games, Allen was inducted into numerous “halls of fame” in addition to this one: the Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Fame, the Westchester County Sports Hall of Fame and the Jewish American Sports Hall of Fame. In addition, he won the national Best Sports Stories award in eight different years. From 2000 to 2002, he was president of the Society of the Silurians, an organization of veteran journalists, and in 2008, he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by that group, an honor previously bestowed on such fellow City College alumni as Richard F. Shepard, A.M. Rosenthal and A.H. Raskin. In 2011, he was posthumously awarded a Townsend Harris Medal by the College. Allen was born in Brooklyn on May 2, 1932. He went to James Madison High School prior to entering City College, where he played on the last football team in the school’s existence and wrote sports for The Campus. He continued writing while serving with the Army in Japan and South Korea, reporting for The Pacific Stars and Stripes. He worked for some small newspapers in Indiana and Pennsylvania before returning to New York in 1959, when he was hired by Sports Illustrated. Two years later, preferring the faster-paced world of a daily publication, he joined The Post, where he covered everything from the World Series, the Super Bowl and college basketball’s NCAA tournament to Wimbledon tennis, Olympic track and field, and even, he once said, a hot game of tiddlywinks. Allen, a natural storyteller armed with an arsenal of anecdotes about the athletes he covered, was a sports commentator for radio stations WFAN in New York and WFAS in Westchester. He appeared on many national television programs and was a frequent guest on ESPN sports documentaries. He remains a familiar face on reruns of HBO sports specials. In 1968, he appeared in an unbilled cameo as a rumpled sportswriter in the movie “The Odd Couple.” In 2007, however, when ESPN broadcast “The Bronx Is Burning,” a dramatic series about the Yankees and New York City in 1977, one of the characters was a sportswriter named “Maury Allen,” a fellow based on the real Maury Allen of 30 years earlier. Were it not for the time difference, it’s possible that Allen might have been asked to play himself. He might even have written a book about it.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line656
__label__cc	0.597587	0.402413	Multi-Country Survey Finds Most Workers Cite Pension and Retirement Benefits as Critical Factor when Deciding to Accept or Stay in a Job NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 11, 2019-- Pension or retirement benefits are a critical factor for most workers when deciding whether to accept a job or deciding whether to stay with their current employer, according to research from Accenture (NYSE: ACN) covering 10 countries in Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. (Graphic: Business Wire) Specifically, the research found that two-thirds (68%) of workers with pension or retirement plans said those benefits were a critical factor in deciding whether or not to accept a job, and 62% said they were a critical factor in staying with a job. The research also found strong interest among workers for more help in planning for their retirement, and strong interest — but limited current use — of digital channels for pensions and retirement information and planning. For instance, nearly six in seven workers (84%) said they want more help with pension and retirement planning, and more than five in six (82%) said they want help with coaching. Younger workers are the most interested, with 87% of millennials citing an interest in planning and 84% wanting retirement coaching. In contrast to the strong interest in planning assistance, less than half (41%) of currently active employees said their employer offers such education or coaching. Slightly more (43%) said their employer does not offer it, and 16% were uncertain if their employer offers such services. "People around the world are increasingly using digital services to make their lives easier and more productive," said Owen Davies, who leads Accenture's global pension practice. "Employers should ensure that their pension and retirement organizations find ways to close the gap between the ‘digital life’ that their members seek and what is currently available. As part of that, they should focus on enhanced planning and education for workers." Underserved Demand for Digital Channels The survey found a strong but generally underserved interest in the use of digital communication channels for pension and retirement information. For instance, interactive web pages were the most popular channel to receive such information, cited by 57% of respondents, yet only 23% said they have actually used interactive web pages for that purpose. Similarly, more than half (53%) of respondents said they’re interested in using a mobile app to receive such information, but only 18% have done so. Almost half (47%) of respondents said they would like to use a digital pensions or retirement coach, but only 12% have done so. Perhaps not surprising, interest in digital channels is especially strong among millennial workers. “We see some significant differences between countries, arising from differences in legislation, availability of digital services and the maturity of the modernization programs of pension and retirement organizations,” said Bjørn Tore Holte, Accenture’s pension industry lead in Europe. “But we also see similarities in strong demand for better services and more information on pensions and retirement options and planning.” Implications for Employers, Pension Providers and Employees As a result of the findings, Accenture makes several recommendations for employers and the pension and retirement organizations that serve their employees: Acknowledge the Importance of Pension and Retirement Benefits – Employers should ensure that their HR strategies acknowledge that pension and retirement considerations are critically important to job seekers and current employees and ensure that they address employees’ strong appetites for retirement information and support. Build Awareness of Benefits – With many workers uncertain whether their employer offers pension and retirement planning, and 43% believing their employer does not, there is clearly a large awareness gap to be closed. As workers age, their concerns regarding the security of their retirement increase; from a workforce stability and productivity standpoint, it’s important for employers ensure their providers address this with employees and retirees. Leverage Digital Channels – Although few workers currently use digital communication channels for information and support on pension benefits and retirement planning, demand is high. As such channels are increasingly pervasive in other areas of work and life, employers should ensure their pension and retirement organizations bolster their digital offerings to meet the demand from potential recruits and current workers. "Over the past decade people have shown an incredible appetite for services and convenience through digital, and this includes information and services related to pensions and retirement," Davies said. “Pensions and retirement benefits are critically important to workers, yet they generally want more information and help, and the research shows ways to address that.” Accenture surveyed 5,000 workers with pension plans across 10 countries — Australia, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Singapore and the United Kingdom — with 500 respondents from each country. Respondents wereevenly split between theprivateand public sectors. The online survey was conducted during September and October 2018. Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 482,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com. CONTACT: Joe Dickie joseph.r.dickie@accenture.com KEYWORD: UNITED STATES SOUTH AMERICA NORTH AMERICA ASIA PACIFIC EUROPE NEW YORK INDUSTRY KEYWORD: HUMAN RESOURCES CONSULTING ACCOUNTING TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES OTHER TECHNOLOGY SOURCE: Accenture PUB: 07/11/2019 06:59 AM/DISC: 07/11/2019 06:59 AM	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line657
__label__wiki	0.955211	0.955211	Ancient city of Babylon among new Unesco World Heritage Sites 6:51 CAT \| 11 Jul 2019 View of the rebuilt walls of Babylon, a kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia, now located in the modern-day city of Hillah. The site of Babylon has been selected to be inscribed as a Unesco World Heritage Site. (Ameer Al Mohammedaw/picture alliance via Getty Images) Other additions include ancient metallurgy sites in Burkina Faso, Iceland’s Vatnajökull National Park and eight buildings designed by Frank LLoyd Wright Babylon was once a thriving, splendorous city of the ancient world, home to hundreds of thousands of people and ruled by such famed historic leaders as Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar. Today, visitors to the site might have a hard time picturing its illustrious history; much of the ruins, located in modern-day Iraq, are unexcavated, and the area has sustained considerable damage from human development, ill-advised restoration efforts and conflict. But in a major nod to Babylon’s cultural importance, the ancient city was recently added to Unesco’s World Heritage List, along with 28 other sites. Launched in 1978, the list now includes more than 1,100 sites of “cultural and natural heritage … considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.” This year’s additions can be found around the world, include both developed and natural landscapes, and range from locations that are thousands of years old to relatively modern additions. Among them are the ancient metallurgy sites of Burkina Faso, which boast a history of iron production dating back to the 8th century B.C.; Iceland’s Vatnajökull National Park, a spectacular swath of land comprised of canyons, river systems and subglacial volcanoes; Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene, a historic wine-growing region in Italy; and Jaipur, an 18th-century city in India that is famed for its majestic architecture. Eight buildings by the iconic American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, were also added to the list. To qualify for World Heritage status, sites must meet at least one of ten selection criteria, and securing the coveted designation can be hard work. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, for instance, said it took 15 years of “extensive, collaborative efforts” to complete the nomination process. Financial assistance is available to sites on the World Heritage List, particularly to those that are threatened. But for the most part, the designation is honorary, conferring prestige that “often helps raise awareness among citizens and governments for heritage preservation,” according to Unesco. A nomination could fall through if Unesco feels that a country needs more time to bolster its management plan for a given site; according to Iliana Magra of the New York Times, that was the case this year for Jamaica’s Underwater City of Port Royal, also known as the Sunken Pirate City due to its history as a swashbucklers’ hub. Babylon, a major historic site, has only now been included on the Heritage List because in the past “it hasn’t been treated very well,” writes NPR’s Jane Arraf. In the 1980s, Saddam Hussein razed a large part of the city to build a replica on top of the original ruins. Later, he built a palace for himself on another part of the site. The U.S. invasion of Iraq brought further damage; according to NPR’s Bobby Allyn, military helicopters landed on the remains of the ancient city and heavy vehicles drove over its ruins. Iraqi authorities hope that the site’s new World Heritage status will help draw tourists to the country—something officials have been trying to do in the wake of Iraq’s victory over the Islamic State. And for everyday Iraqis, news of the World Heritage designation was cause for celebration. “People are out and about town, riding in their cars, being happy and glad that they’re Iraqi,” Jeff Allen, program director of the World Monuments Fund, tells NPR. “And that’s a wonderful thing that this is doing for them.” Source: The Smithsonian S. Korean hostage in Burkina Faso was ‘regular tourist’: official New Cuban Missile Crisis? Bring it on says Russia's Putin Malaysia seizes record 30-ton pangolin haul - wildlife group Low-income African countries 'pay 30 times more' for drugs Venezuela expels German ambassador Daniel Kriener for meddling China shows off new destroyer as Xi views naval parade « Call for answers after Tanzanian minister says missing reporter is dead Previous PostThis is it for now! See you all next summer! IATA says Zimbabwe owes airlines $196 million in trapped funds » Next PostStandard post with featured image	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line664
__label__cc	0.63482	0.36518	Posted on March 6, 2019 by darrenquek The Bball Journey: Young Love for the Game The Basketball Journey – Young Love for the Game One bright sunny day on a Saturday afternoon, a young boy sat in front of the television and watched “SLAMDUNK” the animated series. A vigor and drive vibrated in him, he stood up and imitated the moves made by the players in the show. And the journey of basketball began…… He started by getting his first ball, a spalding rubber ball. Low quality in other eyes, but a holy grail to him. He brought the ball to the basketball court below his block, and played everyday for the whole summer holidays. He love every minute of it. Clifford was his name. Then this Clifford’s brother’s friends, who are school team level players, taught him some important tips on defensive stance and hard work. He took it in, and begin to practice at home by himself, watching videos and screening of NBA players workout. He went to watch tournament games at the stadium nearby with his dad. Clifford love for the game grew over time. He quit his original CCA (Co-Curricular Activity), and went full fledge into basketball club. In his first taste of a real match, in a friendly game against Pandan Primary School on National Day in 2003, he sprain three of his finger in the first 5sec of the game. (HAHAHAHAHAHA) But his love for the game, told him, its ok keep going. He played the remaining time of the game with 3 sprain finger, quietly hiding it from the coach and parents, because he wants to play on. And the journey of endurance began…… For the remaining time in primary school, Clifford trained hard at home everyday, doing 100 crossover, 100 around the body, 100 pass to the wall in the small little balcony at home. He imagine and “played” basketball at home with tissue box and crushed paper. His will to play was relentless (But study he did, so mummy didnt have issue, except when he knocks over the alter items, which I guess Bodhisatva was pretty forgiving of him because of his will). Then in the fall of 2003, the young boy experienced his first taste of defeat, the kind that brings people to tears. It was an inter-class competition. Being the one so passionate and involve in the game, and also a little bossy, Clifford told his team mates how to play, and asked them to come back to play defense. Being young and un-trained, his classmates walked back to defend. The young boy was left alone to play defense. He did his best, blocked shots and defended multiple position. The result, unsurprisingly, was a lost for them in the first round. Clifford walked off the court upset. He cried, because his teammates didnt want to listen to him, and he didnt know how to motivate them. He cried, because of the loss. It hit him very hard. He reflected. And the journey of failure began…… The following year, Clifford had a chance to play in the inter-school tournament for the school basketball team. He got his first jersey of his life, the no.4. And that number stayed with him throughout his life. They won 2 and lost 3 games, and got kicked out in the first round. Clifford wasnt happy with the result and effort. He felt that he was not good enough, and so he started to train harder, learn better. The reflection became deeper. He started to think how the game is played as a coach and leader. And the journey of coaching began…… The early years of basketball, brought the boy learning and meaning the classroom and other endeavours couldnt give. He love the game. And so he journey on with these elements into his next phase. CategoriesArticle, Story, The Basketball Journey Previous PostPrevious BVR: Together Next PostNext The Basketball Journey: University of Street-Ball	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line665
__label__wiki	0.931758	0.931758	Ross Kelly in Politics/Policy Strategy Sustainability Shell CEO Claims Renewables Don’t Make Money, Startling Green Power Chiefs The heads of big energy companies including Shell, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and BP are coming under increasing pressure to up investments in energy sources other than fossil fuels, even though they fear doing so could hurt profits and dividends. The pressure from lawmakers, environmentalists and perhaps even some investors comes amid signs renewable energy sources such as wind and solar are becoming more cost competitive with coal and natural gas. In 2015, new installations of renewable energy capacity overtook coal for the first time ever, the International Energy Agency said last month, as governments around the world attempt to cut carbon emissions blamed by scientists for warming the Earth’s atmosphere. Shell has reduced its carbon footprint via its greater focus on natural gas—a cleaner-burning fossil fuel than oil and coal—which now accounts for just over half of its portfolio. Looking further out, Van Beurden said the company will continue to add more gas to its energy mix. He also singled out biofuels and new technologies such as hydrogen fuels as potential large growth areas for the company. “We are investing and we are making profits.” “The growth of renewables has been remarkable, and luckily so, but the capacity of the industry to make money in that segment has been remarkably absent,” Van Beurden said during a panel discussion. “And we will need to find a way to participate in a renewables-dominated energy system in a way that continues to allow us to make profits and pay dividends.” Still, Van Beurden said he expected solar “will be the main backbone of the energy system in the second half of the century”. Shell, he said, would rather apply renewable technology via hybrid systems with natural gas, instead of investing in technologies such as solar in their own right. The profitability of renewable energy companies was brought to the fore in April when SunEdison, one of America’s biggest green power companies, filed for bankruptcy after buckling under $16 billion of debt. Industry advocates, however, said the collapse was not a reflection of the wider sector and had more to do with a debt-fueled acquisitions binge. At the conference in Paris, Paddy Padmanathan, the CEO of Saudi-based solar power developer Acwa Power International, said his company was indeed making money. “I did talk to [Van Beurden] for a few minutes as he was leaving to point out that we are investing and we are making profits,” Padmanathan said. “We are not a charitable business.” Wal van Lierop, president of Chrysalix Venture Capital, noted that his company had invested in a successful solar company with none other than Shell. “This is very, very profitable,” he said. Next Read: When Does Collecting Customer Data Turn Creepy? » " Ross Kelly : Ross Kelly is a London-based business journalist. He has been a staff correspondent or editor at The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance and the Australian Associated Press.." David Cancel, CEO of Drift, spoke with us about being a private equity backed CEO,… Most of us don’t like to be the bearer of bad news but that responsibility… PayNet CEO Bill Phelan talked with Chief Executive about being bought by Equifax and shared…	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line672
__label__wiki	0.954827	0.954827	Habitat for humanity international becomes member cities Habitat for Humanity International becomes a member of the Cities Alliance The Cities Alliance is pleased to welcome Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) as a new member of the partnership. The Consultative Group of the Cities Alliance approved HFHI’s request to join the Alliance at its annual meetings in January 2010. HFHI is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to eliminate substandard housing and homelessness from the world and, through education and awareness, make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. The organisation operates in over 100 countries and has strong ties to nearly 2,000 community-based organisations. It also mobilises more than one million volunteers globally each year through advocacy and volunteer efforts. "We will benefit enormously from HFHI’s many years of experience, its presence in countries all over the world, and from its unique advocacy role,” said Cities Alliance Programme Manager, William Cobbett. For more about HFHI, please visit its website at www.habitat.org.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line676
__label__cc	0.672607	0.327393	You are here: Home / Archives for gun violence Office of Violence Prevention Announced Hospital Partnerships to Reduce Violence April 5, 2019 By MKE Community Journal Leave a Comment 414LIFE program takes a public health approach to interrupting the cycle of retaliatory violence in Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI – The City of Milwaukee Health Department’s Office of Violence Prevention announced a new partnership with Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Froedtert Hospital and Ascension Wisconsin that will help combat gun violence in the city. This new partnership is part of the 414LIFE program which uses a public health approach to violence. This program is modeled after Cure Violence, a successful violence prevention effort implemented in multiple cities around the world. The model engages credible messengers from the community to engage in prevention-based outreach and targeted conflict mediation. Through this partnership with local hospitals, the team will be trained to provide support to families, friends, and survivors of gun violence in local hospitals and the surrounding communities. The intention is to start the support and mediation process as early as possible in both the neighborhood and the hospital. According to reports by the Homicide Review Commission from 2014-2016, “argument/fights” have consistently been a driving factor in shootings and homicides in Milwaukee[1]. In 2015, the year that Milwaukee saw a 70% increase in homicides, retaliation-related shootings increased by 90%.[2] This effort aims to address the pipeline of pain that gun violence in Milwaukee produces on individuals, their families, and entire neighborhoods. As the only adult Level I Trauma Center in eastern Wisconsin, Froedtert Hospital is a critical partner in this effort. Although the initial partnership is with Froedtert Hospital and Ascension Wisconsin, the Office of Violence Prevention intends to partner with all hospital systems serving victims from the Milwaukee area. “As eastern Wisconsin’s only adult Level I Trauma Center, we are proud to join a network of healthcare providers in collaboration with the Milwaukee Health Department and the community to help improve the health and well-being of all residents of metro Milwaukee,” said Eric Conley, chief operating officer of Froedtert Hospital. “The 414LIFE program aligns with our long-standing commitment to reducing gun-related violence through research, clinical care and collaboration on violence and injury prevention.” “I am committed to a comprehensive approach to public safety that involves every segment of our community,” said Mayor Tom Barrett. “We ended last year with fewer than 100 homicides for the first time since 2014. I want to see that momentum continue and I believe this will contribute greatly to that goal.” “Gun violence is a public health issue that requires inclusive, coordinated, and committed leadership. Our Office of Violence Prevention continues to play an important role in leveraging innovative best practices for addressing violence across the continuum of prevention, intervention, and healing” said Dr. Jeanette Kowalik, City of Milwaukee Health Commissioner. “This approach directly aligns with Goal 1 of the Blueprint for Peace, which calls for community-driven efforts to address gun violence in the city. On more than one occasion during the planning process, residents called for solutions that were led by people from the neighborhoods, particularly those hardest hit by violence. I am proud of the responsiveness of local leaders and national partners to this approach,” said Reggie Moore, Director of the City of Milwaukee Office of Violence Prevention. “Ascension St. Joseph has been serving Milwaukee for 140 years and we recognize our role as an anchor institution in the Sherman Park and West Burleigh Street neighborhoods. Healthcare has done a good job at prioritizing heart disease, cancer prevention and other treatable or preventable diseases that take precious lives too soon. As a community, we must acknowledge violence in much the same way – as a preventable and treatable disease and commit to working together through programs like 414LIFE to create meaningful change,” said Bernie Sherry, Ministry Market Executive, Ascension Wisconsin. A Site Director and team of 10 violence interrupters and outreach workers have been hired to implement the program in partnership with Uniting Garden Homes Inc. and local hospital systems. Since November, the team has completed over 50 hours of training with Cure Violence, Uniting Garden Homes, and the Office of Violence Prevention. They have also completed over 25 mediations, including incidents of planned retaliatory gun violence in local schools and neighborhoods. Next week, the team will complete a volunteer orientation to Froedtert Hospital and the trauma department. This effort is funded by the City of Milwaukee with generous support from private donors and foundations, including Bader Philanthropies, Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Live Free, and Google. Ascension Wisconsin (ascension.org/Wisconsin) operates 24 hospital campuses, more than 100 related healthcare facilities and employs more than 1,300 primary and specialty care clinicians from Racine to Eagle River. Serving Wisconsin since 1848, Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. As such, Ascension Wisconsin provided more than $292 million in community benefit, including care of persons living in poverty in Fiscal Year 2018. As one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., Ascension operates 2,600 sites of care – including 151 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities – in 21 states and the District of Columbia. City of Milwaukee Health Department Office of Violence Prevention The Office of Violence Prevention takes a public health approach to preventing and reducing violence through partnerships that strengthen youth, families, and neighborhoods. In 2017 it facilitated a community-wide effort to develop and launch Milwaukee’s first comprehensive violence prevention plan known as the Blueprint for Peace. The Blueprint contains 6 goals and 30 strategies prioritized by Milwaukee residents for making Milwaukee a safe and resilient city where the lives of all residents are valued, promoted, and protected. For more information visit: www.414LIFE.com Cure Violence is a teaching, training, research and assessment NGO focused on a health approach to violence prevention. The Cure Violence health model is used by more than 50 communities in the U.S., as well as countries ranging from El Salvador to South Africa to Syria. Cities and organizations implementing the Cure Violence health model regularly experience reductions in violence within the first year ranging from 40-70% and greater reductions in subsequent years. We provide cities and organizations with the training and technical assistance to effectively implement the Cure Violence model. We are currently focusing our efforts on three parts of the world: the United States, Latin America, and the Middle East/North Africa. Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Froedtert Hospital is a 585-bed academic medical center and a leading referral resource for advanced medical care. Part of the Froedtert & MCW health network, Froedtert Hospital also operates the region’s only adult Level I Trauma Center. The primary adult teaching affiliate of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert Hospital is a major training facility for more than 1,000 medical, nursing and health technical students annually. It is also a respected research center, participating in thousands of research studies, including clinical trials, every year. Froedtert Hospital is located on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center campus. Campus partners are: BloodCenter of Wisconsin, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Curative Care Network, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division. For more information, visit froedtert.com. Uniting Garden Homes Inc. Uniting Garden Homes is a neighborhood-based intermediary committed to provide programs and support initiatives for economic growth and development. Uniting Garden Homes currently serves as the community-based partner agency for the north region 414LIFE site. Filed Under: Latest News, Local News Tagged With: 414 life, Ascension St. Joseph, Cure Violence, Froedtert Hospital, gun violence, Homicide Review Commission, Office of Violence Prevention Statement from Alderman Rainey on recent violence August 31, 2018 By MKE Community Journal Leave a Comment stevepb / Pixabay As we close out the month of August we have seen very troubling cases of gun violence and homicide: a total of 19 homicides and 48 non-fatal shootings in our great city this month. Gun violence is an issue that came up during my numerous discussions with the community at Hip-Hop Week MKE events. Hip-Hop Week MKE brought people together in safe spaces not only to be entertained but to discuss a wide range of important issues, including violence. The love, sense of unity, and candid talk I experienced during that week is a glimpse of what could be. I am not naïve to enough believe just words from an elected official can put an end to all this violence; there are many factors as to why it transpires. But I do believe words have meaning. Case in point, think about how many news stories reference a shooting that began with an argument. So how about we flip the script and be willing to share different words to make a positive impact. Keep in mind the actors in gun violence are often people we know. It might be a neighbor, a cousin or a friend from back in the day that is going down the wrong path. As we gather this holiday weekend at public events or barbeques, there will likely be opportunities to speak with them. Or more importantly, maybe they just need someone who will listen. It takes us coming out from behind the blinds, both figuratively and literally, to have those conversations no matter how uncomfortable they may be. So while I am concerned by what is occurring, I also have a sense of optimism that we can come together to cease this nonsensical activity. Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: gun violence, homicide New Book, “The Grass is The First to Go,” Tackles Violence, Morality, Race and Politics Motivational speaker and author, Orlando Ceaser’s, new book uses art to tackle hot topics. The Grass Is the First to Go is ten one-act plays with a discussion guide to stimulate thought and spirited conversations. Their controversial nature and provocative content is written to inspire and jolt people to sit down and talk. The news is filled with stories on crime, gun violence, mass incarceration, Black Lives Matters, #MeToo, sexual harassment, injustice and gentrification. Schools, businesses and other organizations confront morality, racial identity, unconscious bias and stereotypes. There is a need for resources to increase engagement and interactive problem-solving. The Grass Is the First to Go can be staged or read aloud in small groups to help create dialogue, solutions and action plans. They can help groups break down walls and build understanding about diversity and inclusion. Am I Black Enough? is a play about the struggle in communities when people within the same group have their cultural and racial identity challenged by their own. The signature play, The Grass Is the First to Go, speaks to the lack of stewardship and the failure to value life, opportunity and resources. I Protest, was inspired by young people in the Black Lives Matter Movement. These brave and vocal souls stand up for justice and equality and against hypocrisy and injustice. My Life Defined, begs the question, what does it say about our lives if our pursuit of pleasure, self-indulgences and selfishness direct our behavior toward matters that do not address the major inequities of our times? Orlando Ceaser is a writer, professional speaker, thought leader and voiceover specialist. He spent his first career as a business executive in the pharmaceutical industry. He has over 30 years of experience in sales, management, training, diversity, marketing, leadership and personal development. He aspires to entertain, educate and inspire people to unlock their leadership greatness to reach their dreams. Mr. Ceaser advises students, parents and employees to become Impact Players in school, work and in their communities. Impact players are individuals who are prominent and dominant in their fields. They are the game changes who improve performance through their actions. Mr. Ceaser achieves this objective through key note addresses, workshops, spoken word CD’s and books. Mr. Ceaser has presented to prisoners and those responsible for ministering to them. He presents two decision making models; The Know System™ and The Objection Model – The Art of Refusal™. These models guide users to make decisions consistent with their faith and value systems. Mr. Ceaser is the author of twelve books including Unlock your Leadership Greatness, Leadership above the Rim, The Isle of Knowledge, Look for the Blessing and Leadership Greatness through High Performance Poetry. His blog, www.myozonelayer.com focuses on management, motivation and leadership. For more information, please visit www.OrlandoCeaser.com. Filed Under: Perspectives, Political Tagged With: #MeToo, black lives matters, crime, Gentrification, gun violence, injustice, Mass Incarceration, Orlando Ceaser, sexual harassment INVITE: Gun Violence Prevention Community Conversation! Dear neighbor, Next week Tuesday, March 6th Representative Jonathan Brostoff and I will be hosting a community listening session regarding gun violence prevention. We will be joined by a panel of experts who will share with us their knowledge and recommendations. Please join us and share your thoughts and ideas on how we can work together to prevent gun violence. SEE YOU TUESDAY! Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: community, David Bowen, gun violence, Jonathan Brostoff	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line677
__label__wiki	0.839153	0.839153	Business News Labels & Publishers Global songs database moving forward By Chris Cooke \| Published on Friday 25 January 2013 The working group looking to develop a Global Repertoire Database that would make it easier for licensees to identify the owners of copyrights in songs in each territory around the world says that significant progress has been made in the last twelve months, and that the coming year should also include some “important milestones in the realisation of the project”. The main achievement to date is the completion of a scoping study. The project is now in a ‘requirements and design phase’, with plans to set up the GRD as a standalone legal entity this year, and to begin IT development. The current aim is to launch the database in 2015. The various rights owners, collecting societies and digital firms involved in the GRD reaffirmed their commitment to the venture this week, with Andrew Jenkins of the International Confederation Of Music Publishers telling CMU: “ICMP and its music publisher members around the world are committed to the development of the Global Repertoire Database which will benefit all those who have a stake in improved music licensing processes including creators, music publishers, collecting societies, music suppliers and fans of music everywhere. Indeed, it is impossible to argue against the benefits of the GRD for the wider community and all of us involved are working together to deliver something that will be a game-changer for the industry”. READ MORE ABOUT: Global Repertoire Database	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line678
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__label__wiki	0.801205	0.801205	Directors and Coaches Instructors and Curriculum Optimal Work Inventory Personal Assessments "We can build a happy life only on the foundation of our own nature." - Gretchen Rubin Monthly Training Optimal Work Eddy Moss CEO of DC Accelerator Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch About Eddy About Eddy Moss Ed Moss is a partner of Clark, Moss & Associates, a wealth management and financial planning practice at Merrill Lynch that specializes in advising entrepreneurs and senior corporate executives. Ed graduated Cum Laude with a degree in Economics from the University of Dallas and holds the Certified Financial Planner and Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor designations. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Ed worked as an analyst and consultant with various investment management and information technology firms in the US, Latin America, and Europe. His prior experience includes corporate finance, private equity investments, and systems integration. He lives in Great Falls with his wife Sarah and their two boys. Kelly McCabe Founder, Home Harmony LLC About Kelly McCabe Kelly McCabe founded Home Harmony, LLC in 2013 after a lifelong passion for organizational systems, respect-based parenting techniques, and the application of the Montessori philosophy to the home environment. Kelly and her husband Tom are both from Washington, D.C. They have eight children, and several grandchildren. Their children and grandchildren have attended Montessori preschools and elementary schools in the Washington, D.C. area for almost 25 years. Kelly was a founding Board Member of Siena Academy, the first Parochial Montessori school in the U.S. She has a Journalism Degree from Marquette University, and worked on Capital Hill and in the Reagan White House in her early career. Pat Kilner CEO of the Kilner Group and Founder of TowerHill Realty About Pat Kilner Pat Kilner is the CEO of the Kilner Group Companies, which includes The Kilner Group Residential, KG Builder Solutions and TowerHill Realty. Additionally, Pat and his brother Michael are working to launch a training organization in the real estate space called the Indispensable Agent. Pat has served on a variety of boards and is the current Chairman of the Board at the Heights School. Pat has been called upon by numerous organizations in the for-profit and not-for-profit space to lead their strategic planning, goal setting, and visioning exercises. Pat graduated from the Catholic University of America in 2001 and earned his Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Navarre in Pamplona, Spain in 2003. He currently resides in Potomac, Maryland, with his wife Elena and their six children. Bill Dardis Teacher, The Heights School About Bill Dardis Bill Dardis teaches English, history, science and religion at the Heights School in Potomac, MD. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Mr. Dardis worked as an IT consultant for Ernst & Young in New York City. He later founded UrbanFUTURE, a character-based mentoring program for inner-city youth in St. Louis. For the past 20 years he has run professional development programs for suburban and at-risk youth in St. Louis, Chicago, and Washington. A native of New Orleans, Mr. Dardis has enjoyed the District of Columbia for the past 7 years. Apoorva Shah Principal, Strategy and New Ventures, EAB Global, Inc. About Apoorva About Apoorva Shah Apoorva Shah is a principal in the Strategy and New Ventures division of EAB, a best practice research and technology company serving the education sector. In this role, he leads efforts in firm strategy, new product development, and M&A. Some of his current project areas include data warehousing for universities, academic growth and innovation for professional schools, and adult learner marketing. Apoorva has supported the development of several EAB businesses including most recently Academic Performance Solutions, which helps university leaders use data and analytics to manage academic costs and improve program performance. Apoorva holds a BA from Rice University. Prior to joining EAB, Apoorva was a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where his research focused on political economy and demographics. At AEI, Apoorva co-founded the institute’s India Studies program, the Banter podcast, and the American Enterprise Debates series. Amanda Tindall Director of Donor Relations, Youth Leadership Foundation About Amanda Tindall In 2016, Amanda Tindall joined the Youth Leadership Foundation, a mentoring program for deserving DC youth, as Director of the PALS Program for Girls. She was inspired by its spirit of joy, excellence, and service in education. In her current role as YLF’s Director of Donor Relations, she is passionate about developing relationships with YLF partners to better serve the youth of Washington. A graduate of Hillsdale College with a B.A. in English, she has worked with students at the elementary, middle, and high-school levels. In addition, she has worked as a staff writer and journalist for newspapers such as the Toledo Free Press and the Washington Post Express. Ana Yrausquin Certified Life Coach and Resident Counselor About Ana Yrausquin Ana Yrausquin is a certified life coach, mentor, and resident psychotherapist. Ana holds a B.A. in Psychology from the Catholic University of America and a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Wake Forest University. Ana is passionate about mental health and is particularly interested in depression and anxiety. She has experience in leading group therapy sessions, individual therapy, and life coaching. Ana’s writing has been published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Journal of Public Child Welfare, and Child Trends. She is an occasional contributor to How She Does It: The Professional Woman’s Guide to an Inspired, Intentional, Integrated Life. She is a frequent speaker on topics relating to time management and work-life balance. She lives in Virginia with her husband and three little boys. Julie Larkin Founder & Executive Director, Girl Talk About Julie Larkin Julie is the founder and executive director of Girl Talk, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to building a sisterhood of self-worth for women in middle school, high school, and college. She is a proud New Jersey native and graduate of The Catholic University of America, receiving her undergraduate degree in psychology and her Master of Science in Business. Motivated by her passion for creative entrepreneurship, she has spent the past few years working in startups, higher-ed, and non-profit management. Most recently, she has served as the Director of Operations for the Leonine Forum, a young professional fellowship dedicated to cultivating virtuous living in the nation’s emerging leaders. Julie speaks to a variety of audiences on self-worth, confidence, and entrepreneurship, including the Busch School of Business, the Catholic Information Center (CIC), and the Yuma Center. She has been featured on EWTN News Nightly with Lauren Ashburn, and regularly speaks to middle school, high school, and college audiences with an emphasis on personal storytelling. Julie hopes to inspire every person to recognize and radiate his or her inherent dignity! Kumar Kibble Senior Vice President of Homeland Security at ANDE About Kumar About Kumar Kibble Kumar is the senior vice president for Homeland Security and Defense at ANDE Corporation. He leads and coordinates ANDE’s strategic planning, business development and sales operations for the homeland security, defense and health and human services sectors. Prior to joining ANDE, Kumar served for more than 24 years with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including as the deputy director and chief operating officer for its largest investigative agency. He received the Presidential Rank Award for his leadership of a global workforce consisting of 20,000 employees assigned to 400 offices in 47 countries. During his government career, he served in locations throughout the United States and Europe, leading operations to counter transnational terrorism and crime. Kumar earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and a Master of Science degree in Management from Johns Hopkins University. Director, Maximus Federal Services About Patrick Kane Patrick Kane is a Director at MAXIMUS Federal Services in Falls Church, Virginia. A graduate of the University of Dallas, Patrick has 14 years of experience in program and project management, strategy, program analysis, strategic communications, management consulting, information technology, and client delivery. His clients include all branches of the military and a multitude of federal agencies; corporations such as Amazon, GlaxoSmithKline, and Dynamics Research Corporation; and nonprofits such as the Asian American Initiative and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). He lives in Falls Church with his wife and six children. Regina Bethencourt Founder & CEO of Tenunto Consulting About Regina About Regina Bethencourt Regina Bethencourt is the founder and CEO of Tenunto (www.tenutoconsulting.com), a branding firm that specializes in visual identity, web development and content writing for small to medium-sized businesses. She has a decade of experience in branding, marketing and communications and formerly served as the Director of Marketing & Communications for Yuma Center, a women’s leadership organization. Regina started her career in political journalism, working for the Washington Examiner, before moving to the business side of communications. She still keeps her journalism roots alive as an occasional contributor to Verily Magazine (link to articles) and she volunteers for Girl Talk, a non-profit for high school and college women. Regina lives in Arlington, VA with her husband and two children ages 3 and 1. Rob DeSimone Consultant, Gallup Inc. About Rob DeSimone Rob is an expert in innovation and change management for public sector institutions, globally and nationally. He has worked for government clients, higher education institutions, university hospitals, think tanks, international humanitarian organizations, community-based not-for-profits and Fortune 500 companies. Currently he is a consultant with Gallup who conducts surveys, one-on-one interviews and analysis of organizational performance. His areas of expertise include: cultural transformation, talent optimization, organizational effectiveness, manager training and customer centricity. Prior to Gallup, Rob was part of change management and growth initiatives for the American Red Cross, a Latin American university hospital and a global think tank. He holds a Master’s in Organizational Culture and Governance from the University of Navarre in Pamplona, Spain, as well as a B.A. in Finance and International Business from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Stas Cynkar Project Manager, Resource Environmental Solutions About Stas About Stas Cynkar Stas Cynkar is a project manager at Resource Environmental Solutions where he manages construction projects focused on ecological restoration. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he has managed teams that have restored streams and built wetlands throughout Virginia and Maryland. Stas graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Classics. He lives in Herndon, Virginia with his wife Mary and their three children. The DC Accelerator has been an incredible experience. I have learned a ton about myself and made great friendships. The mentoring has been top notch and the monthly instructors that are brought in are fantastic. - Kyle M. Ryan Senior Account Executive, Ogilvy DC Accelerator Copyright 2019, DC Accelerator \| 10906 Lake Windermere Drive, Great Falls, VA 22066 \| 571.292.6075 \| info@dcaccelerator.com	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line686
