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Bamboo Growth Rate-You Should Know
Headayet kabir May 27, 2017 | 450 | | bamboo growth rate
Bamboo Growth Rate:
Bamboo growth rate is determined by species selection, soil, sunlight and watering conditions. It’s also dependent on care and maintenance you give to a bamboo plant. Every year, new shoots grow to multiple canes. It takes about 4 years for most species to reach their maximum size. Since bamboo is a member of the grass family, it uses energy from the existing plant to expand the root structure.
Although the plant will put on new foliage every year, a cane can live up to 10 years. In an ideal condition the tallest species of bamboo can attain a maximum height of 100 feet. Today, there are more than 1400 species of bamboo. They share some superlative characteristics and are known to be the fastest growing plants in the world.
Growth characteristics of a bamboo
A bamboo will grow to new plant from the original shoots. For instance, running bamboo usually send shoots a distance from the parent plant. On the other hand, the clamping type occupies a larger diameter but it’s more controllable. Before you plant the running bamboo, you must identify the most effective method of controlling the shoots.
Fastest Growing Bamboo Species
· Moso bamboo
This is one of the largest bamboo species. It can reach a height of 10 feet in just three weeks. However, the bamboo growth rate is dependent on the climate conditions. As it grows taller, it becomes thicker and can attain a maximum height of 90 feet. This species of bamboo is largely classified as a timber bamboo. In china, it’s used for making plywood, furniture and flooring materials. In other countries the shoots are used as a recipe for different food cuisines.
· Silverstripe bamboo
This is a clumping type bamboo with the fastest growth rate. This species only grows one inch in diameter .The leaves have white stripes. It’s hardy and capable of growing when temperatures are below 18 degrees F. The bamboo can reach a maximum height of 25 feet.
· Golden bamboo
It’s referred to as Phyllostachys aurea or the fishing bamboo. It can tolerate sunny conditions to achieve a maximum height of 35 feet. The canes are light green in color but turn gold when the plant receives sufficient sunlight. When it’s not trimmed, it forms a dense grove which acts as a good privacy screen. The bamboo growth rate is dependent on the climate conditions. It tends to grow slowly in cool climates.
· Greenstripe Vivax
It features yellow canes with green stripes. It grows fast to reach a maximum height of 45 feet. The canes are 5 inches in diameter. This species does well in harsh climatic conditions and is suitable for growing as a hedge.
· Chinese timber bamboo
In ideal conditions, it can attain a height of 40 to 45 feet .However; it’s capable of reaching a maximum height of 60 to 70 feet. This species of bamboo is valued by the Chinese as a hardwood timber.
A bamboo tree grows well in a rich fertile soil. It’s recommended that you incorporate organic matter into the soil. Although these plants have shallow root systems, they need plenty of water. To ensure there is no standing water, you should plant them on raised beds. Similarly, if you want to accelerate bamboo growth rate, you should apply nitrogen fertilizers, compost or manure.
How to grow bamboo plants from cuttings
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Why bamboo orchid is a delightful indoor plant
Planting Dwarf Bamboo To make Your Outdoor space More Inviting
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A White Stone for Belfast: One Take on Religious Politics
Berkeley Lectures in Public Theology
Berkeley Public Theology Program
Robert Orsi, Professor of Religious Studies and History and Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies, Northwestern University
This lecture asks what “religious” politics might be given the deconstruction of the concept of “religion” that has taken place over the past several decades, which has uncovered its implicit social, legal, and political agendas from early modernity forward. It takes as its starting point an experience Anglican sisters had in Belfast at the height of the troubles, when they attempted to carve out a space for political action from within their monastic vocation. It goes on to argue for a politics of plural ontologies.
Robert Orsi is the first holder of the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies. Professor Orsi studies American religious history and contemporary practice; American Catholicism in both historical and ethnographic perspective; and he is widely recognized also for his work on theory and method for the study of religion. In 2002-2003, he was president of the American Academy of Religion. Professor Orsi has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Fulbright Foundation. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2010 he received the E. Leroy Hall Award for Teaching Excellence, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, the highest recognition for teaching offered by WCAS.
