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GOP lawmaker backs bill to combat identity theft
By Cory Bennett - 09/28/15 12:52 PM EDT
A House Republican wants to reduce identity theft by keeping Social Security numbers off many federal tax forms.
Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) has introduced the Taxpayer Identity Protection Act, which would let companies use an alternative to the Social Security number on the W-2 tax form, issued to every employee earning at least $600 a year.
“This bipartisan, common-sense measure will protect Americans from identity fraud by limiting the use of Social Security Numbers on the most popular tax forms, including the W-2,” said Buchanan, who sits on the House Ways and Means Committee, the panel that writes U.S. tax code.
Digital thieves earlier this year accessed the IRS computer network to steal more than 300,000 taxpayer’s returns.
These forms are valuable to fraudsters, since they contain important sensitive information — such as Social Security numbers — that can be used to file future fraudulent returns or commit a number of other types of identity theft.
“We must be doing all we can to end this growing problem, which hits seniors especially hard,” Buchanan added.
According to a Department of Justice report, 17.6 million Americans were victims of identity in 2014.
Buchanan’s state of Florida is hit particularly hard by identity theft, as fraudsters often target senior citizens.
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“Hello Miss Jordan. We need to see the Crack.”
“It’s occupied. Night workers.”
“That’s why we need to see it,” Thulani said.
“You need to see it because there has been a ton of activity here at night?” Jordan – the Audubon lady – said.
“No,” Thulani said. “We need to see it because if we don’t get to the heart of their search first, it will not go well for the people of Joplin.”
“But they’ve been out here for weeks. I just…”
“Look,” Maya said, “I know you’re worried but you’re out here to preserve the natural way of things, right?”
“Well we let the ground fallow and—”
“Good,” Maya said. “That’s all wonderful. These people, they’re trying to exploit the whole area — people, nature, the very water. We’re after the same thing you are here, but we’re under a bit of a time crunch.”
“I’ll tell you… I… Look it’s just at night these days. Sometimes I see a hundred lights out there messing around and the things I hear… the sounds are a little too shrill. I’ll take you there, but you really really need to be careful, guys. I can’t have wounded tourists on my nightly report.”
“I’m from here,” Lee said.
“Two wounded tourists and a citizen,” Jordan said.
“Right. Okay, we’ll listen to whatever you say.”
“Good,” she said. “If something goes wrong… I have no idea what they’re doing out there. I try to leave them alone, but if something goes wrong you guys have got to get out of here. We have some help nearby, but leave as quickly as you can.”
“I’m African,” Thulani said. “Didn’t you read that book about how we’re born to run?”
“You were born in a city, Thulani,” Maya said.
“Yes, but you don’t have to tell her this? Why are you always ruining my pranks?”
“Because sometimes it’s a bad idea to leave a water cannon inside the national archive.”
“Why do you need a copy of the Declaration of Independence?” Thulani said. “It’s not like the British Empire’s going to reform and take America over — you have a digital copy. What? Are the freemasons hiding something in the document? You cryptologists…”
“You wouldn’t want me to destroy The David, would you?” Maya asked.
“There’s a big difference between a hand-sculpted naked king and a piece of paper that—”
“A piece of paper! It—”
“Guys?” Jordan said. “Do you want to go or sit here shouting into the night?”
“Sorry,” they both said and followed her out.
“So Maya,” Lee said.
“Hmm?” she asked.
“They call this Mother Nature’s Crack.”
Lee suppressed his crack jokes.
Jordan said, “Turns out we are going to need a ride out boys. Sorry.”
“Be quick!” Jordan turned to the three and whispered, “run. Run now.”
“WHERE IS MY JAR?”
The thief whistled low and loud. He shook his head. “Why do you care?” he asked. “It’s just a jar of dirt, man, I was just going to make some crafty thing out of it for my girlfriend.”
And Thulani told them the story.
“So you hang onto them for death?” the thief asked.
“Yes, for death,” Thulani said.
And it was quiet for some time.
“How were you all so close to the dig site?” Lee asked.
“We’ve been keeping tabs on you,” the thief said. “And on their operation at Mother Nature’s Crack.”
“Who’s they?” Lee asked.
“The organization that’s mining out that sludge and feeding it to the sick people. Almost everyone’s addicted to it and almost no one can live without it.”
“It helped me a bit,” Lee said.
“Look at you,” the thief said. “That’s what it looks like if you get a concentrated dose.”
“I fell into a puddle at the chat piles,” Lee said.
“Yeah, and every pill you take’s just delaying your death. Sure this stuff helps sicknesses and things, but they call it a miracle drug. It’s much more drug than miracle.”
“LEE?” Maya screeched.
“What do I do?” Lee asked the waiter from Karma.
“Hit ‘em where it hurts.”
“What’s the name of this company?” Lee asked.
“Clark Brothers Energy.” He said it with the cigarette still in his mouth.
“That’s my uncle’s company,” Lee said. “That explains mom’s sickness. Get some sleep. Tomorrow morning…”
“…I take you all…”
“…to meet my mother.”
“You might need to heal up first,” the thief said. “We should stop by the former mayor’s restaurant on the way…”
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Alt+Escape: Ching Chong Beautiful
John Funk
1 POSTED: 25 Dec 2009 13:00
It's got all the hilarious masochism of being on a real Japanese game show!
If anyone watches Takeshi's Castle, watch the British version with dubbing from Craig Charles. It's better than MXC/MXE.
The_root_of_all_evil
BobisOnlyBob:
I was just about to say that, but then that started from Clive James doing Endurance back in the 80's.
The Japanese really are a weird bunch. Not like us sensible Brits...
I have. Its brilliant!!! <3 it
The DSM
God I remember watching it on U.K TV.
Its the I wanna be the guy of game shows....
Jsnoopy
MXC! MXC! AWESOME!
SaintWaldo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_chong
Are you really this insensitive?
Just to clarify, this is equivalent to naming your Southern themed Flash game "N***er Lovely".
Making me even more angry, this story was the FIRST thing I read on Christmas morning. Thanks, Escapist, for filling my holiday with racism.
HK_01
SaintWaldo:
Cool down, man.
OT: Fun game, but I'm stuck on the very first level.
Edit: Played the tutorial, got it now.
HK_01:
No. I won't "cool down", mainly because I'M not the uncool one.
It's a racial slur, it offends me, and I'm going to say so. Calmly. I'm also offended that you seem to read any disagreement as "not cool". I'm rational and presenting coherent arguments that this is a racist title and should not be on the front page of an international magazine on a major holiday. What isn't cool is being told to not voice your objections to racism. So, concern taken for what it is, but, please, don't tell me how I should be expressing my genuine disagreement with promoting this title. I don't tell you anything of the sort.
10 POSTED: 25 Dec 2009 17:20
I'm not saying you have no point, your post just seemed a bit...heated/angry(hence me saying "cool down"). Also, I read the Wikipedia article and it didn't seem all that bad and didn't seem to justify such a strong reaction. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Caligulove
oh man, I loved this goddamn game. Played it a couple weeks ago and beating it was actually really difficult. I felt some accomplishment when I got to the end and beat it.
A game is always good when you can have that feeling at the end of it
When you read that Wikipedia article, what part of "ethnic slur" didn't strike you as justifying a strong reaction?
spiral helix
Thank you Waldo. Big props to you for standing up and pointing out how racist the title of this game is. It is offensive and your reaction is definitely justified. I'm pretty disappointed that Escapist would be so desperate for material over holiday period that they would even stoop to promoting a game with such a title. I usually come to escapist just to watch zero punctuation but the completely inappropriate title of the article made click on it. Thank you escapist for reminding me why i never read the articles here.
BonsaiK
As someone who is part-Chinese I do find this game as not a very prudent choice for The Escapist to highlight. I'd definitely stop short of saying "I'm offended" (racial epithets make up easily over half of my CD collection after all) but I wonder if it's the best choice especially given how many young people visit this site. "Ching-Chong" is a reference to Chinese people, but the game is parodying a type of TV show that is Japanese and actually has nothing to do with China. I guess to the American who made this game, that's not an important distinction for him, because in his eyes Asians are obviously all the same. I interpret this as being very racist, even if he didn't have any actual racist intent in making the game. It's a shame that he had to taint his game with a stupid and unfunny name like this because I actually don't mind the gameplay concept and some of the other humour in the game is reasonably clever.
I realise that The Escapist and a lot of gamers in general are obsessed with Japanese culture (although I can't work out why, it seems very random to me) so I guess something that both references Japenese culture and is a computer game was irresistible to them as it helps them to magnify this (artificial) link. The fact that the article writer was willing to gloss over a little bit of inconvenient racism, because the article subject matter was just that tempting, makes the Escapist look amateurish. I think that The Escapist can find better things to write articles about than what some racist kid did on Newgrounds.
It was not a racial slur I was familiar with, and given that it was featured prominently on several other browser gaming sites, contains significantly higher production values than a bunch of other browser games, was actually recommended to us by several readers, and is simply an enjoyable game, that was why it was chosen.
You're always welcome to submit your Alt+Escape ideas via PM or email, and if you have a suggestion for a replacement I'd be happy to facilitate it - it was never our intention to offend.
qbanknight
love that game
Okay, how about this: You tell me what's so offensive about it. From what I understand, it merely mocks how Chinese sounds to Europeans. What's so bad about that? Nobody seems to care when the French language, for example, is mocked, and it is mocked quite often. Same thing about Russian or pretty much any other language I can think of. All of them have been made fun of, but it's never been perceived as offensive, at least not in Switzerland, Germany or Austria or for that matter the rest of Europe(as far as I know).
Edit: I probably won't be able to respond until the 10.01 because I'm going on vacation!!
Edit 2: Wikipedia just told me that "Kraut" is a so-called ethnic slur for Germans. I don't mind that term, in fact, I think hardly any German would react so strongly. If "Ching Chong" is not a lot more offensive than Kraut, then no, it doesn't strike me as justifying a strong reaction.
hypothetical fact
You heard it hear first folks, play this fine platformer before the minority of Saint Waldo dictates what you can see.
sad_panda
with that attitude you wouldn't have had a nice x-mas anyway.
the name is irrelevant. it's a great game.
Generic Gamer
i played this game a few weeks ago first, its a wonderful game! the controls are beautiful, as is your character's cursing whenever he falls over.
and frankly the name isn't racist at all, its just a word after all. racism is a state of mind, not a word. this isn't a loaded word like ni**er or p*ki, this is a word roughly on the level of kraut, limey, frog etcetera. people need to stop thinking that racism is a sound you make and start accepting that it is an opinion.
(moderators, feel free to 'star out' letters wherever you need)
SenseOfTumour
Was it just me who thought on first reading this ...
'Well, if you're offended by that, you're in a minority' and then realised it could be taken more than one way... and then typed it anyway.
Really, there's a difference between 'nigger', being a racial slur with its roots in slavery, and things like froggy and kraut, coming from national dietary choices, and ching chong coming from a percieved view of the sound of the language.
One is putting down an entire race as worthless, the other is saying 'lol foreigners eat/sound/act funny', which they are and always will be, hell as a brit, I know we're fairly open to ridicule for numerous things, no matter how many equality laws are passed, and I'll locking myself in a soundproof room to laugh at them in future if needed :)
Having said all that, it's entirely your right to be offended if you're oriental, however if not, I think it might be an overreaction.
To me this isn't the problem, it's people using it against individuals, for instance mocking the kid at school. This is obviously not meant meanly and is exaggerated for humour's sake.
Bagaloo
Brilliant game, though I never finished it because I got a bit fed up with the controls. Got well over half way though.
As for the debate over its name, I think it was more a lighthearted poke at the slur itself.
warbaloon
SenseOfTumour:
Since when did we let limeys on the escapist...
If you were going to point out anything offensive about the game it would be the radioactive crater or the main character saying, "This is for Pearl Harbor." Then again I have bigger complaints about how when you fell in a few stages you would have to go through another obstacle course to get back to the part you fell on...
Wall jumping is and always will be amazing.
Latinidiot
i think that The Swain should make a Blockhead cartooon again. It's been ages!
end_boss
I am of Asian descent, and I am not so much offended by it as I am rather annoyed. The blow is softened greatly by the fact that it's a parody game. The slur is less offensive when used with a sense of irony, so I wouldn't have cared too much, IF the game was parodying the CHINESE.
I guess it's still not the worst thing in the world, but "Ching Chong" is a parody of the Chinese language, not the Japanese, so it would be similar in context to describing a French person as a "mick." It's really annoying, but I'm not so morally outraged by it, either, given the context. If, say, they called Stranglehold "Detective Ching Chong," then I would be furious.
A few years back, when Rosie O'Donnell said, and I quote, "Ching chong, ching chong, ching chong, Danny Devito, ching chong," I wasn't so outraged as I simply thought that she was stupid and unfunny. However, after meeting with controversy over the line from the Asian community, she defended herself by saying "I'm an impressionist," and THAT'S what offended me. I was offended because she didn't feel the need to put any actual effort into it, and called it an "impression," as if it was in any way an accurate representation of how the Chinese language sounds. For the most part, I do tend to feel that a lot of Asians get overly defensive (Korea has banned the movies Falling Down and Die Another Day for depicting Korean characters in a negative light), but at the same time I at least want the parodies of our culture to be held in the same regard as other minority groups.
Prophetic Heresy
Personally, I don't like this game. It's funny at first glance, but it's charm wears off after spending some time playing it.
The controls were a major turn-off for me, and extremely bothersome when you get to the later levels. It's one thing when the level is fighting against you, but entirely different when the controls do, too. It's even worse when you see yourself hit the corner of a ledge, not grab onto it, and then fall and backtrack just to try again. The worst part is, in the author's comments, he addresses the bad controls having to do with using IE and tells you to "...get a new browser pls thx".
As for the racism, I don't know, but I can definitely see where you're coming from. It does seem odd how some comments are aimed at China while the contestant himself is in Japan.
At least over here you don't get called a "pussy" that plays "sissy games" for not liking this thing.
The Random One
Interesting concept, but while I'm certain the game had to be very hard for it to work, it overdid it. Maybe it's because I just hate keyboard controls. I'm pretty sure flash allows for joystick controls and I happen to have one.
While it's hilarious to see the character scrambling for height, failing and falling on its face, it's also fun to advance levels, which I couldn't do because I wouldn't go back and redo half the level because I missed the flawless timing. With the god damn shift key. Vaudeville is only funny when it happens to others.
As for the racism, I think we should give a pass to any words that have not been used seriously in over fourty years, but perhaps that's just me. The Chinese/Japanese mix-up was probably deliberate though.
Prophetic Heresy:
he addresses the bad controls having to do with using IE and tells you to "...get a new browser pls thx".
Eh, I'm using Firefox and it's bad, so there.
Du Jour Jaricho
end_boss:
Or you know, The-Swain (creator and programmer) didn't know it was a racial slur? I sure as Hell didn't.
On the subject of parkour games John, may I recommend Canabalt?
The Random One:
I personally use the "A" button for running. And yes it's difficult, but that didn't stop me from trying 100 times to get gold on all the levels in the first area on Medium difficulty. It helps to come up with a few tricks to get around problems, like sliding across puddles to quickly get over them. Though if there's one thing so far that bugs the Hell out of me it's stairways and ramps, I hate the fact that your character can stumble by running or jumping on a ramp.
Robert632
that game was fun(for me) for about 2 seconds, then the voices and music murdered my eats, and the game became boring.
There's reacting and then there's pointlessly throwing a fuss about inconsequential stuff.
Takeshi's Castle, what this game is a homage to, was arguably a show that regularly made fun of its contestants in new and inventive ways, and generally strived to be as silly and demeaning as they could get away with. It was hardly a fountain of political correctness.
And citing a wikipedia article as undeniable fact? Really?
Du Jour Jaricho:
Which is fine, and I'm not holding a grudge against him, but at the same time, if somebody genuinely thought that French people were called "micks" (which is the derogatory term for the Irish, for those who might not know), it would still be wrong. Using a slur in a parodical nature isn't too bad itself, and I'm not offended by the fact that the term "Ching Chong" was used. In fact, I'm not even offended AT ALL, but I am a bit annoyed because using the term "Ching Chong" to describe something that is Japanese is simply incorrect. That's simply a factual statement. It's like if somebody was making a game about Moby Dick and said that it's based on the book by Ernest Hemingway. He might have genuinely believed that Hemingway wrote it, but it is, simply, incorrect.
Also, just because you don't know that something is a slur, it doesn't mean that it either isn't a slur, or is suddenly acceptable to use. Consider if somebody called a person wearing a turban a "towelhead," It is a term that directly references their headpiece as it looks to those of us in North American or European countries. Now, if somebody made a game called "Towelhead Adventures," and the programmer didn't realize that it was a negative slur, and a couple other people didn't realize it was offensive either, does that suddenly make it perfectly acceptable? Not necessarily.
Now, let's say that "Towelhead Adventures" was made to be a comedy game that was a parody, and so the term "Towelhead" was being used ironically. Under that context, it might not be considered offensive, but if the game centred around a Jewish rabbi wearing a yarmulke, then the term "Towelhead" is just plan and simply the incorrect term to use, and those who are Jewish might be a bit annoyed, if not offended by it.
In the case of "Ching Chong Beautiful," I am not offended, because I understand the context in which it was used, but I'm a little annoyed because "Ching Chong" is simply the INCORRECT term to use. Whether you know it's a slur or not, the term is incorrect, and that's just a FACT.
You actually expect me to read all of that?
None of those telling me that I'm overreacting were actually CALLED ch*ng-ch*ng as a kid. I was. I'm not even Chinese, I just look Asian. So the phrase doubly represents a prejudicial stereotype based on ethnicity AND the stupid ignorance of those who apply such phrases. I'd like you all to revisit your arguments in favor of interpreting a brand of racism as acceptable. You really are amazing.
You can argue all you want. There is no relativism for racism. Slavery does not make "ni**er" any more or less offensive than this word, just like the Holocaust doesn't make "k*ke" more or less offensive than any other slur. To suggest so is callous, cruel, ignorant and condescending.
I still strenuously object to this game being publicized here and in the absence of a retraction or an apology I'd appreciate The Escapist trying to avoid looking ignorant of hate speech. A slur is a slur. Your ignorance of it being a slur is simply the same thing that made the slur: IGNORANCE. Ignorance is not an acceptable excuse for cruelty.
Caimekaze
You were seriously called ching chong as a kid? That's... kinda ridiculous. I've never even heard it used as an insult before. To most people, it's associated with the term "ching chong chinaman" which, while intended as racist, nowadays just comes off as stupid.
The entire game is one massive parody; even the use of the term was probably deliberate, as it's wrongly applied to the Japanese.
Yes, there is relativism. Call an African American man a nigger, and he's like to be rather offended. Those around you will not approve. But they can do it.
Call a Caucasian person a cracker, they are unlikely to be offended. Because while it is a racial slur, technically, it has no weight behind it.
Oh, and the main character (who comes off as extremely American) is named Ching.
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Vince Gilligan Will Bring The Infamous Jonestown Massacre To Life With HBO’s ‘Raven’
Andrew Husband 09.09.16 3 years ago 4 Comments
Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul fans celebrate Vince Gilligan’s ability to create characters whose otherwise uneventful beginnings eventually devolve into depraved, but highly entertaining odysseys into the darker depths of human evil. Yes, Walter White and Jimmy McGill’s Saul Goodman aren’t the most virtuous protagonists in television history, but damn they’re fun to watch! So how will Gilligan and co-executive producer Octavia Spencer approach Raven, their miniseries adaptation of the true crime book Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People, for HBO?
After all, journalist Tim Reiterman’s book about the infamous “Jonestown massacre” in 1978, which claimed the lives of 918 people (including 909 Americans) at the Peoples Temple in northwestern Guyana, doesn’t revolve around a likable anti-hero. Instead, it focuses on cult leader Jim Jones, the man who founded the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project and oversaw the ensuing mass suicide and murder. Per the Hollywood Reporter:
Raven tells the definitive history of Peoples Temple, from its idealistic beginnings to its terrible end in Jonestown. The adaptation will focus on Jim Jones, but also on his followers, who, by and large, were ordinary people of good will. It tells the mysterious story of how so many of them came to give up their lives for this man.
Gilligan and Spencer previously worked together on “Millennium,” an X-Files episode he co-wrote for the seventh season. Joining them is Gilligan’s former Breaking Bad producing partner Michelle MacLaren, whose work includes The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, and The Deuce, David Simon’s upcoming HBO series with James Franco.
If HBO decides to pick up the Raven miniseries, it’ll join the plethora of true crime fictionalized and documentary projects that includes HBO’s own The Jinx, Netflix’s Making a Murderer, FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, and countless others.
(Via the Hollywood Reporter)
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Tour de France 2019 /
Tour de France 2019: 7 places to venture off the cycle route
By Pascale Filliâtre , Published: 6 June 2019
© ASO / Pauline Ballet — The Tour de France involves a lot of cycling, but the surroundings aren’t bad either... a mountain stage between Albertville and La Rosière on the Tour de France 2018
On 6 July, the 106th year of the world’s biggest cycling race starts from Brussels. From the third stage, the riders and support of the Tour stick to the roads of France and their beautiful landscapes until 28 July, when they arrive on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. From Champagne to the Alps through Alsace, the Pyrenees, Occitanie and Provence, the 3,400km of the 2019 route promise great drama and suspense. They also act as a base for mini getaways. Why not take advantage of the Tour de France to explore France and its regional treasures?
From Epernay to Reims, Champagne
© Horizon Bleu/Moët & Chandon — The Moët & Chandon winery in Epernay, Champagne
You never know who’ll win the third stage as it climb the slopes before the final sprint into Epernay. But the capital of Champagne, in its setting of vines, will certainly reserve its best bubbles for the winner. The atmosphere should be equally sparkling the following day in Reims. To introduce the secrets behind making the famous beverage, a cellar visit is a must. On their family estate in Boursault, Charlotte and Hervé Le Gallais organise exciting wine tours. In Reims, the oldest champagne house of Ruinart, displays its precious barrels 38 metres below ground.
A jump between the Vosges and Alsace
© Matthieu/Adobe Stock — Lac des Truites (‘Trout Lake’) in the Vosges mountains
To link Saint-Dié des Vosges to Colmar in Alsace, the Tour riders need to overcome the formidable ascent to Haut-Kœnigsbourg, a fabulous fortress offering a unique view of the plain of Alsace, the Vosges and – on a clear day – the Alps and Mont Blanc. The next day, all efforts will be concentrated on the Ballon d’Alsace, with little time to admire the ‘ligne bleue’ of the Vosges… unlike you! Especially if you don hiking shoes to traverse the Grand Ballon or walk along the Front des Vosges. Nature, fresh air and good food, along with some beautiful restaurants, are all here for the taking. Admit it: life could be worse…
Albi, at the heart of Occitanie
© Aurélie Michel — The Poteries d'Albi bear the colours of French craftsmanship
On 16 July, the Tour de France procession stops for a well-deserved rest in Albi before heading to Toulouse and the Pyrenees. This is an opportunity to explore the splendid so-called pink city, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site with its fortified brick cathedral. Here you’re at the heart of Occitanie, in the department of Tarn, where the living is easy. Best local place to visit? The Chateau de Salettes, set in the magnificent Gaillac vineyards less than 30km from Albi, former home of the Toulouse-Lautrec family.
A storm in the Pyrenees
© ROC
In the Pyrenees, the peloton approaches the high mountains. On the roadside, the atmosphere reaches peaks of excitement. Between Toulouse and Foix via Pau, Tarbes and Barèges, supporters will have to really encourage the racers as they tackle no less than nine mountain passes, including the famous Tourmalet at 2,115m. Want to make a detour and find calm in the pastures? ROC (‘Refuge Out of the City’) is a well-kept secret in the heart of the Ossau Valley, 30km from Pau. If you want to go further, head east to Mount Canigou. Your reward for the ascent – on foot or by bike – is the view of the Mediterranean from 2,784m. Wow!
In Nîmes, an arena from antiquity
© Serge Urvoy — The facade of the Museum of Antiquity in Nîmes
The Tour de France spends nine days in Occitanie in 2019. Nîmes, the ancient and beautiful capital of Gard, is particularly in the spotlight as the host of a rest day and, subsequently, a mammoth circuit of 177km. Take a cultural break to explore the treasures of the city, including the brand new Museé de la Romanité (Museum of Antiquity), designed by architect Elisabeth de Portzamparc, facing the Gallo-Roman arena.
Pedalling from the Pont du Gard, Provence
© Wavetop - Getty Images — Looking closely at the arches of the Pont du Gard, you can see how much work was involved to build it
The most visited ancient monument in France, a colossus of almost 50,000 tonnes with graceful arches: this is the Pont du Gard, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and deserving of the privilege to kick off the next stage of the race on 24 July. Here’s hoping that its awe-inspiring beauty will spur the riders on to Gap, in Hautes-Alpes, across a long stage of 206km.
A breath of fresh air in the Alps
© Marion Co — The artisanal pottery in Les Gets, French Alps
The peloton will have to pick up momentum as it approaches the Alpine part of the course, the apotheosis of the Tour before the arrival on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. In the Alps, six climbs will exceed the 2,000-metre mark, including the Col de l’Iseran, the highest French road pass and the highlight of the 2019 race. Altitude making you dizzy? A few days before the finish, keep an eye on the overall classification but make stops to meet the local Alpine craftsmen. They work passionately with leather, wood, stone and pottery.
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Journalist-traveller. I often voyage to the end of the world to explore what France offers... just next door. filliatre.pascale@orange.fr
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It’s a Knockout still possible for summer
August 25th, 2011 By David Knox 29 commentsFiled under: News,
TEN is still considering the possibility of a rebooted It’s a Knockout, mulling it as a possible programme for summer.
The sprawling game show, which was a successor to the 1970s Almost Anything Goes, remains a fond if hokey remnant from the 80s.
Elements of the format were mirrored in Big Brother‘s Friday Night Live games a few years ago while Total Wipeout also proved popular. The show has a lot of goodwill, but as Gladiators and Hey Hey discovered, revivals are not always easy.
In an interview with The Age, Programming Chief David Mott also talks about some of TEN’s 2012 programming highlights.
Breakfast, to be co-hosted by Andrew Rochford will begin screening in January.
”There is a pool of $90 million at play at breakfast and we want a piece of that,” Mott says. ”I liken it to what Seven did with Sunrise, taking on the sleeping giant, the Today show. But that didn’t happen straight away. It was a slow growth. This is not a six-month strategy. It’s a big shift.”
Commenting on the performance of The Renovators against The Block he says:
”The Block did exceptionally well,” he says. ”It’s a different show. Sadly, The Renovators came into a cluttered market and we weren’t in the position to delay it. Hindsight’s a wonderful thing.”
Amongst the other comments, TEN still views 6:30 with George Negus as a work in progress and Young Talent Time is likely to screen on Sundays from February with The Graham Norton Show for Saturdays.
Tags: 6:30 with George Negus, Almost Anything Goes, Big Brother, Breakfast, Friday Night Live, Gladiators, Hey Hey its Saturday, It's a Knockout, Sunrise, The Block, The Graham Norton Show, The Renovators, Today, Young Talent Time
Moofty September 15, 2011 7:56 pm
I believe that channel ten will have Its a nockout and another similar game for a weekend Just at the very same time when the new channel 9 Big brother Eviction begings during the same slot time all on a weekend and all in 2012.
Channel 7 ? what is going to happen.. who knows.. but i do know that if a channel makes up a new reality show… then the other channel wants to fight back and make it even greater to win the show with the audience….
Just like how channel 9 brings back hey hey its saturday for about like 14 shows ? and then gues what? channel 7 and channel ten did a new or better show at the same time when channel 9 did the temporary hey hey its saturday last year…. The networks are allways stealing a thing…. If they see that one of them channels has a large audience show and rating.. then the next channel next to them wants to beat that and create a all new show to beat the ratings so that they are better and good looking then the other channel.
Its like having a large pizza on the table. I want all that pizza to myself… but the agressive housemates wants a slice.. i dont let them.. i want the whole pizza… so there for the agressive housemates calls the delivery to bring a much bigger twice pizza to eat it all… and making you down hill with your so what large pizza when it looks small right now compare to them.
So its like that 🙂 with the shows… channel 7 and 9 and ten are allways fighting about ratings and such
I beleive the 80s there was alot of nice reality shows.. there was the its a nockout.. there was the young tallent time.. there was other shows
Todays whats there? today is just american crime series.. and dramas… thats not virtualy reality tv like it used to be fun in the 80s!
Jason D. August 26, 2011 1:27 pm
Revivals are not easy if the main content is dated, i.e. Hey Hey It’s Saturday. It’s A Knockout is a game show format, it’s winnable, or the challenges are at least reasonable (unlike Wipeout), and they are pitting state against state, so I think it’s got potential as a rebooted show.
David Knox August 26, 2011 1:29 pm
Not convinced it will happen, nor it will necessarily pit state against state.
Oztvheritage(you tube) August 26, 2011 8:05 am
If they bring back the state vs state thing there well be 5 states competing this time. When it was last on air. Channel ten in Perth did not exist so there was no team from WA With digital channels now what about NT Tas and ACT??? Amazing I hear you day!!!
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The Gun Alley Murder
Melbourne Murder Tours, Murder, On This Day
ON THIS DAY – December 30, 1921
Alma Tirtschke, aged 12, was raped and murdered on this day in 1921. Tirtschke was last seen alive close to a drinking establishment, the Australian Wine Saloon near Gun Alley in Melbourne. Earlier that day she lifted from her grandmother’s house in Jolimont, on her way to her Uncles butchers shop in Swanston Street, to collect a parcel of meat, drop it at an aunt’s Collins Street home and return to Jolimont. It was uncharacteristic for Alma to take so long on her errands. A witness said he saw a man following Alma. Reliable witnesses who had nothing to lose or gain by telling police what they knew said Alma was dawdling, apprehensive and obviously afraid. Just a few metres away from the Australian Wine Saloon in the Eastern Arcade, between Bourke and Little Collins Streets, where Alfred Place runs off Little Collins Street, Alma was last seen about 3 pm on 30 December 1921. Her naked body was found early the next morning in a lane running east off Gun Alley, not far from Alfred Place. Following the discovery of the body, the owner of the Australian Wine Saloon, Colin Campbell Ross, was charged with her rape and murder. The case against him was based on the evidence of two witnesses, plus some strands of red hair, apparently from Tirtschke’s head, which provided a vital connection between Ross and the murder. Ross protested his innocence but was hanged. The two witnesses were later considered by many to be unreliable, both having had a motive to lie. The only credible piece of evidence was the red hair that connected Ross to the case. Ross could account for his movements at the time Alma disappeared, and later that night, when her body was dumped in Gun Alley. With nothing to hide, Ross had told detectives who interviewed him that a little girl matching Alma’s description had passed his saloon, but that this was his only connection with the victim. More reliable forensic examinations in the 1990s disproved the red hair connection and showed that Ross was probably innocent. Colin Campbell Ross was granted a pardon on 22 May 2008, the date on which the Victorian governor, as the Queen’s representative, signed it. The pardon was announced publicly on 27 May 2008. It is the first – and to date only – pardon for a judicially executed person in Australia. In the book which led to Ross’s pardon, author Kevin Morgan revealed for the first time the evidence missed by the police in their original investigation and identified by name Tirtschke’s probable killer.
Tags: Alfred place, Alma Tirtschke, Australian Wine Saloon, butchers shop, Colin Ross, DNA, Eastern Arcade, featured, Gun Alley, Jolimont, Melbourne, murder, rape
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A fascinating look at the most popular fashion trends of 2017 from all over the world.
If you like to stay on top of fashion trends, looking at runway shows is a great place to start, but they’re not always indicative of popular trends in countries around the world.
Lucky for us, the folks at fashion retailer Long Tall Sally researched the top trends worn all over the globe. Not only is it interesting to see the trends people in other countries love, but the results also provide a little fashion inspiration for your wardrobe.
With the help of a trends expert, Long Tall Sally analyzed thousands of global trends via street style images, local influencers and Instagram posts. The trends were then cross-referenced with Instagram data from the last 12 months. The top trend in each country was determined by looking at the most frequently used trend-related hashtag.
For example, in Seoul, South Korea, oversized sleeves were determined to be the top trend, with 15,638 hashtags. In Bangkok, Thailand, millennial pink was all the rage, hashtagged 15,411 times, and over 2,420 Inst…
A fascinating photo history of women's fashion.
The buzz around New York Fashion Week is always exciting. It's wonderful to see people from all over the world gather together for their love of fashion.
It makes you realize how important fashion is. One of the first things we do in the morning is decide what to wear. Whether we're heading out for a day of leisure or getting ready to make a big sales pitch, our clothes help us tell our story throughout the day.
Fashion has always been key to how women have presented themselves to the world, and how society has wanted to present women to the world. From panniers that emphasized wide hips to shoulder pads that emphasized "power," the fashion of the time tells our history in great detail. Read Article: https://www.makers.com/blog/brief-history-womens-fashion-photo-gallery
THE HISTORY OF HAUTE COUTURE
From humble beginnings to present day, we chart the history of haute couture. 1858: English couturier, Charles Frederick Worth established the first haute couture house in Paris, championing exclusive luxury fashion for the upper-class woman and coining the term ‘fashion designer’ – an artist in lieu of the basic dressmaker. 1868: Le Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture was first established as the safeguard of high-fashion. Designers were required to earn the right to label themselves a couture house according to certain specifications. These were later outlined in 1945. 1908: The phrase “haute couture” was used for the first time. Read Article: http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/fashion/fashion-news/news/a31123/the-history-of-haute-couture/
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The fascinating history of ear piercing.
Men and women alike have been piercing their ears for cosmetic and ritualistic purposes since time immemorial. When did people first start piercing their ears? What reasons have different cultures had for engaging in the ancient practice of ear piercing? How is it that ear piercings have remained one of the most popular types of body piercings throughout time? What types of ear piercings can you get today? We answer these questions and more in this History of Ear Piercings. Read Article: https://info.painfulpleasures.com/help-center/information-center/history-ear-piercings
Watch a slideshow about the history of the skirt, from the 1900s until now.
The skirt may be a mainstay in the closet of any fashion girl, but the essential wardrobe piece has one of the longest histories in the category of clothing. After the loincloth, the skirt is the second-oldest garment known to mankind. In ancient times, both men and women wore what we recognize today as a skirt, but over the years, it became predominantly a women’s garment in Western cultures. While its endless iterations can be traced back to the first days that humans decided to dress by tying cloths around themselves, the past hundred or so years are rife with dramatic changes to the skirt from decade to decade. Read More: http://www.whowhatwear.com/history-of-the-skirt
History of the Wearing of Clothing
The wearing of clothing is specifically human characteristic and most human societies wear some form of clothing. There is no information about when we started using clothes but there are ideas why. Anthropologists think that animal skins and vegetation were adapted as protection from weather conditions.
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Akira Goto
Professor emeritus, University of Tokyo
Akira Goto is a Professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, an Economic Adviser to the Japan Patent Office, and a former Faculty Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). Previously, he was a Commissioner at the Fair Trade Commission, Government of Japan from 2007 to 2012. He also was a Professor at the University of Tokyo, Hitotsubashi University, Seikei University, and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Hitotsubashi University.
His research interests focus on economics of innovation and economics of competition policy including national innovation systems, intellectual property rights, university-industry cooperation, and issues at the nexus of innovation and competition policy. He has published numerous papers in academic journals and books on these subjects including Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Japanese Economic Review and Oxford Review of Economic Policy. He was the Project Leader of The Role of Public Research Institutions in the Japanese National Innovation System project at RIETI.
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6 Case Studies Of Companies Using HoloLens
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While virtual reality is making its consumer debut thanks to Facebook, HTC, Sony, Google and Samsung, mixed reality is still focused on the lucrative enterprise market. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) HoloLens Developer Edition launched last year for $3,000 to enterprise companies and developers. Microsoft has also released a $5,000 HoloLens Commercial Edition, which includes added security and device management, as well as a warranty.
The mixed reality headset blends digital objects with the real world to introduce new ways to do everything from training personnel to performing surgeries to replicating work on Mars.
The headset allows users to see the real world and its augmented glasses brings the digital world to life on top of it. This has opened up new ways to think about working. For example, a stock broker can virtually add a dozen or more screens to his work space without requiring his company to invest in all of that hardware. Here’s a look at six ways companies are already embracing Microsoft HoloLens and its Windows Holographic software.
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
NASA has targeted the 2030s as the decade to send astronauts to Mars. However, scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have made it possible for astronauts to explore the Red Planet today while still grounded on Earth. HoloLens is being used by scientists to explore the terrain of Mars to help map out the Curiosity Mars rover’s operations. It puts researchers on the surface of the planet, where they can get an up-close-and-personal view of the rock formations and other features.
Even ordinary people can experience the Red Planet through the Destination: Mars exhibit at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The HoloLens transports guests to Mars with Buzz Aldrin serving as a holographic tour guide.
The Case Western Reserve School of Medicine is preparing for the future of medical education. The school is working with the Cleveland Clinic to build out a HoloLens anatomy curriculum in tandem with a new Health Education Campus, both of which are scheduled to launch in the summer of 2019. HoloAnatomy replaces cadavers and expensive equipment and allows students to explore the human body through mixed reality.
The curriculum will allow students to experience a beating heart and see how the blood flows to the brain in a brand new way. The HoloLens also invites better retention, since aspiring doctors will be experiencing these things rather than memorizing words from a textbook.
Thyssenkrupp Elevators
Around the globe there are approximately 12 million elevators transporting over a billion people each day, and there’s nothing worse than a broken elevator, especially if you’re in it. Thyssenkrupp Elevators is testing HoloLens to help its 24,000 elevator service engineers do their jobs safer and more efficiently. They’re using the Skype functionality of HoloLens to be hands free while on the job and sharing holographic instructions between users. Use of HoloLens has reduced the average length of Thyssenkrupp’s service calls by four times. The technology has also improved response time, increased efficiency, raised elevator uptimes and sped up service interventions to ensure mobility equipment is always running.
The movie studio behind flicks like Warcraft, Pacific Rim and Godzilla was early to explore virtual reality and now has expanded to mixed reality. Legendary is using Microsoft HoloLens as a new storytelling tool for creators as well as a new way for fans to interact with characters from the big screen. For the world premiere of Warcraft in Hollywood, fans got to meet Orgrim Doomhammer as a hologram on HoloLens. The Orc was brought to life in the film by Robert Kazinsky through the magic of performance capture and CGI. And Legendary captured the character from every angle to create a life-sized hologram so fans could come face-to-face with the giant Orc.
In a previous article we highlighted Autodesk, a leading provider of 3D modeling software and also 3D printing software. Autodesk often highlights their newer Fusion 360 program as a means of bringing 3D modeling software to the cloud. That very software program could be the killer app for the Microsoft HoloLens:
Both Microsoft and Autodesk have engineers working together to figure out how to capitalize on all the potential of the Holoens headset: From the Autodesk PR department:
We first started working with Microsoft in 2014 and kicked off a joint project called ‘FreeForm’ to build a proof of concept with Fusion 360 and HoloLens. The goal was to explore what could be possible for the everyday designer/engineer using HoloLens.
Here’s the official press release from Microsoft announcing the collaboration between the two companies.
Customers can now see what their kitchen renovation will look like full-sized and in holographic form, thanks to Lowe’s Innovation Labs. A handful of Lowe’s stores around the country are using HoloLens in a pilot program that allows customers to plan out the kitchen of their dreams in an interactive mixed reality environment. Lowe’s has set up a showroom kitchen that blends physical objects with digital holograms. Choosing different cabinetry, hardware, counter tops, and appliances is as simple as waving your hands to drag and drop the pieces for the perfect kitchen.
Aside from the 6 companies we’ve talked about in this article, there are many other companies developing on the Microsoft HoloLens platform. Automakers such as Volvo, Saab, and Volkswagen are all exploring various uses for the HoloLens. Airbus and Japan Airlines are doing the same thing in the aerospace industry. Architecture is an obvious application, and firms like BlueScope Buildings and Trimble are using the HoloLens for applications in design and construction. Microsoft has done a great job of making sure they have strong commercial partnerships which will ensure they get the kinks worked out as quick as possible. Investors should note that Microsoft is a $492 billion company. While the Microsoft HoloLens looks promising, it’s going to take a lot to move the needle with a company this large.
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Patriots LB Camp Competition: Hightower leads deep, talented unit
Bills reportedly sign T.J. Yeldon less than two weeks after running back met with Patriots
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Back on April 10, the Patriots reportedly hosted former Jacksonville Jaguars running back T.J. Yeldon at Foxboro. Fast forward to Monday and ESPN’s Adam Schefter is reporting the running back is set to play in the AFC East for the 2019 season.
Only it won’t be for the Patriots. Instead, Yeldon will suit up for the Buffalo Bills after signing a two-year contract.
The Bills already foster a stable of LeSean McCoy and Frank Gore at the running back position. For now, the Patriots maintain the group of Sony Michel, James White and Rex Burkhead, in addition to Brandon Bolden, who returns to New England on a two-year deal after spending a season in South Beach.
Yeldon ranked 10th among all running backs in targets (77) throughout 2018, finishing with 55 receptions. He also averaged 8.9 yards per reception. Given his dynamic ability in the receiving game, Yeldon could have been a fit in the Patriots offensive scheme to compliment White, who was second among running backs with 123 targets.
White and Yeldon nearly finished with the same catch percentage in 2018, converting 70.7 and 70.5 percent of their chances, respectively. Throughout their careers, Yeldon has the higher catch percentage of the two, edging out White 73.4 to 72.9 percent.
Yeldon was not a major factor in Jacksonville’s ground game last year. He averaged 7.4 rushing attempts per game and logged 414 yards on 104 attempts in 14 games (4.0 yards per carry).
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Deadmau5 collaborates with Microsoft for new ‘Music x Technology’ platform
Deadmau5 has recently been preoccupied with numerous endeavors, including his Mau5hax Bus Tour last month. The Canadian DJ and producer then completed his route to Miami, in which he performed a back-to-back set with Eric Prydz at a SiriusXM party and two incredible sets at Ultra Music Festival.
In addition to his busy schedule, Deadmau5 collaborated with Microsoft for the big company’s newly announced ‘Music x Technology’ platform, which is a website that spotlights different artists such as Matthew Dear, Phantogram, and more, while pairing them using Microsoft tools. Along with Deadmau5, Microsoft recruited Attlas to promote this brand new concept and followed the crew of musicians during their Mau5hax Bus Tour. Showcasing Attlas’ latest release “Aspen”, Microsoft provides a full, official video, which you can watch below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WgKgk6OuJc
H/T: Mixmag
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Deadly boat that sunk with hundreds of migrants on board becomes work of art at Venice Biennale
The shipwreck being transported from the Pontile Marina Militare di Melilli (NATO) to the Arsenale in Venice
Courtesy of Barca Nostra
The Swiss artist Christoph Büchel is returning to Venice four years after launching his controversial mosque initiative in the lagoon city. At the Arsenale site, Büchel will show the shell of a ship that sank between Libya and the Italian island of Lampedusa on 18 April 2015, with more than 1,000 migrants on board.
Tragically, only 28 people survived after the fishing boat collided with a Portuguese freighter. The project, entitled Barca Nostra, is part of the 58th International Art Exhibition (11 May-24 November) organised by the artistic director, Ralph Rugoff.
At a cost of €9.5m, the Italian government recovered the shipwreck in June 2016, transporting it to a NATO (The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) base in Melilli in Sicily where personnel from the Italian navy, among other organisations, identified the bodies trapped in the hull of the ship. On 18 April, the Italian government handed over the boat to the commune (municipality) of Augusta, a project partner.
A press statement for Büchels project says: “The public exhibition of Barca Nostra at the Arsenale—in the context of the cultural spectacle and economic operation of the Biennale in Venice, a city based on migration that feeds the machine of its own destruction through mass tourism—opens up the possibility of actively using the collective shipwreck Barca Nostra as a vehicle of significant socio-political, ethical, and historical importance.”
Büchel continually explores the issue of migration. In 2017, he Read More – Source
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Pinstripes With a Side of Snark: Week 2
Posted by Brian Delpozo
Greetings Yankee fans, Twitter followers, and non-sports fan friends who’ve simply clicked this link because I posted it, welcome to Pinstripes With a Side of Snark: Week 2. Beyond the normal weekly recap feature, today’s article could easily be subtitled “Brian Yammers on About The Left Side of The Infield” as a vast majority of today’s discussion is going to center on Derek Jeter‘s 3000th hit and a bit on the Alex Rodriguez surgery situation. Let’s jump in, shall we:
July 4-10:
The last week before the All-Star break didn’t exactly start out in grand fashion for the 2011 Yankees. Even with the return of Captain Derek Jeter, the team seemed to play a somewhat listless brand of baseball in Cleveland the first three days of the week, with the offense breaking out during Tuesday’s 9-2 victory, but being virtually completely shutdown by Josh Tomlin on Monday, and Justin Masterson on Wednesday, once again highlighting the feast or famine nature of the offense that’s plagued the team this year. Not that the Monday/Wednesday pitchers did much to help their cause, with AJ Burnett surrendering a huge 3-run homer to Austin Kearns on Monday, and an ineffective DL return from Phil Hughes two days later. Granted, Jeter’s “Quest for 3000” may have been a small distraction for the team in Cleveland (the captain got three hits in the series, leaving him 3 away) but the issues that cropped up in the series have been there all season, long before the 3000 chase was an issue. On top of that, midweek brought the news that Alex Rodriguez would most likely need surgery on his knee, sidelining him for at least a month. Whatever the case, the Yankees didn’t look their strongest as they came home for a huge series with division rival Tampa Bay over the weekend, a feeling that was exacerbated by a loss in Thursday’s Series opener. After Friday’s rainout, the Yankees came into Saturday 1-3 on the week, and looked to be limping their way into the break, however the collective will of two specific Yankees put a stop to that. As will be detailed below, Derek Jeter took the team on his back Saturday. The Captain went 5-5 with a HR (his 3000th hit), 2 RBI, and a run scored, almost solely powering the team to a 5-4 victory. Some, myself included, thought there was going to be a “hangover” effect loss on Sunday after Jeter’s heroics, but CC Sabathia made sure it didn’t happen, notching a beastly complete game shut-out for his second win of the week in the team’s 1-0 victory. The 2-1 series victory over Tampa gives the Yankees a wee bit of breathing room in the Wild Card standings (it’s never to early too start thinking about these things) and combined with Jeter’s 3000, reversed the team’s fortunes, sending them into the break on a high, which they can hopefully ride into next weekend’s second half-opening series with Toronto.
I’m going to start this section with a disclaimer: I’m a huge Derek Jeter guy. He’s not only my favorite baseball player, but my favorite athlete period, and easily the biggest Yankee icon since Mantle. Now, that doesn’t mean I’m blind. He’s certainly not the player he was even two years ago, and he’ll probably need to be moved out of the top of the order sooner rather than later, but I still think he has a good deal to contribute to the team, and he certainly showed a glimpse of that this past week. After going 0-4 in his first game back from the DL, Jeter got four hits over his next three games, three of said were the type of booming doubles that have been lacking from his game the last two years. With Friday’s rainout, Jeter was left sitting on 2998 going into Saturday afternoon’s game. After collecting a single to right in his first AB, the Stadium was filled with a palpable electricity for Jeter’s next AB, and the captain didn’t disappoint. In true Jetarian fashion, he launched a game-tying HR into the left-field bleachers, becoming only the second man to reach hit #3000 with a long-ball. The entire stadium erupted with a a jubilation never seen in the new building, with many saying it was even more exuberant than the clinching Game 6 of the 2009 World Series. The entire team mobbed Jeter at the plate, in a surreal scene that looked like a third inning, game -tying walk-off, and the crowd chanted his name the rest of the day. Jeter wasn’t nearly done though, coming up with three more hits, including driving in the game-winning run in the eighth. It truly was a magical day in the Bronx, though I think my personal favorite moment came after the game. As Jeter was being interviewed after the game by Kim Jones, the entire stadium restarted the “Der-Ek Je-Ter” chant, and the Captain become visibly choked up, and saluted the crowd with emotion rarely seen from him. From a historical perspective, the 3000th hit put Derek Jeter into elite company, as he’s only the 28th man in MLB history to reach the magic number, and the first New York Yankee. Speaking of the Yankees, let’s look at Derek Jeter’s accomplishments for the franchise: Only Yankee with 3000 hits, most hits as a Yankee (obviously), most hits at the Old Yankee Stadium, 5 World Series Titles, 7 AL pennants. Looking over that list, I don’t see how anyone can argue that Jeter isn’t a Top 5 Yankee of all time. In my opinion, the list has to go Ruth, Gehrig, Dimaggio, Mantle, Jeter. For what it’s worth, my father would put it Ruth, Gerhig, Dimaggio, Berra, Jeter, which is huge for him to say as Mickey was his childhood hero. Whatever the case may be, we witnessed something very special on Saturday.
A-Rod Out:
I’ve always had a soft-spot for Alex Rodriguez. Granted, he’ll never be the hero to me that Derek Jeter is, but I honestly think he’s gotten a very raw deal in this city, and with this fanbase, but that’s a blog for another time. Suffice to say though, I was overjoyed that over the first few weeks of this season, it looked like Alex was en route to MVP award #4 (#3 as a Yankee) but injuries have taken there toll on him, culminating in the news that he has a tear in his knee, and will miss at least the next month due to surgery. Granted, he supposedly could have played through it, but I don’t see why anyone would want him to. The injury has destroyed his power numbers (this year will surely be the end of his impressive 30/100 streak), and playing on it could risk further damage. At this point, I’m just hoping for a speedy recovery, so that a fresh A-Rod could be a force in the final month of the season, and hopefully a playoff run.
Alright, that should do it for me this week. As always, please feel free to leave feedback in the comments section or on my Twitter (WWW.Twitter.COM/Titan4Ever2488) See you next week for an All-Star Game discussion, and a recap of the Toronto series.
-Brian
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There are a lot of JavaScript frameworks available to choose from. Infusion was one of the first, and it has continued to evolve and grow over the last seven years. As a community of innovation-focused designers and developers, we don't spend much time advertising or evangelizing our work. Yet despite the proliferation of frameworks in recent years, Infusion continues to stand out for its unique goals and features.
The basic premise of Infusion is that current industry software development practices and tools are ill-suited to creating adaptable and configurable applications that take diverse user needs into account. Specifically, Infusion's goal is to support the creation of:
adaptable software that allows users to customize its appearance and behaviour to suit their personal preferences
assistive technologies that are integrated directly into mainstream user interfaces and that can access richer information than provided by current assistive technology APIs
authoring tools that allow users to configure, redesign, or develop a piece of software without having to be expert programmers
Without development tools to support this level of adaptability and customizability, inclusive designers are faced with the challenge of creating "universal" user interfaces that attempt to shoehorn all user needs into one design. It's a time-consuming and costly prospect. As result, accessibility features are routinely left out or bolted on afterwards. Until we have new software development techniques and frameworks that support adaptability by default, the accessibility field will continue to be largely reactive and remedial, trailing behind mainstream innovations.
This is a big task. Changing the foundations of software development practices takes time and necessarily requires a degree of experimentation, speculation, and willingness to make mistakes. We don't have all the answers ahead of time; as we gather new insights and devise new techniques, Infusion (and its API) changes. These insights are inevitably gained by building real, large-scale applications with Infusion and putting them into production. We call this production-scale research. Where traditional software research projects typically emphasize highly constrained laboratory prototypes that are intended to illustrate a particular research hypothesis, Infusion needs to leave the laboratory in order to be collaboratively developed, evaluated, and iterated upon.
Production-scale research involves pursuing innovation while also supporting stability for developers who are using the system to build actual software. The Fluid community has devised a set of techniques and practices that are critical to supporting production-scale research, which are based on well-established open source and agile development practices:
Comprehensive unit tests for all code
Code review for all changes and new contributions
Quality assurance testing prior to major releases
A-Grade browser support
Designer-led user interface implementation
Extensive documentation and tutorials
In the past, Infusion followed a relatively slow release schedule. Major releases were rare, and the incubation time between releases was fairly long. However, rapid releases are becoming the norm for many open source projects. To this end, the Fluid community has adopted the Semver 2.0.0 standard, and will release and publish versions of Infusion to npm more frequently.