__label__wiki	0.926814	0.926814	Latest in Sling TV Sling And Pandora Vet Roger Lynch Named Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch, former CEO of Pandora and Dish Network's Sling TV, has been named CEO of Condé Nast in a move that signals the role technology will play in the future of traditional media companies. Jonathan Newhouse, newly appointed chairman of the company, said a "thorough search" had determined that Lynch is "the… Apr 4, 2019 6:43 am FuboTV Raises Price Of Basic Skinny Bundle By $10 A Month FuboTV, a smaller but growing player in the virtual MVPD (aka skinny bundle) space, has set price increases that make its base subscription package $54.99 a month, $10 more than before. The company cited “the addition of popular channels over the past year,” including AMC, Cartoon Network, CNN, TBS and TNT, noting it… Nearly 3M Pay-TV Subscribers Cut Service In 2018, Double 2017 Total – Study The pace of cord-cutting accelerated in 2018, with the largest pay-TV providers shedding about 2.9 million video subscribers, nearly double the 1.5 million subscriber losses in 2017, according to the latest study by Leichtman Research Group. The research firm, which tracks providers covering about 95% of the market… Sling TV Offers 40% Price Cut As Skinny-Bundle Market Gets More Crowded With competition growing in the internet-delivered pay-TV market, one of its pioneers is offering a sizable price cut for new subscribers during their first three months. The company has rolled out a 40% discount on monthly plans, making the cost $15 a month for basic plans, or $25 a month for higher-tier plans with… Sling TV Says ‘Fixer Upper’ And ‘The Incredibles’ Were 2018’s Most Popular Show And Movie Rental Sling TV has revealed the most popular shows, movies and live events of 2018 among the 2.4 million subscribers to its skinny-bundle TV service. Fixer Upper, the wildly popular Chip and Joanna Gaines series that has just wrapped up its run on HGTV, topped the series list. It edged The Big Bang Theory, Family Guy, House… Dish Network Q3 Resuts Top Estimates, But Subscriber Losses Worsen As HBO And Univision Remain Dark Dish Network posted third-quarter results that exceeded Wall Street estimates but also revealed some disconcerting subscriber trends, especially in light of ongoing blackouts with Univision and HBO. Diluted earnings came in at 82 cents per share, well ahead of analysts’ consensus for 67 cents a share and 45% over the… DirecTV Now’s $5 Monthly Rate Hike Is A Sign Of The Skinny Times AT&T said today it will raise the monthly rate for its internet-delivered DirecTV Now service to $40, from $35. The move follows last Thursday’s announcement by Dish’s Sling TV that it was boosting the rate for its basic service by 25%, to $25. And in March, YouTube said it was raising its rate to $40 a month, on the… Skinny Bundles To Be 25% Of All Pay-TV Subscriptions By 2022 – Analyst A new report from UBS predicts a “steeper ramp” than previously forecast for so-called “skinny bundle” services like Sling TV and DirecTV Now in the coming years. By 2022, the financial institution’s media analysts predict, they will represent 25% of all pay-TV subscriptions. “As these offerings continue to… Hulu Pay-TV Bundle Hits 800K Subscribers Hulu has nearly doubled the number of subscribers to its “skinny bundle” pay-TV service over the past six months, reaching 800,000 paying customers, according to CEO Randy Freer. The Hulu chief provided the estimate during an interview with CNBC. The company, which is controlled by 21st Century Fox, Disney and… Dish’s Charlie Ergen Made $2.4M As CEO In 2017 Before Stepping Down Charlie Ergen, the outspoken head of Dish who relinquished his CEO title in December to focus on the company’s wireless efforts, made $2.4 million in total compensation in 2017, according to an SEC filing. The company’s annual proxy statement filed with the SEC said he made $2,446,443 in total. While that tally is… Dish Network Q3 Results Underwhelm Amid Storm-Tossed Subscriber Losses Dish Network shed 129,000 net subscribers in the hurricane-heavy third quarter, leading to a revenue and profit downturn that undershot Wall Street estimates. Total revenue of $3.58 billion for the quarter that ended Sept. 30 was off a tick compared with $3.77 billion in the comparable period in 2016. Net income… YouTube TV Rolls Out Living-Room App In Cord-Cutter Charm Offensive YouTube TV, the “skinny bundle” pay-TV service that launched in the spring via web browsers, Google Chromecast and a mobile app, officially is entering the living room. A new app optimized for smart TVs and connected devices launches this week with availability only on Android TV sets, but by the end of the year…	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line688
__label__wiki	0.934115	0.934115	UGA’s three-man QB battle whittled down to two? By John TaylorApr 5, 2015, 7:07 PM EDT And then there were two — more than likely. Entering spring practice, Georgia’s quarterback competition to replace Hutson Mason was a three-player race: Brice Ramsey (pictured), Faton Bauta and Jacob Park. According to Marc Weiszer of the Athens Banner-Herald, however, the latter appears to be on the outside of the battle looking in as Ramsey and Bauta have rotated between the first- and second-team offenses while Park hasn’t taken a snap with the starters in two weeks. As Mason’s primary backup in 2014, Ramsey has been viewed as the front-runner to start the season opener against Louisiana-Monroe Sept. 5. Back in late February, however, head coach Mark Richt said the competition “as wide-open as it’s ever been since I’ve been at Georgia probably.” While Park may be a footnote at the moment, Wesizer writes that “Bauta is making a push for the gig.” Radi Nabulsi of UGASports.com noted on Twitter that, in two scrimmages thus far this spring, Ramsey has completed 33-of-60 passes for 451 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions. Bauta, meanwhile, has hit on 34-of-58 passes for 497 yards, four scoring tosses and a pair of picks. Park has completed just six of his 15 passes in that same time frame. “He threw the ball well [Saturday],” Richt said of Bauta. “I think he’s got a real good understanding of what we’re trying to do.” Richt and new offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer are not expected to pull the trigger on a starter until some point during summer camp. Tags: Hutson Mason, UGA	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line692
__label__cc	0.565247	0.434753	Dr. James Andrews Time to calm down with Braxton Miller to Alabama rumors, for now By Kevin McGuireApr 23, 2015, 4:34 PM EDT Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller is the subject of much intrigue. The two-time Silver Football winner in the Big Ten strangely seems to be the odd man out in Columbus according to a number of college football minds, which almost seems unfathomable for a player many would have thrown in the Heisman Trophy race last season if not for a preseason shoulder surgery. Eligible for a transfer as a graduated senior, Miller could easily answer a quarterback question for any team in need, including Alabama. Recent trips to Alabama have some thinking the plan for a Miller-to-Alabama transfer is in the works, but let’s take a step back and realize what’s more likely to be happening here. Former Alabama linebacker Trey DePriest is friends with Miller and says the quarterback’s trips to Alabama have been spent visiting Dr. James Andrews, who performed shoulder surgery on Miller last summer. Since the operation, Miller has visited Andrews for follow-up appointments and some rehab. This is nothing out of the ordinary, and DePriest says that is all there is to it. “He wasn’t coming down here to visit me,” DePriest said in a report from Al.com. “He just had shoulder surgery, and that’s where he does his rehab, in Birmingham, so he was like 35 minutes away.” “To be honest with you, we don’t even talk about it,” DePriest said. “When we talk, we talk more as friends because I know everyone is in his ear about all that, so I just try to leave it alone. But I really don’t know because it’s hard to get a feel from him, and I really don’t try to get a feel from him to be honest with you.” If Miller does transfer, he will be eligible to play this fall. Of course, he has said before he intends to stay at Ohio State and he could still battle to regain the starting job from either J.T. Barrett or Cardale Jones if his shoulder is in good form. Tags: Braxton Miller, Cardale Jones, Dr. James Andrews, J.T. Barrett, OSU, Trey DePriest Time to calm down with Braxton Miller to Alabama rumors, for now April 23, 2015 4:34 pm	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line693
__label__wiki	0.743743	0.743743	Category: Rhodes Must Fall Posted on April 11, 2018 May 7, 2018 Common Ground Symposium 2018: Core Events Teaser! Common Ground are proud to announce the Core Events for our highly anticipated 2018 symposium, which will be held in Oxford from 4th-11th May. The symposium will comprise a week-long programme of events spearheaded by four Core Events, outlined below. The Core Events follow a rough chronological theme: our opening night, ‘Entrenched Roots’, will reflect on the past; the two panel events will tackle issues of first race, then class, in Oxford’s present; and our closing night, ‘Uprooted’, will celebrate our diversity and look to the future – to what a more equal Oxford could look like, and how we can get there. A statement of purpose for the symposium is to follow, as well as further details of the Core Events and many others being organised by the Common Ground Team! We look forward to seeing you all there! Watch the video of our panel discussion here: ★ DESCRIPTION ★ Our panel discussion ‘Making Rhodes History: Taking the Decolonisation Project Forward’ used the statue of Cecil Rhodes as an inroad into wider debates about colonial symbols, iconography, and material culture in Oxford. We wanted to interrogate the role that challenging and reworking spaces plays in the decolonisation project. The statue of Cecil Rhodes that stands above Oriel college both symbolises Oxford’s imperial past and continues to overshadow its unequal present. The statute exists within the wider context of a city that is saturated with iconography which commemorates Oxford’s colonial history. From the portrait of the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, Alfred Milner, hanging at Balliol, to the library named after slave-owner Christopher Codrington at All Souls college, to the namesake of our art school, fervent imperialist John Ruskin, Oxford’s material culture stands as a testament to its colonial legacy. This iconography overshadows a university with a largely colonised curriculum, and a disproportionately low number of BME students and staff. Oxford student protesters have been inspired by the Rhodes Must Fall Movement in South Africa, which succeeded in removing iconography of the white supremacist from a campus in which racism continues to affect admissions and academic life. RMF joins a long tradition of student protest against colonial iconography (shout out to the students at Hamburg who pulled down a statue of the notorious German colonialist Hermann von Wissmann in 1961). RMF also joins an international surge towards the creation of anti-racist spaces. In the United States, the New Orleans city council recently responded to a racist attack by taking down statues which celebrated confederate symbols; Harvard University has recently launched an entire academic programme dealing with North American colonialism; Vanderbilt University has actively chosen to pay off donors rather than keep the word ‘Confederate’ on one of their buildings. Ever-progressive, we at Oxford have started to hang portraits of women on the walls of our dining halls… Common Ground want to investigate the way that such symbols and objects affect Oxford. We aim to explore the role that changing Oxford’s spaces has in taking the decolonisation project forward. This panel will discuss the differences between a material culture that perpetuates imperialism, and one that interrogates it. How do institutions process their own legacies; how we can decolonise our environments; and last but not least, WHEN will our spaces become decolonised? ★ SPEAKERS ★ MAX HARRIS (CHAIR) Max Harris is a former Rhodes Scholar, and a current examination fellow at All Souls. Max has done extensive work in the fields of human rights justice, indigenous legal issues, and the future of progressive politics. He was also involved in the Rhodes Must Fall Movement. DALIA GEBRIAL Dalia Gebrial is an activist and writer. As well as having worked as a core organiser for Rhodes Must Fall, she is currently co-ordinating People & Planet’s ‘Undoing Borders’ campaign, which supports students taking action in solidarity with migrants. She is working on a special issue of Historical Materialism on ‘Identity Politics,’ and an edited volume on decolonising higher education alongside Professor Gurminder Bhambra and Dr Kerem Nisciangolu. NDJODI NDEUNYEMA A Namibian by birth, Ndjodi is pursuing an MPhil in Law at Linacre College, with his research looking at the justiciability of socio-economic rights in Namibia. Ndjodi was involved in the drafting of the Third Amendment to the Namibian Constitution in 2014. Ndjodi is also a former Rhodes Scholar; he was part of the Redress Rhodes Campaign, as well as the Rhodes Must Fall movement. At present, he serves as an Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal and is the Vice-President of the Oxford University Africa Society. NADIYA FIEGEUROA Nadiya Fiegeuroa is the Dean of Scholarships and Director of Leadership & Change at the Rhodes Trust. She heads the Character, Service and Leadership Program for Rhodes Scholars, and steers other aspects of the Scholar experience – from selection policy and procedures to outreach to underrepresented populations, and support of Scholar led initiatives. Nadiya has worked extensively in human and institutional development with a focus on education, partnerships and governance. She was part of the small team to found the first public policy think-tank in the English-speaking Caribbean (CaPRI, Caribbean Policy Research Institute) and was Deputy Director of Jamaica’s leading good governance anti-corruption organization, National Integrity Action, now a chapter of Transparency International. Nadiya has held policy advisory, programmatic and facilitator roles with the Government of Jamaica, University of the West Indies and regional Civil Society organizations. DR DAN HICKS Dan Hicks is Associate Professor in the School of Archaeology, Curator of Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College. He has a vast range of knowledge having published work on themes as diverse as the ‘architecture of displacement’ (exploring the lived experience of temporary accommodation for refugees in the Middle East and Europe) and ‘sugar landscapes’ in the Eastern Caribbean, as well as both the Cambridge Companion to Historical Archeology and the Oxford Handbook of Material Cultural Studies. He is also the General Editor of Bloomsbury Series ‘A Cultural History of Objects’. MICHELLE CODRINGTON-ROGERS Michelle Codrington-Rogers is a teacher in Oxford who has been involved with the Rhodes Must Fall movement. Descended from one of the many people enslaved by Christopher Codrington, Michelle brings a personal perspective on what it means to decolonise a space. LAURA VAN BROEKHOVEN Laura Van Broekhoven is Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum and Professorial Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford. Laura has research interests in Postcolonial Praxis, the negotiation of Curatorial authority, restitution, and Repatriation.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line697
__label__wiki	0.818567	0.818567	Tag Archives: Wheels Handicapping the 2010 Emmys: FOX’s Glee [This is part of a series of posts analyzing individual show’s chances at the Emmy Awards ahead of the nominations, which will be announced on July 8th. You can find all of my posts regarding the 2010 Emmy Awards here.] While critics have been somewhat divided on Glee’s quality, they have been fairly consistent in terms of its importance to the current television landscape: with its unique business models and its nearly earth-shattering levels of hype, the fact of the matter is that Glee is a phenomenon, so in some ways it represents the ultimate test of how “success” measures with the Emmy Awards. The show has a lot of things going for its beyond the metric ton of promotion surrounding the series’ first season: it has a breakout supporting performer in Jane Lynch, Broadway imports like leads Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele to lend its musical elements some credibility, and some meaningful messages about difference and humanity sharing space with its elaborate production numbers. While I’d argue that Lynch’s Sue Sylvester was inconsistently used, and that Morrison and Michele were overshadowed from a character perspective by Chris Colfer and Mike O’Malley, and that its messaging was highly contradictory at various points, I think Glee is going to get an “A for Effort” by Emmy voters. Sure, the show isn’t perfect, but it’s doing so many interesting and potentially brilliant things that voters seeing only the episodes that work (the Pilot, “Wheels,” etc.) are probably going to look past smaller issues and focus on the parts of the series which brought it so much hype and success. While part of the show’s appeal is its ensemble cast, FOX’s Emmy campaign has been pretty focused: Morrison and Michele have been labeled as leads and will contend in the category on the strength of their musical performances, while Lynch is the breakout “Comic” side of things and so is a shoo-in for a nomination and a likely favourite to win in the Supporting Actress category. For the most part, though, the more emotional storylines (like Kurt and his father, or Artie and his disability) are being lumped in with the series as a whole, a compliment to the musical performances which set the series apart. And to be fair, while I think Chris Colfer and Mike O’Malley gave the series’ best performances, they weren’t particularly comic, although the same could be said for more or less everyone but Lynch and Heather Morris (whose Brittany was the series’ comic highlight in the back nine). The series’ best chances for wins, to be honest, probably come in the Guest categories: Neil Patrick Harris, shut out for his work on How I Met Your Mother, gets a number of strong performances and a meaningful (but still funny) storyline in “Dream On,” while Kristin Chenoweth (who won for a quasi-musical role on Pushing Daisies last year) has a similar turn in “The Rhodes Not Taken” which is going to garner her a nomination. These roles manage to capture, within a single character, all of the things that make Glee work, which is not always true for the other characters (Michele’s Rachel, for example, only got to become a dramatic character when her birth mother was revealed, while Morrison’s dramatic material with his ex-wife was a series low point). I’ve often argued that Glee would work better without serial continuity, and these guest roles best capture that sort of fleeting, but powerful, emotional connection the series is going for. The Glee being sold to voters is the Ryan Murphy-led Glee of “Wheels,” which is perhaps the smartest choice: while I prefer Brad Falchuk-led Glee (“Sectionals” and “Journey,” for example), FOX is trying to connect with voters’ emotions immediately, and the show’s finales are sort of dependent on you having some sort of attachment to the characters in question. The fact of the matter is that Glee is the kind of show which will create those emotional reactions for better or for worse, and I think it will play to its favour with voters: while it might be messy and inconsistent, that isn’t going to matter with Emmy voters who pop the screener into their DVD players and see something completely different than everything else on TV and anything that’s been on TV in the last decade. And that’s going to go a long way for the show on Thursday morning. Contender in: Outstanding Comedy Series Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Matthew Morrison) Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Lea Michele) Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (Jane Lynch) Guest Actor in a Comedy Series (Neil Patrick Harris) Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (Kristin Chenoweth) Writing for a Comedy Series Directing for a Comedy Series Dark Horse in: Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Chris Colfer) Guest Actor in a Comedy Series (Mike O’Malley) Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (Idina Menzel) Should, but Won’t, Contend In: Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (Kevin McHale) Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (Dianna Agron, Heather Morris) Filed under Emmy Awards, Glee Tagged as 2010, Analysis, Chris Colfer, Dianna Agron, Directing, Emmys, FOX, Heather Morris, Idina Menzel, Jane Lynch, Kevin McHale, Kristin Chenoweth, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Mike O'Malley, Neil Patrick Harris, Nominations, Predictions, Ryan Murphy, Television, TV, Wheels, Writing Handicapping the 2010 Emmys: Official Ballot Miscellany Official Ballot Miscellany Earlier this evening, Emmy voting officially began; this isn’t particularly important to us non-voters, but it does mean that the official ballots were released (PDFs: Performers, Writing, Directing), which means that we know who submitted their names for Emmy contention and can thus make our predictions accordingly. In some cases, this simply confirms our earlier submissions regarding particularly categories, while in other cases it throws our expectations for a loop as frontrunners or contenders don’t end up submitting at all. For example, Cherry Jones (who last year won for her work on 24) chose not to submit her name for contention this year, a decision which seems somewhat bizarre and is currently being speculatively explained by her unhappiness with her character’s direction in the show’s final season. It completely changes the anatomy of that race, removing a potential frontrunner and clearing the way for some new contenders (or, perhaps, another actress from Grey’s Anatomy). Either way, it’s a real shakeup, so it makes this period particularly interesting. I will speak a bit about some surprising omissions and inclusions in the categories I’ve already covered this week, but I want to focus on the categories that I haven’t discussed yet, including the guest acting categories, writing, and direction, which are some interesting races this year. Filed under Emmy Awards Tagged as 2010, 24, 30 Rock, Alan Cumming, Allison Janney, Amy Poehler, Andre Braugher, Ballot, Betty White, Breaking Bad, Carlton Cuse, Cherry Jones, Christine Baranski, Comedy, Community, Conan O'Brien, Cougar Town, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Damages, Damon Lindelof, Dexter, Directing, Drama, Elaine Stritch, Elizabeth Banks, Elizabeth Mitchell, Emmys, Friday Night Lights, Glee, Guest Actor, Guest Actress, Henry Ian Cusick, How I Met Your Mother, Jack Bender, Jared Harris, Jason Alexander, Jason Winer, John Lithgow, Jon Hamm, Julianne Moore, Justin Lin, Kristin Chenoweth, Lily Tomlin, Lost, Mad Men, Martha Plimpton, Matt Damon, Megan Mullally, Men of a Certain Age, Michael Sheen, Modern Family, Modern Warfare, Neil Patrick Harris, Nominees, Nurse Jackie, Pamela Fryman, Rian Johnson, Ryan Murphy, Saturday Night Live, Shelley Long, Sons of Anarchy, Submissions, Television, The End, The Good Wife, The Office, The Pacific, Tina Fey, Titus Welliver, Treme, TV, United States of Tara, Viola Davis, Wheels, Writing, Zach Gilford Glee – “Laryngitis” When Ryan Murphy said that the back nine episodes of Glee were going to use “Wheels” as a template, I didn’t know that the show was literally going to take plot elements of “Wheels” and just sort of spin them off into different variations on the same story. “Laryngitis” is the latest in a series of episodes which feels repetitive of what we’ve seen before, as we get a focus on the relationship between Kurt and his father, focus on the tensions created by Rachel’s substantial ego, and even the introduction of disability as a way of putting other concerns into perspective (with Tina’s stutter being replaced by Rachel’s tonsillitis). The episode embodies many of the thing that I’ve found problematic in recent episodes, so it may seem strange when I say that it was ultimately quite successful. Yes, the show doesn’t entirely work as an out-and-out after school special as Ryan Murphy seems to want it to be, and I still think the show’s all-or-nothing attitude is reckless in ways that only the show’s best characters can really handle, but the stories the show rushed into this week featured characters who I like to spend time with, and reached conclusions which felt honest to those characters in ways that previous episodes did not. The reason is that the show doesn’t try to haphazardly connect them to broad ongoing storylines: for once the show sort of settled into a groove, capturing a sustained moment within the lives of the Glee Club rather than periods of intense conflict. Those elements were still present, but they didn’t feel like they were being used as a shortcut to something more substantial, which helps me accept this episode as a singular statement of musical enjoyment when it may not have worked as part of a larger arc. Tagged as Amber Riley, Brandy, Brittany, Chris Colfer, Emmy, Episode 18, Finn, FOX, Haircut, Jessie's Girl, John Mellancamp, Kurt, Lady is a Tramp, Laryngitis, Mark Salling, Mercedes, Mike O'Malley, Miley Cyrus, Monica, One, Pink Houses, Puck, Quadriplegic, Rachel Berry, Rose's Turn, Ryan Murphy, Santana, Season 1, Television, The Boy is Mine, The Climb, Tonsillitis, TV, U2, Wheels Excellence on Selective Terms: Rewarding Series Television at the Peabody Awards Excellence on Selective Terms The criteria for earning a Peabody Award, a prestigious honour in the area of electronic media, is listed as follows on the awards’ website: The Award is determined by one criterion – “Excellence.” Because submissions are accepted from a wide variety of sources and styles, deliberations seek “Excellence On Its Own Terms.” Each entry is evaluated on the achievement of standards it establishes within its own contexts. Entries are self-selected by those making submissions and as a result the quality of competing works is extraordinarily high. The Peabody Awards are then presented only to “the best of the best.” There’s a whole other post to be made about whether such a blatantly subjective criterion earns the awards the sense of objectivity that they hold, but for the sake of this post I think we can presume that the Peabody Awards have a pretty good track record. They have feted dramas like Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Lost, and The Sopranos, while acknowledging comedies like 30 Rock, The Office and South Park; they are not limited to only mainstream fare, with cult hits like Battlestar Galactica getting recognition, nor are they beholden to narrative-driven series television, as reality shows like Project Runway and satire like The Colbert Report have been singled out. This year, the Peabody Awards added four television series to their ranks, and on the surface there’s some nice diversity: Glee and Modern Family are mainstream hits that made a substantial impact on the television industry this year, while In Treatment and No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency are shows with smaller followings but with some substantial value in terms of performances (in the case of In Treatment) and (in the case of No. 1 Ladies’) a unique relationship with an emerging film industry in Botswana. However, rather than simply listing the shows awarded and letting us figure out our own reasonings, the Peabody folks have written short and succinct reasons why the shows in question are being awarded. And it is in these brief distillations of their worthiness that the flaws of this process become apparent, as the qualities they point to for Glee and Modern Family demonstrate a selective gaze into multi-faceted, and still developing, series which fails to capture their true appeal in order to focus on their most hyped, and in some cases divisive, qualities. In the process, we start to understand the challenge of rewarding entire series alongside standalone news reports, and we start to wonder why they would so willingly call attention to those challenges with these short and imprecise justifications. Filed under Award Shows Tagged as ABC, Artie, Awards, Disability, FOX, Glee, In Treatment, Modern Family, No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Peabody, Peabody Awards, Television, TV, Wheels Glee – “Wheels” There’s a moment in “Wheels” where we fear the worst of Sue Sylvester, testing our ability to see past what we expect her character to do (something offensive and mean-spirited) to what she could potentially do (something transformative). And, in some ways, “Wheels” is very much the same sort of proposition. Ever since I learned ahead of time that “Wheels” was written by Ryan Murphy (as the writers appear to be cycling the scripts between the three of them), I have been fearful of when his worst habits (like his penchant for Terri and the more outlandish storylines) would emerge. So, I spent most of the episode waiting for the episode to take some sort of turn, to go from being charming and funny and resonant to become outlandish and overbearing. I kept thinking that any scene which felt the least bit emotional would suddenly become undercut by something mean or cruel, and that this was all some sort of Sue Sylvester-like trick. However, it appears that Murphy has been inspired by his fellow writers, because “Wheels” works in ways that Murphy’s previous episodes simply have not. The episode isn’t perfect, trying to do a few too many things at once, but each and every one of those elements manage to connect at som level. It is an episode that more than any other thus far feels as if it works because of, rather than in spite of, the show’s recurring storylines. This isn’t to say that everything’s rosy, but it is to say that “Wheels” was certainly a watermark for Murphy’s work on the series, and easily the most starkly dramatic hour yet. Tagged as Artie, Bake Sale, Dancing with Myself, Defying Gravity, Diva Off, Down Syndrome, Entertainment, Episode 9, Finn, FOX, Kurt, Paris Barclay, Pregnancy, Proud Mary, Puck, Rachel, Ryan Murphy, Season 1, Stephen Tobolowsky, Stutter, Sue Sylvester, Television, Tina, TV, Wheelchairs, Wheels, Wicked, Will Schuester Detroit, I am going to be in your radios discussing this in about 40 minutes. twitter.com/wdet/status/11… 1 hour ago ┳┻\| ┻┳\| ┳┻\| ┻┳\| ┳┻\| ┻┳\| ┳┻\| ┻┳\| ┳┻\| ┻┳\| ┳┻\| ┻┳\| ┳┻\| _ ┻┳\| •.•) They should have recast ┳┻\|⊂ﾉ James Earl Jones g’night ┻┳\| 9 hours ago Between finally seeing the end of #Rocketman and #TheLionKing, banner day for “Elton John End Credit Songs Produced… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 11 hours ago	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line700
__label__wiki	0.9039	0.9039	Florida Votes To Restore Voting Rights To 1.5 Million Convicted Felons (Photo by Brian Blanco/Getty Images Hanna Bogorowski Reporter November 06, 2018 9:27 PM ET Florida voters elected to pass an amendment Tuesday restoring voting rights for convicted felons. Amendment 4 passed with 64.1 percent of the vote. With the passing of this measure, Florida removed itself from a small list of states that permanently barred convicted felons from voting. Florida voters restored voting rights to nearly 1.5 million convicted felons as a result of Amendment 4 passing Tuesday’s referendum. Voters in the historically key swing state decided Tuesday that 1.5 million convicted felons who served their sentences should be allowed to vote again, removing itself from the list of four states in the U.S. that permanently bans convicted felons from voting even after they are released from prison. The remaining states that permanently disenfranchise convicted felons are Iowa, Kentucky and Virginia, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Amendment 4, which now has significant implications for future elections, passed with 64.1 percent of the vote, above the 60 percent the Florida Constitution requires to pass, according to The New York Times tracker. “This amendment restores the voting rights of Floridians with felony convictions after they complete all terms of their sentence including parole or probation,” the amendment reads, which was titled on the ballot the “Voting Restoration Amendment.” Amendment 4 does not apply to felons convicted of murder or sex crimes. Those felons are still permanently barred from voting “unless the Governor and Cabinet vote to restore their voting rights on a case by case basis.” Amendment 4 was added to the ballot in January after political committee Floridians for a Fair Democracy announced that its campaign, Second Chances Florida, surpassed the 766,220 signatures needed to get an amendment on the ballot. (RELATED: Swing State Florida Could Add More Than 1 Million Felons To Voting Rolls) The proposal has since garnered national attention due to support from prominent figures including singers John Legend and Rihanna and the Koch brothers-backed group Freedom Partners. “We believe that when individuals have served their sentences and paid their debts as ordered by a judge, they should be eligible to vote,” Freedom Partners Chairman Mark Holden said in a statement on Sept. 13. “If we want people returning to society to be productive, law abiding citizens, we need to treat them like full-fledged citizens,” Holden added. As the law stands now, convicted felons have to wait five years after completing their sentences before reapplying for the right to vote. The felons must then get their petitions personally approved by the governor after meeting before a panel of Florida Cabinet-level elected officials, which The Tampa Bay Times reported rarely ever meets. The majority of the 1.5 million voters this affects is disproportionately black and Democratic-leaning, according to another report by The Tampa Bay Times from Nov. 2. (RELATED: This Ballot Initiative Could Change The Landscape Of American Politics) The numbers are still flowing in for Florida’s gubernatorial race, but Democratic candidate and former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum supports this measure. Tallahassee mayor and Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, with his one-year-old son Davis, walks out after casting his ballot on Nov. 6, 2018 in Tallahassee, Florida. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images) “We ought to level those barriers that keep you from being able to make a way for yourself and for your family, having the dignity around a vote,” Gillum said at a campaign rally in April, according to a WCTV report. Republican candidate for governor and former GOP Rep. Ron DeSantis does not. “An appallingly high percentage of people who get out of prison as convicted felons re-offend,” DeSantis said, according to the report, suggesting that felons need to prove they’ve changed their lifestyles after being released from prison before they can vote again. President Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Florida by 112,911 votes in the 2016 presidential election, which is less than one-tenth of the number of felons who are rejoining voting rolls, signifying how impactful this measure is. Follow Hanna on Twitter Email tips to hanna@dailycallernewsfoundation.org Tags : andrew gillum elections 2018 florida Hanna Bogorowski Swedish Judge Rules On The Fate Of Imprisoned American Music Star. The Outcome Should Enrage Freedom-Loving Patriots	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line701
__label__wiki	0.995931	0.995931	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Online Full Movie Two drag-queens and a transsexual contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman they've contracted with is the wife of one of the drag queens. Their bus breaks down, and is repaired by Bob, who travels on with them.. 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__label__wiki	0.759231	0.759231	OCI NV merges with US’s CF Holding to form world’s largest fertilisers firm - Daily News Egypt Wednesday July 3, 2019 clear sky 27° Business OCI NV merges with US’s CF Holding to form world’s largest fertilisers firm OCI NV merges with US’s CF Holding to form world’s largest fertilisers firm Deal valued at $8bn, OCI would own approximately 27.7% of the new company Doaa Farid August 8, 2015 Be the first to comment Netherlands-based Orascom Construction Industries (OCI NV) has announced tying up it’s US and European assets with leading US-based fertilisers company CF Industries Holdings, in a transaction valued at $8bn, OCI announced on Thursday. The acquisition, which includes distribution networks of OCI, would create the world’s largest nitrogen fertiliser companies with 12 million nitrogen-equivalent nutrient tonnes of production capacity by mid-year 2016, according to the company. Upon completion of the transaction, OCI would own approximately 27.7% of the new company and CF shareholders would own the remaining amount, approximately 72.3%, OCI said, adding that it will distribute a large proportion of the shares received in the merged company to its shareholders. Both companies are expected to achieve nearly $500m in after-tax annual run-rate synergies from optimisation of operations, capital and corporate structure. According to OCI, the new company will operate under the name of CF Industries and led by CF management, with an initial board of 10 directors. The company will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CF and will be included in the S&P 500 Index. The transaction is expected to close in 2016, OCI pointed out. Following the completion of the deal, OCI will remain headquartered in the Netherlands and listed on the Euronext Amsterdam. OCI’s business will consist of a leading portfolio of industrial chemicals and nitrogen fertilisers, and the company will have operational production facilities in Egypt, Algeria and the Netherlands with total sellable capacity of approximately 4.8 mtpa, increasing to 6.5 mtpa in 2017. “Combining our businesses with CF builds upon the company’s platform in Europe and expansive distribution network in North America, enhancing our collective scale and improving our ability to meet the needs of customers in the US and around the world,” said Nassef Sawiris, CEO of OCI NV. Tony Will, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), CF Industries Holdings said the deal is a “great” outcome for US farmers “as we have another supply point that will ensure our critical products are delivered reliably and in-time to meet our customers’ needs”. Following the announcement on 6 August, Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) announced that it has given an instruction to suspend trading in OCI NV, however, it was resumed on the same day after receiving a press release from the company. On 20 July, OCI said that it is holding discussions for possible combinations or transactions, adding that no agreement has been reached yet. The company said that “there can be no assurance that these discussions will result in a definitive agreement”. Significantly lower production in Egypt mainly contributed to the lower total volume produced by OCI. The lower domestic production saw OCI witness a 23.7% drop compared to the same period last year. The company explained in May that ammonia and urea volumes were negatively affected by significantly lower production at our Egyptian operations Egyptian Fertilizers Company (EFC) and Egypt Basic Industries Corporation (EBIC), compared to the first quarter of 2014. In June, Orascom Construction SAE and Siemens announced that they plan to build two combined cycle power plants in Egypt, each with a 4,800 MW power capacity. The first power plant will be located in Kafr El-Sheikh governorate, while the other will be built in the new capital city. The construction company stated that the contract value of each power plant is €2bn, while its share in the combined contracts amount to €1.6bn. 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__label__wiki	0.59502	0.59502	The Bombe Breakthrough is the official guidebook to accompany the Bletchley Park exhibition dedicated to Enigma codebreaking in Hut 11A. The Bombe Breakthrough was based on additional research by Dr David Kenyon, the Bletchley Park historian, and revises and expands on Demystifying the Bombe (2014). It is available from the Bletchley Park bookstore. Read More “The Bombe Breakthrough” X, Y & Z describes how French, British and Polish secret services came together to unravel the Enigma machine. It tells of how, under the very noses of the Germans, Enigma code-breaking continued in Vichy France. And how code-breakers from Poland continued their work for Her Majesty’s Secret Service, watching the USSR’s first steps of the Cold War. Selected by Nature as one of the best books of 2018. Read More “X Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken” The Story of Computing explores the history of the technology from the first attempts to use mjachines to solve mathematical problems to the IT which now pervades everyday life. Featuring eccentric and flamboyant personalities, brilliant discoveries, and fascinating insights into how computing has changed our world, this is the essential guide to a subject that none of us can ignore. Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. He is widely regarded as a war hero grossly mistreated by his unappreciative country and it has become hard to disentangle the real man from the story. It is easy to cast him as a misfit, the stereotypical professor. But actually Alan Turing was never a professor, and his nickname ‘Prof’ was given by his codebreaking friends at Bletchley Park. Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. His codebreaking work at Bletchley Park was so significant it helped to shorten the Second World War, and with Tommy Flowers he built the first computer. A man ahead of his time, many of his theories and calculations are still relevant today. On 4th September, 1939 Alan Turing reported for duty at the Government Code & Cypher School at Bletchley Park. in 1939 the immediate challenge was to find a way to read messages enciphered on the Enigma machine. Together with another mathematician, Gordon Welchman, Alan Turing designed a new type of machine, the Bombe, which would give the codebreakers a breach in the security wall constructed by the Enigma. This book explains the basics of the Bombe’s design and how it helped with the cracking of Enigma messages.