The Berkeley Public Theology Program invites innovative thinkers and public figures to Berkeley to reflect on the past, present, and future of theological inquiry. Such lectures spark scholarly conversations on campus and place Berkeley at the center of global conversations on religion and public life.
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One Killed in Yemeni Houthi Attack on Saudi Airport
Several countries have condemned the terrorist attack that targeted Abha International Airport in Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Houthi militias, resulting in the death of one person and injuries to seven civilians. The person killed has been identified as a Syrian resident.
Abha is about 200 km north of the Saudi-Yemen border and the airport serves both domestic and regional routes. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain strongly condemned the attack and expressed condolences to the family of the victim, wishing the injured a speedy recovery.
The Ministry reiterated Bahrain's solidarity with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia against attempts targeting its security and stability. The UAE's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC), condemning the attack, said it flies in the face of all international laws and conventions.
"The UAE strongly condemns this terrorist act and labels it as a new evidence of the Houthi militias' hostile and terrorist tendencies to undermine security and stability in the region." "The security of the UAE and of the kingdom is indivisible," it noted, adding, "any threat or danger to Saudi Arabia's security is considered a threat to UAE's security and stability."
Egypt, Jordan, Afghanistan, Djibouti have alos condemned the attack. The Board of Directors of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has also strongly condemned the targeting of Abha International Airport. It expressed solidarity with Saudi Arabia, describing the attack as a blatant violation of international laws and an attack on the civil aviation infrastructure.
Yemeni Houthis Target Saudi Airports 16/06/2019 05:52 GMT
Yemeni Houthis Fire Missiles on Saudi Airport 13/06/2019 04:19 GMT
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Chess Database
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Funky name, real matters
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achillesheel 443 ( +1 | -1 )
Fischer Story TOKYO (Reuters) - Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, wanted by Washington for defying sanctions on Yugoslavia, plans to renounce his U.S. citizenship, a lawyer working on his appeal against deportation from Japan said on Friday.
Fischer, one of the chess world's great eccentrics, was detained at Tokyo's Narita airport last month when he tried to leave for Manila on a passport U.S. officials say was invalid.
Japanese immigration officials rejected Fischer's initial appeal against deportation and his lawyer, Masako Suzuki, has filed a second plea to Justice Minister Daizo Nozawa.
In a handwritten note made available to the media, Fischer, 61, said the U.S. government and "U.S.-controlled Japanese government, working in collusion and in a criminal conspiracy, have illegally confiscated and illegally physically destroyed my perfectly valid in every way U.S. passport."
The letter, copies of which were made available to the media, added: "As a result of the above-stated criminal act, as well as innumerable other vicious crimes against me by the U.S. government, I no longer wish to be an American citizen."
Fischer's lawyer Suzuki told a news conference he would likely become a stateless person for some time and that his supporters would try to have the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) register him as a refugee.
Suzuki said Fischer phoned the U.S. embassy in Japan on Thursday and conveyed his intention to renounce his citizenship.
But renunciation of his citizenship cannot take effect until he has met a U.S. consular official and conveyed his intent in person, she said.
A U.S. embassy spokesman declined to comment on the matter of Fischer's citizenship, but said that in general "renunciation of citizenship is a process, it takes some time, it's not done instantly."
Besides filing with the UNHCR, Fischer would also look for countries willing to let him stay, Suzuki said.
"We want to look far and wide for countries that are willing to accept him," Suzuki said.
NO RETURN TO U.S. She declined to say if Fischer had expressed any preferences but John Bosnitch, a Tokyo-based Canadian journalist and communications consultant who is advising Fischer, said Fischer was continuing to look at the option of seeking German citizenship, since his father was German.
Documents to prove his German citizenship were still being collected, Bosnitch told the same news conference.
Suzuki said she had asked the Tokyo District Court on Friday to halt deportation procedures against Fischer.
One thing that is clear is that Fischer has no desire to return to the United States.
"He doesn't have any expectation of a fair trial in the United States," Bosnitch said, adding that Fischer himself had said he would be a victim of "a kangaroo court and a show trial" if he returned to the United States.