As per Semver, all changes that affect Infusion's public API will be marked as major revisions. Since Fluid is currently in a period of change and responsiveness to user needs, we anticipate that Infusion's major version number will increase regularly as we add new features and improvements. This is consistent with many other open source projects such as Node.js. We will, however, identify particular versions that may need long-term support based on feedback and requests from our in-production users. This will help to ensure that the rate of change is balanced with the need for stability by production-scale implementers.
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M4V to MPEG
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The M4V file format is a video container format developed by Apple and is very similar to the MP4 format. The primary difference is that M4V files may optionally be protected by DRM copy protection. Apple uses M4V to encode video files in its iTunes Store. Unauthorized reproduction of M4V files may be prevented using Apple's FairPlay copy protection. A FairPlay-protected M4V file can only be played on a computer authorized (using iTunes) with the account that was used to purchase the video.
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a working group of authorities that was formed by ISO and IEC to set standards for audio and video compression and transmission. It was established in 1988 by the initiative of Hiroshi Yasuda (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and Leonardo Chiariglione, group Chair since its inception. The first MPEG meeting was in May 1988 in Ottawa, Canada.
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The Short Films The Project Donate
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TEAM HEARTLAND
"CLAIRE MCKENNA"
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land.
— Matthew 5:5
Film Synopsis
Claire McKenna is a young woman with a history of addiction. After years of isolating and degrading herself through her addictive behavior, she hit bottom by feeding a heroine habit while trespassing in an empty apartment. She was arrested, charged, and sentenced to rehab and probation - ultimately beginning what one hopes is her path of recovery. Today, Claire is home for her first day of probation. While waiting anxiously to meet her parole officer, she makes a discovery from her old life that puts everything into question. To the outside world, Claire’s battle is small, even invisible, but internally it is a fierce fight to stay sober, honest, real, alive. Claire’s name comes loaded with meaning. The same surname “McKenna” is intended to pay tribute to Sr. Margaret McKenna, badass nun, activist and advocate for recovering addicts. Whereas “Claire” bears a literal meaning of “clarity” or “clear thinking.” An observation made about many successfully recovering addicts, is their brutal transparency about themselves, seeing themselves honestly, clearly, unflinchingly, is the key to their sobriety. And so it is for Claire. Not only seeing her own destructive potential, but also, her value and dignity.
Written and Directed by William Price, III
Produced by Natalie Cordray, William Price, III, and Bailey Hyneman
Director of Photography: Nick Staresinic
Bailey Hyneman
Bailey Hyneman is a versatile, Nashville-based entertainer whose acting and singing pursuits have given her a diverse range of experiences, from performing original songs in local music venues to hosting a national television series convention. Bailey’s training began in Memphis, where she took voice and acting lessons from renowned coaches and was part of the nationally celebrated a capella group OneVoice. She moved to Nashville in 2013 to pursue a career in entertainment. She has since starred in the short films Adipose and When Fools Fall in Love, recorded and performed blues and soul music, and worked with Fan Fest, where she hosted the entertainment news show Nightly Nerd and starred in the web series Control. Bailey currently studies at the 4th Wall Acting Studio and is finishing a degree in music business from Berklee College of Music. You can find her online at @baileyxhyneman.
William Price
William Price tells stories through film, text, and branding. His clients include Grammy-winning bands, non-profits, startups and healthcare companies. In his personal work, this gold Addy-winning director evokes the darkly tinged spirituality of Flannery O’Connor and John Steinbeck, releasing work that dares irreverence and embraces the sometimes brutal tension between beauty and suffering; this spirit informs his work as a filmmaker, screenwriter, and creative director. He has overseen successful art direction, crowdfunding, and marketing campaigns for Audrey Assad, LEVV, Army of Me, Marie Miller and more. William grew up in Indiana and has traveled extensively. In 2011, he was diagnosed with lymphoma. He has been cancer free since 2012 and currently lives in. Nashville, TN. He is a husband, father and avid fan of sport and art. You can find him online at @williampriceiii
Natalie Cordray
Natalie Cordray brings creative ideas to reality through her passion for producing, her innate attention to detail, and her love of filmmaking. Natalie’s love for filmmaking started young, but was solidified at university where she was awarded the “Foundation Film Scholarship” for women in film from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Natalie’s latest endeavor was as the assistant to the directing producer and director of photography on the show Nashville. Previous to that, she spent five years in Hawaii where she earned credits as a behind the scenes producer on the CBS relaunch of Hawaii Five-0. Her credits also span to major motion pictures, music videos, and commercials including: Jurassic World, James Bond: Quantum of Solace, Beats By Dre, Halsey - New Americana, and many more. Natalie grew up in Kansas City, where she still considers her true home, but admits because of her desire to see it all, and never miss out, her passport is always nearby. You can find her online at www.nataliecordray.com
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Arnie's extra-time message to Westfield FFA Cup Final winners
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Sydney FC boss Graham Arnold has revealed the psychological advantage his players gained prior to Bobo's extra-time winner in the Westfield FFA Cup Final on Tuesday night.
Level at 1-1 after a tense 90 minutes, a tiring Sydney came up with the decisive second goal in the 111th minute to see off Adelaide United.
The Sky Blues were coming off 48 hours less recovery than the Reds, but Arnold's simple message helped gain the upper hand.
"I said 'don't show them you're tired if you are'," Arnold told Fox Sports.
"It was about showing [Adelaide] we're fit, we're strong. We looked at them and they were on the ground. It gave us a bit of energy.
"It shows the mateship and the camaraderie in this group that they fight for each other and believe in everything we do. It was an outstanding effort."
Sydney's triumph was the club's first in the Westfield FFA Cup and capped an incredible third trophy of a record-breaking 2017.
Sydney FC celebrate with the Cove.
However, Arnold is not about to give up the chase for further silverware.
"For me, that's the first of three trophies [for the 2017/18 season]," he said.
"Our motivation and our drive is the second one and that's the premiership.
"We'll find a date when we can celebrate this victory but for now it's about being professional and putting in a great performance against Brisbane [this weekend]."
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Evan Robertson is the co-founder and sole artist behind Obvious State, a creative studio in pursuit of wisdom and beauty. Robertson's fascination with classic literature began with his study of humanities and classic theater at Yale, and continued at The Juilliard School. He spent many years in New York as a multi-discipline artist and actor, performing at The Public Theater, The Aquila, and The Pearl Theatre, where he won the Joe A. Calloway Award for his performance as Claudio in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. In 2011, his illustration work took center stage when he used snippets of underlined passages from his favorite books as inspiration for a visual interpretation. The personal project quickly grew into a small business, Obvious State, that garnered the attention of the press and design community alike.Obvious State is a creative studio in pursuit of wisdom and beauty. They are inspired by provocative language that has stood the test of time, poetry that captures the beauty of the human experience, and philosophy that drives us to examine and re-examine. They aim to create art and thoughtfully designed gifts that prompt conversations and bring aesthetic joy to everyday objects. All Obvious State goods are meticulously crafted in the United States and printed on the finest papers and materials. After all, beautiful language deserves beautiful treatment.
Somewhere Waiting
Song of Myself
Poem by Walt Whitman, Illustrated by Evan Robertson
Live Oak, with Moss
By Walt Whitman, Illustrated by Brian Selznick, Afterword by Karen Karbiener
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High Court Rules Against Calif. Crisis Pregnancy Center Law
By The Associated Press • Jun 27, 2018
Architect of the Capitol
Originally published on June 27, 2018 7:42 am
The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively put an end to a California law that forces anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers to provide information about abortion.
The 5-4 ruling also casts doubts on similar laws in Hawaii and Illinois.
The California law took effect in 2016. It requires centers that are licensed by the state to tell clients about the availability of contraception, abortion and prenatal care, at little or no cost. Centers that are unlicensed were required to post a sign that said so. The court struck down that portion of the law.
The centers said they were singled out and forced to deliver a message with which they disagreed. California said the law was needed to let poor women know all their options.
Justice Clarence Thomas, in his majority opinion, said the centers "are likely to succeed" in their constitutional challenge to the portion of the law involving licensed centers. That means that while the law is currently on the books, its challengers can go back to court to get an order halting its enforcement. An attorney for the challengers said Tuesday that they expect to be able to do that quickly. California had not been enforcing the law, however.
"California cannot co-opt the licensed facilities to deliver its message for it," Thomas wrote for himself, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch. He called the requirement for unlicensed centers "unjustified and unduly burdensome."
Justice Stephen Breyer said among the reasons the law should be upheld is that the high court has previously upheld state laws requiring doctors to tell women seeking abortions about adoption services. "After all, the law must be evenhanded," Breyer said in a dissenting opinion joined by his liberal colleagues, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and anti-abortion groups were among those cheering the decision. The Trump administration had argued that California's law violates the rights of licensed centers but had no objection to the requirement for the unlicensed centers. "Speakers should not be forced by their government to promote a message with which they disagree, and pro-life pregnancy centers in California should not be forced to advertise abortion and undermine the very reason they exist," Sessions said in a statement Tuesday.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a Democrat, called the decision "unfortunate" but said "our work to ensure that Californians receive accurate information about their healthcare options will continue."
The abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice California was a prime sponsor of the California law. NARAL contends that the centers mislead women about their options and try to pressure them to forgo abortion. Estimates of the number of crisis pregnancy centers in the U.S. run from 2,500 to more than 4,000, compared with fewer than 1,500 abortion providers, women's rights groups said in a Supreme Court filing.
NARAL president Ilyse Hogue said in a statement after Tuesday's decision that the Supreme Court had "turned its back on women and condoned the deceptive tactics used by fake women's health centers."
California's law was challenged by the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, an organization with ties to 1,500 pregnancy centers nationwide and 140 in California. The group was represented at the Supreme Court by Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian law firm. NIFLA president Thomas Glessner applauded the court's decision Tuesday. He called the decision "monumental" and said it was a "great day for pro-life pregnancy centers" and for free speech.
Other cities and states have also passed laws related to crisis pregnancy centers. In 2014, a federal appeals court in New York struck down parts of a New York City ordinance, though it upheld the requirement for unlicensed centers to say that they lack a license.
Other states have laws that regulate doctors' speech in the abortion context. In Louisiana, Texas and Wisconsin, doctors must display a sonogram and describe the fetus to most pregnant women considering an abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights. Similar laws have been blocked in Kentucky, North Carolina and Oklahoma.
Associated Press reporter Kathleen Ronayne contributed to this report from Sacramento, California.
Local Controversy Over Crisis Pregnancy Centers Mirrors State, National Debates
By Ryan Benk • May 24, 2018
Jacksonville’s Emergency Pregnancy Services center is holding a fundraiser Wednesday night at Bold City Brewery in Riverside and protesters will be there to greet them.
Trump To Deny Funds To Clinics That Refer For Abortion
By The Associated Press • May 18, 2018
The Trump administration will resurrect a Reagan-era rule that would ban federally funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions, or sharing space with abortion providers.
Young People More Likely To Shift Toward Supporting Abortion Rights, Poll Finds
By Sarah McCammon • Apr 17, 2018
A new national poll finds a growing divide between younger and older Americans on abortion and reproductive health care — a shift that may be driven in large part by changing attitudes toward religion.
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Electric vehicles can take full advantage of the features of mobility in urban areas
ACEM Secretary General Antonio Perlot participated in the International Motorcycle Federation’s annual debate “Motorcycles and scooters: a new boost for electric mobility?”, which took place on 28 September 2017 at the Stanhope Hotel in Brussels.
Panelists included representatives from the STORM Eindhoven Project, Scooty (e-scooter sharing platform), the European Commission, Transport & Environment and FIM, and discussed the challenges and opportunities tied to the deployment of electric motorcycles and scooters in Europe.
Mr Perlot said: “Motorcycles and mopeds fitted with internal combustion engines have high fuel efficiency levels and are already making a valuable contribution to the sustainability of Europe’s transport systems”.
“At the same time, motorcycle manufacturers are also bringing to market new electric models which can take full advantage of the features of mobility in urban areas: trips in high-traffic density zones, short travelling distances, and limited availability of parking spaces”.
Mr Perlot emphasized that “motorcycles ad scooters must always be eligible to the financial and tax incentives developed for other electric means of transport. We also need further support for charging infrastructure in European cities”.
Total registrations of electric mopeds, motorcycles and quadricycles between January 2017 and June 2017 in the EU reached 13,089 units. This represents an increase of 30.5% compared the same period of 2016, when 10,576 units were registered.
During the first six months of 2017, 10,204 electric mopeds, 1,995 electric motorcycles and 1,610 quadricycles were registered in the EU.
The countries with the highest number of motorcycles registered were: France (615), Spain (444) and Germany (325) and Austria (146). The largest registrations of mopeds were recorded in France (3,116), the Netherlands (2,516), Belgium (2,013) and Spain (774).
For more market data about electric vehicles please visit: http://www.acem.eu/market-data
For more info about FIA’s event please visit: http://www.fim-live.com/en/article/fim-policy-debate-in-brussels
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Assault rifles: All the facts and background information
Jolly Soft Air 06/28/2019 ICS-Hera Arms CQR, a top-of-the-range airsoft rifle
One of the most interesting airsoft replicas among the new products for 2019 is this reinterpretation of the M4 assault rifle adapted for close combat thanks to several solutions among which the most obvious is the adoption of the CQR stock manufactured by the German Hera Arms company.
sig-sauer 05/24/2019 Test: SIG Sauer MCX Virtus Sport in .223 Remington
What can you do better with the AR-15? SIG Sauer wants to improve the platform and sends the MCX Virtus into the race in a revised version. What is new about it and what is it suitable for? We examined the rifle. You can read here on all4shooters.com about our test and our interview with SIG Sauer Senior Director Product Management, Armin Dobat.
kalashnikov 01/04/2019 First deliveries of new AK-12 assault rifle to Russian MoD
On December 20th, 2018, Kalashnikov Concern, the largest Russian small arms manufacturer, delivered the first batch of 2500 AK-12 assault rifles to Russian Ministry of Defense. Chambered for the army standard 5.45x39mm cartridge, AK-12s will replace older generations of Kalashnikov AK-74 and AK-74M rifles in general service. Russian army forces will also be equipped with new AK-15 rifles in …
sig-sauer 12/10/2018 From SIG Sauer the new and enhanced MPX Pistol Caliber Carbine
Chambered in 9mm Luger and optics-ready, the upgraded version of the MPX platform is dedicated to competitive and professional shooters thanks to its many interesting features.
kalashnikov 11/11/2018 AK-308, the new Kalashnikov in 7.62x51mm
Demonstrated at the International Military-Technical Forum “Army-2018” – the largest exhibition of weapons, military and special equipment in Russia – the new rifle is till under development but is based on AK-103 and AK-12 models.
rheinmetall 08/04/2018 Rheinmetall “Variable Tactical Aiming Lasers” for the German Army
Germany’s procurement authority has awarded Rheinmetall a contract to supply 1,745 laser light package sets for the Bundeswehr’s Special Forces G95 Assault Rifle (HK416A7). The order is worth around 5 million euro.
kalashnikov 06/06/2018 SR1, the “Kalashnikov” competition rifle
Kalashnikov Group officially launches its unique sporting rifle for Russian market. The SR1, previously known as Saiga MK-107, is a semi-automatic weapon intended primarily for competition shooters practicing sports like IPSC, IDPA and 3-Gun.
sig-sauer 05/27/2018 SIG Sauer MCX vs. MCX Virtus
The SIG Sauer MCX modular multi-caliber assault/semi-automatic rifle is already in use among world-famous, military special forces such as the British Special Air Service (SAS) and the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta Airborne (Delta Force). We had the opportunity to put the improved, semi-automatic follow-up model, the SIG Sauer MCX Virtus to the test. But what are the differences …
ar-15 05/14/2018 Cobalt Kinetics, new ideas for AR-15 platforms
The Utah-based company offers innovative upgrade parts and accessories. The “Dual Drop” upper receiver adds a second forward assist control on the left side of AR-15 rifles, while the “CARS” system autonomously drop an empty magazine and load the chamber once an ammunition supply is present.
kalashnikov-1 04/02/2018 RPK-16 light machine gun: classic Kalashnikov design and innovation
The RPK-16 light machine gun (LMG) in 5.45mm, designed and manufactured by the Russian small arms manufacturer Kalashnikov Concern (a subsidiary of the Russian ROSTEC state corporation), will equip the Russian armed forces. The contract between Kalashnikov and the Russian Defense Ministry to supply the new machine gun was signed last February.
remington-arms 02/13/2018 US firearms manufacturer Remington files for bankruptcy
The US company Remington has filed for bankruptcy to reduce its large debt. The high level of debt and the falling demand for weapons left an uncertain future for one of the oldest firearm manufacturers in the US. We clarify what will happen now.
rifles 01/25/2018 IWI Tavor 7: the newest IWI bullpup rifle comes in civilian version
SHOT Show 2018 / New from IWI: the Tavor 7 rifle. Chambered in 7.62x51mm NATO /.308 Win. caliber, the new Israeli rifle has more firepower than its predecessors and is effective and accurate on longer ranges. Fully ambidextrous, it's available in two lengths of barrel, 17” and 20”.
kalashnikov 01/03/2018 Kalashnikov TG2 shotgun chambered for .366TKM
Kalashnikov Concern has announced a new TG2 semi-automatic shotgun chambered for the Russian .366TKM hunting cartridge and based on the AK103 Kalashnikov assault rifle.
fnh 12/03/2017 FN SCAR-SC: a subcompact carbine in 5.56 x 45 mm NATO
The Belgian defense company FN Herstal is expanding its proven FN SCAR product family with a subcompact carbine for law enforcement and the military. The new FN SCAR-SC in 5.56 x 45 mm NATO will be presented for the first time at the upcoming MILIPOL 2017 in Paris. But what distinguishes this little weapon? We'll tell you here.
pro-zone 11/28/2017 News from the MILIPOL 2017 fair in Paris
From 21 to 24 November 2017, MILIPOL, one of the largest security-related trade fairs, took place in the heart of France. Access was strictly limited to trade visitors. But we still had the opportunity to look around for novelties and trends.
heckler-koch 09/15/2017 First Practical Test of the Heckler & Koch HK 433 Assault Rifle
We had the opportunity to take a look at the HK 433 and shoot with it during the Special Forces Workshop in Güstrow. Keep reading to find out how the first models performed in practical tests.
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Sharon Isaac
November 1949 - July 2019
Memorial Service at Berg Hall, Covenant Village on Saturday, August 3 at 2:00 pm.
Sharon Sue Bouma was born in Southgate, CA on November 25, 1949 to Gilbert G. and Frances J. (Hanson) Bouma and went home to be in the presence of her Lord on July 8, 2019. She had one brother, Ken Bouma, who is three years older. She lived in Gardena, CA until moving to Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA, when she was 13 where she attend Rolling Hills Covenant Church. Sharon accepted Christ at age 13 after attending a Bill Graham Crusade in Los Angeles.
She attended elementary school in Gardena and graduated from Rolling Hills High School in 1967. In 1975 she received an AA in General Business from Jacksonville Jr. College in Florida. Later she continued her college education while working full time and in 1993 obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California State University, Stanislaus.
Married in 1974, she lived in Texas, Georgia and Florida. After the marriage ended in 1988, Sharon moved back to California, settling in central California.
Sharon worked in various office jobs until the Lord brought Dale Isaac into her life and they were married on April 3, 1999. They resided in Elk Grove, CA and she became a full-time homemaker, a profession she dearly loved. In 2016, Dale and Sharon moved to Covenant Village of Turlock. Sharon was a real prayer warrior and prayed daily for the staff and residents. She loved God’s word, reading it daily, meditating on it and memorizing it.
Sharon was a member of The First Christian Church of Turlock at the time of her death. Her favorite scripture was Psalm 18:30 “As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust Him.” Her favorite hymn was A Might Fortress is Our God.
Sharon was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her husband, Dale, brother Ken Bouma and his wife Marie, a nephew and a niece, and a host of friends.
A Memorial Service will be held for Sharon at Berg Hall, Covenant Village on Saturday, August 3 at 2:00 pm.
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Meet Ana
Groundwater Conservation District
Protect Women’s Reproductive Rights
A woman’s right to decide whether to terminate a pregnancy in its early stages was first recognized by the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S 113 (1973). In Roe, the Court relied on the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of “personal liberty” as well as the Ninth Amendment’s “reservation of rights to the people” to hold that a “woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy” in its early stages was a right protected by the United States Constitution.
In Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), the Supreme Court reaffirmed its central holding in Roe, but added guidance to state legislatures about how to balance a woman’s right to choose with the state’s “important and legitimate interest in protecting the potentiality of human life.” There, the Court instructed that a woman has a protected right to terminate her pregnancy before “viability,” that is, “the time at which there is a realistic possibility of maintaining and nourishing a life outside the womb, so that the independent existence of the second life can, in reasons and all fairness, be the object of state protection that now overrides the rights of the woman.” Id. at 870. After viability, however, the state is permitted to regulate the woman’s decision as it deems appropriate. Currently, Texas law defines a “viable” pregnancy at 20 weeks. Casey also recognized, however, that a woman’s decision to terminate a nonviable pregnancy, like all rights, is not absolute. “[N]ot every law which makes a right more difficult to exercise is, ipso facto, an infringement of that right. . . . Only where state regulation imposes an undue burden on a woman’s ability to make this decision does the power of the State reach into the heart of the liberty protected by the Due Process Clause.” In other words, a state law creates a “undue burden” on a woman's right to choose if it “has the purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus.”
In 2013, despite significant opposition by Texas women, the Texas Legislature enacted HB 2, an anti-choice bill which purported to protect women’s health, but, in reality, did the opposite. The bill passed on a straight-party vote, despite the fact that its constitutional soundness was highly questionable. Unsurprisingly, in 2016, the United States Supreme Court, in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, struck down two key provisions of the law, stating they violated the Constitution because they constituted an “undue burden” on a women’s right to choose to terminate her pregnancy before viability. Sitting members of the Legislature running in safe districts, and where they face no opposition in November, have vowed to try again during the next legislative session, which is set to begin in 2017. If elected, I will fight to protect a woman’s right to choose as established by the United States Constitution and the United States Supreme Court.
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OUYA Gets $15 Million More in Funding from Outside Investors
By Lucian Armasu May 09, 2013, 3:31pm
OUYA was one of the most funded Kickstarter projects, probably second only to the Pebble smartwatch, with over $8 million they got in funding from Kickstarter donors, even though most of those donations were actually pre-orders of the console. But now OUYA is getting some real funding - $15 million from the major VC company Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
While the money they got from Kickstarters was mainly to cover the costs of all the units they had to send out, this new funding should be used to build the company. They can hire more and better employees, and it should help them increase the quality of their future generations of OUYA.
I doubt it will have a major effect on the first version, although they seem to have delayed it by a few weeks until June 25th. According to them it's because of too high demand, which is certainly possible, considering all the buzz they got last year.
But speaking of future versions of OUYA, the team will need to build a higher quality console for the same price, or at least one with better specs, even if it continues to use mobile chips. Even for the first OUYA they could've chosen something like Tegra 4 or Qualcomm S600 for a mid-2013 launch. Tegra 3 is awfully obsolete as a mobile chip, and it was first released in December 2011 in a product.
But let's assume this was their first try, and it was hard enough to put the company together as it was, and keep the price so low as a start-up. With the new funding it should get easier to negotiate prices with manufacturers, and also order many more units at once for future launches.
That's why however their first OUYA will do, I have much higher hopes for an OUYA 2, which will really need to use a Tegra 5 chip with a Cortex A15 CPU and a Kepler GPU with the full OpenGL 4.3 API. That should make it easier to port even PC games to it (obviously with downscaled graphics). The year after that they'll also be able to use Nvidia's new 64 bit CPU core "Denver", along with their next-gen graphics architecture "Maxwell".
If OUYA tries to not lag behind Nvidia's chip releases too much, the OUYA console could become very interesting over the next few years.
Source: OUYA
May 09, 2013, 3:31pm
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Lucian Armasu
Lucian is passionate about writing about different technologies, talking about their potential, and predicting tech trends. Visit his <a href="http://techdomino.com/news">technology news</a> website at <a href="http://techdomino.com/">TechDomino.com</a>.
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Genre: Introduction / Editorial
Year written: 2013
Year first published: 2013
Where You Can Find It
Mistresses of the Macabre, print anthology, by Dark Moon Books, 2013.
Order it online.
The anthology’s editor, Lori Michelle, wrote and asked me to write the introduction for her anthology of short horror stories by women authors. This coincided with the publication of DEEP CUTS, my own anthology that honored women horror writers, so I was already fired up on this topic. The best part of writing this introduction was reading the stories in the book. They’re a well-chosen array of horror tales, many of which stuck with me long after I’d read them.
Excerpt from the Introduction I Wrote
Women have written horror for longer than it’s been a recognized genre, and we’ve lived with horror for as long as we’ve walked the Earth. Let me explain.
The obvious connection that women have with blood—menses—curses us all. So often, men are surprised—and horrified—to discover exactly what goes on between our legs on a regular basis: the shedding of linings, the gushes of blood, and the pain through which we suffer time and again, as predictably as the rising of the moon. We hide it so well, most of the time.
This monthly blood-letting has long been a mystery that has inspired fear, prejudice, and superstition. It has helped to solidify the line between men and women, and it has been used as an excuse for keeping women out of “men’s business.”
Richard Webster, speaking about historical superstitions in the Encyclopedia of Superstitions (Llewellyn Publications, 2008), says, “People looked at a menstruating woman with horror and awe, because although she lost blood, she continued to live. Menstruating women had to remain out of sight, as it was thought that they brought potential danger to the whole tribe. Even making eye contact with a menstruating woman was considered dangerous.”
But not all the damage was done by men. In proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1915, Raymond Crawfurd wrote an article entitled “Of Superstitions concerning Menstruation.” In this article, he describes how British farmers’ wives believed that a “menstruous woman” could not be trusted with milk because once she had touched it, it could no longer be churned into butter. They clung to this belief, despite the evidence to the contrary.
Women have carried the mark of “uncleanliness” since before the Middle Ages. Judaism, Hinduism, and Islam have histories of labeling women as “unclean.” Leviticus 12 (Old Testament) warns that a woman who has just had a boy child remains “unclean” for seven days afterward (as she is during her customary impurity [menstrual cycle]). This state is contagious, thus explaining why boys aren’t circumcised until the eighth day. The boy child is infected with his mother’s impurity until then.
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Real Crime
Over a Century Ago, a Mysterious Axe Murderer Rode the Rails, Chopping Up Families Along the Way
Real Crime January 16, 2018
Rachel McCarthy James & Bill James
Photo credit: Semen Lihodeev/Alamy Stock Photo
Article Details:
Rachel McCarthy James, Bill James
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https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/over-a-century-ago-a-mysterious-axe-murderer-rode-the-rails-chopping-up-families-along-the-way
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Around 1912, there was a spate of killings in the American Midwest, the most famous of which was the axe murder of a group of eight people in Villisca, Iowa.
As baseball statistician and historic crime enthusiast Bill James read about these murders, he theorized that there were other murders that authorities at the time (or at present time) never linked to the same criminal.
In his book “The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery” he—along with his daughter Rachel McCarthy James—piece together news stories from throughout the country during that time, documenting murders from Florida to Washington State that are eerily similar. They also create a profile of the man they feel is responsible for most of them, based on the details of his crimes— most of which are specific and consistent from murder scene to murder scene, including the fact that the suspect always killed in close proximity to a train station. Axe murderers need a quick escape route, after all.
Below you’ll find the story of one of the mass murders James believes may be attributed to this mysterious and terrifying man.
The Scandalous Schultzes
Houston Heights, Texas, founded by Oscar Martin Carter in 1891, was the first planned community in Texas. In 1910 it was separated from Houston by about a mile, but linked by streetcars and railroads. Houston at that time was a city of 78,000. Houston Heights was annexed by Houston in 1918.
On the night of Friday, March 11, 1910, Gus Schultz, a lineman with Houston Electric, hosted a “sort of entertainment” for family and friends with his wife, Alice, at their home at 732 Ashland Street in Houston Heights. The Schultzes lived in an unpainted three-room cottage fifty feet from the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad. (The KATY railroad; we will see the KATY several more times in our book.) There was beer, piano, guitar, and good company. The couple partied pretty hard considering they had two young children, a three-year-old girl named Bessie and a six-month-old who may have been a boy and who may have been named Sandy, although accounts are not consistent. The house was in a segregated white area, one block over from the black part of the neighborhood.
Gus Schultz was twenty-three; Alice was twenty-one. At the party she wore a tight-fitting, low-cut pink dress that showed several inches of her legs—provocative in that era, when dresses normally covered the tops of the shoes. For several days following March 11 there was no sign of life around the Schultz house. The house was locked up tight, and all of the curtains had been drawn. An African American woman named Maggie Nelson did the Schultzes’ laundry. On Wednesday, March 16, Ms. Nelson found the laundry from the previous week still hanging on the clothesline, the house still locked, and the Schultzes’ guns visible underneath their house. Ms. Nelson talked to a neighbor lady, who had also been concerned about the family, and the neighbor lady called the sheriff. The sheriff pulled the guns out from under the house (two rusty rifles and a shotgun) and recognized the smell of death emanating from the residence. Late in the day on March 16, police broke into the house, where they found the bodies of five people—two men, a woman, and the two small children. All five had apparently been murdered with an axe. The bodies had been piled on top of one another, and Mrs. Schultz (Alice) was found nude except for a thin nightshirt. The little girl, Bessie, was also found almost nude. There was blood all over the walls. The crime scene was described as “the most gruesome of all the tragedies that have occurred in and about Houston.” The stench in the house was so overpowering that police had to open the windows for several hours before they could begin the investigation. A swarm of flies filled the room where the bodies were found.
The first thought was that Schultz had found his wife with another man, had murdered the two of them, then killed the children and taken his own life. This theory was abandoned when it was discovered that Schultz had been hit in the back of the head with an axe or some other blunt instrument, and also that his body was on the bottom of the body pile, suggesting that he may have been the first to die.
The extra dead man in the house was Walter Eichman, who had been living with the Schultz family and…well, we have to get to it sometime…was apparently enjoying intimate relations with Alice Schultz. Eichman was not her only lover, nor even her favorite. Whether their relationship is more accurately described as “open marriage” or “sex work” is not entirely clear, but men who were not her husband often gave Mrs. Schultz expensive gifts.
Alexander Horton Sheffield was one of those men. He signed his name “A. H.” and went by the name of Sandy, the same name as the Schultz’s baby. Sheffield, although he was a married man with two children, had lived in the Schultz house until Eichman moved in. Sheffield was tall, handsome, and came from a family with money. Shopping recently for jewelry, Alice Schultz had volunteered to the jeweler that Sheffield was the only man she had ever loved, or ever would. Eichman—also married—was the brother-in-law of the man who actually owned the house. While Sheffield lived there they had told neighbors that he was Mrs. Schultz’s stepbrother, although this was not true. A previous landlady had evicted the family because of the odd relationship between Alice and Sandy. After moving out, Sheffield had continued to visit Mrs. Schultz frequently.
About twenty-four hours after the bodies were discovered, Sheffield was arrested in connection with the crime. He would live in the shadow of the charges for more than three years, although there was never any real evidence against him. Sheffield had attended the “dance” at the Schultz house on March 11, in the company of a seventeen-year-old girl; Sheffield was twenty-seven. He had returned for a visit on the following Sunday, under somewhat odd circumstances. Passing by the Schultz house, he had seen a cow wandering loose, about to destroy the laundry hanging on the line. He knocked on the door but was unable to rouse the family, because, of course, they were all dead. He had put the cow back in the pasture, and then tried again to get someone to come to the door. That failing, he had made a curious remark to a neighbor to the effect that the family must all have gone boating and had drowned. Sheffield also told police that he had seen the three guns stacked in the Schultz house on Friday night, and had seen them under the house on Sunday. None of the weapons had been fired in a long time.
Sheffield, who worked as an engineer for a brewery, emphatically denied any knowledge of the crime, and gave a rational explanation for the curious remark to the neighbor. He said that he knew that the family intended to go boating on Saturday. When the family seemed to have disappeared, his only thought was that they had not returned from the boating expedition. The explanation made sense, and Sheffield was released at the time.
Eichman was found with a mosquito net covering his head, and Bessie with her head shoved down into the bedclothes. The sheriff theorized that either the murderer had spent considerable time in the house after the crime, or he had returned to the house a day later. All of the bodies had been found stacked in one room, but large pools of dried blood were found in a different room. There were no indications of a robbery. The house had not been ransacked, and no weapon was found in the house. An axe was later found in a nearby well, with bloodstains still visible on the handle, although the axe had been sitting partially submerged in water.
We will see this syndrome many times in this book: that the sheriff fairly quickly understood what had happened here, but then went into denial about it. Several days into the investigation, the sheriff told a reporter that the only thing he could figure was that the crime was committed by a “fiend who may have developed a homicidal mania and satisfied his lust for blood,” and who had disappeared via the train track after the crime. That was, in fact, exactly what had happened: The Man from the Train was a homicidal maniac with an insatiable lust for blood, and he had hopped a freight train and skipped town four days before the crimes were discovered.
Among all of the crimes in this book, this is one of those that we are most certain was committed by The Man from the Train. There are triggers for us, beyond the obvious ones like an axe, midnight, the murder of an entire family in one event, and the extreme proximity to the railroad, things that are like flashing lights saying “this is the guy.” This event has four of those markers:
1. The heads of the victims being covered with cloth or other items, both before and after the crime.
2. The house being sealed up tight, with the window shades all drawn, at the conclusion of the crime.
3. The presence of a prepubescent female, essentially nude, among the victims.
4. The bodies being moved around the house postmortem for no obvious reason.
As time passed the sheriff began to feel pressure to solve the crime, and began to rummage about for a prosecutable candidate. The sheriff was Archie Anderson. He was sheriff of Harris County for a long time, colorful, and information about him can still be found on the Web.
Some weeks after the murders a woman named Lydia Howell (name also reported as Powell) had a mental breakdown. She had been at the party the night the Schultzes were murdered and was much affected by the murders. She was convicted of lunacy and sent to an insane asylum.
Later still, a man named Frank Turney was arrested in connection with the crime; he had also been at the party. Pressured by police, Turney “confessed” to his involvement in the murders, and implicated Sheffield as well as Lydia Howell. His story was that the three of them had waited after the dance until the family fell asleep, and that Sheffield had murdered the family with a window weight while he guarded one door and Miss Howell guarded the other. Turney said that he knew nothing about the murders until after the deed was done. In July 1911, more than a year after the crime, Sheffield and Turney were indicted by a grand jury. Sheffield was released on bond in October of that year, and was scheduled to go on trial for the murders on December 4, 1911.
It appears that Turney was a vulnerable man who told police the story they wanted to hear after being pressured and perhaps beaten by the police, and also promised by the police that he would not be prosecuted. Once he was out of police custody he began to say that the story he had told police was not true. After he reneged on the account, the police attempted to prosecute him as well as Sheffield. But without Turney’s story, they had no case against Sheffield or Turney; all the evidence they had, other than the odd relationship between Alice and Sheffield, was Turney’s story, which pretty much everybody knew was a police fabrication.
In December 1911, Sheffield was free on bond, but Turney, who had accused Sheffield under a promise of immunity, remained in jail. Sheffield’s trial was postponed from December until the following April, and then postponed until October. The prosecution was stalling for time, still hoping to put together a case somehow. In October 1912, Turney was released from custody, and the prosecutor acknowledged that his confession would not hold up in court. In May 1913, three years after the crime, the charges against Sheffield were quietly dismissed.
Despite his blatant infidelity, Sheffield’s wife stuck with him throughout the ordeal. He returned to his employer, had another son, and lived almost sixty years after the crime, passing away in 1968. Lydia Howell regained her sanity, was released from the insane asylum in 1913, and left Houston Heights for unknown places in 1916. The house at 732 Ashland Street no longer stands, and the nearby railroad line is now a bike path.
Excerpted from The Man from the Train by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James. Copyright © 2017 by Bill James. Excerpted with permission by Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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Veterans Get Some Relief With Tuition
The agency has been overwhelmed by a flood of applications. Of the 251,000 students who have submitted claims this year, 24,186 -- less than 10 percent -- have received checks, according to Veterans Affairs officials. They point out, however, that not all of those students intend to use the benefits this year. Although many universities are deferring tuition payments, the delays have forced students to take out loans, rack up credit card debt and consider dropping out of school in order to meet living expenses, according to veterans and groups that advocate on their behalf.
Now, starting Oct. 2, veterans can request a $3,000 advance on their housing and book allowances by bringing a photo ID, course schedule and eligibility certificate to one of the agency's 57 regional offices, including in the District and Baltimore. The agency said it would also send officials to some college campuses and help coordinate transportation to regional offices.
Veterans service organizations, which have been pressuring the agency to help students who are struggling to pay bills, praised the move. "We are proud to see Secretary Shinseki take immediate action to ensure student veterans are able to remain in school and concentrate on what is important: attaining a college degree," said Derek Blumke, executive director of Student Veterans of America. "It's not over yet -- there's still the backlog."
Officials at Veterans Affairs recognized that the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which is more generous than previous iterations, would result in a flood of claims that would challenge the agency's processing capacity, said Keith Wilson, director of education service for the VA. To speed payments, the agency hired 760 claims processors and last month mandated that employees work overtime.
But the bill's relative complexity, coupled with an outdated system that requires manual data entry, means progress has been slow. After a veteran has applied for benefits and his or her school has submitted a certification of enrollment to Veterans Affairs --two steps that can take months -- it takes another 35 days, on average, before a check is cut.
"We're not happy about it," said Wilson, a Navy veteran who used the GI Bill to attend the University of Nebraska. "I know exactly the situation that these students are in, and it's painful to me to think that we're not meeting their expectations."
Whereas the Montgomery GI Bill and other veteran benefit programs require simple flat-rate payments to individuals, the new bill, which became effective Aug. 1, is more complicated.
There are three different payments: Tuition checks (up to the cost of the most expensive public institution in a given state) are sent to schools. Allowances for housing, which vary by ZIP code according to cost of living, and textbooks are paid directly to the veterans.
Processing one claim requires a VA employee to twice transcribe information from one computer system to another, Wilson said. A new system will allow claims-processing to be fully automated by December 2010, he said.
"It's a great deal," said Michael DeVaughn, 25, of the new GI Bill. DeVaughn, a student at Anne Arundel Community College, is making ends meet by living at home with his parents and working as many hours as he can get at J.C. Penney. "It just needs to start working."
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Who Will be Left Standing?
The Power of Hope
Saved to Serve
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 9:4
The subject of this message is the power of hope. People live longer when they know there is hope. It gives us purpose. We must be careful of false hopes. There is a hope we can trust in that comes from the Bible. Hope is in Jesus who will come again.
Note: This is an unedited, verbatim transcript of the live broadcast.