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line705
__label__cc	0.615429	0.384571	Tag Archives: Maggie Smith The GQ of Downton Abbey Posted by D.A Lascelles in Film, Musings, TV Clash of the Titans, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Father Octavian, Game of Thrones, Geek Quotient, Hugh Bonneville, Iain Glen, Jessica Brown Findlay, Maggie Smith, Misfits, Penelope Wilton, Red Dwarf, Robert Bathurst, Ser Jorah Mormont, Shaun of the Dead This is something I think may well become a regular feature of this blog, mainly because it seems to be something I do naturally whenever I watch something on TV. The basics are simple – take a non geek TV show or film and analyse the proportion of the cast who happen to have been involved in something else with geek credentials. I have decided to name this concept the Geek Quotient. In fact, in the tradition of Mathematicians the world over, I would propose that it be dubbed the Lascelles Geek Quotient because my ego needs feeding. You can shorten it to LGQ if you like, or even GQ but with that option you risk both being confused with a popular fashion magazine and being glowered at by my ego. The equation is rather simple: Divide the number of actors in the cast who have been in geeky related shows by the total number of cast members. So, why have I chosen Downton Abbey for the debut of this exciting new concept in geek mathematics? Well, I am of the opinion that this show will likely score high based on a rather cursory glance at the cast list. For those who don’t know, Downton Abbey is an ITV period drama set in Yorkshire in a period (currently) between the sinking of the Titanic and the advent of the 1920s. It follows the inhabitants of the eponynmous stately home, both the noble family that owns it and their many servants, as they live through such horrific historical events as the first world war and the appearance of the telephone. As is normal for such period dramas, the cast is replete with quality British actors of the type who also often get roles in sci fi and fantasy both in the UK and Hollywood. Some are even rather better known for their geek roles than their involvement in this show… Maggie Smith as Thetis in Clash of the Titans Now, my calculation of Downton’s GQ is 0.633 based on examining the 49 cast members listed on ImdB and determining that 31 of them have a link to some geek TV show or film. This is assuming that ‘Geek TV show or film’ is defined as something with overt supernatural or science fiction elements. Pirates of the Carribean counts, for example, whereas Hornblower (which many of the cast do have roles in too) does not. This is not a surprising result given that the cast includes Maggie Smith (with credits as far back as the original Clash of Titans films and, of course, her recent geek cred from the Harry Potter films), Iain Glen (who is notable as Ser Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones as well as Father Octavian in Doctor Who) and Penelope Wilton (excellent as Prime Minister Harriet Jones in Doctor Who, not to mention Shaun’s mum in Shaun of the Dead) but also has The beard makes him completely unrecognisable… a number of people who have done one off guest appearances on various shows. For example, Jessica Brown Findlay, who plays the youngest daughter, was in one episode of Misfits and Hugh Bonneville, who plays Earl Grantham, was almost unrecognisable behind a massive beard as a pirate in a recent episode of Doctor Who. Out of all of these, many of which I spotted without recourse to the internet, one truly took me by surprise. For much of the series, I looked at the actor who played Sir Anthony Strallen (Robert Bathurst) and tried to work out where I had seen him before. Turns out he actually played the role of Todhunter in Red Dwarf as well as Prince Henry in the original series of Blackadder… Todhunter Sir Anthony Strallen So, there you have it. Do you think I have the calculation of this correct? Do you know of any other films or TV shows which might beat this score? Feel free to comment below…	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line707
__label__wiki	0.939557	0.939557	Food & BeverageMarketing Johnnie Walker releases Jane Walker to attract women Johnnie Walker is the latest company to a release female version of its product. In an attempt to draw more women to the world’s bestselling scotch, as well as acknowledge a broader push toward gender equality, Johnnie Walker has released Jane Walker. The company revamped the Johnnie Walker logo for the first time in over a century to show a woman strapped in typical Johnnie Walker-style boots, mid-stride, and with the classic tip of the hat. Brand owner Diageo is hoping the move widens the appeal of the product while celebrating women. “Scotch as a category is seen as particularly intimidating by women,” said Stephanie Jacoby, VP of Johnnie Walker. “It’s a really exciting opportunity to invite women into the brand.” It’s worth noting that not all attempts have been successful by companies attempting to make women-specific products, like the recent Lady Doritos controversy. Also, the brand isn’t the first to break gender barriers. Earlier this year country music star Reba McEntire became the first woman to ever play KFC founder and mascot Colonel Sanders. Whiskey is no longer just a man’s drink The Jane Walker launch is the latest part of the brand’s “Keep Walking America” push, which began in 2016. The campaign is an attempt to speak to a broader audience, with ads spotlighting Latinos and veterans. And this is just another way for the brand to show its dedication and commitment towards the championing of female empowerment causes and widening its appeal among women. The Jane Walker Edition will be available in the US now, coinciding with Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. As part of the campaign, Johnnie Walker will donate US$1 for every bottle to organizations supporting women’s causes; a total donation of up to US$250,000. Stephanie Jacoby told TIME that Scotch is often perceived as an intimidating category by women. By changing the logo, Johnnie Walker hopes to make women feel more welcomed by the brand. Scotch whisky volumes grew 2.1 per cent between 2002 and 2017 in the U.S., according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the US. And Johnnie Walker has outpaced many competitors, growing 18 per cent last year—boosted by a revival of cocktail culture. Source: http://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/02/26/johnnie-walker-temporarily-rebrands-jane-walker-broaden-appeal-among-women Tags alcoholDiageoJohnnie Walkerwhiskeywomen Instagram trial lets users see who takes screenshots of their stories Handcrafted fairytale dresses designed by Sylvie Facon Ad agency leases women’s armpits as advertising space BK pulls lifetime Whopper ad to women impregnated by a World Cup player Starbucks Reserve bar is now selling alcohol in Japan	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line710
__label__cc	0.606701	0.393299	"Talkin' day care blues": motherhood, work, and child care in twentieth-century British Columbia. Pasolli, Lisa Today, advocates argue that a universal child care system is necessary for mothers to be able to take part equally in the wage-earning that is the hallmark of citizenship. Why has such a system never been a serious political possibility in twentieth-century British Columbia? In seeking to answer this question, this study looks to important moments in the province’s history of child care politics and, in doing so, untangles the historical understandings of work, motherhood, and social citizenship that have precluded the existence of universal child care in British Columbia’s welfare state. Throughout the twentieth century, British Columbia’s child care politics hinged on debates about whether mothers should work, what kinds of mothers should work, what kinds of work they should do, and what the state’s role was in regulating their relationship to their family and the labour force. As these debates played out across the century, several themes were relatively consistent. The belief that women’s social rights derived from their mothering work was one, and this notion achieved political expression in the passage of mothers’ pensions legislation in 1920. At several moments during the twentieth century, and gaining prominence especially in the 1970s, advocates and activists argued that all women should have the right to work, and that a universal child care system was their right as wage-earning citizens. In terms of policy-making and program provision, however, the story of child care politics in British Columbia is largely one of failure for working mothers. In their relationship to the state, working mothers had two main options, both of which left them limited access to a version of social citizenship constrained by gender and class. On the one hand, gender and class norms translated into welfare policies that encouraged stay-at-home motherhood and precluded the possibility of publicly-provided child care. On the other hand, when a mother was in the labour force, her paid work was assumed to signal some kind of family failure, with “failure” measured against the ideal of a male-breadwinner, female-homemaker family. In those cases, public child care (and to some extent mothers’ pensions) was considered an appropriate welfare service for “needy families” because mothers’ wage work fulfilled important welfare goals: the preservation of the work ethic, guarding against chronic dependency, and meeting the demand for female labourers in marginal occupations. Yet even though mothers’ work was an obligation of their welfare benefits, they were still considered second-class workers and their wage-earning was not a positive source of social rights. Gendered and classed understandings of paid work, in other words, was the source of an uneasy relationship between working mothers and the state. Neither dominant welfare paradigm included room for a child care system that recognized mothers’ rights as paid workers. The result was an unrealized version of social citizenship for working mothers and for all women in twentieth-century British Columbia. Name: Pasolli_Lisa_PhD_ ... Theses (History)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line715
__label__wiki	0.789843	0.789843	Christ Church Cathedral Disestablishment 150 Jerusalem Link Come & C D & G 800 Camino de Glendalough GDPR Privacy Notices Book of Reports Synods 2018 D&G Diocesan Directory 2019 DGYC Social Action Committee Council for Mission Church Music Dublin Church Review Prayer & Worship Liturgy & Music Seirbhísí as Gaeilge Marriage Regulations Pastoral Resources for Clergy Certificate in Theology United Dioceses of Dublin & Glendalough All General Events Vacancies News Archive Church Review Gallery Heart of St Laurence O’Toole – Dedication of New Home Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. 14 November 2018. The heart of St Laurence O’Toole goes on permanent public display in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, from November 14, 2018. This occasion will be marked by free entry to the cathedral from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm, welcoming the people of Dublin to view the heart of the city’s patron saint. A special ecumenical service of dedication and thanksgiving marking this historic occasion will be held that evening at 5:45 pm. The Archbishop of Dublin, The Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson, will first bless and dedicate the redesigned grounds incorporating the new stone labyrinth. Following this the Archbishop will preside at a service of Festal Choral Evensong, sung by the Cathedral Choirs, during which he will bless and dedicate the new resting place of the heart of St Laurence O’Toole. This service will be open to the public and all are most welcome to attend. St Laurence’s heart will be housed in a specially designed art piece, crafted by the renowned Cork–based artist Eoin Turner. Commenting on this upcoming special day of celebration, the Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, The Very Revd Dermot Dunne, stated, ‘I am delighted that we have two such tremendous reasons for celebration at this time. We are deeply grateful for the grant funding from Dublin City Council and Fáilte Ireland that has enabled the redesign and landscaping of our grounds. Further it is my great privilege and joy at this time to be able to return the heart of St Laurence to the people of Dublin.’ Theft and Return The heart relic was stolen from the cathedral in March 2012 from the iron–barred cage on the wall of the Chapel of St Laud, which had been its resting place for many years. Following a long–running investigation, the heart was recovered, undamaged, by An Garda Síochána. After a six year absence, it was officially handed over by Assistant Commissioner Pat Leahy to the Archbishop of Dublin at a service of Choral Evensong on April 26 this year. About St Laurence O’Toole Laurence O’Toole is the Patron Saint of Dublin and is closely associated with the early years of Christ Church Cathedral. His feast day falls on November 14. He was born at Castledermot, County Kildare, in 1132, the youngest of four sons of Maurice O’Toole, a Leinster chieftain, who was engaged in rivalry with the powerful Mac Murchada family. When he was 10 years old, Laurence was handed over to Diarmait Mac Murchada as a hostage for his father’s loyalty. When his father was suspected of treachery, Laurence was imprisoned and became very ill. He was eventually rescued and cared for by the Bishop of Glendalough and decided to join the church. He was ordained a priest and became abbot of the monastery at Glendalough at the age of 25. In 1161 he became Archbishop of Dublin and was consecrated the following year at Christ Church Cathedral. The Anglo–Norman invasion of Ireland, led by Strongbow, in 1169 resulted in two sieges and a famine in Dublin. Laurence played an important part in the negotiations when an Anglo–Norman victory became inevitable. Laurence has traditionally been given credit for the rebuilding of Christ Church in the 1180s, although it is now considered more likely that his successor, Archbishop John Cumin, was responsible. In 1180, Laurence left Ireland for the last time to travel to Normandy. However, he became ill on arrival and was brought to the Abbey of St Victor at Eu where he died on 14 November 1180. He was made a saint in 1226. Following Laurence’s canonisation some relics of his were returned to Dublin where they lay in the cathedral’s relic collection until the Reformation. The heart had been on display in the Chapel of St Laud in the cathedral until it was stolen in 2012. Home About us Ministries Parishes News Prayer & Worship Resources Contact us	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line716
__label__cc	0.647491	0.352509	Royal Bank of Canada partnership We are pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with Royal Bank of Canada! The partnership follows Royal Bank of Canada's Blue Water Project, a 10-year global charitable commitment to help provide access to drinkable, swimmable, fishable water, and will expand our FreshWater Watch programme to three European capital cities, Luxembourg, Paris and Dublin. The aim is to connect local communities to support research into conserving and restoring urban lakes, rivers and streams across Europe. Urban freshwater bodies are an essential feature in cities around the world, supporting an extraordinary diversity of life and delivering vital services. However, with rapid urbanisation and climate change threatening ecosystem health these waterbodies are at risk. Through FreshWater Watch, leading local researchers, together with Earthwatch scientists, will train employees from RBC as well as volunteers from the communities, as ‘citizen scientists’, equipping them with the research skills to help collect scientific data on water quality and the status of these important environments. The data gathered will create a detailed picture of urban water bodies, filling knowledge gaps and supporting new approaches to enable better management of water resources. Caroline Kluyver, Fresh Water and Oceans Programme Manager at Earthwatch Europe, said: “Earthwatch is delighted to be working with RBC on this initiative. Freshwater is critical to life on earth, yet this natural resource is in crisis. By engaging local communities as well as RBC employees in hands-on scientific research, we can develop a better understanding of the threats to freshwater in Europe and the most effective measures for protection.” As major European capitals, each of the three cities is affected by rapid urbanisation and population growth. Luxembourg has experienced a large population increase over the past 20 years, leading to an increase in built-up areas and pollution, negatively impacting biodiversity and water quality. Paris is one of the densest cities in the world with a population of 2.2 million people living within just over 100km2. As such, the River Seine and many of Paris’ lakes and ponds have been heavily impacted by urban activities and the loss of green buffer areas. Dublin’s river conditions are being compromised due to changing land use. These changes have had major impacts on the use of these rivers for recreation and drinking water supply. Efforts have been made in each of the cities to reverse the negative trend, however, knowledge gaps remain regarding the effectiveness of these actions and the long-term management of these vital ecosystems. “RBC is delighted to be partnering with Earthwatch to help improve and sustain water quality and ecosystems in key capital cities in Europe. We are proud to support Earthwatch’s global research and educational initiatives in Dublin, Luxembourg and Paris which reinforces RBC’s ongoing commitment to the environment,” said Anouschka Elliott, Global Head of Marketing & Brand, RBC Investor & Treasury Services. Local research will be led by prominent scientists from the University of Luxembourg, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, and Dublin City University. More details on how the public can take part in FreshWater Watch will be forthcoming. In the meantime, visit the FreshWater Watch webpage for more information. More in this category: « HRH Prince of Wales looks into the future of climate change with Earthwatch IBPES Global Assessment »	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line719
__label__wiki	0.666183	0.666183	Invoicing & Payment Mediation Facilities Don Fraser QC, Barrister At Law, Mediator Mr Fraser QC commenced work as a law clerk in 1977 with Williams and Williams. He then worked as associate to the Right Honourable Sir Harry Gibbs in 1978. He commenced practice in Brisbane in 1979 in civil litigation. He has a general practice as a silk and has appeared in a number of leading High Court cases including Gallagher v Rainbow (1994) 179 CLR 624; Bridgewater v Leahy (1998) 194 CLR 457, Husher v Husher (1999) 197 CLR 138, Willett v Futcher (2005) 221 CLR 627, and State of Queensland v Stephenson (2006) 226 CLR 197. Mr Fraser QC is an accredited mediator, a member of STEP and an ethics counsellor for the Queensland Bar Association. His CV is able to be viewed here. View Availability for mediations © Don Fraser QC \| Website by Caboodle Web Design	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line720
__label__wiki	0.663818	0.663818	Tag: divorce and infidelity Beware the love tweet Social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter and MXit are becoming the easiest way to prove marriages have irretrievably broken down in contested divorces. NIVASHNI NAIR \| 10 October, 2011 00:44 – Times Live A wealthy Durban doctor created a fake Facebook profile as a “hot young thing” to gather evidence against her husband in their divorce battle. A Johannesburg businessman installed cameras in the study where his wife logged on to social networking sites so he could capture her “wild affairs”. Cape Town divorce lawyer Bertus Preller said it would be wise for unhappy couples to watch what they post because it could come back to haunt them. “Posting status updates and uploading photos of otherwise fun-filled events on social networks have led to an overabundance of evidence in divorce cases,” he said. “According to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 81% of its members have used or faced evidence plucked from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other social networking sites, including YouTube and LinkedIn, over the past five years. In South Africa, the situation is the same.” Preller said almost one-third of his caseload involved contested divorces in which evidence from Facebook, MXit and Twitter was used to prove that the marriages were over. “Although adultery is grounds for divorce, one must show that there has been an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage. But in contested divorces, one party will want to show otherwise, therefore evidence needs to be brought in to show that the marriage is over,” he said. “These days, the first thing that clients do is go to Facebook or Twitter to get evidence. Often people do not log off their profiles or delete their inbox messages, making it easier for their spouses to gather evidence. “So if you forgot to de-friend your wife on Facebook while posting vacation shots of your mistress, her divorce attorney may just be thrilled about you doing that.” He said betrayed spouses went to great lengths to source evidence. “Some have downloaded technology surveillance software to obtain information that will otherwise not be obtainable.” A Durban doctor and mother of two, who spoke on condition of anonymity, wanted to catch her husband “in the act” to show the court that their marriage was “definitely over”. “I created a profile and became his friend. We exchanged inbox messages three times and, on all three occasions, as he tried to convince me to go out to supper with him, he repeatedly said he was not married. “He even said he didn’t believe in marriage and was not ready to settle down,” she said. Although her divorce has not yet been finalised, the woman is confident that her “investigative skills will nail him”. “I don’t think any judge would want me to stay with a man who said he doesn’t believe in marriage and is not ready to settle down. “It hurt me at first because we have been married for 18 years, and have teenage sons, but I got over it when I saw the look on his face when I produced evidence.” Adultery and the emergence of the Alpha Woman… New research reveals that it’s not just powerful men who become sexual predators, but women too… Sipping her glass of chilled Chablis, Erica Waddington’s eyes wandered slowly around the bar. It didn’t take her long to find what she was looking for. In the opposite corner, blond hair falling foppishly onto the collar of his Paul Smith shirt as he idly scrolled through his BlackBerry, was a stranger. And he was alone, like her. As Erica’s eyes locked with his just an instant too long, she felt a surge of excitement. Crossing her legs suggestively, she knew all she had to do was wait. Sure enough, two minutes later, the stranger was standing casually at the bar beside her. For Erica, the thrill of the chase had begun. ‘Two hours later we were making passionate love in my hotel bedroom,’ Erica, 50, recalls with a smile. ‘After a long day at work, the release was exactly what I needed — my little treat to myself.’ Whether her husband and three children would agree with her is doubtful. But then, Erica’s not alone. In fact, she’s just one among a growing band of women who’ve been dubbed the Alpha Adulteresses. These high-earning, successful women are every bit as willing as men to use their power to attract younger lovers for quick flings. Newspapers are crammed with sex scandals involving powerful men. This past week alone, Dominique Strauss-Kahn — of late the world’s most powerful banker — has been accused of rape, megastar Arnold Schwarzenegger has admitted having a love-child with his housekeeper and the scandal surrounding MP Chris Huhne’s past indiscretions continues to rumble on. However, a new academic study suggests women are inherently no more virtuous than men. It’s just that, in the past, they have lacked the confidence or opportunity to stray. Like men, women are finding that power is a potent aphrodisiac. And just like men, they are giving in to the thrill of illicit lunchtime assignations and the sheer excitement that accompanies their transgression. Nor do they feel any more guilty or ashamed about it than a man would — if anything, less so. Professor Joris Lammers, of Tilburg University in the Netherlands, who conducted an anonymous survey of more than 1,500 readers of a business magazine, has found being powerful makes women more prone to be unfaithful. He questioned people, from top executives to ordinary employees, about whether they’d had affairs. They were asked how powerful they thought they were and quizzed on other factors including their feelings of confidence, and what they thought their risk of being caught was. The results revealed a strong link between power and infidelity, regardless of gender. ‘The strongest predictors are not religion or moral belief, but power and opportunity,’ says Professor Lammers. ‘Power can undermine your morality and increase your risk-taking, and the effect of power on women is just as strong as on men.’ Certainly, women like Erica are happy to admit they feel no shame in going all out to get what they want — not just in the boardroom but in the bedroom. For Erica — for obvious reasons names in this article have been changed — treating herself to a night of illicit sex is on a moral par with her regular shopping trips to Paris, her facials and her gym membership. For her, and many other alpha females, sex is simply another trapping of success, a reward for hard work. A millionaire businesswoman who runs her own chain of travel agencies, she lives in Cheshire with her husband, Thomas, 52, who works for her, and their three children aged from 11 to 17. She says, ‘I love walking into a boardroom, wearing a beautiful tailored suit, knowing that every man’s eyes are on me. The success of my business — we had a turnover of £2million last year — gives me such a feeling of power and confidence, and that has translated into my attitude towards relationships. ‘I don’t feel guilty: my family have a lovely life, in a five-bedroom detached house with a swimming pool, thanks to my hard work, and my children are privately educated. ‘I suspect there are a lot more alpha women like me who but who simply aren’t prepared to admit they are using their power and money to have affairs. ‘I have had the best sex of my life in the past decade. None of these affairs, or flings, have meant anything to me, they are simply exciting and flattering. ‘My “shenanigans”, as I call them, are my way of de-stressing after my long working day. Inevitably they take place in hotels when I am away from home, and I have discovered that I can completely divorce my emotions from my sex life. I can be on the phone to my daughter talking about her homework one minute, and then gazing into the eyes of a handsome young man in a dimly-lit bar half an hour later. ‘I know men approach me because I am rich and successful, and I often end up paying the bar bill and for the meal. But that doesn’t bother me. In fact, it gives me a sense of achievement that I am totally in control of the situation.’ Lucy Kellaway, a columnist on the Financial Times, wrote her novel In Office Hours after observing the increasingly similar traits of male and female executives. Her main character, Stella, is a highly successful economist in her mid-40s who has an affair with her twentysomething trainee. Kellaway says her character is typical of a new breed. ‘Climbing the career ladder can do weird things to people and it can corrupt both men and women,’ she says. ‘I think it’s very plausible that it makes women more sexually promiscuous.’ This is borne out by the volume of traffic on Illicit Encounters. The internet site which caters for married professionals looking for adulterous affairs has nearly 600,000 members, and women looking for extra-marital sex outnumber men by 3½ to 1. Most are married with children, aged between their early 30s and mid-40s, and pursuing a well-paid career. ‘Alpha women look for a partner and conduct their encounters in a very business-like fashion. They will often grill prospective partners as though they were conducting a job interview,’ says the website’s Rosie Freeman-Jones. ‘I was naïve when I joined this business. I thought women would be looking for a Brief Encounter-style romantic love affair. But it really is all about sex.’ Wealthy businesswoman Sarah Pattinson holds her hands up to that. She’s embroiled in an affair with a man eight years her junior. He give her the high-octane, high-risk sex she craves; she gives him expensive gifts and treats him to lovely holidays. ‘We met through friends and I fancied him instantly,’ admits Sarah, 49. ‘I think he was very impressed by my status and success. ‘He likes all my “toys” — the Range Rover Sport and my disposable income. I love to buy him clothes, and I recently paid for him to fly to India with a friend. In a way, he is my kept man. I have a phone that I use only to communicate with him which I keep hidden from my husband. ‘At work, I am the boss. I make tough decisions, I hire and fire, and I have to maintain this air of control. I get a buzz from the power and the adrenaline, and that has translated into my sex life.’ Sarah, a mother of two teenagers, runs her own head-hunting business in London and lives in Islington with her husband Robert, 52. Like most Alpha Males, she regards her affair as a healthy distraction. And, like most Alpha Males, her success has given her an intoxicating sense of invincibility; she simply can’t imagine being caught out. ‘Before I ran this company, I don’t think I would have contemplated being unfaithful. But you do start to think no one can touch you and you are invincible,’ she admits. ‘On the surface, Robert and I have the perfect marriage — he works in the City in insurance, we have a beautiful five-bedroom home in Islington, our children are at a high-achieving private day school and our social life revolves around like-minded wealthy couples. ‘But sex is unfulfilling. If we didn’t have the children, I might have considered leaving Robert for my lover, but our lives are just too complicated to un-pick. Besides, we do get on reasonably well and we have a fabulous lifestyle, including a villa with a swimming pool in Portugal. ‘We have a live-in nanny who also acts as our housekeeper so my domestic duties are quite light. I work thirteen or fourteen hour days, and I have evening meetings too. This gives me the freedom to meet my lover, who also works in the City. ‘Sometimes I take risks. Once my lover Nick rang me at home and Robert could have picked up. I’ll make excuses to walk down the garden and phone Nick at the weekends, and often I ring his phone just to hear his voice. ‘The sex is incredible, and I think the “edge” of ours being an illicit affair makes it even more enticing. ‘Nick makes me feel beautiful and alive, and he keeps me young. I need to feel vibrant to stay on top of the game, especially during this recession, and that adulterous sex gives me that kick, that energy, to keep me motivated at work. Sex with Nick is my reward for my success and exhausting hard work. I would die, though, if Robert or the children ever found out.’ So why do women, who have worked so hard to achieve professional success, risk losing everything for the sake of adulterous sex, however electric? According to Rosie Freeman-Jones, risk is a key element. ‘Both men and women at the top are addicted to risk. It is part of the DNA of successful people that they are more prone to take risks and more prone to cheat,’ she says. But you have only to look at golfer Tiger Woods to see how quickly an affair can destroy not just a marriage but a career and reputation. Even if he is found not guilty of rape, will former International Monetary fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn ever be able to rebuild his reputation? Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger has shelved plans for a career comeback in order to deal with the fallout from his affair. And Lucy Kellaway warns that Alpha Adultresses are risking even more than their male counterparts. ‘There is a double standard,’ she says. ‘A man having an affair might be seen as a bit of a lad, whereas a woman like Stella in my book is likely to be seen as pathetic, or a bitch and a slapper. ‘Because there are so few women executives, the ones that do succeed are put on a pedestal — and they have a lot farther to fall. The message of my book is that affairs end badly for everyone.’ And, while the figures demonstrate very clearly that increasing numbers of successful women are being tempted to stray, can women really divorce sex from commitment in the same way as a man? Article Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1389812/Adultery-Alpha-Woman-Its-just-powerful-men-sexual-predators.html#ixzz1NMzBRiE9 Compiled by: www.divorceattorney.co.za How not to tell your spouse you want a divorce The cruellest way you can tell your spouse you want out of the marriage is to never mention that you are unhappy and then, one day quite out of the blue say, “I’m not happy. I want a divorce.” I call this a “hit and run” way to tell your spouse you want out of the marriage and, in my professional opinion, it is the most hurtful, hateful and heinous way to exit your nuptials. Those on the receiving end of this proclamation would surely agree with me. A hundred per cent of the people who come to see me after their spouse has dropped this two ton bomb on them have been nothing short of devastated, bleary eyed and incapacitated–often for a long time. What, when and how you tell your spouse you want a divorce will depend greatly on whether the two of you have had any previous conversations about divorce. Couples who have been mutually unhappy or have had conversations using the “D” word will obviously be less thrown off than those who didn’t see it coming. One woman described the day she was told this way: “My biggest concern that morning as we went to work was what we would be having for dinner that night.” She had no idea that her husband was even unhappy, let alone that he was thinking of leaving. It makes me wonder why so many people take this strategy. What could they be thinking? Or not thinking? Feeling? Or not feeling? While there are always exceptions to any rule, I have seen five main reasons why “hit and runs” are so prevalent. I’ve also included rebuttals to these reasons that demonstrate how the leaver actually ends up getting the opposite result intended. 1) Fear: If I tell him I’m unhappy, he will go to pieces and I’ll feel guilty Where’s the logic here? Do you not see that if you LEAVE suddenly he will be more likely to go to pieces and you will feel more guilty? 2) Selfishness: I don’t care about her feelings. “I just want out!” Treating someone with this level of disrespect and disregard actually keeps you in longer and stronger because the person you are leaving is in shock and often can’t/won’t accept the fact that you really mean what you are saying and that you want out. 3) Impatience: I just want to get this over with! Again, the chances of exiting quickly or gracefully diminish drastically when you give your spouse no warning of your departure. Your spouse, who may be just starting the grief process, will delay the process interminably by having to have their emotions “catch up” to yours. 4) Lack of Courage: I’m a “rip the band-aid off quickly” kind of person because I can’t stand to hurt someone If this person had courage, they would have told their spouse way back when that they were not happy. They would have had the courage to do the work it takes on themselves and on the marriage; the courage to face their problems. 5) Sneakiness: Maybe I can live a double life and he’ll never find out It is often people who have been having an affair who take this tack in leaving their marriage. They have set themselves up with a new life and they are ready to move on. I’m sure there are other justifications people can come up with as to why they leave this way, but it only serves to make the process take longer, make the separation more difficult, make your spouse more emotional and perhaps even irrational and it is not the way you treat someone you exchanged vows with. By Susan Pease Gadoua Author, Contemplating Divorce, A Step-by-Step Guide to Deciding Whether to Stay or Go Original article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-pease-gadoua/how-not-to-tell-your-spou_b_820042.html Compiled by Bertus Preller Divorce Attorney – Abrahams and Gross Inc. http://www.divorceattorney.co.za Is adultery in South African Law still a basis for a claim against the mistress? From a personal, moral, ethical and religious perspective adultery is a sin and an act contrary to the basis of trust between married spouses and so is the behaviour of that infamous third party that broke up the marriage seen as immoral. The purpose of this article is to revisit the law in respect of an aggrieved parties’ right to institute a claim for damages against the third party that was privy in the break-up of a marriage, i.e a claim against the mistress for monetary relief, to make good the hardship caused by the affair and the enticement of the spouse to leave the communal home in search of the greener pastures. The article is purely focussed on the law and not the public view or for that matter the religious viewpoint. Our law has recognised in the past a claim for damages that can be instituted by an aggrieved spouse against a mistress. But what does our law say on the subject and is the law evolving away from the public view and religious views. It is argued that the South African common law on which a Plaintiff’s claim is predicated for damages against a spouse who committed adultery in a marriage must be developed to promote the spirit, purport and objective of the Bill of Rights contained in Chapter 2 of the Constitution of South Africa, 1996 (“the Constitution”) and the interests of justice (under Section 39 (2) and section 173 of the Constitution). According to the view expressed above it is argued that the time has come to develop the common law so as to remove or curtail claims for damages by a married person, utilising the actio iniuriarum, against a person involved in an intimate relationship with the married person’s spouse. The actio iniuriarum is used to claim for the impairment of one’s personality. The purpose of this action is to compensate for the intentional injury to one’s mental integrity. The argument against such a claim is that it breaches the right to human dignity (of the adulterer and mistress) under Section 10 of the Constitution, in that: (a) The relationship and love between the adulterer and mistress is treated as morally reprehensible or without opprobrium; (b) The mistress is held wholly responsible for damage caused to an aggrieved spouse by the other spouse’s marital infidelity; and (c) The mistress is treated as an instrument, in that her human relationship with the adulterer is used as a means to express condemnation for the adulterer’s marital infidelity, and/or to generate sympathy for the aggrieved spouse. It is further argued that such a claim breach the adulterer and mistress’s rights to equality and freedom from discrimination under Section 9 of the Constitution on basis of marital status, conscience and belief in that: (a) No similar claim for damages is possible against a person who begins an intimate relationship with a man or a woman involved in a long-term homosexual or heterosexual relationship, customary law marriage or religious union; (b) The emotional consequences and loss for the aggrieved partner (i.e the person who learns of the infidelity of his or her partner with a third person) in all of the above relationships may be no more or less serious than a spouse in a marital relationship; (c) The law accordingly differentiates between a person who enters a relationship with a married person; and a person who enters a relationship with a person in other types of committed, long-term relationships; (d) The differentiation amounts to unfair discrimination on the basis of marital status and on the basis that it impairs, or has the potential to impair, the fundamental human dignity of an adulterer and a mistress. It can further be argued that an adulterer and mistress’ right to privacy under Section 14 of the Constitution is violated in that it causes a public inquiry into the details of their relationship, how it formed and its strength. Furthermore it seems that an adulterer and mistress’ rights to freedom of conscience, thought, belief and opinion under Section 15 of the Constitution, expression under Section 16 (1) of the Constitution and freedom of association under Section 18 of the Constitution also come into play for the following reasons: (a) Burdening people such as the mistress with damages will have a detrimental effect on her ability to honestly and openly express her emotions and love for another person; (b) The expression of emotions and love between the adulterer and mistress will be treated as morally reprehensible or tainted with moral opprobrium. Therefore it seems that the common law must be developed in the interests of justice taking in to account the recognition that both parties contribute to the breakdown of the marriage relationship, which is inherent in the ground for divorce introduced in Section 4 of the Divorce Act 70 of 1979, namely “the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage”. It is so that many foreign jurisdictions don’t tolerate such claims anymore and that there seems to be developments in South African case law to that effect. The historic view in our law that damages are awarded on the basis of the insult caused to the innocent party and of the loss of consortium seems to be outdated and time will tell on how our courts will develop the common law. Abrahams and Gross Inc Adultery in South Africa, can I claim against a third party in a divorce From a moral, ethical and religious perspective adultery is a sin and an act contrary to the basis of trust between married spouses and so is the behaviour of that infamous third party that broke up the marriage seen as immoral. The purpose of this article is to revisit the law in respect of an aggrieved parties’ right to institute a claim for damages against the third party that was privy in the break-up of a marriage, i.e a claim against the mistress for monetary relief, to make good the hardship caused by the affair and the enticement of the spouse to leave the communal home in search of the greener pastures. The article is purely focussed on the law and not the public view or for that matter the religious viewpoint. The relationship and love between the adulterer and mistress is treated as morally reprehensible or without opprobrium. The mistress is held wholly responsible for damage caused to an aggrieved spouse by the other spouse’s marital infidelity; and The mistress is treated as an instrument, in that her human relationship with the adulterer is used as a means to express condemnation for the adulterer’s marital infidelity, and/or to generate sympathy for the aggrieved spouse. No similar claim for damages is possible against a person who begins an intimate relationship with a man or a woman involved in a long-term homosexual or heterosexual relationship, customary law marriage or religious union; The emotional consequences and loss for the aggrieved partner (i.e the person who learns of the infidelity of his or her partner with a third person) in all of the above relationships may be no more or less serious than a spouse in a marital relationship; The law accordingly differentiates between a person who enters a relationship with a married person; and a person who enters a relationship with a person in other types of committed, long-term relationships; The differentiation amounts to unfair discrimination on the basis of marital status and on the basis that it impairs, or has the potential to impair, the fundamental human dignity of an adulterer and a mistress. Burdening people such as the mistress with damages will have a detrimental effect on her ability to honestly and openly express her emotions and love for another person; The expression of emotions and love between the adulterer and mistress will be treated as morally reprehensible or tainted with moral opprobrium. www.divorceattorney.co.za info@divorceattorney.co.za	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line725
__label__wiki	0.528706	0.528706	Hadwiger conjecture (graph theory) See also: Hadwiger conjecture (combinatorial geometry) Unsolved problem in mathematics: Does every graph with chromatic number k {\displaystyle k} have a k {\displaystyle k} -vertex complete graph as a minor? (more unsolved problems in mathematics) A graph that requires four colors in any coloring, and four connected subgraphs that, when contracted, form a complete graph, illustrating the case k = 4 of Hadwiger's conjecture In graph theory, the Hadwiger conjecture states that if G is loopless and has no K t {\displaystyle K_{t}} minor then its chromatic number χ ( G ) < t {\displaystyle \chi (G)<t} . It is known to be true for t = 1 to 6. It is also a generalization of the four-color theorem and is considered one of the most challenging open problems in the field.[1] In more detail, if all proper colorings of an undirected graph G use k or more colors, then one can find k disjoint connected subgraphs of G such that each subgraph is connected by an edge to each other subgraph. Contracting the edges within each of these subgraphs so that each subgraph collapses to a single vertex produces a complete graph Kk on k vertices as a minor of G. This conjecture, a far-reaching generalization of the four-color problem, was made by Hugo Hadwiger in 1943 and is still unsolved. Bollobás, Catlin & Erdős (1980) call it “one of the deepest unsolved problems in graph theory.”[2] 1 Equivalent forms 2 Special cases and partial results 3 Generalizations Equivalent forms[edit] An equivalent form of the Hadwiger conjecture (the contrapositive of the form stated above) is that, if there is no sequence of edge contractions (each merging the two endpoints of some edge into a single supervertex) that brings a graph G to the complete graph Kk, then G must have a vertex coloring with k − 1 colors. Note that, in a minimal k-coloring of any graph G, contracting each color class of the coloring to a single vertex will produce a complete graph Kk. However, this contraction process does not produce a minor of G because there is (by definition) no edge between any two vertices in the same color class, thus the contraction is not an edge contraction (which is required for minors). Hadwiger's conjecture states that there exists a different way of properly edge contracting sets of vertices to single vertices, producing a complete graph Kk, in such a way that all the contracted sets are connected. If Fk denotes the family of graphs having the property that all minors of graphs in Fk can be (k − 1)-colored, then it follows from the Robertson–Seymour theorem that Fk can be characterized by a finite set of forbidden minors. Hadwiger's conjecture is that this set consists of a single forbidden minor, Kk. The Hadwiger number h(G) of a graph G is the size k of the largest complete graph Kk that is a minor of G (or equivalently can be obtained by contracting edges of G). It is also known as the contraction clique number of G.[2] The Hadwiger conjecture can be stated in the simple algebraic form χ(G) ≤ h(G) where χ(G) denotes the chromatic number of G. Special cases and partial results[edit] The case where k = 2 is trivial: a graph requires more than one color if and only if it has an edge, and that edge is itself a K2 minor. The case k = 3 is also easy: the graphs requiring three colors are the non-bipartite graphs, and every non-bipartite graph has an odd cycle, which can be contracted to a 3-cycle, that is, a K3 minor. In the same paper in which he introduced the conjecture, Hadwiger proved its truth for k ≤ 4. The graphs with no K4 minor are the series-parallel graphs and their subgraphs. Each graph of this type has a vertex with at most two incident edges; one can 3-color any such graph by removing one such vertex, coloring the remaining graph recursively, and then adding back and coloring the removed vertex. Because the removed vertex has at most two edges, one of the three colors will always be available to color it when the vertex is added back. The truth of the conjecture for k = 5 implies the four color theorem: for, if the conjecture is true, every graph requiring five or more colors would have a K5 minor and would (by Wagner's theorem) be nonplanar. Klaus Wagner proved in 1937 that the case k = 5 is actually equivalent to the four color theorem and therefore we now know it to be true. As Wagner showed, every graph that has no K5 minor can be decomposed via clique-sums into pieces that are either planar or an 8-vertex Möbius ladder, and each of these pieces can be 4-colored independently of each other, so the 4-colorability of a K5-minor-free graph follows from the 4-colorability of each of the planar pieces. Robertson, Seymour & Thomas (1993) proved the conjecture for k = 6, also using the four color theorem; their paper with this proof won the 1994 Fulkerson Prize. It follows from their proof that linklessly embeddable graphs, a three-dimensional analogue of planar graphs, have chromatic number at most five.[3] Due to this result, the conjecture is known to be true for k ≤ 6, but it remains unsolved for all k > 6. For k = 7, some partial results are known: every 7-chromatic graph must contain either a K7 minor or both a K4,4 minor and a K3,5 minor.