Bosnitch said Fischer had written a second letter renouncing his citizenship that his supporters would hand to the U.S. embassy in Tokyo as early as Friday.
Fischer became world chess champion in 1972 when he beat Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in a victory seen as a Cold War propaganda coup for the United States.
The title was taken from him three years later after his conditions for a match against Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union, were rejected by chess officials.
Karpov became champion by default.
Fischer, who arrived in Japan in April, has been wanted in the United States since 1992 when he violated U.S. economic sanctions by going to Yugoslavia for a chess match in which he won $3 million for beating old rival Spassky.
The elusive chessmaster then vanished, only to resurface after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States to give an interview to a Philippine radio station in which he praised the strikes and said he wanted to see America "wiped out."
Fischer has filed for refugee status in Japan, which accepts only political refugees. His supporters in Japan say he is being persecuted by the United States.
Fischer's supporters say he renewed his passport in 1997 and never received a letter issued in December 2003 revoking it.
State Department officials in Washington have said it took years for the legal process to catch up with Fischer.
Fischer, whose mother was Jewish, has also stirred controversy with anti-Semitic remarks. (Additional reporting by Linda Sieg)
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brobishkin 14 ( +1 | -1 )
Thoughts about Fischer... Dont do the crime... If you can't do the time... Though the crimes he commited were politically activated... I do believe he commited them purposely and intentionally...
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astinkyfart 27 ( +1 | -1 )
i for one have no respect for this man. being a good chess player doesnt make you untouchable. i work in a st. prison. he is no different than any other outlaw i have talked too. most blame the system, or anyone other than themselves. i hope he is punished to the fullest extent of the law.
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skipwallace555 13 ( +1 | -1 )
Just another person who was blessed with an extraordinary talent and let it go to waste. I was a huge fan of his and now I just hope he gets some medical help.
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baseline 28 ( +1 | -1 )
stinky your being ridculas! How many "outlaws" do you have in your prison charged with playing chess in Yugoslavia? Or do you want to lock him up for exercising his right to free speach? How about we just lock him up for his own good? The srinks would have a field day with RJ.
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richbohlman 9 ( +1 | -1 )
The srinks could have a field day with most people - What is normal?
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chuckventimiglia 9 ( +1 | -1 )
Fischer was not charged with... playing chess in Yugoslavia. As you already know he was charged
with violating US sanctions.
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roland_l 44 ( +1 | -1 )
It's funny the 'twist' people will put on things. (i.e. baseline's last post)
Sorry, we're talking reality. He broke US law (and was warned about it ahead of time). If he didn't like it, he could have changed his citezenship then. He could have simply paid the fine. He could have paid his taxes. If I can pay my taxes now, I think he could have on his $3 million dollar purse.
I think Bro said it best. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time ...
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muppyman 85 ( +1 | -1 )
I sometimes wonder, Do the authorities seek to prosecute him for criminal acts, or persecute him for imbecilic opinions?? So many different opinions are expressed, but still I wonder. Will the chess world ever again see the like of such a collossus striding across the land? I doubt it. Can the families and friends of the innocent victims of 9-11 ever forgive his demented ravings about the event? I doubt it, if I was one of them I couldn't. One thing I am sure of: nothing that any of us here say or do will have any effect on his actions or thoughts, nor any effect on the consequences that now seem to await him, deserved or undeserved. All I can say is that I lament his loss to the chess world now just as keenly as I did back in 1975 when it seemed that he was just unable to face having to defend the title which had made him a national hero. To me he will always be a tragedy looking for a place to finish happening.
desertfox 242 ( +1 | -1 )
Bobby Fischer Is second only to Capablanca as chess is concerned. As a human being there is no comparison between the diplomat Capa and Bobby the enfant terrible of the chess world. But putting him in jail? he wants to give up his American citizenship and rightly so. Bush is anyway not going to be reelected. I told you that before the fiasco in Iraq even began. Now everyone knows what a bad gambit it was to invade Iraq and still be in the iraqi quagmire a few months before elction time.