Well I’m glad you’re here today. It’s a lot more fun talking to you when you’re here. And we have a bright future. You know that? Of all the people in the world Christians have the greatest hope. And that’s going to be the subject of our message this morning, dealing with the power of hope. A few years ago off the coast of Massachusetts a submarine had an unfortunate collision with a freighter and it was disabled and it sank to the bottom. Well, eventually they brought some divers in and did everything they could to see if they could make some contact or if there was any chance of rescue. One of the divers got down to the disabled vehicle where those brave men were in there clinging to life as long as the oxygen held out and one of them thought he heard noise. And he placed the helmet of his deep-sea suit up against the hull of the disabled submarine and he recognized the tap tap tapping of Morse code. And one of the sailors inside was tapping out, “Is there any hope? Is there any hope?” Well, for those men there was not any hope. At that time they did not have the equipment that the Navy has now to raise a disabled sub. Now what they do is they wrap these cables around the vessel and they inflate these big balloons and bring the thing to the surface. But they ran out of oxygen, wondering if there was any hope. You’ve heard the expression, “Where there’s life there’s hope.” That goes back to Solomon. It’s in your Bible in case you didn’t know that. Ecclesiastes chapter 9, verse 4, “For to him who is joined to all the living there is hope:” and then it goes on and it says, “For a living dog is better than a dead lion.” I like the graphic way that Solomon puts that. You know in the Bible dogs and pigs were relegated to the lowest of creatures and the lions were the most powerful. And Solomon says, “But a living dog is better than a dead lion.” “Where there is life there is hope.” Now, pinch yourself. If you get no response ask the person next to you to do it. Are you alive? Then there’s hope. Amen? There is hope. You know, they did a cool experiment at Duke University a number of years ago where they took these rats and they, I guess, did this several times. And they put these rats in a glass barrel bucket. And they put a lid on it and with one group of rats they provided no way of escape or even hope for a way of escape. Now I don’t know how you communicate that to a rat, but something about the design of the bucket, there was just a little air hole for them to breath and there was no possibility of escape. They, even with their little pea sized brains were able to detect that. Those rats swam around for a few minutes and then just gave up and drown. The other group of rats, they also put them in a barrel with the same dimensions, but they had the hope of escape. They had a little ramp. They could never make it all the way up, but they thought they could. Those rats swam around for hours and hours and kept attempting to escape. And after doing this several times they came to the conclusion. Not only is there life where there’s life there’s hope, but it’s true there is life where there is hope. People live longer when they have hope. Just as surely as rats try longer. Some people, you’ve heard them say, “Well, they gave up because they didn’t think there was any hope.” Hope is a very potent power in our lives. Hope is what gives us purpose. Matter of fact, sometimes even when we’re endeavoring something that may in itself not be that valuable the hope is more valuable in itself. Need to cling to hope. You know, a teacher who worked in a hospital had been assigned to help children that were interned there to stay caught up on their assignments. And the teachers of the public schools would call the hospital tutor who would visit the kids in their different rooms and go over their classes with them. Well this one hospital tutor in this large city hospital was told to go visit a boy and it turned out he was in the burn unit. And she was supposed to work on his verbs and nouns. And when she walked into the burn unit she entered the room and this boy was in critical condition. And he was terribly burned. At first she recoiled from the sight because he didn’t look very good, but she thought, “No, I’m in here. If I walk out now it’s going to be very discouraging to him.” So she went up and she tried to steel herself against the sad state of this young man who was gasping for breath and in a lot of agony. And she said, “I’m here. I’ve been sent by your teacher to go over your nouns and your verbs with you.” And she proceeded then to force herself to go through this assignment and review a few things. And she asked if he could nod. He didn’t give much response. She said, “Well, you’ll do better tomorrow.” And then she left. The next day some of the nurses from the ICU Ward came to this hospital tutor and said, “What did you say to that boy in the burn unit?” She began to apologize and say, “I’m sorry. I probably should have left. I didn’t mean to…” And they said, “No, no. He’s been doing so much better since you came. His condition has reversed. He’s improving.” And she went and visited with the boy later. He said, “Well I had thought that it was all over with,” he said, “but when someone came to talk to me about nouns and verbs I figured there must be hope.” He was given some purpose. And so he kept on kicking. Sometimes if people don’t have a purpose for living they lose hope. I remember a very interesting experience when I first came to the little town of Covelo. Forgive me. You’ve heard me talk a lot about it, but it’s a big part of my life. One of the pillars in the church, there was a family, Floyd and Evelyn VanAllen. And when I first went to Covelo they were already up in their 80’s, I believe. Now Floyd VanAllen was one of these men who had gone through World War I. I saw him moved to tears one time as he described a story where an actual angel visibly appeared to him. He described when he was a young man, praying, and an angel appeared to him. And he described what the angel looked like. But that’s not the point of my illustration here. Floyd was a chemist and an inventor. Just very colorful individual. Very active man. Liked to cut down trees and sell firewood and split lumber. One day he was cutting down one of these massive oak trees in Covelo. Now oak trees are dangerous to cut. It’s not like the fir. You know, I used to be in the wood business. Fir tree goes straight up. It’s a little easier to control and predict where they’re going to fall. The oak trees, because of the way they’re spread out and you look at the branches, you can’t really tell where the weight of the tree is always and it’s hard to guess where it’s going to fall. Sometimes oaks will begin falling one way and then they’ll split down the middle and pop back. And a lot of men have been found in the woods pinned against trees, killed because the oak split and shot back at them. It’s a very dangerous tree to work on. They had these massive oak trees in Covelo. Matter of fact, one of the tallest oak trees in the world is in Covelo. Did you know that? On the Diamond H Ranch. Floyd told me one time he cut down an oak tree. He had this chainsaw with a five-foot bar on it. And he cut down an oak tree. Got 42 cords of wood out of one tree. Now do you know how much a cord of wood is? One hundred and twenty-eight cubic feet. That’s like a trainload of wood. Out of one tree. I mentioned this to David last night to say, “Am I getting this right? This is what he told me.” And David said that he and Ivan when they were in the wood business they got a cord of wood out of one cut on a tree. He said, “Yeah, it’s possible.” Well, Floyd was cutting a tree one day in Covelo. He was out in the woods by himself, or out in the field. It had misbehaved and it fell on him. He was pinned under the tree for several hours before anyone came and found him. And during that time his legs were crushed. One of his legs so badly it had to be amputated. Well that was devastating to him. And his wife, Evelyn, said, “You know, after that he virtually gave up.” Because he had been such an active man and he had to hobble around on these crutches now and dragging his wooden leg. And his crutches were never quite the right length so he was always hunched over his crutches and he wouldn’t really walk with his leg. He sort of threw it out in front of him. And to compound things he lost his hearing. You always knew what Floyd was thinking in church because he’d whisper to his wife and everybody heard him. At some point after he had his accident he went through several months, or it may have even been years of terrible discouragement where he just sat and moped and didn’t seem to have much purpose. And something triggered his thinking. He was an inventor. Had a very active imagination. And he began to think about a perpetual motion machine that he wanted to build. And he tried to explain it to me and as best as I can figure it he said it was the same kind of velocity as a tornado. And it used the components and the temperature changes in the atmosphere, differences that drive a tornado. And he was building this machine that would capitalize on those dynamics and he was going to build a perpetual motion machine. He got so excited thinking about it that he began to get a pencil out and started to scribble and design this machine. And after weeks of developing the design he set to work building a perpetual motion machine. He got a lot of people who knew him excited about it. Now you realize nobody has ever invented perpetual motion? You’re all aware of that? It would put all the car businesses and the electric motors out of business. But a lot of people have said they did, or worked on it. And he was so persuasive he actually got a few people to invest heavily in this perpetual motion machine. He engaged himself for years in personally cutting with a little hacksaw, pounding rivets in the metal. He got these old saw blades from the Louisiana Pacific mill and he drilled, meticulously, holes all around these massive saw blades so that he could cut between the holes. Because if you used heat to cut them off it would warp it and it had to be perfect because it was going to go so fast it would explode if all of it was not balanced. Evelyn told me how he had all these fins that were going around this tube that he was making. He weighed every one of them to make sure that they were precisely the same weight. The thing had to be balanced perfectly because it was going to go so fast that it was going to explode if it wasn’t perfectly balanced. He spent, of the three years he worked on his machine; he probably spent a year and a half working on the brakes. Because he was so sure this thing was going to go and it was going to go so fast that it would just blow apart if you couldn’t stop it. He was afraid of how much power it was going to generate. Took his pump house out behind his house and he dedicated this pump house to be the house that would hold this machine. And everybody around Covelo, it’s a small town, pretty soon everybody knew about Floyd VanAllen’s machine. Because he’s buying parts and getting scraps and getting services from everybody to help develop his machine. Had to get a V-8 motor just to start the thing. And after years of working on this machine he finally hooked it up to the motor and there were several witnesses there. He had them all getting back and he had a little screen to control the throttle on this V-8 motor that would start turning this machine so it would whir faster and faster and faster until you heard it crank up into a high whine. And then in theory after the car motor got it to a certain speed it would take off by itself and begin spinning. You could turn off the auto engine and it would spin indefinitely. Perpetual motion. But the day came when they finally cranked up the machine and it started to spin. It was amazing how evenly it spun. He did a very good job. It was balanced perfectly. Now I didn’t see the day of the test. I did see the machine. By the time I was there the test was over and he had given up on the machine. It spun and spun and spun, but when they turned off the car engine the machine wound down and it didn’t work. Something was wrong with the theory. But you know what I remember even after Floyd died, talking to Evelyn? She said, “That machine, we spent thousands of dollars on it. We spent years working on it.” She said, “It was the best thing that ever happened to us even though it didn’t work.” She said, “Because my husband had no purpose and it gave him a purpose for living.” You know, you heard an announcement a few minutes ago; Karen announced that Bill Henry, the brother of a gentleman who helped build this church, a pastor, evangelist, a great Christian man, passed away this week. That’s interesting because I was going to tell you about Bill today. I worked with Bill in evangelism in Santa Rosa. He was building the Sebastopol church. He was a great speaker. Kids loved him. A good evangelist. Had quite a testimony. But I remember, he was already in retirement when I was working with him. Bill was helping to build the Sebastopol church. I would go out visiting with him the evangelistic interests during the evening, but during the day he was at the church virtually by himself. Sometimes he’d have one or two people helping him. I asked him one day when we went out visiting, I said, “Bill, you’re not getting a lot help on that church.” And it’s a big church, beautiful church. I said, “You’re out there everyday slaving away at the church. You’re retired. Can’t you get anyone to help you?” He said, “Well, Doug, whether or not the church gets built does not even matter.” I thought, “Well, that’s a strange thing for a pastor in a building program to say. You’re not supposed to have that attitude.” He said, “Whether or not the church gets built is not the important thing.” He said, “The important thing is if I become like Jesus in the process.” And you know that affected me so much that I never forgot that. That what we’re doing, and a lot of the things in which we invest our time and our energy, they’re not the big picture. They’re not the real issue. The real issue is in the process are we becoming like Jesus? You know, sometimes we even hope for things that in themselves may never be a reality. But the hope is very important. Back in 1844 there was a great advent movement where people from all over North America were anticipating that Jesus was going to come in 1844. Now sometimes people confuse that movement with Seventh Day Adventists. None of those people were Seventh Day Adventists that we know of. Seventh Day Adventists were not formed as a church until 1863. Some of the people who came out of that became Seventh Day Adventists, but most of them sere Sunday keepers. And they were from Methodists and Baptists and Congregational and Presbyterian churches. And a great revival swept across North America, parts of South America and Europe and all over the world at the same time. People were mobilized by this belief, this hope, that Jesus was coming in 1844. And I guess it’s not a shock to you that he didn’t come. And a lot of people say, “Oh, what a terrible waste. We were so misguided.” But you know, God used that. God used that to bring revival to a lot of people. God used it as a sifting process. Do you know, not only did it happen back then, but there was a terrible disappointment in the days of Jesus? The apostles had mixed up hopes regarding what the mission of Christ was. And Jesus didn’t tell them everything right then. They kept hoping that He was going to set up an earthly kingdom and they were going to sit on earthly thrones and get fat salaries as they were going to be judging the tribes of Israel. And they were going to overthrow the Romans and go, “Ha! Ha! We’re in charge now,” to their oppressors. They had all these images in their minds of what the ministry of Jesus was all about. And Christ told them, “I’ve got many things to tell you, but you can’t handle it right now.” They misunderstood. And when Jesus tried to explain to them, “I’m going to Jerusalem. I’ll be betrayed. I’ll be crucified. I’ll rise the third day.” That didn’t fit in with their plan. That was going to frustrate their hopes and so they rejected it. They weren’t listening. And you know, the Lord allowed it to happen. Because He needed to get their attention. You ever heard that song, “He washed my eyes with tears that I might see?” Sometimes the Lord allows our hopes to be dashed that He might get our attention. Sometimes He allows us to hope for something that may never be a reality because in the process we’re learning to be like Jesus. And that happened with him. Now I Corinthians 13:13, you know, says, “And now abides faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” Have you ever heard the chronicle of the mighty men of Kind David? It says he’s got his, you know, massive group of mighty men, his elite honor guard. And then there were 30 mighty men in that group. Then there was the three great, mighty men of David. You all read these passages in the Bible? Well, among the three great virtues in the Bible you’ve got faith, you’ve got hope, and you’ve got love. Now we cannot be saved without faith. Do we all agree? And we all know the importance of love. That God’s very essence is love. Would you say that hope is in good company? Hope is stationed right between the faith and the love by God. And so it’s worthy that we should spend some time talking about hope. Hope is optimistic. I like the way Zig Zigler put it. He said, “I’m such an optimist that I’d go after Moby Dick with a rowboat and I’d take along the tartar sauce.” Hope gives people hope. It makes us optimistic. Ecclesiastes, you heard, “Where there is life there is hope.” John Bunyon put it this way, “Hope has a thick skin and will endure many a blow.” Of course, you know John Bunyon wrote Pilgrim’s Progress. “It will put on patience as a vestment. It will wade through a sea of blood. It will endure all things if it be on the right kind for the joy that is set before it. Hence patience is called the patience of hope because it is hope that makes the soul exercise patience and longsuffering under the cross until the time comes to enjoy the crown.” “Hope is an echo. Hope ties itself yonder and then yonder and then yonder,” Carl Sandburg said. “Hope is wishing for a thing to come true. Faith is believing that it will come true.” Norman Vincent Peale. “He who has health has hope and he who has hope has everything.” And I don’t know who said that, but it sounds good. You know I remember reading a story about a court magician who fell out of favor with the king. And the king set a date for his execution. Well the court magician went to the king and said, “You don’t want to execute me.” The king said, “Why not?” He said, “If you just give me one year, in a year’s time I can teach your horse to fly and you’ll be world famous. Why would you want to waste that?” And the king thought, “Well, I doubt that’s true, but I hope it’s true.” And so the king said, “All right. You’ve got one year. But if you’re going to teach him to fly you can do it from the dungeon.” And so while the magician was in the dungeon one of his friends came by and said, “Why in the world did you come up with that?” And he said, “Well, who knows what might happen in a year.” His friend said, “You can’t teach the king’s horse to fly.” He says, “I know. But in a year the king might die.” He said, “Of course, I might die. The horse might die.” He said, “You never know, the horse might learn to fly, too.” Sometimes if we just have life we have hope. And also, where we have hope we have life. “Hope deferred makes the heart sick,” Proverbs 13:2. Dashed expectations, when people lose hope it can be devastating. But when desire comes it is a tree of life. “The greatest enemy of man is not disease,” someone said. “The greatest enemy of man is despair.” When people lose hope they lose life. Dashed expectations have been the source of a lot of heartache. You know, weddings are typically full of great expectations. Sometimes there’s a thin line between fantasy and reality when it comes to weddings. And sometimes after the honeymoon evaporates reality sets in and despair sets in because people were living on unrealistic hopes. And when their hopes are taken away; the Bible says, “Where hope is deferred the heart is made sick.” How many people do you know who have become discouraged because something they hoped for was removed. I know somebody, just last week they were anticipating a big check and the check was significantly smaller than what they expected. And even though it was a whole lot more than what they had they were very unhappy because what they’d hoped for did not materialize. And hope deferred makes the heart sick. As long as we’ve got hope there is faith. As long as you’ve got faith you can be saved. You remember what it says in Hebrews? Hebrews chapter 11, “Faith is,” what? Who knows that? “Faith is the evidence of things hoped for.” “Faith is the evidence of things hoped for.” If we are saved by grace through faith can we amputate the power of hope from our salvation? No, it’s intricately woven into being saved. But some people when they lose their hope they despair and that’s the worst form of sickness. I remember reading about a man who was on a boat and a stormy sea. Supposed to be cruising and having a good time, but he was terribly seasick. And as the boat was rocking and heaving and rolling under the waves a steward came over and said, “Mr. Jones,” patted him on the shoulder and tried to console him. He said, “ Don’t feel bad. No one’s ever died from being seasick.” Mr. Jones looked up at the steward with a green face. He said, “Don’t say that. Dying is the only thing I can hope for right now.” Hope deferred makes the heart sick. Dashed hopes can devastate. In connection with that, a lot of people have false hopes. And you’ve got to be careful not to misdirect your hopes so that they’re unrealistic because then you can look forward to disappointment. You know, I remember when Michael Landon, the actor, used to be on Bonanza, got cancer. And a week before his death he was on TV and he said, “I’m going to lick this thing.” And he died a week later. You know what they call that in the medical field, or physiologic field? It’s called living in denial. Living in denial. Now, I don’t know if that’s all bad. I remember when I was at my brother’s bedside the last day of his life. I said something to him about his grave condition and he looked at me, he almost glared at me and he said, “I’m going home.” He was determined that he wasn’t going to die there in the hospital. But he did. A lot of us have false hopes. One of the saddest things in the world is the billions, you catch that? The billions of people in the world who are hanging their eternal destiny on false hopes. It was so tragic a couple of years ago when they had this Heaven’s Gate fiasco. That mass suicide? These people got wrapped up in a cult. Some charismatic kook told them that he was, I forget what his name was, and he was from outer space and he was channeling down here in a human body and Haley’s Comet was going to pick them all up. And they all drank a lethal concoction of booze and some sleeping pills or cyanide, I don’t know. All killed themselves. Hoping to get picked up by a comet. How pathetic. Just because you hope for something doesn’t mean it’s going to be a reality. The advertising business makes billions of dollars every year selling false hope. You know what I’m talking about? “You buy this product, you’ll have more friends.” Oh, really? That’s the subliminal suggestion in a lot of advertising. They’ve got this person who is brushing with this special toothpaste and they’re surrounded with young, intelligent beautiful people. And they think, “Maybe if I buy that toothpaste that will be me.” So they buy the toothpaste, why? They’re hoping if they brush with that toothpaste they’re going to be surrounded with all these bright, intelligent, lovely people. And it’s a false hope. I mean, there may be rare exceptions where that’s all that was needed, but in most cases it’s going to take more than that if you’re going to change all your friends. A few of us, that might make the difference. But it’s usually more than that. They sell hope. Isn’t that right? “You use this detergent and you’re husband will love you more because he won’t have ring-around-the-collar anymore.” Right? I heard, who was it? Tony Campola says, “If the husband’s got ring-around-the-collar it’s not the wife’s fault. The husband needs to wash his neck.” But they capitalize on people’s unhappiness by trying to sell people hope. And every now and then they’re honest in their advertising, but more times than not it’s false hope. But people are so hungry for hope they’ll pay. Why do you think lotto tickets sell? What are people buying when they buy a lotto ticket? They're buying hope. They’re trying to buy hope they can change their predicament. It’s not just that they want money. Most of the people that are buying those tickets are unsatisfied with their present situation. They’re in all kinds of dire straits and they think, “If I could just, if I could win a million dollars it would take care of my most pressing problems.” And so they buy the ticket and then they hope. And they pray. And I’m sure a lot of them make deals with God if they could just win. And I probably shouldn’t miss this opportunity by reminding you; I don’t think Christians ought to be buying lotto tickets. If you’d save those same dollars you’d probably be able to invest them and have a better chance on a return than you would. I forget who it was that said you’ve got a better chance of being bitten by a shark on dry land than winning the lottery. You actually, and this is statistically true, more people are struck by lightening every year than win the lottery. Did you know that? That’s supposed to be a statistical fact. So if you walk around thinking you’re going to get hit by lightening, maybe then you ought to get a lottery ticket. But otherwise, no not even then. So you can see that they’re capitalizing on this idea that if we just had better products we’d have more hope. False hope. Abraham Cowley put it in prose like this. “Hope of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure. Thou captive’s freedom, thou sick man’s health. Thou lover’s victory, thou beggar’s wealth.” One thing I’ve observed in funeral services. People might be completely indifferent about their eternal future during their lives or that of their family and friends, but at funerals we sober up. And we become very pensive and wondering, “Where did they go?” And very rarely, I can’t think of anytime actually, has somebody at a funeral told me, “Well, we all know where they went. They’re gone. They’re doomed. They’re going to go to the Lake of Fire.” It’s amazing how everybody clings to any thread or shred of hope that their departed friend or loved one is going to make it to glory. You know, and I’ll hear folks do little testimonies during the funeral service and say, “Had a good heart. A remember one time he bought some cookies from the Girl Scouts so he’ll probably be in the kingdom.” And they grasp at any thread of hope that they can offer from that person’s life they think’s going to give them some virtue that’s going to get them into the kingdom. Because all want to hope. A lot of people in the world have false hopes about their relationship with the Lord. Now I think that as Christians we need to know on what to hang our hopes. Amen? And we have something to hope about. But a lot of people, it’s almost pathetic, have these false hopes. They’re not realistic. It’s like this man who was a terrible scoundrel. Drank and gambled and cursed and wine and women and the whole thing and he died. And his brother made arrangements for the pastor to conduct the funeral. The pastor wanted to try and help accommodate, but the brother had a little PS. He said, “Now, I’m going to give you $500, Pastor, but I want you to promise to say that my brother was a saint.” The pastor thought about it for a minute and he said, “I think I can say that.” So sure enough, at the funeral service the family is there and the pastor points to the brother who had bribed him. No, no, no. I’m getting my story wrong. The pastor begins to talk and here’s he’s got the corpse down in front of him. He said, “Now, this individual, as you all know, is obviously not going to be in the kingdom. He drank and he cursed and he lied and he womanized and was a total heathen.” Of course the brother is sitting out there getting angrier and angrier as he hears all that. Then he says, “But compared to his brother he’s a saint.” He did manage to squeeze it in. Folks are desperate for hope. You know it’s creeping into the church. They call it “prosperity preaching.” People are so hungry for something to hope for that they start to gravitate to churches and pastors that will tell them that if they have enough faith they are guaranteed that they’re going to be healthy, wealthy and wise. You’ve encountered this? It’s called the “name it and claim it theology.” They’re capitalizing on people’s longing for hope. Folks that are sick, hope to be well will pay almost anything for instant relief. You know, incidentally, before I rush past that point. I’ve been thinking a lot lately that one of the crippling philosophies, behaviors that’s peculiar to our generation is because we have so many medical procedures and pills and conveniences to instantly take away any discomfort. If we’re hungry we get fast food. If we’ve got a headache you take a pill. If you’ve got a broken bone you get some morphine, you set it, or you get some painkiller. We are living in the age of instant relief and instant gratification. That worries me because, you know, the Bible tells us that God’s people may need to go through some trials. We may need to suffer for our faith. I was sick a couple weeks ago and I’m a baby. I knew you were going to say that. I turned right at you. I admitted it to her. I said, “I’m a real wimp. What am I going to do in the time of trouble?” I start feeling sick; I go rummaging through the medicine cabinet looking for a pill that says, “Make everything feel better right now.” Get an antibiotic, something. All right, you’ve made your point. I confessed. That should be good enough. I became convicted. I thought, “What’s going to become of us?” We want to feel better right now. As soon as we’re sick we’re hoping for instant relief. What’s going to become of us if we get into a situation where we’re being tortured for our faith? We don’t like to think about that, but it could be on the horizon. And if we’re used to instant relief and when we’re hungry instant food what do we do if we’re hungry and suffering for our faith? I’m not saying you’re supposed to start flogging yourself so that you can get ready for the time of trouble. But it is a concern. Am I right? Aren’t we living in an age where everybody wants what they want when they want it? Whether it’s fast food or medical relief or whatever it is we want everything right now. We’ve become a very spoiled generation. And I think Christians in North America are especially vulnerable to giving up their faith, throwing in the towel because we are so preprogrammed for instant relief. God likes to surprise people in apparently hopeless situations. Have you noticed that when you read the Bible? How many times it may look like a situation is hopeless and especially when it looks like there’s nothing man could do God then likes to flex his muscles. Acts chapter 27:20 in particular tells a story about when Paul, it’s this last great sailing story that you find in the Bible. Paul is on a boatload; he’s on a small boat out in the middle of the Mediterranean. He’s got another 200 plus prisoners with him. They’re all bound for judgment. There’s a lot of spiritual applications in this story. They’re on this boat bound for judgment, 14 days they’re beat up by the storm just like Jonah was except it doesn’t look like there’s any end. Now when a sailor gets off course back then before they had global satellite positioning units how did they find out where they were? They would look at the heavenly lights, the sun, the moon, the stars. Principally the sun in the day, the stars at night. And they could pretty much pinpoint their position by looking at the sky. But when the waters below are black and the heavens above are gray and 14 days go by and you don’t see sun, moon or stars you don’t know where you are. They threw their food overboard. They threw their ropes, the tackling overboard. I mean, there was just, they didn’t know where they were. It looked like there was no end in sight. They’re in the middle of the Mediterranean in the middle of the stormy season and this is what the Bible says, “Now when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest beat upon us, all hope that we would be saved was finally given up.” You know that last phrase there, “all hope that we would be saved was finally given up.” I wonder how many people there are, not only in the world, but there are some in the church, that have given up all hope that they will be saved. You know, there are people in the church who stay in the church, but they’ve lost all hope that they’re going to be saved. It’s true. I’ve talked to them. They stay in the church because it’s just where they’re comfortable. It’s where they’re used to being. It’s where their friends are. But they feel like they’re a failure and they’ve given up hope that they’re going to be saved. They have accepted that, “Well, I’ll live out my days here, but I’m not going to make it.”
Side 2…What contributes to their loosing all hope that they’re going to be saved? They’re not able to read, where they are. They’re not able to see the signs from the sun and the moon and the stars. Keep in mind in the Bible, God’s church is seen as a woman, clothed with the sun, standing on the moon, stars above her head. The sun and the moon and the stars are the lights that God made. The Bible tells us, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” When the church, that’s like the ship out on the stormy sea, is not able to see the sun or the moon or the stars, it represents a church that just isn’t; they don’t have the word. They don’t’ know where they are. They don’t know where they’ve come from. They don’t know where they’re going. They’re like bobbing around in a storm without a tiller or an anchor or a compass. And those are the people that lose hope. I remember a picture I saw one time of a forest scene. And everything about the picture was gray and it was a winter scene. The leaves were off the trees. And it would have been a very, very depressing picture except the artist had taken his brush, he had painted in the background a cabin. It was also gray, kind of bleak. And he had taken his brush and he dipped the tip of his brush in a little bit of bright yellow paint and he took that brush and he dabbed a little bit of yellow in the window, in a lamp that could be seen in the window in the cabin in the woods. And that little bitty speck of yellow transformed the whole picture. It created light. You know art instructors often tell their students that when you paint a landscape don’t just paint a bunch of trees. Don’t paint just a field with fences. He says, “If you’re going to paint the fence have a gate in the fence. If you’re going to paint a forest scene have a trail in the forest. Show the viewer a way out of the picture.” I thought that was an interesting observation. Then I began to think of all the pictures I’ve looked at and how many of them had gates or trails in them. And you know, how many of you have looked at Thomas Kincaid’s pictures? I’m sort of a quasi-fan of some of his art and I started looking at some of the pictures, sure enough, they’ve all got trails in them! There’s all gates. There’s all trails. There’s a way in and a way out. And if people in their lives don’t see that little speck of light in the gray forest, if they don’t see a trail, if they don’t see a gate in the fence, a way of escape, they lose hope. A lot of people are hopeless in church. Now that is really sad. That’s so out of the ordinary it makes me think of, it’s like an Air Force submarine. An oxymoron. It doesn’t make sense, does it? Like a Navy pilot. Oxymoron. Doesn’t make any sense at all. And so, for people in the church to be hopeless. You know the Bible tells us, Paul says in I Thessalonians that, “you and I should not sorrow as others that have no hope.” We have hope, amen? We should be the most hopeful, optimistic people in the world. We ought to believe that we can go forth conquering for Christ because He is with us. When Jesus came to the children of Israel in Egypt, you know how I worded that. We often say, “When God came,” but it was Christ. When the Lord came to the children of Israel in Egypt through Moses they were in the most hopeless of circumstances. But God is never discouraged by that, is He? It doesn’t matter how outwardly hopeless your situation might appear. The Lord revels in flexing His muscles and exhibiting His power in those apparently hopeless situations. How many times has He done it for you? Where it looked like things were hopeless. There’s no way out and then God suddenly comes through. And, you know, He’s got a thousand ways of answering your prayers when you can’t think of one. When the Lord died on the cross the Bible tells us the apostles had lost hope. You remember when Jesus was walking down the road to Emmaus with those two disciples? And one of them said, “We were hoping that He was going to be the one to redeem Israel.” Their situation looked really hopeless. I mean, they had seen His cold, blue body laid in the tomb. He was lifeless. Their hopes were dashed. And the Lord loved; I just think there must have been a smile, a grin on the face of Jesus after He went into the little house with them and they were breaking bread and He breaks the bread and then He reveals who He is to them. They had been so hopeless. What was it that gave them hope? Was it when Christ showed Himself to them? I’m talking to those of you that know the Bible. Was it when Christ showed Himself to them? I’m in Luke 24 right now. Or was it when He started opening the word to them on the way to the house? The Bible says later, talking about this, the disciple said, “Did not our hearts burn within us when He opened to us the scriptures?” Before Christ ever revealed to them that He was alive their hope was revived by virtue of what? The word of God inspired and revived their hope. That’s why the Bible tells us that we have many exceeding, great and precious promises. “That through these we might become partakers of the divine nature.” Through these we might have hope. This should be called the word of hope. There are no hopeless situations. There are only people who have grown hopeless about them. When you say a situation or a person is hopeless you are slamming the door in the face of God. Don’t ever underestimate God. Two or three times in the Bible God says in person or through angels, “With God all things are possible.” Don’t underestimate what He can do. Now the good news is that you and I as Christians have been invited to share the hope with others. We’ve got hope, but God’s called us to share it. I Peter chapter 3, verse 15, “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and always be ready to give a defense to every one who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you.” Now before you can put the hope in someone else it’s got to be in you. It says, “that you might be ready to give an answer for the hope that’s in you.” Incidentally, the Bible says, “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Jesus is that hope. Amen? We should be ready to share that hope with other people. Here’s what Paul said even as a prisoner. Acts chapter 26, verse 6, “And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers: to this promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. For this hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.” Here Paul was brought before kings and rulers of the world, including Caesar, to share his hope. Because he had hope. If you’ve got that blessed hope the Bible says God will give you opportunity to share it. Jesus is the hope. Psalms 39:7. You know, I went through my Bible with my computer program and I was surprised at the hundreds of times that the word hope or hoped or hopeful appear in the Bible. Psalms 39:7, “And no, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.” What is the hope of the Christian? Is it a system of belief? Is it a string of doctrines? What’s the hope for the Christian? Or is it a person? “My hope is in you.” I Timothy 1:1, “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the command of our God and Savior, and the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope.” If that’s plain say amen. It says, “The Lord Jesus Christ, our hope.” He is our hope. Psalms 33:18, “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his mercy.” Christ is the source of that mercy, in which we hope. Now, if you forget everything I’ve said during the message, shame on you. No, if you forget everything I’ve said during the message please remember this. Life without Christ is an endless hope. No, no. Yeah, life with Christ is an endless hope. Life without Him is a hopeless end. Life with Christ is an endless hope. Life without Him is a hopeless end. What is it that mobilizes Christians? It’s called, Titus 2:13, “Looking for the blessed hope.” What is that blessed hope? You’ve heard of Joseph Bates, one of the founders of this movement. He used to sign his letters, “In the blessed hope.” And when people lose hope of the imminent return of Jesus, especially if Seventh Day Adventists lose hope in the Advent, then that’s a tragedy. I John 2, I’m sorry, I John 3:2-3, “Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be: but we know that, when he is revealed, when he comes, we shall be like him; for we’ll see him as he is.” Notice, “every one who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.” Do you have that hope? Do you have that blessed hope? There is a purifying enzyme in that faith, that Jesus is coming back. And everybody that has that hope in him purifies themselves even as He is pure. You know, they did some studies to find out what it was that separated the ones who survived in the concentration camps during World War II from those who quickly succumbed and died. And they found that the single most important factor was hope. A lot of the people who became hopeless, they could not see anything beyond that present circumstances. They figured that would be their end. They often gave in to disease, sometimes suicide, death, starvation. Some of the people had the same diet, same environment and they survived. And when they interviewed the ones who survived they found the common factor was those people maintained hope. I remember Jesse Jackson gave a speech at a democratic convention several years ago. And I don’t share his political views, but it was a great phrase that he used in his speech. The phrase was, “Keep hope alive.” He kept saying that over again. “Keep hope alive.” And that’s a great phrase. And some people let hope die. Those that survived the concentration camps, Victor Frankel was one of the people, he said, “I always saw myself after that experience telling people how God had kept me through it. He pictured himself surviving it. And because he had that hope he survived. It wasn’t a false hope. He believed that God could come through for him. Do you have hope that God can come through for you? Are you longing for the blessed hope of Jesus’ return? You know there is a song in our hymnals. It’s a new song. It was written for the General Conference. Page 214, We Have This Hope. Hope in the coming of the Lord. I almost wish it had more verses. But if you’d like to join me in singing about the hope and the imminent return of the Lord, then let’s stand together as we sing 214.
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Malcolm Fraser and the American Alliance
Posted By Peter Edwards on March 26, 2015 @ 06:00
Much of the commentary on Malcolm Fraser portrays him as the politician who moved most dramatically from the right to the left of the political spectrum. The man denounced by the left for his role in the dismissal of the Whitlam Government by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, in November 1975 became in his later years the left’s hero, as he denounced Liberal and even Labor governments, not least on the American alliance. His last book, Dangerous Allies, urged Australia to end the alliance and our ‘strategic dependence’ on powerful allies. How does this square with Fraser’s role as Minister for the Army and then Minister for Defence during the Vietnam War, a commitment of which he was one of the coalition government’s most articulate defenders?
A close look at his actions in the 1960s and 1970s reveals some early signs of his later attitude to the American alliance. After ten years on the backbench, his first ministerial appointment, as Minister for the Army, came when Harold Holt formed his first government in early 1966. As Minister for the Army, Fraser made several visits to Vietnam and engaged with the issues the Australian Army faced there, including the pronounced difference in the tactics employed by the Australian and American armies. Fraser—like many of the Army’s leaders—wanted the Australians to focus their operations on one province, where they could utilise the counter-insurgency tactics that they had used skilfully, successfully and with minimal casualties in conflicts in Malaya and Borneo. He was concerned by the American reliance on advanced technology and heavy firepower, their willingness to accept high casualty rates, and their desire to use the Australians in combined operations over a wide area. But like the other service ministers, Fraser had little influence on policy.
After the 1969 election, Prime Minister John Gorton appointed Fraser as Minister for Defence. The service ministers, the armed services and his own department now found themselves driven by an extremely active and assertive Minister with the power of a senior Cabinet portfolio. But his energy and vigour were not directed only towards Australians. Fraser long remained proud of his handling of the contractual arrangements with the Americans for the acquisition of the F-111 aircraft. Cost blow-outs and delays in production were embarrassing the Government. Fraser’s vigorous and confrontational tactics on a visit to Washington were based on technical advice that established weaknesses in the information provided by the Americans. While his critics continued to portray him as a pro-American hawk, Fraser was actually playing hardball politics in Washington. There was no suggestion at this time of a complete break from the alliance in pursuit of ‘strategic independence’. In the circumstances of the day, that would have been inconceivable: but Fraser was already indicating that he would not genuflect obsequiously before great and powerful friends.
Fraser appointed the formidable Arthur Tange as departmental secretary, saying that he needed someone in that position who could stand up to him. The two men predictably clashed, before reconciling to form a powerful partnership. Fraser often described Tange as the public servant he most admired, and many of principles underlying the so-called ‘Tange reforms’ originated in Fraser’s term as Minister for Defence. They included not only the combining of three services into one Australian Defence Force and the uniting of five departments into a single Department of Defence, but also a new strategic approach that placed less emphasis on the American alliance and more on the defence of the Australian continent and its environs.
Although the ‘defence of Australia’ strategic approach is generally linked to the 1986 Dibb Report and the 1987 White Paper, many of the principal elements were outlined in a White Paper in 1976, Fraser’s first year as Prime Minister. Given the importance of the White Paper process in defence policy-making, it is worth noting that this was Australia’s first Defence White Paper. It would not have been surprising if Fraser had urged Australians to place less reliance on the American alliance last year. His call to end the alliance altogether was a step too far for many Australians, but it at least prompted some debate about the fundamental elements of Australian strategy.
The reshaping of strategic policy is only one example of the ways in which Fraser, as Prime Minister, quietly consolidated and institutionalised many of the changes in national security policy and structures that were initiated, often with considerable flourish and fanfare, by the Whitlam Government. The reorganisation of the Australian Defence Force and the Defence Department was another.
In foreign policy, Fraser continued more of Gough Whitlam’s policies than he reversed. He ensured that the development of positive relationships with China, Japan and Indonesia, and with as many of our other Asian countries as possible, became a bi-partisan policy. His sympathy for non-white peoples, sparked by his personal experience as an undergraduate at Oxford, was a consistent and prominent element in his foreign policies as Prime Minister, not only in Asia but also in his opposition to South African apartheid and his support for the independence of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
The greatest change in foreign affairs was probably in relation with the Soviet Union. Fraser rescinded Whitlam’s unwise de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union. Fraser reacted vehemently to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and he encouraged Australian athletes to boycott the Moscow Olympics in 1980.
Three successive Prime Ministers – Whitlam, Fraser and Bob Hawke – shared responsibility for a comprehensive reform of Australia’s intelligence and security agencies. All three commissioned the same man, Justice Robert Hope, to conduct a series of inquiries, which established structures and roles for the agencies that retained bi-partisan support for decades.
In many aspects of national security, Fraser’s term as Prime Minister did more to consolidate than to reverse the reforms often associated with Gough Whitlam. It was not altogether surprising that, in their later years, the two men became close, notwithstanding the bitter tensions associated with the Dismissal.
Peter Edwards is a leading historian of Australia’s defence and foreign policies, is currently an Australian Prime Ministers Centre Fellow. This article is adapted from one on the APMC blog. Image courtesy of National Archives of Australia.
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What It Was First Like: The Birth of Pinball
by T.K.O. Cinematics February 5, 2018
During the 1970s and 1980s, pinball machines were at something of their heyday. They could be found at amusement parks, in cavernous arcades, and in bars and taverns. Although pinball is enjoying something of a rebirth today, it is nothing like the era when pinball machines could be found almost anywhere.
Many people wrongly assume that pinball machines perhaps trace their origins back some 50 to 70 years. In fact, the genesis of this popular game goes much farther back in time.
Gamers and collectors alike, even historians, may have a hankering to know what pinball was like during its earliest incarnations. Indeed, the story of the birth of pinball is an interesting one, and well worth knowing even if you only have a passing interest in the game. If you have anything more than a passing interest in pinball, it truly is important that you have an understand of its origins and birth.
Bocce and Bowling
When all is said and done, pinball really grew out of the love of people in England, Italy, France, and some other nations for what originally were lawn games. Specifically, the roots of pinball can be traced ultimately back to bocce and bowling, both which initially were enjoyed out of doors. Ultimately, these two recreations developed into something that can best be described as ground billiards.
In time, the indoors beckoned. Specifically, the interiors of local pubs called out. In the end, men who enjoyed spending time in pubs, and in this instance, we really are mostly talking about men, wanted to do something more in a tavern than just drink. They wanted to do something a bit more than fight, but still wanted a sense of competition.
The Move Indoors
By the 17th century, some of these outdoor games had migrated indoors. The outdoor derivations continued to be played, by the way.
Although commonly called billiards when played inside on tables, these games were as much inspired by outdoor bowling as by the garden version of billiards. By about the time of the reign of France’s King Henry XIV, the width of billiard tables narrowed considerably. Players also expressed frustration about the amount of time that was needed to set the pins back up on table-based billiards.
The bowling-like pins on a billiard table were replaced by fixed pins that were attached to the surface. Holes were added to these tables, and getting balls into the holes became the ultimate goal of the game.
Between the 1750s and 1770s, the stick used in the table-based incarnation of billiards, which today would have been called a pool or billiards cue, was replaced. And what replaced the stick brought the game fully into form of what would be recognized as pinball today.
Rather than sticks, a coiled spring and plunger was added, the mechanism being used to shoot a ball across the table. In the end, it is this coiled spring and plunger system which remains at the heart of modern day pinball, even today.
By the early to mid-1930s, during the midst of the Great Depression, the next major development occurred to the ancestors of what became modern day pinball. Active side bumpers were added to the tables. This proved to be another addition that would stand the test of time. Active bumpers pretty much remain an integral part of 20th and 21st century pinball.
In the mid-1940s, flippers were added to the base of the base. Therefore, not only was a coiled spring and a plunger used to compel a ball forward, the base flippers served this task as well.
During this same time period, pinball games or tables started to be electrified. Oddly enough, right when rural electrification was going on across the United States. Electrification would become the order of the day for pinball machines. The next major advance in regard to electrified pinball machines was the introduction of solid state components into the. This occurred in the 1970s. It was a move that assisted in enhancing the popularity of pinball and gave designers a broader platform from which to work.
Modern Day Pinball Machines: 1980s and 1990s
Overall, much of the country was excited about what pinball machines had to offer through the 1980s and into the 1990s. They maintained their popularity even during the early days of what has become the digital era.
With the boom associated with the digital age, interest in pinball in the brick and mortar world diminished somewhat. More recently, however, interest in pinball machines has started on an upswing.
Jessica Kane is a writer for The Pinball Company, the best online source for new, used, and refurbished pinball machines, arcade cabinets, and more!
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The temples of Angkor, built by the Khmer civilization between 802 and 1220 AD, represent one of humankind's most astonishing and enduring architectural achievements. From Angkor the Khmer kings ruled over a vast domain that reached from Vietnam to China to the Bay of Bengal. The structures one sees at Angkor today, more than 100 stone temples in all, are the surviving remains of a grand religious, social and administrative metropolis whose other buildings - palaces, public buildings, and houses - were built of wood and have long since decayed and disappeared.
Ta Prohm
The ultimate Indiana Jones fantasy, Ta Prohm is cloaked in the shadow of the jungle, its crumbling towers and walls locked in the slow muscular embrace of vast root systems.
It is a temple of towers, closed courtyards and narrow corridors. Many of the corridors are impassable, clogged with jumbled piles of delicately carved stone blocks dislodged by the roots of long-decayed trees. Bas-reliefs on bulging walls are carpeted with lichen, moss and creeping plants, and shrubs sprout from the roofs of monumental porches. Trees, hundreds of years old, tower overhead, their leaves filtering the sunlight and casting a greenish pall over the whole scene.
The most popular of the many strangulating root formations is that on the inside of the easternmost entrance, nicknamed the Crocodile Tree. This spot is also known as the Tomb Raider tree, where Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft searched for ancient artifacts.
Bayon, in the center of the ancient city of Angkor Thom, is best known as the "smiling temple" for the gigantic face sculptures that adorn its towers, facing each direction of the compass. The temple is surrounded by two long walls bearing an extraordinary collection of bas-relief scenes of legendary and historical events. In all, there are a total of more than 11,000 carved figures over almost half of a mile of wall. They were probably originally painted and gilded, but this has long since faded.
Banteay Srei
Considered by many to be the jewel in the crown of Angkorian art, Banteay Srei is cut from stone of a pinkish hue and includes some of the finest stone carving anywhere on earth. Begun in AD 967, it is one of the smallest sites at Angkor, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in stature. The art gallery of Angkor, Banteay Srei, a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva, is wonderfully well preserved and many of its carvings are three-dimensional.
The site has largely been left as it was found, showing exactly what the jungle can do when it takes over. The roots of the trees attach to the porous sandstone, extracting the water from the stones. The roots are firmly placed on the buildings themselves, slowly crushing but also supporting them at the same time. It is this unique mix that makes for a truly magical place.
From a distance Angkor Wat appears to be a colossal mass of stone on one level with a long causeway leading to the center, but up close it is a series of elevated towers, covered galleries, chambers, porches and courtyards on different levels, linked by stairways, and covered in sculpture and reliefs. It is the largest monument of the Angkor group and the best preserved, an architectural masterpiece. Its perfection in composition, balance, proportions, reliefs and sculpture make it one of the finest monuments in the world.
Banteay Srei means Citadel of the Women and it is said that it must have been built by a woman, as the elaborate carvings are supposedly too fine for the hand of a man.
The temple itself was built to be a replica of the universe, but done in stone. It also represents an earthly model of the cosmic world. The 200 ft. tall central tower is surrounded by four smaller towers and a series of enclosure walls, a layout that recreates the image of Mount Meru, a legendary place in Hindu mythology that is said to lie beyond the Himalayas and be the home of the gods.
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled last week that an employer can be held liable for acting on bad information from an employee when it takes adverse employment actions. In Vasquez v. Empress Ambulance Service Inc., case number 15-3239, the Second Circuit, for the first time, expressly adopted the "cat's paw" theory and even somewhat expanded upon it.
The "cat's paw" phrase derives from a fable in which a wily monkey flatters a naïve cat into pulling roasting chestnuts out of a fire for their mutual satisfaction; the monkey, however, eats all of the chestnuts immediately leaving the cat "with a burnt paw and no chestnuts" for its trouble. In the employment discrimination context, as explained by the court, the "cat's paw" metaphor now "refers to a situation in which an employee is fired or subjected to some other adverse employment action by a supervisor who himself has no discriminatory motive, but who has been manipulated by a subordinate who does have such a motive and intended to bring about the adverse employment action." Because the supervisor, acting as agent of the employer, has permitted himself to be used "as the conduit of [the subordinate's] prejudice," that prejudice may then be imputed to the employer and used to hold the employer liable for employment discrimination. In other words, by merely effectuating or "rubber-stamp[ing]" a discriminatory employee's "unlawful design," the employer may play the role of the credulous cat to the malevolent monkey and, in so doing, allow itself to get burned"”i.e., successfully sued.
In Vasquez, the plaintiff was a medical technician for the defendant ambulance service. The plaintiff alleged that she received an unwanted, sexually explicit text message from a co-worker. She immediately reported the matter to her supervisors and filed a report. However, between the time of her report and her meeting with company representatives, the co-worker allegedly falsified documentation, including a text message conversation, that made it appear as if the plaintiff had been the one willfully engaged in improper and sexually explicit messaging with him. The plaintiff alleges that the company accepted the dispatcher's account and falsified evidence without considering the evidence that she was willing to present for inspection (her cell phone). The company representatives allegedly refused the evidence offered and fired both the plaintiff and the co-worker for engaging in inappropriate conduct.
Prior to Vasquez, the "cat's paw" theory had only applied when the individual with the discriminatory motive (i.e. the manipulative monkey) was a supervisor. Vasquez extended that to any employee of the defendant company (even a low level employee), so long as that employee's conduct played a "meaningful role" in influencing the decision-maker to take action against the plaintiff.
The court was clear, however, that the "cat's paw" theory should not be construed as holding an employer liable simply because it acts on information provided by a biased co-worker. The court stated that courts must still look to what "motivated" the employer and not just the truth of the allegations against the plaintiff on which the employer relies. Thus, an employer who, non-negligently and in good faith, relies on a false and malign report of an employee who acted out of unlawful animus still cannot be held accountable for or said to have been "motivated" by the employee's animus. Rather, it is only when an employer in effect adopts an employee's unlawful animus by acting negligently with respect to the information provided by the employee, and thereby affords that biased employee an outsize role in its own employment decision, can the employee's motivation be imputed to the employer and used to support a claim under Title VII.
In other words, an employer can still "just get it wrong" without incurring liability under the "cat's paw" theory, but it cannot "get it wrong" without recourse if in doing so it negligently allows itself to be used as conduit for even a low-level employee's discriminatory or retaliatory prejudice. In Vasquez, the court found that there were sufficient allegations in the complaint to suggest that the defendant employer may have acted negligently in adopting the co-workers version of events and evidence, and, thus, held that it was improper for the lower court to dismiss the case at that stage of the litigation.
The Second Circuit's adoption of this theory should put New York employers on notice that they must conduct a thorough investigation, in a good-faith and non-negligent manner, with consideration to where the evidence is coming from and the motivations of the individuals providing it.
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Matt Purke Stats & Scouting Report - Baseball America
Matt Purke
LHP | MetsNYM
Name: Matthew Taylor Purke
Born: Jul 17, 1990 in Spring, Texas USA
High School: Klein (Texas) HS
College: Texas Christian
Bats: L / Throws: L
Drafted in the 3rd round (96th overall) by the Washington Nationals in 2011 (signed for $2,750,000)
Purke opened the year ranked right behind Anthony Rendon and Gerrit Cole as a potential No. 1 overall pick, but where he'll go in the draft is now wide open. He left an April 16 start against San Diego State after his fastball dropped to 82 mph in the fifth inning, and was diagnosed with shoulder bursitis four days later by orthopedist Dr. James Andrews. Purke didn't pitch again until he threw three shutout innings against New Mexico on May 19. The 14th overall pick in the 2009 draft, he agreed to a $6 million deal with the Rangers, but Major League Baseball (which controlled the club's finances at the time) wouldn't approve the deal because of the team's financial problems. So Purke joined the Horned Frogs and led them to their first-ever College World Series berth in 2010, leading NCAA Division I in wins while going 16-0, 3.02 and winning Baseball America's Freshman of the Year award. He took the summer and fall off and was hampered this season by back and blister issues. Some scouts believe his shoulder problems came because he didn't build up enough arm strength. Others blame his delivery, as the 6-foot-4, 180-pounder slings the ball from a low three-quarters arm slot. His mechanics deteriorated this spring, as he worked from an even lower angle and threw across his body more than usual, causing his stuff to flatten out. When he's healthy, Purke pitches off a lively 91-94 mph fastball that reaches 96 and backs it up with an above-average slider. His changeup has the potential to become a solid third pitch, and he has average command. He exhibited his competitiveness by gutting through nine starts and going 5-1, 1.44. With concerns about his health and signability--he possesses added leverage as a draft-eligible sophomore--it's unclear where Purke might go. He may have to re-establish his value in summer ball, as Anthony Ranaudo did a year ago after a disappointing spring at Louisiana State. He rebounded in the Cape Cod League and got a $2.55 million bonus from the Red Sox as the 39th pick.
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Baseball America/ABCA Assistant Coaches Of The Year
By Teddy Cahill
Baseball America has partnered with the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) for the last 20 years to present the Assistant Coach of the Year award. Previous honorees have included Tim Corbin (Clemson) and Brian O’Connor (Notre Dame), who went on to win national championships as head coaches, Derek Johnson (Vanderbilt), who is now a major league pitching coach, and longtime assistants such as Dean Stotz (Stanford), Rob Fornasiere (Minnesota) and Mike Birkbeck (Kent State).
Duke associate head coach Josh Jordan in October was named the 2018 honoree after helping lead the Blue Devils to their first ever super regionals appearance.
This year, for the first time, Baseball America and ABCA have expanded the awards beyond the Division I ranks and are honoring coaches at the Division II, Division III, NAIA, junior college and high school ranks. This year’s honorees include a coach who this year won a national title, as well as some longtime assistants at premier programs from across the country.
The winners will be recognized in January at ABCA’s convention in Dallas.
Sam Militello, Tampa (Fla.)
Militello has spent 18 seasons on staff at Tampa and has served as associate head coach to Joe Urso since 2009. He has helped his alma mater win four national championships during his tenure and, as pitching coach, has coached 32 pitchers who have been drafted.
Kolin Conner, Concordia-Chicago
Conner has coached three seasons at Concordia-Chicago and helped the Cougars to back-to-back appearances in the Division III College World Series. During his tenure as hitting coach, the Cougars have hit .320 and averaged 7.69 runs per game.
Keith Lytle, Oklahoma City
Lytle has spent 29 seasons on staff at Oklahoma City, which is the winningest NAIA program in the country over that time period. The Stars have made back-to-back trips to the NAIA World Series and this season led the nation in slugging percentage (.596) and finished second in batting average (.358) and runs (621).
NJCAA Division I
Kory Koehler, San Jacinto (Texas)
Koehler has spent the last 19 seasons at San Jacinto, including two as a player, which has consistently been one of the best junior college programs in the country. The Gators this year finished third at the Junior College World Series, and Koehler has coached 133 players who have been drafted over the course of his career.
NJCAA Division II
Alan Orgain, LSU-Eunice
Orgain helped lead LSU-Eunice to the 2018 national championship, its fifth in his 11 seasons on staff. As pitching coach, Orgain helped develop 2018 NJCAA pitcher of the year Zach Hester and guided a staff that set program records for strikeouts (576) and opponent batting average (.215).
NJCAA Division III
Taylor White, Tyler (Texas)
White spent three seasons at Tyler (Texas) JC before this summer moving to Texas-Tyler after helping the Apaches to a runner-up finish at the 2018 Division III Junior College World Series. During his tenure at Tyler JC, he helped guide the program to a 116-52 record.
Pacific Association
Deskaheh Bomberry, Sacramento City
Bomberry has spent 21 seasons at Sacramento City and in 2018 helped the Panthers to a runner-up finish at the California state championship. A highly respected pitching coach, four players he has coached have gone on to play in the major leagues and this year’s staff led the Big 8 Conference in ERA (3.02) and WHIP (1.24).
2019 Under Armour All-America Game Showcases Deep Prep Class
Nine of Baseball America’s top 10 high school players will be at the event.
High School Division I
Josh Bayless, Cookeville (Tenn.) HS
Bayless this season helped Cookeville High to a 23-8 record and coached Joshua South, who became the first player in program history to earn all-state honors as a two-way player.
High School Division II
Jacob Clay, Brock (Texas) HS
Clay this season helped Brock High reach the state semifinals in Texas’ 3A division and coached two players named to the all-state team.
High School Division III
Steve Healy, Boston College HS
Boston College High had a special 2018 season and Healy coached righthander Mike Vasil, who pulled out of the draft in favor of attending Virginia, despite being a likely top-two rounds pick.
Pac-12 Stock Watch
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ACC Stock Watch
Team-by-team analysis for every team in the ACC, as well as the trajectory of the program this season.
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https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Trump-tells-liberal-Dem-women-they-should-leave-14094445.php
Leave the US, Trump tells liberal congresswomen of color
Jonathan Lemire and Calvin Woodward, Associated Press
Updated 11:02 pm CDT, Sunday, July 14, 2019
FILE - In this May 18, 2019, file photo, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks during the fourth annual Citywide Iftar Dinner in Austin, Texas. In tweets Sunday, President Donald Trump portrays the lawmakers as foreign-born troublemakers who should go back to their home countries. In fact, the lawmakers, except one, were born in the U.S. He didn’t identify the women but was referring to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib. (Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File) less
FILE - In this May 18, 2019, file photo, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks during the fourth annual Citywide Iftar Dinner in Austin, Texas. In tweets Sunday, President Donald Trump portrays the lawmakers as ... more
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Starkly injecting race into his criticism of liberal Democrats, President Donald Trump said Sunday that four congresswomen of color should go back to the "broken and crime infested" countries they came from, ignoring the fact that all of the women are American citizens and three were born in the U.S. His attack drew a searing condemnation from Democrats who labeled the remarks racist and breathtakingly divisive.
Following a familiar script, Republicans remained largely silent after Trump's morning broadsides against the four women. But the president's nativist tweets caused Democrats to set aside their internal rifts to rise up in a united chorus against the president.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Trump wants to "make America white again." Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, after jousting for days with Pelosi, said Trump "can't conceive of an America that includes us."
Trump, who has a long history of making racist remarks, was almost certainly referring to Ocasio-Cortez and her House allies in what's become known as "the squad." The others are Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Only Omar, from Somalia, is foreign-born.
Ocasio-Cortez swiftly denounced his remarks . "Mr. President, the country I 'come from,' & the country we all swear to, is the United States," she tweeted, adding that "You rely on a frightened America for your plunder." Omar also addressed herself directly to Trump in a tweet, writing: "You are stoking white nationalism (because) you are angry that people like us are serving in Congress and fighting against your hate-filled agenda."
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, summed up the Democratic response: "Racial arsonist strikes again. Shut. Your. Reckless. Mouth."
With his tweet, Trump inserted himself further into a rift between Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez, just two days after he offered an unsolicited defense of the Democratic speaker. Pelosi has been seeking to minimize Ocasio-Cortez's influence in the House Democratic caucus in recent days, prompting Ocasio-Cortez to accuse Pelosi of trying to marginalize women of color.
"She is not a racist," Trump said of Pelosi on Friday.
On Sunday, Trump's tone took a turn.
"So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run," he tweeted.
"Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done."
He added: "These places need your help badly, you can't leave fast enough. I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!"
The attacks may have been meant to widen the divides within the Democrat caucus, which has been riven by internal debate over how far left to go in countering Trump and over whether to proceed with impeachment proceedings against the president. Instead, the president's tweets, which evoked the trope of telling black people to go back to Africa, brought Democrats together.
"Let's be clear about what this vile comment is: A racist and xenophobic attack on Democratic congresswomen," tweeted Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic presidential candidate.
Another 2020 contender, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, tweeted at the president: "This is racist. These congresswomen are every bit as American as you — and represent our values better than you ever will."
Few Republicans weighed in on the president's comments. Congressional leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, did not respond to requests for comment, nor did Sen. Tim. Scott of South Carolina, the only Republican black senator.
Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in a previously scheduled appearance on "Face the Nation" on CBS, said only: "You're going to have to ask the president what he means by those specific tweets."
Shortly after the tweets, and a later presidential post defending the harsh scenes at a border detention facility where hundreds of migrant men are being held in sweltering, foul-smelling conditions, Trump left the White House to go golfing at his Virginia club.
Trump appeared unbowed Sunday night when he returned to Twitter to say it was "so sad" to see Democrats sticking up for the women. "If the Democrat Party wants to continue to condone such disgraceful behavior," he tweeted, "then we look even more forward to seeing you at the ballot box in 2020!"
It was far from the first time that Trump has been accused of holding racist views.
In his campaign kickoff in June 2015, Trump deemed many Mexican immigrants "rapists." In 2017, he said there good people on "both sides" of the clash in Charlottesville, Virginia, between white supremacists and anti-racist demonstrators that left one counter-protester dead. Last year, during a private White House meeting on immigration, Trump wondered why the United States was admitting so many immigrants from "shithole countries" like African nations.
Repeatedly, Trump has painted arriving immigrants as an "infestation" and he has been slow in condemning acts of violence committed by white supremacists. And he launched his political career with false claims that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
Despite his history of racist remarks, Trump has paid little penalty in his own party.
Though a broad array of Republicans did speak out against his reaction to Charlottesville, they have largely held their tongues otherwise, whether it be on matter of race or any other Trump provocation. Fearful of his Twitter account and sweeping popularity among Republican voters, GOP lawmakers have largely tried to ignore the provocative statements.
Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democratic presidential hopeful from California, tweeted, "Let's call the president's racist attack exactly what it is: un-American."
Ocasio-Cortez, who is of Puerto Rican descent, was born in the Bronx, New York, and raised in suburban Westchester County.
Pressley, the first black woman elected to the House from Massachusetts, was born in Cincinnati.
Omar, the first Somali native elected to Congress and one of its first Muslim women, was born in Somalia but spent much of her childhood in a Kenyan refugee camp as civil war tore apart her home country. She immigrated to the United States at age 12, teaching herself English by watching American TV and eventually settling with her family in Minneapolis.
Tlaib was born in Detroit.
Associated Press writer Hope Yen contributed to this report.
Follow Lemire on Twitter at http://twitter.com/@JonLemire and Woodward at http://twitter.com/@calwd
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Prejudice battles ability and determination in Place play
Strength and talent shine through Blue Stockings
Published: 07:30 Thursday 18 February 2016
Bedford Drama Company presents a thought-provoking production of JessicaSwale’s critically acclaimed Blue Stockings next week.
The play is set in 1896 at Girton College, Cambridge. It tells the story of the Mistress of Girton and her determination to win the female students the right to graduate. In doing so, they risked being branded a ‘blue stocking,’ a derogatory term for female intellectuals who were not granted degree status from Cambridge until surprisingly recent times.
The play offers a powerful account of the struggle for academic equality, with the female students enduring antiquated prejudice from their male counterparts and lecturers. Regardless, the girls’ strength, determination and equal ability shine through.
Jenny Curzon is directing the show. She said: “Although set in 1896, it touches on many different subjects that still resonate today.
“The play presents the very harsh reality of male attitudes at the time promoting much friction between the sexes. Audiences are certain to get hot under the collar and sucked into the intensity of the story.
“Yet there is also love, hope and most of all a dogged determination for the women to achieve their rights. The play touches all human emotions.”
Jenny added: I’m thrilled to be directing an incredibly talented, strong and large cast for this production.”
Blue Stockings is on at The Place in Bradgate Road, Bedford from Wednesday February 24 to Saturday February 27 at 7.30pm.
Tickets cost £9.50 or £8 for concessions. Visit www.theplacebedford.org.uk or call 01234 354321 to book.
Carlton charity calling on creatives for scrapheap challenge competition
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Former Police Chief Pleads Guilty to Framing — Not One or Two — But Three Innocent Black Men!
Former Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano
Miami, FL — Former Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano confessed at his plea hearing in Miami federal court last Friday that he ordered three of his officers to frame three African-American men for burglaries in order to achieve a seemingly perfect property crimes record in his department in 2013. Due to his admission, his sentence is expected to be lessened — much to the dismay of the Black community.
Five years ago, Atesiano boasted of his department’s exceptional 100 percent clearance rate on burglaries in Biscayne Park. Last week, however, he pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge of depriving three men — one of which was 16 years old — of their civil rights because he and his officers framed them just to perfect his department’s records.
Atesiano’s conviction initially carried a sentence of up to 10 years, but because of his guilty plea, prosecutors are now recommending only a two-year sentence.
Atesiano, who is now 52-years old, resigned in 2014 from the police force. He is about to face trial last Monday when he changed his plea. His lawyer, Richard Docobo, negotiated the plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Although the federal case does not consider race as a factor, it is important to note that all the three victims were Black. One of those is Clarens Desrouleaux, who had to spend 5 years in jail for a crime he did not commit and was deported to Haiti last year.
Desrouleaux, who is now 41 years old, is filing a separate lawsuit against the police department for false imprisonment and civil rights violations after the Biscayne Park police chief and his officers basically ruined his life.
He said two of the indicted cops, Charlie Dayoub and Guillermo Ravelo, targeted him on purpose because of his past history of arrests. According to the lawsuit, he was threatened with even more jail time if he doesn’t own up to the burglaries so he pleaded guilty to a crime he didn’t really commit only to avoid spending most of his life behind bars.
Moreover, Atesiano’s cops told internal investigators that the chief said that “if you see anybody black walking through our streets and they have somewhat of a record, arrest them so we can pin them for all the burglaries.”
Atesiano is scheduled to appear in court for his sentencing on November 27.
Watch the news coverage below:
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BrainHQ provides many real-world benefits
Benefits of Brain Training
An article on Science Daily talked about a science publication by researchers from Florida State University who examined how technology is being used by senior citizens. The researchers refer to computer-based brain fitness programs and make the following statement:
“There is limited but encouraging evidence that these so-called brain fitness software packages make a difference in improving some basic skills, but so far there is little evidence that they improve older adults’ quality of life or ability to live independently. That should be the measure of success in evaluating these programs.”
The full article can be accessed here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091022153637.htm.
I was frustrated to read that these researchers were unaware of the growing body of research clearly illustrating that well-designed programs can have a large impact on daily living. In particular, the exercises contained in BrainHQ have been subjected to large controlled clinical trials and the results have been impressive.
Here is a summary:
BrainHQ
Reduces at-fault crash rate by 51% (Ball, Edwards et al. 2009).
Reduces dangerous maneuvers by 36% and improved reaction times (Roenker, Cissell et al. 2003).
Reduces risk of driving cessation by 40% (Edwards, Delahunt et al. 2009).
Maintains driving distance and driving in difficult situations (Edwards, Myers et al. 2009).
Helps maintain instrumental activities of daily living (e.g., shopping, finances) (Willis, Tennstedt et al. 2006)
Improves speed daily activities such as finding items in a cupboard, counting change (Edwards, Wadley et al. 2005).
Reduces declines in health related quality of life (Wolinsky, Unverzagt et al. 2006).