[4] Every graph G has a vertex with at most O(h(G) √log h(G)) incident edges,[5] from which it follows that a greedy coloring algorithm that removes this low-degree vertex, colors the remaining graph, and then adds back the removed vertex and colors it, will color the given graph with O(h(G) √log h(G)) colors. Van der Zypen (2012) has constructed a graph H with χ(H) = ω but no Kω minor, demonstrating that the conjecture does not hold for graphs with countably infinite coloring number. Generalizations[edit] György Hajós conjectured that Hadwiger's conjecture could be strengthened to subdivisions rather than minors: that is, that every graph with chromatic number k contains a subdivision of a complete graph Kk. Hajós' conjecture is true for k ≤ 4, but Catlin (1979) found counterexamples to this strengthened conjecture for k ≥ 7; the cases k = 5 and k = 6 remain open.[6] Erdős & Fajtlowicz (1981) observed that Hajós' conjecture fails badly for random graphs: for any ε > 0, in the limit as the number of vertices, n, goes to infinity, the probability approaches one that a random n-vertex graph has chromatic number ≥ (1/2 − ε)n / log2 n, and that its largest clique subdivision has at most cn1/2 vertices for some constant c. In this context it is worth noting that the probability also approaches one that a random n-vertex graph has Hadwiger number greater than or equal to its chromatic number, so the Hadwiger conjecture holds for random graphs with high probability; more precisely, the Hadwiger number is with high probability a constant times n/√log n.[2] Borowiecki (1993) asked whether Hadwiger's conjecture could be extended to list coloring. For k ≤ 4, every graph with list chromatic number k has a k-vertex clique minor. However, the maximum list chromatic number of planar graphs is 5, not 4, so the extension fails already for K5-minor-free graphs.[7] More generally, for every t ≥ 1, there exist graphs whose Hadwiger number is 3t + 1 and whose list chromatic number is 4t + 1.[8] Gerards and Seymour conjectured that every graph G with chromatic number k has a complete graph Kk as an odd minor. Such a structure can be represented as a family of k vertex-disjoint subtrees of G, each of which is two-colored, such that each pair of subtrees is connected by a monochromatic edge. Although graphs with no odd Kk minor are not necessarily sparse, a similar upper bound holds for them as it does for the standard Hadwiger conjecture: a graph with no odd Kk minor has chromatic number χ(G) = O(k √log k).[9] By imposing extra conditions on G, it may be possible to prove the existence of larger minors than Kk. One example is the snark theorem, that every cubic graph requiring four colors in any edge coloring has the Petersen graph as a minor, conjectured by W. T. Tutte and announced to be proved in 2001 by Robertson, Sanders, Seymour, and Thomas.[10] ^ Diestel, Reinhard, 1959- Verfasser. Graph theory. ISBN 9783662536216. OCLC 1048203362. CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) ^ a b c Bollobás, Catlin & Erdős (1980). ^ Nešetřil & Thomas (1985). ^ The existence of either a K7 or K3,5 minor was shown by Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, and Kawarabayashi & Toft (2005) proved the existence of either a K7 or K4,4 minor. ^ Kostochka (1984). The letter O in this expression invokes big O notation. ^ Yu & Zickfeld (2006). ^ Voigt (1993); Thomassen (1994). ^ Barát, Joret & Wood (2011). ^ Geelen et al. (2006); Kawarabayashi (Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, Volume 99, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 20-29). ^ Pegg, Ed, Jr. (2002), "Book Review: The Colossal Book of Mathematics" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 49 (9): 1084–1086, Bibcode:2002ITED...49.1084A, doi:10.1109/TED.2002.1003756 . Barát, János; Joret, Gwenaël; Wood, David R. (2011), "Disproof of the list Hadwiger conjecture", Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 18 (1): P232 . Bollobás, B.; Catlin, P. A.; Erdős, Paul (1980), "Hadwiger's conjecture is true for almost every graph" (PDF), European Journal of Combinatorics, 1: 195–199, doi:10.1016/s0195-6698(80)80001-1 . Borowiecki, Mieczyslaw (1993), "Research problem 172", Discrete Mathematics, 121: 235–236, doi:10.1016/0012-365X(93)90557-A . Catlin, P. A. (1979), "Hajós's graph-colouring conjecture: variations and counterexamples", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 26 (2): 268–274, doi:10.1016/0095-8956(79)90062-5 . Erdős, Paul; Fajtlowicz, Siemion (1981), "On the conjecture of Hajós", Combinatorica, 1 (2): 141–143, doi:10.1007/BF02579269 . Geelen, Jim; Gerards, Bert; Reed, Bruce; Seymour, Paul; Vetta, Adrian (2006), "On the odd-minor variant of Hadwiger's conjecture", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 99 (1): 20–29, doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2008.03.006 . Hadwiger, Hugo (1943), "Über eine Klassifikation der Streckenkomplexe", Vierteljschr. Naturforsch. Ges. Zürich, 88: 133–143 . Kawarabayashi, Ken-ichi, Minors in 7-chromatic graphs, Preprint . Kawarabayashi, Ken-ichi (2009), "Note on coloring graphs without odd Kk-minors", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 99 (4): 728, doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2008.12.001 . Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, in press. Kawarabayashi, Ken-ichi; Toft, Bjarne (2005), "Any 7-chromatic graph has K7 or K4,4 as a minor", Combinatorica, 25 (3): 327–353, doi:10.1007/s00493-005-0019-1 . Kostochka, A. V. (1984), "Lower bound of the Hadwiger number of graphs by their average degree", Combinatorica, 4 (4): 307–316, doi:10.1007/BF02579141 . Nešetřil, Jaroslav; Thomas, Robin (1985), "A note on spatial representation of graphs", Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae, 26 (4): 655–659 . Robertson, Neil; Seymour, Paul; Thomas, Robin (1993), "Hadwiger's conjecture for K6-free graphs" (PDF), Combinatorica, 13 (3): 279–361, doi:10.1007/BF01202354 . 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__label__cc	0.583308	0.416692	Remove this filter Type: Protective measures Norovirus infection (1) Alkhurma haemorrhagic fever (1) Hepatitis E (1) Protective measures (11) Toolkit material (2) Patient and case management (1) How is Zika virus transmitted? Infographic, Protective measures - 26 Aug 2016 Zika virus is transmitted to people through the bite of an infected Aedes mosquito. But there are other, although rare, modes of transmission. What can be done to prevent infection? List of key preventive measures Toolkit material, Protective measures - 19 Aug 2014 This toolkit aims to support infection prevention in schools, with a focus on gastrointestinal diseases, by assisting EU/EEA countries in their communication initiatives for disease prevention in school settings. Gastrointestinal disease Norovirus infection Poster with information for travellers Poster, Toolkit material, Protective measures - 1 Jan 2008 It is important to protect yourself from mosquito bites when staying in the affected areas in order to prevent becoming infected with the virus. How can travelers prevent mosquito bites? Personal protective measures against mosquito bites The best protection from mosquito-borne diseases is preventing mosquito bites. Prevention and control measures for Rift Valley fever Vaccination of ruminants is the favoured method of preventing human disease. The inactivated RVF vaccine provides a lower level of protection. Other measures include a ban on slaughtering ruminants and avoiding mosquito bites. Information for travellers to areas with chikungunya transmission Individuals living in or travelling to endemic regions should take the following protective measures against mosquito bites, especially during the day,when the mosquitos are active Personal protective measures (non-pharmaceutical) for reducing the risk of acquiring or transmitting human influenza In the absence of a specific vaccine, there are a number of personal measures that people may take to reduce their risk of acquiring influenza. Influenza is a viral infection that spreads from person to person principally when people cough or sneeze, or by direct or indirect contact with respiratory secretions from infectious persons that are on their hands or on surfaces. The following recommendations are based in part on evidence from studies and in part on judgement based on public health experience. Prevention and control measures for TBE There are effective and safe vaccines against the TBE virus. Immunisation is recommended for people who live in TBE risk areas or who frequently visit forests and grasslands in risk areas. Prevention and control measures for Alkhurma haemorrhagic fever Prevention and control of Alkhumra infection is achieved by avoiding or minimising the exposure to infected ticks, to the blood of animals during slaughtering activities and by avoiding consumption of non-pasteurized milk. Alkhurma haemorrhagic fever Treatment and vaccines for Ebola virus disease In the absence of a licensed vaccine to protect against Ebola virus disease (EVD) or a specific drug for treatment of infected patients in the large Ebola virus outbreak that started in December 2013 in Guinea, and subsequently spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone, potential new Ebola vaccines and therapies were reviewed by the World Health Organization (WHO). In the absence of a licensed vaccine to protect against Ebola virus disease (EVD) or a specific drug for treatment in the large Ebola virus outbreak 2013-2016 in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, potential new Ebola vaccines and therapies were reviewed by the World Health Organization (WHO).	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line734
__label__wiki	0.71961	0.71961	Home » Featured, Trials » Pamela Garnett and son, Mark Vernon acquitted of witness-tampering Forty-two year old Pamela Garnett and her son, Mark Vernon, were acquitted of charges of Attempting to Suppress Evidence and Using Violence against a Witness when they appeared in magistrates’ court today. In the case, the high profile duo was accused of threatening the life of Marie Alvarez, the aunt of nineteen year old Raheem Requena, who was murdered on December nineteenth, 2012. Alvarez, in a statement to police, identified Jermaine Garnett and Cassian Bennett, Pamela’s husband and son, as the gunmen who executed her nephew while riding his bicycle on Kut Avenue. According to Alvarez, the wife and stepson initially made an offer of five thousand dollars for her to recant the testimony. When she refused, Alvarez reportedly began receiving death threats and, in a message later conveyed, a hit worth twenty thousand dollars was said to have been placed on her. Pamela and her son were subsequently arrested and charged with the abovementioned offences and were denied bail. Following the arraignment Alvarez, during a meeting with Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl-Lynn Vidal, indicated her intention to testify. On January seventh, Garnett and Vernon were released on bail and shortly thereafter Alvarez apparently skipped off. When authorities caught up with her at the United States border Alvarez told the officers that her life was in danger had she remained in Belize. Under the circumstances, the prosecution began the trial on January eleventh amid doubts that Alvarez would not be returning to testify. An adjournment on the matter was granted in the first instance; however, a successive request was rejected. Since Alvarez’s statement was not recorded in the presence of a Justice of the Peace or a magistrate, the testimony could not be entered as evidence and the charges against Garnett and Vernon were later dismissed. The D.P.P. in a statement today expressed her dismay with the unfortunate turn of events since her office was of the impression that Alvarez was set to take the stand. Coercion of witnesses, she says, is the main reason why the public perceives the justice system to be failing. Recommendations to amend the Evidence Act to allow for witnesses to testify in criminal matters via video link are yet to be implemented. 4 Responses for “Pamela Garnett and son, Mark Vernon acquitted of witness-tampering” Coward. She let hem get away with murder I agree with a comment @Storm made here some time back, that there are about 100 really bad criminals in the Jewel who should be hunted and killed for the greater good of the entire society. Three of them are named in this article, they’re wholly evil people responsible for many deaths. It’s really a sin that our government can’t protect a brave murder witness like Marie Alvarez. We need a revolution, peaceful or otherwise, to change this and many other bad situations in the Jewel. Phillipa says: I agree with you bear impartial says: the cow and the horse…	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line737
__label__wiki	0.63189	0.63189	Bush On U.S. Immigration Bill President George W. Bush and Republicans and Democrats in the United States Senate have reached agreement on a bill to reform U.S. immigration procedures. The bill, says Mr. Bush, includes "all the elements required for comprehensive immigration reform": "It will improve security at our borders. It will give employers new tools to verify the employment status of workers and hold businesses to account for those they hire. It will create a temporary worker program. It will help us resolve the status of millions of illegal immigrants who are here already, without animosity and without amnesty. And it will honor the great American tradition of the melting pot by strengthening our efforts to help new arrivals assimilate into our society." The immigration reform plan includes security "benchmarks," including doubling the number of U.S. Border Patrol agents, a tamper-resistant identification card to verify worker eligibility, and stiffer penalties on companies that knowingly violate the law. Once these security and enforcement "benchmarks" are met, says Mr. Bush, a new temporary worker program will provide foreign workers with a legal and orderly way to enter the U.S. to fill jobs that Americans are not doing: "To ensure that this program is truly temporary, workers will be limited to three two-year terms, with at least a year spent outside the United States between each term. Temporary workers will be allowed to bring immediate family members only if they demonstrate that they can support them financially, and that their family members are covered by health insurance." Immigrants in the U.S. illegally will be given "probationary status" if they come forward. President Bush says that if they then pass a strict background check, pay a fine, hold a job, maintain a clean criminal record, and eventually learn English, they will qualify for and maintain a Z visa, allowing them to apply for three-year work permits: "If they want to become citizens, they have to do all these things, plus pay an additional fine, go to the back of the line, pass a citizenship test, and return to their country to apply for their green card" [allowing them legal permanent residence and employment in the United States] Both the U.S. House and the Senate must pass the immigration reform bill before the president can sign it into law. "This bill," said President Bush, "brings us closer to an immigration system that enforces our laws and upholds the great American tradition of welcoming those who share our values and our love of freedom."	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line738
__label__cc	0.510588	0.489412	Poland adopted a controversial anti-terrorism law On 22 June, the Polish president signed a new anti-terrorism law. The law contains measures that are inconsistent with the Polish Constitution and with the European Convention on Human Rights. The list of controversies is long: foreigners’ phone calls can be wire-tapped without a court order, and police can collect their fingerprints, biometric photos and DNA, if their identity is “doubtful”. Online content might be blocked, citizens’ freedom of assembly limited, and secret services are given free access to all public databases. Also measures such as the obligation to register pre-paid phone cards are included (despite the demonstrable futility of the measure). The Polish EDRi member Panoptykon Foundation and other critics, including the Commissioner for Human Rights in Poland, Adam Bodnar, appealed to the Polish President Andrzej Duda not to sign the law, but the President ignored these appeals. The law will come into force within seven days from its publication. The Polish government claims that the new anti-terrorism law is necessary to increase coordination between the intelligence agencies and to prepare for potential security threats related to two major upcoming international events organised in Poland in July 2016: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit and World Youth Day. While the willingness to enhance management of information flows among the existing agencies and better coordination mechanisms seems reasonable, the law is going much further than necessary in limiting fundamental rights, especially when it comes to foreigners living in or visiting the country. The government failed to justify how measures such as targeting all foreigners (rather than specific suspects) or all users of certain technologies are supposed to increase public security. Already prior to its adoption, the controversial law proposed by Polish government was criticised by Panoptykon, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Poland, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Amnesty International Poland, and the Polish Data Protection Authority. The quality of the law was criticised by the Senate Legislation Bureau. Experts condemned changing the law and competencies of the secret services just before Poland plans to host two big events. Despite the criticism, no public consultations were conducted. The Parliament also refused to organise an open discussion, and declined all the amendments proposed by the opposition. However, two open meetings were organised, one by the Human Rights Commissioner, and another by the Warsaw University together with a group of NGOs. Attendees of both meetings emphasised that the law is causing further deterioration of the balance between the powers of the state, and highlighted the importance of respecting citizens’ fundamental rights and freedoms. On 14 June, 25 websites, including popular IT blog niebezpiecznik.pl, black-outed as a form of protest against the law and to encourage citizens to appeal to the President. By the time the President signed the law, 780 internet users had sent the appeal through the online application available at mojepanstwo.pl/ustawaAT, and a number of citizens have contacted the President directly by email and through his social media accounts. This article was originally published at https://en.panoptykon.org/articles/poland-adopted-controversial-anti-terrorism-law. GSMA White Paper on Mandatory Registration of pre-paid SIM cards (11.2013) http://www.gsma.com/publicpolicy/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/GSMA_White-Paper_Mandatory-Registration-of-Prepaid-SIM-Users_32pgWEBv3.pdf (Contribution by Anna Obem, EDRi member Panoptykon Foundation, Poland)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line740
__label__wiki	0.83733	0.83733	About Dublin AIRPORT INFORMATION, PUBLIC TRANSPORT AND TRAVEL TO DUBLIN Dublin Airport is Ireland’s busiest airport, with over 63 airlines flying to over 190 destinations, including direct scheduled daily flights from North America, mainland Europe, Britain and from the Emirates. The airport is conveniently located 10km north of Dublin city centre, with excellent roads links to The CCD, only 20 minutes away via the Port Tunnel, which brings visitors directly into the Spencer Dock area. Bus and car hire services are also available at the airport for your journey to The CCD. The road network in Ireland is primarily focused on Dublin. The M50 motorway, a semi-ring road which runs around the south, west and north of the city, connects important national primary routes to the rest of the country. The eFlow barrier-free tolling system, with a three-tiered charge system based on electronic tags and car pre-registration is operational. The toll is currently €2 for vehicles with a pre-paid tag, €2.50 for vehicles whose number plates have been registered with eFlow, and €3 for unregistered vehicles. The Dublin Port Tunnel, which officially opened in 2006 to mainly cater for heavy vehicles, connects Dublin Port and the M1 motorway close to Dublin Airport. The city is also surrounded by an inner and outer orbital route. The inner orbital route runs approximately around the heart of the Georgian city and the outer orbital route runs primarily along the natural circle formed by Dublin's two canals, the Grand Canal and the Royal Canal, as well as the North and South Circular Roads. Dublin is served by an extensive network of nearly 200 bus routes which serve all areas of the city and suburbs. The majority of these are controlled by Dublin Bus, but a number of smaller companies also operate. Fares are generally calculated on a stage system based on distance travelled. There are several different levels of fares, which apply on most services. The Bus Arrival Information Service is being rolled out which provides bus stops with information on the distance of buses based on GPS positions of the buses. The CCD is easily accessible by road, given its city centre location and proximity to Ireland’s motorway network. It is only minutes from the Dublin Port Tunnel with connections to the upgraded M50 motorway and Dublin Airport. It is also next to the new Samuel Beckett Bridge which spans the River Liffey, aiding access between the North and South of the city. SAT NAVIGATION If you are using a satellite navigation system, please enter the coordinates N 53 20 51.5 W 6 14 24.6 AA Roadwatch provides regular updates on traffic and weather conditions on major routes throughout Ireland. You can also plan your journey with AA Routeplanner. The CCD is less than ten minutes from Dublin’s two mainline railway stations (Connolly and Heuston) which serve all the major towns and cities in Ireland. Irish Rail is the state-owned company responsible for operating rail services in Ireland, providing rail links between Ireland's main towns and cities. The Dart and The Luas are light rail networks which provide transport within the Dublin City and Suburban areas. The DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit) is the rail line running along the coast of Dublin, from Malahide and Howth southwards as far as Greystones, Co Wicklow. You can connect to the regular train service for communities north of Dublin, right up to Belfast. Pearse Street and Tara Street DART stations are both located about ten minutes walk from The CCD. The Luas Red Line runs directly behind The CCD, conveniently linking to downtown Dublin and to Connolly and Heuston rail stations. Stops are provided at George's Dock, Mayor Square and Spencer Dock. Dublin Bus offers a high frequency, accessible and easy to use service from all over Dublin City Centre and the surrounding area. These services include city bus services, Railink, School link, Airlink, Nitelink and DART feeder buses. Increased availability of taxis in Dublin means that it's easy to travel to and from Dublin city, day or night. There are now nearly 12,000 taxis available in Dublin city. Fares are regulated and tips are at your own discretion. TEN TOPS THINGS TO DO IN DUBLIN For more information see: THINGS TO DO Secondary Page Content Failed to subscribe Late-Breaking Abstract Deadline: 3.3.2014 Early registration deadline 12.3.14 Scientific Programme now online View the ESPID 2013 Photo Gallery	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line742
__label__wiki	0.769908	0.769908	Home / International Exchange / Topics of International Activities The Global Leader Course was established as an initiative in human resource development at Kumamoto University, to connect the university to the world. Kumamoto University is home to many international students and academic members from a wide range of countries around the world. Its campuses are full of opportunities to develop international sensibilities even while still in Kumamoto. This distinctive quality of the university has made it possible to establish the Global Leader Course (GLC), which aims to foster talented individuals who will be able to play active roles in the global society of the 21st century. The GLC offers an original educational curriculum called the GOKOH School Program, which carries on the spirit of the former Fifth High School, summed up by “Goki Bokutotsu” (strength of character and rugged honesty). After their entrance, GLC students will cultivate the general skills required of future global leaders and basic expertise for two years. Then, they will select a department and course in the third year to acquire advanced and specialized skills. This course aims to nurture individuals who are not only equipped with knowledge, education and expertise, but who have the confidence to positively engage with people from home and abroad, and who will thrive and serve in active roles in global society. One of the most distinctive features of the course is the Global Study Program. This program offers multidisciplinary studies conducted in English where students can simulate studying abroad. Students can build a flexible and logical way of thinking, analytical skills and English communication abilities by studying in a diverse environment with international students and working people. Members of the inaugural class of the Global Leader Course Class scene U.S. – Japan Relations Seminar Held at Kumamoto University with Mansfield Foundation On June 15, 2017, scholars visiting Kumamoto as part of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation’s U.S. – Japan Network for the Future program held a panel discussion at the Faculty of Engineering 100 Year Memorial Hall with attendance by approximately 150 participants, including local high school students, university students and staff, the U.S. – Japan Relations Association of Kumamoto, as well as the general public of Kumamoto. The discussion focused on the current context, as well as the potential future course, of U.S. – Japan relations. The conversation was joined by three scholars from the Mansfield Foundation; Dr. Gerald Curtis (Columbia University, Mansfield Foundation Board of Directors), Dr. Leonard Schoppa (University of Virginia), and Dr. Sheila Smith (Council on Foreign Relations), and was moderated by Mr. Benjamin Self (Vice-President of the Mansfield Foundation). The seminar was a meaningful opportunity to promote understanding and a more global perspective among the citizens of Kumamoto. At the Center for Open Education, we hope to continue strengthening our important relationship with the Mansfield Foundation, as well as to continue offering similar opportunities for academic growth in the future. The panel discussion at the Faculty of Engineering 100 Year Memorial Hall A double degree agreement was concluded with Khon Kaen University’s Faculty of Medicine on November 3rd, 2016 With the aim of promoting student and research exchanges with the Faculty of Medicine of Khon Kaen University, a double-degree agreement for a doctoral course with the Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Kumamoto University was concluded, and the signing ceremony was held at Khon Kaen University on Thursday, November 3rd, 2016. It was the first double-degree agreement concluded for the Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Four representatives from Kumamoto University, including Professor Kazuhito Tomizawa, Education Committee Chairman of the Graduate School of Medical Sciences, attended the ceremony. The signing ceremony was followed by a courtesy visit by the Vice President in Charge of Research, and an introduction to Kumamoto University by Professor Tomizawa. On November 4th, a research seminar was held where Professor Kazuhito Tomizawa, Professor Song Wen-Jie and Professor Seiji Okada presented research summaries and introductions to the School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Kumamoto University, which led to deepened mutual understanding and further exchanges in the future. Khon Kaen University is one of nine National Research Universities in Thailand. It is a comprehensive university that leads in research and education in the northeastern part of the country. Since the conclusion of the exchange agreement in 2004, Khon Kaen University has been actively promoting student and researcher exchanges with Kumamoto University. Signing ceremony at Khon Kaen University The Opening Ceremony of AP-SixERS Takes Place in Bangkok, Thailand On August 21, Kanazawa University and SUN/SixERS (Six National Universities International Education and Research System) hosted the Opening Ceremony for SixERS ASEAN Platform (AP-SixERS) in Bangkok, Thailand. The ceremony was attended by Mr. Shigeki Kobayashi, Head of the Cultural Public Relations Department at the Embassy of Japan in Thailand, Dr. Choltis Dhirathiti, Executive Director of ASEAN University Network, and approximately 100 participants from government agencies, partner institutions in Thailand, and Japanese businesses located in Bangkok, and they celebrated the opening of the new office. This office is the third joint office established by SUN/ SixERS, a consortium of six national universities, Chiba University, Niigata University, Kanazawa University, Okayama University, Nagasaki University and Kumamoto University, after the Asian Platform (Changchun, China) established in November 2014 and European Platform (Leiden, Netherland) established in August 2016. The purpose of the joint offices is to promote exchanges with excellent universities on the globe, particularly with those in the regions of strategic importance. This office was established after changing the location of the Bangkok Office, which Kanazawa University set up on the campus of King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, and putting it into joint use for SUN/ SixERS (Six National Universities International Education and Research System). The office aims to promote alliances in the ASEAN region and to develop global human talent in partnership with industry. The Graduate School of Science and Technology and the Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology of Kumamoto University concluded a department-level exchange agreement with the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment of King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi on October 5, 2016. This has brought about various achievements, including the acceptance of special research students and joint research projects through JST. The office will direct its energies to further promoting such exchange programs. In addition, as Kumamoto University is a member of the ASEAN+3 University Network, which includes 30 universities in ASEAN member nations and 18 universities in Japan, China and Korea (including six national universities in Japan), this office is expected to serve as an important liaison and coordination base for the six national universities, and will offer diverse advantages of scale. Furthermore, the KX building (established by King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi for the purpose of improving innovation capabilities in Thailand) has tenant space available for companies, which will help enable industryuniversity cooperation with local and Japanese companies. Front of the KX building	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line749
__label__wiki	0.89342	0.89342	Nigel Inkster Nigel Norman Inkster CMG (born April 1956)[1] is the former director of operations and intelligence for the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also known as MI6),[2][3] and is currently the Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).[4][5] Inkster was educated at Oxford and joined SIS in 1975, for which he served in posts in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Beijing, and Hong Kong. He rose to become deputy to SIS chief Richard Dearlove, and was widely assumed to be in line for the top spot when Dearlove announced his departure in 2003 . The selection of John Scarlett instead of Inkster was the subject of considerable political controversy.[1] Inkster was a member of the SIS board for seven years. Inkster left SIS in 2006.[6] Inkster has argued that the UK should not take in direct military action in Syria, although supporting rebel forces was sensible.[6] ^ a b West, Nigel (2006). At Her Majesty's Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britain's Intelligence Agency, MI6. Naval Institute Press. pp. 264ff. ISBN 978-1591140092. Excerpts available at Google Books. ^ "Nigel Inkster". The Guardian. London. April 26, 2011. ^ "Ex MI-6 officer sees ISI's hand in Kabul embassy attack". The News International. March 15, 2012. ^ Giegerich, Bastian (2010). Europe and Global Security (1st ed.). Routledge. p. 79. ISBN 978-0415669344. ^ Roula Khalaf and Sam Jones (17 June 2014). "Selling terror: how Isis details its brutality". Financial Times. Retrieved 18 June 2014. ^ a b Mark Townsend (20 September 2014). "UK urged to avoid direct military action in Syria". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 September 2015. Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nigel_Inkster&oldid=847703466" Secret Intelligence Service personnel Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line751
__label__wiki	0.750779	0.750779	Tow Ubukata This biography of a living person includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (February 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Go Nakanishi (Mardock Scramble producer), Tow Ubukata, and Danny Choo at Anime Festival Asia 2011. Tow Ubukata (冲方丁, Ubukata Tō, born February 14, 1977 in Gifu Prefecture) is a Japanese novelist and anime screenwriter. His major works include Mardock Scramble, Le Chevalier D'Eon and Heroic Age. He also did series composition for the Fafner in the Azure series, Ghost in the Shell: Arise, and Psycho-Pass 2. Ubukata was raised in Singapore and later Nepal. To maintain his Japanese heritage and language abilities, he would read dictionaries. In high school, he received several writer's awards.[1] Ubukata writes for the Japanese visual culture magazine Newtype. His serialized segments, called "A Gambler's Life", are comedic, often-satiric expository pieces. They chronicle his day-to-day experiences and interactions with people, such as his wife. In these segments, he dubs himself "The Kamikazi Wordsmith." These segments were also published in the American counterpart, Newtype USA, which is now discontinued.[2] Ubukata won the 24th Nihon SF Taisho Award in 2003. Ubukata has written the novelization and the script for the manga version of Le Chevalier D'Eon, and has contributed to the screenplay and the overall story plot of the animated version.[3] ^ Ubukata, Tow. "Taking on a TV interview". Newtype USA. 6 (7) p. 30. July 2007. ISSN 1541-4817. ^ Newtype USA. ISSN 1541-4817. ^ Miya, Shotaro et al. "Le Chevalier D'Eon". Newtype USA. 6 (1) pp. 52-53. January 2007. ISSN 1541-4817. Official website ‹See Tfd›(in Japanese) Tow Ubkata anime, manga at Media Arts Database ‹See Tfd›(in Japanese) Entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Tow Ubukata at J'Lit Books from Japan ‹See Tfd›(in English) Tow Ubukata at Anime News Network's encyclopedia Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tow_Ubukata&oldid=875176899" Japanese expatriates in Nepal Japanese expatriates in Singapore Japanese science fiction writers Writers from Gifu Prefecture Articles lacking in-text citations from February 2016 Articles containing Japanese-language text Articles with Japanese-language external links Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers Wikipedia articles with NDL identifiers	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line752
__label__wiki	0.609723	0.609723	How Recording Sessions Work by Tim Crosby Commercial Recording Sessions vs. Rock Recording Sessions Rock music recording sessions are often more loosely organized than other sessions. © John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images There are major differences between commercial recording sessions and rock recording sessions. In general, a commercial recording environment will be more structured. The goal in these situations is to record the client's music in an efficient, professional manner to achieve a clean, reliable production. The musicians and singers called upon in these situations are professional and versed in many styles of music, as are the producers and sound engineers. These sessions may account for a portion of a larger budget, and therefore scheduling and performance are emphasized. The environment doesn't lend itself to creativity and idea exchange. The people involved are expected to know their jobs, do their jobs and move on to the next job. A rock recording session, on the other hand, is typically a much less structured affair. While a good manager and music producer will have the rock band rehearsed, scheduled, planned and ready (to save money) departures from this environment are common. Bands may wish to explore new ideas and directions as they emerge. This may lead to experimental recordings and "jam sessions," during which the band members try new arrangements, songs or lyrics. Sound engineers and music producers can play a large role in this mix, keeping up with the evolving ideas, capturing the good ones and discarding the bad ones, trying to keep the project on track without stymieing the creative energy. This technique doesn't only apply to rock bands, but country, hip-hop and rap artists as well. The mixing process also may vary between commercial and rock recording sessions. At a commercial mixing session, the client or end-user of the recording may have a representative there to oversee the final sound. This, for example, might be an advertising executive or director. At a rock mixing session, the collaboration might include the band members, producer and record company representative. All will have varying degrees of input on the final mix based on their working agreements. But the emphasis will be on creativity and marketability of the music. New software programs and easy Internet access are changing the way recording sessions are being done. Find out how online recording sessions work. How Did Nashville Become the Hub of Country Music? 5 Differences Between Spotify and Apple Music How the Grammys Work The Comeback of the Cassette The Vinyl Album Is Dead. Long Live the Album!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line753
__label__cc	0.632757	0.367243	Updates (blog posts) Publications (journal articles and the like) Random Access Memories (Mixtape Series) Ernesto Priego's blog. Keywords: Comics, Computing, Data, Open Access, Humanities, Libraries, Politics, Writing -the lot. Interviewed by Abi Roper re: Parables of Care Date: 07/11/2017Author: Ernesto Priego Dr Abi Roper is a Research Fellow at City, University of London. She is a speech and language therapist and researcher passionate about technology use within atypical speech & language populations. Recently Abi asked me some questions about working on Parables of Care for the project’s blog. I have copied and pasted the original post below. Parables of Care: A Q&A with Ernesto Priego by Abi Roper This post was originally published at the Parables of Care blog on 26 October 2017 at https://blogs.city.ac.uk/parablesofcare/2017/10/26/parables-of-care-a-qa-with-ernesto-priego/. If at some point in the future links to embedded media appear broken it is because the source post may have been changed location or is undergoing maintenance. Dr Ernesto Priego, City, University of London Ernesto Priego is a lecturer at the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design at City, University of London and the Editor of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. Ernesto worked in partnership with Dr Simon Grennan of the University of Chester, Dr Peter Wilkins of Douglas College, Vancouver, Canada, an NHS Trust, and colleages from HCID, leading the team to produce Parables of Care. I asked Ernesto some questions about working on Parables of Care. As a speech and language therapist researcher, I work with people who have aphasia and may have difficulty in reading large amounts of written text. People with dementia can experience similar challenges. What do you think the comics format offers that other mediums might not? Ernesto Priego: My view is that comics are a unique medium because they often rely on a unique, complementary combination of writing, still graphic images and other components of visual communication. There are, of course, comics that are very wordy—they employ a lot (and I mean a lot) of written text. And there are, of course, comics that include almost no text at all (titles, indicia, series names are also written text). Unlike animation, video, TV or cinema, most comics, particularly printed ones, allow users / readers to linger on the comics page. Comics are therefore, in their own way, a very ‘mindful’ medium, as they often rely on a type of hyper awareness of concrete and abstract constraints, of context. In most comics, time passes through different vehicles so to speak: through the time of the written text, the time represented through layout (panel size and arrangement and the placement of characters, backgrounds, props, narrative components), the time represented through panels in sequence and the gap between them, and the time it takes each reader to read or navigate the comic itself. So comics are a very complex medium indeed, but at the same time they give users a freedom to linger and to interpret information in a way that synchronic media such as music, video, TV or film do not allow them to. Rather than just a question of comics being able to present ideas without the need for many words, in this case we think of comics as a medium that can actually evoke the kind of de-structured and re-structured experience of time that is akin to dementia but also to illness, ageing and caring in general (Paco Roca’s Wrinkles does this very well). Illustration from Wrinkles, a graphic novel by Paco Roca. © Knockabout Comics, 2015 In many cases, people with dementia, as well as their carers, experience a time which is ‘out of joint’ (Hamlet, that tragic hero…). The fragmentary yet sequential structure of the comics in Parables of Care seeks to communicate and empathise with this experience, and in this way it attempts to share a way of experiencing the world. I’m more familiar with comics being used to tell stories of superheroes. How are Care’N’Share stories similar and/or different to these more traditional comics narratives? EP: That’s a very good question. For many people the term ‘comics’ means ‘superheroes’. Comics are much more than superheroes but in the case of the Care’N’Share stories the analogy achieves the status of poetic justice. Peter said in the previous Q&A that the Care’N’Share caregiver-storytellers are poets. This is true. Your question makes me think that they are similar to Romantic poets, and in this sense to heroes. Caregiving is heroic because it is a journey, and the hero’s journey is both motivated and defined by a sense of ethics, a thirst for justice and order, and fate or destiny. I also think people with dementia are poets: they see the world in a way that forces the carer and other people to realign their way of seeing things. Like the poet, they often see things that others don’t. The carer is a poet-hero because they need to learn to interpret that poetry and engage in creative endeavour themselves. The best superhero comics, in my mind, are not about invincible heroes but about vulnerable folk that are somewhat different: their ‘superpowers’ lie in their difference and in their ability to find solutions to problems for the betterment of their communities. (Think of Peter Parker, for example). There is a lot of doubt, anxiety and pain in the hero’s journey. Peter Parker cares for his aunt May after she suffers a heart attack. In Stan Lee (writer), Steve Ditko (artist), Sam Rosen (letterer), The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol 1, No. 17, October 1964. © Marvel Comics John Keats, by Joseph Severn, 1821-1823 – NPG 58 – © National Portrait Gallery, London The caregiver-storytellers of Care’N’Share however do not see themselves as heroes, but what they do is heroic, it requires a sacrifice and a determination that is only possible when our deepest fears are defeated and our inner super powers come to the fore. I have the uttermost respect for dementia carers/caregivers. The stories they share are lessons to us all on our duty to our fellow human beings on how to empathise with what is often completely incomprehensible and find solutions that are respectful, loving and fair. So it’s important to say that to me the beauty of ‘Graphic Medicine’ is that it’s not about idealisation or about fitting into generic narrative structures and archetypes. It’s about the personal journey, the vulnerabilities that make us human, and discovering the ways in which we can overcome serious challenges. What have you learnt about dementia through your experience in creating Parables of Care? EP: I am still learning a lot. The statistics alone provide sufficient evidence that dementia is one of the key public health and social challenges of today, not just in the UK but around the world. Working in this project required having an open mind about what we could achieve and be willing to accept that our contribution would be relativelly small but potentially impactful on some level. To come back to my previous answer I think all of us working in the project learnt that a lot is achievable in terms of health care of incurable conditions if there is tolerance, empathy, creativity and imagination. In general working in adapting the stories forced us to attempt walking in the carers’ shoes. Susan Sontag wrote a beautiful book discussing the im-possibility of experiencing the pain of others through photography. I hope Parables of Care can contribute to share the experience of dementia care in a respectful and sensitive way. Where else might comics be applied in healthcare? Where do you want to go next? EP: Ah, that is the question! Short answer: almost everywhere. We believe that comics can be brilliant health information resources. And I think that Health Informatics and Graphic Medicine are a match made in heaven. We are already working on that next step. I am definitely interested in developing more work that explicitly connects the dots between graphic narrative and User-Centred Design and Interaction Design. I won’t say more for the time being. Watch this space! Parables of Care can be downloaded as a PDF file, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, from City Research Online: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/18245/. If you live in the UK you can request printed copies at no cost here. Abi RoperComicsdementiadementia careErnesto Priegographic medicineInterviewinterviewsParables of Caresocial carespeech therapy Published by Ernesto Priego I'm a lecturer, researcher and editor. I am interested in scholarly publishing and communications, digital scholarship, altmetrics, comics studies, innovation, material culture, journalism, poetry and human rights. You can follow me on Twitter @ernestopriego. 