A president who probably does not understand the rule of en passant in chess wants to put a genius like bobby fischer in jail? this will create such an uproar that his slim chances of being reelected will evaporate. Bobby Fischer is not a war criminal. He has to make a living, and chess playing is his profession. So he played in Yugoslavia. Big deal! the criminals are the US government who bombed Yugoslavia. By what right? by whose authority? what did they achieve? a free Bosnia and Kosovo? they created a center for El Kaida in the heart of Europe! Europe is still sleeping but 9/11 will look like a child's game compared with what these people will create in Europe (remember what they already did in Spain?).
I hope John Kerry is more reasonable than the two war criminals who preceded him.
I always admired Spassky, not only as a chess player. His letter to Bush in which he suggests to put him in jail with Fischer and give them a chess set was a brave act. Bobby told them to their face the truth and they don't like it. Remember the drak days of senator Mac Carthy?
I hope the Americans here vote for Kerry. He has been to the wars and knows how bad they are, unlike JW Bush who served as a pilot in the national guard of Texas.
What did he do there? stop some poor Mexican "wetbacks" from crossing the border in search for a living? LOL.
His father was not the best of presidents, but the son is competing for the title "the worst president ever". I hope he and Don Rumsfeld who invented the WMD (not found until today) will be ousted of office and never heard of again, while Bobby Fischer gets a German citizenship (his father was German) and continues to contribute to the chess world. Bobby is not a diplomat like Capa and does not know when to shut up. So the best solution for both sides is that he becomes German. This is the easiest way for the Administration too.
chuckventimiglia 17 ( +1 | -1 )
Posts like the above are the..... reason why this thread will more
than likely be shut down. This is not
the place to be politicizing and insulting to
any country. Too bad but it always happens.
dokesa 56 ( +1 | -1 )
Rommel I hate to burt your bubble desertfox, but not only did Kerry admit to committing war atrocities himself, but he also said he would have gone to Iraq had he known then what he knows now. I'd encourage you to vote for Nader, but it seems that you live in Israel. Which brings me to my second point. I doubt Germany will take Fischer. They have enough problems with people who deny the holocaust. I don't think they want one more.
cryptos 27 ( +1 | -1 )
Bobby's getting married!!! hey everybody, Bobby's marrying a Japanese lady in an attempt to avoid deportation! :) According to chessbase.com they've been seeing each other for years. And I always thought Bobby was a lone genius!!! I hope you'll all join me in wishing them a happy future :) !!!
bucklehead 77 ( +1 | -1 )
Coverage of the Fischer story id=desertfox seems to believe that jailing RJF will create an anti-administration "uproar" here in the America. An interesting premise. However, it might be of interest to those outside the US that there has been, as far as I can tell, *zero* coverage of the story on the national broadcast news, and only the occasional brief on the cable news outlets. If there is a development, I look at the "crawl" below the main screen, and occasionally they throw us a tidbit. I'm glad there's ChessBase to follow the story carefully.
The lack of domestic coverage may seem strange, especially as broadcasts of the 1972 match very famously pre-empted regular programming here, but I think that (aside from us woodpushers, of course) it's a dead story in the US--nobody cares.
basti1981 110 ( +1 | -1 )
just getting some things straight Dokesa: We have a different law concerning naturalization in Germany.
Afaik you are an American citizen when you are born in the USA (or an US embassy etc.)
The German Law is more based on "heritage", if you can proof you have ancestors, who were German you can try get naturalized, I'm actually not sure about why the heritage is more important than the birthplace (and personally I regard the American naturalization law as the better one). I think Fischer can claim some German ancestors quite easily and try to get a German citizenship (but there might be some problems for him getting it, because of his legal charges, but since I'm not a law student I'm not an expert for that).
To deny the Holocaust is a criminal offence in Germany (I think it's �130 StGB), so I'm not sure, that getting the German Citizenship would solve Bobby's problems.
Germany and fascism today is an interesting topic, but that would go even more off-topic, than it already did. So I'll just say one or two sentences: 1. Yes you are right we have some problems with people who deny the Holocaust. 2. Those people who deny the Holocaust are fortunately only a small minority.