Reduces risk of depression onset (Wolinsky, Mahncke et al. 2009).
Reduced medical expenditures (Wolinsky, Mahncke et al. 2009).
More than doubles auditory speed of processing (Mahncke, Connor et al. 2006)
Improves memory by more than 10 years on average (Smith, Housen et al. 2009)
Provides noticeable improvements in everyday memory performance (Smith, Housen et al. 2009)
The academic community is increasingly acknowledging the effectiveness of these programs but some researchers are still unaware of the results. I am currently working on a review paper examining the published evidence and I hope to submit it for publication in the coming weeks. One of the goals is to help educate academics who are still unfamiliar with this exciting work.
Ball, K., J. Edwards, et al. (2009). The Effects of Training on Driving Competence – Crash Risk. Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. Washington DC, USA.
Edwards, J. D., P. B. Delahunt, et al. (2009). “Cognitive Speed of Processing Training Delays Driving Cessation.” J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci.
Edwards, J. D., C. Myers, et al. (2009). “The Longitudinal Impact of Cognitive Speed of Processing Training on Driving Mobility.” Gerontologist.
Edwards, J. D., V. G. Wadley, et al. (2005). “The impact of speed of processing training on cognitive and everyday performance.” Aging Ment Health 9(3): 262-271.
Mahncke, H. W., B. B. Connor, et al. (2006). “Memory enhancement in healthy older adults using a brain plasticity-based training program: a randomized, controlled study.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103(33): 12523-12528.
Roenker, D. L., G. M. Cissell, et al. (2003). “Speed-of-processing and driving simulator training result in improved driving performance.” Hum Factors 45(2): 218-233.
Smith, G. E., P. Housen, et al. (2009). “A cognitive training program based on principles of brain plasticity: results from the Improvement in Memory with Plasticity-based Adaptive Cognitive Training (IMPACT) study.” J Am Geriatr Soc 57(4): 594-603.
Willis, S. L., S. L. Tennstedt, et al. (2006). “Long-term effects of cognitive training on everyday functional outcomes in older adults.” JAMA 296(23): 2805-2814.
Wolinsky, F. D., H. W. Mahncke, et al. (2009). “The ACTIVE cognitive training trial and predicted medical expenditures.”BMC Health Serv Res 9: 109.
Wolinsky, F. D., H. W. Mahncke, et al. (2009). “The ACTIVE Cognitive Training Interventions and the Onset of and Recovery from Suspected Clinical Depression.” J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci.
Wolinsky, F. D., F. W. Unverzagt, et al. (2006). “The ACTIVE cognitive training trial and health-related quality of life: protection that lasts for 5 years.” J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61(12): 1324-1329.
By Dr. Peter Delahunt March 1, 2018
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Changes at Dogtown Roadhouse
The originators of Dogtown Roadhouse in the Winter Sun said goodbye to customers Saturday night, leaving the pizza and entertainment establishment in the hands of a new management team.
What started as pizza from an oven in the back of a pickup truck evolved into the Roadhouse, taking over and expanding the space once occupied by Sally Walker’s popular Cafe del Sol coffee house.
Dogtown escaped many predictions of demise and built a loyal following of patrons. The establishment hosted the celebration of Tom Ryan’s life after the Republic of Floyd’s owner’s death in January, helped with the honoring of Rio Semione, was a popular vendor at FloydFest and provided a showcase for bands that might not have otherwise played Floyd.
After a roller-coaster ride that included run-ins with the Town of Floyd, Virginia’s Alcohol Beverage Control board, the Sheriff’s department, the State Police and the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Taxation, a new management team has taken over.
Says Anga Miller:
Myself, along with Rick Hall, Ruth Neumann, Janiah Allen, Lucy Lamanna, Ed Erwin, and hopefully a few others are coming together as a team to step in and help with management issues, and financial resources, until a new plan can be ironed out.
After an outpouring of pleas from all over the community from people who love having a place such as this to enjoy relaxing with a beer and sharing time with friends and music, we felt it was important to try and keep this venue alive, very much in the same spirit as the Republic of Floyd continued after we lost our beloved Tom Ryan.
As Rick Hall said when he contacted me to help, “Dogtown has made downtown a more enjoyable place and given the community a great place to meet for everything from enjoying great music and light conversation to mourning. I think it is a huge asset to our community, and am eager to see it continue in some form”.
Anyone else out there who is interested in helping in this endeavor please contact me.
(Updated to add information from Miller and to correct some misinformation. To help, her comment originally posted below was moved to the story above. My apologies for some incorrect information in the original version.)
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…2009 Cotillard also appeared in Nine. The musical featured an all-star cast that included Daniel Day-Lewis, Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, and Kate Hudson.
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…G-Force (2009), and starred in Nine, a musical set in the 1960s that focused on the life of a film director (played by Daniel Day-Lewis). She reteamed with Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), in which she portrayed the strong-willed daughter of the pirate Blackbeard. Cruz…
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…director in the star-studded musical Nine (2009) and U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s biographical Lincoln (2012). For his nuanced performance in the latter film, he won an unprecedented third best-actor Oscar. Day-Lewis next starred as a fashion designer whose pursuit of perfection begets tension in his romantic relationships…
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In 2009 she appeared in Nine; the musical featured an all-star cast that included Daniel Day-Lewis, Penélope Cruz, and Marion Cotillard.
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Man Enters No-Contest Plea, Sentenced in 2016 Car-to-Car Shooting
Joseph Lupercio, a 25-year-old man from Sylmar has entered a no-contest plea and was found guilty in a car-to-car shooting which took place in Burbank back in February of 2016.
On the night of February 8, 2016, Burbank Police Officers found a male suffering from a gunshot wound in the 1600 block of Grismer Avenue. The investigation led officers to the Burbank Boulevard overpass, where it was discovered that a car-to-car shooting had taken place, resulting in the victim being shot.
Burbank Police Detectives soon identified Lupercio as the shooter. The vehicle used in the shooting was located in the city of Sylmar, and Lupercio was later taken into custody during the service of a search warrant.
In a news release issued by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office on February 11, 2016, it was alleged that Lupercio was a passenger in a vehicle being driven by his girlfriend when he allegedly shot at another vehicle where her ex-boyfriend was a passenger. The driver of that vehicle was the one injured, but not the ex-boyfriend, prosecutors added.
Lupercio was charged with one count each of attempted murder, shooting at an occupied motor vehicle and assault with a firearm.
On March 22, 2017, Lupercio pled no-contest in a Pasadena courtroom and was found guilty for shooting at an occupied vehicle, which included an enhancement for personally and intentionally discharging a firearm during the commission of a felony. He was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
The male who was shot survived the attack.
Questions regarding this news article should be directed to the Press Information Officer, Sergeant Derek Green, at dgreen@burbankca.gov or 818-238-3240.
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All images courtesy of Dumfries House Trust
Following the rescue of the house and its contents by HRH The Prince of Wales, we were commissioned to restore the Chippendale bed to the original concept. This is shown in the first picture in the series below taken from Chippendale's Director.
The bed had undergone alterations, redecorations and changes over the decades. When it arrived at our workshop it had the later valances and painted and gilded carving. The fabric was carefully removed and kept. Working closely with Annabel Westman, our repairs to the structure and the carving had to be done in such a way so that the new hangings could be reinstated to the original design. The fabric covered carving is pine; the posts are mahogany. There were many losses to the pine carving and the two bolt covers were missing. Referring to original drawings, new bolt covers were designed and carved. Repairs to the dome and new carving, which was all to be covered with the blue damask, had to be very smooth because any imperfections would show through the silk.
After repairs to the bed structure were completed we drew new valances based on Chippendale's design.
Undertaken by: Carvers & Gilders, Ian Block of AT Cronin (upholstery), Annabel Westman (oversaw the whole project)
Commissioned by: Dumfries House Trust
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Yanaï Elbaz, Arthur Porter openly supported SNC-Lavalin bid for MUHC
A former member of the selection committee evaluating bids for the billion-dollar McGill University superhospital project says her superior, Yanaï Elbaz, told her to "remember where [her] paycheque comes from" while pushing for the SNC-Lavalin bid to come out on top.
Immacalata Franco tells the commission she was pressured to sway the committee to the SNC-Lavalin bid
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Immacalata Franco, assistant director of programs and services at the MUHC, said she wasn't asked to be on the second selection committee after she resisted pressure to choose the SNC-Lavalin project in the first tendering process. (Charbonneau commission )
A former member of the selection committee evaluating bids for the billion-dollar McGill University superhospital project says her boss told her to "remember where [her] paycheque comes from" while pushing for the SNC-Lavalin bid to come out on top.
Immacalata Franco, an assistant director at the MUHC, told the province's corruption inquiry this afternoon that she was pressured by her superior Yanaï Elbaz in the fall of 2009 to push for the SNC-GISN consortium to win the $1.34 billion contract for the new MUHC superhospital.
The Charbonneau Commission is taking a closer look at allegations of collusion at Montreal's English-language superhospital project, an investigation which one officer who testified before the commission deemed,"the biggest fraud and corruption investigation in Canadian history."
The MUHC is under the lens at the Charbonneau Commission today, with one investigator calling it "the biggest fraud and corruption investigation in Canadian history."
The commission is looking at how an alleged multi-million dollar kickback scheme sprouted from one of Canada's most expensive public works projects.
Franco, who has a background in health care, told the commission she was brought on board on the selection committee because of her expertise in the clinical needs of the project. She said she had significant influence over the clinical members of the committee and she was being pressured by her superiors to sway their decision.
She said it was clear that the message delivered in her office by Elbaz was coming from "the boss," Dr. Arthur Porter, then the director general and CEO of the MUHC.
Elbaz, who investigators allege received an $11 million kickback for helping SNC-Lavalin secure the contract, was at the time the executive responsible for planning, redevelopment and real estate at the MUHC and Porter's right-hand man.
Commission prosecutor Cainnech Lussiaà-Berdou asked Franco how many times she received a similar order from Elabaz.
"Just one time... One time was enough," she said.
Franco said she was committed to following the official process and didn't try to sway her colleagues toward the SNC-Lavalin bid, which scored lower than its competitor on an evaluation by the government agency responsible for public-private partnerships, PPP Quebec.
She said she urged them to maintain their professionalism and not to let the preference of Porter influence their decision.
Franco said it therefore came as a surprise when a memo was circulated in December 2009 announcing SNC-Lavalin as the winner of the contract.
The Quebec government ultimately ended up sending the bids back for a second look, but this time Elbaz and Porter left Franco off the decision-making bodies.
SNC-Lavalin ended up with the lucrative contract in 2010 after a second process.
Selection committee stacked with MUHC staff
Earlier in the morning, a former representative from the government agency responsible for public-private partnerships testified that there were irregularities in the process to award contracts for the new McGill University Heath Centre, but he never suspected there had been collusion.
Gabriel Soudry worked for the government agency PPP Quebec when the bids for the superhospital contract were being evaluated.
He said the selection committee that was evaluating bids for the $1.3-billion hospital project was dominated by MUHC staff. Of the committee's 11 members, six were from the MUHC.
Soudry also told the inquiry that, during the selection process, MUHC officials were trying to disqualify the Spanish consortium OHL's bid. OHL was the main competitor of Montreal-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin.
He said St-Clair Armitage, who was a consultant for the MUHC, wrote a bogus report trying to discredit OHL.
Arthur Porter, who was arrested in 2013 on charges of fraud and and laundering the proceeds of crime, remains in prison in Panama. (Jeff Todd/AP)
Soudry also said that Porter halted the entire selection process after his agency gave a higher score to OHL's bid.
Despite those inconsistencies, Soudry said he didn't suspect there was any bid-rigging in the works. He said he was taken aback when an arrest warrant was issued for Armitage, who is still considered a fugitive and is wanted by Interpol.
He said he didn't think Armitage was involved in the alleged conspiracy involving the former CEO of SNC-Lavalin Pierre Duhaime and Porter.
Eight people have been criminally charged to date in connection with alleged fraud and collusion connected to the superhospital contract.
The case is slowly winding its way through court and a preliminary hearing scheduled for early next year.
with files from Canadian Press
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More women than ever are on the ballot in U.S. midterms: Cue the trolls
More women than ever are running for office in the U.S. this campaign cycle. But no matter how candidates try to prepare for it, the vile insults from nameless, faceless agitators are often hurtful — and sometimes terrifying. And the best way to deal with trolls isn't always clear.
Warning: This story contains graphic language
Lyndsay Duncombe · CBC News · Posted: Nov 03, 2018 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: November 3, 2018
Sara Johnson Rothman, left, and Maria Collett chat in their shared campaign office in Montgomery County, Pa. Both are running for the state legislature. They say receiving hurtful messages from trolls is part of daily life on the campaign trail. (Jason Lowther)
You are not ready.
You must be a child.
Those are just some of the insults trolls routinely fire at Sara Johnson Rothman, Maria Collett and Liz Hanbidge, three candidates running for state office just outside Philadelphia.
The women are each Democrats, lawyers and first-time candidates for the Pennsylvania legislature. Hanbidge and Johnson Rothman are running in neighbouring House districts, while Collett is running for the senate.
They all share a busy campaign office in Montgomery County, where they talk politics, policy and strategy. They also help each other cope with the onslaught of insults on social media that go along with running for office, as a woman, in 2018.
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"It's hard to be attacked personally" said Collett, whose opponent's father held the seat since 1979.
"It's like when you are 14 years old and all the worst things you think about yourself, somebody is amplifying on social media — that moment of insecurity when you think, 'Oh my God, am I good enough?'"
More women than ever are running for office this campaign cycle. But no matter how candidates try to prepare for it, the vile insults from nameless, faceless agitators are often hurtful — and sometimes terrifying. And the best way to deal with trolls isn't always clear.
'Why would you say that?'
While Rothman Johnson ignores trolls, Hanbidge will challenge them.
"Sometimes they're hard to ignore," she said. "You're like, 'What is wrong with this? Why would you say that?'"
Maria Collett says she is surprised by the amount of online harassment she's experienced during her run for a seat in Pennsylvania's senate. (Maria Collett)
And the problem is by no means reserved for women running as Democrats.
"My opponent's signs were defaced. Someone called her an NRA slut," Hanbidge said. "And I reached out to her campaign. I also put out a statement on Facebook, because misogyny and bullying shouldn't be happening no matter where you are."
Johnson Rothman, who is a member of her local school board, wrote an opinion article in the local newspaper last year arguing that teachers should not be armed with guns to protect students.
She later noticed the article was re-posted on pro-gun websites, with comments suggesting her children's school should be attacked.
"I expect this now," she said. "And that's really, really sad."
Calling out trolls
The digital cesspool of partisan politics can be brutal for all politicians, but women have it especially tough, says Betsy Fischer Martin, the executive director of the Women and Politics Institute at American University in Washington, D.C.
As far as she knows, there haven't been any American studies about harassment of female politicians. But a small 2016 study of parliamentarians from 39 countries, including Canada, found the problem is pervasive.
Eighty-one per cent of the women surveyed said they had been subject to psychological violence, which the authors define as hostile behaviour likely to cause suffering, harm or fear.
Betsy Fischer Martin is executive director of the Women and Politics Institute at American University in Washington, D.C. She says female candidates seem to be calling out trolls more often these days. (CBC)
The study concluded that "sexism, harassment and violence against women parliamentarians are very real and widespread."
"I do think it reflects some of the attitudes that are out there amongst men, not wanting women to run for office and be in office." Fischer Martin said.
But Fischer Martin says she is noticing a trend this election cycle: More women are calling out trolls directly. She believes that has something to do with the #MeToo movement.
"We always say that sunlight is the best disinfectant right? Put that sunlight on what is happening to them in order to curb it and prevent it from happening to other people."
'I am not ashamed'
That's what Rachel Hundley did.
She is running for re-election to city council in Sonoma, Calif. Back in August, she received an anonymous email with a link to a website called "Rachel Hundley Exposed."
She says the site featured pictures of her in her underwear taken at Burning Man, an annual arts and culture festival in the desert of northwestern Nevada.
The email said either she drops out of the race, or the website goes public.
Hundley responded with a four-minute YouTube video, where she defended her character and reputation and denounced the email and website as "nothing short of extortion."
Watch: Rachel Hundley calls out her online bullies
"This website relies solely on unfounded accusations and slut-shaming. Its purpose is to make me afraid," Hundley says in the video, before making it very clear the site didn't succeed.
"I'm here today to tell my faceless bullies that I cannot be shamed into quitting because I am not ashamed."
The video has been viewed nearly 189,000 times and made national headlines. And, perhaps most importantly, the website was taken down.
'Thank you for speaking up'
Cori Bush of St. Louis used a similar strategy to confront trolls earlier this year.
When comedian Chelsea Handler tweeted about Bush's candidacy for the Democratic nomination in Missouri's 1st congressional district, trolls piled on with comments about Bush's appearance.
"It was just, 'Her hips are too big. She can't run for office. Her hips are too big, look at her,'" Bush said. "It was like the qualifications for the office was that you had to have slim hips."
Bush decided to hit back.
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She tweeted a picture of the outfits she wore that had received the most comments — patterned skirts, dresses, jeans — with the hashtag #these hips.
"I look like the women in my district," she wrote. "If elected, ALL OF THIS goes to Congress."
As a candidate I’ve heard my hips are too big, and not just from trolls. “Wear dark pants.” Well, I look like women in my district, who I serve. If elected, ALL OF THIS goes to Congress. Hips can’t legislate but maybe they should! NO BODY SHAMING <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomenInPolitics?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WomenInPolitics</a>! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/thesehips?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#thesehips</a> Deal <a href="https://t.co/l1K5oZ4E0I">pic.twitter.com/l1K5oZ4E0I</a>
—@CoriBush
Bush didn't end up winning the primary, but her message was retweeted more than 1,000 times and received nearly 6,800 likes.
"I would hear people say, 'Thank you for speaking up,' especially women of colour," she said. "What we face is different from white women."
'I loved serving'
When sexism and racism combine, the internet can be an especially vile and threatening place for female politicians. And that danger can spill into the real world.
Democrat Kiah Morris was the only black woman in Vermont's state legislature before she resigned in September, in part because of racist harassment and threats. She says it began during her re-election campaign in 2016 and continued to escalate.
"It was far beyond, 'You voted this way and I disagree with you,'" she said. "It's, 'I have a fundamental problem with the fact that you exist on this planet Earth.'"
She says the trolling included graphic images and racist language, such as one tweet telling her there is "no safe space" for her "other than Africa."
Kiah Morris, a former Vermont state representative, discusses threats and harassment she's faced. (Lisa Rathke/Associated Press)
Morris says her home was broken into, and someone painted swastikas on the trees near her property.
She says she resigned to keep her family safe.
"It was really, really difficult," she said. "I loved serving."
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Morris bristles at the suggestion her resignation means the trolls won.
"I don't accept that notion at all. Making a decision to take your own life back, making a decision to say, 'This is how I expect to be treated within this role and these are the things that should be guaranteed to anyone in these shoes,' is absolutely not acquiescence to hatred."
Morris says simply sharing her story is one way of exposing trolls.
"We need to be aware of these things, and we do need to call them out when we see them."
'You know that's not true'
For the trio running in Pennsylvania, they have found that the best way to cope with trolls is to support each other.
"I'm saying, 'Somebody sent this to me,' and my colleagues here in the trenches are saying, 'You know that's not true,'" Collett said.
"It reminds me that I'm doing something very few people are doing. And I just have to dig deep and keep on fighting, because I know the things that I am fighting for are more important."
Besides, Johnson Rothman says, if they win, it will likely only get worse.
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Lyndsay Duncombe is the senior Washington editor at CBC News. She co-ordinates coverage of U.S. politics for all platforms and has worked as a producer, reporter and anchor at CBC since 2001.
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GOTG Vol. 2: Stallone & Russell Could Make Future MCU Appearances
by Brandon Staley
Two characters in Marvel's Cinematic Universe have just been upgraded to recurring status even though the film in which they first appear -- "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" -- has yet to be released. One of those characters is the larger-than-life Ego the Living Planet, played by Kurt Russell, while the other is yet-named, but confirmed to be played by veteran action movie star Sylvester Stallone.
Director James Gunn recently sat down with Fandango to talk about "Guardians Vol. 2" and how Russell and Stallone's characters are pivotal to both the film's story and Marvel's overarching, multi-film narrative.
"This is definitely not a one-off [for them]," Gunn said. "They’re both characters that we’ve taken a lot of time to develop, and they’re a big part of the MCU now."
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Marvel's Cinematic Universe is currently in its third phase, which has gradually pivoted to focus on both the magical and cosmic aspects of the comic book company's expansive lore, as seen in "Doctor Strange" and the first "Guardians" film. The cosmic trend looks to continue with the 2018 film "Thor: Ragnarok," which strands Chris Hemsworth's Thor on a hostile alien world, and is followed shortly after by the two-part "Avengers: Infinity War" arc that focuses on the mad titan Thanos' bid for universal power and destruction.
It's unclear how deeply Ego the Living Planet or Stallone's character will be embedded in these narratives, but with the Avengers and crew shipping off for worlds unknown, there's a decent chance such mighty galactic and cinematic forces are liable to reappear down the road. A character like Ego, after all, has existed in the Marvel canon for just over 50 years.
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Ego originally debuted in "Thor" #132 as an antagonist who is consuming spaceships and other planets to sustain himself, with the eventual aim of interstellar conquest. Thor shows Ego the error of his ways and from that point forward the planet-sized creature is largely considered neutral, though is often driven to violent outbursts resulting from temporary insanity.
Debuting in theaters on May 5, "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" is a production of Marvel Studios directed by James Gunn and starring Chris Pratt as Star-Lord, Vin Diesel as Baby Groot, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon, Dave Bautista as Drax, Michael Rooker as Yondu, Elizabeth Debicki as Ayesha, Chris Sullivan as Taserface, Kurt Russell as Ego the Living Planet and Sylvester Stallone.
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CBS’ “Madam Secretary” Honored With 2019 SeeHer Programming Award From Association Of National Advertisers
Influential Gender Equality Movement Honors Critically Acclaimed CBS Drama
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NEW YORK – May 15, 2019 – The Association of National Advertisers (ANA), the largest marketing and advertising association in the United States, announced today that it has presented this year’s SeeHer programming award to the CBS drama MADAM SECRETARY. The annual award honors a primetime program that pushes boundaries on changing stereotypes and recognizes authentic representation of women and girls in programming.
Launched by the ANA in June 2016, the SeeHer mission is to accurately portray all women and girls in media so that by 2020 — the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote — they will see themselves reflected as they truly are. With the ANA’s full support, its 1,700 member companies representing 25,000 brands that support $400-plus billion in marketing and advertising annually, SeeHer is the world’s most-influential voice for gender equality in programming, advertising, marketing and media.
SeeHer measures success through its powerful data-driven research tool Gender Equality Measure™ (GEM™), which identifies unconscious bias in content and ads. GEM™ measures perceptions of how female actors are portrayed in the media by asking consumers key characteristics about gender. GEM™ is widely known as the global gold standard measurement for gender equality in media.
“We are thrilled CBS’ MADAM SECRETARY has been recognized by the ANA for our commitment to the values and mission of SeeHer,” said Jo Ann Ross, President and Chief Advertising Revenue Officer, CBS Corporation. “We are very proud of this outstanding show for its fair and accurate portrayals of gender onscreen as well as our ongoing partnership with SeeHer.”
“We are delighted to honor our partners at CBS with this recognition. MADAM SECRETARY provides sophisticated, empowering and inspirational storytelling. It represents the core mission of SeeHer and is the kind of programming that SeeHer advertisers want to support,” added Bob Liodice, Chief Executive Officer of the ANA. “Just as importantly, it is exactly the kind of show our consumers tell us they do not see enough of on TV.”
“It is our honor to be shining a light on all types of strong, brilliant, creative women leaders who are doing great things in our world every day,” said creator and executive producer Barbara Hall and executive producer Lori McCreary.
“MADAM SECRETARY received the highest GEM™ score in the 2018-2019 season,” added ANA President and Chief Operating Officer Christine Manna. “We congratulate the talented women and men that make MADAM SECRETARY such an outstanding show.”
Among other initiatives, CBS also reinforced its commitment to SeeHer this March with a robust series of public service announcements (PSAs) during primetime on the CBS Television Network, paying tribute to 12 women pioneers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM). In support of SeeHer and Women’s History Month, several ANA member companies sponsored these extended PSAs.
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R. Kelly faces new federal charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice, which reportedly includes paying off a victim’s family
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R&B singer R. Kelly has been arrested on federal charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice, officials say.
New York Police Department detectives and agents from Homeland Security Investigations arrested Kelly in Chicago.
State prosecutors filed 11 felony charges against Kelly at the end of May. He was initially charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in February.
Kelly was also named in a Brooklyn indictment that was unsealed on Friday.
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Singer R. Kelly has been arrested in Chicago on federal sex crime charges Thursday night, officials say.
New York Police Department detectives and agents from Homeland Security Investigations took Kelly into custody in Chicago at 7 p.m. local time on Thursday, according to NBC, who broke the news of Kelly’s arrest. The case is expected to be brought to New York.
Kelly’s publicist confirmed the arrest and the federal charges to ABC News. A news conference is planned for Friday morning to discuss the charges, he said.
Kelly was arrested on 13 counts of child pornography and obstruction of justice, the US Attorney’s Office in Chicago said in a statement. However, they did not specify the number of each count of the indictment, which was handed down on Thursday.
The New York Times reports that Kelly is accused of giving the family of one of his underage victims’ money, expensive gifts, and a trip abroad to try to dissuade them from talking to law enforcement.
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According to the New York Times, a Brooklyn grand jury indicted Kelly on five counts, including violation of the Mann Act (which prohibits people from being transported across state lines to engage in illegal sexual activity) and racketeering.
Five victims were included in the Brooklyn indictment, which was unsealed on Friday, with three being minors at the time of the alleged crimes.
Kelly’s lawyer, Steve Greenberg, posted a statement about the rapper’s arrest to Twitter on Friday.
Greenberg said the allegations are “decades old” and that Kelly is “look[ing] forward to his day in court.” The statement said that Kelly would remain in custody until his bail hearing early next week.
Kelly has repeatedly denied the allegations.
“I didn’t do this stuff,” he said in a March interview with CBS News’ Gayle King. “This is not me. I’m fighting for my f—ing life.”
Striking R. Kelly photos reveal an intense first TV interview since he was charged with aggravated sexual abuse
R. Kelly’s accuser talked publicly about the alleged sexual abuse for the first time, saying ‘I’m not ashamed of my past anymore’
R. Kelly was just charged with 11 new counts of sexual abuse following decades of accusations. Here are all the allegations against him.
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The Latest "KUWTK" Revealed How Much Khloé Was Doubting Her Relationship With Tristan Even Before The Jordyn Drama
The latest episode of KUWTK showed Khloé "fighting an inner battle" over whether to split from Tristan after the first cheating allegations emerged last year.
Ellie Woodward
Back in February, Khloé Kardashian broke up with the father of her daughter and boyfriend, Tristan Thompson, after he was accused of cheating on her with Kylie Jenner's best friend, Jordyn Woods.
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Within a week, Jordyn had given a tell all interview in which she claimed Tristan kissed her as she left a house party, but denied any further intimacy occurred between them. As the interview aired, Khloé tweeted calling Jorydn a "liar," and blamed her for the breakup of her family.
Khloé @khloekardashian
Why are you lying @jordynwoods ?? If you’re going to try and save yourself by going public, INSTEAD OF CALLING ME PRIVATELY TO APOLOGIZE FIRST, at least be HONEST about your story. BTW, You ARE the reason my family broke up!
05:28 PM - 01 Mar 2019
A couple of days later, Khloé retracted her claims and instead placed the blame on Tristan.
However, as anyone who ~keeps up with the Kardashians~ will know, this wasn't the first time that Tristan had been accused of cheating on Khloé.
Back in April 2018, videos purporting to show Tristan kissing multiple other women were released just one day before Khloé gave birth to their first child together. At the time, the incident was charted in full on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, with Khloé ultimately deciding to stay with Tristan in a bid to preserve their family unit.
But the latest episode of KUWTK has revealed that Khloé was struggling to make her relationship work in the months after the first cheating allegations. In fact, she was actually considering breaking up with Tristan four months before the Jordyn drama occurred.
During the episode, which charted the family's vacation to Bali and was shot in October 2018, Khloé and Kim visited a medium for a psychic reading. Kim was told that her new baby would be the reincarnation of her late father, while Khloé's reading addressed a "traumatic incident" that had destroyed the trust in her relationship.
The medium explained that this breach of trust had left Khloé feeling "uncomfortable," "angry," and "fearful" about her relationship.
Through the help of a translator, Khloé was told: "You don't have self-confidence. People love you, but you feel sad. There's something that's hurting you in the mind — a traumatic experience. What happened in the past, you feel uncomfortable and angry about. You cannot forget that. Sometimes you don't trust the person you're with now. Sometimes you feel fear. It's causing you this unstableness."
Speaking during her testimonial, Khloé admitted that she'd been "fighting an inner battle" over whether or not to end the relationship ever since Tristan was accused of cheating on her four months earlier.
She said: "Ever since what's happened between Tristan and I, nobody knows [but] I fight an inner battle with myself in regards to what is the best thing to do for my relationship and for me. This woman is spot on with me."
After the reading, Khloé relayed to Kourtney what the healer had said, adding that she had decided it was time to stop "suppressing her emotions" and make a decision over the future of her relationship.
She told Kourtney: "Basically, she said that Tristan is a cheater and I can't figure out what to do and I fight all the time with myself going back and forth." Speaking in a later testimonial, Khloé revealed that she had been "suppressing a lot of [her] emotions," but that it was now "time to think about this stuff."
During their flight back to LA, Kourtney asked Khloé how she was feeling, and whether she'd reached a decision.
Khloé responded: "I don't feel like I have an answer. I'm gonna be with Tristan forever, or I'm going to break up with him. I still feel like... God, when will I ever know?"
And, during a final testimonial Khloé admitted how hard overcoming the cheating scandal had been, adding that she was struggling to decide whether she should keep hoping for things to improve, or just end the relationship.
She said: "It's hard to overcome cheating. It's hard to gain the trust back. You wonder, 'Will it ever be the same?' Will you ever get back to where you were prior to this whole cheating scandal? I'm really just trying to reevaluate what's important to me and make the right decision, but you don't know."
Ellie Woodward is acting celebrity editor for BuzzFeed and is based in London.
Contact Ellie Woodward at ellie.woodward@buzzfeed.com.
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John Rigas
Interview Date: Wednesday October 11, 1989
Interview Location: Coudersport, PA
Interviewer: E. Stratford Smith
Collection: Penn State Collection
SMITH: This is October 11, 1989 and we're commencing the oral history interview of John Rigas, Chief Executive Officer and President of Adelphia Communications. This is Tape 1, Side A. John would you mind stating your name for the record?
RIGAS: My name is John Rigas, John J. Rigas, the J. stands for James. I was named after my father, which was a Greek tradition that the oldest son is named after the grandfather.
SMITH: John, we want to go as extensively into your background as you are comfortable and, if you don't mind, would you tell us when and where you were born?
RIGAS: I was born in Wellsville, New York which is located in the southwestern corner of New York state, population approximately 7500 people, on November 14, 1924.
SMITH: You mentioned that you were of Greek parentage. You were born in this country, were your parent's immigrants or were they also...
RIGAS: My parents were immigrants, and my father came over at the age of 18 from a village in the central part of Greece called Arachova, which is way up in the mountains. The elevation was approximately 5500 feet. The village was the last village on that mountain. He came to America and over a period of years worked on the railroad and eventually tried a small theater in which he lost some money. Then he later on opened up a billiard and had locking processing cleaning establishment. Anyway, in 1920 he went to Wellsville and he opened up a restaurant as all good Greeks should open and do. The restaurant is still in existence. It's managed and run by my brother and now his son is still managing. The name of it is the "Texas Hot" which in those days primarily specialized in hot food with a chili sauce, but over a period of years it has evolved into an institution where they have a lot of short order sandwiches and meals and it's really a big part of my heritage and my family. I was born over the restaurant.
My dad in 1922 married my mother who came from the same village. It was one of those marriages that was arranged in that he wrote back to his brother and said, "It's time for me to get married and who would you suggest." My uncle in the village had suggested my mother and they talked it over and my mother knew my dad's background and family, he liked the picture, and so they came to this country and got married over the restaurant.
SMITH: And your mother did not actually know your father prior to the time she got on the boat, is that right?
RIGAS: Well, she just knew him by his reputation.
SMITH: That's interesting. What was your mother's name before she married your father?
RIGAS: Eleni Brazas. My mother is presently still living and she is 88 years old. She has moved back over the restaurant and it's really a joy to go back to my hometown and of course, be part of the restaurant and seeing my mother and visiting with her.
SMITH: What sort of educational background did your parents have?
RIGAS: Well, essentially, they had the traditional background in those days. The country was very poor, going through a number of wars and that's why so many of the people had migrated to America for opportunities and essentially to just do something better for their families. My parent's education would be an equivalent to what we call third grade. I think the education was a little different. But by the time they were twelve years old, their formal education was over. They went to sheep herding and whatever was necessary to pitch in and do their share in the family life in the small village.
SMITH: Had your father seen a picture of his future bride before she came over? You mentioned that she liked the picture and knew the family; did he have any prior introduction to what your mother would be like?
RIGAS: Actually, no. I asked him that. He never had seen the picture of his future bride; he just took good faith his brother's recommendation and saw the first introduction although there was a ten year difference. My father left when he was 17 or 18 and so therefore my mother eight years old and she could just vaguely remember when he left the village. You know there was a big farewell party, etc. The first time they really got to know each other was when he greeted her when she got off the boat.
SMITH: Was that at Ellis Island?
RIGAS: No, it was in Boston. My wife arrived in Harvard, Boston. She was supposed to arrive at Ellis Island but they reverted it to Boston because there were so many immigrants coming in and they were overloaded, so she came to Boston.
SMITH: And your father had gone up there to meet her.
RIGAS: Yes.
SMITH: And they want home and got married, is that it? How did it work?
RIGAS: Yes, what they did is they had a civil marriage in Boston. They had some acquaintances in Boston that were first and second cousins that greeted my mother. She stayed with them one or two days and then they took the train back to Wellsville. My dad had the apartment over the restaurant and was sharing that with another couple and two of their children which were from the village. The following week they had the church wedding and all of that that went with it.
SMITH: How long did the other couple and children stay in the apartment?
RIGAS: Well I was born and my sister was born. They stayed there another three years and they had found another apartment vacant next to the restaurant and moved into that.
SMITH: Did they have an interest in the restaurant with your father?
RIGAS: Yes, they did. My father began the restaurant and about a year later they had worked together in Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania and Mr. Raptis had asked if they ever had an opportunity if he'd be interested. So my dad thought he needed some support, needed a partner and so he called him in Wellsville and they joined a partnership and they stayed partners up to the age that each one passed away ‑ some 60 years later.
SMITH: You mentioned the gentleman's name.
RIGAS: George Raptis.
SMITH: You've mentioned a sister and you've mentioned a brother. Could you tell us what their names are?
RIGAS: Sure. I was the oldest in the family and then my sister Katherine was number two and then my brother Constantine which everybody called "Gus." The translation happened when they came off the boat. I guess somebody said well, Constantine is too difficult to spell, nobody would understand it in those days, so they called the Constantine's Gus. Very strange translation. All Constantines, so many of them became Gus's. Then I have a sister Mary.
SMITH: Oh, you have two sisters.
RIGAS: Katherine and Mary and one brother Gus.
SMITH: Are your sisters living?
RIGAS: Both sisters are living.
SMITH: Where are they at?
RIGAS: Katherine lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee and married a doctor. Dr. William Palace, who later on had developed some interest with my efforts in cable television as an investment. He ended up selling his system to Xavier Cugat.
SMITH: The entertainer, the band leader?
RIGAS: Yes. I've got to check that out because I've got a feeling. I'm pretty sure it was. Abby Lane?
SMITH: Abby Lane was married to Xavier Cugat.
RIGAS: Ok, so I was right. Anyway, he was an OBY specialist and he's presently is in Chattanooga. Katherine is still alive. My brother Gus came back after college and he continued on with the restaurant and did a marvelous job of developing it and studying its reputation. In 1955 he and I joined into a business where we obtained the franchise and we had a business relationship up until '81 or '82 at which time we decided to do other things to cash in. That in turn leads to the name Adelphia which maybe won't fit in, but you can sort it all out when we're finished, when we're talking about later on when we put some of our systems together, we're trying to think of a name. I suggested, why don't we use the Greek word for brothers which is Adelphia so that accounts for Adelphia Communications and now it's even more appropriate because my three sons are involved with the business and the name fits pretty well. My sister Mary lives in Olean, New York which is 30 miles away from Wellsville; it's where St. Bonaventure is located. She has a restaurant with her husband.
SMITH: The restaurant business just kind of runs in the family, doesn't it?
RIGAS: Well, to me, you know, sure restaurants have a lot of nostalgia, but it means an awful lot, just going back to my hometown which is 30 miles away from where I presently live to see a lot of my classmates who are really customers that we grew up with. It's just a great relationship. I find that over a period of years I probably do my best business in restaurants where I can hear the dishes clanging and the orders barking in the background. Sometimes I get in an office and it's much too peaceful and too quiet for me to concentrate.
SMITH: As the interviewer, John, I'm not supposed to do too much talking, you're the man to talk, but I simply have to let it get on the record the last time I talked to you on the telephone, I reached you at a restaurant where you had a telephone on your table. Do you conduct a lot of business from the restaurant, do you?
RIGAS: I really do. It's interesting. I start my day in a restaurant, 6:30 ‑ 7:00. I find the restaurants ‑ some are busy, some are not. I feel more comfortable that way. I don't know. People maybe can't search me out as much in restaurants. When I get into the office there are all kinds of interruptions, so I do a lot of business. Later on, and when I think about it, I've got to tell you how once when Milton Shapp was making an offer to buy one of our cable properties, my brother Gus was working over the grill and I was standing there by the grill. In the background it would be," one hot beef, two hots without onions" and Milt Shapp finally said, "What the hell is going on down there?" I'll elaborate on that later on.
SMITH: John, I had the pleasure of visiting last night and meeting your wife Doris who I don't think I had met earlier, if I had it was just in passing. When were you and Doris married? Give us a little background on that meeting.
RIGAS: Well, I first met Doris on a blind date in college and we dated perhaps two or three times, but nothing very steady. She also dated a couple of my fraternity brothers, so we'd see each other, particularly when she was a senior and I was a junior. I had spent three years in the service so she was attending Albany State University and I was attending Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute. When she graduated she accepted a position in my hometown of Wellsville teaching. Teaching English. When I came back after my graduation, we began to see each other on a more regular basis and on February 1, 1953, we married.
SMITH: Is Doris also of Greek ethnic background?
RIGAS: No, her parents both were immigrants from Denmark. So her background is Danish and that's a pretty good mix because the Greek king was Constantine and he married a Danish princess and we always thought that was a pretty good follow-up. But we always joke about it. I put on my fraternity house bulletin board, little clippings from the local paper, that Doris Nielsen, that was her maiden name, had accepted a position teaching in Wellsville and I facetiously put on, "Well, obviously she's trying to trap me, and she followed me to Wellsville." It was just kind of a joke but as it turns out we did meet and match.
SMITH: And frat men or not, it was ok.
RIGAS: Turned out real well. Going back to my hometown of Wellsville, which obviously has meant a lot and meant much to the family, it was a great community to grow up in. I had a wonderful childhood and as I went through high school although I wasn't very large, I enjoyed a lot of great popularity with my fellow classmates, played a lot of the sports and for all that I was thankful and got an awful lot of support from the storekeepers on Main Street that we grew up on and were very sympathetic because my playground was essentially the alleys and the main street. There were five other Greek families and we became very close and the childhood memories and growing up together. You either had a confectionary store or a restaurant.
When I was growing up I went to Greek school. After your regular school was out, we had to go to classes from 4:00 to 6:00 and learn our Greek and then Saturday mornings was classes from 9‑12 which were reveled and hated but I look back on them as a wonderful thing.
SMITH: Was this your family's effort to preserve your heritage, make certain that you didn't get too Americanized?
RIGAS: Exactly. Because initially it was a strong tie back to the homeland and with the idea that perhaps they would be going back. But, at least if they didn't, it was important that we understood the culture and the language and I think that has been an important part of my life too and I think that's been great. Most Greeks were Greek Orthodox, 99.9% of them belonged to that and the Church had a big influence keeping the community together and that kind of background too.
SMITH: You mentioned that you were quite active in sports, as a youngster. What sports in particular did you enjoy?
RIGAS: I enjoyed them all, I guess it was that as I grew up I played... I wasn't a great athlete but I must have had something in that day because I played four years of varsity baseball and I lettered in track for four years. I was on the varsity basketball team, junior and senior year and lettered in that and I played football for my sophomore and junior year. I tore my cartilage and I couldn't play my senior year. Yeah, I was pretty active in sports, I guess.
SMITH: What position did you play in baseball?
RIGAS: It's hard for me to believe this, but I struggle with all this, but in those days I played shortstop and I can't believe my arm was strong enough to do all that. I was quick and could move around. One of my heroes when I was growing up was Phil Rizzuto because he was short in stature and what not. Yeah, I was shortstop and track I ran the dashes, the hundred, the 220, and in football I played in the backfield, in those days you went both ways, and so on.
SMITH: It's difficult to visualize you on a football team when you look at the size of today's players.
RIGAS: One thing while we are talking sports, two stories. One is that when I was a sophomore, one of my highlights of my sports career was a second game we were playing. I got into the game for the first time in my varsity game in the second quarter. I heard the coach yelling, "Give it to RIGAS:" and I got in the game and I was really scared and nervous. They called my play and I took that ball and I must have run all over that field avoiding everybody and just running real scared all over the place. But anyway I scored a touchdown. Unfortunately, they called the play back because somebody was offside and the next day the headlines came out and the first line was, "Wellsville Defeats the Team" and the second line was, "Crowd Thrills to RIGAS: Dash."
SMITH: Even if it was called back.
RIGAS: Even if it was called back. It was amazing.
SMITH: That's great. You said there was another sports story.
RIGAS: Well, one thing is that I was going to relate, I know that my business career life kind of relates to my football experience in this respect. When I was growing up I always seemed to be playing because of the way the neighborhood was constituted, with older children. Two and three years older, four years older. I was small and quick and so when we were playing football I could remember when they hit me, it hurt. I'd pick myself up and I'd do anything so they wouldn't hit me and on the other hand, they'd do anything to try to catch me, because it was always a feat. And all the way through growing up, I was always one of those scab bags who was evading everybody, but later on as I'd get into the huddle, and I used to be hurting and I'd think, "God I hope they don't call my play again." When they'd call it, you know, you'd take the ball and you get banged and smeared and there was no opening and little discouraged, a lot of discouragement, and you go back in the huddle, take that ball again, and maybe not do too good, but every once in a while there was an opening. You had to know which was a right opening and where the right hole was or you weren't going to go any place and you also knew, I learned early on that those holes closed up pretty fast.
So intuitively and through whatever it was, you had to pick the right holes and then when you got through the right holes, you don't know whether you're going to go through the sidelines, you're going to go down the middle, you slack up on the speed, you do whatever. I guess, my business experience is that through my life, you're taught to carry the ball and it hurt, and disappointments, but every once in a while, you find that opening and there were the right openings and you close them fast, whether it was to make a loan or to get a franchise, because they were gone. I think that's my football story.
SMITH: That's a beautiful analogy, too. A way of life. You played it like you played the game of football.
RIGAS: You took the ball and lots of times it hurt. There was no gain and lots of times there were some losses, but you went and picked it up again.
SMITH: John, you mentioned your children and we will talk more about them later on because I understand your son is participating in the business, would you tell us when they were born and their names, just identify the children for us now?
RIGAS: My oldest son is Michael. He was born on November 30, 1953. Then my number two son, Timmy, was born May 17. My number three son is James, who was born 19 months later. I'll check those dates and get them in here. December 17. Then Ellen was born on June 5, and I'll have to see those years again. So I have three sons and then we got our daughter. All which were born in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, in a little old hospital that had a wooden frame building, family practitioner.
SMITH: When did you move to Coudersport, John?
RIGAS: What really got me to Coudersport was I bought the theater there in 1951.
SMITH: Motion picture theater.
RIGAS: Maybe this is a good time to back up to reflect on that. When I graduated from college, with a degree in engineering, my father asked me to consider going into restaurant with him. I always had a desire to do something in the business environment because that was kind of the environment that my parents and friends had been exposed to and I kind of wanted to try that. I felt that was a place to be where maybe you could control your destiny better and so on. It was a challenge. I tried the restaurant and I worked in the restaurant for approximately nine months, but I really began to feel that the restaurant wasn't going to be my niche because believe it or not there's a knack to cooking and I really didn't perform the best. I could work the grill but maybe not as well as somebody else. I sensed all that, so I began to think of maybe what other opportunity I would have in the business world.
I had a Greek friend by the name of Peter Grafiades who was involved with a chain of theaters. He was always promoting that I should try the theater business. So one day he said to me that there was a theater in Coudersport that was for sale. So we went over and looked at it. It was run down and disarrayed, but we thought it over and of course, that was just the beginning for the box offices were really starting to slump off because of the inroads of television. The question was how much time do we have before the box office, what is the future of the motion picture theater? Recognizing there were a lot of risks, and my father didn't have any cash, nonetheless, we decided that there was a few years before TV stations were going to proliferate perhaps in rural America, so if I really worked hard, I could build up an asset base, so we took the risk and a gamble and we paid, which was as I look back on it, it was an unreasonable price, but I paid $72,000 for the motion picture theater in those days and saw immediately I started with a nice debt.
That brought me to Coudersport. I was commuting between Wellsville, so what I was doing was in the first year I would work some in the restaurant, and had the theater open in the evenings trying to sock all the money I could in a way to pay off the mortgage. All the banks had turned us down. We didn't have a bank loan. My dad had 5000 dollars to contribute, I didn't have anything. Then we went to some of our Greek friends for another 20‑25,000 dollars which they were willing to lend essentially my dad and then the seller took a mortgage on the rest of it. So that began my theater career. The theater is still in the family, we still operate it on weekends and it's still part of our lifeblood in Coudersport.
At the time there were five theaters in the county and none of them have survived and we're still there. I've got to tell you that after the 60's, you know you were just a loser but I felt that I'd like to keep it alive as long as I could and the theater has struggled but the last two or three years, it's kind of turned around. Just the other day, I couldn't believe it, my bookkeeper came into me and said, "John, don't you think we ought to take the money out of the theater's checking account and put it into a Hi‑Fi account or something and draw some interest." I said, "I've never had any money in the theater account. How much have we got?" He said, "We have $10,000." So for the first time, I said, "I can't believe that. That's unheard of." So there we are.
The theater business has really picked up in the last two years for a whole lot of reasons, but that's another story. So the theater is still there, we're still making popcorn and selling tickets.
SMITH: In reading some background material on your company, I noticed that apparently the theater business there had something to do with your entry into the cable business. Is that right?
RIGAS: Yes, it sure does. It has a big part of it, actually. Strat, I suppose that if anybody can actually make the claim of being at the right place at the time right time, I guess this is the story that probably verifies that. Let me give you a little history about that. When I went into the theater business, I knew absolutely nothing about booking, about how the films were bought, what was happening. But I decided instead of booking a company, book the movies, I would like to try my hand at it. We used to have approximately 20 film companies and salesmen that would make their rounds every thirty days to book and sell the shows, M.G.M., 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, and R.K.O. had a gentleman by the name of Sam Milberg. Remember that name when it comes to RIGAS:. Sam Milberg. Sam Milberg was a salesman that I had a lot of respect for in that he was a marvelous encyclopedia of all the movies that were ever made. He grew up in the business, his father was a salesman early on and he knew the directors, the cast and he just had a wonderful mind for all of that. And loved the business.
But Sam was also an individual that most people avoided because he was the type of a guy that if you went to the restaurant, he spilled egg on his tie, insult the waitress, and there was always some embarrassment. Always broke, and the other salesmen would never go to lunch or dinner with him because they would always have to pick up his tab if, you know. But, what happened is one day, Sam said to me, "Well, John, he said, you know as I'm traveling around western Pennsylvania, I'm noticing that the small towns are beginning to bring in some television by wire." "You know, he said, I think you ought to get into that. To protect your theater investment." I found it very difficult to say no, that's still one of my traits, I'm not very good at saying no. I said, as courteous as I could be, "Sam, I just got into the theater business, I've got a big debt, I obviously don't have any money, and this was in 1952, the last part of '52.
At this point I had taken a position as an engineer for Sylvania Electric in Emporium, which was about a 33 mile drive. So what I was doing, I was driving in the day time to work as an engineer at Sylvania Electric and then in the evening I would run the theater and do my booking and meet with my salesmen. With the idea that I would live off my income from Sylvania Electric and put everything I could into paying back my debts. Anyway, Sam started explaining to me how they were bringing it in. I had a theater exhibitor by the name of John Troy that is doing this in the little town of Tidioute, Pennsylvania. He has a theater there, just a small tiny theater. He said, "I'm going to have him call you up." I thought fine. Well I never hear from anybody and that would all disappear. I wasn't concerned about it. I never really gave it any serious thought.
So about two or three weeks later, Sam was in Tidioute and he had asked Mr. Troy to give me a call, which he did. Mr. Troy was being very nice about it, and explaining how he ran this wire in, they hadn't had any customers but they were starting to run in and this sort of thing. So I listened and he explained what they were going to do. I thanked him and promptly forgot about it. Next time, Sam came up and said, "What did you think about that?" I said, "Well Sam, I'm sure that television is going to come to all of these communities because I noticed some of the people on the side hills are starting to bring in television to hook up two or three of their homes in the neighborhood and running their own lines and so you know, I'm sure I've got to contend with the competition from TV and it's happening now. But I really don't have any money for this kind of a project and I'm busy and I'm trying to pay all of this back.
He said, "Well, John, you've got to do this. This is the way you've got to go." I said, "Well, that's easy for you to say but I don't have any money!" He said, "John, this is an opportunity. What you've got to do is get the license." We call our franchise our license. I said, "Well, I don't really have any interest," but Sam was persistent. Sam was a salesman. The best way to get rid of Sam was to say, "Ok, Sam, I'll call." So the next time he came up and I hadn't called...
SMITH: This is Tape 2, Side A. We did not record Side B on Tape 1. This is still October 11th and we're interviewing John RIGAS:, President and Chief Executive Officer of Adelphia Communications. John, when the tape ran out on the other side, we were talking about the efforts of Sam Milberg to get you to acquire a franchise in the cable business. Would you like to proceed with the rest of that story?
RIGAS: Sure. So when I talked to the president of council in Coudersport, he told me that that franchise had already been given out. I was really relieved. Would you believe that Sam Milberg said to me, "Well, call him up and see if he'll sell it." I thought I was home free so many times and I said, "Sam, I don't have any money I'm sure it's an embarrassment." I remember I said, "Let me think about it." So he said, "Well next time I come up I hope that you will have called him up and see if he will sell the franchise because I really believe that this is the way they are going to have television in these small towns. It's a great way to protect your investment in the theater business."
This guy didn't have any money, he really wasn't a business man. He was an idea man and always has been. That's why he was creative. He could always put those double features together. Bring in the Tarzans, the Roy Rogers on Friday and Saturday at $12.50 and you're going to make a bundle of money. Next time he came up in about thirty days, one of the first things he brought up, I remember he said, "Well, did you call up about that franchise" and I said, "No, I don't have any money. I've got enough to concern myself with, I have a son." But I couldn't say no, so I thought the easiest way to get rid of Sam was to call up and the guy would say, "No, it's not for sale." So I consented and I called up Jack Darfeld [???]