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__label__wiki	0.665465	0.665465	Posts tagged ‘parker posey’ Waiting for Guffman Waiting for Guffman (1996) The sesquicentennial anniversary of Blaine, the heart of Missouri, is coming up so the small town’s community is very excited about the special show to be performed at the end of the festival. This year, the mayor (Larry Miller) and his council appoint a high school drama teacher, Corky St. Clair (Christopher Guest), along with a music teacher (Bob Balaban), in charge of the highly anticipated play that is expected to cover the town’s rich and idiosyncratic history. Written by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, “Waiting for Guffman” is a highly energetic mockumentary that skewers community theater and yet it does not humiliate its subjects. Thus, the picture works a good-natured comedy. Not once is the audience made to feel as though the characters are mere caricatures. It points out the eccentricities of American small towns but it has a loving attitude toward them, too. The picture is divided into chapters: the audition, the rehearsal, the night of the play, and three months after the performance. The casting by Parker Posey as a Dairy Queen employee, Levy as a dentist, Catherine O’Hara and Fred Willard as a married couple who ironically run a travel agency even though they have not been outside the country, and Guest as a former New Yorker who hopes to make it to Broadway some day is near perfect because these are actors who know how to adapt with one another’s rhythm. Notice that in scenes that come across as ad-libbed, and they are quite easy to spot, they do not break character when someone says or does something that is way out there. Instead, they all play along even though there unintended smiles are drawn across their faces. Small moments that would have been typically removed in the cutting room floor are left here. These moments are actually brilliant, arguably some of the funniest bits in the movie. Its extemporaneous nature and approach is crucial to the success of the film because we get a sense of realism. The rehearsal scenes do not feel at all rehearsed or controlled. Rather, everyone is trying on a hat. The comedy comes in the form of the hats not quite fitting perfectly. We even grow increasingly worried as the night of the play approaches. I was surprised that I cared whether those who made it through the casting process would make a fool of themselves in front of their peers and neighbors. Some of them think they are more talented than they actually are. The long-awaited performance is a joy to watch, from the colorful personalities that drive energetic numbers, ballads, and comedic exchanges to props that surprisingly work despite a few distractions—for instance, a figure being too prominent relative what we are supposed to be paying attention to. “Waiting for Guffman,” directed by Christopher Guest, is an entertaining spoof with a discerning eye but loving hands. The Daytrippers Daytrippers, The (1996) It appears to be yet another typical day in the D’Amico household. After Louis (Stanley Tucci) leaves for work, Eliza (Hope Davis) decides to clean the house. While putting things away, out of the corner of her eye, she spots a folded piece of paper lodged between the wall and cabinet. She picks it up and reads it. Her eyes reflect heartbreak: it turns out to be a love letter from a so-called “Sandy.” Following the initial shock, Eliza convinces herself not to make a big deal out of it. Her husband, after all, works in a publishing company so there is a chance that it is from a fictional work, all of it just a big misunderstanding. Still, she feels compelled to tell her parents about her discovery. Written and directed by Greg Mottola, “The Daytrippers” is highly enjoyable because it is not clear whether it wants to be a comedy or a drama. It works that it is a little bit of both. Just about every giggle is almost immediately countered with a melancholic undertone. This makes the picture come alive, especially since we think we may have a true idea of what might be going on and where we expect the story is heading. For instance, when Carl (Liev Schreiber) decides to talk about the novel he has just written about a man born with a dog’s head, it is funny because no one seems to really understand what it is all supposed to be about. Jo (Parker Posey), the dutiful girlfriend, appears to have his back. And yet at times Jo comes off somewhat desperate to try and pretend that her boyfriend’s novel has something profound to say. He looking good makes her look good. Many of us are likely to think Carl is being pretentious. The script is clever and surprising because we often learn plenty about a character when he or she is not the center of attention. When I noticed that Eliza barely speaks, it made me question the method employed for characterization because the picture is supposed to be about her journey in finding out whether or not her husband is indeed loyal to her. Having realized that the material is also about how people react to those who have the chance to speak, there is a wealth of information embedded in the awkward pauses, subtle frowns, and looking (or not looking) someone in the eyes. Eventually, Eliza visits the city to confront her husband with her family in tow for moral support. Although the car ride starts off relatively swimmingly, the travelers inevitably get on each other’s last nerves. Most fascinating is the way the emotional fissures in sharp-tongued Rita (Anne Meara) and taciturn Jim’s (Pat McNamara) longtime marriage are revealed. Rita’s little verbal jabs that most of us may consider sassy but entertaining later reveal an ugly sting. I wished that the older couple had more scenes together but at the same time I admired that the writing does not intend to iron everything out for the sake of our entertainment. In other words, it avoids feeling too movie-like. It does, however, provide enough hints in terms of how each relationship will eventually turn out. We do not feel cheated from its seemingly lack of resolution because by allowing us to spend time with the characters, hearing them speak, and understanding their point of views, it trusts us to imagine what is next for them. “The Daytrippers” is smart about not putting people in defined boxes. Though its characters can be argued as archetypes, they are allowed to break the rules in surprise and welcome ways. Broken English (2007) Nora (Parker Posey) imagined that by the time she was thirty, she would be married, have kids, and flourishing in a career she wanted. Now that she is several years past thirty, Nora has grown weary and accustomed to the routine. Her friends and family think she does not go out enough to meet new people yet she complains about how everyone else is in a relationship. After two promising yet ultimately unfulfilling dates, Nora meets a guy at a co-worker’s party. His name is Julien (Melvil Poupaud) and he is from Paris. Initially, the Manhattanite is slightly put off by how intense he was. Slowly, however, she is won over. Will what they have last? Written and directed by Zoe R. Cassavetes, “Broken English” is a romantic comedy that manages to entertain despite the fact that it is uncommon for the protagonist to get exactly what she wants. Part of the reason why it is so watchable is because of its honesty. Like life, nothing that is of value comes too easily. There is always a trade-off. Take a look at the men in Nora’s life: Although what they share may appear to work on the surface, upon closer examination, she discovers that there is always a catch. The question is whether the drawbacks are worth the investment. For a character who whines a lot, Nora remains to be someone worth rooting for. Credit to the casting director for choosing Posey to play the miserable subject because she has a way of coming off very needy and annoying yet balancing such qualities with sarcasm and sense of humor. We get the impression that she knows she is not at her best—and that it is likely that everyone else is tired of her complaining—but it is better than internalizing unhappiness and eventually attempting to overdose on pills. If the lead character had been played with a one-dimensional performer, the result would have been catastrophic. There is chemistry between Posey and Poupaud. From the moment the characters they play meet at the party, we are convinced that the two will get together. What I did not expect was in how their friendship, relationship, or whatever is that they have, is going to be challenged. Like the other men in her life, Julien is not perfect. But neither is Nora. I liked that the screenplay is able to create sudden shifts in tone which allow us to wonder whether Julien will remain attracted to Nora. There is also love in terms of friendship. Audrey (Drea de Matteo), Nora’s best friend, gets a subplot about being an unhappy wife which is not completely effective because it is rather undercooked, but she and Nora share a few nice scenes. For instance, Audrey is not afraid to tell her friend when the self-pity has reached an unhealthy point or whether an idea is crazy or just plain stupid. In a way, Audrey is the audience’s conduit. Their relationship is sweet, with unacknowledged complications, funny, and genuine. I kept waiting for their relationship to devolve into someone sitcom-like duo but the material never makes that mistake. I read a review claiming that there is nothing particularly funny about the film because the character is so sad, so desperate, verging on depression. I disagree. I was amused and entertained by “Broken English” because the writer-director is not blind to small ironies. Every so often it requires the audience to look closely at a situation and what the character expects out of it. When it works out, we feel glad for our protagonist. But it is far more interesting when it doesn’t. We anticipate her reaction. We feel her humiliation. Then we watch how she tries to pick herself up. The Doom Generation Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) and Jordan White (James Duval) are most alive at night: partying, doing drugs, and getting caught up in stupid things that young people are entitled to experience. But things turn for the worse when Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech) is slammed against Amy’s car by several guys who jumped him. Somehow Xavier manages to get inside the vehicle and the trio go on a road trip. Written and directed by Gregg Araki, “The Doom Generation” is trashy and proud which makes it sort of fun. There is something devilishly magnetic about the rock ‘n’ roll, reckless lifestyle of the main characters. However, the messages it wishes to portray are largely inconsistent which makes it frustrating and confusing at times. Are images of doom and gloom supposed to inspire us to think about how we react to violence as a society as well as individuals? Are we supposed wonder about the level of violence intrinsic in all of us? Or is it all supposed to be for fun? It should be noted that the last names of our protagonists are primary colors. Side-by-side, they complement each other looks- and personality-wise. Individually, they fascinated me somewhat. As I looked at them during the first act, I wondered what each of them is capable of. Are they people who are so insecure that they are hungry to impress or are they immoral beings? Surprisingly, when the two colors blend, through the intense act of sex, the material falls flat. On the contrary, it should demand our attention and allow us to see or feel the repercussions of their actions more clearly. For instance, Jordan is rather obtuse intellectually and it takes him a while to process certain situations, but how does he really feel or think about, after having the chance to absorb the information, when he sees Amy, who is supposedly his girlfriend, engaging in casual sex with Xavier? He is shown looking lonely or sad but I did not have a gut reaction to his response. There is a gaping disconnect among what is on paper, the acting, and the viewers. Is he genuinely hurt by what he saw? It he surprised that he does not care at all and feel he must put up a front to reflect how people normally act in similar circumstances? Either way, we are not given enough information with regards to the nature of Amy and Jordan’s relationship. Jordan can look sad all he wants but I did not care all that much. There are a few interesting images. The devil’s number, 666, are featured on signs in supermarkets and there are banners and graffitis that warn about the end of the world. They paint a metaphor that Amy, Jordan, and Xavier are traversing a hellish wasteland. With each place they visit, they end up in a fight and someone ends up seriously hurt or dead. Their luck is bound to run out. With each encounter, someone almost always recognizes Amy. One of the most memorable is Brandi (Parker Posey). She considers herself to be Amy’s slave. Amy, fresh and cool with her big sunglasses, potty-mouth and chain-smoking ways, turns out to be a girl of experience. Still, random strangers recognizing her ends up nowhere. Eventually, it starts to feel like the trio are only together to inflict or experience bloody violence. And then there is the smoldering sexual tension between Jordan and Xavier–the best part of the movie. They are never shown as intimate–at least not sexually with just the two of them. What they have is not exactly a chance to explore their latent homosexuality or bisexuality. Instead, it plays upon the idea of how their transgressions, usually driven by the continually unfulfilled id, will never allow them to reach happiness that is pure and true. “The Doom Generation” features images of punk anarchy. Sometimes its sense of humor is sick but a little sad, too. There is a scene where Amy accidentally runs over a dog. It turns out that she and her friends show more reaction to a dog dying compared to seeing a person, a clerk at Quickiemart (Dustin Nguyen), getting murdered. Perhaps the writer-director wants us to recognize that there is something wrong with that. Clockwatchers Clockwatchers (1997) On her first day as a temp in the Global Credit Association, Iris (Toni Collette) was asked to wait in a chair until someone came and assigned her what to do. She waited for two hours, not once speaking up that she was there and ready to work. While typing some letters, stentorian and hilarious Margaret (Parker Posey) introduced herself, showed the new girl around, and gave her some tips on how to appear working while on the clock. Iris was later introduced to sarcastic Paula (Lisa Kudrow) and quiet Jane (Alanna Ubach) during lunch. Despite the four having different and polarizing personalities, they got along. That is, until personal items started go missing in the office and the four became the prime suspects. Written by Jill Sprecher and Karen Sprecher, “Clockwatchers” was an effective workplace comedy because it wasn’t afraid to wrestle with details about boredom, apathy, even jealousy and paranoia. We watched the ladies form an unlikely bond which was later challenged and inevitably unspooled because of the pressures they were put under. Some pressures were light-hearted and silly but others were quite serious. It got to the point where cameras had to be installed in their floor because the perpetrator was very elusive. Although it must be kept in mind that just because Iris, Margaret, Paula, and Jane were under suspicion, it didn’t mean that one of them was the petty thief. I’ve never been a temp, but I imagined it might’ve been fun to be in their little group, from their inside jokes, the way they couldn’t help but laugh whenever they were in each other’s vicinity, and the sassy comments they whispered to one another about someone else, especially the new girl (Helen FitzGerald) hired as a permanent personal assistant. At the same time, if I wasn’t in their clique, especially if I were their superior, I probably would’ve been annoyed because it seemed like they played more than they got things done. While I enjoyed the scenes which established that the four women were able to support each other in and out of work, the script eventually focused in the fact in most jobs, essentially everyone was out for herself, especially if one was as disposable as a temp. The four women, whether they could readily admit it or not, knew their place. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have behaved as they did. And who could blame them? As the picture went on, it began to get interesting tonally. While amusing bits still transpired, a dour feeling began to seep through and threatened to take over. The director, Jill Sprecher, was skillful in allowing us to feel just like the characters. It is certainly true that an uncomfortable and unwelcoming workplace, whether the source was the environment itself or the co-workers, is so much worse than a boring one. This I’ve had experience with and I could relate to how energy-sucking it was to come in and immediately not want to be there. On the outside, you create an illusion that everything is all right. In reality, you just feel like screaming and craving for a private session with a punching bag. In my case, I continued to come in because of the money, the protagonists’ seemingly only source of motivation, and I felt that I had a responsibility for the young minds I was in charge of. The four women did not have the latter, or something of that sort, and I could only imagine how unrewarding it must’ve felt for them. Scream 3 (2000) Post-college life was tough for Sidney (Neve Campbell) as she moved away from her friends and family to live in a house deep in the woods with her dog. Who could blame her for being traumatized after a masked killer, or killers, exhibited a fixation for murdering those she was closest to? “Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro,” a successful horror franchise, was in production in Los Angeles but the actors were attacked and killed by Ghost Face. It seemed like the killer’s plan was to murder the actors in which they died in the movie in order to attract Sidney’s attention and come out of hiding. The two obviously had issues to resolve. There was only one problem: Sidney, Gale (Courteney Cox), and Dewey (David Arquette) had no idea which script Ghostface had in hand because three versions were written. It meant there were three different order of kills and three different endings. Still directed by Wes Craven but the screenplay helmed by Ehren Kruger instead of Kevin Williamson, “Scream 3” had potential for excellence but the execution was too weak to generate enough tension to keep me interested. What I enjoyed was Sidney, Gale, and Dewey’s doubles (Emily Mortimer, Parker Posey and Matt Keeslar, respectively) because they were exaggerated versions of the real ones. What I didn’t enjoy as much was they weren’t given very much to do other than waiting to die in a gruesome fashion. And while the material played upon the actors’ self-centeredness despite being second- or third-rate celebrities, it didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. What made the first two movies so enjoyable was the fact that the comedy and horror were connected in a smart way. In here, the material relied on spoiled celebrities as a source of comedy and Ghostface’s hunt for Sidney as a source of horror. Since the two failed to connect, the script felt painfully stagnant. I wondered where the story was ultimately heading. Furthermore, the chase-and-stab formula became less exciting over time. It was awkward how the film would stop in the middle of the suspense and cut into a less exciting scene. In doing so, the scares lost considerable amount of momentum. And when it finally decided to return to the murder scene, it just looked silly and gruesome. It began to feel like a standard slasher flick. “Scream 3” still winked at itself, like the villain in a trilogy becoming seemingly superhuman, but it lacked the edginess combined with other necessary elements to bring the movie to the next level. It just didn’t feel fresh anymore. When the unmasking arrived, I just felt apathetic. It’s not a good sign when you’re looking at the clock every other scene to check the remaining minutes you have to sit through. Happy Tears Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) returned home to take care of their father (Rip Torn) who showned initial symptoms of dementia. While taking care of their father, the two vastly different sisters began to work out their differences as well as their misconceptions about their father in relation to events that happened when they were little kids. I wanted to enjoy this movie more than I did because I have a weakness when it comes to stories about family members returning to a place due to some life-chaning event and they eventually having no choice but to face the demons in their past. Unfortunately, I think that Mitchell Lichtenstein had so much trouble balancing the comedy and the drama to the point where the heart of the story was not always the focus. Particularly problematic for me were the fantasy and the flashback sequences of Jayne. I understood that she was the more optimistic, outwardly funnier sister who was often unaware of what was really going on around her but there were times when such sequences made her look childish in comparison to her sister. I think those sequences worked against her character because the picture hinted at the two women being strong and able to carry on without their husbands. I would also have liked to have seen them interact with their own families more often to serve as a contrast with how they were when they spent time with their father. For half of the movie, I didn’t understand why they treated their father the way they did. I had a premature evaluation that they didn’t care about their father and they just wanted to send him to a nursing home as quick as possible so they could move on with their lives. Since I initially thought that they were selfish, it took me some time to really connect with them and to learn more about their motivations outside of their actions–which were very different from what they chose to show to others. The movie was at its best when Posey and Moore were forced to look into each other’s eyes and measure each other up. Both had a presence about them; the two couldn’t be any more different but they were magnetic in their own rights and in a way I found parts of myself in both of them. One of the major emotions between them was jealousy and I found them very relatable when they often avoided talking about it with each other. Instead, the jealousy was embedded in the sarcasms and the sly remarks about how one chose to live her life. “Happy Tears” had good moments but it didn’t quite moved me as strongly as I’d hoped. With a stronger script and more natural direction, I think I would have liked it a lot more because the performances were already solid.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line764
__label__cc	0.594587	0.405413	Here’s What Hedge Funds Think About Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NUS) Nina Todic Insider Monkey• April 25, 2019 Hedge funds are not perfect. They have their bad picks just like everyone else. Facebook, a stock hedge funds have loved, lost nearly 40% of its value at one point in 2018. Although hedge funds are not perfect, their consensus picks do deliver solid returns, however. Our data show the top 15 S&P 500 stocks among hedge funds at the end of December 2018 yielded an average return of 19.7% year-to-date, vs. a gain of 13.1% for the S&P 500 Index. Because hedge funds have a lot of resources and their consensus picks do well, we pay attention to what they think. In this article, we analyze what the elite funds think of Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:NUS). Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:NUS) investors should pay attention to an increase in support from the world's most elite money managers recently. NUS was in 24 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of December. There were 18 hedge funds in our database with NUS positions at the end of the previous quarter. Our calculations also showed that nus isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds. Hedge funds' reputation as shrewd investors has been tarnished in the last decade as their hedged returns couldn't keep up with the unhedged returns of the market indices. Our research has shown that hedge funds' small-cap stock picks managed to beat the market by double digits annually between 1999 and 2016, but the margin of outperformance has been declining in recent years. Nevertheless, we were still able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the market by 32 percentage points since May 2014 through March 12, 2019 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that underperformed the market by 10 percentage points annually between 2006 and 2017. Interestingly the margin of underperformance of these stocks has been increasing in recent years. Investors who are long the market and short these stocks would have returned more than 27% annually between 2015 and 2017. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 in our quarterly newsletter. MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT Let's take a look at the latest hedge fund action regarding Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:NUS). How are hedge funds trading Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:NUS)? At the end of the fourth quarter, a total of 24 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of 33% from the second quarter of 2018. By comparison, 19 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in NUS a year ago. So, let's see which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves. No of Hedge Funds With NUS Positions Among these funds, AQR Capital Management held the most valuable stake in Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:NUS), which was worth $84 million at the end of the third quarter. On the second spot was Renaissance Technologies which amassed $42.9 million worth of shares. Moreover, D E Shaw, Millennium Management, and SG Capital Management were also bullish on Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:NUS), allocating a large percentage of their portfolios to this stock. Now, some big names were breaking ground themselves. SG Capital Management, managed by Ken Grossman and Glen Schneider, established the biggest position in Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:NUS). SG Capital Management had $11.3 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. George McCabe's Portolan Capital Management also made a $3.7 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The other funds with new positions in the stock are Noam Gottesman's GLG Partners, Lee Ainslie's Maverick Capital, and Dmitry Balyasny's Balyasny Asset Management. Let's check out hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:NUS). These stocks are Wright Medical Group N.V. (NASDAQ:WMGI), Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ:SLAB), The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE:SMG), and Graham Holdings Co (NYSE:GHC). This group of stocks' market valuations are closest to NUS's market valuation. [table] Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position WMGI,33,822338,-2 SLAB,17,58266,3 SMG,20,186663,-3 GHC,19,615026,2 Average,22.25,420573,0 [/table] View table here if you experience formatting issues. As you can see these stocks had an average of 22.25 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $421 million. That figure was $228 million in NUS's case. Wright Medical Group N.V. (NASDAQ:WMGI) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ:SLAB) is the least popular one with only 17 bullish hedge fund positions. Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:NUS) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. This is a slightly positive signal but we'd rather spend our time researching stocks that hedge funds are piling on. Our calculations showed that top 15 most popular stocks) among hedge funds returned 24.2% through April 22nd and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by more than 7 percentage points. Unfortunately NUS wasn't nearly as popular as these 15 stock and hedge funds that were betting on NUS were disappointed as the stock returned -20.5% and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 15 most popular stocks) among hedge funds as 13 of these stocks already outperformed the market this year. Disclosure: None. This article was originally published at Insider Monkey. 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__label__wiki	0.824606	0.824606	Friends of Hyde Park Picture House History of the Friends SGM July 2019 LIFF Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach UK 2016 June 1, 2016 June 10, 2016 / keith1942 Screening On 11th June – 6.45 PM : On 12th June – 3.30 PM : Wednesday 15th June 8.50 p.m. This new biopic comes out at a propitious time. Ken Loach has won his second Palme’ d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for I, Daniel Blake. He joins an elect group of filmmakers, Bille August, Emir Kusterica and Shohei Imamura, who have also won this prestigious award twice since its inception in the current form in 1975. The award confirms Loach’s status as one of the most important of contemporary European filmmakers: though one who has been honoured more on the continent than in his home territory. The documentary has been produced by Loach regular Rebecca O’Brien, scripted by his colleague Paul Laverty, and directed by Louise Osmond. It also includes many of the people who have worked with Loach, including Tony Garnett, whose output at the BBC is also seminal. My main reservation is that Osmond’s previous film, Dark Horse (2015), was made like a typical television documentary and utilised archive and found footage of rather low quality. But its focus was ordinary working people who are the recurring centre of Loach’s own films. It was shot in 2.35:1 and that ratio does allow some striking shots by cinematographer Roger Chapman. But it also means that the extracts from Loach’s own films have been re-framed to fit this format. This does not do them any favours, in some frames heads are cut off. The footage of Loach working on I, Daniel Blake is in the same ratio. Some of this is interesting, but often it feels like a ‘making of ….’ treatment. Where the films scores are the interviews with Ken Loach and Tony Garnett. Loach is unassuming but rigorous in his comments. And Tony Garnett is both intelligent and stimulating. We also get a brief interveiw with Nell Dunn [Up the Junction] and recordings of Jim Allen. The latter was an important collaborator and influence on Loach. And there is an excellent comment by Gabriel Byrne on the suppression of the production of Perdition. It would have been good to have more from other important collaborators like Rebecca O’Brien and Paul Laverty. The documentary is also strong on the frequently myopic and predjudiced treatment of Loach’s film among British critics. As Derek Malcom remarks, he is much more honoured on the continent. Whilst he has won many awards at the Cannes Film Festival, The Berlin Film Festival and even a French César. None of his films has ever been awarded a BAFTA! Certainly Loach’s film and television output has deserved this. From the pioneering work in the 1960s, notably Cathy Come Home, made for the BBC with Tony Garnett, to the recent series of annual film releases, his work has been among the best and most interesting produced in the UK. And this film does pay due attention to his early work for the BBC. Whatever its limitations this documentary is worth seeing as a deserved retrospective of his contribution. The Cannes winner will be available in cinemas later this year. This would also be an opportunity to revisit some of the classics from earlier in Loach’s career. Some of the key films from Loach’s television output have been screened in the recent past, Cathy Come Home [BBC 1966], the epic Days of Hope {BBC 1975], and the fine documentary from the 1984 Miners’ Strike, Which Side are You On? It was in the 1980s that the increasing censorship of Loach’s work by television institutions led to his return to large screen filming in 1990 with Hidden Agenda, a fine drama about the British ‘shoot to kill’ policy in the occupied north of Eire. Almost every year since has seen another impressive film by Ken and his team. Some in particular would pay re-visiting. Riff-Raff (1991), set in the building trade, has a fine central performance by Robert Carlyle and some very funny scenes with Ricky Tomlinson. Then there is Land and Freedom (1995), dramatising the Republican resistance to the Fascist coup d’etat in 1930s Spain. It won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival but not at the BAFTAS. There is Sweet Sixteen (2002), one of a series of film set in Scotland and scripted by Paul Laverty. The vagaries of British film censorship meant that Martin Compson, in the title role, could not watch himself in the cinema. This was one of the few occasions when I heard the normally mild-mannered Ken Loach get really angry in an interview. In 2006 there was Loach’s earlier Palme d’Or winner, The Wind That Shakes the Barley. The film was demonised in the British Press, mainly because it is one of the best representations on film of the long Irish struggle for liberation from British colonialism. In 2007 there was It’s a Free World. This underrated film addressed the exploitation implicit in the neo-liberal ‘free’ market. It also featured the exploitation of migrant labour. Both themes are just as relevant today. All of Loach’s work is worth seeing again – and again. Versus … celebrates both Ken Loach’s 80th birthday and his ‘fiftieth major work’. So Loach is in the autumn of his working life. And that season would be a great time for an autumnal retrospective of what is one of the major contributions to British Film. 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__label__cc	0.625745	0.374255	The Worst Show, Made By the Worst People On March 12, 2007 January 13, 2019 By ArthurIn Movies & Television, Non-Fiction, Reality TV So, a few days back I caught an episode of BBC Three’s Fat Men Can’t Hunt, in which a number of medically overweight men and women are sent into sub-Saharan Africa to live with a nomadic tribe who still live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. In theory, the volunteers are only allowed to eat what they can hunt, using the traditional techniques of the nomads. In practice, the on-site nutritionists had to relent at least twice in the episode I saw and distribute food to the volunteers so that their health wouldn’t be endangered by their utter lack of success. It’s rare that a television show actually makes me angry, especially a show as insipid as this reality TV abortion, but Fat Men Can’t Hunt succeeded. Speaking of anger, the show’s participants aren’t exactly happy either. In the episode we watched, an Oxford graduate named Martin blew his top in spectacular style. Having failed, like most of the other participants, to catch and eat anything, Martin is hungry as hell and isn’t going to take it any more. He sets off on a ragingly incoherent rant, screaming at the top of his lungs about the life the nomads lead and accusing another one of the volunteers of being patronising towards them. Martin’s point, so far as I could decipher it from his ramblings, was that the nomads live a harsh existence, and are amongst the poorest people on Earth, and that it is patronising to regard them as being Noble Savages or somehow representing a better, purer, more wholesome way of life. Which is a fair point to make, but he does a terrible job of making it, and he completely disrupts the tribe’s otherwise quiet existence. The nomad leader threatened to pull out of the show a couple of times because of Martin’s insane behaviour; I couldn’t help but feel that he was being awfully patient with the British. If a gang of foreigners started to live in my house, expected me to take them to Tesco’s to show them where all the food is, and then started yelling at each other in a language which most of my housemates don’t understand but apparently involves how shitty my lifestyle is, I certainly wouldn’t let them stay, no matter how much the BBC bribed me. Which leads me on to the part which got me angry. After Martin’s flood of wrath subsides, we see some of the tribespeople talking to the camera, telling us about how tired they are of having these chubby British freeloaders in their camp, and complaining that the British aren’t really joining in with tribal life, even though the programme is supposed to be about their nomadic culture. This is the part which got me angry: I get the decided impression that all of the participants in this programme – the on-site nutritionists, the nomads, and the British volunteers – were told different things about what the programme was going to be about. In a display of 21st century multimedia digital virtual interactive colonialism, the tribespeople have been led to believe that the show is about them and their lives, and about how they teach the British volunteers their ways, but aside from their leader they are almost invisible – the directors never show us the details of their lives, or even give us enough detail to distinguish between them, because the focus is on the fat folk and their antics. The tribe becomes a nameless, anonymous mass of humanity living a lifestyle which is only hazily depicted. The volunteers, meanwhile, have been led to believe that the programme is going to be all about their waistlines, but they’ve been placed in a totally artificial situation. I don’t see how forcing people to eat wild birds in the savannah is going to allow them to resist easily-available junk food back home. Indeed, when Martin quits the show, the last we see of him is an image of him stuffing him face in front of a table laden with food. The nutritionists seem deeply uncomfortable about the whole situation, as if they are vaguely aware of what the real point of the show is – schadenfreude – but feel obliged to make the best of it and try to help. They get nowhere. The British contingent are terrible and unco-operative, especially the guys, who behave like spoiled manchildren, while the nomads just want to get on with their lives. I don’t think I saw a single segment where the nutritionists are discussing things with the tribespeople. Did they even speak to their hosts, or were they too embarrassed? The hapless volunteers are going to learn nothing which is going to help them lose weight or balance their diet when they get home, precisely because sub-Saharan Africa and suburban Britain are two utterly different worlds. The nomads clearly think that the point of the exercise is to teach British people about their culture and lifestyle, and it patently isn’t. The nutritionists reminded me of nothing more than frustrated parents on Honey, We’re Killing the Kids, trying desperately to look after a bunch of spoiled children who can’t handle even the fake, artificial hardship the programme has inflicted on them. I, meanwhile, am disgusted. Jumping the Shark On a National Trust Planet Point Horror and the Fantasy Boom	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line783
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__label__wiki	0.973602	0.973602	Cole Swindell Offers an Update on His Third Studio Album Gayle Thompson Kevin Winter, Getty Images for iHeartMedia Cole Swindell's current single, "Stay Downtown," will be his last from his sophomore album, You Should Be Here. The 34-year-old says he is about halfway finished with his third studio record, which will show a different, more mature side. "I’ve got songs on there that I’ve written that I loved, but there’s some also that I didn’t, that I’m honored to even have a chance to record, and some of them that are just going to rip your heart out," Swindell shared with The Boot and other reporters at a recent media event. "I think it’s got a good mixture. I’m still going to have the fun stuff -- I’m not going straight to serious -- but I think I’ve been given a platform, and it’s okay to say what I want to now. They’re just songs that are going to mean a lot to people on here, a lot to me. I think it’s a good mixture of songs I wrote that I believe in, and songs that I wish I had written, because I’m a big fan of all of our songwriters." Swindell has written all seven of his previously released singles, with each of them landing at the top of the charts. "Stay Downtown," however, was written by Matt Dragstrem and Cole Taylor, and Swindell says he knew as soon as he heard it that he wanted to include it on You Should Be Here. "It’s my first taste of having a song out there that I didn’t write, that I love and believe in," he shares. "I always said, I’m always going to return the favor, if I believe in somebody’s stuff, and this is my chance to release one that I wasn’t fortunate enough to write." Although Swindell loves writing songs as much as he does singing them, he hopes to give other songwriters a chance on his upcoming record as well. "I know what it’s like to get a song recorded," he says. "The fact that they’re sending their best stuff to me, that’s the biggest compliment I think I could get ... That’s the thing I hate about it is, I’m not going to be able to release them all. That’s where I’m at with the You Should Be Here album: There’s still songs I wish I could release off of it, that hopefully people that have heard the album will hear, but you never get to single them." Whether Swindell writes it or not, the 34-year-old hopes to have at least one collaboration with another artist on his upcoming set of tunes. "It’s tough finding somebody that fits the song and hasn’t already had a song out with so-and-so this year. It’s a tough deal. There’s so many good options, so I’m going to find somebody …," he explains. "I’ve got a couple options for songs that I love. It might depend on who’s open to sing it and who’s willing to do it. That’s a big deal for someone to sing on a song with you, so I’ve got to find somebody that will do it first." Swindell doesn't know when his next album will be released, but he admits he is about "halfway done" with the project. "I'm excited about it," boasts Swindell. "I remember when I finished You Should Be Here, I couldn’t even imagine ever making another album. I was like, ‘This is as good as I can do.’ And time comes around, and they’re like, ‘Hey, when you coming back in the studio?’ You realize, ‘All right, I’ve got to start writing.'" Swindell will have a busy start to 2018: He will kick off his Down Home Sessions Tour on Jan. 11 in Athens, Ga., and then will begin his headlining Reason to Drink Tour on Feb. 8, with Chris Janson and Lauren Alaina serving as his opening acts. A list of all of Swindell's upcoming shows is available on his website. NEXT: New Albums Coming in 2018 Source: Cole Swindell Offers an Update on His Third Studio Album Filed Under: Cole Swindell	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line787
__label__cc	0.549918	0.450082	Bug Reports and Feature Discussions England, Scotland and Wales are separate countries By ExtremeNorthWales, April 5, 2013 in Website +ExtremeNorthWales 2 ExtremeNorthWales 2 I find it extremely annoying and quite frankly ignorant, that TPTB refer to The United Kingdom as one country. The U.K. is NOT a country. I have found caches in three different countries; England, (where I am from) Wales, (where I currently reside) and Scotland (which I visited). My profile should state that I have cached in THREE countries. Because the map on the profile statistics page shows the U.K. as one big block, it implies that I have cached in Northern Ireland! I have not. When registering for the website, I was required to select which country I was born in. England was not an option and so I had no option but to select U.K. Some really obscure countries are listed, so why not England, Scotland and Wales?? If you agree with me, regardless of where you are from, please add your support to my campaign to have the constituent countries of the U.K. recognised separately. +The A-Team 1254 The A-Team 1254 On the jazz since 2009 AFAICT, while England, Wales, and Scotland are referred to as "countries", that word isn't used in the same way as it is applied to the rest of the world. The United Kingdom is the sovereign state, not the constituent "countries". The "Country" drop-down on this page should more correctly be labelled "Sovereign states" if the use of the word "country" is applied to those three regions. +Isonzo Karst 473 Isonzo Karst 473 10% platinum There's an article about this in the Help Center Place Names for the UK and Ireland AFAICT, while England, Wales, and Scotland are referred to as "countries", that. The United Kingdom is the sovereign state, not the constituent "countries". word isn't used in the same way as it is applied "o the rest of the world. The United Kingdom is the sovereign state, not the constituent "countries". The "Country" drop-down on this page should more correctly be labelled "Sovereign states" if the use of the word "country" is applied to those three regions. I have considered your response very carefully and looked into definitions of, "Country" and "Sovereign State". I agree with your comment that The United Kingdom is the Sovereign State, not the constituent countries. On the page you linked, it seems to me that the drop down box lists only countries, apart from United Kingdom, which is a sovereignty. I therefore disagree that the drop down should be labelled differently. The drop down is correctly labelled, as it has a list of countries. It just needs to differentiate between England, Scotland and Wales, instead of listing a sovereignty instead. In your reply, you refer to England, Scotland and Wales as regions. I strongly disagree with this. Each of the three countries are split into regions called Counties. For example, I am from Hampshire in England. My girlfriend is from Anglesey in Wales. England is not a "region" within The United Kingdom, it is one of the constituent countries. I think part of the problem here, is that this issue will only be important to the English, the Welsh and Scots. I'm sure people in America or Canada, couldn't care less whether it says United Kingdom in the drop down box. As a customer of the website, I find it to be incorrect and a little ignorant, so I'd like it changed, or at least some kind of response from TPTB. How can it be correct, that my stats show I have only cached in one country? I have cached in three. How can the map show (shaded in) that I have cached in Northern Ireland, when it is across the Irish Sea? When I clicked on the link, it took me to the Help Centre, but not to an article? I tried to search for the article, but it didn't generate any results for the search. +larryc43230 2 larryc43230 2 Wandering but seldom lost Try this link instead. --Larry Thank you for the link I'm not sure if I'm missing the point that is being made in the text there, but it seems to be talking about regions like the West Midlands and Southern Scotland. I don't see any reference to countries, other than the differentiation between Northern Ireland and the R.O.I. You misunderstand me. The United Kingdom isn't any different than the other entries on that list. They're all sovereign states. Canada is a sovereign state. India is a sovereign state. In the same way, the United Kingdom is a sovereign state. The term "country", generally, is a synonym for sovereign state. When you call England, Wales, and Scotland "countries", that word isn't being used in the same way as if you refer to India as a "country". In that usage, "country" seems closer to "state" or "province", although I do understand that they're closer to sovereign states than they are states or provinces. In your reply, you refer to England, Scotland and Wales as regions. I strongly disagree with this. "Region" is a generic term to describe an area, at least in the way I've used it. Many different things can be referred to as regions. You could consider Western Canada to be a region, even though there's no such political entity. North America is a region. The southwestern portion of my province is a region. Any sovereign state is a region. Basically, any geographical area you can define can be referred to as a region. "Region" is a generic term to describe an area, at least in the way I've used it. I apologize if that's the way you were using the term. I was being very defensive, as I felt that you were using the word "region" to decrease the significance of England. I only say this, because from my point of view, a region would have less importance than a country. I'll admit that I'm very patriotic. I think perhaps the English, when asked, would state that England is a country; whereas the rest of the World would say that the United Kingdom is a country. The articles I have read on the internet seem to suggest that either view is valid, depending on whether you are speaking technically or colloquially. As the website is essentially American (I feel) I can't expect TPTB to come around to my point of view. I can't recall which one exactly, but Groundspeak uses a specific website to base their list off of (it might be a UN list). I think it lists the United Kingdom as the country, which is why they've gone with that on the site. +The_Incredibles_ 23 The_Incredibles_ 23 I agree, they should be listed as 3 separate countries...which they are! While we're on the topic, I live in Canada and I found it annoying to have to scroll past Cambodia to get to Canada. Countries with the most caching should be at the top of the list. This is not just an issue at geocaching.com. Many websites will list the United States first, followed by all the other countries in alphabetical order, regardless of who their most frequent customers are. I guess if other people felt as strongly about this topic as I do, they would have commented by now. I don't see anyone adding support to my cause, so I guess it's a bit of a non-starter. The map issue does bug me, but I guess I'll just have to ignore it. It hasn't even been 10 hours yet since you started the thread. I would wait a bit. There's more traffic in the evenings. It might help to start a topic on the main forum as well. If you want, I can add my gripe about Canada being sandwiched between Cameroon and Cape Verde. I think you're missing the point. Have you ever told a Chinese person you thought they were Japanese? Or told an English person you thought they were Scottish? I have and it's not pretty. +Harry Dolphin 565 Harry Dolphin 565 Major Porpoise Perhaps your problem is that you are expecting reality or logic to reign supreme. Not so. Ground Speak plays by whatever list or rules it chooses to use. Even more humorous is that if you found a cache in Northern Ireland, it would count as a find in Ireland, not Great Britain, and would not color in Northern Ireland on the map. I had contemplated a trip to St. Pierre et Miquelon when it had one cache. That cache was listed as being in France. (St. Pierre et Miquelon is part of France amidst the Canadian Maritimes. At least the residents think they live in France. And the French think the residents live in France.) When the second cache hidden there was published, suddenly, it was no longer part of France. (Which probably comes as a shock to the French.) Yes. I would have taken the extra day, and fares, to find a cache in France. But not to find one in St. Perre et Miquelon. Oh, well. Enjoyed my visit to Newfoundland. So: No. Logic and reason do not play a part here. And it's futile to try to get GS to change its mind. Have you ever told a Chinese person you thought they were Japanese? Or told an English person you thought they were Scottish? I have and it's not pretty. I don't see that as what's happening here, though. From what I can see, the English person is being called British or considered to be living in the United Kingdom. While the English person may prefer to be called English, being called British is in no way incorrect. I liken it to being called Canadian, even though you and I live in British Columbia. British Columbian is correct, but so is Canadian. Groundspeak could have done this a number of ways. []Since caches already have the coordinates, they could have simple left country and state off. You search for caches and you get the nearest caches - as the crow flies - no matter the polictical jurisdiction or natural boundary that may separate you from the cache. []They could have allowed people to enter a state/country as free text, but this could have the issue of people using different names or choose a different level of classification. The same location could be in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom and all would be correct. []They could chose arbitrary designations for primary and secondary level classification. For the United States, they picked United States for country and the 50 states plus the District of Columbia for state. I live in the third largest state in area and the largest in population. Its ridiculous to me that California isn't broken down into regions. There are too many caches in California for that to help my search and many would require at least an overnight trip for me to go find. On the other hand, someone in the District of Columbia is likely to find more caches in Maryland and Virgnia. For me, it seems silly to split Great Britain by the traditional countries or even by the traditional counties. When you travel from England to Wales is isn't exactly as if you are crossing an international boarder and have to get your passport stamped. However, I seem to recall a cacher in Devonshire complained that Wales should be a separate country because caches in Wales showed up in their search even though it would take several hours to travel to them. The regions that the UK and Ireland reviewers came up with seem to be a resonable way to handle things. Edited April 5, 2013 by tozainamboku I don't see that as what's happening here, though. From what I can see, the English person is being called British or considered to be living in the United Kingdom. While the English person may prefer to be called English, being called British is in no way incorrect. Sure, they're British, but they do have names for their countries. Would you like it if "North America" was listed as a country? I liken it to being called Canadian, even though you and I live in British Columbia. British Columbian is correct, but so is Canadian. That's not a very good analogy. People from Scotland consider themselves very* distinct from the English. As do the Welsh. People get offended if you confuse them, just as you might not like being mistaken for an American. It's just not the same as comparing yourself to someone from another province. I'll try this again. The list of "countries" on this page consists of sovereign states (admittedly with a few oddball exceptions). Canada is a sovereign state. Argentina is a sovereign state. The United States is a sovereign state. The United Kingdom is a sovereign state. England, Wales, and Scotland are not sovereign states. North America is not a sovereign state. I think a lot of this confusion is due to the British using the term "country" to refer to the subdivisions of the United Kingdom. For most of the world, "country" means the same as sovereign state. In the UK, it does not. Canada is broken down into provinces. The USA consists of states. The UK consists of countries. While these don't all have the same level of self-government, they're all the major subdivisions of their respective sovereign states. Asking for the subdivisions of the UK to be listed separately in the geocaching.com list is no different than asking for the same thing for Canadian provinces, US states, German bundeslands, etc. The UK is the sovereign state, so that's why it's used in that list. Oh no. No, no and thrice NO! This is not the same thing at all. I had agreed with every single point in your last post, up until this paragraph. How can you say that England, Wales or Scotland are the equivalents of U.S. States or German bundeslands? I'm sorry, but I find that offensive. I'm sure that's not your intention, but I do. As I stated previously, our equivalent of U.S. states are our Counties, each of which have a County Council. We then have the English Government, the Welsh Assembly and the Scottish Parliament. Regardless of what is perceived in British Columbia/America/Canada, we are brought up here to believe that we live in a clearly defined country and that is important to us. The fact that this isn't respected in other parts of the world, are evident in this thread and on the website. Just to make it clear, I don't have any "beef" with anyone and I'm not here to fall out with anyone. I think it's just a good debate. Edited due to incorrect parentheses. Edited April 6, 2013 by alexrea I am happy to be called a "Brit", or a resident of the United Kingdom & Northern Ireland, or English (the country where I was born), or Cornish (the English county where I was born). I'm often called Welsh because we currently live in Wales. I agree with the OP that Great Britain (the big island) comprises three countries (England, Scotland and Wales) but for the purposes of finding plastic boxes I'm quite happy for them all to come under "the UK" - I know that we've found caches in England, Wales, Scotland, N Ireland, Eire (and various UK off-shore islands) but I feel no need to have them all separately listed. As I stated earlier in my post, I understand that these are not geo-politically equal. What I've been trying to describe (which seems to be falling on deaf ears) is that many sovereign states are broken down into sub-regions. It is in this way that they are equivalent. My Canadian dollar is broken down into cents, while your pound sterling is broken down into pence. Clearly these cents and pence aren't exactly the same, but the concept of subdivision is. Despite your interpretation of my posts, I'm in no way attempting to belittle England, Wales, or Scotland. I'm simply trying to explain why Geocaching.com has gone the way they have. Regardless of what is perceived in British Columbia/America/Canada, we are brought up here to believe that we live in a clearly defined country and that is important to us. I understand that you feel England is a distinct nation, but the fact remains that the rest of the world doesn't see England as being equivalent geo-politically to other sovereign states. For example, England, Wales, and Scotland do not have seats in the United Nations. The United Kingdom does. For the purposes of most global applications, England, Wales, and Scotland are not treated separately, but rather grouped together under the United Kingdom. I'll reiterate again that I'm not saying you're wrong in being patriotic. It's just that as far as the rest of the world is concerned, the United Kingdom is the sovereign state, not England, Wales, or Scotland. Until those get seats in the United Nations, I don't foresee that perception changing. +NanCycle 380 NanCycle 380 I understand your annoyance, but I think you're out of line in calling Groundspeak "ignorant." This isn't really a geocaching issue, nor is it a result of Groundspeak being a US company. If you'll look at the websites for the London Olympics, you won't see England, Scotland and Wales listed as participating countries; the "Country" for which English, Scottish and Welsh athletes competed was referred to as "Great Britain and N. Ireland." However those who are trying to make a comparison with US states or Canadian provinces are off the mark. I don't know if there's another case in the world which is analogous to the UK situation. Oh there probably are several states in the world that are compose of people of varying nationalities who claim one part of the territory of that state as their country. The former Soviet Union was certainly a case. I would say that within the Russian Federation today there are several national groups that claim territory. Maybe the most well known case today is in China with Tibetans considered a separate nationality and Tibet being the homeland of the Tibetan people - even if the Chinese government doesn't want you to call it a country. Even in the United States and Canada many of the aboriginal tribes are recognized as nations and their lands have a degree of sovereignty from the surrounding states. The historic areas of Great Britain that were occupied by by Celtic and later Anglo-Saxon tribes where each had developed a separate language and unique cultural traits, certainly fit the definition of nationality. As the Anglo-Saxon tribes gained dominance and later after the Norman French invasion, these countries became ruled by one monarchy. Over time the English language and culture came to dominate (though amazingly years later the people of Scotland and Wales have managed to hold on to some local use of their languages and to have preserved some of their culture). The English have also benefited with these Scottish and Welsh influences making their own culture and history richer. While in recent years, Parliament have give greater autonomy to the non-English regions. But under the common view of geopolitical nation states, it is obvious that the United Kingdom is what most of the world sees as a Country. I salute the Country of the United Kingdom in its almost but not quite unique situation of combining people of different nationalities under one state. I apologise for using the term "ignorant", that's probably a bit much. I disagree however, that this isn't a geocaching issue. The reason this is a geocaching issue, is that it involves the geocaching.com website. The map on my profile page is filled in inaccurately. This is a result of the U.K. being considered as a whole, instead of the individual countries I have cached in. So yes, it is a geocaching issue. Furthermore, if Groundspeak were a U.K. company, I think they would mark the map accordingly. I certainly don't think they would make it appear that I have been to Northern Ireland. +Ruddles1325 0 Ruddles1325 0 Presumably finding a cache anywhere in mainland USA will show you as having found a cache in Hawaii and Alaska...is that better or worse? I'd be interested to know if this is the case. That sounds pretty ridiculous. At least they're in the same country I suppose. I thought Hawaii was part of the UK? More the point. Hawaii was at one time a separate country with its own king and queen. While native Hawaiians are a now a minority of the state's population, their efforts to retain their language and culture would no doubt seem familiar to someone Welsh or Scottish. Not meaning to argue with you, but to clarify: the reason I said that this isn't a geocaching issue (I understand that to you it has become one) and that it has nothing to do with Groundspseak being a US company is that, as The A-Team pointed out, Groundspeak is simply using the same protocol as the United Nations. Yes, the UN headquarters is in the US, but I don't think that makes it a US organization. And as I pointed out, the International Olympic Committee uses the country name "Great Britain and N. Ireland," which I believe (if I am mistaken please correct me) covers the same area as the United Kingdom. Groundspeak did not invent the designation; they are merely following common usage. Perhaps you should appeal to "higher powers." Edit: A bit of further research shows that the complete name is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." Now I wonder why doesn't the IOC use "The United Kingdom"? Edited April 7, 2013 by NanCycle When looking at the Caches Found in the World Map, all states of the US including Alaska and Hawaii are shaded equally so that it appears that caches were found in every state. This is because it is all one country. See The A-Team's profile. When looking at Caches Found in the US Map, only states in which caches were actually found are shaded, and unequally--depending on the number of caches found in each state. And as I pointed out, the International Olympic Committee uses the country name "Great Britain and N. Ireland," which I believe (if I am mistaken please correct me) covers the same area as the United Kingdom. And yet F.I.F.A. recognises England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and The R.O.I. as separate countries. So in the World Cup, we don't compete as the United Kingdom, or Great Britain. I believe the same is also true of rugby and cricket. Hawaii is a U.S. State. I think it was at one time part of the British Empire, hence the flag. team tisri 3 Honestly (and I speak as someone who lives in England) it's not something I see as important. I don't see the fact I have Northern Ireland coloured on my "where I cached" maps as being any more troublesome than having Alaska and Hawaii coloured (obviously I've found a few caches in the UK, and several in the US but not in Alaska). I'd rate this as a "might be nice to have" change but nothing worthy of any particular attention. On the "countries cached in" map I've got the whole of North America shaded. I've found caches in 11 states (not including Alaska or Hawaii, which are shaded), and two caches in Ontario. But then it's really not that different from the way other maps work - you can ask the question "did I find any caches in the US" where the answer changes from "No" to "Yes" as soon as I find a single cache. Then you can drill down into individual states which will give some differentiation between the person who found caches in all 50 states and the person who popped out of the airport to grab a cache while waiting for a connecting flight. Then if you really want to you can look at county level maps. My maps look nice enough at state level but the county level map shows, for example, that I found a couple of caches in a rest stop in West Virginia and that's all I found in the state. Personally when I go caching I'm more interested in finding little boxes than fussing over exactly what to call the area where I found them. +NYPaddleCacher 1042 NYPaddleCacher 1042 The "countries" list is based on the UN geopolitical ontology. I just took a look at it (I use it for a couple of different applications I've developed and frequently work with the UN agency which developed the ontology) and it lists "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" and does not list England, Scotland, or Wales as separate countries. One of the other commonly used sources of geopolitical regions information is the CIA World factbook. It also just lists the United Kingdom, and does not mention England, Scotland, or Wales. +MrCJDL 0 MrCJDL 0 The United Kingdom is a sovereign state. England, Wales, and Scotland are not sovereign states. North America is not a sovereign state. This offends me. Whilst, after the treaties of 1706 & 1707 (passed by skullduggery and bribery) The United Kingdom came into being as a sovereign state... Scotland is still a Sovereign nation... it did not cease to exist, it simply joined a political union with England. More to the point, the people of Scotland are sovereign. See Declaration of Arbroath [1320] (US Declaration of Independence has roots in this document). This offends me. You must have gotten offended and stopped reading. I'll repost how I ended off my last post: The basic truth is that the rest of the world doesn't see those regions as being sovereign nations. That doesn't mean you're wrong in considering Scotland to be sovereign, but that view isn't widely shared by others around the world. Anyway, if what I said offends you, I'm not the one you should be directing your frustration towards. I'm simply the messenger describing how the rest of the world sees things. You should be directing your concerns towards the United Nations and its member nations, as well as throwing your support behind the Scottish independence movement. Er, yeah, you're right, my eyes glazed over with rage. ha. Interestingly, NATO Secretary General George Robertson 1999-2003 signed the Claim of Right, reaffirming the sovereignty of the Scottish people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claim_of_Right_1989 And yes, I'm already a fully paid up member... the sooner we get rid of the ball and chain that is Westminster, the better. I sense this is about to descend into a political argument , so I'm going to bow out now... after saying: I agree with the OP ! Edited April 19, 2013 by cjdl +Kacher82 4 Kacher82 4 Seeker of All That is Hidden What it looks like to me on the map issue, is instead of a map showing where you've found caches in Europe, it should have a map showing the divisions of the U.K.. That would be similar to my profile, where I have a map showing the countries of the world, with the U.S. shaded, and one showing the states of the U.S., with the 10 states I've cached in shaded. The map of Europe is like if I had a map of North America, with the U.S. shaded. Edited April 19, 2013 by Kacher82 I think I see the problem: Claim of Right We, gathered as the Scottish Constitutional Convention, do hereby acknowledge the sovereign right of the Scottish people to determine the form of Government best suited to their needs, and do hereby declare and pledge that in all our actions and deliberations their interests shall be paramount. We further declare and pledge that our actions and deliberations shall be directed to the following ends: To agree a scheme for an Assembly or Parliament for Scotland; To mobilise Scottish opinion and ensure the approval of the Scottish people for that scheme; and To assert the right of the Scottish people to secure implementation of that scheme. Here's the proper way to get rid of English rule: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. And the next time someone suggests my posts are too long, I will remind them of Thomas Jefferson. the sooner we get rid of the ball and chain that is Westminster, the better. I sense this is about to descend into a political argument , so I'm going to bow out now... after saying: I agree with the OP ! Thank you for agreeing. I hope you get your independance btw, I'd be all for that. Good luck on your own if it happens +Tschakko 0 Tschakko 0 We have a similar kind of "regionalism" in Germany. For example I would never ever want to be called a Bavarian. Also many Bavarians consider themselves a country in no need of the rest of Germany. I guess there is a similar issue in Spain with Barcelona and the Catalan region. For my part y know the term "country" equal to "sovereign state". And all the different regions (I use it as defined above) of the UK as well as Germany or Spain as they might have been sovereign at one point in history, they are not now. Who knows. One day we might not even be able to call UK, Germany or Spain a "country" anymore. This would be the case if the EU becomes a sovereign state and therfore a country itself. Although if it keeps going as it is I do have doubts that´s ever gonna happen. Actually, there are twenty-three countries in North America. Plus another twenty-seven dependent territories and 'other areas', according to Wiki. Edited April 20, 2013 by Harry Dolphin +Gumbys4eva 0 Gumbys4eva 0 Just curious, but I'm wondering what flag is flown for athletes from Scotland, Wales, England during the Olympics? Or are they one big happy team? BTW, I think it would be a great idea to have them listed as separate countries on Geocaching.com. Just curious, but I'm wondering what flag is flown for athletes from Scotland, Wales, England during the Olympics? Or are they one big happy team? The athletes from those countries compete as Team Great Britain. The flag flown is the Union Jack. One of my grandfathers was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1872. My surname is Scottish. That's why I refer to myself as a Fifth of Scotch. Nope. Not English or the cumbersome UKish. His father-in-law emigrated in 1860 from Prague in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. So I call myself a quarter Czech. Though he may have been from anywhere in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. And with his last name, he might have been Hungarian. So. If I visit Prague, can I get the Austro-Hungarian Empire colored in? (My mother was of German heritage. Half Plattdeutsch, half Hochdeutsch.) Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. +Yellow ants 0 Yellow ants 0 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Stric The list of "countries" on this page consists of sovereign states (admittedly with a few oddball exceptions). "A few"? If you can include more than 50 non-sovereign entities like Åland Islands, American Samoa, Anguilla, Antarctica, Aruba, Belgium, Bermuda, Bonaire, Bouvet Island, British Indian Ocean Territories, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Curacao, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guernsey, Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Jersey, Macau, Martinique, Mayotte, Montserrat, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Saba, Saint Helena, South Georgia and Sandwich Islands, St Barthelemy, St Eustatius, St Pierre Miquelon, St. Martin, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Tokelau, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Minor Outlying Islands, US Virgin Islands and Wallis And Futuna Islands in that list, you can surely manage to split the UK into England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland? Funny you should bring up the Olympics. The only reason you don't see Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales in the participating countries list is because they competed as Team GB for the 2012 Olympics - presumably so the Scots, Welsh and Irish wouldn't complain too much about the English getting the Olympics. At any other modern Olympics the four countries have sent separate teams. Here's a list of Scottish medal winners, for instance. I think the two countries of Flanders and Wallonia might take exeception to calling their sovereignity in question. Bonus points to you for actually reading the list! "Land of Sprouts and Chocolate, I Think Not." Go To Topic Listing Website	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line788
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__label__wiki	0.990108	0.990108	Sri Lanka Muslim women put hijab away out of fear Many women said they stopped wearing them after the Easter attacks Colombo: Religious tensions and a government ban on covering the face since the Easter Sunday suicide attacks have forced conservative Muslim women in Sri Lanka to shun veils, head scarves and long robes in public. Muslims in the South Asian nation have felt they are a target ever since suicide bombers killed more than 250 people with their coordinated strikes on six churches and hotels. Many women said they stopped wearing niqab face veils, hijab scarves and abaya robes straight after the attacks, which have been claimed by Daesh. On Monday, the Sri Lanka government banned women from covering their face in public, bringing it into line with a number of European countries, including France, Denmark and Belgium. Sri Lanka's population of 21 million is a patchwork of ethnicities and religions, dominated by the Sinhalese Buddhist majority. Muslims constitute about 10 per cent of the population while Christians are the third-largest religious group. "I have stopped wearing the abaya and hijab in the last few days because of the comments and looks I was getting," said one Muslim widow, asking not to be named. "I will start wearing them when the situation is calmer and people are less paranoid," she said. "The hijab has not been banned, but people look suspiciously when they see me in it." Buddhist welcome Mareena Thaha Reffai, a Muslim preacher and head of a women's organisation, said it was better to comply with the ban than to trigger a religious dispute. "This is not the time to argue about rights. Two hundred and fifty people have died, 500 wounded," Reffai told AFP. "Let emotions go down. Let us talk about this (ban) leisurely." Reffai did not believe there was any rationale for the ban when none of the suicide bombers concealed their identity as they blew up Christian worshippers at three Easter services and foreign tourists as they queued for breakfast at three Colombo hotels. The country's Roman Catholic leader, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, would not weigh in on the ban though he said that some of the Islamic community had called for it. "We can't take a position," the cardinal told AFP. "We don't know what is at the base and behind this strategy... But the Muslim clerics themselves wanted it." Top Buddhist monk Omalpe Sobitha welcomed the niqab ban. "When people cover their faces, we don't know who is behind that veil," he said. "Even criminals could use these clothing to conceal their identity, so it is a good move to ban this." He highlighted how European nations had also banned face covering for security reasons. Most Sri Lankan Muslim women practice a liberal form of Islam and do not cover their faces in public. Avoid face off Sri Lanka's council of Islamic clerics had appealed to Muslim women days before the government ban not to cover their faces. "We strongly appeal to our sisters to be mindful of the critical emergency situation now prevalent in our country," the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama said in a statement. "We advise that in the prevailing situation our sisters should not hinder the security forces in their efforts to maintain national security by wearing the face cover." Tight security has been imposed with thousands of troops deployed. Cordon-and-search operations staged since the April 21 attacks are a throwback to the country's war-era. Restrictions had eased after government forces defeated separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009. Roadblocks and checkpoints were dismantled allowing free movement. After the Easter attacks, the war-time constraints returned. Several Muslims felt the dress code distracted from the bigger problem: the intelligence failure that led to the devastating attacks. The government has admitted that it had prior warnings about the suicide bombers, but no top minister was told and no one took it seriously enough to avert the disaster. More From Asia At least four killed in blast near Kabul University The explosion took place near the southern entrance to Kabul University The fatal lure of cults in Japan Worst mass killing in Japan in almost two decades	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line792
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__label__wiki	0.952816	0.952816	Youngster Set For Old Trafford Exit By DBSFootball on August 7, 2011 Manchester United are close to selling their young French winger, Gabriel Obertan to Newcastle in a £3 million deal. The 22 year-old, who signed for United in 2009 after Cristiano Ronaldo had left for Real Madrid, has found it difficult to establish a starting spot and has rarely impressed at Old Trafford. He was relatively unknown before his £3 million move to United, and after two seasons with only 28 appearances and one goal in total, as well as a bunch of reserve games in which he seemed a lot more comfortable, Sir Alex Ferguson is ready to say goodbye. Few will be shedding a tear at the thought of Obertan departing United, but most at the club will wish him well for the future at a club whose fans may give him more time and exert less pressure or immediate expectation on an inexperienced, young, potential talent. According to the Mail, the player has agreed a five year deal at Newcastle after discussing personal terms, with United expecting to recoup the fee paid for him in 2009. Submitted by http://dbs-football.blogspot.com he will do good there but at united he didn’t really get a run of games	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line797
__label__cc	0.624939	0.375061	Scotland: The Fringe, The Tattoo, Loch Ness and St Andrews… Posted by Jane R Hendrickson in Travel In May while we were in the Canary Islands we were thrilled to meet some folks from Scotland since that’s where we were planning to spend August. We told them we’d like to pick their brains on what we should see and do during our time there. They explained we were really lucky to be in Edinburgh during “The Fringe” and then in the next breath asked if we had booked our place to stay as “The Fringe” is the biggest cultural extravaganza in the world. We had no idea! I immediately got online and began to search for a place to stay…that would be convenient yet affordable. As luck would have it, a woman had just listed her apartment that day. After a few interactions we booked it! And I’m so glad we did. On our train trip from Inverness to Edinburgh we sat with a lovely couple from Inverness who were travelling to see friends in a small town near Edinburgh just as they do every year during “The Fringe.” They go annually for three or four days and offered some suggestions on what they had seen that we might like. Word of mouth has helped direct us to so many interesting places! “The Fringe” is a three week arts festival in August. While the majority of performances are comedy and theatre, there is lots of dance and music. Each performance lasts about an hour and prices vary. Some are free but the most expensive tickets we saw were 15 euros. Most were in the 5 or 6 euro range. There are over 40,000 performances in virtually every available nook and cranny in the city. And in addition, there are street performers everywhere. Fringe programs are free for the taking and available at every performance and street corner, although we found it easiest to look online and sort by venue or time. How anyone puts together the program is beyond my comprehension! To make the festival even more special, both Cary and Patrick flew in to spend a week with us. We couldn’t resist going to see Trumpageddon. He had Trump’s mannerisms down pat. And it was especially funny seeing Trump through the eyes of a European performer. He even took questions from the audience. A favorite show for the four of us was Aladdin and His Magical European Refugee Tour 2016 performed by Asleik & Jon, a Norwegian duo who did a wonderful comedic routine about the immigrant crisis. So good in fact we thought it would be wonderful to show to school children throughout the world! There were also some big names. We went to see Ron White on the last day of the festival. He was hilarious. Several had told us that while we were in Edinburgh that the Military Tattoo was a must do! We had read that The Military Tattoo was first performed in 1950. The name comes from British Regiment’s Practice of playing to notify taverns t0 turn off their taps. Later in the eighteenth century the term Tattoo came to mean the last duty call of the day. This year we watched military bands, dancers, singers and various other performers from more than 16 countries. The event always takes place on the Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle and incorporates both pyrotechnics and lasers using the castle as a backdrop! It’s really spectacular. The Tattoo has been sold out for the past eighteen years and never once in its 67 year history has it been cancelled because of inclement weather. Nearly two hours of nonstop music! (Check this out if you want to see the 2016 Tattoo in its entirety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvWGB8gDLDE) England’s national anthem, was followed by Auld Lang Syne and the Evening Hymn remembering all who died a century ago in World War I. Finally, the lone piper played “Sleep Soldier Sleep” which was really moving and then the massed bands performed a finale to end the amazing evening, one which none of us will ever forget. While we love the cities of Scotland we decided that our kids should see the Highlands in order to have a more complete picture of the country. I found a bus tour that took us first through Dean’s Distillary. After touring the distillary we were invited for a taste…although 10 o’clock in the morning is a bit early for whiskey, it still was pretty good! We then traveled on through the Highlands heading for Loch Ness making various short stops along the way. The scenery was spectacular! By the time we arrived at Loch Ness the sun was shining and it had warmed up considerably. We took an hour cruise peeling our eyes for a glimpse of Nessie but no luck. Some have suggested that the chances of seeing Nessie improve with a few drinks of the famous Scotch whiskey! Instead we settled for the local brews on board the boat. Heading back we traveled briefly through Cairngorms National Park, with its lovely glens and lochs. The coach driver once again impressed us with his knowledge of the history of the area. Whenever we think of Scotland, St. Andrews usually comes to mind and its famous golf course. Our family has always had a special love for miniature golf so when we found out that St. Andrews has a miniature golf course right next to its old course we thought we’d like to play it. We found a train that came quite near to the the city and from there we took a taxi. We had checked online to make sure the course was open so when we got there and found that it was going to close from noon to 4 for a special function we were really disappointed, but then we decided we’d just venture on into the city, have some lunch, take a look around and then come back and play at 4. St. Andrews is a really pretty city with a lovely castle dating from the late 1100’s right on the edge of the North Sea. It’s also home to St. Andrews University which dates from 1410 making it the third oldest in the UK (after Oxford and Cambridge) and the place where Prince William met Kate Middleton. There’s even a restaurant marking the spot. The Brits do like their royalty! Patrick and I walked around the city while Cary and her dad enjoyed the sun (and caught a little shuteye) on the campus. We got back to the golf course just as it opened. I don’t know what I was expecting to pay but when the woman at the gate said it would be 4 euros total for the 4 of us I was really surprised. While we only used a putter, the course was on real undulating greens (and not much like a putt putt course) but it was really fun. Patrick came in first and I was thrilled because for the first time in my life I beat Bob! And the four of us can now reference the time we played golf at St. Andrews! The day before Patrick was to fly home we decided we’d like to at least get a taste of Glasgow. The train trip is less than an hour. Glasgow struck me as far more a regular city than Edinburgh and with less history. But still it was an interesting place. As usual we did the Hop On Hop Off bus to get an overview of the city. Glasgow is a city of murals! St. Mungo is one I particularly like. It was done by the Australian street artist, Smug, of Mungo who lived in the sixth century but in the mural is attired in the clothing of today. The story goes that children were throwing stones at robins and then ran away, but Mungo ran toward the bird, revived it and it flew away. It’s thought to be a miracle thus making Mungo the patron saint of Glasgow. Smug also painted the mural, “The Swimmer” to celebrate the Commonwealth Games in 2014. It’s huge and strategically placed at a stoplight so that folks have time to gaze upon the massive piece! The statue of the first Duke of Wellington in the center of Glasgow traditionally has a cone on his head indicating the humor of the people of Glasgow. It’s been quite the controversy. Fines have been issued; they’ve even attempted to make the statue taller thus making it more difficult to put the cone on his head. All has failed…so far! And we also wandered through the pedestrian streets downtown and stopped and tried the local beer. Cary had headed back to her job. Patrick had headed home as well. It was soon time to wind up our travels in the UK and now that we had been out of the Schengen countries for 90 days we were allowed to re-enter. We had booked a train from Edinburgh to London in order to see more of the English countryside. Then we spent the night in London and are headed next to Sicily! We’re really looking forward to warmer weather! Seeing the World	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line798
__label__wiki	0.925432	0.925432	Stephen Amell Shares Brand New Look At His 'Arrow' Season 8 Suit Report: Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Will Be At San Diego Comic Con by Ryden Scarnato on June 19, 2019 It is being reported that Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick will have some kind of a presence at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. NXIVM Leader Found Guilty In Sex Trafficking Case Involving Smallville Star Allison Mack Two minutes of Top Gun: Maverick footage was recently screened at CineEurope and now the marketing campaign could be stopping at San Diego Comic Con next. Deadline is reporting that Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick will have some kind of presence at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. The Hollywood trade couldn’t confirm whether Tom Cruise will be present. It was reported yesterday that Marvel Studios will have a panel at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. It is expected that the studio will announce their upcoming slate of films. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. and DC will be skipping Hall H for the first time in 20 years. Matthew Vaughn’s ‘Kingsman’ Prequel Film Gets An Official Title What do you think Paramount will show at San Diego Comic Con? Do you think Tom Cruise will attend? Sound off in the comments below! Directed by Tron: Legacy‘s Joseph Kosinski from a script written by Peter Craig, Justin Marks, Ashley Edward Miller, and Zack Stentz with Christopher McQuarrie. Top Gun: Maverick features the star studded cast of Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Val Kilmer, Kelly McGillis, Jennifer Connelly, Glen Powell, Monica Barbaro, Thomasin McKenzie, Charles Parnell, Jay Ellis, Bashir Salahuddin, Danny Ramirez, Jon Hamm, and Ed Harris. Top Gun: Maverick is scheduled to be released in theaters on June 26, 2020. Stay tuned for all the latest news on this year’s San Diego Comic Con, which takes place July 18-21. Disney Unveils New Character Posters For ‘The Lion King’ Remake Disney released several new character posters for the remake of The Lion King. Disney's remake The Lion King is next in the studios' line-up of live-action retellings of their animated classics and now several new character posters for the film have been unveiled. These new posters for The Lion King may offer the best look yet at the photo-realistic versions of Simba, Nala, Mufasa, Scar, Timon, Pumbaa, Sarabi, young Simba, young Nala, Sarabi, Rafiki, and Zazu. Check out the Lion King poster for Simba below and click "next" to view the rest of the gallery! What do you think of the new posters from Disney? Are you among those who are excited to see the beloved film retold in a realistic setting or do you agree with the others who are growing weary of Disney's live-action remakes? Share your thoughts in the comments section below! Here is the official synopsis for The Lion King: Director Jon Favreau’s all-new “The Lion King” journeys to the African savanna where a future king is born. Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub’s arrival. Scar, Mufasa’s brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba’s exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his. Directed by Jon Favreau from a script written by Jeff Nathanson, The Lion Kingstars Donald Glover as Simba, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as Nala, James Earl Jones as Mufasa, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa and Billy Eichner as Timon. The Lion King will be released in theaters on July 19, 2019. Ryden Scarnato Stephen Amell Shares Brand New Look At His ‘Arrow’ Season 8 Suit	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line803
__label__cc	0.565656	0.434344	Can we classify holocaust as Hitler's war time strategic mistake? Can we classify the Holocaust as one of Hitler's war time strategic mistake? world-war-two warfare hitler strategy holocaust fortytwofortytwo Given that this question assumes intentionalism, have you looked at other questions about intentionalism and functionalism. "The prior question" is: did Hitler take the decision to annihilate the Jews from the face of the earth? Much contemporary scholarship suggests most of the German State, political and economic Elite, and Armed forces also made the same decision at the same time and often with an independent scope of action and responsibility. – Samuel Russell Apr 19 '13 at 5:05 There is simply too much assumption in this question and not enough research. Does "war time strategic mistake" mean "strategic decisions"? Was genocide a strategic military decision? (I don't think so). – Mark C. Wallace♦ Apr 19 '13 at 11:21 @Mark C.Wallace: It was not a "strategic military decision." But it was a political decision that (probably) had military implications. – Tom Au Apr 19 '13 at 13:05 Welcome to the site. A decent first question and an upvote. Thanks for TRYING to define the terms in your question. Unlike some other commentators, I believe you succeeded. – Tom Au Apr 19 '13 at 13:09 @bhau It would be best to focus this question to avoid assessment of Hitler's other "war time strategic mistakes" and ask specifically about the effect of the holocaust on the German war effort. This makes it far more answerable. That answer would help in comparing it to other decisions like the invasion of the USSR, which is a huge subjective question of vast scope. – Nathan Cooper Apr 21 '13 at 14:21 The German and Austrian Jewish population was about 750,000, of which three quarters were exterminated. Whereas the total German population was about 70 million. But 1941, when the extermination program began the number of Jewish forced labourers in German was 60,000, compared to the 2,000,000 foreign labourers (Fremdarbeiter) [source]. The Nazis decided that this was not an economic impediment to the Holocaust. Furthermore, in regions where the sudden absence of Jewish Labour would have been a problem they delayed the process to allow for their replacement. It seems logical that the movement from forced labour to Extermination through Labour and the Holocaust of the Jewish population would have lead to costs (from the inefficiency of moving skilled workers to hard labour, to the expenses of diverting effort to commit to commit these awful crimes). These must have been the disruptions the Nazis had in mind and saw as no economic reason not to proceed. I will say the Jews brought from conquered lands for forced labour probably would have been an overall benefit to the German war effort, but I'm not including that as the "holocaust" as I'm assuming the alternative the questioner has in mind is assigning these foreign Jews to the Fremdarbeiter system anyway. So no, it wasn't a massive strategic mistake. I've not considered other angles, like it's effect on their nuclear program, but in raw economic terms the Nazi's don't seem to have been punished for their terrible crimes. So, to conclude, Holocaust, whilst being one of the most horrendous crimes against humanity in history, wasn't as economically significant as OP may have suspected. Nathan CooperNathan Cooper @Virgo yeah, thanks, you're right. Edited. – Nathan Cooper Dec 22 '16 at 23:50 If the thrust of the question is, did Hitler lose World War II because of the way he treated the Jews and other people he didn't like, that is a very interesting question. There are actually TWO issues here. 1) Did the cost of resources expended in the Holocaust help defeat the war effort, and 2) Did the "opportunity cost" of the Holocaust help the defeat the war effort. The answer to 1) is probably not. Others have answered better than yours truly, that when you net out Germany's gains from "forced labor" and the cost of running the "program," the net result was probably close to zero. The more interesting question is, did Hitler miss an opportunity to win World War II by treating the Jews (and others) BETTER than he did? One of the big "what ifs" of World War II, was "Suppose Hitler had declared war on "Russia" instead of the Soviet Union, and posed as a "liberator" to the people of the Baltic, Belarus, Ukraine, etc., enlisting their young men in his army (and depriving Russia of them). What would have happened?" In fact, many "Soviet" people initially welcomed the Germans as such, until the effect of Nazi policies became apparent. Without going into the question of whether Hitler would have actually won the war, it is safe to say that he would have gotten "closer" to winning if he had treated Jews, Poles, and non-Russian Soviets better. (Fewer partisan attacks in Russia and revolts in Warsaw, for one.) Not doing so was a major strategic mistake. Regarding what he considered a "lost opportunity," a former Luftwaffe pilot (aged 77 when I met him in 1991) opined, "If we had hung on to people like Einstein (the Jewish atomic scientists), they could have won the war for us. I don't love those people, but I don't hate them, either." He was perhaps a minority among Germans is thinking in terms of "whatever we needed to do to win," but considering who he had been, that was a very interesting observation. Tom AuTom Au Hitler DID welcome Ukrainians and Baltic people into his supporters. A large portion did participate (see Vlasov as a random example) – DVK Apr 22 '13 at 17:21 @DVK: Yes, initially there was a large pool of latent support for the Germans but they squandered it very quickly by treating practically everybody else as some form of non/semi-human scum. Vlasov joined up with the Germans on the assumption they would let him form some sort of semi-autonomous government but this never happened, as the Germans went East looking for slaves, not for allies of any degree of subservience. Thus Vlasov's movement never really got of the ground - people did not sign up with him, seeing he had nothing much to offer in terms of perspectives for the future. – Felix Goldberg Apr 30 '13 at 9:53 and you discount the fact that one of the reasons he had the support he had among the German people was his stance against Jews and other "undesirables". Without that, it's quite likely he'd not have gained the fanatical loyalty of the German people, that they'd not have put up with the hardships they did put up with. – jwenting Oct 7 '14 at 9:17 DISCLAIMER - the answer is written from the point of view of Reich's rulers Invading the USSR was not a strategic blunder, the timing however was unfortunate. The alliance with Japan was intended to provide the Soviets with a second front in the east, drawing their troops away from the west, thus making things easier for the Germans. And for a while it worked, until Stalin finally gave permission to withdraw some troops from Siberia to reinforce Stalingrad in light of Japan not launching its campaign as expected. The elimination of Jews was popular at home, made for good propaganda. The resource drain on German manpower and industry was relatively light in comparison. The system also provided for a nice base of cheap (slave) labour, most Jews were NOT as is often portrayed gassed or shot to death, they were worked to death (the gas chambers in the larger camps were used mainly to dispose of the sick and weak, the rest were sent to factories in the vicinity where they were rented out to the factory owners, the SS being paid for their service). This system was put in place in part as a response to the initial and largely independent killings undertook by invididual Wermacht and SS units in eastern Europe, which were starting to eat up valuable supplies of bullets and manpower needed on the front lines. DVK I am not sure about the propaganda bit - as far as I know the Nazis were actually sort of covering up the killing of the Jews, telling the Germans that the Jews were being "deported to the East" for some vague form of forced resettlement. Putting the thorny quesiton of what really did the average German know about what was going, I think that stamenet of your is factually wrong. – Felix Goldberg Apr 30 '13 at 9:44 From what I've been taught in school during history classes, those vague "deportation for resettlement" stories were mostly for the Jews themselves, to keep them pliable and acquiescent to the process. And it worked, many of them boarded the trains voluntarily, or reported to local and regional preprocessing facilities (Durchgangslager) quite willingly, at least until stories of what was really going on filtered west and people started wisening up to the truth. – jwenting May 1 '13 at 5:22 Downvote removed, based on disclaimer. – Tom Au Aug 24 '13 at 20:29 @TomAu I find downvoting something because you personally find it offensive to be extremely offensive. – Jim Balter Oct 7 '14 at 8:37 In Hitler's ideology exterminating Jews was the purpose and the goal of the war. The large-scale extermination started in 1942 when Germany's victory became uncertain. At that time Hitler had no longer possibility to postpone the extermination until the victory. AnixxAnixx So by the time the Holocaust got into full swing the Nazis were facing inevitable defeat? I'm not sure that's completely true as the gassings at Auschwitz had already begun before the battle of Stalingrad. – Nathan Cooper Apr 21 '13 at 15:38 The holocaust was NOT the reason for Germany going to war in 1939. The reason was first to expand (Lebensraum) and gain economic resources, second to "get even" with those who'd defeated and humiliated them in WW1 and the Weimar era. Getting rid of "undesirables" was and is a common theme in the legal systems of many countries, and was in place in e.g. the USA as well at the time (though there people weren't killed who "looked funny", they were "merely" subjected to forced sterilisation and/or put in insane asylums). – jwenting Apr 22 '13 at 5:22 My first instinct is that I agree with the answer as stated (to a certian extent. He did also want to raise his own "race", but he certianly saw things in those terms). However, it would make this answer better if it had an external reference, rather than just sitting on its own looking like an unsupported assertion. – T.E.D.♦ Apr 22 '13 at 19:33 @Anixx: Yes, they planned to get rid of Jews from the German homelands from the beginning. The war was not a prerequisite for this. This answer is factually incorrect. – Lennart Regebro Aug 24 '13 at 8:10 @Anixx: No that number is also wrong. And the goal was only to get rid of Jews from the areas were Germans were living. Germany controlled most of those areas well before the war, after having annexed these areas. You are, as usual, completely wrong. Please check your facts before answering questions. – Lennart Regebro Aug 24 '13 at 8:13 protected by Community♦ Oct 20 '15 at 0:11 Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged world-war-two warfare hitler strategy holocaust or ask your own question. How do functionalists explain the fact that Holocaust continued until the very end of the war? Was the Italian campaign a strategic mistake? At which point in time did the majority of German population become aware of the Holocaust? What were Chiang Kai-shek's biggest strategic blunders during the Second Sino-Japanese war? Where can I find a reliable archive of Hitler's speeches? Which of Hitler's peers had no more education than him? Were defendants at the Nuremberg trial allowed to deny the holocaust? Is there a difference between Douhet and Walther Wever's strategic bombing theories? 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__label__cc	0.591955	0.408045	Dr. Harsh Vardhan is the new Health & Family Welfare Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan is appointed as the union minister for health and family welfare Science and Technology; Earth Sciences. Dr Vardhan replaces Jagat Prakash Nadda. President Ram nath Kovind the oath as Cabinet Minister to Dr Harsh Vardhan, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on May 30th. Doctor-turned-politician Harsh Vardhan, who handled three portfolios in the last NDA government and initiated a crucial national programme to tackle air pollution. takes charge as the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, in New Delhi on May 31st Harsh Vardhan, an ENT specialist and a former five-time MLA, He was appointed Minister of Health and Family Welfare during the Narendra Modi government’s first stint in 2014 and later, given the charge of the Ministry of Earth Sciences and Ministry of Science and Technology. In May 2017, Dr Harsh Vardhan was given the additional charge of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change following the death of Union minister Anil Madhav Dave. The sixty-four-year-old was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from the Chandni Chowk seat, winning it by a margin of over 2 lakh votes this time. Related Items:Cabinet Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, ENT, Harsh Vardhan, Health Minister, Lok Sabha, Minister for health and family, Ministr of health, Ministry of, MLA, NDA, New Delhi, Union Minister, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, union minister for health and family welfare Science and Technology Union Health Ministers Uneveils National Digital Health Blueprint Advanced Spine Robotics System now in India \| Dr. H.S Chhabra \| ISIC, New Delhi Indian Government’s Healthcare Spending Plan for 2019 – Part 2 Laying Out the HealthTech Infrastructure Implementation – Part 3 Why Healthcare Drwas So Many Cyber Attacks?	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line817
__label__cc	0.541131	0.458869	You are here: Home / Mothers & Daughters / Thirteen hundred and twenty two families have won vaccine damage cases since 1988 Thirteen hundred and twenty two families have won vaccine damage cases since 1988 June 15, 2009 by Leslie Carol Botha 2 Comments American Chronicle By Christina England This weekend a news story broke about another win for a family with a three year old little girl, who became brain damaged after the MMR. Julia, a USA citizen from Colorado won a substantial financial award in a US Federal Court after her family proved her brain damage was caused after she had the MMR vaccine. Julie suffered from ENCEPHALITIS after the MMR vaccine and as she had not been formerly diagnosed with any ‘Autism’ this word could not used in her case. Another case Bailey Banks also did not have the word Autism mentioned in his case and also won compensation. Julia’s mother has confirmed that whilst her neurologist suspected that Julia may have Autism, Julia has never been formerly diagnosed. “I do not want this to be misunderstood. She was never formally diagnosed. Do I think that there is a link between vaccines and Autism, absolutely. Is Julia Autistic? I´m not sure.” Is this going to be the way forward? Are cases only going to be won, if a family do not have the word Autism or agree not to have the word Autism being mentioned in their case? Since 1988 it has been revealed by CBS News that 1322 families have received compensation for children who have brain damage through vaccines. In the UK in 1974 a Rosemary Fox fought the Governments for many years to have a vaccine compensation scheme in place. She set up an organization called the ‘Association for Parents of Vaccine Damaged Children’. She fought for many years and still does today, for the rights of all vaccine damaged children to compensation for their disabilities. She set the organization up after her own daughter Helen became vaccine damaged after she received the DPT. She took her complaints all the way to the ECHR. “We had worked hard up to then. Not only to try to protect children who were going through the vaccination process at the time unaware of possible risk but also to raise the issue of our own damaged children, to establish their rights and improve their provision. We had some success in 1979, five years after we started, when, prompted by the report of the Royal Commission, parliament passed the Vaccine Damage Payment Act to pay £10,000 to children found ‘on the balance of probabilities´ to be vaccine damaged. We regarded it as a start but considering the extent of the injuries inflicted we did not consider it to be equitable and we were determined to continue the campaign with the help of all the members of parliament who had supported us since 1974 when Jack Ashley MP, now Lord Ashley of Stoke, first debated the issue.” Sadly the financial payments have not risen very much even with inflation and many families still receive a inadequate £10,000 compensation reward. That is of course if they win their case at all. In June 2000 it was revealed that out of 4000 claims since 1979, only 890 received any money. Alistair Darling had this to say:- “Nothing can make up for what has happened to these children, but we have a clear duty to support them and their families.” Oh really? So how comes he is saying this only 9 years later in an article entitled Britain pledges $485 Million to global vaccine project :- “The UK is pleased to support this initiative … which should ensure a sustainable and affordable supply of vaccines well into the future,” The problem I have with this is that Britain is in huge financial crisis at the moment. Many of our shops and businesses are closing, there are literally thousands of people losing their homes many more children and elderly live in poverty with little food or heat. Our hospitals are filthy and in desperate need of repair and yet Mr Darling is quite happy to spend a small fortune on a global vaccine project in the full knowledge of just how dangerous many vaccines can be and the brain damage that they can cause. The article states very clearly:- “LECCE, Italy (Reuters) – Britain will invest almost $500 million in an international scheme to encourage pharmaceutical firms to develop vaccines against some of the common diseases which plague poorer nations.” and carries on to state:- “Britain, Italy, Canada, Russia, Norway and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are investing a total of $1.5 billion in the project, which is being run by the World Bank, UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the international vaccine agency GAVI alliance.” This is where it becomes even more interesting. The World Health Organisation and UNICEF are closely aligned with the CAI or the Child Advocacy International a charity run by Professor David Southall. Professor David Southall is the disgraced British Paediatrician recently struck off at the GMC for Professional Misconduct. Together they have formed a child health improvement programme. Details of the links between the organisations can be found in a manual for health workers called Child Friendly Healthcare. “The Child Friendly Healthcare Initiative (CFHI), a child health quality improvement program, was developed by Childhealth Advocacy International (CAI), Charity No: 1071486, in collaboration with The United Nations Children´s Fund (UNICEF), The Child and Adolescent Department of Health and Development of the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), UK and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), UK. The Community Fund, UK funded its pilot project”. This is what the manual says about David Southall. “Dr. David Southall OBE MBBS MD FRCPCH David Southall is honorary medical director of Childhealth Advocacy International. He is the chair of the working party for CFHI. His main interests are the safe and effective management of emergencies in pregnancy, infancy and childhood. He has published many papers concerning the protection of children from abuse and is active in developing child protection systems for poorly resourced countries. He is particularly worried about the concept of suffering and how little attention is drawn to this in current international programs for mothers and children. He is also active in developing palliative care systems for disadvantaged countries. He has directed the development of many teaching materials for managing emergencies as well as a textbook of International Child Health Care. He is a consultant paediatrician active in acute general paediatrics in the UK National Health Service and was Foundation Professor of Paediatrics at Keele University before his retirement.” Last month I read an article about Dr David Southall by Lisa Blakemore-Brown called David Southall -A very Dangerous Doctor She said that she believed Dr Southall has been involved in vaccine trials research and is strongly linked to the FSID (Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths) with many mothers wrongly accused of MSBP and/or murder after experiencing cot deaths in their children after vaccines. It very much seems that this is all linked, maybe the palliative care systems for disadvantaged countries is giving these children vaccines. These children do not need vaccines to add to their problems. The money would be more wisely spent on better sanitation, better education, food and clean water to help them fight disease. I do not know if Dr Southall is linked to the international scheme, to encourage pharmaceutical firms to develop vaccines against some of the common diseases, which plague poorer nations but given his vast amounts of work in the third world through CAI, I would be surprised if he was not, especially after reading this from their website, don’t you agree? CAI (Child Advocacy International) is a charity set up to help improve healthcare for children around the world. Our special role is helping poor countries build medical capacity for the future which we do by supporting and educating local doctors and nurses as well as the provision of essential and appropriate equipment. Bamenda is the main town in the north-west province of Cameroon. Children come from all over the province for treatment, some travelling a great distance in difficult conditions. This is a Government run hospital and CAI has been working for over two years,improving facilities, providing medical supplies and equipment and training local medical staff.” With Governments, doctors and drug companies all working together to ensure vaccines continue well into the future, what hope do future generations have of being fit and healthy? Filed Under: Mothers & Daughters, Vaccinations Tagged With: Autism, Brain Damage, MMR Again, another write up that is misconstrued. Julia’s attorneys had NOTHING to do with not having the word Autism in her records. It was mentioned ONE TIME at ONE appointment that it was possible that she was showing autistic signs. The attorneys never knew anything about this….I, JULIA’S MOTHER, was simply concerned about the word Autism being in her case – when it was ENCEPHALITIS that her diagnosis and what the case was conceded on. Autism was mentioned very briefly in ONE appointment out of hundreds of appointments. Again, I wish people who are going to write about this would give Julia’s family the consideration of permission to spread her news around the world, and to get the REAL story. Susan – I forwarded your comment to the author and she has revised the article per your explanation. The revised copy now appears here as well.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line820
__label__cc	0.572543	0.427457	by Ray Willington — Friday, July 05, 2013 Dell Suggests That Wearables May Be In Its Future It seems like every major consumer electronics company is considering some form of wearable technology at this point. Google Glass has truly launched the segment into the limelight, and with rumors of an iWatch from Apple going strong, we're also hearing now that Dell is casting a glance in that same direction. As tablet sales for Dell flounder, the computer maker is now suggesting that it's "exploring ideas" in the wearable sector. Dell itself has lost a ton of luster as the conventional PC business shrinks, and it has yet to find a market to really thrive in in the post-PC world. Sam Burd, Dell's global vice-president of personal computing, told The Guardian that the wearable computing space is one that Dell is actively scoping out. To quote: "There are challenges in cost, and how to make it a really good experience. But the piece that's interesting is that computers are getting smaller. Having a watch on your wrist – that's pretty interesting, pretty appealing. Looking ahead five years, we expect devices and form factors to continue to change. There will still be a need for 'static' computing on desktops, but there will be a real need for mobile devices. There's a lot of discussion about how that fits into wearable devices like we've seen with Google Glass and watches. We're looking at a world of lots of connected devices. I don't see any magic new form factor like the iPad – I don't think anybody saw how that was going to change devices. But the number of [computing] devices per person is exploding." It's still a mystery as to what (if anything) Dell will reveal in the wearables space, but having one more rival in there can't be a bad thing. Tags: Dell, glass, wearables Via: Guardian	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line823
__label__cc	0.739271	0.260729	Partner workshop in Nairobi: strengthening our collective commitment to building integrity edward.irby Oct 31, 2016 Blog from new CIB staff member Valentine Lecluse This October, for the first time ever I attended the annual Integrity Action Partner Community Integrity Building (CIB) workshop, held this year in Kenya. 13 different organisations based in 9 different countries, including Afghanistan, Liberia and Nepal, were gathered to share their experiences, challenges and successes implementing CIB over the last year. As a new member of the CIB team at Integrity Action, attending the workshop was a fantastic opportunity for me to really understand how our partners work, both as individual organisations as well as collectively as part of our network. With partners who work from as far and wide as West Africa, Liberia and Sierra Leone, to the opposite end of the world in Timor Leste, there was a lot to take on board! The first day focused on recapping the last 12 months since last year’s CIB workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal. Our partners made presentations on the different projects they had been working on, revealed their great achievements, but also their main challenges. I was hugely impressed and inspired to see how committed and innovative our partners are operating amongst very challenging, often insecure and unpredictable circumstances. For example, FOCHI, our partner in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is facing upcoming elections, making their future uncertain due the potential for violence and chaos around the election. In addition, our partners in Nepal have devoted considerable efforts to dealing with the effects of the devastating earthquakes that struck Nepal last year. Another key focus of the workshop was looking forward over the next 12 months. Integrity Action introduced the new strategy for 2017 which included exploring potential paths towards sustainability and scalability. In addition, for the first time ever we introduced our newly created gender and social inclusion strategy. These new directions were really well received by all our partners, whose work has all contributed towards or new strategic focus. We explored key strategic directions to achieve our goals and we shared our challenges and best practices to face risks. We also talked about us as a network and explored different possibilities to strengthen it and improve our communication. I was delighted to observe that all our partners were keen on exercising greater responsibility for managing our network. They also shared the same desire to interact more directly amongst themselves. Amongst the different ideas to improve our network, we explored the possibility of creating a joint conversation on Whats’App. Our partner in DRC also mentioned that they would like to visit our partners in Nepal to know more about their keys of success for some of their projects. I found the sessions about Integrity Clubs particularly intriguing. Integrity Clubs are formed in schools in order to educate students about integrity matters. Students are then trained to monitor vital service delivery projects which matter to their communities. Integrity Action launched Integrity Clubs two years ago. The main objective is to train young people to make sustainable change in the future. Today, about 2,000 students amongst our network have been trained by our partners and are monitoring projects. They will inspire thousands of other young people. During this session, I thought about the snowball effect theory. By training some students, our partners raise awareness on how to work for a better future. Through their work our partners are creating young integrity champions who are inspiring their peers in their respective schools. In turn, other young people will later inspire their peers to become monitors. The commitment from our partners was extremely inspiring. This group of hard working people, separated by continents, reminded me of how working together can make a big difference, and how extremely proud I am to be part of this inspiration network of diverse organisations dedicated to building integrity to improve the lives of their fellow citizens. 2017 promises to be an exciting year and I look forward to working with you to turn all these projects and ideas into actions.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line829
__label__wiki	0.618715	0.618715	About IRW Banktracker Support IRW Smaller banks rebound more slowly By Wendell Cochran Archives banks The latest data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. shows that the nation’s banks continue to recover from the financial crisis, reporting stronger earnings and increasing loan volume. But an analysis by the Investigative Reporting Workshop shows that for the vast majority of banks — those with less than $1 billion in assets — profits are harder to come by as they continue to try to work their way through a disproportionate amount of troubled loans and foreclosed property. The 90 percent of banks with less than $1 billion in assets accounted for less than 10 percent of total assets at the end of June. These banks make about 11 percent of all loans, but they held 15.5 percent of all nonperforming loans and foreclosed property. In the first six months of the year, these small banks made just 7.5 percent of the industry’s net profits. Of the 566 banks that reported they lost money in the first half of the year, 546 have less than $1 billion in assets. Of the 166 banks with a troubled asset ratio of greater than 100, 160 held less than a billion in assets. Among the 20 banks that have failed so far this year, the largest was the $437 million Mountain National Bank of Sevierville, Tenn., which closed on June 7. Compare that to the 108 largest banks, each with more than $100 billion in assets or 80 percent of the total. While they make 77 percent of loans, they hold 72.5 percent of troubled assets. And they earned 82.3 percent of bank profits in the first half the year. Just one of them, JPMorgan Chase — the nation’s largest bank — made $10.2 billion from Jan. 1 through June 30. By contrast the 6,288 banks with less than a billion in assets earned $6.2 billion as a group. Unsurprisingly, this disparity produces some hard feelings. In a recent blog post, Camden Fine, president of the Independent Community Bankers of America, wrote, “With each new headline of megabank greed and recklessness, ICBA is more and more convinced that downsizing and restructuring these behemoths is the only way to protect our financial system from existential risks, our community banks from suffocating regulation and our nation’s taxpayers from perpetual servitude to our Wall Street masters of the universe.” Fine’s group has come out strongly in support of legislation sponsored by Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Sen. David Vitter, R-La., that would force the largest institutions to either raise more capital or shrink. Meanwhile, bankers and their advocates continue to rail against what they see as unfair tax advantages given to credit unions, even though on the whole they are much smaller than banks. Just 209 of the 6,819 credit unions have $1 billion in assets. Total credit union assets were just over $1 trillion at the end of June — barely half the assets of JPMorgan Chase. The largest credit union is Navy Federal, based in Arlington, Va., with $54.4 billion in assets. That would make it the 38th largest bank. Only three credit unions would be among the 100 largest banks.The median size of credit unions was $22.2 million in assets, compared with $168.9 million for commercial banks. Because they are nonprofit institutions, credit unions are exempt from federal income tax. That’s long been a sore spot for the banks, which now see a potential opportunity in tax reform legislation to challenge the exemption. On its website, the American Bankers Association says, “As Congress examines the affordability of tax exemptions in the face of rising debt levels, it should target the credit union tax exemption, an anachronism whose need has long disappeared. Credit unions’ tax exemption was originally linked to their mission to serve people of modest means. But there is evidence that the tax subsidy is going to individuals who clearly do not need subsidized financial services and benefits the largest credit unions.” So, the ABA concludes: “If credit unions want to act like banks, they should be taxed like banks. Plain and simple.” Naturally, the credit union folks don’t see it that way. The Credit Union National Association says on its website: “The credit union tax status benefits all consumers — credit union members and those who are not credit union members. While the credit union tax expenditure “costs” the federal government approximately $500 million annually, consumers benefit to the tune of $7 billion-$8 billion annually because credit unions are tax-exempt. “ The group goes on to say, “Credit union competition helps keep bank and savings and loan prices lower. For example, credit unions offering credit cards now charge lower interest rates than most other lenders (on average by two or three percentage points). Imagine how expensive other lenders would make credit cards, or auto loans, if credit union competition did not exist! But that is exactly what would happen if credit unions are taxed.” At this point, it isn’t clear whether the congressional tax writing committees will include a call for credit union taxation in bills they are preparing to consider this fall. Top News and Investigations The ‘thoughts and prayers’ backlash A banking mystery Where candidates stand on immigration Where the 2020 candidates stand on immigration Trump’s Trade War More News \| More Investigations Sign up for IRW newsletters & alerts When Cops Are Fired: How one attorney forces police chiefs to rehire dismissed officers. Trump's Trade War: The inside story of President Trump’s gamble to confront China over trade. 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__label__cc	0.640652	0.359348	The Chaos Star IOT North America The chaos star, like its three-dimensional sibling the chaosphere, is the most widely recognized symbol of chaos magic. Although sometimes conflated with other symbols of eightfold symmetry, such as the Star of Ishtar and Icelandic Galdrastafur, the chaos star itself is a work of fiction: inspired by the compass rose, author Michael Moorcock designed the Chaos Symbol (as he called it) in the 1960s, to represent the metaphysical forces of Chaos in his fantastic stories about Elric of Melniboné. Since then, borrowing from Moorcock, the symbol of chaos may be found in books, games, album art, etc. As a symbol of chaos magic, the chaos star has been employed as an official insigne of the IOT for several decades. In Liber Pactionis it is written: The minimum furnishing of a temple whether convened in an open or closed space is the eight-rayed star of Chaos prominently displayed. This may be presented in the form of a banner or altar cloth, a chaosphere, or by the star mounted on a staff. […] The ring of the order is silver and bears an eight-rayed star of Chaos. Recently, the chaos star has been appropriated by the Eurasianist movement and some of its affiliated organizations. The IOT North American Section wishes to make it clear that we are unequivocally not associated with any kind of fascist, nationalist, or jingoist movement. Chaos magic represents a system of profound creativity and liberation, and is contrary to any ethnopolitical agenda. While taking a bit of fiction and charging it with real power is exactly in line with chaos magic, it seems silly for organizations founded on “tradition” and “historic” nationalism to represent themselves by a symbol so obviously rooted in modern fantasy. Return to IOT North America homepage	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line832
__label__wiki	0.513655	0.513655	Aqeeqah and rulings on the new-born Distribution of ‘aqeeqah meat i want to know what is a'aqqeqa ( the qurbani which has to be done after the birht of a son ) two goats or sheep. and the meat--how is it distributed ? does it have three(3) shares as for eid-qurbani or is it all for the family ? Some of the scholars said that the ‘aqeeqah is like the udhiyah (qurbaani) and is subject to the same rulings. They said that it should be shared out in the same manner as the udhiyah, and that the conditions for the sheep to be sacrificed for the ‘aqeeqah are the same as those in the case of udhiyah. They said that it should not be blemished, lame, obviously sick or extremely weak. Ibn Qudaamah said: The way it is to be eaten (by the owner), given as gifts and given in charity is the same, i.e., the way in which the ‘aqeeqah is to be (shared out) is the same as the way in which the udhiyah is (shared out). This is the view of al-Shaafa'i. Ibn Seereen said: Do whatever you want with the meat. Ibn Jurayj said: It should be cooked in salt and water, and given to neighbours and friends, but nothing of it should be given in charity. Ahmad was asked about this, and he quoted the view of Ibn Seereen, which indicates that this was also his view. He was asked whether one could eat it, and he said, I did not say that he should eat all of it and not give any of it in charity. The more correct view is to liken it by analogy (qiyaas) to udhiyah because it is a sacrifice which is prescribed in sharee’ah, but it is not obligatory, so it is like udhiyah, and because it is like it in terms of the attributes, age, value and conditions [of the animal] , so it is like it in terms of the manner in which it is disposed of. (al-Mughni, 9/366) Al-Shawkaani said: Do the same conditions apply (to ‘aqeeqah) as to udhiyah? Al-Shaafa'i has two views, and he quoted evidence to show that this is not the case, and that is the correct view. (Nayl al-Awtaar, 5/231). And he mentioned differences between ‘aqeeqah and udhiyah which indicate that they are not alike in all regards. So there is no mention in the Sunnah of a specific way of dividing (the meat of the ‘aqeeqah). The purpose is to draw closer to Allaah by means of the shedding of this blood, in thanksgiving for the blessing of the newborn child, and to loosen the bonds of the Shaytaan over the child and to remove him from him, as is indicated in the hadeeth, “Every child is ransomed by his ‘aqeeqah.” With regard to the ruling on the meat, you may do whatever you like with it. If you wish, you and your family can eat it, or you can give it in charity, or you can eat some and give some. This is the view of Ibn Seereen and of Imaam Ahmad, may Allaah have mercy on him. And Allaah knows best.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line834
__label__cc	0.570739	0.429261	Has Indonesia forgotten contraception? According to one survey, only 45 per cent of married and sexually active adolescents in Indonesia use contraception. Photo by Dương Nhân. Contraception is not simply a method to prevent pregnancy. Given the suspicion – if not outright hostility – toward contraception that is common to most religions, debates over its regulation are often deeply political and value-laden. The problem is that suspicion does not solve problems. In Indonesia, adolescents cannot legally access birth control unless they are married. Yet many adolescents are sexually active, whatever their marital status. In fact, according to Unicef, one in nine Indonesian adolescents are sexually active. The Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey (SDKI) puts the figure even higher, at one in four. They have an urgent need for contraception. There are more than 45 million 10-19 year olds in Indonesia. In 2017, the SDKI found that only 45 per cent of married or sexually active adolescents aged 15 to 19 said they used contraception. This means the other 55 per cent either had no plans to use contraception or had limited exposure to knowledge about their bodies, sexuality, reproductive health, and contraceptives. These are concerning findings. A 2016 study by Rumah KitaB found that from 52 female adolescents who married in childhood, 36 (about 70 per cent) got married because of unwanted pregnancies. Nearly all admitted that they never used contraception when they had sex, either because they didn’t know how to obtain the pill or didn’t have the courage to ask their partners to use a condom. Only one tenth of the child brides surveyed had access to contraception. They usually acquired it from private midwives, not state-run community health centres (puskesmas), with the help of their mothers or mothers-in-law. On World Contraception Day on 26 September, Indonesia received the distinction of being the country with the greatest unmet need for contraception. Lack of legally available contraception for adolescents contributed to this result. Indonesia was once a leader in family planning but it is fast becoming one of the worst performers in the region. How did we get to this point? The main problem lies in flawed population policies. Grounded in the ideology of “developmentalism”, which held that the nation would become prosperous if population growth could be controlled, the New Order regime strictly applied a Family Planning project called Keluarga Berencana, or KB. Using a wide range of methods and approaches, Indonesia’s population policy was deemed successful. But the program’s occasionally coercive methods, in which those who did not practice KB were treated as “the other”, alienated many. This included sections of the Muslim community, which was under the most suspicion when the program was first applied. Any effort to question, let alone oppose, the assertion that families would become prosperous through the KB program was simply crushed by the state. Islamic mass-based organisations – first Nahdlatul Ulama, and later Muhammadiyah – tried to assuage Muslim anxieties about New Order enforcement of the KB policy. These two organisations agreed to support the New Order government’s population program, relying on interpretation and exploration of Islamic arguments. They justified support for KB in the name of both darurat (emergency) and maslahat (the greater good) to avoid even greater mudharat (harm) if the size of the population were not controlled. However, this theological discourse from NU and Muhammadiyah certainly did not comfort everyone in the Muslim community. Even today, many Muslims are suspicious of family planning as a “western project” to reduce the size of the Muslim population. This is not simply because the religious arguments are insufficient to convince them, for example because of differences in interpretation or exploration of Islamic law. Rather, narratives about “genocide of the Islamic community” have taken root, and are now considered truth by many people. Those who reject family planning point to the fact that promises about family planning delivering prosperity were never truly realised, but it did reduce the size of many Muslim families. Another problem is that there was never any theological debate or discussion of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) on the use of contraception by young people during the New Order era. The state seemingly sought to increase the moral acceptance of the KB program by guaranteeing that it would not be accessed by adolescents. The Criminal Code (KUHP) (under Article 283) and the 2009 Population Growth and Family Development Law (under Article 26) still explicitly prohibit provision of contraception services to adolescents and unmarried couples, apart from information, and even that is restricted, with punishments of fines and imprisonment if violated. These prohibitions on serving the needs of adolescents were clearly a “band-aid” strategy to contain the anxiety and suspicions of the religious community. Ignoring adolescents’ need for contraception has created a huge gap in addressing the problems of reproductive health in Indonesia. Adolescents are now a quarter of the population and among those who most need information on reproductive health and contraception services. Indonesians cannot simply shut their eyes to the reality that the age at which girls are menstruating and becoming sexually active is steadily decreasing. At the same time, underage marriage is also becoming more common – on the grounds of fear of committing the “sin of premarital sex”, or if pregnancy has already occurred. As long as the government remains closed to discussion on reproductive health education for adolescents, and the law remains unchanged, young people will remain shut off from accurate information. The government’s reluctance to address adolescent sexual and reproductive health also provides room for conservative religious groups to push their position. And their solution is worryingly simplistic: Just marry them off! Now is the time for the state, assisted by NU and Muhammadiyah, to come down from the mountaintop, and take a frank and pragmatic look at adolescent sexuality. Gaps in information and reproductive health services, including contraception services for adolescents, must be addressed. If not, Indonesia can look forward to a grim future of more and more child brides and unwanted pregnancies. An earlier version of this article was published in Kompas on 12 October as “Kontrasepsi bagi Remaja”. Collaborating for cervical cancer prevention Cervical cancer is the second most frequent cancer among Indonesian women but low cost cervical… The silencing of sexual health in Indonesian infertility care Infertility is a major problem in Indonesia and this is reflected in the rapidly growing… Multi-tasking breastfeeding mamas: morality and gender in health promotion National health laws and health promotion discourse in Indonesia are heavily geared toward the promotion… Categories: Analysis Gender Public health Tags: Adolescent health, Contraception, Family planning, Sexual and reproductive health Lies Marcoes Lies Marcoes is a women's rights activist, writer and researcher and the director of Rumah Kita Bersama Foundation. Lies holds a master's in anthropology from the University of Amsterdam. She lives in Bogor.