The conversation went like this. He was an older business man, he had a hardware store. He was interested as most people were in those days of selling TV sets. He was looking for a vehicle to do that. So we began with the usual opening remarks and finally I said, "Jack, I understand you have the franchise for the television." He said, "Yes, that's right and we're getting marvelous pictures and a lot of support and a lot of interest. We can pick three and four and five channels and of course, everybody has made that same claim. The truth of the matter is they were lucky to pick up two channels, both of which were snowy, but on one given day, they'd come in from the north and the south and the next day come in from the west. They were all looking for something to sell.
Well, Senator Burger??? was interested in this project and Dr. Mosh[???] and everything was looking very, very rosy. So I felt with that scenario he wasn't going to be interested in selling the franchise. So Sam was always nudging me, asking me if he'll sell and sell and I was hesitant because of what he was saying it was kind of embarrassing. Finally, he said, "Well, do you have an interest?" I said, "Well, not really, Jack, then on the other hand that now listening to it, that you might want to sell the franchise." Lo and behold, he reversed the whole situation and said to me, "My wife is upset with me, going up and down and spending as much time on checking the signals. I've got my own business to run. I did offer to sell it to the people I had mentioned and I'm upset with them because they won't give me what I'm asking and they tell me there's no value to it." So he said, "Yes, I would sell that franchise." And I was dead.
I guess the next question is that I thought I had one more ace in the whole, it is obviously going to be some price that I couldn't afford, so I said, Ok, what would you sell it for, Jack. He said, John, I'm going to sell it to you for a lot less money than I asked from them. I'll sell it to you for $100. I said, "Good God."
SMITH: And you didn't have the hundred dollars.
RIGAS: Good God. I overdrew the checking account, but I said come on up and I'll buy the franchise. I had no idea what I was going to do with it. He came up and he signed it to me and I got the Coudersport TV franchise for $100.
SMITH: That's a fascinating story and we want to go into your development of your franchise and your financing and your early experiences with it. We skipped into Coudersport a step earlier than we should have because we didn't get into any real background on where you went to college. You did mention that. When did you go to college, where and give us some information on that?
RIGAS: Before I get into that, let me finish up a little bit of the sequence, what happened after that, if you don't mind.
SMITH: Sure, go right ahead.
RIGAS: I ought to say this. Sam prevailed and I got the franchise for $100. I really didn't do any more real honest to gosh hard thinking about it. I thought well, maybe something will break and maybe I ought to do something about it, but I didn't know what. About a week later, I received a call from one of the gentleman that was trying to buy the franchise. In the newspaper there was a story that was saying that this group that was interested in developing the television system in Coudersport didn't see any value in the franchise. The city attorney had ruled that there was an obligation and they should try to transfer that and that it would make it easier for the council and everybody. That was what Jack Darfield was alluding to when he said what he was upset with him because they were telling him it was of no value and that they didn't need that. As it was I think Jack was asking what I had heard, he was asking $500 for that franchise. They were willing to come up with the $500.
Just to prove his point he sold it to me for one hundred. I can't believe that, but that's what happened. We had a cup of coffee and a man by the name of Joe English said to me, "John, you cannot prevent television from coming into Coudersport. Protect your theater." That won't work and we're going to bring television in here. We just want you to know that's our position and that franchise and that piece of paper that you obtained, very simply stated...
SMITH: Do you have that today, John?
RIGAS: I have that someplace and I've got to find it for you.
SMITH: Could we have a copy of it and maybe someday the original when your family will let it go?
RIGAS: Sure.
SMITH: Ok.
RIGAS: Well I said, "Joe, I would never expect to keep out television from Coudersport, it's just not my style, it's not the intent." Finally Joe said to me, "Well, what do you intend to do with it?" I said, "My intent is and I don't know why I said this, but I saw an opportunity to try to bring in television under this contract to the people of Coudersport. He said we don't need that franchise. He said from what I read in the paper I think there is some validity and it's just going to be more difficult. But he said, we've been talking it over, our group, there was the doctor, the senator and myself, just the three of us, and we thought if you throw in the franchise we'll give you 25% of the investment and we'll become partners.
SMITH: Throw in the franchise but they didn't need it, huh?
RIGAS: Yes. But they said you can help us, you have a degree in engineering and maybe you can overlook the operations and begin, so there's a place for you. It really came down to the fact that I had the franchise. I said, "How much money are we talking about?" Well, he said, what we can best guess is that we're going to need about 40 or 50,000 dollars to build this plant. It's going to have about twelve miles initially and we've talked to somebody from Jerrold, so we made arrangements since Jim Berger is the director at this local bank to borrow $40,000 and we hope to get started with that and build most of the system, and it won't require any cash just sign the notes on good faith.
I thought that was a pretty good deal, so I said fine, with one proviso because I don't want anybody to think I was careless with my money. Just give me back my hundred dollars for the franchise. So I want you to all know that I got my hundred dollars back and that's how we made the deal.
SMITH: You got your hundred dollars back and 25% of the company.
RIGAS: That's right.
SMITH: Great.
RIGAS: And I've leveraged ever since.
SMITH: In the best tradition of the cable industry.
RIGAS: So that's the story.
SMITH: Is this a good place to go back and catch up on your engineering degree?
RIGAS: Only one thing that I would like to comment on. Sam Milberg, about two years later, was always an idea man. Came to me and said John, I got a great idea for you to make some money. I'm in debt with my theater and I'm struggling. He said, "My wife works in a discount place in Pittsburgh and they're coming in and buying all these items. What you have to do is develop a regional discount house." This was the beginning of discounts. Of course, I didn't get into it. But he really was bugging me to open up a discount house in that area. Later on he got transferred to Detroit and I lost track. Someplace in the middle '60s, he called me up and I hadn't heard from him and I was really glad to hear from him. He said, after some saying hello and touching base on the families and all that, he said, "John, you and I are going to make a lot of money." I said, what have you got in mind, Sam, what are you thinking of?" He said, "I'm operating the theaters and we're doing a big business and what we're doing is we're running X-rated movies and he said what we're going to do is, we're going to make these movies. I said, Sam, I don't think that's my style. But I just thought that was interesting. That was early on when those first X-rated movies were coming on and all that.
SMITH: Think what you could have done, John.
RIGAS: I missed another chance, didn't I? That's the end of that story.
SMITH: Let's go back to college and get your experience there, including your fraternity and if you were active in athletics and so on. Just general background about your college education.
RIGAS: Let me go back to high school if I may. I graduated from high school in 1943 in June. It was in the middle of World War II, obviously and as soon as you graduated, if you were 18 you immediately got your notice to appear to Selective Service. Interestingly enough, a lot more than I ever realized until I went back to have our first class reunion, which was after 25 years, we were trying to put it all together, how many of my class had elected to enlist as soon as they turned 18, rather than wait to graduate. I was one of those who elected to get my diploma before I went into the service. Immediately, the day after I received it, it was a Saturday morning, graduation was on a Thursday night. Saturday morning I got my notice to appear for my physical, so I was drafted in August. The first week of August I reported for duty.
SMITH: August of what year, John?
RIGAS: '43.
SMITH: Chronologically, the military comes before the college, so let's go into that first.
RIGAS: Sure. I reported to Fort Benning, Georgia for my basic training which was infantry training and remember those days, I didn't know a thing about the service. It was all foreign talk. I had to learn everything and the first time away from home like so many young people, but it was the place to be. As you well know, everybody wanted to serve, I felt most people did. It was a war we wanted to win and so I was really kind of worried that I might not pass the physical for whatever reason and so on. I was lucky enough and I went to infantry training. After infantry training, they had what was known as the A.S.T.P. (Army Specialized Training Program) where if you scored high enough they would put you into special training and maybe get your degree allowing people to get a degree while they were in the service.
After training I transferred up to Indiana University in Bloomington and I began the A.S.T.P. training and about six months into that, they needed a lot of recruits for infantry and there was some criticism, I suppose, for some of those programs. They shut down most of that type of programming as I recall. Then I was reassigned and we formed a new division, armored division, 20th Armored Division in Camp Campbell, Kentucky. So we began the training and I became part of the armored infantry and we prepared ourselves and we went overseas. I was discharged on February 1, 1946 with the lofty rank of PFC. and I want to go on record that I made PFC three times.
SMITH: You mentioned that last night, so let's have the story of how you managed to do it three times, instead of the usual once.
RIGAS: It's interesting. I guess I was always a victim of circumstance, but as I look back on it. Probably as I look back in my career, 18, 19, 20 years old, and pretty young. I think I did my job ok and I know that everytime there was a replacement to go to other companies, overseas to fill the infantry ranks...by the way I kept thinking well, I really didn't belong in the infantry, I was always trying to figure out a way to get transferred out to the Air Corps but they weren't taking anymore transfers. I thought that engineer sounded better to me than the infantry, but I was always kept in that mold of the state of infantry.
I always felt that one of the reasons that the sergeant's captain liked to have me around was because I was probably the smallest person in the infantry and in that particular platoon or company. When we'd have the forced marches and the hard conditions out there in training, I think they'd kind of use me as a morale booster. If John RIGAS: could hang in there with that full field pack, by God the rest of us could. I kind of became a favorite with the sergeant, they kept me in the platoon until we went overseas. I think the first time I got up to the high rank of PFC, I went from $50 a month to $54 a month, we were having some training and we were going to go through the infiltration course and that required you to take your rifle and go under the barbed wired fence and people would simulate shooting over you and trace your bullets and all that sort of thing. You'd get all dirtied and muddied up. The half hour before that they wanted us to go back to our tents and clean our rifles and I didn't think that it made much sense to clean my rifle.
They knew what they were doing as you look back on it, so they pulled a spot check. When they came to my pup tent, I was in there reading a book, I wasn't cleaning my rifle. Somehow that didn't sit well with the captain, so they made an example of me and I lost my first stripe. Then when went overseas they gave it back to me. After the service I forget what I lost my second one on, but it was something to do with my rifle again. The third one was an unusual story. The war was over, and we were always told we couldn't fraternize with the enemy, the Germans. So they put us on, me and somebody else, on a very remote, dirt crossroad and said that your assignment is to stay here and we'll be back and to see if anything unusual happens. There's just a little farmhouse out there. So we were there for three or four days. They'd bring us supplies. Anyway, there was an old German gentleman who lived there. Nobody was around so he'd come by and he'd say a few words. We'd kind of wave to him and so on. Don't ask me how and why, but he must have been eighty years old. We were just talking, somehow we were talking and he motioned to me that he would like to learn how the rifle worked.
There wasn't anything in the rifle, so I was showing him how the bolts were going back and forth and we were just chatting and just at the time as I was showing him how the bolt was working, a jeep came floating down the road with the captain. He saw me fraternizing with my friend and of course, just went into orbit. He immediately called the whole battalion together and told them about this soldier that was literally giving his guns to the enemy. So they broke me, and I thought surely I was going to get court marshaled for that one, but I didn't.
SMITH: I have visions of you standing up there, like in the Gary Cooper desert movies and they're ripping off your medals and awards, disgracing you.
RIGAS: Anyway, when I had enough points and it came time to discharge me, the Congress had passed an act that said if you had enough points you were eligible. I had enough points, but you had to be a PFC. Our division had been redeployed from Germany back through the States and I was in the States when V.J. Day occurred in August. They dropped the bomb. We were on our way to be assigned in California for the invasion of Japan. Our training was going to be in California when the war ended. Congress had graciously passed an act so that in order for me to be discharged I had to be a PFC. So they gave me back my stripes.
SMITH: On again, off again. John, you mentioned getting overseas, but you haven't discussed anything about what happened to you. Did you see action?
RIGAS: We saw action. When we went overseas, D‑Day had occurred and so we started to go across Belgium and France. Our first initiation was kind of just mopping up behind the more active division. Later on we shot down through Munich and Austria and I saw some action, not a lot. Our company did get the presidential citation for action, I think that we got beat up in Munich pretty bad ‑ around an airport as I recall, because we hit a nest of S.S. troopers that were pretty fanatical and so we crossed the Danzig and so on, but sure I saw some action. As I look back on it and I had the occasion to think back, I went back to Normandy and I visited the beaches and although I wasn't there at the invasion, it was one of those moments that you freeze in time because they were just getting close to having this fortieth year celebration.
I visited the cemetery and I overlooked the beaches and I walked through the cemetery and I saw all those lives that had been sacrificed, PFC., private, corporal, tech sergeant and I remarked to Doris, God you know, we were just kids. So we were kids and you look at us now when we were there, most of us were in our 60's and a lot of them were in their 70's, gotten gray and bald and bent over, but it's an experience that I was glad to be part of. I wouldn't wish it on anybody in many ways, but I sure was proud to be part of all that.
SMITH: Where were you staged from, John, when you went overseas?
RIGAS: We landed in Cong[???] then we went across the Belgium and we crossed at the Remodgen[???] Bridge, I think we were the second division to cross that and we went across Germany and so on. We just built in hamlets and houses and fields as we went across though. That's essentially it. We landed at Cherbourg. They just had cleared the port.
SMITH: Did you get across the channel from England or did you come over directly?
RIGAS: Directly. I remember leaving the States and as our transport convoy was going across I remember that band playing. I don't know why it sticks in my mind, I guess because it was so ironical. Here we all are loaded up with our full field packs. I was a bazooka guy, I had a bazooka and a rifle and blankets and a gas mask and every other thing, you could hardly see me. The man was playing, "Is you, is you, is you, ain't my baby?" Couldn't relate to all of that.
SMITH: Did you say what year you were discharged?
RIGAS: '46. As a matter of fact interestingly enough, I was discharged on February 1, 1946 which was just an unbelievable day in your life. You can't express the thing, I couldn't, of just being behind us, your life is coming together, that freedom that went with it. For me, it was just an exhilaration that I couldn't express. Then about five years later, on February 1 is the day I received my diploma from college. Two years later, on February 1 is my wedding anniversary. So some great things happened to me on February 1.
SMITH: Those were great days. I recalled that you were married on February 1, but that's quite a coincidence. I take it that these days at the end of January, you look forward to see what's going to happen on February 1.
RIGAS: Well, it's certainly for me of celebration and reflection, no question about it.
SMITH: When you got back and were discharged, you went home to Wellsville, I take it.
SMITH: What caused you to decide that you wanted to study engineering in college?
RIGAS: I think it was Greek immigrant's aspirations, like all immigrants, I believe, particularly the first generation, that by the way, was a marvelous generation, because the ones that came over and limited education, didn't know the language, you can't say enough for them. Not only they that, they had a great faith and a family and religion and great belief in all of that and great principles that it was important to have integrity. It was important that you get the education, it was important that you carry yourself in society, and all of that was fostered through the church and whatever it was there.
All through, it was important that I did well with my studies in school and my family said some way, all of our children are going to be educated. So that was foremost in their mind. When I came back, there wasn't any doubt that I wanted to go to college. There were three young men that were of the Greek community in Wellsville. Before the war had started, in '40 ‑'41, they had registered at R.P.I.
SMITH: R.P.I. ?
RIGAS: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Before the war they had approximately 1800, all males in the school. It was the first engineering school founded, located in Troy, New York. The local Episcopal rector had kind of encouraged them that they look at Rensselaer. They were all in the same class. They all graduated from high school and they all went to Rensselaer. When they got out of the service, of course, they went back to continue their education. The service had interrupted their graduation. They encouraged me to apply to Rensselaer and they were really good close friends of mine, so I didn't look at anyplace else, I just looked at R.P.I. I applied, was accepted, and I started my college as soon as I could in the summer session of July in '46. I accelerated by going two summers and so I graduated in 1950, January. Our commencement speaker was Omar Bradley.
SMITH: You would remember the name for certain.
RIGAS: So I went to college and that's why the Greek friends and the Greek influence. I was fortunate enough, we had the G.I. Bill which was a marvelous bill. It took care of most of our tuition, most of our needs and I've always been supportive of that kind of... So many of our people went on to get their degrees and education, never would have been able to afford, never would have thought about it. Marvelous bill. Money well spent. I had two other friends that I graduated with in 1943, they came back and they also applied to Rensselaer and so we had a pretty good delegation from Wellsville. We had six kids from Wellsville all going to Rensselaer.
SMTIH What degree did you get when you graduated?
RIGAS: Well, actually Strat, I started off not really having a good idea what engineering was about and I really didn't have a good feeling what education was all about. I decided to become a mechanical engineer. I think that probably in the second year I elected to transfer over into what was known at R.P.I. as Management Engineer, which was kind of an offshoot of Industrial Engineers. Because I recognized that I really wasn't a pure engineer. The technical subjects came ok, but there wasn't any question that the real engineers, the people who were really into it, were getting their A's and I was struggling with my C+'s and my B‑'s and I had to work real hard to make sure that I hung in there. So management appealed to me because they had courses in business and statistics and personnel and accounting and finance and marketing that I felt gave me a little bit better balance, because I was kind of interested in doing something eventually in the business world someplace. It was a marvelous education and Rensselaer was a great school. I can't say enough about it. Many times I threatened to leave it, it was too hard, and I sure am glad I stuck it out.
SMITH: Well if it were an institution where Omar Bradley, General Bradley, gave the commencement address, it had to be a highly respected institution.
RIGAS: It really is. Undergraduate for engineering, I can't say enough. It did a superb job. I'm glad I went. It really helped my training in that it taught me how to attack problems. What is the problem? What do we know? Your mind would start to be thinking that way. You'd put down all those factors and as I sat through meetings, many, many times I often thought that logic, that sequential thing, and getting down to the nitty gritty and cutting through a whole lot of things, a lot of it was attributable to the way they just pounded at you. What you have to work with, put it down, what are we looking for and so on. I think that was great for me. It certainly has proved invaluable in my business life.
SMITH: It's interesting that after you get a degree in engineering management, your father wanted you to go into the restaurant business.
RIGAS: As I look at that, and you know, at this point it was a lot of peer pressure, in the sense that why John, would you go through four years of engineering and then consider to go into a restaurant. That was always an uneasy situation to be in because you did feel self‑conscious, somewhat, about it. I tried, and I have often told young people that it doesn't really make any difference what you get your degree in. You can use it in many ways. Just get the degree, but don't be embarrassed if it doesn't fit in what your major was. Sure, I felt uneasy about working in a restaurant, putting on a white apron, working the grill, but I wanted to give it a try, and I'm glad I did. But I sure couldn't make a ham and egg sandwich.
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Government of Canada announces judicial appointment in the province of British Columbia
From: Department of Justice Canada
The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointment under the new judicial application process announced on October 20, 2016.
May 12, 2017 – Ottawa, Ontario – Department of Justice Canada
The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointment under the new judicial application process announced on October 20, 2016. The new process emphasizes transparency, merit, and diversity, and will continue to ensure the appointment of jurists who meet the highest standards of excellence and integrity.
W. Paul Riley, Q.C., Senior General Counsel with the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, is appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver. He replaces Madam Justice C.J. Ross, who elected to become a supernumerary judge effective April 1, 2016.
After earning his LL.B. from Dalhousie University in 1995, Mr. Justice W. Paul Riley articled with the federal Department of Justice in Vancouver. From 1997 until his appointment to the bench, Mr. Justice Riley practised as Crown counsel with what is now the Public Prosecution Service of Canada. In 2007, he became the head of the British Columbia Regional Office’s appeals group. He has conducted hundreds of appeals in the British Columbia Court of Appeal and appeared over a dozen times as lead counsel in the Supreme Court of Canada in cases involving important issues of criminal and constitutional law.
Mr. Justice Riley was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2014. He has served on numerous committees, including the PPSC’s National Litigation Committee and the British Columbia Court of Appeal’s Criminal Appeals Advisory Committee. Moreover, he has served his local community by working at an Access Pro Bono legal clinic and by volunteering one night per week at the Salvation Army’s Gateway of Hope homeless shelter. Mr. Justice Riley is also an avid distance runner. He ran competitively in university, has since completed numerous marathons, and at one point maintained a streak of 9.5 years of running at least once per day, but is now content to share this enthusiasm with other avid runners in his family.
Excerpts from Justice Riley’s judicial application can be accessed at the following link.
Budget 2017 proposes additional funding of $55 million over five years beginning in 2017-2018 and $15.5 million per year thereafter for 28 new federally-appointed judges. Of these new positions, 12 would be allotted to Alberta and one to the Yukon, with the remaining 15 being assigned to a pool for needs in other jurisdictions.
To ensure a judiciary that is responsive, ethical and sensitive to the evolving needs of Canadian society, the Canadian Judicial Council will receive $2.7 million over five years and $0.5 million ongoing thereafter. This will support programming on judicial education, ethics and conduct, including in relation to gender and cultural sensitivity.
Today’s appointments are separate from the Budget 2017 announcement.
Federal judicial appointments are made by the Governor General, acting on the advice of the federal Cabinet and recommendations from the Minister of Justice.
The Judicial Advisory Committees across Canada play a key role in evaluating judicial applications. There are 17 Judicial Advisory Committees, with each province and territory represented.
Significant reforms to the role and structure of the Judicial Advisory Committees, aimed at enhancing the independence and transparency of the process, were announced on October 20, 2016.
The Judicial Advisory Committees in ten jurisdictions have been reconstituted. Most recently, Minister Wilson-Raybould announced the composition of three new Judicial Advisory Committees on April 13, 2017.
This process is separate from the Supreme Court of Canada judicial appointment process announced on August 2, 2016. Nominees to the Supreme Court of Canada are selected by the Prime Minister from a thoroughly vetted list of candidates.
For more information, media may contact:
Kathleen Davis
Communications and Parliamentary Affairs Advisor
Office of the Minister of Justice
media@justice.gc.ca
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Food waste: using sustainable innovation to cut down what we throw away
Our appetite for food is a serious problem. The huge amount of energy, land and water used to fill our supermarket shelves mean that modern overproduction and excessive consumerism are rapidly depleting resources and damaging the planet.
Yet still, more than one-third of the world's food produce goes to waste every single year. This adds up to a staggering 1.3 billion tonnes of food, more than seven million tonnes of which is produced in the UK.
Now more than ever the survival of our food production is hinged on sustainable innovation. Here are some current ideas which attempt to effectively (or not so effectively) deal with food waste in the supply chain. We have given each type a "sustainability score" out of 20, based on five separate factors, including economic and environmental efficiency.
Food waste revolution start-ups
More than half of food waste in manufacturing and farming is classed as "avoidable" and accounts for Pound 1.4 billion of losses in the UK. This has inspired a range of small businesses which use this waste to make new products.
London-based former chef Tom Fletcher, for example, founded Rejuce, in 2012 and since then has turned over 250 tonnes of ugly wonky fruit and veg into juices and smoothies. A network of suppliers provides the company with local and low cost ingredients, eliminating their own disposal costs in the process.
Rejuce has been able to grow - now selling more than 100,000 bottles a year - by saving edible food from going to waste and turning it into nutritious products.
Meanwhile Toast Ale, is a non-profit organisation which makes alcoholic drinks, including pale ales and craft lagers, from waste bread. It sources around 13,000 slices of bread discarded daily by sandwich manufacturers.
The byproduct of brewing is then processed and given to local farms for use as a highly nutritious animal feed. Selling online and through major British supermarkets Tesco and Waitrose, Toast Ale donates all its profits to Feedback, a charity working to transform the global food system.
These businesses - and many others - are reshaping the way we perceive and use waste as a value adding resource, rather than something that needs to be thrown away.
Sustainability score: 20
Anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities provide renewable energy and gas. Wyke Farms, one of the leading dairy manufacturers in the UK, is using this approach to power its factories. Its biogas digester plants break down organic matter from farmyard manure, cheese making, cider mills and bakeries into natural energy.
This electricity is then used to power manufacturing sites, and the additional power is fed back into the grid to provide clean electricity for the local community. Not only does this save enormous amounts on energy bills every year, but it also reduces waste generation from manufacturing, lowering methane emissions.
It does not stop there. The leftover material from AD plants are excellent fertilisers which are used on Wyke Farms land and given to local farmers to boost soil fertility. The company also collaborates with its suppliers to implement sustainable approaches that reduce environmental impacts and save money.
But AD does bring some challenges. It requires a large initial investment and might prevent further innovation in dealing with byproducts of farming and manufacturing.
Burning and incineration
Burning food is not good for the environment as it releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. There are also concerns over the health implications of incinerators due to their weak pollution monitoring systems.
A report published by the Green Party showed an increase of 5.5m tonnes of waste sent for incineration in the UK between 2012 and 2017, adding up to over 10m tonnes. With stagnating recycling and composting rates at around 11m tonnes in this period, in some areas more waste is being incinerated than recycled. When examining a company, one should check how much burning contributes to their lower levels of waste.
Burning, incineration and AD are themselves energy consuming and costly. We could benefit from the energy that is generated through these methods, if the appropriate waste stream is used (non-recyclable waste, farmyard manure). But using recyclable or avoidable food waste which could be repurposed is a sheer waste of resources, time and labour that has gone into growing and processing food.
Sustainability score: 6
How they compare...
Overall, as a business case, sustainable innovation is intrinsically sound. It reduces waste and lowers environmental impacts as well as saving millions each year through increasing supply chain efficiency.
More importantly, it is an organisational culture that encourages activities and ideas that increase environmental and financial efficiency and prevents false claims that fail to do so. Of course, there will be businesses which attempt to jump on the bandwagon, making false claims about sustainability and the environmental impact of their operation.
One way to differentiate between "revolution" vs "bandwagon" start-ups is to demand ever greater transparency and question where companies source their raw materials. As consumers it is our responsibility to ask questions and hold brands accountable in their use of sustainable innovation.
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Home Fact Check Trump ‘celebrates’ the Fourth with lies, more lies
Trump ‘celebrates’ the Fourth with lies, more lies
He’s claimed, for example, that he came up with the “genius idea” of giving veterans private health care so they don’t have to wait for Veterans Affairs appointments, only to find out that others had thought of it but failed to get it done. President Barack Obama signed the law getting it done in 2014.
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Two Bradley Fighting Vehicles are parked nearby the Lincoln Memorial for President Donald Trump’s ‘Salute to America’ event honoring service branches on Independence Day. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
In his Fourth of July remarks, President Donald Trump will be celebrating the armed forces and showcasing what he’s done for them. But in recent days, he has falsified his record on military matters on several fronts.
He’s claimed, for example, that he came up with the “genius idea” of giving veterans private health care so they don’t have to wait for Veterans Affairs appointments, only to find out that others had thought of it but failed to get it done.
President Barack Obama signed the law getting it done in 2014.
Trump also made the flatly false statement that he won troops their first raise in a decade, suggested he’s made progress reducing veteran suicides that is not backed up by the numbers, and contradicted the record in claiming that North Korea is cooperating on the return of the remains of U.S. troops.
A look at his statements on military matters and personnel, some of which may be heard from the stage Thursday or in tweets:
TRUMP, addressing military members: “You also got very nice pay raises for the last couple of years. Congratulations. Oh, you care about that. They care about that. I didn’t think you noticed. Yeah, you were entitled. You know, it was close to 10 years before you had an increase. Ten years. And we said, ‘It’s time.’ And you got a couple of good ones, big ones, nice ones.” — remarks Sunday at Osan Air Base, South Korea.
THE FACTS: He’s been spreading this falsehood for more than a year, soaking up cheers from crowds for something he didn’t do. In May 2018, for example, he declared to graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy: “We just got you a big pay raise. First time in 10 years.”
U.S. military members have received a pay raise every year for decades.
Trump also boasts about the size of the military pay raises under his administration, but there’s nothing extraordinary about them.
Several raises in the last decade have been larger than service members are getting under Trump — 2.6% this year, 2.4% last year, 2.1% in 2017.
Raises in 2008, 2009 and 2010, for example, were all 3.4% or more.
Pay increases shrank after that because of congressionally mandated budget caps. Trump and Congress did break a trend that began in 2011 of pay raises that hovered between 1% and 2%.
VETERANS SUICIDE
TRUMP: “On average, 20 veterans and members take their own lives every day. … We’re working very, very hard on that. In fact, the first time I heard the number was 23, and now it’s down somewhat. But it’s such an unacceptable number.” — call on June 25 with military veterans.
THE FACTS: Trump incorrectly suggests that he helped reduce veterans’ suicide, noting that his administration was working “very, very hard” on the problem and that in fact the figure had come down. But no decline has been registered during his administration. There was a drop during the Obama administration, but that might be due to the way veterans’ suicides are counted.
The Veterans Affairs Department estimated in 2013 that 22 veterans were taking their lives each day on average (not 23, as Trump put it). The estimate was based on data submitted from fewer than half of the states. In 2016, VA released an estimate of 20 suicides per day, based on 2014 data from all 50 states as well as the Pentagon.
The estimated average has not budged since.
Trump has pledged additional money for suicide prevention and created in March a Cabinet-level task force that will seek to develop a national roadmap for suicide prevention, part of a campaign pledge to improve health care for veterans.
Still, a report by the Government Accountability Office in December found the VA had left millions of dollars unspent that were available for suicide prevention efforts. The report said VA had spent just $57,000 out of $6.2 million available for paid media, such as social-media postings, due in part to leadership turmoil at the agency.
TRUMP, on North Korea’s help in returning the remains of U.S. troops from the Korean War: “The remains are coming back as they get them, as they find them. The remains of our great heroes from the war. And we really appreciate that.” — remarks Sunday to Korean business leaders in Seoul.
TRUMP: “We’re very happy about the remains having come back. And they’re bringing back — in fact, we were notified they have additional remains of our great heroes from many years ago.” — remarks June 28 in Japan.
THE FACTS: His account is at odds with developments.
No remains of U.S. service members have been returned since last summer and the U.S. suspended efforts in May to get negotiations on the remains back on track in time to have more repatriated this year. It hopes more remains may be brought home next year.
The Pentagon’s Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency, which is the outfit responsible for recovering U.S. war remains and returning them to families, “has not received any new information from (North Korean) officials regarding the turn over or recovery of remains,” spokesman Charles Prichard said Wednesday.
Prichard said his agency is “still working to communicate” with the North Korean army “as it is our intent to find common ground on resuming recovery missions” in 2020.
Last summer, in line with the first summit between Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un that June, the North turned over 55 boxes of what it said were the remains of an undetermined number of U.S service members killed in the North during the 1950-53 war. So far, six Americans have been identified from the 55 boxes.
U.S. officials have said the North has suggested in recent years that it holds perhaps 200 sets of American war remains. Thousands more are unrecovered from battlefields and former POW camps.
The Pentagon estimates that 5,300 Americans were lost in North Korea.
TRUMP, on approving private-sector health care for veterans: “I actually came up with the idea. I said, ‘Why don’t we just have the veterans go out and see a private doctor and we’ll pay the cost of the doctor and that will solve the problem?’ Because some veterans were waiting for 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 4 weeks, they couldn’t get any service at all. I said, ‘We’ll just send them out.’ And I thought it was a genius idea, brilliant idea. And then I came back and met with the board and a lot of the people that handled the VA. … They said, ‘Actually, sir, we’ve been trying to get that passed for 40 years, and we haven’t been able to get it.’ … I’m good at getting things done. … It’s really cut down big on the waits.” — call on June 25 with military veterans.
TRUMP: “We passed VA Choice and VA Accountability to give our veterans the care that they deserve and they have been trying to pass these things for 45 years.” — Montoursville, Pennsylvania, rally on May 20.
THE FACTS: Trump did not invent the idea of giving veterans the option to see private doctor outside the Department of Veterans Affairs medical system at government expense. Nor is he the first president in 40 years to pass the program.
Congress approved the private-sector Veterans Choice health program in 2014 and Obama signed it into law. Trump expanded it.
Under the expansion which took effect last month, veterans still may have to wait weeks to see a doctor. The program allows veterans to see a private doctor if their VA wait is 20 days (28 for specialty care) or their drive is only 30 minutes.
Indeed, the VA says it does not expect a major increase in veterans seeking care outside the VA under Trump’s expanded program, partly because waiting times in the private sector are typically longer than at VA.
“The care in the private sector, nine times out of 10, is probably not as good as care in VA,” VA Secretary Robert Wilkie told Congress in March.
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Jon July 4, 2019 at 10:20 pm
That’s a four-axle trailer, and three more on the tractor. It’s no wonder they didn’t want those things on their streets.
One wonders what those lardos will do in a war against a serious enemy. J.
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Turkey sees US offer of rewards for information on PKK members positively
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07 Nov 2018 01:20PM (Updated: 07 Nov 2018 02:10PM )
ISTANBUL: Turkey takes a positive view of a U.S. move to offer rewards for information on three members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, adding it expected to see concrete steps in the fight against the militia.
The United States offered the rewards on Tuesday for information on the three senior members of the PKK, which has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state for decades.
"We expect this step to be supported with concrete actions that will be carried out in Syria and Iraq regarding the fight against the PKK and its extensions," the ministry said in a statement.
Turkey has been infuriated by U.S. support for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which Ankara considers to be an extension of the PKK. The YPG spearheads the U.S-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against Islamic State in Syria.
The PKK, designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, has fought the Turkish state since 1984.
Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Turkey would approach Washington's move with caution and it expected the United States to sever all ties with the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia.
The U.S. reward announcement come amid an improvement in ties which began after a Turkish court last month released U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson from house arrest.
Last week, the two countries mutually lifted sanctions on government officials imposed in August over the Brunson case. Washington announced this week that Turkey would receive a temporary waiver from reimposed sanctions on Iran.
On Tuesday, President Tayyip Erdogan said talks with the United States regarding state-owned lender Halkbank, which might be facing a possible U.S. fine over allegations of evasion of sanctions on Iran, were on a positive track.
U.S. and Turkish troops last week began joint patrols in Syria's Manbij, which the two sides have agreed to clear of militants. Turkey had previously said the United States was delaying implementation of the plan.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Erdogan are to meet this weekend at a summit in Paris.
(Reporting by Tulay Karadeniz; Writing by Ali Kucukgocmen; Editing by Robert Birsel and Clarence Fernandez)
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Mission Statement: Austin Girls’ Choir is a 501(c)(3) organization serving musically talented girls age 8-18. Its purpose is to provide a top-level choral experience and performance opportunities, help choristers develop self-discipline, teamwork skills, confidence, goal-setting and leadership, and prepare girls to enrich and lead in their communities as adults.
Austin Girls’ Choir began in 1990 as a 4-month experiment in single-gender education – and kept going when Governor-elect Ann Richards insisted that only this group could sing for her Inaugural Prayer Service in January 1991! One of our strongest supporters from our early days, she welcomed ...
Austin Girls’ Choir began in 1990 as a 4-month experiment in single-gender education – and kept going when Governor-elect Ann Richards insisted that only this group could sing for her Inaugural Prayer Service in January 1991! One of our strongest supporters from our early days, she welcomed us to the Governor’s Mansion on many occasions, visiting with the girls in her living room and hiring the choir to sing for many parties and special events. It has been our great privilege to be “the go-to choir” for state bill signings and legislature events for the past 25 years, a tradition begun by Governor Richards.
The Choir has enjoyed many wonderful opportunities since its inception – singing at Carnegie Hall and the White House; concert tours all over the US and Europe; being broadcast on CNN, BBC Radio, C-SPAN, the Armed Forces Network and many local TV and radio stations across the US; and collaborations with other top-level choirs, musicians and ensembles. These achievements are due to the commitment and hard work of our director, choristers and parents, and we welcome all those who understand that great teamwork takes us great places!
Our choristers are taught music theory, sightreading and ear training skills, and develop personal responsibility, self-discipline and performance poise as they learn to function as part of a team and to value one another. They take pleasure and pride in achieving new levels, mastering difficult works, and sharing their accomplishments with appreciative audiences. The girls sing in several languages, and learn about other cultures’ arts and history as part of music preparation. We include a “science of singing” component in our camps, too.
Placement audition periods occur three times per year, in January, May and August/September, and camps are held in June. There are many opportunities to hear the girls in concert August through June – visit our website (www.girlschoir.com) to learn about upcoming performances and events!
CAMP I: JUNE 11-15
This session is open to singers age 8-16, beginner to advanced. It will be held 9-5 daily in the Parish Hall of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, at 2008 Justin Lane. Cost is $325 per child for girls not already enrolled in Austin Girls’ Choir. No audition is required, but a brief placement session will occur at the start of camp so as to include girls in skill-appropriate groups. The music menu ranges from Lorde to light classics! Instruction includes vocal skills, note reading, basic harmony and fun songs with simple choreography. Guest artists will highlight various types of singing styles. Other camp activities will include stage presentation, art projects, and a few surprises! An end-of-camp concert at 5 p.m. on June 15 lets the girls proudly share their accomplishments with friends and family. 35 places are available and will be filled as registration forms and payments are received.
CAMP II: JUNE 18-22
This more challenging session is for highly advanced singers age 10-17, and runs 9-5 daily. We’ll rehearse at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, 2200 Justin Lane, and do run-out performances around town on the last two days of camp. Cost is $325 per child for girls not already enrolled in Austin Girls’ Choir. An audition is required for any girl from outside the Choir wishing to participate in this challenging camp; the pace is rapid and expectations of each chorister are high. This session functions primarily as tour preparation for the group touring June 24-July 2, so tour music selections will be emphasized. (Potential add-ons for tour will need to enroll in AGC by June 1.) Camp ends with a 5:30 p.m. concert on June 22. We have 10 spaces available for girls not already enrolled in AGC for this session.
Lunch and afternoon snack are provided at both camps! We welcome girls to audition to join Austin Girls’ Choir on the last day of each camp. A 20% camp tuition discount is available to groups of 4 or more from any one school. Registration forms are available at http://www.girlschoir.com/summer-camps/ – or call 512-453-0884 for more information. We look forward to another fun and inspiring pair of sessions!
YEAR-ROUND CHOIR
Many girls enter as beginners, but rapidly learn to sing in three- and four-part harmony. They share a strong love for music and music-making, and delight in challenging repertoire ranging from jazz, swing and folksongs to madrigals and classical works. Come show us what you already do well, we’ll figure out what section of the group best meets your needs, and get you started right away!
Junior Choir (age 8-14) meets Tuesday and Thursday evenings at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, 2200 Justin Lane. In addition to learning a wide range of songs and styles, the girls also receive training in ear and vocal skills and basic music theory. Beginners meet 6:15-7:30 p.m., intermediates 6:15-8:15 with small-group instruction for the first half hour. Advanced singers rehearse 6:45-8:15; some practice with both the Junior and Senior groups. From June through mid-August, we operate on a modified schedule to accommodate camps, tour and vacations.
The Senior Ensemble, for advanced singers age 13-18, meets Sunday afternoons 2-3:30 p.m. at the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 100 E. 27th Street. Our focus in this group is on learning and performing a sizable repertoire that spans many genres. Participants must be strong music readers and reliable in attendance. We move some of our June and July rehearsals to accommodate tour prep and vacations.
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Ireland Provides €22M In Funding For Two UN Food Agencies
Published on Jan 2 2019 10:54 AM in Supply Chain tagged: Agriculture / UN / World Food Programme
Ireland will offer up to €22 million in funding for two United Nations food agencies, the World Food Programme, and the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
The funding, which was announced by Michael Creed, Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine, includes an advance payment in respect of 2019 commitments to the World Food Programme of €19 million.
It is part of a three-year strategic partnership agreement with the World Food Programme (WFP).
“This funding will afford WFP the flexibility to target this funding in the most strategic, efficient and planned manner”, Minister Creed said.
An additional €2.87 million will be provided to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), on top of Ireland’s annual subscription.
This additional funding hopes to promote food security and livelihood resilience among farmers and refugees in crisis regions, as well as projects to support climate-smart agriculture, plant health and protection, and international food safety standards.
“Animal and plant pests and diseases are a huge threat to lives and livelihoods across the world,” Dominique Burgeon, Director, Emergency and Rehabilitation Division, FAO, added.
“Ireland is a critical partner in enabling FAO to support vulnerable communities in preparing for, diagnosing and responding to these threats from fall armyworm and Rift Valley fever. Ireland is also an advocate supporter of livelihoods affected by conflict such as in the Lake Chad basin.”
The funding of these projects “reflects Ireland’s international commitment to improving food security and nutrition, protecting plant and animal health, and action on climate change” Minister Creed concluded.
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As of the census of 2000, there were 37,405 people, 13,347 households, and 10,076 families residing in the township. The population density was 1,341.7 per square mile (518.0/km²). There were 13,967 housing units at an average density of 501.0/sq mi (193.4/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 93.43% White, 2.97% African American, 0.40% Native American, 0.76% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.87% from other races, and 1.56% from 2 or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.52% of the population.
There were 13,347 households out of which 43.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.1% were married couples living together, 9.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.5% were non-families. 19.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.78 and the average family size was 3.22.
In the township the population was spread out with 29.8% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 36.4% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 6.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 98.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.6 males.
By Income
The median income for a household in the township was $61,630, and the median income for a family was $69,554. Males had a median income of $50,834 versus $30,275 for females. The per capita income for the township was $24,410. About 3.9% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.8% of those under age 18 and 3.8% of those age 65 or over.
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FTC criticizes kid's spam bill
Paul Merrion
An Illinois House bill to protect children from unwanted commercial emails and adult-oriented Internet spam would backfire, says the staff of the Federal Trade Commission.
Modeled after laws in Michigan and Utah, the bill would require the Illinois attorney general to create a list of children's email addresses and telephone numbers, which parents could use to register their children to be off limits from unwanted advertising and adult content via the Internet.
But the agency that enforces the national "Do-Not-Call" telemarketing list and federal laws to control pornographic email marketing says that it would be impossible to prevent misuse of such a registry, providing "pedophiles and other dangerous persons with a list of contact points for Illinois children."
The FTC staff comments were issued in response to a request from Rep. Angelo "Skip" Saviano, R-River Grove, chairman of the Illinois House committee on registration and regulation. Rep. Saviano would "absolutely" oppose the House bill based on the FTC's response, says a spokesman for the lawmaker.
"He felt it would cause more problems than it would solve," the spokesman says. "We don't like spam, but how do you get rid of it without causing more problems?"
In addition to creating a list that would be impossible to monitor for abuse, the bill would make it easier to verify that those email addresses are valid, thus eliminating "one of the few remaining barriers that can slow spammers down," the FTC says. It would also allow marketers of children's products to conduct spam marketing campaigns more efficiently, by targeting their audience.
Finally, the FTC staff said the bill would increase costs for legitimate email marketers, such as an electronic newsletter on wine, because they would have to scrub their lists of any email addresses on the Illinois registry or face still penalties of up to $500,000 for unauthorized use of the registry, or damages of $1,000 that a parent may recover for each violation of the proposed act.
The bill, which picked up 13 co-sponsors, has been bottled up in the House rules committee since March. It will be revised and reintroduced in January, according to Rep. Jack Franks, D-Woodstock, the bill's sponsor.
"We're amending it to make it closer" to statutes that created children's registries in Utah and Michigan. "I do think there's a way to do it and do it right."
The FTC staff letter notes that the agency is monitoring the registries in those states "with regard to their effect on children's privacy."
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10 Things to do this weekend
Margaret Littman
SAIL. The fine folks at Paulina Market are bringing the sausage, which is as good an excuse as any to check out Shoreline Sightseeing's new BEER, BRATS AND BOATS OKTOBERFEST CRUISE. The two-hour tour takes in the sites starting at Navy Pier, accompanied by the seasonal food and drink. Sept. 28, 7 p.m. Tickets are $39; passengers must be older than 21. 600 E. Grand Ave., (312) 222-9328, www.shorelinesightseeing.com/...
PLAY. Bring your furry friend or find a new one during the 19th annual BARKAPALOOZA DOG WALKATHON AND EXPO. This half-day festival in Lisle Community Park includes live music, food for humans and canines, and more. Sept. 30, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost is $10 in advance, $15 at the event, proceeds benefit the West Suburban Humane Society. 1825 Short St., Lisle, (630) 960-9600, www.wshs-dg.org
SPOOK. Get ready to outrun some ghosts during the first ROSEHILL CEMETERY CRYPT 5K RUN AND WALK. Jog past monuments of some of the city's elite during this nighttime run. Sept. 29, 7 p.m. Registration is $35 in advance, $40 at the gate, proceeds benefit the Chicago chapter of the American Diabetes Association. 5800 N. Ravenswood Ave., (773) 868-3010, www.chicagoevents.com/...
JAM. Following Sunday's performance of "WOODY SEZ: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF WOODY GUTHRIE," you can get in on the fun with a hootenanny. This post-show jam session welcomes both audience members and performers to get on stage to play for an hour or so. Rhythm instruments will be available for those who want play but don't have their own. The show is running in honor of the 100th Anniversary of Mr. Guthrie's birth. Sept. 30: 7 p.m. show, hootenanny follows performance. Tickets are $25-$60. 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie, (847) 673-6300, www.northlight.org
SHRIEK. MB Financial Park at Rosemont is kicking off Halloween season with "SCREAMS IN THE PARK." Professional actors staff the parking garage decorated to look like the mansion of serial killer H. H. Holmes. The frightfest is recommended for those ages 13 and older. Sept. 29, 7 p.m. -11 p.m. Tickets range from $15-$20. 9703 Bryn Mawr Ave., Rosemont, www.screamsinthepark.com/HOME.html
WATCH. The "MAN IN THE MIRROR" ends its run at the new Riverfront Theater this weekend. Moonwalk over to see this musical about of the King of Pop — aka Michael Jackson — before it leaves town. Sept. 28 and 29, 8 p.m.; Sept. 30, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Ticket prices range from $35-$90. 650 W. Chicago Ave., (888) 556-9484, www.riverfrontheater.com
CELEBRATE. Listen to the Polkaholics brand of Polka rock, eat brats and pretzels and drink beer during the OKTOBERFEST CHICAGO AT ST. ALPHONSUS. Sunday's football games will be broadcast, so you don't have to choose between your favorite fall pastimes. Sept. 28, 5 p.m.-10 p.m.; Sept. 29, 11 a.m. 10 p.m.; Sept. 30, 11 a.m. -7 p.m. Admission is $5, proceeds benefit St. Alphonsus Catholic Church. 1429 W. Wellington Ave., (773) 868-3010, www.chicagoevents.com/...
RIDE. Learn about Native American history and then take to two wheels to see some local Native sites during the MITCHELL MUSEUM TALK AND BIKE TOUR. Sept. 30, 1:30 p.m. Cost is $12 ($10 for members), plus museum admission of $5, $3 for kids. 3001 Central St., Evanston, (847) 475-1030, www.mitchellmuseum.org
BROWSE. Contemporary and sustainable design is the focus of the third annual DESIGN HARVEST. This craft fair and street festival includes live music, hay rides and other activities in addition to the wares for sale from local artists and collectors. Sept. 29-30, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Grand Avenue, between Damen Avenue and Wood Street, (312) 850-9390, www.design-harvest.com
VIEW. Catch a free screening of the award-winning documentary "AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY." The film about the Chinese dissident is part of Victory Gardens' "Dig Deeper" series at the historic Biograph Theater. Sept. 30, 7:30 p.m. Free, but reservations are required. 2433 N. Lincoln Ave., (773) 871-3000, [email protected] or victorygardens.org/...
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Veteran accused in beating barricades self in…
Veteran accused in beating barricades self in motorhome at Silverwood Lake campground
By Beatriz E. Valenzuela | bvalenzuela@scng.com | San Bernardino Sun
PUBLISHED: May 15, 2019 at 10:27 am | UPDATED: May 15, 2019 at 2:22 pm
After an hours-long standoff, sheriff’s deputies arrested an Iraq combat veteran authorities said attacked a person with a flashlight then refused to come out of his mobile home, officials said Wednesday.
Joanner Arce, 34, was arrested shortly after midnight on suspicion of corporal injury on a cohabitant, assault with a deadly weapon and false imprisonment, according to San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials.
Deputies from the sheriff’s Twin Peaks station were called to the Silverwood Lake Campground in the 13800 block of Sawpit Canyon Road around 7 p.m. Tuesday on reports of an assault, officials said.
According to the victim, he and Arce got into a physical altercation. During the fight, the victim said Arce began striking him several times with a large flashlight.
The victim told deputies Arce had access to several firearms inside the motorhome and was a combat veteran from Iraq.
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When deputies tried to speak to Arce, officials said, the 34-year-old barricaded himself inside the motorhome and refused to come out.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s Specialized Enforcement Division was called to the scene. After several hours, authorities said Arce came out and was arrested.
Arce was booked into the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga and is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.
Beatriz E. Valenzuela
Beatriz E. Valenzuela is an award-winning journalist who’s covered breaking news in Southern California since 2006 and has been on the front lines of several national and international news events. She’s worked for media outlets serving Southern California readers covering education, local government, entertainment and all things nerd including comic book culture and video games. She’s an amateur obstacle course racer, constant fact-checker, mother of three and lover of all things adorable.
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Gwynedd Council
Pwllheli councillor takes direct action to cut grass
WHEN a newly-elected councillor was told the council’s community gangs could not cut grass near the Community First office in Pwllheli, he decided to borrow a strimmer and do the job himself.
Cutting comments at grass roots level
Cllr Bob Wright of Pwllheli took matters into his own hands after people living at Morfa’r Garreg estate complained about overgrown grass near their homes.
The council say that the work of community gangs includes taking on small but important jobs that can make a real difference to the look and feel of communities, such as painting road signs, repainting lighting columns, railings and other street furniture, removal and replacement of old road signs and posts, removal of fly-posters and graffiti, removal of illegally dumped waste and trimming back overgrowth on council maintained sites.
But a spokesman said: “Maintenance of this particular site, however, is outside the scope of the community gang’s well defined area of responsibility and as a result it would not be possible to arrange for the gang to undertake the work.
“However, it was explained that the matter would be investigated immediately and that those responsible for the upkeep of the site would be asked to make urgent arrangements for the grass to be cut as soon as possible.”
Cllr Wright is now calling on elected members and council officers to work together to extend what work community gangs are able to do and make the streets a pleasant place to live.
Cllr Wright said: “I had been around the town asking people if there was anything I could do for them. It was brought to my attention that grass near the Communities First office on Morfa’r Garreg was overgrown.
“I was at a meeting recently where a senior council officer urged us to use the community gangs so I was disappointed to find out this sort of job was outside their remit.
“It struck me that Gwynedd Council has 8,000 members of staff, that’s one for every nine of us, but there was no-one available to cut a patch of grass no bigger than a snooker table.
“I had promised to sort it out by the end of the week so rather than go back on my word I have borrowed a strimmer and will take time from work to do the job.
“This reflects the way the council has been run in the past. Maybe it’s time for change?”
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Glendale Gators swim club helps young girl with autism thrive
Isabelle Khurshudyan, ikhurshudyan@dailypress.com | 757-247-7422
As their 5-year-old daughter, Jacey, and her older sister, Natalie, 7, got in their starting positions for the 25-meter backstroke, their parents, Tiffany and Robert Regan, said they wished the circumstances were different.
Jacey, who was diagnosed with autism when she was 3, was to compete for the Glendale Gators swim club in the 7- to 8-year old division against her sister. Usually Jacey swims in the sixth lane in her own division, but at Windy Point pool, host of Monday's meet, there were only five lanes, bumping Jacey to Natalie's division.
"No one knows she's younger," said Tiffany before swimmers raced to the pool. She said she and her husband were worried people who didn't know Jacey would assume she was older and just a slow swimmer, fearing embarrassment for Jacey and wishing she could swim in her own age group.
Jacey fell behind in her heat, touching the wall at least 10 seconds after everyone else — but she was greeted by a thunderous applause by coaches, parents and teammates.
Tiffany let out a sigh of relief. Jacey still had a smile on her face.
A year ago, the thought of Jacey swimming in front of a crowd and playing with kids her age would have been inconceivable to Tiffany and Robert because of her autism, but the Glendale Gators have given Jacey a social, safe place and helped her thrive.
"She'll go around to everybody and say, 'I'm on the Glendale Gators,'" Tiffany said Monday. "She's thrilled. To her therapist today, she ran in and said, 'Guess what, I have a swim meet tonight and I'm swimming backstroke.'"
Tiffany, a nurse, said she knew something was wrong when Jacey, then 3, started pulling her hair out and screaming whenever Tiffany touched her. Jacey also wasn't speaking more than one or two words. She took Jacey to a doctor in Richmond, expecting a diagnosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) or something similar.
"When I was there, I didn't expect to hear the word autism," Tiffany said. "I heard the word autism and just did not expect that."