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line836
__label__cc	0.505682	0.494318	From Ebola to Zika: Saving Historical Resources Posted by NLM in Focus / July 20, 2016 This is a story about the risk of loss. Rotting links, drifting content, and challenging content types that are difficult to capture threaten to make material on the web disappear. NLM’s recent web collecting efforts have focused on the Ebola and Zika outbreaks, among other topics. This is unacceptable when we’re talking about the story of global health events like the recent Ebola outbreak and today’s Zika virus. Documentation of what was said and done during health crises will be available to future researchers only if someone takes the steps to preserve it. That’s why this story, and this documentation, need advocates. Their names are Delia Golden, Christie Moffatt, John Rees, and Kristina Womack. They are the NLM Web Collecting and Archiving Working Group. They are a team on a mission. They have to be. Web content is at a high risk for loss for several reasons: Link rot occurs when links point to resources that no longer exist and the dreaded “404 not found” or similar message appears. Link drift occurs when content at a URL changes or evolves, and what you expect to find when you click on a link is now different. If you are using a URL to point to a particular fact, figure, or statement to convey specific information or justify a point, it is entirely possible—even likely—that over time the content at that URL will change, and the URL will no longer serve that purpose. Challenging content types are hard to capture because of their particular format or where they reside, such as some video content, databases, social media, and content protected by passwords. As chair of NLM’s Web Collecting and Archiving Working Group, Christie Moffatt’s job is to help preserve today’s history despite the challenges of collecting these web resources. Collecting digital content requires new tools and swift action before content disappears. To collect web content before it’s too late, the Web Collecting and Archiving Working Group uses crawlers, also known as spiders, to create copies, or snapshots in time, of content. Based on the group’s instructions, these crawlers—in NLM’s case, via the Internet Archive’s Archive-It service—locate and capture content. But this team does more than let the crawlers loose. They check on their work. “We want to make sure they’re doing their job,” Moffatt said. The ability to review the reactions and experiences in the face of one disease, such as Ebola, can help researchers understand and perhaps prepare for another disease such as Zika. As Moffatt explains, future researchers may be interested in analyzing the communication during the Ebola outbreak and comparing it to the communication about Zika. Archiving leaves future researchers with better access to primary documents. Zika-related web content from the Centers for Disease Control includes a variety of infographics. What and when But deciding which aspects of the epidemic to collect can be difficult. As Moffatt said about their initial work with Ebola content in October 2014, “Did we want to document Ebola in the United States or the epidemic more broadly? The epidemic and its aftermath? Through the rebuilding of a health care infrastructure in West Africa? What about the development of the vaccine? What would researchers of this archive want to see? We knew the story was big, but we didn’t know how big it would get or how long it would go on.” Moffatt and her team collected content from the USAID, the CDC, the NIH, Doctors Without Borders, and the World Health Organization, as well as independent blog posts, news, and social media. Collecting began around the resources identified by NLM’s Disaster Information Management Research Center’s Ebola resources page. Determining when to begin collecting and when to end is also important. Ultimately, the working group relied on the World Health Organization’s declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) as one of the starting points for collecting on Ebola and other global health events. “A PHEIC had been declared on August 8, 2014 for Ebola,” said Moffatt. “We did one more monthly crawl after the designation was lifted this year, in March.” Using the Public Health Emergency of International Concern pays off. “Identifying triggers such as this enabled us to act more quickly around the Zika Virus when it was declared a PHEIC on February 1, 2016,” said Moffatt. “We were ready to take action that very day.” This meant more opportunities to capture content and preserve historical resources for the future. Like we said, this team is on a mission. Future Historical Collections: Archiving the 2014 Ebola Outbreak: a lecture by Christie Moffatt (March 10, 2016) Web Collecting at NLM: posts from the Circulating Now blog The Epidemic Archives of the Future Will Be Born Digital (Slate, August 23, 2016) July 20, 2016 in Programs & Services. Tags: Web Collecting NOT A FAIR FIGHT: “Viruses Don’t Play By Our Rules,” Says MacPhail Zika Genome Sequences Available from NCBI Q&A: James Ostell Maps the Future—and Present—of Biotechnology ← Long Distance Learning Goes the Distance at NLM Summer Issue of NIH MedlinePlus Now Online → Crawling for Content, Fulfilling our Mandate When Senators Lister Hill (D-Ala.) and John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) introduced the legislation that created the National Library of Medicine, they couldn’t have imagined how archiving medical information would change, but they did recognize its value. The legislation that President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed in 1956 mandated that the library acquire and preserve materials pertinent to medicine and make them available. “By collecting web content, we’re helping to fulfill the Library’s and the History of Medicine Division’s collecting goals,” Christie Moffatt said. Those goals include a wide range of formats and subject areas and a variety of perspectives and topics in disaster management, emergency medicine, infectious diseases, and public health. Moffatt and her team are currently crawling for information on - Zika - Lead crisis in Flint, Michigan - 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid - NLM web pages	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line838
__label__cc	0.735955	0.264045	The Beginnings Of MUSIC - The Romans Seated woman playing a kithara. The Romans had little or no musical genius, and they were content to take their music, like every other artistic element of their national life, from the Greeks. The Greek was the child of nature, refined and educated through his own innate sense of beauty and fitness; The Roman was a barbarian civilized with the civilization of the barrack-yard and the camp. So it's safe to say that the Romans music was just a rehashed version of the Greeks music. To the Greek, Art of any kind was something great and almost holy. To the Roman, Art of any kind was just for relaxation. Roman music is simply Greek music in a corrupted condition, absolutely no artistic value whatsoever. The only influence upon music by the Romans was in the development of wind instruments. A race of fighting men, the Romans regarded military music more seriously than any other branch of the art; essentially practical men, they could readily appreciate its usefulness ; and, in this respect, they remind one of the elderly warriors who expressed that music was all very well on parade, but should not be allowed to interfere with conversation. In the Roman armies trumpets of various kinds were used, some of them being of immense proportions. All the military musical instruments were of brass, and comprised the tuba, a straight trumpet something like a modern post-horn in shape; the cornu, or horn, bent nearly in the form of a circle; the lituus, or Clarion, slightly bent at the end; and the buccina, shaped like the horn, but of much greater size, the tube being about twelve feet long. Of these, the tuba was used by the infantry, the lituus by the cavalry. The most interesting feature in connection with Roman musical life is its wide distribution across the world. This has ever since remained a prominent characteristic of musical art. Into Rome drained all the wealth, knowledge, and luxury of the known world. Greek philosophers and artists, Egyptian priests, men of all races from across the Alps, Jewish converts to Christianity, fleeing from persecution in their own country, all gravitated towards Rome. It was among these warring influences that the early Christian Church, preserver, and regenerator of music, was quietly growing in power and influence; and, with the coming of Christianity, music no longer belonged to one country but to the whole world. By Mike Shaw Michael David Shaw is a keyboard and organ teacher. He has written an easy start music eBook especially for beginners simply called "Lesson 1" You can download this Music PDF at http://www.mikesmusicroom.co.uk, http://www.keyboardsheetmusic.co.uk, and http://musical-instruments-uk.mikesmusicroom.co.uk/ Article Source: EzineArticles Labels: Military Music, Music History	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line840
__label__wiki	0.906393	0.906393	Gray appointed interim dean for College of Arts + Architecture Lee Gray is interim dean of the College of Arts + Architecture (COA+A). He follows Ken Lambla, who served 10 years as the founding dean of the college. Lambla is returning to the faculty as a full professor. A search committee is at work to find the college’s next dean. Gray joined the University in fall 1990 as a faculty member in the former College of Architecture. He received his Ph.D. in architectural history from Cornell University, his master’s degree in architectural history from the University of Virginia and undergraduate degrees in architecture from Iowa State University. During his tenure at UNC Charlotte, he has served in a variety of capacities, including faculty president (2000-01), interim University librarian (2001-02), interim chair of architecture (2002-04), associate dean in the College of Architecture (2003-08), interim director of the School of Architecture (2008-09), associate dean in the College of Arts + Architecture (2008-present) and interim chair of theatre (2015-16). He is a full professor in the School of Architecture and an internationally recognized expert in the history of elevators, escalators and moving sidewalks.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line841
__label__wiki	0.964917	0.964917	Vowing to avenge the murder of his wealthy parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out lawlessness in Gotham City. The Dark Knight joins Robin and Batgirl, battling his inner demons as well as the evil figures who bedevil him. Volume 1 features appearances from villains the Joker, Scarecrow, and others. Batman: The Animated Series, Vol. 1 © 2008 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. BATMAN and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and (C) DC Comics. Batman: The Complete Animated Series Batman Beyond, Season 3 Superman - The Animated Series, Season 1 Justice League: The Complete Series The Batman, Season 1 Justice League Unlimited, Season 1 Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Season 3 Top Animation Shows He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Complete Series Justice League Unlimited: The Complete Series Attack On Titan, Season 3, Pt. 1 Scooby-Doo Where Are You?, The Complete Series Attack On Titan, Season 2	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line849
__label__cc	0.716304	0.283696	Freedom Riders Joy Trip – The Joy Trip Project 18 May Freedom Riders Joy Trip – The Joy Trip Project Posted at 10:38h in Adventure Activism, Adventure Media Review, Diversity, Environmental Justice, Film preview, National Parks, PBS by James Edward Mills 0 Comments Travel is an event of transformation. In 1961 a long bus ride from Washington D.C. to New Orleans changed the world forever. But the PBS American Experience documentary “The Freedom Riders” will likely do little to alter your perspective of a journey upon the open road. Instead I hope that it will open your awareness to the fear and vulnerability a conspicuous minority will face even today while traveling and exposed to the hostility of an entitled majority. I’ve spent much the last two decades traveling freely, even joyfully around the world. But as a person of color, driving through remote regions of the U.S. I have to admit a certain apprehension venturing into areas where I am clearly in the minority. Fifty years ago the Freedom Riders traveled on buses through the South in order to challenge laws of interstate travel that discriminated against African-Americans. And though we may now make our way throughout the U.S. without fear of racially motivated violence or state-sanctioned reprisal there are still forces in play that encourage segregation. A hostile majority opinion seems to suggest that are areas in our country where black people are not entitled to go. [youtube]AHaXo6N_vh8[/youtube] In particular when I travel to the wild and scenic places of our country I am typically one of a very few if not the only African-American in sight. Visitors to our State and National Parks include minorities in low numbers relative to their percentage of the population. This is simply an anecdotal observation that can be confirmed or denied by U.S. census data and academic research. The fact remains that despite advancements of civil rights in 1960s through the brave sacrifices of activists like the Freedom Riders black people in this country as a group do not travel to our National Parks with the same relative frequency as whites. I’m curious to discover why? The events of 50 years ago as depicted in the Freedom Riders documentary should not be taken as an isolated moment in our history. But rather they are a prophetic truth of racial segregation that continues to this day. To be sure gone are the angry club-wielding mobs and state legislation barring access to a traveler’s destination. But in our minds remains a clearly lettered sign that reads “whites only”. Perception becomes reality when people of color deny themselves the opportunity to enjoy the wonders of parks such as Yosemite, Grande Canyon, Arches or Yellowstone. I heard it said recently that, “National Parks are where white people go to do white people things.” The suggestion that communing with nature is the exclusive purview of Caucasians is absurd, but is apparently a widely held belief of black and white people alike. I know that there are many among us who challenge the notion that getting back to nature is something that “black people just don’t do.” And with the same courage of the Freedom Riders who traveled south in the last century each of us can travel to our nearest National Park. Setting aside our fears we people of color must standup to the very idea that we should not, cannot or do not become fully engaged in an active lifestyle outdoors or the movement to preserve the natural environment for future generations. In spirit of the Freedom Riders it’s time to hit the road. The Freedom Ride West project is a work in progress for an upcoming feature story for High Country News Magazine.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line851
__label__wiki	0.824355	0.824355	Eco’s Elders of Zion By Gary Saul Morson The Prague Cemetery: A Novel by Umberto Eco, translated by Richard Dixon Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 464 pp., $27 In Umberto Eco’s new novel The Prague Cemetery, the high-ranking tsarist police agent Peter Rachkovsky explains why he commissioned The Protocols of the Elders of Zion from a forger named Simone Simonini: Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that’s abnormal . . . You don’t love someone for your whole life . . . but you can hate someone for your whole life-provided he’s always there to keep your hatred alive . . . Hatred warms the heart. Today, few people in Europe and America have ever heard of The Protocols, but when the French scholar Henri Rollin studied it in 1939, he deemed it the world’s most widely circulated book after the Bible. First published in full in 1905, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion purports to be a transcript of a secret meeting of rabbis plotting to control the world. It begins with a chief rabbi’s cynical avowals: Having set aside all fine phrases, we will speak of the meaning of every thought; by comparisons and deductions, we will illuminate circumstances. And so I will formulate our system from our point of view and that of the goyim. People want the illusion of freedom, so the Jews will use liberal impulses to undermine all present authority. Then they will exploit the very same impulses to establish Jewish rule by calling it true freedom. “The idea of freedom,” the rabbi explains, “cannot be realized because no one knows how to make reasonable use of it.” Accordingly, Jews must use every means to accomplish their end, because “according to the laws of nature, right lies in might . . . From temporary evil to which we are now obliged to have recourse will emerge the good of an unshakable government, which will reinstate the orderly functioning . . . now interrupted by liberalism. The end justifies the means.” Where do these Machiavellian views come from? They seem to echo those of Dostoevsky’s “Grand Inquisitor,” whose unshakeable government was based on the recognition that people fear freedom, with all the uncertainty, anxiety, and guilt it entails, and would willingly surrender it to rulers who will provide security, as long as they claim to do so in the name of a higher freedom. The publisher of the first complete version of The Protocols, the Russian theologian Sergei Nilus, found this portrait of human nature convincing and accepted the text as genuine. Indeed, he marveled at the providential miracle that brought the The Protocols to light, against the will of the powerful Elders of Zion. “In what way these documents, constituting the Holy of Holies of the hopes of Israel, the age-old mystery of its leaders, reached the general mass of the uninitiated has not been ascertained,” he admitted. That so few people paid attention to The Protocols was due (of course) to Jewish control of the world press. But Nilus needn’t have worried. First employed to blame Russian radical activity on the Jews, The Protocols was soon translated into English, French, German, Polish, Spanish, and Arabic. Brought to Germany by Alfred Rosenberg, an ethnic German from the Russian empire, it inspired Hitler, who praised it in Mein Kampf. Its account of a Jewish world conspiracy has shaped anti-Semitic propaganda ever since. From the beginning, it was suspected of being a forgery. And from the beginning its defenders replied that (a) it was genuine, because all the evidence of forgery was itself forged by the Jews, and (b) even if fake, it correctly describes the Jewish conspiracy, since history has unfolded just as the Elders of Zion forecast. As Nilus argued, if The Protocols is a forgery, then it testifies all the more strongly to the power of truth to reveal itself in strange ways. “Didn’t Balaam’s ass prophesy?” In 1920, the London Times posed a far more unsettling question inspired by The Protocols: “Have we, by straining every fibre of our national body, escaped a ‘Pax Germanica,’ only to fall into a ‘Pax Judaica’?” But in 1921, the Times recanted. A Russian émigré provided its correspondent in Constantinople, Philip Graves, with the book from which many of the Elders’ speeches had been lifted, almost word for word. A forgotten French liberal, Maurice Joly, had composed a Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu in order to discredit Napoleon III by revealing, through the mouth of Machiavelli, the emperor’s cynical methods for manipulating the masses. Whoever forged The Protocols had evidently given Machiavelli’s comments to the Elders of Zion, merely substituting “goyim” for “people” and “revolution” for “coup d’état” to serve Russian anti-Semitic purposes. So close are passages from the two works that it is impossible to believe in the authenticity of these supposed transcripts. Well, not quite impossible. Today, The Protocols still commands allegiance in some Russian circles. I would venture that to narrate the history of Russian thought without mentioning anti-Jewish philosophies—as is usually done—is to omit a key part of Russian intellectual life. In recent years, The Protocols has enjoyed the greatest success in the Middle East. Endorsed by Nasser and the Saudi Ministry of Education, it is cited as genuine in the charter of Hamas. A textbook used by schools under the Palestinian Authority described The Protocols as the authentic record of secret meetings of the First Zionist Congress. In the last decade, two popular TV series, one produced in Egypt and another in Syria, have been based on it. In America, The Protocols—once Henry Ford apologized for having circulated it—survived only among a few tiny fringe groups, but in the Middle East it has gone mainstream. Recently, Islamists seeking to discredit Shiites have produced a Protocols of the Elders of Qom. In the original Protocols, the Masons serve as the Zionist front, while in Iran, that role has been ascribed to the Baha’is. n describing the early evolution of literature detailing a worldwide Jewish conspiracy, Eco’s novel closely follows the story told by Norman Cohn in his classic history, Warrant for Genocide. Cohn’s narrative begins with one Abbé Barruel. According to Barruel, the Templars had not been destroyed in 1314 but had survived underground, had given birth to various front organizations like the Freemasons and Illuminati, which had in turn inspired Voltaire, Condorcet, and other enlightenment thinkers, and had at last engendered the Jacobins. Now, in the 19th century, they were poised on the threshold of world domination. As it happens, Barruel received a letter from an otherwise unknown army officer, J. B. Simonini, who endorsed his theories but pointed out that the real force behind all these conspiracies was “the Judaic sect.” Barruel was eventually convinced. In The Prague Cemetery, Captain Simonini expounds his theories to his (fictitious) grandson, who becomes its hero, or anti-hero. This Simonini also acquires from his grandfather his spiteful disposition and his love of describing, as well as eating, gourmet food. A lot—too much—of this novel consists of menus and recipes. And Simonini also learns to cook up all sorts of fake documents, at first to steal inheritances and later as an operative for various secret police forces. Eco explains that he made this forger, murderer, and eventual author of The Protocols, “the most cynical and disagreeable in all the history of literature,” as well as the only wholly fictitious character in his novel. Disagreeable he is, but Eco’s boast betrays his own literary megalomania. A truly evil figure would have to be psychologically plausible, and Simonini’s diaries and conversations read less like life than a piece of bad Victorian fiction. As Eco knows perhaps better than anyone, the real history of The Protocols is in fact closely intertwined with bad fiction. In 1868, a German author, Hermann Goedsche, writing under an English pseudonym, Sir John Retcliffe, published the novel Biarritz, which contained a chapter entitled “In the Jewish Cemetery in Prague” describing a secret meeting of rabbis plotting to take over the world. Tombstones, incantations, mysterious flames: every cliché of Gothic fiction haunts this meeting of evil Jews who address each other as “sons of the Golden Calf.” By 1872, this chapter had appeared in Russian in St. Petersburg, presented as a fiction based on fact. It was published again and again in Russia and then in France as an actual document. Eco multiplies the peculiarity of reframing fiction as fact by having Goedsche imagine that he is stealing a secret factual document and selling it as sensationalist fiction for a greater reward. But that factual document is actually a forgery produced by Simonini, who is in turn relying on a novel by Dumas in which Jesuits conspire in a cemetery. When Simonini tries to sell his forgery to someone else, he is falsely exposed as a plagiarist copying from Goedsche’s novel! Time and again, Eco plays on the idea of a fictitious fiction plagiarized from a forgery based on a fiction covertly indebted to other factual or fictitious documents. The reader’s head spins from all the postmodern play representing something that in part really happened. Except for Simonini, everyone mentioned in this lurid tale about forgers, murderers, secret police, spies, double agents, revolutionaries, Masons, Jesuits, and Satanists is, amazingly enough, real. Eco has also added to Cohn’s account his own discovery that novels by Alexander Dumas and Eugene Sue about Jesuits served as an important source for Goedsche. To supplement the feel of bad Victorian fiction, Eco borrows dozens of period illustrations (most of them from his own private collection). As a result, The Prague Cemetery ironically conjures the feel of lurid books of the time. But doesn’t all this meta-fictional play get in the way of Eco’s serious point about a deadly forgery? Eco appears to want it both ways: to have his illusion and expose it too. On the one hand, he obviously enjoys all the self-referential semiotic play, but on the other still wants to insist that there really is such a thing as truth and falsehood. As he has recently written, “I am not what in certain U.S. academic departments is derogatorily called a ‘textualist’—someone who believes (as some deconstructionists do) that there are no facts but only interpretations.” In spite of all his postmodern legerdemain, therefore, he includes a preface and afterword warning us to take the story completely seriously. Or almost completely: in a partial reversal of this reversal, he entitles this afterword “Useless Learned Explanations.” The result is not entirely coherent. Eco is always straining after effect, while telling us—for effect?—that all this is not just for effect. Still worse, the made-up parts about Simonini’s psychic disturbance read like a bad imitation of a Hollywood rendition of a psychoanalytic case study. It seems that Simonini has been suffering from an identity crisis and is unsure whether a certain Abbé Dalla Piccola, who seems to have access to his apartment and memories, is really himself. Having met an Austrian Jew named Froïde, or something, Simonini decides to recall and record as much as he can about his past. He hopes this sort of therapy will provide a self-conducted talking—or rather, writing—cure. Readers are obligated to negotiate an often-confused record of remembrance, with some passages by Simonini, some by Dalla Piccola, and some by an all-too-postmodern “Narrator.” At last the celibate Simonini, for whom food is the sole source of physical pleasure, discovers that his trauma has been caused by a sexual encounter. This is mechanical plotting and the shallow end of depth psychology. To be sure, Freud’s conspiratorial theory of self, in which hidden agents manipulate our behavior against our will, fits the novel’s conspiratorial story. But that is not necessarily a good thing, since Eco’s tale never escapes the subterranean world of plots and counterplots. Rather than offering an alternative to conspiratorial thinking, Eco simply adds one more conspiracy. Or rather two: both the subconscious war on Simonini’s self and a new political plot. In addition to the nefarious machinations of Jesuits, Masons, and Illuminati, we now have those of anti-Semites. It is they, not the Zionists, who use the Masons as a front and secretly cause one major historical event after another. Readers discover a new darkness, but are never shown daylight. The Prague Cemetery, Eco seems to hope, will inoculate a wide readership against The Protocols. In this respect, it resembles the great comic book writer Will Eisner’s graphic novel The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, except that Eco’s story ends with the forging of The Protocols while Eisner took the narrative into the 21st century. In fact, Eco wrote an introduction to Eisner’s work that begins: “The most extraordinary aspect of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is not so much the history of its inception as that of its reception.” Evidently, The Prague Cemetery represents the opposite thought. Or is it that the reception history does not offer so many postmodern possibilities? Eisner’s main question was “how can one explain resilience [of The Protocols] against all evidence, and the perverse appeal that this book continues to exercise?” In facing this conundrum, Eco, Eisner, and Norman Cohn all fall victim to the same fallacy. Because they cannot imagine themselves taking the book seriously, they assume no one else with a brain ever could. In their view, anyone who accepts The Protocols, or at least its account of history, must be either an idiot, an ignoramus, or subject to delusions explicable only in psychoanalytic terms. (This is Cohn’s basic historical explanation, personified by Eco in the character of Simonini). If only it were so! But to assume that no intelligent person could disagree with one’s own views is to fail the historian’s fundamental test: imagining how people unlike oneself think. Could it really be that the Middle Eastern intelligentsia consists mostly of morons? Why has the worldview of The Protocols affected so many Russian and German thinkers? Liberal souls, like Eco, Eisner, and Cohn, find it unbelievable that anyone could reject liberal democracy, except those who fear the forces of modernity. Eco’s hero describes how people accept beliefs “as an explanation for their failure. It was someone else . . . who planned your ruin.” Eisner has a character attribute them to the need to justify shameful behavior “and of course, their reaction to social change!” One would think we had not just experienced the 20th century, when so many intellectuals and entire countries knowingly accepted one or another form of totalitarianism. Surely the Leninists, Stalinists, Trotskyites, and Maoists had reasons, not just irrational fears, for rejecting liberalism. And for that matter, is fear of modernity necessarily irrational? A believer in Islam who has contemplated the withering of Christian faith in Europe might well decide to embrace anti-democratic and anti-modern views. In one passage of The Prague Cemetery, Eco dwells on Dostoevsky’s anti-Semitism, which at its worst would have pleased a Nazi. I imagine most people would agree that, whatever his failings, Dostoevsky was neither uneducated nor stupid. As it happens, Dostoevsky addressed the very question Cohn and Eco cannot answer. In an article objecting to an attack on Russia’s radical youth as idle, undeveloped, non-studious rowdies, Dostoevsky wrote that, on the contrary, even among revolutionaries and terrorists one often finds well-educated and noble souls. I know so, he explains, because I was once one of them. I also stood on the scaffold condemned to death, and I assure you that I stood in the company of educated people . . . Therein lies the real horror. One can commit the foulest and most villainous acts without being in the least a villain! . . . The possibility of considering oneself, and sometimes even being, in fact, an honorable person while committing obvious and undeniable villainy that—that is our whole affliction! Dostoevsky’s own anti-Semitic writings prove the point. I do not know how to explain why people continue to believe in the international Jewish conspiracy. But I do know that there is something inherently suspect in attributing others’ beliefs to stupidity, lack of worldly success, or mental imbalance. For in leaving us ignorant of how such believers actually think, it renders us defenseless before them. It is also a failure of the imagination. Gary Saul Morson Gary Saul Morson is the Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University and the author of Anna Karenina in Our Time (Yale University Press). More by Gary Saul Morson Rethinking Jabotinsky: A Talk with Hillel Halkin The Jewish Review of Books and Yale University Press hosted an evening for Hillel Halkin’s brilliant new biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky at YIVO. Jonathan D. Sarna Jonathan Sarna looks back at a time when both Reform and Orthodox Judaism in America seemed imperiled. You Shall Appoint for Yourself Judges Tom Ginsburg It is not much of an exaggeration to say that legal and judicial politics in Israel since his retirement have pivoted on competing views of Aharon Barak and his court: Was he a robust defender of human rights or a runaway judge who imposed his political preferences on a nation? The Shtetl Trap ChaeRan Y. Freeze How should we think about the Eastern European market town? Did the shtetl ever have a golden age?	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line853
__label__wiki	0.678893	0.678893	live stream Sitting of the Senate at 10:00am home » JIS News » Culture Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (right), is joined by Manager, Corporate Affairs and Communications, Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), Camille Taylor (left); and Executive Director, Social Development Commission (SDC), Dr. Dwayne Vernon, in displaying a sponsorship cheque for $3 million from the PCJ. The occasion was the official launch of the Social Development Commission (SDC)/Wray and Nephew National Community T/20 Cricket competition on July 17, at the Ministry’s Hagley Park Road office in Kingston. Educators Encouraged to Safeguard Rights of Children Stage One Upgrading of JISCO/Alpart to be Completed by 2020 Economic Growth & Job Creation STATIN Reports First Quarter Growth of 1.7 Per Cent Finance & Public Service Resident Rep of IMF Encouraged By Efforts to Spur Higher Levels of Growth Marverly Primary CAP Opening Feature \| Presented by: Twila Wheelan Christmas in July Recap Tourism Roundup \| Presented by: Andrae Palmer 100th Anniversary of Black Star Line Enterprise to be Observed June 28-29 Written by: Charnele Henry Lady President of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Valerie Dixon. Grange Hails Exceptional Conroy Cooper Jamaica to Participate in the ‘Year of Return, Ghana 2019’ Activities PHOTOS: President Akufo-Addo Pays Tribute to Marcus Garvey The 100th anniversary of the incorporation of Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line Enterprise will be commemorated with two days of activities in Kingston from June 28 to 29. The celebration, which is open to the public, is being organised by the Marcus Garvey Fair Steering Committee in partnership with the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and the Social Development Commission (SDC) with support from Hamilton Knight Associates Limited. Activities will begin on June 28 with a commemorative lecture and cultural concert at the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), beginning at 11:00 a.m. It will engage members of the Jamaican Diaspora, the public and private sectors, and primary and secondary schools. On June 29, the annual Marcus Garvey Fair will be merged with the Black Star Line celebrations, with the staging of the Marcus Garvey Black Star Line Centennial Fair on the Kingston waterfront. The event will showcase African retention in communities across the island, along with various cultural items and local enterprises. It will also feature the awards ceremony for the centennial oratorical competition, which was targeted at fifth- and sixth-form students. Lady President of the UNIA, Valerie Dixon, told JIS News that the fairs have been held in Resource, Manchester, since 2004 to improve knowledge about the legacy of Garvey and the Tainos and support the community’s Liberty Hall, which was one of the first established by the National Hero. She said that the proceeds from the annual events have been used to assist the indigent, facilitate training courses for UNIA members, establish a post office in the community, and upgrade sanitary facilities at the Liberty Hall Basic School. She noted that this year’s staging in Kingston will facilitate even more local and international attendees. The Black Star Line was a shipping line incorporated by Marcus Garvey as a way to promote trade and transport black people to Africa. Meanwhile, Mrs. Dixon informed that on Thursday (June 27),which is the actual date for the anniversary, a special film called ‘The Promised Ship’ by Luciano Capelli will be shown at Café Africa on Trafalgar Road, St. Andrew, beginning at 7:00 p.m. Preparatory Activities for Vernamfield Development Under Way	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line855
__label__wiki	0.950108	0.950108	home » JIS News » Governor General Chair of the Emancifest Planning Committee, Natalie Neita (centre) interacts with Miss Emancifest contestants at the recent launch of Emancifest 2019 at the Courtleigh Hotel in New Kingston. The contestants are (from left) Okeefa Hanson, Kemoy Perry, Kashieve Stewart and Octavia Anderson. Emancifest will take place on Wednesday, July 31 and Thursday, August 1 at the Sligoville Multipurpose Stadium, Sligoville, St Catherine. Parents and Principals to be Surveyed Under PISA Buyers of Stolen Produce to be Targeted Works / Construction Ferris to Mackfield Road in Westmoreland 98% Complete Jamaica’s Hosting of Disaster Risk Reduction Conference Significant – Minister McKenzie Midday News July 18 2019 JIS News \| Presented by: Anthony Morgan Data Sharing for Disaster Mitigation Feature \| Presented by: Vanessa Silvera Businessman Sworn in As New Custos of Manchester Written by: Douglas McIntosh Photo: Mark Bell Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (right), looks on as Manchester businessman and newly appointed Custos Rotulorum for the parish, Garfield Green, takes and subscribes to the Oath of Allegiance and Oath of Office, during Monday’s (June 24) swearing-in ceremony at King’s House. Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (right), signs the Instrument of Office for Manchester’s newly appointed Custos Rotulorum, Garfield Green (centre), during Monday’s (June 24) swearing-in ceremony at King’s House. Overseeing the proceedings is the Governor-General’s Secretary, Michelle Garvey Clarke. Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (right), looks on as Manchester’s newly appointed Custos Rotulorum, Garfield Green (centre), signs the Instrument of Office during Monday’s (June 24) swearing-in ceremony at King’s House. Overseeing the proceedings is the Governor-General’s Secretary, Michelle Garvey Clarke. Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (left), presents Manchester businessman and newly appointed Custos Rotulorum for the parish, Garfield Green, with the Instrument of Office, during Monday’s (June 24) swearing-in ceremony at King’s House. Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (left), converses with Manchester businessman and newly appointed Custos Rotulorum for the parish, Garfield Green, and outgoing Custos, Hon. Sally Porteous, following Monday’s (June 24) swearing-in ceremony at King’s House. PHOTOS: G-G Receives Courtesy Call from President Akufo-Addo PHOTOS: G-G Meets CEO of the Life Pak Foundation Limited PHOTOS: G-G Receives Colombia’s Ambassador Designate’s Letters of Credence Businessman Garfield Green was sworn in as new Custos Rotulorum for Manchester, during a brief ceremony at King’s House on Monday (June 24). He replaces Sally Porteous, who will demit office on July 1, after serving for seven years. Governor-General, His Excellency, the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, presented Mr. Green with the Instrument of Office, before a small gathering of family members, relatives and friends. In his remarks, the Governor-General said in his new capacity as Manchester’s First Citizen, Mr. Green is being charged with “some very awesome responsibilities”. “The core function of the Custos is to oversee activities in the parish that promote the rule of law, public order and also civic pride. Mr. Green [will be] responsible for recommending and swearing in Justices of the Peace in the parish, and for supervising the execution of their legislative functions. He [will also] ensure that the Governor-General is well represented on occasions when he is unavailable to attend functions within the parish,” he outlined. He said, further, that Mr. Green “will assist the Office of the Governor-General to execute and achieve the objectives of the Governor-General’s Programme for Excellence”. “I would encourage you to use the platform to engage young people… to grasp the vision of a new and a better Jamaica. I encourage you to inspire them to make a contribution to national development and fulfil their God-given responsibilities,” the Governor-General added. He thanked Ms. Porteous for “sufficiently and effectively directing the affairs of the parish of Manchester over these past seven years”. The Governor-General expressed gratitude to Manchester Lay Magistrates Association President, Stanley Skeen, for acting as Custos during the period when Ms. Porteous was out of office due to ill health. In his remarks, Mr. Green said he accepted the appointment with “extreme humility”, while acknowledging the “level of trust and confidence” reposed in him, and pledged to serve with “humble pride”. He outlined four key areas of focus during his tenure. These, he indicated, are ensuring adequate and reliable distribution of services provided by JPs; heightening public education about the role and function of the Custos Rotulorum; deepening interactions with residents; and addressing “the notion of JP delinquencies”. Mr. Green thanked Ms. Porteous for “the experience you have afforded me and, very importantly, the guidance you have given me”, while also expressing gratitude to his family for their support. He described his appointment as a “privilege” and assured the Governor-General that he will “demonstrate the principles, the respect and integrity you expect of me, while I defend and promote civic pride, law and order, and build our social capital”. “When duties call, there can only be one answer. I, therefore, stand ready to serve, and pledge my commitment to help create a more dynamic and prosperous Jamaica,” he added. Ms. Porteous told JIS News that she is proud of Mr. Green. “He is a young man whom I noticed from early when he became a Justice of the Peace. His commitment to public service, his empathy for persons [including] those in the lock-ups, are commendable traits. I didn’t have to direct him to do things; he took it upon himself to do things like giving Christmas treats and putting new beds in for the persons in the lock-ups to sleep on,” she outlined. Ms. Porteous also thanked Mr. Skeen for acting on her behalf while she was out of office recuperating, after being hospitalised in Miami for five weeks, adding that “he did a terrific job”. Violence Prevention Commission Begins Work	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line856
__label__cc	0.669703	0.330297	Home Peo...People Groups Jat (Hindu traditions) / in All India Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka Jat (Hindu traditions) in Nepal Photo Source: Anonymous Used with permission Jats are not a homogeneous ethnic group living in a particular area and speaking a single language. Rather, they are a people who live scattered around the world among several ethnic groups, yet retain their own identity. This distinction is often based on occupation and heritage. Jats are primarily located in northwestern India and southern Pakistan, although there are also significant communities in Maldives, Russia, and Ukraine, with a few in Afghanistan. However, their origin, history, and current dispersion are spread much wider. History indicates that they reached Egypt with the Muslim conquerors, lived in Afghanistan before the Muslims, and invaded China with the Mongol army. They also proved to be a threat to Tamarlane in Persia and Uzbekistan. There are different opinions as to the origin of the Jats, but most seem to recognize them to be of Indo-Aryan descent. There is also a theory suggesting that they may be the predecessors of Romani. Whatever their origin, in the eighteenth century, the Jats became a force that could not be ignored. Overall, the Jats have a very good self image. "Men may come and men may go, but I go on forever," is a well known Jat proverb. They are brave, hardworking people who possess both the desire and ability to rule. It has been said that no Jat wants to be ruled. Rather, he desires to have power over a group, if not over an area. Known for their military prowess, many Jats were recruited into the British-India army during World War I. Before that, they served as fighters in the Persian army. In times past, a Jat who did not have a horse was looked down upon by his peers. Today, the Jats are well read, and some occupy high positions in academic and technical arenas. In India and Pakistan, the Jats are usually either farmers or nomadic herdsmen. Sometimes they are even forced to do both. Different tribes of nomads raise different types of animals. Because they value thriftiness and diligence, the Jats are often regarded as miserly. The settled Jat farmers grow cereals such as wheat, maize, and millet. They also raise sugarcane as a cash crop. Fruits, vegetables, and rice are grown in certain areas. Only the men work in the fields, while the women maintain the household. The basic diet of peasant Jats consists of unleavened bread and curry, seasonal vegetables, ghee (a type of butter), and milk. Most of the Jats live in rural areas. Depending on whether they are settled farmers or nomadic herdsmen, they may live in permanent villages or temporary camps. Most Jat villages are compact. They consist of small homes, cattle sheds, a village square, and a well or pond. The houses generally have flat roofs and are made of baked or unbaked bricks. Nomadic Jats live in portable huts that are usually made of reed mats and wood. Conservative by nature, the Jats rarely marry people from other ethnic groups. Great pride is placed in their ancestry. In fact, all the Jats in a particular village consider themselves to be the descendants of the man whom they believe founded it by the power of the sword. Physically, the Jats are taller and heavier than most of their neighbors. They are generally feared because of their larger build, their reputation for violence, and their control over much of the land and village income. Most Jats are Muslims, Hindus, or Sikhs. The Jats living in Pakistan, Russia, and Ukraine are primarily Muslim, while the majority of the Jats in India are Hindu. The Muslim Jats are Sunnis of the Hanafi school, but are known to have a strong tradition of worshiping many local saints. The Hindu Jats adhere to the traditional practices, as well as a wide variety of additional beliefs and practices. Until recent times, the Sikh Jats seemed to be the least meticulous in their observance of Sikh traditions, leaning more towards Hinduism. Regardless of their religious affiliation, all Jats observe many ceremonies, especially rites of passage such as circumcision and initiation into adulthood. The Jats who live in India and Pakistan need clean drinking water and proper health care facilities. Christian medical teams and humanitarian aid workers are needed to work among them and show them God's love in practical ways. Most of the Jat believers live in India. Sadly, this only represents a tiny proportion of the entire Jat population in that area. Missionaries, Christian broadcasts, and evangelistic literature are needed to effectively reach the Jats with the Light of the Gospel. Most importantly, they need people who will begin to intercede for them, tearing down the strongholds that are keeping them in spiritual bondage. Only then will their hearts be prepared to receive the Good News as it is presented to them. * Scripture Prayers for the Jat (Hindu traditions) in Nepal. * Ask the Lord of the harvest to send forth additional laborers into Pakistan, India, Russia, and Ukraine to work among the Jats. * Pray that Christian doctors, nurses, and humanitarian aid workers will have opportunities to share the love of Jesus with the Jats. * Ask God to save key Jat leaders who will boldly proclaim the Gospel to their own people. * Pray that churches and missions organizations will accept the challenge of adopting and reaching the Jats. * Ask God to raise up teams of intercessors who will faithfully stand in the gap for the Jats. * Ask the Lord to bring forth many fellowships of believers among the Jats for the glory of His name! People Name General Jat (Hindu traditions) People Name in Country Jat (Hindu traditions) Pronunciation JAHT Alternate Names Jacak, Jachak, Jati, Jatu, Jaut, Jhat, Jit, Langah, Marth, Musali, Nath, जाट, (हिंदू ट्रेडिशन्स) People Cluster Jat People Group Jat (Hindu traditions) Ethnic Code CNN25h Bagmati 400 Narayani 200 Mechi 100 Lumbini 40 Bheri Narayani 200 Mechi 200 Seti 100 Lumbini 40 Kosi 40 Bheri 30 Primary Language Hindi (400 speakers) Language Code hin Ethnologue Listing Punjabi, Eastern 100 Haryanvi 90 Maithili Punjabi, Eastern 200 Haryanvi 100 Marwari 90 Maithili 50 People Groups Speaking Hindi Primary Language: Hindi Audio Recordings Online Scripture (Talking Bibles) Film / Video A Beautiful Hope (EngSub) Film / Video Coconuts Film / Video Creation to Christ Film / Video Jesus Film: view in Hindi Film / Video Rivka (Jesus Film Project) Film / Video The Hope Video Photo Source Anonymous Used with permission	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line858

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