Autism is defined as a "disturbance in psychological development in which use of language, reaction to stimuli, interpretation of the world, and the formation of relationships are not fully established and follow unusual patterns." According to the Autism Society, 1 percent of children ages 3-17 in the United States have autism.
Robert, who is in the Navy, was deployed at the time of Jacey's diagnosis, which made learning about the autism harder for Tiffany, she said. She had her family and Robert's family in the area to support her, but said Jacey was a handful.
Robert returned home about six months after Jacey was diagnosed and said he wanted to think that nothing was wrong with Jacey — that maybe she just had a few ticks, but nothing serious.
"She's not doing things as fast as other kids, and you start trying to believe it, but you're wondering, did I do everything right," he said. "There are not a lot of studies for what causes it or how it's caused or what's missing. You're trying to put all of the pieces together and there are just no answers. It hurts in a way."
The Regans got some answers when Jacey started Associate Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy with Sade Cole of Paradigm Pathway Consulting at the start of this year, and Tiffany said she instantly saw a change. Jacey still has ticks, including sucking her thumb, throwing tantrums, and pulling threads out of a blanket rather than her own hair, but she also is talking more and has more social interaction.
"In ABA, you do things based on the kid's needs, so our program is geared for them individually," Cole said. "If you have a child who has autism and they receive an ABA prescription, then it can be for something just as simple as they need help because their academics are not where they need to be or they just need a little bit more help because their behavior is really, really aggressive and they need help transitioning. Those are things we take for granted as typical developing people."
Cole said she works with Jacey two to three hours a day, sometimes going to the library and being a part of play groups or doing something as simple as talking to the librarian. The ABA will progress according to Jacey's needs, but once school starts, Jacey won't be in special education classes.
Though Cole said diagnosing a child with autism as early as 3 years old would've been rare seven years ago, it's not anymore and it's good to start therapy as early into a child's formative years as possible. She supported Jacey's desire to be on the Glendale Gators with her older sister because she thought it would be beneficial for Jacey to be around more kids her age.
Jacey wanted to be on the swim team since last summer, but once she was old enough this summer, she still had one more prerequisite to meet. The minimum age to be on the Gators is 5, but to officially be on the team, participants have to swim the length of the pool, 25 meters.
"She could swim, but she couldn't quite make it the whole way," said McKenzie Hogan, a Glendale coach. "I grabbed her one day and I sat her down and said, 'You can do this, and you're not going to stop or touch the bottom.' She needed to hear it from somebody else other than maybe her family that she can do it. I just had to push her and she just swam right down the pool with no problem."
Tiffany said she was worried Jacey's coaches wouldn't be able to handle her daughter, since Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can be more pronounced in children with autism. She hasn't heard any coaches complain, and Hogan said that Jacey is always happy to be in the pool.
Hogan and fellow coach Tristan Hobbs spend time working one-on-one with Jacey. At the Gators' meet Monday, Hobbs had to take extra time to encourage Jacey to jump into the pool for her backstroke.
Cole said Jacey's involvement with the team helps Jacey see other kids appropriately deal with things, like taking directions and not stopping before getting to the end of the pool. It's also a chance for the team and everyone involved to be exposed to autism.
"It's not just this rare syndrome that people are so afraid of," Cole said. "Autism is something we see every day and it's just something we have to work with. … It encourages other kids to learn that these are just regular kids, just like they are, and they just happen to have autism — autism doesn't have them, but they have autism."
The team also encourages positive reinforcement, giving swimmers ribbons after every meet regardless of where they place. Cole said Jacey will come to the sessions with her ribbons, showing them off and telling her about how she did in the swim meet.
For Jacey, it marks a milestone because before, she wasn't expressing anything normally — and definitely not joy.
"She doesn't care what color ribbon it is, especially being the youngest on the team and having autism," Tiffany said. "She's definitely not the fastest, but she gets those ribbons and hangs them up in her room. She's very happy now — she has friends for the first time."
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Airfield works to support exponential growth
CPB Contractors is working with the Brisbane Airport Corporation Pty Ltd to construct the New Parallel Runway in a 50:50 joint venture with BMD Constructions.
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Should Utah bid an early farewell to SAGE testing?
By Morgan Jacobsen
Published: February 15, 2015 4:35 pm Updated: Feb. 16, 2015 6:45 p.m.
Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
Students take a practice SAGE test at Polk Elementary School in Ogden on Thursday, April 17, 2014.
I think we need to put it all on hold. I think we need to get back to what tests are used for, which is to inform instruction, not to grade a teacher and certainly not to grade a school. —Sharon Gallagher-Fishbaugh, Utah Education Association
SALT LAKE CITY — Students this month began taking Utah's year-end assessment known as SAGE. It's only the second time the test has been administered, but lawmakers are already considering reasons to eliminate the test that cost tens of millions of dollars to develop.
The discussion was sparked largely in angst against federal entanglement with Utah's education system and in doubt of the overall effectiveness of annual student assessments.
SAGE, or student assessment of growth and excellence, is a computer-adaptive exam administered once a year to students in grades 3 through 12. The test grades students on math, English language arts, writing and science.
The exam is aligned with the Common Core Standards, which raised the bar for student performance in Utah. As a result, fewer than half of students in the state cleared the new standard of proficiency in last year's assessment.
But high standards and poor student performance aren't the reasons for doing away with SAGE, according to Sen. Howard Stephenson, R-Draper, who heads the Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee.
"There will be legislation this year to create a task force to look at doing away with the SAGE test entirely," Stephenson said. "I think we need to be looking at the whole issue of whether we should have end-of-level tests or whether (to have) more authentic assessments to validate mastery throughout the year as it occurs."
Because many schools lack needed technology infrastructure to administer the computer-adaptive assessment at the end of the school year, some students must begin taking the test with several months of instruction still ahead.
And because SAGE doesn't affect an individual student's ability to advance in school, honest effort is sometimes lacking, bringing into question the assessment's accuracy, according to Rep. LaVar Christensen, R-Draper.
"So many of the kids don't like it, don't understand it, they're not engaged, so they check out early," Christensen said. "They don't approach it the same way they do with their own individual testing that affects their GPA (or) their individualized learning.
I'm concerned that there's a lot of inherent contradictions that we would be perpetuating and endorsing."
As part of Utah's waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act, the state is required to administer an end-of-level student exam. A recent report by the Utah Attorney General's Office said Utah's adoption of the Common Core Standards did not cede control of the state's educational system to the federal government, but many continue to cite SAGE and the core standards as examples of federal overreach.
"I think the federal government is trying to do good where they have no business doing anything, constitutionally," Stephenson told KSL Newsradio on Friday.
Sen. Jani Iwamoto, D-Salt Lake City, said one year isn't enough time to fully evaluate the test's effectiveness.
"I know that no testing system is perfect, but I have had positive feedback about the SAGE test," Iwamoto said. "It's helped students in my district greatly. We are setting it up to fail. We haven't given it a chance."
'Educational malpractice'
Last year, the Utah State Board of Education approved funding allocations from a license agreement that allows several states to use test items from Utah's SAGE assessment. The agreement will bring almost $10 million in revenue to the state, with more than half of the money going toward creating new test questions. The rest will go toward teacher development.
The allocation for creating new test items was approved by the Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee on Thursday, but some lawmakers see the move as a misuse of the test.
"I just don't really understand the wisdom of creating a money-generating windmill," said Rep. Norm Thurston, R-Provo. "I don't know why the state government has decided to get involved in the business of developing and selling test questions. It seems counterintuitive."
Some lawmakers say the money should instead be put entirely toward professional development for educators.
"I don't support high-stakes testing. To that end, I can't support additional development of assessment questions for that test," said Rep. Justin Fawson, R-North Ogden. "Continuing to develop a test that we
will ultimately do away with seems like our revenue could be better spent toward our educating and developing our existing educators."
Education leaders, however, say that if the state develops a sufficiently large bank of test questions, teachers, parents and students could have open access to the test items because there would be so many that it wouldn't affect student performance.
While the year-end assessment stems from a federal mandate, state law designates SAGE as the basis for school and teacher evaluations, such as the controversial school grading system or the PACE Report Card.
Because SAGE is administered only once a year, educators say it's an unfair way to assess the effectiveness teachers have in classrooms throughout the year.
"Standardized tests have absolutely been misused, and that's what we're seeing in Utah schools. It's very much an educational malpractice in my mind," said Sharon Gallagher-Fishbaugh, president of the Utah Education Association. "I think we need to put it all on hold. I think we need to get back to what tests are used for, which is to inform instruction, not to grade a teacher and certainly not to grade a school."
Judy Park, associate superintendent of public instruction, said that because year-end student assessments are established in state statute, it's well within the ability of state lawmakers to change the system. Whether that will happen during the current legislative session remains to be seen.
"Our assessment systems have always been in compliance with state law," Park said. "It's state law that has driven the assessment systems that we have. It's very defined in state law, and so if legislators are now unhappy with former legislation and they want to change that legislation, certainly that's within their purview to do."
Last year, the Utah Legislature passed a bill that allows parents to opt their children out of statewide assessments. The bill also requires that teachers and schools be held harmless for their students who choose to opt out of SAGE.
But in the wake of the new law, some school districts are requiring parents to meet face-to-face with district leaders and sign waivers "to try to convince them that they're making a mistake," said Sen. Aaron Osmond, R-South Jordan, who sponsored the legislation.
In addition, Osmond said, some schools offer "rewards and recognitions" to students who do complete SAGE that aren't given to those who don't. And even though teachers are protected under the statute, they still express fear that they'll be penalized in the evaluation process because they have students who aren't participating in the test.
"It's just a cluster," Osmond told members of the State School Board on Thursday.
Osmond said he's working on legislation this year to clarify state law and to address those challenges, but he noted the difficulty of doing so without making the Legislature a "super school board" and impacting the authority of local school districts.
Dixie Allen, a member of the State School Board, noted that when students opt out of SAGE, teachers have less data they can use to improve their instruction in key subjects.
"The bottom line is those assessments were never meant to grade schools or teachers. They're supposed to help grade students so we know where they belong and where we can help them. It's a really good test," Allen said. "Opting them out really tells the teacher, 'We don't know for sure where your kid is at.'"
Osmond said some parents have expressed support for year-end assessments developed individually by local education agencies. Several charter schools agree with the idea, but funding remains a critical barrier to developing such an assessment on a local basis, he said.
"That's the challenge," Osmond said. "Do we reinforce local control and let them assess and validate, or do we (administer a test) we know is consistent from district to district?"
Email: mjacobsen@deseretnews.com, Twitter: MorganEJacobsen
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Two Decades of Combating Terrorism: a ‘democracy advantage’?
DemDigest November 21, 2018 November 21, 2018
Nearly four times as many Sunni Islamic militants are operating around the world today as on Sept. 11, 2001, despite nearly two decades of American-led campaigns to combat Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, a new independent study concludes. That amounts to as many as 230,000 Salafi jihadist fighters in nearly 70 countries, with the largest numbers in Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to The Evolution of the Salafi-Jihadist Threat: Current and Future Challenges from the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, and Other Groups, a study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, The New York Times reports:
The report’s conclusions, drawing on multiple databases dating to 1980 to compile one of the most extensive studies of its kind, underscore the resiliency of these terrorist groups, and the policy failures by the United States and its allies in responding. The findings also highlight the continuing potency of the groups’ ideology and social-media branding in raising money and attracting new recruits as they pivot from battlefield defeats in strongholds like Iraq and Syria to direct guerrilla-style attacks there and in other hot spots.
“Some of these groups do want to target Americans overseas and at home, particularly the Islamic State and Al Qaeda,” said Seth G. Jones, the director of the CSIS Transnational Threats Project, and one of the report’s six authors, with Charles Vallee, Danika Newlee, Nicholas Harrington, Clayton Sharb and Hannah Byrne. “All this indicates that terrorism is alive and well, and that Americans should be concerned.”
“More broadly, technological developments have helped to improve terrorist operations and tactics, supporting what MIT professor Eric von Hippel called ‘democratizing innovation’,” the report adds. “Groups and networks have innovated—and will likely continue to innovate—because of the improving quality of computer software and hardware, commercial technology, better access to easy-to-use tools, and information from the Internet and other sources.”
“Perhaps the most important component of Western policy should be helping regimes that are facing terrorism improve governance and deal more effectively with economic, sectarian and other grievances,” the 71-page CSIS study concluded.
Over the past decade, higher-quality liberal democracies experienced fewer terrorist attacks than other regime types, and experienced fewer fatalities connected with these attacks, said Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy. When it comes to combatting terrorism, there is a “Democracy Advantage,” he told the International Center for Terrorism Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (above), citing a January 2018 article in the Journal of Democracy by Amichai Magen, an Israeli political scientist at Herzliya’s International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, challenging the assumption that democracy’s openness makes it vulnerable to terrorism.
Data from the Global Terrorism Database show that higher quality democracies were less prone to terrorist attacks than all other regime types, Magen wrote in “Fighting Terrorism: The Democracy Advantage.” Political openness and the protection of civil liberties allow grievances to be peacefully and publicly expressed and redressed, Magen contends, while responsiveness to citizens’ desire for physical safety also generates higher rates of life-saving investments in intelligence, infrastructure protection, first responders, social resilience, and specialized medical care. Against the background of a surge in global terrorism, such measures reduce the incidence of terrorist attacks and make them less deadly when they occur. Magen argues that “…a consolidated, high-quality democracy is increasingly proving to be the best counter-terrorism organization known to humanity,” Gershman said.
Counter-Messaging
The US identifies the ideology behind al Qaeda and the Islamic State as a source of strength for the groups and particularly as a recruiting tool, Katherine Zimmerman writes in Terrorism, Tactics, and Transformation: The West vs The Salafi-Jihadi Movement, a new report from AEI’s Critical Threats project.
“Salafi-jihadi ideology coheres a global movement by creating a unity of purpose among geographically disparate and organizationally distinct groups and individuals,” she observes. “The ideology defines a shared global outcome for its followers: the destruction of Muslim societies today through the use of force and the reification of its vision of a true Islamic society.”
Counter-terrorism programs have “sought to disrupt and discredit these messages, as well as to equip partners to do the same, through counter-radicalization and countering violent extremism programs, though the effectiveness of these government programs is not clear,” Zimmerman adds. “The programs have ranged from theater-level efforts to promote democracy or the responsiveness of governments to grievances to hyper-local programs focused on specific imams.”
Earlier this week, the Soufan Center, a New York-based research group, called the results of U.S.-led counterterrorism campaigns “mixed, at best.”
“The good news is that there has not been an attack anywhere near the scale of 9/11 in the U.S. since that day, a significant achievement,” the center said. “The bad news is that the ideology that leads someone to fly a plane into a building or drive a car into a crowded sidewalk seems to have metastasized.”
“Moreover, many of the conflicts that comprise America’s global counterterrorism campaign have a fiercely local component to them, meaning there is little that a Western country and its military can actually do to impact events on the ground for a sustained period of time,” the reports adds.
Last week, Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs released its Costs of War study, which calculated that the U.S. will have spent $5.9 trillion on global counterterrorism activities by October 2019, The Times adds.
“Americans should understand that terrorism won’t end,” the report concluded, “even though the terrorism threat may ebb and flow.”
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H.R.5834 - Preserving Our Promise to Seniors Act111th Congress (2009-2010)
Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-19] (Introduced 07/22/2010)
House - Ways and Means; Education and Labor; Rules; Transportation and Infrastructure; Veterans' Affairs
House - 10/13/2010 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions)
Preserving Our Promise to Seniors Act - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish for each calendar month a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPIEC) that indicates changes over time in consumption expenditures typical for individuals in the United States 62 years of age or older.
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to tie the CPIEC to computation of cost-of-lving increases in OASDI benefits.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to disburse a cash payment of $250 (adjusted for inflation) for each non-COLA year to certain recipients of OASDI benefits, railroad retirement benefits, veterans disability compensation or pension benefits, or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits under SSA title XVI.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prescribe special rules for the determination of wages and self-employment income above the contribution and benefit base after 2010.
Develops points of order in the House of Representatives and the Senate with respect to consideration of any legislation whose effect would be a program: (1) reducing OASDI benefits in connection with contributions to individual beneficiary accounts in the private sector; or (2) providing for investment of amounts in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund in any investment vehicle other than interest-bearing U.S. obligations or U.S.-guaranteed obligations.
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H.R.1797 - Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act113th Congress (2013-2014)
Rep. Franks, Trent [R-AZ-8] (Introduced 04/26/2013)
House - Judiciary; Oversight and Government Reform | Senate - Judiciary
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H. R. 1797
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect pain-capable unborn children, and for other purposes.
SECTION 1. Short title.
This Act may be cited as the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act”.
SEC. 2. Legislative findings and declaration of constitutional authority for enactment.
Congress finds and declares the following:
(1) Pain receptors (nociceptors) are present throughout the unborn child’s entire body and nerves link these receptors to the brain’s thalamus and subcortical plate by no later than 20 weeks after fertilization.
(2) By 8 weeks after fertilization, the unborn child reacts to touch. After 20 weeks, the unborn child reacts to stimuli that would be recognized as painful if applied to an adult human, for example, by recoiling.
(3) In the unborn child, application of such painful stimuli is associated with significant increases in stress hormones known as the stress response.
(4) Subjection to such painful stimuli is associated with long-term harmful neurodevelopmental effects, such as altered pain sensitivity and, possibly, emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities later in life.
(5) For the purposes of surgery on unborn children, fetal anesthesia is routinely administered and is associated with a decrease in stress hormones compared to their level when painful stimuli are applied without such anesthesia. In the United States, surgery of this type is being performed by 20 weeks after fertilization and earlier in specialized units affiliated with children’s hospitals.
(6) The position, asserted by some physicians, that the unborn child is incapable of experiencing pain until a point later in pregnancy than 20 weeks after fertilization predominately rests on the assumption that the ability to experience pain depends on the cerebral cortex and requires nerve connections between the thalamus and the cortex. However, recent medical research and analysis, especially since 2007, provides strong evidence for the conclusion that a functioning cortex is not necessary to experience pain.
(7) Substantial evidence indicates that children born missing the bulk of the cerebral cortex, those with hydranencephaly, nevertheless experience pain.
(8) In adult humans and in animals, stimulation or ablation of the cerebral cortex does not alter pain perception, while stimulation or ablation of the thalamus does.
(9) Substantial evidence indicates that structures used for pain processing in early development differ from those of adults, using different neural elements available at specific times during development, such as the subcortical plate, to fulfill the role of pain processing.
(10) The position, asserted by some commentators, that the unborn child remains in a coma-like sleep state that precludes the unborn child experiencing pain is inconsistent with the documented reaction of unborn children to painful stimuli and with the experience of fetal surgeons who have found it necessary to sedate the unborn child with anesthesia to prevent the unborn child from engaging in vigorous movement in reaction to invasive surgery.
(11) Consequently, there is substantial medical evidence that an unborn child is capable of experiencing pain at least by 20 weeks after fertilization, if not earlier.
(12) It is the purpose of the Congress to assert a compelling governmental interest in protecting the lives of unborn children from the stage at which substantial medical evidence indicates that they are capable of feeling pain.
(13) The compelling governmental interest in protecting the lives of unborn children from the stage at which substantial medical evidence indicates that they are capable of feeling pain is intended to be separate from and independent of the compelling governmental interest in protecting the lives of unborn children from the stage of viability, and neither governmental interest is intended to replace the other.
(14) Congress has authority to extend protection to pain-capable unborn children under the Supreme Court's Commerce Clause precedents and under the Constitution's grants of powers to Congress under the Equal Protection, Due Process, and Enforcement Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
SEC. 3. Pain-capable unborn child protection.
(a) In general.—Chapter 74 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1531 the following:
Ҥ 1532. Pain-capable unborn child protection
“(a) Unlawful conduct.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be unlawful for any person to perform an abortion or attempt to do so, unless in conformity with the requirements set forth in subsection (b).
“(b) Requirements for abortions.—
“(1) The physician performing or attempting the abortion shall first make a determination of the probable post-fertilization age of the unborn child or reasonably rely upon such a determination made by another physician. In making such a determination, the physician shall make such inquiries of the pregnant woman and perform or cause to be performed such medical examinations and tests as a reasonably prudent physician, knowledgeable about the case and the medical conditions involved, would consider necessary to make an accurate determination of post-fertilization age.
“(2) (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the abortion shall not be performed or attempted, if the probable post-fertilization age, as determined under paragraph (1), of the unborn child is 20 weeks or greater.
“(B) Subject to subparagraph (C), subparagraph (A) does not apply if—
“(i) in reasonable medical judgment, the abortion is necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, but not including psychological or emotional conditions; or
“(ii) the pregnancy is the result of rape, or the result of incest against a minor, if the rape has been reported at any time prior to the abortion to an appropriate law enforcement agency, or if the incest against a minor has been reported at any time prior to the abortion to an appropriate law enforcement agency or to a government agency legally authorized to act on reports of child abuse or neglect.
“(C) Notwithstanding the definitions of ‘abortion’ and ‘attempt an abortion’ in this section, a physician terminating or attempting to terminate a pregnancy under an exception provided by subparagraph (B) may do so only in the manner which, in reasonable medical judgment, provides the best opportunity for the unborn child to survive, unless, in reasonable medical judgment, termination of the pregnancy in that manner would pose a greater risk of—
“(i) the death of the pregnant woman; or
“(ii) the substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function, not including psychological or emotional conditions, of the pregnant woman;
than would other available methods.
“(c) Criminal penalty.—Whoever violates subsection (a) shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
“(d) Bar to prosecution.—A woman upon whom an abortion in violation of subsection (a) is performed or attempted may not be prosecuted under, or for a conspiracy to violate, subsection (a), or for an offense under section 2, 3, or 4 of this title based on such a violation.
“(e) Definitions.—In this section the following definitions apply:
“(1) ABORTION.—The term ‘abortion’ means the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance or device—
“(A) to intentionally kill the unborn child of a woman known to be pregnant; or
“(B) to intentionally terminate the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant, with an intention other than—
“(i) after viability to produce a live birth and preserve the life and health of the child born alive; or
“(ii) to remove a dead unborn child.
“(2) ATTEMPT AN ABORTION.—The term ‘attempt’, with respect to an abortion, means conduct that, under the circumstances as the actor believes them to be, constitutes a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in performing an abortion.
“(3) FERTILIZATION.—The term ‘fertilization’ means the fusion of human spermatozoon with a human ovum.
“(4) PERFORM.—The term ‘perform’, with respect to an abortion, includes induce an abortion through a medical or chemical intervention including writing a prescription for a drug or device intended to result in an abortion.
“(5) PHYSICIAN.—The term ‘physician’ means a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery, or otherwise legally authorized to perform an abortion.
“(6) POST-FERTILIZATION AGE.—The term ‘post-fertilization age’ means the age of the unborn child as calculated from the fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum.
“(7) PROBABLE POST-FERTILIZATION AGE OF THE UNBORN CHILD.—The term ‘probable post-fertilization age of the unborn child’ means what, in reasonable medical judgment, will with reasonable probability be the postfertilization age of the unborn child at the time the abortion is planned to be performed or induced.
“(8) REASONABLE MEDICAL JUDGMENT.—The term ‘reasonable medical judgment’ means a medical judgment that would be made by a reasonably prudent physician, knowledgeable about the case and the treatment possibilities with respect to the medical conditions involved.
“(9) UNBORN CHILD.—The term ‘unborn child’ means an individual organism of the species homo sapiens, beginning at fertilization, until the point of being born alive as defined in section 8(b) of title 1.
“(10) WOMAN.—The term ‘woman’ means a female human being whether or not she has reached the age of majority.”.
(b) Clerical amendment.—The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 74 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new item:
“1532. Pain-capable unborn child protection.”.
(c) Chapter heading amendments.—
(1) CHAPTER HEADING IN CHAPTER.—The chapter heading for chapter 74 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking “Partial-Birth Abortions” and inserting “Abortions”.
(2) TABLE OF CHAPTERS FOR PART I.—The item relating to chapter 74 in the table of chapters at the beginning of part I of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking “Partial-Birth Abortions” and inserting “Abortions”.
Passed the House of Representatives June 18, 2013.
Attest: karen l. haas,
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H.R.138 - Protecting Employees and Retirees in Business Bankruptcies Act of 2017115th Congress (2017-2018)
Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13] (Introduced 01/03/2017)
House - 03/15/2018 ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Norcross asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 138, a bill originally introduced by former Representative Conyers, for purposes of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection. (All Actions)
03/15/2018-4:25pm ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Norcross asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 138, a bill originally introduced by former Representative Conyers, for purposes of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
01/23/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
03/15/2018 ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Norcross asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 138, a bill originally introduced by former Representative Conyers, for purposes of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
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150 YEARS OF HBCU EXCELLENCE
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Taylor). Under the Speaker's announced
policy of January 3, 2017, the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms.
Adams) is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority
General Leave
Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may
have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to
include any extraneous material on the subject of this Special Order.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentlewoman from North Carolina?
There was no objection.
Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, for the next 60 minutes, we have a chance to
speak directly to the American people on issues of great importance to
the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congress, our constituents, and all
I acknowledge all the members of the Congressional Black Caucus who
are here, and most specifically, Congressman Richmond, who helped to
organize this Special Order hour.
As we convene tonight, we are going to recognize our HBCUs, and more
specifically, the nine HBCUs under the caption of: 150 Years of
I rise today to honor our Historically Black Colleges and
Universities, and in particular, the nine schools that are celebrating
150 years.
As a member of the CBC's Task Force on HBCUs and as co-chair of the
bipartisan HBCU Caucus, I have the distinct pleasure of honoring all of
the following schools of the HBCU 9 for this remarkable achievement:
Alabama State University; Barber-Scotia College; Fayetteville State
University; Howard University, Morehouse College; Morgan State
University; St. Augustine University; Talladega College; and from my
very own 12th District in North Carolina, Johnson C. Smith University.
The achievement of these schools across the past 150 years are beyond
remarkable and their reputation as incubators of innovation and Black
leadership is an incredible accomplishment in and of itself.
From humble beginnings, these schools have been able to persevere,
despite decades of discrimination and intentional neglect, in order to
provide African Americans a first class education.
Mr. Speaker, I stand here today as a living testament to the
necessity and the importance of HBCUs. My mother, who raised me, was
not an educated woman. She wasn't able to obtain a high school
education. She didn't attend an HBCU, for that matter. But she
understood how important education would be in my life. She did
domestic work. She cleaned other folks' houses so I wouldn't have to
because she understood how important it was for me to go to school.
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But like those visionaries who founded these schools after surviving
the horrors of slavery, my mom dreamed of a better future for me, her
daughter. When I could not fully recognize the potential in myself, it
was an HBCU, North Carolina A&T State University, that saw something in
me and made a committed investment toward my success.
North Carolina A&T State University gave a poor Black girl from the
ghetto of Newark, New Jersey, an opportunity because it believed in
opportunity and the fundamental importance of education that W.E.B. Du
Bois spoke about when he said: ``Of all the civil rights for which the
world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is
undoubtedly the most fundamental.''
A&T took me where I was. They got me to where I needed to be. They
shaped and molded me into what they knew I could become. Just as our
HBCUs have done for many of our colleagues who join me in the people's
House today, our HBCUs are responsible for educating 20 Members of this
esteemed body and one Member of the U.S. Senate.
But that is only a small part of the story that these schools are
continuing to tell. HBCUs also contribute 50 percent of African-
American professionals and public schoolteachers. They contribute 25
percent of all African-American STEM graduates, 40 percent of all
African-American engineers, 50 percent of African-American lawyers, and
80 percent of African-American judges.
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Most plainly, HBCUs are responsible for building today's African-
American middle class--this is a record to be proud of--and, of all of
these accomplishments, without the assistance and support from the
government and our private sector partners that they need and deserve.
Mr. Speaker, as we stand here tonight, as the CBC, to honor HBCUs, we
remain vigilant about the current dangers that they face. Many HBCUs
still suffer from barriers for access for students, such as
affordability, and the overall financial instability of both the
students they serve and of the institutions themselves, due to a lack
of access to funding.
As many of you know, one of my first tasks when I entered Congress
was to launch the bipartisan HBCU Caucus, with my co-chair Bradley
Byrne from Alabama. Vice chairing our caucus is Terri Sewell and Bennie
Thompson, and French Hill on the Republican side. Since its inception,
we have witnessed fortunate growth to a total of 58 Representatives and
2 Senators. We came together to create a national dialogue around HBCUs
for our Members and their staffs about the issues impacting our
schools. We also came together to draft meaningful bipartisan
In accomplishing the first aim, the willingness of Members to attend
today illustrates that a national dialogue has begun. Before we leave
here today, our Members and our staffs, who couldn't join us tonight,
will, hopefully, learn and know the issues. To achieve the third
legislative goal, it will take the collective effort of all of us who
have been entrusted to work here in the people's House.
Tomorrow, I and my colleagues on the Education and the Workforce
Committee will debate a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, a
flawed piece of legislation that, in many respects, will devastate
HBCUs and their students. Consideration of this measure illustrates how
we need that collective effort from both sides of the aisle to work
together now, more than ever.
Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues tonight, dedicated to the
achievement of HBCU students and graduates, to come together to work to
increase access and career opportunities. I hope we can all, tonight,
vow to take substantive action and recognize that the government cannot
take on this aim and this challenge alone. Let's work with our private
partners to create pathways of opportunity for our students, placing
them in fields that will make the African-American middle class larger
and stronger than ever.
Let's vow to continue listening to our HBCUs and their able
administrators, to ensure that they have the tools and the resources to
make that happen, for only then can we ensure that these valuable
institutions not only survive, but that they thrive. We have a number
of universities in North Carolina for public HBCUs and six private
HBCUs, and we are so very proud of all of our HBCUs throughout this
Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr.
Thompson), my colleague.
Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for
yielding.
Mr. Speaker, I represent the Second District of Mississippi. I would
like to pay tribute to those four Historically Black Colleges that
reside in the Second District, but before I do, I want to, for the
Record, make sure that people understand the role of Historically Black
Colleges and how they actually came to exist.
For those who think education has always been here for anyone who
would want it, I just take you back to that 150 years ago that my
colleague from North Carolina talked about. Well, that 150 years was
the beginning of people recognizing that African Americans should have
the opportunity to go to school, just like anyone else.
But, unfortunately, in this country, if you were of color, there were
no provisions for you to have a college education. So, for a lot of
people in this country, it didn't matter how bright they were, it was
the fact that there were no institutions available for you to go.
It is also important to look at my situation in my area that I
represent, Mr. Speaker. When I went to college, I had never met an
African-American doctor, lawyer, dentist, or anything because they
didn't exist. When I got to college, my college physician was an
African American, but I went to Tougaloo College. He was a graduate of
Tougaloo, and he had to go to medical school out of State because no
medical school would admit him. But the most important thing I am
saying is that for a lot of professionals who wanted to do good in
their communities, they had to go out of State, so Historically Black
Colleges were created.
I met Martin Luther King, Jr., on the campus of Tougaloo College when
I was a student. Tougaloo College and Rust College, in another
district, were the only two institutions of higher learning that would
allow Martin Luther King, Jr., to speak on their campus, and they both
were Historically Black Colleges. So, if for no other reason,
Historically Black Colleges have helped level the playing field. They
have exposed a number of African-American students to a broader view in
terms of life and what happens, but they were also put in situations,
Mr. Speaker, and an environment that they could relate to.
So, Tougaloo College, I salute you.
Jackson State University is the largest Historically Black College in
the State of Mississippi, well renowned. They have over 10,000 students
on its campus. It is the only State-supported university in the capital
city. So we pay special tribute to Jackson State University. They are
noted for a number of graduates, too many to name. They continue to
excel in every facet of academia.
Alcorn State University, the oldest African-American land grant
college in America, turns out a number of students who have gone on to
excel not just in agriculture, but in medicine, law, and education.
Mississippi Valley State University, located in Itta Bena,
Mississippi, was created to avoid integration. If you look at the
charter for Mississippi Valley State University, it was created so
Negroes could go to school in the Mississippi Delta and not be forced
to integrate into the White colleges. So, for whatever reason,
Mississippi Valley State University was created, and it thrives to this
Mr. Speaker, the most important thing I would like to say is that
when I was a student at Jackson State University, I participated in a
lawsuit that talked about equity in funding for Historically Black
Colleges. It took us 27 years of litigation--Ayers v. Mississippi
Institutions of Higher Learning--to prove that the Black schools were
not getting the same resources as the White schools. We won the lawsuit
and we are now talking about equity in those institutions.
As important is not just having the institutions, but those who are
State-supported, to have the proper resources so their students can
become and be
the best that they can be. It is fitting and proper that we celebrate
not just the nine HBCUs, but let's talk about all of them and the merit
and worth that they have given to this country.
Mr. Speaker, I pay special tribute--and I think there are about 103
or 104 Historically Black Colleges--106. I stand corrected. So, again,
they are doing a wonderful job, but it is the purpose for which they
Some people will try to convince that there is no issue with race in
America today, and I beg to differ that if it were not for those
Historically Black Colleges, a lot of individuals would not be where
they are today. If you talk to those 20 Members of the United States
House of Representatives who are graduates of Historically Black
Colleges, they will talk to you and tell you about the fabric and
representation that going to those schools provided to them.
I am happy to say that not only is my daughter a graduate of two
HBCUs, but my granddaughter is also attending Xavier University of
Louisiana in New Orleans. She really didn't have a choice in the
matter, but she thought she did; but at the end of the day, she is a
second-year student there, and I am happy to say that she wouldn't have
it any other way. So that HBCU education is already sinking in.
Whatever she chooses to do, I am convinced that her perspective will be
far broader because of her attendance at Xavier University of
Louisiana.
Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Mississippi for
not only that valuable information, but for the work that he has done
over the years and for making an HBCU choice. I did the same thing for
my daughter. I said: You go wherever you want, my money is going to an
HBCU.
But nothing could be finer than to be at an HBCU. It really does so
much to get our students to where they need to be, especially those who
come the way I did: not fully prepared.
Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Bishop), from
the Second District.
Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for
This is certainly a very, very appropriate tribute. As a product of
Morehouse College, I know firsthand the important contribution HBCUs
have made in educating, training, and empowering outstanding leaders.
Morehouse College is celebrating its sesquicentennial this year.
Throughout its 150-year history, Morehouse College has made a
significant mark on our State, our Nation, and the world. Here, many
notable men gained the knowledge and the training that enabled them to
become some of the greatest influences of our time, including Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.; noted theologian, Dr. Howard Thurman; civil
rights leader, Julian Bond; filmmaker Shelton ``Spike'' Lee; Olympic
gold medalist Edwin Moses; CEO of the Silicon Valley Community
Foundation, Emmett Carson; and many more.
Morehouse principles often instill a desire for public service to
benefit mankind. In the United States Congress, Representative Cedric
Richmond, the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus; as well as
many staff members and former Members of Congress, hold degrees from
Morehouse College.
U.S. Presidents have relied on alumni, such as former Secretary of
Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson; former Secretary of Health and Human
Services, Dr. Louis Sullivan; former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. David
Satcher; and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, James
Nabrit.
Around the country, State and local governments have been led by
alumni, such as Maynard Holbrook Jackson, the first African-American
mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.
I have the honor and privilege of representing these two HBCUs in the
Second Congressional District of Georgia: Albany State University and
Fort Valley State University.
Albany State University, with its rich history, dating back to the
trials and the triumphs faced by Joseph Winthrop Holley. Albany State
University was first founded as the Albany Bible and Manual Institute
in 1903. The school gained State funding in 1917, joined the University
of Georgia system in 1932, began offering baccalaureate degrees in
1943, and came back strong after severe floods in 1996 as Albany State
University, offering graduate programs and advanced degrees.
Today, the university has a total economic impact of $143 million and
supports 1,493 jobs in the Albany area. Its educational contributions
are significant. Albany State is the third in the Nation for bachelor's
degrees in education for African Americans. It offers 35 degree
programs in education, nursing, criminal justice, business
administration, public administration; and Albany State University has
produced doctors, lawyers, NASA engineers, military officers, college
university presidents, teachers, preachers, mayors, legislators,
business people, millionaires, and Olympic medalists.
The Fort Valley State University, which I have the honor of
representing, was founded 120 years ago. Fort Valley is Georgia's only
1890 land-grant institution charged with educating and empowering its
students and its surrounding community.
As many of you are aware, 1890 institutions, including Fort Valley
State University, were created to ensure access to higher education in
the agricultural and natural resource sciences to serve the underserved
and reach the unreached.
Fort Valley has always been known to not only train and graduate
tomorrow's talented leaders but to ensure that these leaders are as
diverse as the communities they serve in their skill sets, their
experiences, and their perspectives. Fort Valley State University has
excelled at this job. It generates an economic impact of $109 million
for its local and regional economy and generates 1,125 jobs.
In addition to the educational, social, and community benefits a Fort
Valley education provides, it is estimated that Fort Valley State
University increases its graduates' lifetime earnings by 61 percent.
As you can see, Historically Black Colleges and Universities are a
vital part of the fabric of our educational system. I congratulate them
for their contributions to our Nation, and I look forward to their
continued tutelage for generations of future leaders for this country
and the world.
Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr.
Bishop), the Morehouse man. I thank him very much for his contributions
tonight and for all he has done.
Mr. Speaker, may I ask how much time I have left.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has 39
minutes remaining.
Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Ohio's Third
District (Mrs. Beatty).
Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Speaker, it is, indeed, my honor to join my
colleagues tonight to recognize and celebrate 150 years of excellence
in education at HBCUs. I thank the congresswoman from North Carolina's
12th Congressional District (Ms. Adams) for leading the charge tonight.
And to our CBC chairman, Congressman Cedric Richmond, I thank him for
allowing us to come forward and not only tell our stories about the 150
years, but to demonstrate to all of those, Mr. Speaker, who are
watching tonight, that we set an example for others to follow.
The nine HBCUs celebrating their 150th anniversaries this year have
been educating and transforming Black students across this Nation into
leaders. For 150 years, HBCUs have weathered the violence of Jim Crow
laws and funding cuts to continue to be the light in many of our
overlooked communities.
While my alma mater, Central State University, hasn't been here for
150 years, it was established in 1887. And in 2014, it received the
designation as a land-grant university, the last of the HBCUs to become
a land-grant.
For 130 years, Central State University has been that light, that
training ground for African-American change makers--African-American
change makers in a nation like you see in this picture. It was just a
few months ago I traveled back for my homecoming to celebrate with
friends and classmates, 130 years. It is 130 years of a university that
has produced classmates like Nancy Wilson, Leontyne Price, Orlando
Brown, Arsenio Hall, Jason Thomas, a United States Marine who was there
during the aftermath of 9/11 and rescued people. Also, we have people
Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-
American students who, as we all remember, in 1957, were the first
Black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High
I am very thankful for 40-plus years of friendships with individuals
like Zenobia Leavell. And when I think of Linda Brown, and as we call
her ``Lulu,'' for organizing this picture, because we stand tall, and
we represent all sectors of this community.
Central State provided an education for this little girl from Dayton,
Ohio, when my mother and father sat down and they were able to put
their dollars and cents together to not only send me, but to send every
one of my siblings to an HBCU university. They said: We want you to go
there, but we want you to come back. Little did they know that I would
stand in the Halls of Congress and advocate for HBCU universities.
Attending Central State University changed my life.
It is important for you to know, when we talk about HBCUs, I know it
all too well. Just yesterday, I sat at our kitchen table with my
grandbabies and their parents and my husband, and our conversation--I
was so proud because, you see, it was Howard University, Morehouse
College, and Spelman College that produced us. When you think about my
husband, an attorney, a graduate of Howard University; when you think
about Otto III, an attorney and entrepreneur and graduate of Morehouse
College; when you think of Laurel Beatty Blunt, a common pleas court
judge and a graduate of Spelman College; I am so proud that when I sat
there and I looked at my grandbabies, Leah and Spencer, and as Leah
beamed because she was wearing a T-shirt that said: I am Spelman-bound,
Grammy; and then there is Spencer, who will be going to Morehouse, that
is because we stand on the shoulders of so many.
Why do we come tonight? We come to tell you that 40 percent of all
Black Members of Congress are graduates of HBCUs; 12.5 percent of all
Black CEOs, HBCUs; half of all the Black professors at non-HBCUs; 50
percent of all Black lawyers, graduates of HBCUs; and 80 percent of all
Black judges, graduates of HBCUs.
When I think about today, with Trump's administration and with their
proposals to cut Pell grants, when I think about the threats to hold
construction grants, when I think about Republicans' assault on
students in the Republican tax scam hike, it is a sad day in America.
We come today because we want our voices to be heard, because we
know, in the words of one of our own, Barbara Jordan: ``Education
remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. That is why
schools charged with educating African Americans have, perhaps, the
deepest challenge of all.''
Mr. Speaker, let me end by saying two things in the words of Nelson
Mandela, and I think it sums it all up: ``Education is the most
powerful weapon you can have to change the world.''
That is why I stand here with my colleagues, standing up for HBCUs,
standing up that this administration will understand that we expect--
no, we demand to get the appropriate funding so our children, our
grandchildren, and generations yet unborn will have the same
opportunities that I have had and so many more, because when HBCUs
succeed, America succeeds.
Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Ohio (Mrs.
Beatty) for her participation and for all of the work that she
continues to do, and we are so very proud of her acknowledgment tonight
of our HBCUs.
Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from the 14th District in
Michigan (Mrs. Lawrence).
Mrs. LAWRENCE. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the congresswoman from
the great State of North Carolina (Ms. Adams) for her endless passion
for education of the next generation and her strong support of our
HBCUs. I also want to acknowledge our chairman, Cedric Richmond, our
CBC chairman.
Mr. Speaker, I stand here today to recognize something truly
incredible. This year, nine Historically Black Colleges and
Universities are celebrating their 150th anniversaries, 150 years of
excellence, of endurance, and of new opportunity, collective strengths,
and a core belief in the value of education.
Mr. Speaker, we so often talk about the American Dream, and we talk
about that ladder of success that any American can have if they work
hard and get an education. We all know that that first rung of that
ladder is clearly education, and if we do not keep our promise in
America to educate, we are failing in our American commitment to
excellence in developing all young people to obtain their greatness.
As we look upon these accomplishments of 150 years, we are reminded
how important and how vital these schools have been to the advancement
of African Americans.
Mr. Speaker, by establishing these amazing places or institutions of
learning, against all odds, and by turning them into world-class
institutions, African-American leaders have made it clear that we hold
the belief in education just as dearly as anyone else in America.
However, to ensure that some day we can celebrate these amazing
institutions' 200th and 300th anniversaries, it is critical that we, as
a country, resist the shameful attacks on our education system.
Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, the current tax plan being negotiated by
my Republican colleagues threatens our educational system like never
before. It pains me to stand here tonight congratulating 150 years of
academic excellence while a small group of Republicans are working
behind closed doors to strip educational opportunities for millions of
I do not believe that this is what the constituents voted for. U.S.
citizens did not vote for higher student loan payments, teachers
digging deeper in their pockets to supply the basic needs for their
students, and a punishing tax on university endowments.
This is truly a tax scam. But perhaps the most senseless attacks on
this success are coming from the White House. Earlier this year, I was
horrified to see the President refer to the HBCUs as
``unconstitutional'' simply because they were the answer to a
fundamentally unequal education system.
And let me be clear, HBCUs were created because there were no other
choices. However, this feeling of being horrified or disappointed, I
had frequently this year. While I am horrified, unfortunately, it is no
longer a surprise. After all, this is a President who refused to
denounce the blatant racism in Charlottesville and whose Education
Secretary foolishly called HBCUs the ``pioneers of school choice.''
Clearly she doesn't know the history because there was no choice, Mr.
Speaker.
While this can be unfortunate, disappointing, and even sickening,
HBCUs were born out of adversity, and I see no reason to cave to the
pressure now. We need to protect our HBCUs for future generations, for
tomorrow's leaders because, as we continue to see, equality is a fight.
Equality is a process.
I know a day will come, and I pray that I will be able to see with my
own eyes, that equality in education and equality in this country is a
reality. But until then, we must acknowledge today's successes, the
successes of these amazing places, institutions of learning, and
continue to fight for tomorrow's dreams of our next generation.
Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Michigan for her
contribution tonight and for her support of Historically Black Colleges
and Universities.
Mr. Speaker, how much time do I have remaining?
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has
24\1/2\ minutes remaining.
Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from the Third
District of Virginia (Mr. Scott), who is the ranking member on the
Education and the Workforce Committee.
Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for
yielding. I also want to thank her for her leadership in organizing
this Special Order and for her leadership of the Historically Black
Colleges and Universities Caucus.
HBCUs provide a great value to America, and I am honored to represent
a congressional district that is home to two HBCUs: Hampton University,
which celebrates its 150th anniversary next year, and Norfolk State
Since their inception, HBCUs have been the cornerstone of
education for the African-American community. This was true 150 years
ago and remains true today. HBCUs account for no more than 3 percent of
all colleges and universities, yet they enroll almost 10 percent of all
African-American undergraduate students and produce about 15 percent of
all bachelor's degrees earned by African Americans.
They also produce 25 percent of African-American STEM graduates and
33 percent of African-American science and engineering Ph.D.'s.
Approximately half of all African-American teachers graduated from
HBCUs. Many of them choose to teach in high-minority, low-income school
districts where they serve as role models for their communities.
As ranking member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, I
know the prominent role that HBCUs play in our higher education
landscape. I believe that strengthening and supporting them must be a
key priority as Congress looks ahead to taking action on the
reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. However, it does not
appear that the majority shares that belief.
The Committee on Education and the Workforce meets tomorrow morning
at 10 to mark up H.R. 4508, a partisan rewrite of the Higher Education
Act that was drafted in secret, introduced less than 2 weeks ago, and
is now being considered in committee without a single hearing on the
Mr. Speaker, HBCUs, those who lead them, those who support them, and
those who hope their children might one day attend them, should be
gravely concerned with H.R. 4508. This is a bad deal for students, a
bad deal for schools, and a bad deal for working families.
This bill would decimate the Federal student aid for low-income
students. It would significantly reduce available aid for grants--that
is money that students don't have to pay back, forcing them to borrow
more money. It leaves the Pell Grant program as the only remaining
grant aid, yet it fails to increase Pell dollars, fails to increase the
Pell maximum award to account for inflation, and it expands eligibility
to low-quality programs without any Federal oversight.
This bill changes the available terms for Federal student loans,
making them far less generous than current law, and eliminates the
Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, a program that attracts the
best and the brightest to forgo higher salaries in exchange for public
H.R. 4508 caps loan amounts for graduate students and families,
pushing them into higher interest, private markets, and even bars
graduate students from participating in Federal work study.
The Republican bill fails to reauthorize the Perkins Loan Program, a
campus-based aid program that allows low-income students to access low-
cost loans, and eliminates other forms of campus-based aid.
Mr. Speaker, there is no way around it. This is a bad bill. H.R. 4508
will force students to borrow more money, pay more to borrow more, and
pay more when they pay that money back. It makes college more expensive
at every step of the process, putting college and graduate degrees
further out of reach for low-income and minority students. Those are
groups that are already underrepresented in our higher education system
and served at higher rates by HBCUs and other minority-serving
Further, the bill makes no additional investment in minority-serving
institutions and other underresourced institutions, institutions that
tend to serve communities of color, and eliminates grant programs that
support minority students who want to pursue postgraduate degrees. The
bill would even incentivize institutions to forgo enrollment of high-
risk students.
Lastly, the bill prioritizes low- or no-quality workforce training
over more advanced credentialing, potentially exacerbating what is on
track to become a two-tiered system of higher education: college and
graduate school for the wealthy, and direct-to-workforce training for
the poor.
While not every student seeks to pursue a 4-year degree or even a
graduate degree, every student must have that option and opportunity to
make that choice. According to the United Negro College Fund: ``We
remain deeply concerned that H.R. 4508 falls short of enabling college
success for minority and low-income students who can help our country
compete and win the global economy. On balance, the PROSPER Act would
cause minority and low-income students to pay more to earn their
college degrees at a time when they should be paying less. In addition,
we are concerned that one theme of the bill is to highlight short-term
training options, when a 4-year college degree has a substantially
greater payoff, in general, with higher lifetime earnings and lower
unemployment--and this payoff may be the greatest for minority and low-
income students. Further, a significant shortcoming of the bill is it
fails to make any new investment in HBCUs which pull above their weight
in producing African-American college graduates and, worse, it cuts the
current Federal investment in these institutions.''
Mr. Speaker, we want to ask what problem H.R. 4508 is trying to
solve. Does the majority think there is too much money to send poor and
minority students to college? Does the majority think that there are
too many poor students and minority students accessing and completing
their college education? Does the majority think that inequality in
higher education is solved?
Mr. Speaker, as we rise to commemorate 150 years of HBCU excellence,
let us remember that we still have a fight to fight. Let us reject H.R.
4508 and fight for a Higher Education Act that not only honors HBCU
excellence, but also builds on it through investing in students and
working families.
Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina for
organizing this Special Order.
Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Virginia for his
comments and for his work in education.
Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from the Second District of
Pennsylvania (Mr. Evans).
Mr. EVANS. Mr. Speaker, I, too, would like to thank my good colleague
from the great State of North Carolina for her leadership on this very
important issue.
I am proud to stand here with so many of my friends and colleagues
tonight for a topic near and dear to my heart: the continued viability
and success and importance of HBCUs.
Our HBCUs play an incredible critical role in the stability and
strength in our Nation. I truly believe, in order to build stronger
neighborhoods, better schools, and other community-sustainable
institutions, we must go block by block, we must celebrate the
diversity, and we must salute the rich history of the HBCUs and the
phenomenal contributions that they have made and will continue to make
to our communities nationwide.
I am so proud to say that, for years, our HBCUs have produced amazing
leaders who not only contribute to their respective fields, but who
also pride themselves on making sure the next generation of African
Americans succeed.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is the proud home of two exceptional
HBCUs: Cheyney University and Lincoln University. They share the
distinction of being the first two HBCUs founded in America, a point of
great pride to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Many of my fellow
members of the CBC have HBCUs in their States, but they started in
Pennsylvania.
Many students and residents in the Second Congressional District call
Lincoln and Cheyney their alma mater. Cheyney was founded on February
25, 1837, three decades before the Emancipation Proclamation. This
year, Cheyney is celebrating its 180th anniversary.
Cheyney is located outside of Pennsylvania's Second Congressional
District and is the oldest HBCU in the country. For years, Cheyney was
known as a teachers college and has played an incredibly viable role
within the Commonwealth, ensuring the elementary, secondary, middle
school, and high school teachers at schools in the city of Philadelphia
and across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are prepared and have the
necessary skills in order to train our students for success in the
classroom and beyond.
That brings us to Lincoln University. Lincoln was established as our
Nation's
first degree-granting HBCU. Lincoln was designated as the first
institution in the world to provide higher education in the arts and
sciences for young African-American males and is famous for two of the
lions of Black American history: Langston Hughes, and the Supreme Court
Justice Thurgood Marshall. Today, Lincoln is one of the largest
employers in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Our HBCUs nationwide are critical to the strength and stability of
our Nation. Just like our cities, our schools compete for people. We
have the power to continue to define the rich history and the legacies
I am proud to stand here today with our friends and colleagues to
send a strong message that it is on us. It is our job to ensure that we
protect these institutions that are true treasures and recognize their
significant societal contributions by continuing to ensure their
I salute the Lincoln Lions and the Cheyney Wolves. Both of these
institutions are very proud, and I am proud that they are institutions
in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for
not only his support, but for his contributions to our Historically
Black Colleges and Universities.
Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from the Sixth District of
South Carolina (Mr. Clyburn), our final speaker, the Democratic
Assistant Leader.
Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, I stand before this House tonight as the
proud Representative of the congressional district that has seven of
the eight HBCUs in South Carolina within its borders: Allen and
Benedict in Columbia; Claflin and South Carolina State in Orangeburg;
Morris in Sumter; Voorhees, Denmark Tech in Denmark, South Carolina;
and Clinton College in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
I listened intently as some of the speakers spoke before me, and I
would like to give just a brief overview of the history of HBCUs.
You have heard from the previous speaker that the first HBCU was
Cheyney State in 1837. Well, it is kind of interesting. That school was
created a few decades before the Emancipation Proclamation, so it means
that before slavery was abolished, HBCUs existed.
Now, one of the interesting things that took place during the Civil
War was the creation of something called the Morrill Act. The gentleman
from Vermont, Justin Morrill, introduced legislation to train people
not just in agriculture, but in military training.
That law was signed by the President, President Abraham Lincoln, July
2, 1862.
Now, the interesting thing is that when the law was enacted, the
Southern States refused to implement that law on behalf of people of
color. They would not allow any person of color to attend those
schools. Consequently, Justin Morrill went back before the Congress
and, in 1880, created a second Morrill Act, this time mandating that
these schools be established in the former slave States for people of
color.
Now, I bring that up tonight because one of the speakers talked about
President Trump signing a bill earlier this year and issuing what we
call a signing statement. In his statement, he said that he is going to
sign the bill, though he questioned the constitutionality of that
section of the bill that funded Historically Black Colleges and
Universities.
Just think about this: the history of this country was to deny
educational opportunities to people of color, and now we have a
President of the United States today saying that those schools that
were established for the express purpose of educating those citizens,
that legislation is unconstitutional.
If nothing else we have heard from this President bothers you, that
one thing should bother every person in the United States of America.
Now, I have talked about those schools that I am proud to represent.
I met with the President. Unfortunately, I heard stuff all over the
weekend about the Congressional Black Caucus refusing to meet with
President Trump. That is not true. The leadership of the Congressional
Black Caucus did, in fact, meet with him, and though I don't hold a
leadership position, they invited me to go along.
So I sat with the President in the Oval Office, and I told the
President something that I want to share with the listeners tonight
about HBCUs.
I told the President the story of a young man whom a lot of people
have heard of, Ronald McNair. Ronald McNair was an astronaut who lost
his life in the blowup of the Challenger.
Ronald McNair came from the little town of Lake City, South Carolina,
in the Sixth Congressional District that I proudly represent, and I got
to know him and his family very well.
We were talking one day as he was getting ready to retire from
astronaut school. In fact, that accident of the Challenger was to be
his last flight. He was going to retire. He was coming home to be a
professor at the University of South Carolina, also in my district. He
said to me that when he graduated from high school in Lake City and
went off to North Carolina A&T, he had to take remedial courses.
Now, everybody talked about Ron McNair. I shared this with the
President. I told him, I said: Everybody talked about him having a
physics degree from MIT. Nobody talks about the fact that he went to
North Carolina A&T. And he said to me: Had it not been for North
Carolina A&T, he never would have made it. Why? Because it was on that
small campus he was nurtured. When they saw in him that he had the
ability to be a great physicist, the ability to be a great astronaut,
what he did not have was the background, the educational preparation
that was not provided for him in that little rural town that he grew up
in, and the same thing is taking place today.
There are communities in my congressional district where there are
gifted young people, but they come from what we call Gullah Geechee
communities from the seacoast, those islands off the seacoast where
they are smart, highly intelligent, but they know only the culture that
they grew up in. So they may not know how to make a subject and verb
agree properly, and, therefore, when they go off to college, would have
to take a remedial course in order to get those subjects and verbs to
agree. But they are very bright, very smart students, and they have
been intentionally undereducated by the States that many of them come
out of.
I know, for more than 20 years, the Legislature in South Carolina did
not fund these schools properly, and we went before the State supreme
court. That case lasted for over 20 years, and recently the Supreme
Court decided to take the school districts from under that order that
it issued some time ago.
So these communities have been intentionally underfunded for their
public schools, and these students graduate high school, go off to
college, and they need the nurturing that they get from an HBCU.
So if anybody tells you that HBCUs are unconstitutional, that ought
to tell you all you need to know to stay away from that person.
I want to close by talking up my alma mater, South Carolina State
University. There are a lot of good things to consider about South
Carolina State, but one is this, and I want all of you to go and check
the record.
You will find, if you check all the schools in the country that have
produced general officers in the military, general officers of color,
you will find that South Carolina State University, and South Carolina
State College before it, has produced more African-American general
officers than any other school in the country, and that includes the
service academies.
I am very proud of what HBCUs have done, I am very proud of that HBCU
that I attended, and I am very proud that Sister Alma Adams, who co-
chairs the HBCU Caucus, has allowed me to speak about it this evening.
Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman from South
Carolina, and I can certainly associate myself with those remarks that
you spoke about with Ron McNair. I, too, enrolled at North Carolina A&T
not fully prepared, but they made a committed investment in me, and I
was able to go on and receive my Ph.D. from the Ohio State University
only because of North Carolina A&T, an HBCU which has done so much for
all of our students.
I want to acknowledge Elizabeth City State University; Fayetteville
State University; North Carolina A&T, my
alma mater twice; North Carolina Central University; Winston-Salem
State University; Barber-Scotia College; Bennett College; Johnson C.
Smith University, in my 12th district; Livingstone College; St.
Augustine's University; and Shaw University. All of these colleges
reside in North Carolina, and we are so very proud of the work that
they are doing.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has 1
minute remaining.
Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, let me just thank all of my colleagues for
coming out tonight and to say that we are certainly very proud of our
schools, and we celebrate them tonight and every day. We acknowledge
the work that they have done. We acknowledge all of the corporate folks
who have pledged to work with our HBCUs, our tech companies in
connection with Howard University, and all of the other tech
corporations that have stepped forward to help us and to help our
schools and to continue to enable the young people who so ably deserve
a college education are able to do that.
Mr. Speaker, I want to thank all of my colleagues who came tonight
and those who will join us as we continue to work on behalf of
Historically Black Colleges and Universities so that they not only
continue to survive, but that they thrive.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to
celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Historically Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCUs). Nine HBCUs--Alabama State University, Barber-
Scotia College, Fayetteville State University, Howard University,
Johnson C. Smith University, Morehouse College, Morgan State
University, St. Augustine's University, and Talladega College,
celebrate 150 years of excellence this year.
HBCUs are pillars of the black community and important contributors
to the strength of our nation. 40 percent of the Congressional Black
Caucus (CBC) are graduates from one or more HBCUs and with their
representation they continue to remind us of the importance of fighting
for these institutions. HBCUs not only provide a college education for
300,000 students every year, but they are economic powerhouses. Since
2017 HBCUs have generated an annual economic impact of $14.8 billion
annually--nearly $5 billion higher than in 2006.
I've seen the substantial impact of HBCUs in my district by the
example Paul Quinn College has set. Paul Quinn College plays a major
role in the economic success of its graduates by enhancing their
education, training and leadership skills. A college degree opens the
door to economic prosperity through greater employment and earnings
potential. In fact, Paul Quinn College's class of 2014 can expect total
earnings of $53 million over their lifetimes--that's 77 percent more
than they could expect to earn without their college credentials.
Paul Quinn College not only contributes to the economic success of
its students, but it also provides a foundation for students to grow.
Like many HBCUs, Paul Quinn College is committed to the holistic
development of their students. Professors not only focus on academic
excellence, but they also invest in the professional and individual
development of their students.
HBCUs will always be a prominent force in our nation. As a member of
the Congressional Black Caucus I recognize the importance of its
funding and legacy in our country. Please join me in recognizing the
legacy of HBCUs across our country.
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2. H.R.3853 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase under the Medicaid program the minimum monthly personal needs allowance for institutionalized individuals and couples, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Wexton, Jennifer [D-VA-10] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:
3. H.R.3852 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To provide oversight of the border zone in which Federal agents may conduct vehicle checkpoints and stops and enter private land without a warrant, and to make technical corrections. Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Judiciary, Homeland Security Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
4. H.R.3851 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To extend funding for Brand USA through fiscal year 2027, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce, Homeland Security Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
5. H.R.3850 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exempt assistance provided by political parties to the campaigns of candidates who are affiliated with such parties for secure information communications technology or cybersecurity products or services from the limitations on the amount of coordinated expenditures parties may make in connection with the campaigns of such candidates, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - House Administration Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. (All Actions) Tracker:
6. H.R.3849 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To address maternity care shortages and promote optimal maternity outcomes by expanding educational opportunities for midwives, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (7) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:
7. H.R.3848 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To require the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue rules requiring private funds to publicly disclose certain information, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (8) Committees: House - Ways and Means, Financial Services, Judiciary, Education and Labor Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, the Judiciary, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within... (All Actions) Tracker:
8. H.R.3847 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 117 West Poythress Street in Hopewell, Virginia, as the "Reverend Curtis West Harris Post Office Building". Sponsor: Rep. McEachin, A. Donald [D-VA-4] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (10) Committees: House - Oversight and Reform Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. (All Actions) Tracker:
9. H.R.3846 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To enhance protections of Native American tangible cultural heritage, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (10) Committees: House - Natural Resources, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of... (All Actions) Tracker:
10. H.R.3845 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To authorize a grant program that strengthens the capacity of community development financial institutions through alignment with national service participants. Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (10) Committees: House - Education and Labor Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. (All Actions) Tracker:
11. H.R.3844 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require all persons exercising substantial operational control over a concentrated animal feeding operation to jointly obtain a permit for certain discharges, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. (All Actions) Tracker:
12. H.R.3843 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To promote international efforts in combating corruption, kleptocracy, and illicit finance by foreign officials and other foreign persons, including through a new anti-corruption action fund, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-9] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (11) Committees: House - Foreign Affairs, Financial Services Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
13. H.R.3842 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to require a State child health plan to include certain lead screening coverage and to codify such requirement under the Medicaid program. Sponsor: Rep. Katko, John [R-NY-24] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (6) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:
14. H.R.3841 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To provide for the imposition of sanctions against 24 senior officials of the Border Service and Federal Security Service of Russia until the release of certain seized Ukrainian ships and crewmembers, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Foreign Affairs, Judiciary Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (All Actions) Tracker:
15. H.R.3840 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To establish a consortia of universities to advise the Secretary of Defense on cybersecurity matters, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-SD-At Large] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Armed Services Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. (All Actions) Tracker:
16. H.R.3839 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To improve commercialization activities in the SBIR and STTR programs, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Houlahan, Chrissy [D-PA-6] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Small Business, Science, Space, and Technology, Judiciary Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the... (All Actions) Tracker:
17. H.R.3838 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To direct the Secretary of Labor to recognize employers with a commitment to helping employees balance workplace responsibilities and family obligations. Sponsor: Rep. Haaland, Debra A. [D-NM-1] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (11) Committees: House - Education and Labor Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. (All Actions) Tracker:
18. H.R.3837 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To establish the National Fab Lab Network, a Federally chartered organization consisting of a national network of local digital fabrication facilities providing universal access to advanced manufacturing tools for workforce development, STEM education, developing inventions, creating businesses, producing personalized products, mitigating risks, and other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions) Tracker:
19. H.R.3836 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend section 332 of the Communications Act of 1934 to include public safety requirements in terms and conditions States may require of mobile services. Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-18] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (15) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:
20. H.R.3835 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of cancer care planning and coordination under the Medicare program. Sponsor: Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-11] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
21. H.R.3834 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide political advertising vouchers and payments to defray the costs of postage for candidates in general elections to the Senate or House of Representatives who agree to restrictions on the types of contributions such candidates raise and the types of expenditures such candidates make, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Boyle, Brendan F. [D-PA-2] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - House Administration, Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
22. H.R.3833 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for the automatic recertification of income for income-driven repayment plans, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Education and Labor, Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
23. H.R.3832 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand tax-free distributions from individual retirement accounts to include rollovers for charitable life-income plans for charitable purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:
24. H.R.3831 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To repeal the Act entitled "An Act to confer jurisdiction on the State of North Dakota over offenses committed by or against Indians on the Devils Lake Indian Reservation". Sponsor: Rep. Armstrong, Kelly [R-ND-At Large] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Natural Resources Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. (All Actions) Tracker:
25. H.R.3830 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To provide taxpayers with an improved understanding of Government programs through the disclosure of cost, performance, and areas of duplication among them, leverage existing data to achieve a functional Federal program inventory, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Oversight and Reform Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. (All Actions) Tracker:
26. H.R.3829 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To require a certain percentage of natural gas and crude oil exports be transported on United States-built and United States-flag vessels, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-3] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (17) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce, Foreign Affairs Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
27. H.R.3828 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To require the Secretary of Energy to establish a program for the research, development, and demonstration of commercially viable technologies for the capture of carbon dioxide produced during the generation of natural gas-generated power. Sponsor: Rep. Crenshaw, Dan [R-TX-2] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (6) Committees: House - Science, Space, and Technology Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. (All Actions) Tracker:
28. H.R.3827 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To promote and support collaboration between Hispanic-serving institutions and Hispanic-serving school districts, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Castro, Joaquin [D-TX-20] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (37) Committees: House - Education and Labor Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. (All Actions) Tracker:
29. H.R.3826 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from transmitting certain information to the Department of Justice for use by the national instant criminal background check system. Sponsor: Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Veterans' Affairs Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:
30. H.R.3825 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 401 Main Street in Brawley, California, as the "Helen Fabela Chávez Memorial Post Office Building". Sponsor: Rep. Vargas, Juan [D-CA-51] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (23) Committees: House - Oversight and Reform Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. (All Actions) Tracker:
31. H.R.3824 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To establish the Cahokia Mounds Mississippian Culture National Historical Park in Collinsville, Illinois, Monroe, Madison, and St. Clair Counties, Illinois, and St. Louis City County, Missouri, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Bost, Mike [R-IL-12] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Natural Resources Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. (All Actions) Tracker:
32. H.R.3823 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To ensure that health professions opportunity demonstration projects train project participants to earn a recognized postsecondary credential, and to clarify that community colleges are eligible for grants to conduct such a demonstration project. Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-35] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:
33. H.R.3822 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to require metropolitan planning organizations to consider greenhouse gas emissions in long-range transportation plans and transportation improvement programs, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-35] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (8) Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. (All Actions) Tracker:
34. H.R.3821 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to make improvements to the regulation of consumer reporting agencies and protect consumers, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. McHenry, Patrick T. [R-NC-10] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Financial Services Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. (All Actions) Tracker:
35. H.R.3820 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 to direct the Office of National Drug Control Policy to publish a list of drug control grant programs, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Rouda, Harley [D-CA-48] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (8) Committees: House - Oversight and Reform, Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
36. H.R.3819 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the continued implementation of the Climate and Health program by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sponsor: Rep. Underwood, Lauren [D-IL-14] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:
37. H.R.3818 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To require the Secretary of Agriculture to allow infant food combinations and dinners as WIC-eligible foods. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Education and Labor Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. (All Actions) Tracker:
38. H.R.3817 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To cancel the registration of all uses of the pesticide paraquat, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Agriculture, Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
39. H.R.3816 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the forfeiture of Federal retirement benefits for Federal employees convicted of certain crimes relating to the sexual abuse of children, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Spano, Ross [R-FL-15] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (18) Committees: House - Oversight and Reform Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. (All Actions) Tracker:
40. H.R.3815 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To increase access to pre-exposure prophylaxis to reduce the transmission of HIV. Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-28] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (13) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, Veterans' Affairs, Ways and Means, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Financial Services Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, Veterans' Affairs, Ways and Means, Natural Resources, Armed Services, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in... (All Actions) Tracker:
41. H.R.3814 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Richmond, Cedric L. [D-LA-2] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Natural Resources Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. (All Actions) Tracker:
42. H.R.3813 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that certain health care contractors of the Department of Veterans Affairs are subject to Federal tort claims laws, to improve the accountability of physicians of the Department, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Meadows, Mark [R-NC-11] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Veterans' Affairs Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:
43. H.R.3812 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to approval of abbreviated new drug applications. Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:
44. H.R.3811 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To direct the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a study and submit to Congress a report on the processes of international standards-setting with respect to internet-connected devices, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-6] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Foreign Affairs Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:
45. H.R.3810 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To modify the penalties for violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1993. Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Susie [D-NV-3] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:
46. H.R.3809 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to expand the eligibility of students to participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Lawson, Al, Jr. [D-FL-5] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (17) Committees: House - Agriculture, Education and Labor Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
47. H.R.3808 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include teacher preparation for computer science in elementary and secondary education. Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (8) Committees: House - Education and Labor Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. (All Actions) Tracker:
48. H.R.3807 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To require that any trade agreement eligible for expedited consideration by Congress include enforceable labor standards and protections, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (14) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:
49. H.R.3806 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit the grounds of deportability for certain relatives of members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ-7] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (4) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions) Tracker:
50. H.R.3805 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To reform prescription drug pricing and reduce out-of-pocket costs by ensuring consumers benefit from negotiated rebates. Sponsor: Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:
51. H.R.3804 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend chapter 2205 of title 36, United States Code, to ensure pay equity for amateur athletes, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-21] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions) Tracker:
52. H.R.3803 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude Federal Pell Grants from gross income. Sponsor: Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-11] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:
53. H.R.3802 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To prohibit the award of Federal Government contracts to inverted domestic corporations, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Oversight and Reform, Armed Services Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
54. H.R.3801 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title 37, United States Code, to establish a basic needs allowance for low-income regular members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Armed Services Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. (All Actions) Tracker:
55. H.R.3800 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To modify the Federal TRIO programs. Sponsor: Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-OH-8] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Education and Labor Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. (All Actions) Tracker:
56. H.R.3799 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote family unity, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-27] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (35) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions) Tracker:
57. H.R.3798 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for limitations on copayments for contraception furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Veterans' Affairs Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:
58. H.R.3797 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Controlled Substances Act to make marijuana accessible for use by qualified marijuana researchers for medical purposes, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce, Judiciary Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
59. H.R.3796 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that coverage under Medicare is permissible for purposes of contributions to health savings accounts. Sponsor: Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-7] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:
60. H.R.3795 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To enable incarcerated persons to petition a Federal court for a second look at sentences longer than 10 years, where the person is not a danger to the safety of any person or the community, and has shown they are ready for reentry, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Bass, Karen [D-CA-37] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions) Tracker:
61. H.R.3794 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To promote the development of renewable energy on public lands, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (27) Committees: House - Natural Resources, Agriculture Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (All Actions) Tracker:
62. H.R.3793 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include interest rate provisions for Federal loans made on or after July 1, 2020. Sponsor: Rep. Horn, Kendra S. [D-OK-5] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Education and Labor Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. (All Actions) Tracker:
63. H.R.3792 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for deferment for Federal loans prior to the beginning of the repayment period. Sponsor: Rep. Horn, Kendra S. [D-OK-5] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Education and Labor Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. (All Actions) Tracker:
64. H.R.3791 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title 49, United States Code, to make modifications to the passenger facility charge program administered by the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Massie, Thomas [R-KY-4] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure Latest Action: House - 07/18/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation. (All Actions) Tracker:
65. H.R.3790 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a credit against tax for homebuyers purchasing residences in residential recovery zones, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Dunn, Neal P. [R-FL-2] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Ways and Means, Financial Services Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
66. H.R.3789 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To direct the Federal Communications Commission to collect and maintain data on the growth in the use of Internet of Things devices and devices that use 5G mobile networks in order to determine the amount of electromagnetic spectrum required to meet the demand created by such use, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:
67. H.R.3788 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from making payments to child care providers that employ individuals charged with certain offenses, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Barr, Andy [R-KY-6] (Introduced 07/17/2019) Cosponsors: (10) Committees: House - Veterans' Affairs Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:
68. H.R.3787 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish in the Department of Homeland Security an Unmanned Aircraft Systems Coordinator, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Homeland Security Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security. (All Actions) Tracker:
69. H.R.3786 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to carry out a program under which an institution of higher education may elect to cosign Federal student loans made to students attending the institution, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Education and Labor Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. (All Actions) Tracker:
70. H.R.3785 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title 28, United States Code, to change the residency requirements for certain officials serving in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions) Tracker:
71. H.R.3784 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act and title XI of the Social Security Act to prohibit surprise billing with respect to air ambulance services. Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:
72. H.R.3783 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (38) Committees: House - Judiciary, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the... (All Actions) Tracker:
73. H.R.3782 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to support family caregivers. Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Andy [D-MI-9] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Education and Labor Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. (All Actions) Tracker:
74. H.R.3781 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To increase the minimum levels of financial responsibility for transporting property, and to index future increases to changes in inflation relating to medical care. Sponsor: Rep. Garcia, Jesus G. "Chuy" [D-IL-4] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (6) Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. (All Actions) Tracker:
75. H.R.3780 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To direct the Federal Communications Commission to establish an advisory committee to develop best practices regarding how to combat unlawful robocalls made to hospitals and how hospitals can protect themselves from such calls, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-12] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:
76. H.R.3779 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to allow the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide capitalization grants to eligible entities to establish revolving funds to provide assistance to reduce disaster risks, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Craig, Angie [D-MN-2] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management. (All Actions) Tracker:
77. H.R.3778 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize certain grants (for youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies) to be used for school personnel in elementary and secondary schools and students in secondary schools to receive student suicide awareness and prevention training, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (17) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
78. H.R.3777 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To establish a National Commission to investigate the treatment of migrant families and children by the Trump Administration. Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-9] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Judiciary, Homeland Security Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
79. H.R.3776 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To prohibit Executive agencies from using the derogatory term "alien" to refer to an individual who is not a citizen or national of the United States, to amend chapter 1 of title 1, United States Code, to establish a uniform definition for the term "foreign national", and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Castro, Joaquin [D-TX-20] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (19) Committees: House - Judiciary, Oversight and Reform Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
80. H.R.3775 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To increase legal representation for certain aliens, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (9) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions) Tracker:
81. H.R.3774 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Small Business Act to improve the Small Business Innovation Research program and Small Business Technology Transfer program, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Baird, James R. [R-IN-4] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Small Business, Science, Space, and Technology Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the... (All Actions) Tracker:
82. H.R.3773 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To direct the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe a motor vehicle safety standard requiring new commercial motor vehicles to be equipped with an automatic emergency braking system, to require automatic emergency braking installed in commercial motor vehicles to be used while in operation, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure, Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/17/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. (All Actions) Tracker:
83. H.R.3772 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure equitable payment for, and preserve Medicare beneficiary access to, diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals under the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system. Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-52] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee... (All Actions) Tracker:
84. H.R.3771 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To establish an interagency One Health Program, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Foreign Affairs Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within... (All Actions) Tracker:
85. H.R.3770 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To require the chief election officials of the States to provide voter registration forms at certain naturalization proceedings, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Boyle, Brendan F. [D-PA-2] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - House Administration Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. (All Actions) Tracker:
86. H.R.3769 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To authorize the Secretary of State to waive certain requirements with respect to eligibility for civil service positions relating to the departmental formulation and direction of foreign affairs and international relations, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Houlahan, Chrissy [D-PA-6] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Foreign Affairs Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:
87. H.R.3768 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to create a safe harbor for finders and private placement brokers, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Budd, Ted [R-NC-13] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Financial Services Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. (All Actions) Tracker:
88. H.R.3767 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To ensure an evidence-based funding approach to study the effects of health professions opportunity grant demonstration projects, and to evaluate the demonstration projects. Sponsor: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:
89. H.R.3766 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To require any Federal agency that issues licenses to conduct activities in outer space to include in the requirements for such licenses an agreement relating to the preservation and protection of the Apollo 11 landing site, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Science, Space, and Technology, Foreign Affairs Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the... (All Actions) Tracker:
90. H.R.3765 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title 13, United States Code, to require that any questionnaire used for a decennial census of population contains a question regarding citizenship, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Comer, James [R-KY-1] (Introduced 07/16/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Oversight and Reform Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. (All Actions) Tracker:
91. H.R.3764 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title 9 of the United States Code to prohibit predispute arbitration agreements that force arbitration of disputes arising from private education loans, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Scanlon, Mary Gay [D-PA-5] (Introduced 07/15/2019) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 07/15/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions) Tracker:
92. H.R.3763 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To direct the Secretary of State to provide assistance and technical expertise to enhance the representation and leadership of the United States at international standards-setting bodies that set standards for 5th and future generations mobile telecommunications systems and infrastructure, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10] (Introduced 07/15/2019) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Foreign Affairs Latest Action: House - 07/15/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:
93. H.R.3762 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to improve health care coverage under vision and dental plans, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2] (Introduced 07/15/2019) Cosponsors: (7) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 07/15/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:
94. H.R.3761 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit institutions of higher education from denying students access to transcripts because of loan default. Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Susie [D-NV-3] (Introduced 07/15/2019) Cosponsors: (4) Committees: House - Education and Labor Latest Action: House - 07/15/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. (All Actions) Tracker:
95. H.R.3760 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To enhance the rights of domestic workers, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7] (Introduced 07/15/2019) Cosponsors: (27) Committees: House - Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Judiciary, House Administration, Oversight and Reform Latest Action: House - 07/15/2019 Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, House Administration, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for... (All Actions) Tracker:
96. H.R.3759 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To prohibit United States persons from dealing in certain information and communications technology or services from foreign adversaries and to require the approval of Congress to terminate certain export controls in effect with respect to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8] (Introduced 07/15/2019) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Foreign Affairs, Rules, Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 07/15/2019 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the... (All Actions) Tracker:
97. H.R.3758 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to apportionments to small transit intensive cities, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13] (Introduced 07/15/2019) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure Latest Action: House - 07/16/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. (All Actions) Tracker:
98. H.R.3757 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the centennial of the minting of the Morgan dollar and the Peace dollar. Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5] (Introduced 07/15/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Financial Services Latest Action: House - 07/15/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. (All Actions) Tracker:
99. H.R.3756 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To ensure that pre-apprenticeship programs are considered when planning health professions opportunity grant career pathway demonstration projects. Sponsor: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8] (Introduced 07/15/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 07/15/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:
100. H.R.3755 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To redesignate the Sullys Hill National Game Preserve in the State of North Dakota as the White Horse Hill National Game Preserve. Sponsor: Rep. Armstrong, Kelly [R-ND-At Large] (Introduced 07/15/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Natural Resources Latest Action: House - 07/15/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. (All Actions) Tracker:
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Cisco: Cloud Traffic to Nearly Quadruple by 2020
Saturday, November 12, 2016 Cisco, Data Centers, Research
Cloud traffic is expected to rise 3.7-fold, up from 3.9 zettabytes (ZB) per year in 2015 to 14.1 ZB per year by 2020, according to the newly-released sixth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2015-2020).
“In the six years of this study, cloud computing has advanced from an emerging technology to an essential scalable and flexible part of architecture for service providers of all types around the globe,” said Doug Webster, Vice President of Service Provider Marketing, Cisco. “Powered by video, IoT, SDN/NFV and more, we forecast this significant cloud migration and the increased amount of network traffic generated as a result to continue at a rapid rate as operators streamline infrastructures to help them more profitably deliver IP-based services businesses and consumers alike.”
Business workloads will grow by 2.4 fold from 2015 to 2020 but their overall share of data center workloads will decrease from 79 to 72 percent.
Consumer workloads, while smaller in number, are growing faster. During the same time, consumer workloads will grow faster by 3.5 fold.
By 2020, consumer workloads will account for 28 percent (134.3 million) of total data center workloads, compared to 21 percent (38.6 million) in 2015.
By 2020, database/analytics/Internet of Things (IoT) workloads will account for 22 percent of total business workloads, compared to 20 percent in 2015.
Video and social networking will lead the increase in consumer workloads, each respectively grows their percentage significantly.
By 2020: video streaming workloads will account for 34 percent of total consumer workloads, compared to 29 percent in 2015; social networking workloads will account for 24 percent of total consumer workloads, compared to 20 percent in 2015; search workloads will account for 15 percent of total consumer workloads, compared to 17 percent in 2015.
Hyperscale data centers will grow from 259 in 2015 to 485 by 2020.
Hyperscale data center traffic is projected to quintuple over the next five years. These infrastructures will account for 47 percent of total data center installed servers and support 53 percent of all data center traffic by 2020.
By 2020, cloud data center traffic will reach 14.1 ZB per year, up from 3.9 ZB per year in 2015.
By 2020, traditional data center traffic will reach 1.3 ZB per year, up from 827 exabytes (EB) per year in 2015.
By 2020, 92 percent of workloads will be processed by cloud data centers; 8 percent will be processed by traditional data centers.
Workload density (workloads per physical server) for cloud data centers was 7.3 in 2015 and will grow to 11.9 by 2020. Comparatively, for traditional data centers, workload density was 2.2 in 2015 and will grow modestly to 3.5 by 2020.
By 2020, 68 percent (298 million) of the cloud workloads will be in public cloud data centers, up from 49 percent (66.3 million) in 2015 (35 percent CAGR 2015-2020).
By 2020, 32 percent (142 million) of the cloud workloads will be in private cloud data centers, down from 51 percent (69.7 million) in 2015 (15 percent CAGR 2015-2020).
By 2020, 59 percent (2.3 billion users) of the consumer Internet population will use personal cloud storage up from 47 percent (1.3 billion users) in 2015.
By 2020, consumer cloud storage traffic per user will be 1.7 GB per month, compared to 513 MB per month in 2015.
Data center storage capacity is increasing to accommodate the migration of consumer data from devices to the cloud.
By 2020, data center storage installed capacity will grow to 1.8 ZB up from 382 EB in 2015, nearly a 5-fold growth.
By 2020, the total global installed data storage capacity in cloud data centers will account for 88 percent share of total DC storage capacity up from 64.9 percent in 2015.
6. Big data will drive overall growth in stored data.
Globally, the data stored in data centers will quintuple by 2020 to reach 915 EB by 2020, up 5.3-fold (a CAGR of 40 percent) from 171 EB in 2015.
Big data will reach 247 EB by 2020, up almost 10-fold from 25 EB in 2015. Big data alone will represent 27 percent of data stored in data centers by 2020, up from 15 percent in 2015.
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Lunch With D CEO: Bill Lenox
The president of Bob’s Steak & Chop House talks about his start in the restaurant business.
By Michael J. Mooney Published in D CEO October 2015
Western wear. Women’s western wear, specifically: shirts, jeans, jackets. That’s where this convoluted journey really began for Bill Lenox, the man who runs the Bob’s Steak & Chop House franchise. He grew up in New Jersey, two towns away from Queens. He had a cousin who lived in Dallas, so after graduating from college and teaching school for a few years in Florida, Lenox decided to move to Texas.
“I had no job,” he says now. “Nothing really.”
He found work as a fabric salesman at a time when Dallas was a clothing manufacturing mecca. He sold well enough to put away a little money, and in 1981 he and his then-girlfriend (now his wife) saw what he calls “a void in the market” of women’s western wear. They started a company that grew into a $25 million-a-year business. At its biggest, he says, it was the largest maker of women’s western wear in America.
In 1993, he started going to the original Bob’s when it opened on Lemmon. He says he lived close and, well, he likes what he likes. He liked the steaks, served simple, with a giant glazed carrot and a potato. He liked the drinks. He liked the leather-and-wood ambiance. And he liked Bob Sambol, the place’s namesake, who always seemed to be there talking with customers and making sure everyone was having a good time. Lenox had been to the restaurant a half dozen times when Sambol asked if he wanted to invest.
“The restaurant was losing money, and he was desperate to find an investor,” Lenox says in a slow, methodical voice. “He put it on paper and I showed it to my financial advisor, and to my lawyer, and to my CPA, and none of them liked the idea.”
From the first time the notion of investing in the restaurant came up, though, Lenox tells me he wanted to do it. So he took a slice of his western wear money and put it into Bob’s. He didn’t have grand aspirations of a nationwide chain and a partnership with Omni Hotels.
“I liked the restaurant,” he says. “I knew I’d like to keep it going. I knew we needed to get it turned around in a hurry, and we did.” He credits “a combination of my business acumen and Bob being a great restaurant guy.”
I meet Lenox for lunch at Tei-An in the Arts District to talk about his winding career path. He says this is one of his favorite lunch places, and he quickly suggests I get the tea, made from the broth of soba noodles.
“It just tastes therapeutic,” he tells me.
Lenox prides himself on being a purveyor of fine food from around the world. What he’s generally looking for, he says, is a simple menu, a warm atmosphere, and a wine list he recognizes. His favorite restaurant is Splendido at the Chateau in Beaver Creek, Colorado, a modern-American fare lodge with a piano. “Everything about it is unbelievable,” he says.
We are tucked into a side part of the restaurant, near the bar. When the first round of food comes out—a seaweed salad—he’s upset that he spilled some of the dressing on his shirt. He also asks the waiter to ask the chef if he can fry the bones of a fish for him. It turns out the chef-owner of Tei-An, Teiichi Sakurai, is in the kitchen today. The waiter assures Lenox that Sakurai will make him something special. When his sashimi sampler comes out, Lenox forgets all about the stain on his shirt. (He also tucks a napkin into the front of his collar.) The plate is a colorful mix of mackerel, fresh octopus, caviar, salmon, tuna, and hamachi yellowtail.
As we peck our way through lunch, Lenox briefly describes how he and Bob Sambol parted ways—before Sambol pleaded guilty to felony theft in an incident unrelated to Lenox. Sambol got the original location on Lemmon, which has since changed hands. Lenox got the brand, and eventually sold half of that to Omni in 2009.
After Lenox tries the seaweed salad, the scallop carpaccio, a shishito pepper or two, that incredible sashimi plate, and a bowl of kobe bolognese, the bill for the two of us totals more than $150.
Before we leave, Teiichi Sakurai comes over to say hello to Lenox. They’ve known each other for a few years now—and the chef knows Lenox likes what he likes. Sakurai says he has something for us and holds out his hand. He gives us each a worn, old Japanese coin. He says they are about 300 years old. And they carry something you need a lot of in the restaurant business: luck.
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Dr Wolfgang Muller is a Consultant Paediatrician at London Northwest Hospital NHS Trust and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (Stanmore). He works as a Specialist in Paediatrics.
Dr Muller has completed his medical training in Germany and the United Kingdom. He studied at Germany 's oldest Medical School in Homburg (Saarland) and spent a year on exchange in England (Exeter and Newcastle) as well as India (Shimla). He qualified in 1992 in Germany with top grades. He completed his postgraduate specialist training in London at Hammersmith Hospital in Neonatology, Great Ormond Street Hospital in Intensive Care and Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal London Hospital in Paediatric Respiratory and General Paediatrics and at Northwick Park and Hillingdon Hospital in General, Newborn and Community Paediatrics. He continued to do two years of research at Great Ormond Street Hospital on respiratory conditions in intensive care settings. During that time he worked as a Medical Officer on the private Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Cromwell Hospital. He started working as a consultant at the London North West Healthcare NHS Trust and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust in 2003.
Since working as a consultant Paediatrician in 2003 Dr Muller has been Lead Clinician in General Paediatrics and Clinical Director for the Children's Department at London Northwest Hospital NHS Trust. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and a Member of the Royal College of Physicians and registered with the General Medical Council (UK) [GMC number 4076841].
Dr Muller is a Medical Director for the Resuscitation Council UK for Advanced Life Support Courses for Children as well as Newborns. He is also an Examiner for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Imperial College London for Final Year Medical Exams.
Dr Muller is married with two children. He grew up in Munich (Germany) and moved to work in the UK in 1992. Outside work his hobbies are most sports but in particular football, diving and skiing. He is keen on trekking and outdoor activities and also keen on bird watching.
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Platonism and bathos in Shakespeare and other early modern drama
It has long been noticed that the events of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet and those of the play of Pyramis and Thisbe in his A Midsummer Night's Dream are alike, and that the former treats seriously what is farcical in the latter. Roger Prior showed that a single source, either George Gascoigne's The Poesies (Gascoigne 1575) or his Whole Works (Gascoigne 1587), was used for both plays, and in particular the description of a masque to celebrate the marriage in 1572 of two children of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague (Prior 2000). As well as verbal parallels there are collocations of ideas and images, such as strangers daring to enter a feast (as in Romeo and Juliet 1.5) and phrases about the anticipation of the wedding (as used by Theseus and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1), Shakespeare appears to have moved to a poem called 'The Refusal' on the facing page of Gascoigne's The Poesies and mined it for the rivalry of Demetrius and Lysander (1.1) and of Hermia and Helena (3.2). The Gascoigne link gives us additional reason to consider Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream as paired plays and to attend to Shakespeare's telling of one story two ways, one tragical and one comical.
Citation : Egan, G. (2005) Platonism and bathos in Shakespeare and other early modern drama. In: Holmes and Streete (eds.) Refiguring Mimesis: Representation in Early Modern Literature. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, pp. 59-78
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Exercise Can Improve Non-Motor Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease
Researchers Review Evidence of the Effect of Exercise on Non-Motor Symptoms of PD in the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease.
Exercise has potential to improve non-motor as well as motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD), including cognitive function, report investigators in a review published in the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease.
PD is a slowly progressive disorder that affects movement, muscle control, and balance. While traditionally regarded as a movement disorder, it is now known to be a heterogeneous multisystem disorder – in recognition of the significant impact that non-motor symptoms have on the quality of life of individuals affected by PD. It is widely acknowledged that physical exercise improves motor symptoms such as tremor, gait disturbances, and postural instability. However, the effect of exercise on non-motor symptoms in PD, especially cognitive function, is less clear.
The number of older people with and without PD that experience cognitive impairment is steadily increasing worldwide. It is associated not only with a substantial rise in healthcare costs, but also affects the quality of life of both patients and relatives or carers. Up to 57% of patients suffering from PD develop mild cognitive impairment within five years of their initial diagnosis, and if they survive more than ten years, the majority will eventually develop dementia. The underlying neurophysiological mechanisms for cognitive decline in PD are not completely understood, but an accumulation of amyloid plaques, mitochondrial dysfunction, and neurotransmitter changes are all suggested to contribute.
A comprehensive literature review was conducted by investigators from the Institute of Movement and Neurosciences, German Sport University, Cologne, Germany, and the VasoActive Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. The studies reviewed included investigations of the effects of coordination exercise, resistance exercise, and aerobic exercise on domain-specific cognitive function in patients with PD. “Physical exercise is generally associated with increased cognitive function in older adults, but the effects in individuals suffering from PD are not known,” explained lead investigator Tim Stuckenschneider, MA.
The researchers identified relevant studies published before March 2018. There were 11 studies included with a combined total of over five hundred patients with PD with a disease severity from stages 1 to 4 on the Hoehn & Yahr scale, which is used to describe the symptom progression of PD. In four studies, positive effects of exercise on cognition (memory, executive function, and global cognitive function) were shown with no negative effect of exercise on any cognitive domain. Furthermore, disease severity was generally improved by exercise interventions.
The investigators concluded that all modes of exercise are associated with improved cognitive function in individuals with PD, however, no clear picture of which exercise mode is most effective emerged as they may influence cognitive function differently. Aerobic exercise tended to improve memory best, but different forms of exercises such as treadmill training or stationary bike training may have different effects, although both are considered aerobic exercise. Future studies are needed that directly compare the effects of different exercise modes, as the number of high-quality research projects is still limited.
“The potential of exercise to improve motor and non-motor symptoms is promising and may help to decelerate disease progression in individuals affected by PD,” observed Stuckenschneider. “Exercise therapy needs to be, and often already is, an essential part of therapy in individuals with PD. However, it is mostly used to treat motor symptoms. As part of a holistic therapy, the potential of exercise to maintain or improve non-motor symptoms such as cognitive function in individuals with PD needs to be acknowledged, and the most effective treatment options need to be defined. This will not only help practitioners to recommend specific exercise programs, but also ultimately improve the quality of life of the individual. Our work shows that ‘exercise is medicine’ and should routinely be recommended for people with PD to help combat both the physical and cognitive challenges of the disease.”
Tim Stuckenschneider
“The Effect of Different Exercise Modes on Domain-Specific Cognitive Function in Patients Suffering from Parkinson’s Disease: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials,” by Tim Stuckenschneider, Christopher D. Askew, Annelise L. Menêses, Ricarda Baake, Jan Weber, and Stefan Schneider (DOI: 10.3233/JPD-181484) published in the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, Volume 9, Issue 1 by IOS Press.
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Anti-government protest attracts tens of thousands in Serbia
Over 50,000 people have gathered in Belgrade to support the Serbian opposition party's call for a snap election. Opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic says he will go on hunger strike until their demand is met.
The Serbian government is facing growing unrest
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the Serbian capital, Belgrade, on Saturday, after opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic initiated calls for a snap election.
Addressing a crowd of over 50,000 protesters, Nikolic said he had begun a hunger strike that would last until the election is called.
"Since this morning, I did not drink or eat," he told the crowd. "I ask you to accept this as the last resort to fight for a better Serbia."
He added that it was his "personal sacrifice." Nikolic and other opposition leaders followed the speeches by taking seat on polystyrene foam, asserting that they would not move until and election is called.
Growing social unrest
The coalition surrounding Nikolic's Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has come out on top in recent opinion polls. Although they hold only 21 of the 250 seats in parliament, public support for the party seems to exceed the popularity of the current government.
Nikolic has refused to eat or drink until an election is called
During the demonstration, thousands of protesters chanted "Thieves, thieves!" and "Save Serbia, kill yourself Boris," referring to Serbian President Boris Tadic.
"We have had enough of this privileged regime which has ravaged Serbia," said deputy SNS leader Aleksandar Vucic. "They can no longer weaken the popular energy, and no one has ever defeated the people."
The opposition held Tadic's ruling coalition responsible for economic decline, widespread corruption and rising unemployment. They asserted that this has stalled the reforms required for Serbia to become a member of the EU. But the government responded saying they would not give in to pressure.
Anticipated EU membership
The election isn't officially due until May 2012, and the government insisted that the date shouldn't be pushed forward as an election campaign may hamper Serbia's European membership process.
Serbia is expecting to find out by the end of the year whether its EU application has been successful. Politicians and analysts suggested that if the application is approved, the ruling coalition may call early elections to capitalize on the achievement.
Rising prices and high unemployment have fuelled social unrest
The Serbian government has faced growing social unrest in recent months. In February, a similar protest attracted approximately 70,000 demonstrators.
The Serbian economy grew by 1.8 percent in 2010, after a 3 percent recession in 2009. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently said, however, that since 2008 the financial crisis has swallowed over 400,000 jobs in Serbia.
Moreover, it has estimated that the projected 3 percent growth rate for 2011 is too small to offset the effects of rising unemployment and accumulating debts.
Doctors, teachers, policemen and other public-sector workers have also responded by calling strikes and demonstrating for pay rises and better working conditions.
Author: Charlotte Chelsom-Pill (dpa, AFP)
Editor: Sean Sinico
War crimes court jails Croatian hero and ex-general for 24 years
Judges at an international court have sentenced former Croatian General Ante Gotovina to 24 years in prison, convicting him of crimes against humanity. Gotovina is regarded as a war hero in Croatia. (15.04.2011)
Europe's most wanted war criminal may be dead, wife says
The wife of war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has said her husband may be dead. Meanwhile, Serbian authorities have detained a war criminal accused of shelling Croatian civilians during Yugoslavia's civil war. (05.04.2011)
Serbia wants UN inquiry into Kosovo leader's alleged organ trafficking
Serbia says the United Nations should look into allegations that Kosovo's prime minister was part of an organ trafficking network during the Kosovo War in the late 1990s. (17.02.2011)
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Anti-government protests are spreading in Serbia 18.03.2019
For months now, Serbs have been protesting against their president, Aleksandar Vucic. On Saturday, the situation deteriorated sharply: demonstrators stormed the state radio station and surrounded the presidential palace.
Hunger-striking Russian activist Sergei Udaltsov hospitalized 19.08.2018
The far-left Kremlin critic, serving a one-month sentence for illegal protesting, has been taken to a Moscow hospital. Sergei Udaltsov spent many years in jail for his opposition towards Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Serbia: Tenth round of anti-Vucic protests held in Belgrade 10.02.2019
The 10th round of protest rallies against President Aleksandar Vucic were held in freezing temperatures in the Serbian capital and other cities. The ultranationalist Vucic rejects claims he has become autocratic.
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Email Comes Of Age
At 12:33 EDT on 3 May 1978, Gary Thuerk sent an e-mail that later earned him the title “Father of Spam” (although understandably, he prefers to be called the “Father of E-marketing”). Thuerk, then a marketing manager for computer company Digital Equipment Corporation, sent a mass e-mail inviting recipients to one of two West Coast product demos for a new line of computers. By today’s standards, the send was hardly a mass mailing — just 397 accounts on ARPAnet, the U.S.
Today, 38 years after Thuerk’s first campaign, e-mail dominates marketing channels. It boasts the broadest reach, the lowest cost, the easiest measurability, and the highest conversion rates and ROI. Some 91 percent of marketing executives call e-mail the single most effective channel for driving revenue.
Email has grown up since then and if you're not already running a mature e-mail marketing programme, you can find out how to in this report. So if your e-mails can still be described as batch-and-blast instead of target-and-tantalise, you need to pivot.
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Rule #3: It’s not about you — it’s about your customers.
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At the European Council in December 2013, Heads of States and Government endorsed four major capability programmes proposed and prepared by the European Defence Agency. The launch of these four programmes and their associated roadmaps aim at addressing critical shortfalls and at supporting the European defence industry: Air-to-Air Refuelling (AAR), Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), Governmental Satellite Communication and Cyber Defence.
The four capability programmes and high-level goals are:
Air-to-Air Refuelling, with the objective of establishing a multinational fleet from 2019;
Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems, with the objective of laying the foundations for a European solution in the 2020-2025 timeframe;
Governmental Satellite Communication, with the objective of preparing the next generation in the 2025 timeframe;
Cyber Defence, with a focus on technology, training and protection of EU assets.
The European Council also endorsed EDA proposed measures to back defence industry in Europe, including SMEs, by supporting research and innovation in Europe through prioritisation (list of European critical defence technologies), investment in critical technologies and greater synergies with EU instruments.
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Dongguan Grand Mosque
Most people do not know that western China has over 21 million Muslims, that is more than the entire country of Syria. Find out about western China’s largest and most significant Mosque right in the heart of Xining, Qinghai. Visiting Dongguan Grand Mosque in Xining makes a great afternoon trip!
Seated in middle eastern part of Xining (no pun intended) in the south of Dongguan Street, the Dongguan Mosque (dōng guān qīng zhēn dà sì 东关清真大寺) is one of the largest mosques in northwest China. During Ramadan this Mosque is home to the 3rd largest gathering of Muslims in the world, only surpassed by Mecca and Medina with larger numbers of devout Islamic followers.
First built in 1379 during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the mosque enjoys a long history of more than 600 years and still remains a very well preserved ancient building. The design of the mosque combines traditional Chinese style with distinctly middle eastern features and patterns. Though predominately Islamic in style, there are a few interesting elements that whisper of the regions history of Buddhist thought. The two twin minarets at the front gate of the mosque are gifts from the local Kumbum Monastery and the Tibetan style gilded victory banners on top of the main temple are gifts from Labrang Monastery, a 5 hour drive away from Xining.
Dongguan Mosque maintains a regal appearance with an imposing large face and characteristic green domes. Yet this beautiful sanctuary is set right in one of Xining’s busiest streets in the downtown area of Xining. It is quite a contrast to get off a crowded bus by the Mosque and then walk 30 meters into the peaceful temple with it’s birds singing and trees blowing gently in the quiet reverent breeze. The mosque has a prayer hall which can hold up to 3,000 people. Now this mosque serves as an educational center and institution of higher learning for Islamism, and also is the leading mosque in Qinghai.
As one of the four major Mosques in the Northwest region of China, Dongguan Mosque is the largest and complete ancient building kept in Xining City (xī níng shì 西宁市). Situated in Dongguan Street (dōng guān jiē 东关街), Xining City, Dongguan Mosque is the biggest mosque in Qinghai Province (qīng hǎi shěng 青海省). It was built in 1380, and now boasts a history of more than 600 years. The mosque is not only famous for its magnificent architecture but also as a religious education center and as the highest learning institution of Islam.
Temple Architecture
The mosque covers an area of 13,602 square meters now, and the construction area is 4,654 square meters. These buildings have a large scale, and combine the traditional Chinese architectural art with the Islamic architectural form. With the name of the mosque written on it, the gate is 10 meters high and 15 meters wide. Inside the gate there are five arches of 10 meters high and 21 meters wide. After passing the arches, you’ll see a courtyard with an area of 4,490 square meters. In the middle of the courtyard stands the main worship hall, which takes up an area of 1,136 square meters and is a brick-and-wood construction. There are the imam’s room, students’ dormitories, bathrooms and steles in the mosque, too.
There is a complex of traditional Chinese palace-style buildings in the mosque. The gate of the mosque is an elegant archway with the name of the mosque on it. One pavilion-like building of about 8 meters high stands on each side of the courtyard, and is designed for the imam to call the prayers to worship. The prayer hall is the main building in Dongguan Mosque with the area of 1,136 square meters. The mosque has a prayer hall which can hold up to 3,000 people. The main worship hall faces the east. Therefore the prayers can pray facing the holy city of Mecca. Its wall is made of great cyan stones, and its roof is decorated with colored glaze. The ridge of the hall is decorated with Tibetan style Aquarius. The majestic main worship hall resembles a palace of the Han nationality. There are two-storied ambulatory-like wing halls on both sides of the main worship hall. A water hall is built in the mosque for prayers to wash their hands and feet before entering the worship hall. Islamite worships every Friday. Since the Mosque was built, it has become an important place of worship and assembly for Muslims. When Islam’s important festivals come round, tens of thousands of the Prophet’s followers come to participate in ceremonies and religious activities.
The prayer hall is the main building in Dongguan Mosque, covering 1,136 square meters (about 0.3 acres). The magnificent building can hold about 3,000 worshippers. Since the mosque was built, it has become an important place of worship, and when Islam’s important holidays come around, tens of thousands of the faithful come to participate in ceremonies and religious activities. The most famous ceremonies include Jumu’ah and Corban Festival.
The Dongguan Mosque in Xining has a long and ancient history. This large scale, beautifully constructed mosque is one of the largest Islamic temples in China and the largest Mosque in North-west China; it is also the main Islamic cultural center in Qinghai. Since 1988 Dongguan has been official recognized as the most Islamic Mosque in China.
The Dongguan Mosque was originally constructed to serve the religious need of the large local Islamic population; many of the streets through the town of Xining also have a strong Islamic flavor. The temple, originally constructed during the Song Dynasty was reconstructed later in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The temple is complete with several beautiful arched gates, many heavily influenced by European architecture; the floor-space of the temple is over 6,000 sqaure meters.
The temple has all the main characteristics of a typical Mosque, a 58 meter spire, a main prayer room, five main entrances and different areas for men and women, the mosque will usually hold 7,000 for a weekday prayer session, 20,000 on the weekends and over 100,000 on religious holidays and festivals. The Qinghai Aheng Islam College is located in the mosque today.
It is said that the mosque was established at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It has undergone several destructions and reconstructions in the history. The existing buildings were rebuilt in 1913, expanded in 1946, and renovated in 1979.
Restored recently, it was built in the 14th century and has colorful white arches along the outside of the wide building. It has a green and white dome and two tall minarets.
Generals Ma Qi and Ma Bufang controlled the Great Dongguan Mosque when they were military governors of Qinghai.
Climate of Xining and Qinghai Province
Xining has also been dubbed the Summer Resort Capital of China owing to its cool summer, with a cold semi-arid climate. Conditions are influenced by the aridity and high altitude. Lows are cold or cool throughout the year, and highs are often more than 15 °C (27 °F) warmer than lows. Monthly daily averages range from −7.4 °C (18.7 °F) in January to 17.3 °C (63.1 °F) in July; the year averages at 6.1 °C (43.0 °F). Rainfall falls mainly from May to September, and the area is often dry and sunny, with nearly 2680 hours of bright sunshine per year.
Islam in Western China
Muḥammad’s choice of Friday as the Muslim day of communal worship was probably based on the pre-Islāmic function of Friday as market day, a natural occasion for dispersed local tribes to gather in a central location. The influence of the Jewish and Christian sabbath was also felt in the institutionalization of the Muslim Friday, though in Islām it was not a day of rest but a convenient setting for the special religious service. In the modern period, however, most Muslim countries have designated Friday as the legal day of rest; Turkey, following Western tradition, has made Sunday the holiday.
Jum’ah (zhǔ má rì 主麻日), Friday of the Muslim week and the special noon service on Friday that all adult, male, free Muslims are obliged to attend. The Jum’ah, which replaces the usual noon ritual prayer (ṣalāt aẓ-ẓuhr), must take place before a sizable number of Muslims at one central mosque in every locality.
Corban Festival, the 2nd Most Important Islamic Holiday
The Corban Festival (gǔ ěr bāng jié 古尔邦节), an annual major traditional Islamic festivals, falls on the tenth of the twelfth month of the Islamic calendar and is celebrated by Chinese minority nationalities that believe in Islam, including Hui (huí zú 回族), Uygur (wéi wú ěr zú 维吾尔族), Kazak (hā sà kè zú哈萨克族), Ozbek (wū zī bié kè zú 乌孜别克族), Tajik (tǎ jíkè zú 塔吉克族), Tartar (tǎ tǎ ěrzú 塔塔尔族), Kirgiz (柯尔克孜族), Salar (sǎ lā zú 撒拉族), Dongxiang (东乡族) and Bonan (保安族). It is called Eid-al-Adjha in Arabic. Eid means festival and Adjha means sacrifice. Therefore this day is also called Corban.
According to Islamic legend, once in a year, Muslims slaughtered a certain number of cattle and donated them to other people so as to show their sincere faith in Allah. Ibrahim, a prophet, once promised in public that he would slaughter his son as a sacrifice if Allah asked him to do so. In a dream, Ibrahim got Allah’s divine message for him to practice his promise by slaughtering his son as a sacrifice. The dream repeated several times and finally, Ibrahim painfully made up his mind. On the next day, the tenth day of the final month according to the Islamic calendar, a tearful Ibrahim took his son to a hilltop. When he was about to carry out the order, a messenger sent by Allah descended with a sheep, and asked Ibrahim to sacrifice the sheep instead of his own son. Since then the Muslims have been marking the day by slaughtering sheep. This gradually evolved into the Corban festival, one of the most important Islamic festivals.
During Corban, all Islamic families would clean up their houses and be busy making various cakes for the festival. All families that possess cattle exceeding a certain number would butcher some sheep, camels or oxen. It is regulated that the sheep to be slaughtered must be fostered more than one year and the oxen, more than two years. These families could keep one-third of the slaughtered cattle for themselves and distribute the rest to the poorest people and relatives.
The Bathing Festival has at least seven or eight hundred years of history in Tibet where prevails many legends about its origin. Here is one of the stories: Once upon a time, there was a great doctor living in Tibet called the Medicine King due to his magic skill. When he died, be became a god living in the heaven. One year, a terrible epidemic struck the whole Tibetan area, killing numerous people and cattle. Tibetans then turned to the Medicine King, praying for his help to relieve their distress. When the Medicine King heard their praying, he turned himself into a bright star. When the star shone over the hills, all plants on the hills became medicine. When the star shone over the rivers, the water in the river was turned into medicine liquid, too.
In the morning of Corban, Islamic people would tidy their clothes after taking a bath and listen to imams’ interpretation of Koran in the mosques. It is the largest gathering in the mosques throughout a year. After prayers and rites, all the families will go to graveyard to pay tribute to their late beloved on the day.
Meanwhile, Corban also provides an optimum opportunity for conversation during which many Islamic people get together and share mutton, cakes, melons and fruits with others.
In Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (xīn jiāng wéi wú ěr zú zì zhì qū 新疆维吾尔自治区), Muslims are given three days as holidays to celebrate the Corban Festival. In Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (níng xià huí zú zì zhì qū宁夏回族自治区), all the government staff and employees, no matter they are Muslims or not, are given one day leave on Corban. Islamic associations across China also organize gatherings during the Corban Festival.
Location: In Dongguan Street, Sining, Qinghai Province
1. Take flight to Xining Airport or take train to Xining Railway Station first.
2. Take Bus No. 1, NO.2 or No.3 to Dongguan Mosque in Xining Railway Station or take a taxi.
Opening Hours: 8:00-12:00; 14:00-17:00
Recommended traveling time: From a half to a whole day.
Travel Tips: Female can’t enter the prayer hall. Besides, the consumption of pork is prohibited in the temple.
Kumbum Monastery
Kumbum Monastery is one of the six great Gelukpa sect monasteries in Tibet. The others are Ganden (70 minutes outside Lhasa), Sera (Lhasa), Drepung(Lhasa), Tashilhunpo (Shigatse) and Labrang(Xiahe). Kumbum monastery is located 26km / 16 miles from Xining (known as Silang in Tibetan) in northeast Amdo. Though it is now known as being one of the biggest Chinese tourist attractions in the area, Kumbum has been a very important monastery in Tibetan history.
Kumbum Monastery is about 27 kilometers southwest of Xining. It is one of the two most important Tibetan Buddhist monasteries outside Tibet itself. Set among flowing wheat fields and fertile hills, Kumbum Monastery evokes an ambience of relaxation and meditation.
Location: Kumbum Monastery is about 27 kilometers southwest of Xining.
Transportation: Kumbum monastery can be easily reached from Xining. On Kunlun Zhong Lu (near Xi Men) there are taxis that will take you the 26km to the monastery for CNY32. This price is per car and not per person. You can also take a bus to the town of Huangzhong (the small town where Kumbum is) for CNY6 per person.
Recommended Golden Time: The best time to go to the monastery is around Losar (Tibetan New Year). Many Tibetans from Amdo come to the monastery during this time. Try and avoid going to the monastery during the summer. Loads of Chinese tourists are there everyday.
Opening Hours: 8:00am-5:00pm
Admission Fee: CNY80 (it was raised from Y35 to Y80 in 2006)
Travel Tips: Photography is prohibited within the monastery temples.
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James E. Barnett
James E. Barnett, 88, of Woodside Ave., Ellwood City, Pa., died Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at the Butler VA Hospital.
Born August 30, 1920, in Energy, he was the son of the late William and Jeanette Wehman Barnett. James served on the Ellwood City Boro Council for 12 years, had served as chairman of the public safety committee and was also a member of the council's recreation committee. He served as the borough fire code officer for a year and was the borough representative to the Lawrence County Emergency Management for three years. A retired electrician, Mr. Barnett was employed by the former Ellwood Works of U.S. Steel for 17 years and was a member of the Electrical Union Local 712 for 23 years. He was a volunteer fireman in Ellwood City for more than 20 years and has been a first aid instructor for the American Red Cross and a Boy Scout committee member. He also previously served as an umpire for Little League baseball. He formerly attended the North Sewickley Presbyterian Church and was a former trustee of the Slippery Rock Presbyterian Church. A veteran of World War II, James served from February 1942 to November 1945 and saw action in the European Theatre. He was a member of the Masons, Saxons, VFW and Moose.
Survivors include a son and daughter in law, Jeff and Brenda Barnett, Ellwood City; a daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Denny Kingston, New Castle; a sister, Dorothy Grande, and three grandchildren .
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Jerry and Don Barnett.
Visiting hours will be held from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, February 20, 2009, in the MARSHALL FUNERAL HOME, Ellwood City. Funeral services will be held at the Marshall Funeral Home on Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 1 p.m.
Interment will follow in the Slippery Rock Mausoleum.
Online condolences may be sent to marshallsfh.com
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A Troubled Future for the Women of Afghanistan
By Anna Portela
This year will mark the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, as well as the toppling of the Taliban, although parts of the country are still controlled by this extreme militia. There is talk that when the troops leave Afghanistan in the presumed near future, the situation for women will worsen due to the fact that the Afghani government is apparently making plans for reconciliation with the Taliban.
This is not to say that women today are faring so well. The treatment of women who are under the thumb of the Taliban is now being considered as part of local culture. In other words the West has changed its attitude due to its efforts to extricate itself from this war.
Zainab Salbi is the founder of Women for Women International, an organization that gives support to women in countries ravaged by war. She testified before the U.S. senate and said American politicians are not very interested in protecting women in Afghanistan. This is in spite of support from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Samira Hamidi is director of the Afghan Women’s Network, and she observed the same attitude. She noted this lack of interest in women’s rights and fears that with the troops gone, Afghani women will be ignored.
According to The Guardian, improvements have been made in the lives of the women in the last ten years. Fifty seven percent of women and girls go to school, and women comprise 24 percent of health care workers and 10 percent of the judiciary.
But activists said that women living in extremely poor areas, which are usually controlled by the Taliban, do not have access to health care, social care, and important freedoms.
Politician Malalai Joya, elected to the Afghan national assembly in 2005, is known as the “bravest woman in Afghanistan.” She said the following: “The situation of women is a disaster. Men and women today are squashed between three enemies - the Taliban, the warlords and also the occupation forces who are bombing from the skies and killing civilians, women and children. Now the Taliban are being invited into the government - there is no question the situation of women will be more disastrous and more bloody.”
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Anna, My apologies for responding so late. To my knowledge, there is no available data that tracks the percentage of Afghan women who are entrepreneurs. This is a goal the Institute has had for a couple of years now. With the best of research, we can only estimate the total number of women business owners there are in the country. However, in an article I recently read via Relief Web, the Herat Chamber of Commerce director is quoted as saying there are 1,500 female, small business owners there. Two of our graduates also own their own women's organizations. One of them, Qandi Amaki, is founder of the Balkh Women's Business Association, which has more than 650 members and she has trained nearly 300 more to develop business plans and start micro businesses. Kubra Zalfi is another business entrpreneur who has a women's business association that has 500 members. I have only pointed out 3,000 women entrpreneurs but there are so many other women who have their own businesses and are training others to do the same AND be successful. -Dr. Terry Neese
March 8, 2011 - 1:55pm
Anna Portela
Dear Dr. Neese,
I would be interested in knowing what percentage of Afghani women are entrepreneurs.
Women entrepreneurs are the driving force of the economy in Afghanistan. There are increased outcomes in Afghanistan because of America’s influence. Women are opening businesses and becoming self-reliant. The old saying, “When you educate a woman, you educate a nation,” is being proven repeatedly in Afghanistan. The Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women exists to make sure this happens and it is. - Dr. Terry Neese
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Ericom Joins Cloud Security Alliance
Looking to Contribute to this Important Growing Body of Cloud Knowledge
New York, NY, (May 14, 2019) — Ericom Software today announced that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.
Ericom Software provides remote browsing isolation (RBI) and secure application connectivity to help companies transition to the cloud by modernizing their connectivity strategy. Using Ericom technologies, organizations can instantly turn legacy and Windows applications into cloud-based applications. Additionally, the company’s RBI platform, Ericom Shield, uses cloud-based browsers to keep employees safe while surfing the Internet, protecting the endpoint and the local network from browser-borne threats.
“Ericom is looking forward to the opportunity to collaborate on cloud-related topics, share ideas and deepen our cloud expertise,” said Nick Kael, Ericom CTO. “As we shift our business towards a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, we view the CSA membership as an important step in our cloud security readiness, as well as thrilled by the opportunity for our technical teams to take the CSA certification,” added Kael.
“We are happy to welcome Ericom to our vibrant cloud community and look forward to its active involvement in strengthening cloud security standards,” said Jim Reavis, Co-Founder and CEO, Cloud Security Alliance.
To learn more about Ericom, visit: www.ericom.com.
About the Cloud Security Alliance
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. CSA harnesses the subject matter expertise of industry practitioners, associations, governments, and its corporate and individual members to offer cloud security-specific research, education, certification, events and products. CSA’s activities, knowledge and extensive network benefit the entire community impacted by cloud — from providers and customers, to governments, entrepreneurs and the assurance industry — and provide a forum through which diverse parties can work together to create and maintain a trusted cloud ecosystem. CSA has developed the definitive best practices for the industry, such as the “Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing”, the “Cloud Controls Matrix”, “Top Threats to Cloud Computing” and 50 other cloud security research artifacts. For further information, visit us at www.cloudsecurityalliance.org.
About Ericom Software
As a global leader in securing and connecting the digital workspace, Ericom offers solutions that secure browsing, and optimize safe desktop and application delivery to any device, anywhere. Ericom enterprise-grade remote browser isolation, secure remote access, and cloud enablement solutions provide a superior work experience and optimize enterprise productivity at tens of thousands of organizations of all sizes, with over ten million users. Founded in 1993, Ericom has offices in the US, UK, and EMEA, and distributors and partners throughout North America, Europe, APAC and Africa.
For more information about Ericom and its products, visit www.ericom.com. Follow Ericom Software on our blog, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, and our YouTube channel.
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Brothers get set for charity walk
Boxer Earl Ling (left) is taking part in the Starlight Walk with his brother Simon.
One is a boxer and the other a singer, but two brothers will take part in the Starlight Walk to raise cash for cancer support.
Singer Simon Curtis, 41, will also be singing to the expected 1,000 entrants to raise spirits before the walk starts at midnight.
Mr Curtis, from Loddon, and his brother Earl Ling, 38, are to complete the 13-mile walk in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support in memory of a mutual friend who died on Good Friday last year.
Percy Summers had lived next door to the pair when they first moved to the city as a child and had been an important figure to them both.
Mr Curtis said that it was this that had spurred them on to enter the event on June 18.
“I've known him since I was eight years old and I had my first job with him and grew up with him,” he said.
“He got Earl his first job as well. We worked for him on a building site.”
Mr Curtis, who also lost his father-in-law to cancer within a week of Mr Summers' death, said that Macmillan had been extremely helpful at the time.
“I think they're fantastic,” he said.
“They were very good. They even helped my mother-in-law with benefits and what she could get help with.”
Mr Curtis will entertain the crowds from 10.30 to 11.30pm, before a group warm-up is done to get everyone ready for the long hike.
CDs featuring Mr Curtis will also be on sale on the night and all proceeds will also be donated to Macmillan. He hopes to raise at least £1,000 for the charity.
Mr Ling, who lives on Hooper Lane off Sprowston Road, has said that after a long career in boxing which saw him win an impressive six bouts, he still believes he has a shot at the British title.
However he is also working hard on pursuing his acting career, having starred alongside Danny Dyer in the film Two Guns Tony.
Are you taking part in the Starlight Walk? Tell us why by calling Matthew Sparkes on 01603 772439, or email matthew.sparkes@archant.co.uk
For more information on the Starlight Walk or to register to take part, visit www.starlightwalknorwich.co.uk, or call 01603 593779.
To see more coverage on the event visit the Evening News at www.eveningnews24.co.uk/starlight.
Starlight Walk sponsors Bennetts have provided prizes for a raffle at the event.
All those who take part in the walk will be entered in a draw to win a Praktica digital camera, and anyone raising more than £100 will get the chance to win a Roberts solar-powered DAB radio.
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Editorial: Sal's pension
The timing of House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi's resignation this week raises questions still unanswered: Does his retreat mean ethics investigators were getting closer to him? Was this a maneuver to pave the way for his preferred successor? Why ask his North End constituents to give him another term if he intended to quit less than a month into it? Why seek re-election as speaker if he planned to quit less than three weeks later?
Far from answering these questions, DiMasi acted like there was nothing at all unusual, let alone suspicious, about his early exit. In a sense, he's right. Over the last 20 years, mid-term resignation has been the rule among House speakers, not the exception. Other members also seem to feel no compulsion to serve out their terms. Two years ago, Senate President Robert Travaglini resigned his post less than three months into his term, having decided he'd rather be a lobbyist than do the jobs his district and his colleagues had just elected him to do.
There may have been another factor in DiMasi's calculations. According to State House News Service, DiMasi's annual pension will be about $59,000, which is $2,000 more than it would have been had he left the House when his last term ended Dec. 31. Among the state pension law's many flaws is a provision that gives legislators a year's credit for working a single day in the new year.
Lawmakers interested in restoring their credibility should make pension reform a priority. Meanwhile, the least DiMasi could do is use some of that easy money to help the state pay for a special election to fill his vacant seat.
The MetroWest Daily News
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Federal lawmakers react to Blagojevich impeachment
Karen McDonald
Jan 30, 2009 at 12:01 AM Jan 30, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Federal elected officials from Illinois didn't mince any words when commenting about the impeachment of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the cloud of embarrassment he cast over the state.
With this chapter closed, they said they hope Illinois can refocus efforts, regroup and address pressing needs with Gov. Pat Quinn.
What lawmakers -- and the president -- had to say about the impeachment conviction:
"Today ends a painful episode for Illinois. For months the state had been crippled by a crisis of leadership. Now that cloud has lifted. I wish Gov. Quinn the best and pledge my full cooperation as he undertakes his new responsibilities."
-- President Barack Obama
"On a cold morning in December, the people of Illinois awakened to find that their Governor had been arrested on charges of trying to sell a Senate seat and to use his public office for personal gain.
"Instead of resigning immediately, Rod Blagojevich put our state through weeks of turmoil at a time when many Illinoisans wanted to share in the joy of having just elected one of our own to the Presidency. Today, the Illinois Senate came to the only reasonable conclusion: Blagojevich can not continue to serve as our Governor.
"It is now time to close this chapter in Illinois history. The State of Illinois is in need of a fresh start. I look forward to working with Gov. Pat Quinn to move our state forward."
-- U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
"I stand behind the Illinois State Senate's decision today to remove Governor Blagojevich from office.
"As I've repeatedly stated, the Governor must be held accountable for his actions to the legislature, in a court of law and to the people of the State of Illinois. Impeachment is about whether our State's best interests are being served having the Governor remain in office. Today's conviction speaks loud and clear that there are serious issues preventing him from fulfilling his responsibilities and I support putting new leadership in place. I expect others will join me in thanking the state Senate for fulfilling its constitutional responsibilities.
"It is my hope that today will be remembered as a new beginning, more than as an end. I look forward to working with our new Governor Pat Quinn, as we focus our attention back to more pressing issues such as creating jobs, providing healthcare and building a foundation that will provide a better future for all Illinois people.
"My thoughts and prayers are with the Blagojevich family during what must be a personally challenging time. And my thoughts and prayers remain with Illinois people who have endured such a long and unfortunate distraction during such a crucial time for our state and our nation."
-- Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill.
"Good riddance. The Blagojevich scandal has been a national embarrassment. I hope and pray that today's decision by the Illinois Senate will give our state the fresh start it so desperately needs.
"Governor Blagojevich was elected as a reformer and instead spent his time in office making a complete mockery of good government and the rule of law.
"Illinoisans need a leader in Springfield, not someone too drunk with power to do the people's business.
"Ordinary families are losing their jobs, homes, and healthcare. Many are travelling on crumbling roads and bridges. I urge our new Governor to put politics aside and spend all of his energy addressing these pressing challenges."
-- U.S. Rep. Phil Hare, D-Rock Island
"It has been a sad seven weeks in the history of the State of Illinois. On the day of his arrest - Dec. 9 - I called for Governor Blagojevich to immediately resign. Obviously, it took the Illinois General Assembly to impeach and convict him.
"I hope that Gov. Patrick Quinn will have an open door and be willing to listen to the concerns of central and southern Illinois. He is already taking correct steps to restoring faith in that office by planning to reside in the Governor's Mansion.
"I hope to meet or at least talk with our new Governor soon and discuss issues of mutual concern to our constituents."
-- U.S. Rep. John Shimkus, R-Collinsville
"The nightmare of Rod Blagojevich is not quite over. He left much of our state government in shambles. Governor Quinn will have to pick up the pieces and he will need the cooperation of everyone as he leads the effort.
"Long before the astonishing transcripts of wiretaps by the U.S. Attorney's office were released it was clear to all who followed Illinois government that we had the equivalent of an organized crime
ring systematically shaking down people who dealt with Illinois government for personal and political gain. It was racketeering pure and simple.
"It's a shame Rod Blagojevich was re-elected and has put our state through all that we have had to endure, but at long last his state plane and perks have turned into the proverbial pumpkin and we are free of such a horrible public servant."
-- U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Peoria
Karen McDonald can be reached at kmcdonald@pjstar.com. The State Journal-Register contributed to this report.
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Term Paper: Totalitarian Government
Pages: 8 (2698 words) · Bibliography Sources: 1+ · Level: College Senior · Topic: Government · Buy This Paper
Totalitarian Governments
Although no exact definition of "totalitarianism" exists, it generally refers to an extreme form of authoritarian government in the modern times. Totalitarian governments are different from the 'classical' dictatorships that have existed and have been described by philosophers and intellectuals since the time of Plato and Aristotle. In fact many historians consider totalitarianism to be a uniquely 20th century phenomenon that gained ascendancy during the period between the two World Wars. In modern totalitarian governments, the state intrudes into all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens by seeking to control the economics, politics, values, and beliefs of its population to an extent that the distinction between state and society is erased. The conditions that contribute to the evolution of totalitarian governments are hard to pin-point but the history of the 20th century and the prevalent socio-economic conditions in the countries where such regimes took hold in the wake of World War I provide us with some clue. This paper examines the conditions that contribute to the evolution of such governments and the variables that distinguish totalitarianism from other forms of government. It also identifies and discusses specific totalitarian countries that provide case studies of the rise of totalitarianism.
Conditions that Lead to Totalitarianism
There is no single cause that leads to totalitarianism although its theoretical roots have been traced to the political theories of Plato, Hobbes, Rousseau and Marx at different times. Some theorists have even suggested that the rapidity, with which totalitarian governments have arisen in modern times, indicates that "there is something in human nature to which they correspond and on which they draw for their moral energy." (Scruton 1998) That "something," according to Scruton is an overwhelming sense of 'resentment' among the people which is exploited and stoked by a group of people (usually the elite) to embark on the path of a totalitarian government.
More often, totalitarianism is the result of a number of historical forces that happen to come together at a single point in time. The post-World War I period in Europe was one such time. The War had caused untold destruction in the countries where it was fought and the reparations imposed on Germany by the victorious Allied powers as well as the one-side Versailles Treaty further exacerbated the situation. All these factors led to severe social, political and economic crises in Europe. When the liberal democratic governments in most of the European countries failed to effectively tackle the severe economic and social problems such as the Great Depression of the 1930s, the concept of alternate forms of government started to attract a receptive audience. Russia was plunged into the October 1917 Bolshevik revolution even before the war had ended. Others such as Italy and Germany were soon to follow a different path on the road to totalitarianism.
There is, of course, some controversy about whether Marxism, on which the Russian Revolution was based, professes totalitarianism. Most Marxist writers insist that in the totalitarian state of the left "force is used only in order to quicken the pace of man's progress to perfection and social harmony." (Talmon 1960) Unlike the totalitarian state of the right which assumes human nature as weak and corrupt and justifies the use of force as necessary to control the unruly masses. Karl Marx's concept of a truly Communist system also envisioned the ultimate formation of a utopian state in which no government existed. The catch, however, was that the Soviet Communism never reached that 'ultimate' stage. What the initial phase of communism in Russia -- the so-called 'dictatorship of the Proletariat' degenerated into was Stalinism; and Stalinism was nothing more than the worst kind of totalitarianism.
While the Communist ideology may be somewhat ambivalent about the concept of totalitarianism, the other leading authoritarian political philosophies of the time, i.e., fascism and National Socialism (Nazism) were not: they openly professed a totalitarian system of government; scorned at the 'sloppy' liberalism of democracy and the considered Bolshevism as the greatest 'scourge' known to mankind.
Hence the conditions that lead to totalitarianism are likely to resemble the socio-economic conditions that existed in Europe after the end of the First World War -- widespread chaos, social, political and economic crises along with a belief that the existing social and political structure was unworkable. In such an environment, it is easy for people to feel deep resentment towards real or imaginary enemies and to find scapegoats for the unsatisfactory conditions. Yearning for a strong leader who would lead the nation out of its predicament and extreme patriotism often accompanies such feelings, resulting in popular support for the setting up of a totalitarian regime.
Several contemporary thinkers and writers have written about the modern phenomenon of totalitarianism, prominent among them were George Orwell and Hannah Arendt. Both the writers drew parallels between the Soviet Communist regime and the fascist governments in Germany and Italy. Arendt in particular has dwelt on the conditions that lead to totalitarianism in her monumental "Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951), relating the development of totalitarianism to 19th-century anti-Semitism and imperialism and seeing its growth as the outcome of the disintegration of the traditional nation-state. (Arendt 1966) Orwell, on the other hand, was fearful that the specter of totalitarianism would come to dominate the whole world and most of writings reflect that fear.
Variables that Distinguish Totalitarian Governments from Other Forms of Government
Totalitarian governments differ from other forms of government in a number of ways. While they obviously differ most conspicuously from liberal-democratic governments, they are also distinguishable from dictatorship, despotism, or tyranny. Unlike all other forms of governments, totalitarian governments seek to replace all the existing political, legal, and social institutions with new ones. Such disruption of the existing order is considered necessary to mold the people into a single unified movement. Typically, a single mass political party is created, headed by a charismatic leader, through which the people are mobilized. In this way, totalitarian regimes have a much more pervasive effect on the society of a nation than mere dictatorships and despotic regimes. ("Totalitarianism," Britannica 2003)
The totalitarian state is characterized by its single minded pursuit of a particular goal, be it industrialization or conquest, to the exclusion of all others. It mobilizes all its resources for achieving 'the goal,' regardless of the costs. Most of its policies flow out of the obsession to achieve the goal. Even the ideology that is propounded by a totalitarian state revolves around the attainment of its goal. The pronouncement of a state ideology is considered necessary to garner popular support and such support for the ideology is used to declare any dissent as evil and worthy of being crushed mercilessly. (Ibid.)
Another distinguishing feature of a totalitarian government is that the members of the ruling party are the elite of the nation. This was true even in the supposedly classless society of the Communist regimes in which the Communist Party members became the privileged class in a hierarchical organization.
Totalitarian governments are also characterized by suppression of old religious and social ties which are replaced by artificial ties to the state and its official ideology. Diversity and individualism are discouraged so that the people can be goaded into embracing the ideology of the state. The objective is mass conformity of the majority to the beliefs and behavior sanctioned by the state and to cow down the rest into submission.
All the tools and resources available to a government are used to achieve its goals. Morality and ideals such as human rights take a back-seat in the pursuit of the state's goal and is justified by the state ideology. Violence is often made part of state policy, and is considered necessary for controlling internal dissent and for use against a group of people who are prosecuted after being blamed for the ills of the country.
Advanced scientific and industrial technologies are fully utilized by totalitarian governments for achieving total subjugation of the population. For example, all mass communication sources such as newspapers, magazines, books, radio and television, theater, and motion pictures, is centrally controlled and directed by the government. Censorship and effective propaganda techniques are the key in controlling the thought process of the people. All the people who are involved in the mass communication process, e.g., writers, actors, composers, or poets are required to be licensed so that only the party-line and officially sanctioned information and ideology reaches the public. ("Characteristics of Totalitarianism," n.d.)
All means, such as the secret police, a centrally controlled economy and the sources of weapons are used by totalitarian governments to keep a tight lid on all possible dissent. Totalitarian states, unlike even the so-called police states, allow the police to operate without the constraints of laws and regulations. A secret-police (e.g., Gestapo and the KGB) terrorizes the population of a totalitarian state through the use of institutions such as the concentration camp, torture, kangaroo-court trials, and forced public confessions.
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Lionel Fulton, Director
Email : lfulton@lrd.org.uk
Website : http://www.lrd.org.uk
As stated in its constitution, “the Labour Research Department (LRD) exists to co-operate with Labour, Socialist and Co-operative movements in promoting and carrying out research into problems of importance to labour and to issue publications and otherwise make the results of research available to labour”. Founded in July 1912 as the Committee of Enquiry into the Control of Industry of the Fabian Society, it became the Fabian Research Department in 1913. In 1917 its membership was opened to trade union organisations and in 1918 it became the Labour Research Department. LRD has maintained the principles embodied in its initial statement for over 100 years, and provided its affiliates and subscribers with a wealth of information and research. Currently some 4,500 organisations and individuals are affiliated to the Labour Research Department or subscribe to its publications. The affiliates included 58 national unions, representing 97% of total TUC membership, but also over 1,000 trade union branches – local union organisations, based in a workplace or locality. The affiliates elect the Executive Committee on which the larger trade unions are almost always represented. The most important sources of income for the LRD are the sale of booklets, the affiliation fees and the commissioned research that the LRD carries out.
The LRD has a 19 experienced staff (12 of whom are researchers) who work in the following areas:
Collective bargaining – based on the on-line service pay and conditions database 'Payline', which the LRD updates and maintains, the organisation carries out specific projects, such as looking at pay and conditions in further and higher education; contact person: Lewis Emery
Health and Safety, research projects include for example: TUC survey of safety reps, Implementation of the European social partners' agreement on work-related stress, attacks on firefighters; contact person: Nerys Owen
The LRD has a 14 experienced staff (9 of whom are researchers) who work in the following areas:
Health and Safety, research projects include for example: TUC survey of safety reps, Implementation of the European social partners' agreement on work-related stress, attacks on firefighters; contact person: Clare Ruhemann
Equality, research projects include for example: TUC Equality Audit; contact person: Clare Ruhemann
Employment Law, research projects include for example: updating the rights at work section of the TUC worksmart website; contact person Nerys Owen (nowen@lrd.org.uk)
Union Developments, research projects include for example: a survey of collective conciliation, an analysis of the state of UK unions and a survey of the workloads of NASUWT lay officials; contact person: Clare Ruhemann
Workers’ participation and EWCs, research projects include for example: employee involvement in companies under the European Company Statute, social dialogue in local and regional government for EPSU and national Industrial relations for www.worker-participation.eu website; contact person: Lionel Fulton
Other areas of expertise are: environmental concerns, corporate governance, pensions, training, directors’ pay, labour migration, and shift arrangements.
One particular strength of the LRD is the close and regular contacts it has with local union negotiators. As well as being the source for the information held on the Payline pay and conditions database, they can also be surveyed on other topics. Commissioned research projects which have made use of this resource include examinations of bargaining in the recession, the use of agency workers, collective bargaining on equality issues and employee action on the environment.
In addition to this the LRD undertakes research for trade unions and other organisations using a range of research methods. These include membership surveys for quantitative research, and interviews for quantitative studies, as well as desk research. Issues covered in last the three years have included, employee representation in Europe, European Companies, union members’ views on a proposed pay deal, background information on profitability in broadcasting and film, violence against firefighters, youth workers’ terms and conditions, young teachers’ pay and conditions, environmental cases studies, fatalities in the fire service, unions and collective bargaining in the EU Member States, the impact of restructuring on health, why members leave unions, social dialogue in local and regional government in Europe, race discrimination in the private sector, shift patterns in the fire service, apprentices, redundancy payments, climate change, a survey of the main health and safety concerns, the TUC equality audit, bargaining in the recession, a survey of environmental action by unions, the use of agency workers, migrant workers and unions in the public sector in Europe, sickness absence, an international comparison of the rules on the use of temporary workers, developments in major UK unions, a survey of the workload of lay officials, top pay in the public service, dealing with redundancies, sickness absence, transnational negotiations in Europe, using collective conciliation, evaluation of the social partners’ agreement on work-related stress, redundancies in UK local authorities and a survey of union influence on CPD in the health service.
In some cases this research is published by the unions and other organisations for whom it is carried out, while in other cases it is only used for internal purposes. LRD participates as well in European projects in the following areas: EWCs, migrant workers, CSR, companies covered by EWC directive, equal opportunities, pay benchmarking, health and safety, collective bargaining, European companies, corporate governance, employee representation, IT support and industry analysis.
The project 'Payline' gives union members and officials access to information on 2,400 collective agreements with large and small employers in both the public and the private sectors. In addition to information about pay settlements and pay rates, Payline has information about working hours, holidays and special leave, overtime rates, shift pay, regional allowances, maternity, paternity and other family friendly policies (flexible working, career breaks), union facilities and a range of other subjects that are useful to union negotiators on a daily basis. The LRD uses this information as the basis for its regular analysis of current pay and conditions and the information is also available to the members of the subscribing unions.
The LRD has an ongoing involvement in updating the national industrial relations pages of the www.worker-participation.eu website for the ETUI and has undertaken a number of regular projects for the TUC.
Labour Research is the UK monthly magazine that provides updated information on what's happening in the unions and the world of work - from how the unions are faring under the coalition government, through the role of the courts in strikes, to new developments in bargaining. The magazine also provides regular updates on workers' legal rights and changes in employment law, as well as the information that union reps need to monitor, and take effective action on, health and safety at work. It also provides the latest information on equality matters and European Union developments. For more information, please contact the editor Ali Brown.
Workplace Report focuses on the more practical information relevant to trade unionists. It provides union reps and negotiators with relevant information they need in a comprehensive but easy-to-read monthly package. Each issue contains official statistics on earnings and prices plus pay figures from LRD's Payline database; a round-up of recent negotiated settlements; and the latest news relating to health and safety, recruitment and organising, union learning, equality issues and European pay deals. A pull-out employment case law section reports on all the significant rulings on a range of topics from the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the courts, and there are two in-depth features every month on topical workplace issues - with many drawing on surveys of LRD's workplace contacts to provide a unique insight into workplace experiences and best practice. Once a year, a supplement based on Payline, is added to the magazine. For more information, please contact the editor Neal Moister
LRD Booklets provide information on a range of trade union and labour movement concerns, with an average of 10 or 11 booklets produced each year. There are guides to issues that are permanently on the trade union agenda - such as health and safety, state benefits and sick pay - as well as rapid analysis of new developments affecting trade unionists - such as new employment laws and codes. The most popular of those booklets is the one on 'Law at Work' which is issued every year in an updated version. For more information, please contact the editor Stephanie Peck
Safety Rep includes the latest health and safety and environmental news drawn from LRD's publications together with new material, unique to Safety Rep. The bulletin is aimed at safety reps who may not currently see LRD's other publications as a tool for keeping reps up-to-date. For more information, please contact Neal Moister
The newsletter of the LRD called 'Fact Service' is published weekly and provides a concise update on the latest developments of interest to unions. It gives full details of the latest official statistics on prices, earnings and unemployment, as they appear, as well as coverage of key economic and industrial issues as they happen. For more information, please contact the editor Neal Moister
Occasionally LRD produces one-off publications such as a Polish-language employment rights guide, Prawo w pracy - twoje uprawnienia (Law at work - know your rights).
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Botox for Hyperhidrosis and Underarm Sweating
Hyperhidrosis, aka excess sweating, is a major problem for millions of people. It occurs when an individual sweats more than necessary and may interfere with a person’s everyday activities.
A Saint Louis University study indicated approximately 2.8 percent of the U.S. population suffers from excess sweating. However, Botox may prove to be a viable treatment to control this issue.
Why Do We Sweat?
Let’s face it – sweating can be embarrassing, but it is important to note that sweating is part of a natural process that affects everyone.
The body contains two sweat glands: eccrine and apocrine. There are thousands of eccrine sweat glands that regulate the body’s temperature, and they ensure the nervous system functions properly when the body’s temperature rises. As a result, an individual may start to sweat while exercising or performing other strenuous activity, and this sweat will come from the eccrine glands.
Comparatively, the apocrine glands are located in the underarm and groin areas. Like the eccrine glands, the apocrine glands are stimulated by a rise in the body’s temperature. Moreover, the apocrine glands may trigger sweat due to anxiety, stress or hormones.
The apocrine glands also create bacteria that break down sweat but cause body odor. This is why people commonly apply deodorant under the arms and not across the entire body.
The Benefits of Sweat
Sweat may seem unnecessary at times, but it offers many health benefits, including:
It helps boost endorphins. Medical Daily points out prolonged sweating releases endorphins that can help an individual feel good during physical activity.
It detoxifies the body. Sweating allows a person to flush alcohol, salt and other substances from the body.
It reduces the risk of kidney stones. Sweating has been shown to help an individual retain calcium in the bones and eliminate salt in the kidneys and urine, reducing the likelihood of kidney stones.
It minimizes the risk of colds and other illnesses. Sweat boasts antimicrobial peptides that protect the body against harmful bacteria, fungi and viruses.
It helps eliminate zits. Sweat helps release toxins inside pores.
Clearly, there’s a lot to like about sweat. But for those who experience excess sweating, extra help may be needed to keep this problem in check.
Botox for Hyperhidrosis and Underarm Sweating: What You Need to Know
Botox is frequently used as a non-invasive cosmetic treatment to minimize fine lines and wrinkles in the face. Believe it or not, Botox also provides an effective treatment to manage hyperhidrosis and underarm sweating as well.
The CENTER for Advanced Facial Plastic Surgery offers Botox for hyperhidrosis and underarm sweating. Our Botox treatments are administered by Dr. Azizzadeh and he always goes above and beyond the call of duty to assist patients.
Dr. Azizzadeh will explain the ins and outs of a Botox treatment during an initial consultation. At this time, a patient can ask questions and receive information about what to expect during and after a Botox for underarms treatment.
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HomeNewsAward Supports Cornwall’s Young Artists
10 July 2017Back to news
Award Supports Cornwall’s Young Artists
Seven of the county's most promising young art students have been announced as winners of the Midas Award 2017 – providing them with an invaluable opportunity of working with professional curators and artists on series of residencies, commissions and gallery internships.
Now in its eleventh year, The Midas Award has been redesigned to focus its support for BA(Hons) Fine Art students by offering individual students a more embedded experience within a professional gallery context, through residencies and internships. An expert panel from Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, interviewed shortlisted applicants for a number of funded professional practice opportunities at the gallery.
Students Bronwen Anwyl, Rachael Coward and Robert Ive were each awarded a week-long residency as part of Newlyn Art Gallery's annual artist programme, Structures, taking place between 10 February and 3 March 2018.
Rachael Coward was also awarded the opportunity to devise and design an exhibition interpretation guide to accompany the Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange 2017 summer exhibition. Olivia Brelsford-Massey, Ellie Cotton and Maya Ronchetti have been selected for three work experience internships in their second year of study. They will assist the gallery's curatorial and learning staff to deliver the Structures residencies in January and February 2018.
Dr Ginny Button, Director of the Falmouth School of Art, said: "I'm delighted with the new-look Midas Award. We're grateful to the team at Newlyn for offering our graduating Fine Art students a step change experience through participation in their highly successful residency programme.
"The new internships also offer current students an insider's view of what it's like to work in a professional, contemporary art organisation. Midas has been very involved in helping us redesign the Award this year, keeping it relevant for students working now, and we appreciate their enlightened approach and continuing commitment. Making the transition into the professional world is tough for emerging artists so real opportunities such as these are invaluable."
The Midas Award is delivered in partnership by South West construction firm The Midas Group, Falmouth School of Art and Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange and is funded by the Midas Group and Falmouth School of Art.
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Almost $45 Million Raised For Charity By"Idol Gives Back"
The IDOL GIVES BACK fundraising effort, which culminated Wednesday night with a two-hour television event, has raised almost $45 million to benefit various U.S. and international charities including the Children's Health Fund, Feeding America, Malaria No More, Save the Children's U.S. Programs and the United Nations Foundation.
This year, IDOL GIVES BACK was broadcast live from the AMERICAN IDOL stage and The Pasadena Civic Auditorium, where Queen Latifah emceed the evening and some of music's biggest stars, including Sir Elton John, Alicia Keys, Carrie Underwood, The Black Eyed Peas, Annie Lennox, Jeff Beck & Joss Stone and Mary J. Blige & the All-Star Band, performed. The evening also featured special appearances by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, Victoria Beckham, Morgan Freeman, Wanda Sykes, George Lopez, David Cook, Russell Brand, Jonah Hill, Bill and Melinda Gates.
"Once again, I am over overwhelmed by the generosity of the AMERICAN IDOL viewers, our sponsors and our special benefactors. I am so thankful to all of the celebrity guests and performers who appeared Wednesday night to support IDOL GIVES BACK" said Simon Fuller, creator of AMERICAN IDOL.
Still to be added to the extraordinary total, the iTunes Store, the No. 1 music retailer in the U.S., will donate net proceeds from sales of the Top 7 finalist performances to IDOL GIVES BACK. In addition, select guest performances from Wednesday's one-of-a-kind philanthropic event will also be featured on the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com). Check americanidol.com for regular updates on which performances will be available.
Donations will continue to be accepted via the Internet at www.americanidol.com and by telephone at 1-877-IDOL-AID (1-877-436-5243).
Corporate sponsors for this year's IDOL GIVES BACK were News Corporation, Ford Motor Company, Coca-Cola, AT&T, ExxonMobil, iTunes, FremantleMedia and 19 Entertainment.
Additionally, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a not-for-profit partner on IDOL GIVES BACK.
AMERICAN IDOL is created and executive-produced by Simon Fuller, founder of 19 Entertainment; and executive-produced by Cecile Frot-Coutaz, CEO, FremantleMedia North America; and Ken Warwick, executive producer, FremantleMedia North America.
Visit americanidol.com for exclusive videos, interviews and photos of the finalists as well as special behind-the-scenes information and all of your AMERICAN IDOL news. For photos and interviews with the finalists, please visit foxflash.com/idol.
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Feeding America Launches Hunger Action Month With Help From Phil Vassar, David Arquette, Nick Lachey and CMT
Feeding America, the nation's largest hunger-relief organization (formerly known as America's Second Harvest), commemorates the inaugural Hunger Action Month, a nationwide call-to-action effort to mobilize the public, bring greater attention to the issue of hunger in America, and promote ways for individuals everywhere to get involved with the movement to end hunger in America.
Cable network CMT serves as the official media partner for Hunger Action Month and Universal South recording artist Phil Vassar has teamed with Feeding America to serve as the official spokesperson of the campaign. Vassar has re-recorded the song"Prayer of a Common Man," from his latest album of the same name, to help raise awareness about the about the state of hunger in America.
"I have seen the devastating effects that hunger can have on a person and on a family," said Vassar, who recorded the updated version of"Prayer" with members from the Fisk University Jubilee Singers."By partnering with Feeding America, it's my hope that I can help draw more people to the cause and shed more light on hunger relief opportunities."
The song will be available for download exclusively on Rhapsody on Tuesday, September 9. Feeding America will receive a portion of the proceeds for each download of the song through the end of the year.
Other celebrities, including actor David Arquette and singer Nick Lachey, have joined the call to action and will be volunteering at food banks in September. Many of Feeding America's 205 member food banks will host events across the United States that will directly benefit hunger-relief -- including concerts, hunger walks and food drives.
"With the economic downturn, 2008 has been an especially difficult year for many households who cannot make ends meet and are forced to seek assistance from their local food banks," said Vicki Escarra, president and CEO of Feeding America."Our network is experiencing a 15 to 20 percent increase in demand for assistance this year. Some of our food banks have reported much higher increases in requests for emergency food. A large-scale nationwide call to action is imperative right now as so many families living on the very brink of hunger."
Upcoming events include:
September 9, Nick Lachey will volunteer at Food Bank For New York City's Community Kitchen in Harlem. September 12, David Arquette will be volunteering at the Los Angeles Regional Food bank, helping fill backpacks with food, which will be distributed to at-risk children at a Los Angeles public school.
September 23, Cleveland Browns Taste of the NFL Celebrity Dinner. Guests will dine on samplings from more than 20 of Cleveland's finest restaurants, while mingling with Cleveland Browns alumni and current players.
September 18,"Dining Out Against Hunger" in San Francisco. For $20.00, forty local restaurants will invite restaurant-goers to sample various appetizers and wines with the proceeds going to the San Francisco Food Bank.
September 1 through 30, Citibank Food Drive in Long Island, New York. Citibank and its 80 branches throughout Long Island will conduct a month long Food & Fund Drive to benefit Long Island Cares and Island Harvest.
September 19, the 6th annual Take a Swing at Hunger Golf Tournament benefiting the Food Bank of Central Louisiana in Alexandria.
September 28, Crop Walk, a walk through Lexington, Kentucky to benefit hungry families in the community.
"There is something everyone can do to be a part of Feeding America's Hunger Action Month," said Escarra. To take part or learn what is going on in your community, please visit: http://www.secondharvest.org/how_to_help/hungeractionmonth/index.html
This announcement falls on the heels of a troubling nationwide local impact survey conducted by Feeding America. The May 2008 survey of 180 food banks nationwide found that 99 percent of the food banks reported between a 15 percent and 20 percent increase in the number of people being served, compared to one year ago. Eighty-one percent of the food banks reported that they are unable to meet the growing demand without having to dramatically reduce the amount of food given to each household. Food bank respondents cited food and fuel prices as a primary reason that individuals are turning to food banks for their meals.
CMT, a unit of Viacom's MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), is the leading television and digital authority on country music and entertainment, reaching more than 87 million homes in the U.S. CMT and its website, CMT.com, offer an unparalleled mix of music, news, live concerts and series and is the top resource for country music on demand. The network's digital platforms include the 24-hour music channel, CMT Pure Country, CMT Mobile and CMT VOD.
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Los Angeles Film Critics Awards (LAFCA)
About / History :
Founded in 1975, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is comprised of Los Angeles-based, professional film critics working in the Los Angeles print and electronic media.
Each December, LAFCA members vote on the year’s Achievement Awards, honoring screen excellence on both sides of the camera. Plaques of recognition are presented to winners during LAFCA’s annual ceremony, held in mid-January.
Aside from honoring each year’s outstanding cinematic achievements, LAFCA has also made it a point to look back and pay tribute to distinguished industry veterans with its annual Career Achievement Award (which is announced in October), as well as to look forward by spotlighting fresh, promising talent with its annual New Generation Award.
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As Sasikala attempts to take over AIADMK, disproportionate assets case looms large
Politics Sandhya Ravishankar Dec 10, 2016 09:35:00 IST
Hectic parleys are on within Poes Garden, home of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. Her confidante, aide and whom she often referred to as her ‘sister’ – Sasikala Natarajan – continues to live in ‘Veda Nilayam’, Jayalalithaa’s home, summoning Ministers for meetings and according to sources, lobbying for the top spot in the ruling party – the post of General Secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). Since the party’s inception in 1972, the post of General Secretary has been held by two people – founder and former Chief Minister MG Ramachandran and thereafter by Jayalalithaa.
But as Sasikala marches on to fulfill her political ambition, a Damocles’ sword continues to hang over her head – that of the Rs 58 crore Disproportionate Assets case currently awaiting orders on appeal in the Supreme Court.
A file image of Sasikala and Jayalalithaa. PTI
Speaking exclusively to Firstpost, Special Public Prosecutor for the Karnataka government, BV Acharya, who is trying the case, said that the case against Sasikala, her sister in law Ilavarasi and nephew VN Sudhakaran is very much alive, despite the abatement of charges against prime accused Jayalalithaa who is no more. “The case will survive,” he said. “There is a charge of conspiracy too in this case. Only the appeal against Jayalalithaa will abate. Arguments are over and the case is posted for judgement. There can be no abatement of charges once the case is posted for judgement. The court has to give a verdict,” he said.
The Disproportionate Assets case, commonly known as the DA case, is 19 years old. In 1996, the then Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government slapped cases on rival Jayalalithaa and four others, accusing them of holding disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 66 crores. In 2014, a special court trying the case in Bengaluru convicted all four of possessing unexplained wealth and sentenced them to four years of jail time each, along with a Rs 100 crore fine. Jayalalithaa, Sasikala and the other two accused spent 21 days in jail, subsequently coming out on bail. On appeal in the Karnataka High Court, the trial court’s verdict was overturned – all four were acquitted. The Karnataka government, which took over the role of prosecutor once the case was shifted to Bengaluru, appealed in the apex court. Orders were reserved by Justices PC Ghose and Amitava Roy in June this year.
“It is not just about the Prevention of Corruption Act,” explained Acharya. “The charge of conspiracy is independent. Even if one conspirator dies, the case will go on,” he said.
Senior lawyers also point to a 2014 judgement delivered by the Supreme Court which they say has cleared up the legal point on this issue. They refer to the case of State of New Delhi represented by the CBI versus Jitender Singh, in which Justices Radhakrishnan and AK Sikri ruled that a special court set up to try a specific case or cases, can go on to try the other accused, even if the prime accused died during the trial.
“We can visualize a situation where a public servant dies at the fag end of the trial, by that time, several witnesses might have been examined and to hold that the entire trial would be vitiated due to death of a sole public servant would defeat the entire object and purpose of the PC Act, which is enacted for effective combating of corruption and to expedite cases related to corruption and bribery,” says the order. “The purpose of the PC Act is to make anti-corruption laws more effective in order to expedite the proceedings, provisions for day-to-day trial of cases, transparency with regard to grant of stay and exercise of powers of revision on interlocutory orders Page 36 36 have also been provided under the PC Act. Consequently, once the power has been exercised by the Special Judge under sub-section (3) of Section 4 of the PC Act to proceed against non-PC offences along with PC offences, the mere fact that the sole public servant dies after the exercise of powers under sub-section (3) of Section 4, will not divest the jurisdiction of the Special Judge or vitiate the proceedings pending before him.”
“The Supreme Court has already settled this,” said senior lawyer KM Vijayan. “If A1 is under PC (Prevention of Corruption) Act but other accused are under a non-PC Act and if the case is tried by Special Court – the court is not restricted in respect of PC Act alone. There is a special provision for Special Courts to try non-PC Acts along with the PC Act. The Supreme Court has said in this judgement that in such cases even if A1 dies, the cases against A2, A3 and A4 will not abate,” he stated.
“Now Supreme Court can say that the case can be heard afresh against A2, A3 and A4 but the case will definitely not abate with the death of a public servant,” he added.
“Acquittal Possible”
Senior Supreme Court advocate KTS Tulsi explained to Firstpost the legalese in the case. “The charges may not abate against the others but the charges can be dismissed against the other accused due to the nature of this case,” said Tulsi.
The reason for this, according to him, is the fact that the prime accused, Jayalalithaa, was a public servant and the whole case surrounded the corruption allegations and conspiracy with the public servant to amass wealth illegally. “The public servant was the former Chief Minister,” he said. “Now that the public servant is not available any longer, once the appeal against Jaya abates, the others cannot be prosecuted.”
When queried about the 2014 judgement in Jitender Singh by the Supreme Court, Tulsi said that that would hold good only in two instances – 1) when the family of the deceased wants the appeal to go on in order to remove the blot on the name of the prime accused or 2) if property is involved and there is a dispute over it by legal heirs, which would mean that the property would get stuck.
“But in this case, there is no heir. I don’t think the political party will bother with continuing the appeal in order to clear her name or any such thing. So the other accused may well be discharged,” he said.
Will the death of Jayalalithaa bring legal relief for Sasikala who was staring at the possibility of four years in jail?
This case, which haunted Jayalalithaa for the most part of her political career, is likely to be top of mind for Sasikala as well as other leaders of the ruling party. As negotiations and power tussles play out within Poes Garden, the wheels of justice turn ever so slowly.
Tags : AIADMK, ConnectTheDots, Disproportionate Assets Case, Jayalalithaa, Sasikala Natarajan
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5Karnataka governor asks Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy to prove majority in floor of Assembly before 6 pm
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Cory Booker calls out Amazon, Halliburton in Democratic primary debate
By Elizabeth Zwirz Published June 26, 2019 PoliticsFOXBusiness
Cory Booker pushes expansion of eligibility for earned income tax credit
Former Bain Capital Managing Director Ed Conard on Sen. Cory Booker's proposal to expand the earned income tax credit, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang calling for a universal basic income and Sen. Elizabeth Warren calling for a ban on drilling on federal lands.
Sen. Cory Booker called out Amazon and Halliburton during Wednesday’s first Democratic primary debate, accusing them of paying "nothing in taxes."
The New Jersey lawmaker took aim at the businesses after being asked about Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to break up big technology companies. "Today" co-host and debate moderator Savannah Guthrie pressed Booker on why he has previously said that he “didn’t think it was right to name names” and single companies out.
“I will single out companies like Halliburton or Amazon that pay nothing in taxes, and our need to change that,” he replied.
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For the second year in a row, Amazon paid zero dollars in federal income tax. The company earned a record $11.2 billion in U.S. profits, according to the company’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing in February, yet did not pay the 21 percent U.S. corporate tax, leveraging unspecified tax credits and stock-based compensation deductions. Instead, Amazon received a federal income tax rebate of $129 million.
Information on Halliburton's 2018 federal income taxes was not immediately available.
Booker went on to lay out his plan on how to enforce anti-trust laws if he’s elected president, saying he'd appoint judges and put together a Department of Justice and a Federal Trade Commission that will "check this kind of corporate concentration."
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“At the end of the day, we have too much of a problem with corporate power growing,” he said. “It’s about time that we have a president that fights for the people in this country who need to have someone that’s a champion for them.”
Fox Business' Megan Henney contributed to this report.
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