Personally I wouldn't like to see Fischer getting the German citizenship.
update on Fischer Fischer to marry Watai?
just found this article on chessbase.com (I'll paste the link at the end)
'Bobby Fischer and I have decided to marry'
17.08.2004 Bobby Fischer, the former world chess champion, plans to marry the president of the Japan Chess Association (and four-time Japanese women's champion) Miyoko Watai. This was reported in newspapers and wire services last night. Now Watai-san has sent us a statement explaining the background of her personal relationship with Fischer.
CNN is reporting that according to Fischer's attorney, Masako Suzuki, the former champ had signed marriage papers with Japan Chess Association President Miyoko Watai (picture left), which would be filed later Monday. It is not immediately clear whether he would be allowed to marry and whether marriage to a Japanese citizen would enable him to avoid deportation.
A Tokyo ward official, Yoshihisa Yabe, told The Associated Press that a person in Fischer's situation would have to provide a valid U.S. passport or a U.S. document confirming his citizenship's validity in order to get married in Japan. Suzuki said Fischer and Watai had been living together since 2000.
Fischer's lawyer said she had also faxed a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and the U.S. Embassy in Japan asking an American consular officer be sent to him to accept his renunciation of citizenship, AP reported. In the letter, Suzuki accused the embassy of refusing to send an official to Fischer, requiring him to come to the embassy in person. Japanese officials, however, will not allow him to make the trip, she said
Meanwhile Miyoko Watai has sent us the following statement (in Japanese and English):
Bobby Fischer and I have decided to marry:
"I first met Bobby Fischer in 1973 when he visited Japan, accompanied by another American man, to meet several members of the Japan Chess Association. I was 28 at the time. One male member and one female member from our Japan Chess Association were offered the chance to play Bobby Fischer. I was the female player. Just one year before, Bobby had become the Chess World Champion after defeating former World Champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, in Reykjavik, Iceland. Bobby was gracious and said we played well.
Soon after playing Bobby, I was invited to attend a dinner at which Bobby was present. We spoke and the next day I gave Bobby a tour of Tokyo. We became friends and we stayed in touch by writing to each other.
In the next year, 1974, the Women's Chess Olympiad was held in Medellin, Columbia, and I was selected to be a member of the Japan team. On the way to Columbia, I visited Bobby in America. Over the years since, we have seen each other many times and have always kept in close touch by writing to each other and by talking by telephone.
In 2000, Bobby returned to Japan and stayed with me at my home. Since then, Bobby has spent most of his time in Japan and we have lived together here. We have also traveled together extensively inside and outside Japan. Until today, we managed to keep our relationship entirely private, even from our closest friends. However, under the current difficult circumstances, this is no longer possible. I am therefore releasing this statement about the background of our relationship in order to stress that our feelings are genuine and are based on our years of close companionship.
Sadly, I regret say that this day of the announcement of our impending marriage � a day that would normally be one of celebration � is for me is just another day of worry and anxiety. My husband-to-be is being held by Japanese Immigration and faces possible deportation. I am praying every day for Bobby's release, so that we can be reunited and be allowed to continue our life together here in Japan, quietly and normally as man and woman as we have been for the past four years.
We have taken the very serious decision to marry in the midst of this crisis in the hope that disclosing the reality that we have been living together as man and wife might help the two of us to return to that happy life we had been sharing before Bobby's unwarranted detention. After more than 30 years, we have made a very serious decision that we firmly hope will be respected as the right of every man and woman."
John Bosnitch, chairman of the Committee to Free Bobby Fischer, informs us that Fischer and Watai have both completed and signed the Japanese legal documents for marriage. The marriage documents have been witnessed by John Bosnitch, a Tokyo-based Canadian communications consultant, and by Mr. Shinobu Hano, a friend of Ms. Miyoko Watai. In addition, Mr. Ichiji Ishii, former Vice Foreign Minister of Japan, has signed a new application for Bobby Fischer's provisional release from detention. Bosnitch has urged Japanese immigrations officials to consider Watai's relationship with Fischer before deciding on the chess champion's fate. "If the officials were to deport Bobby," Bosnitch said, "they would be depriving a Japanese woman of her man, with who she has lived for four years."
On Thursday, August 12, Bosnitch submitted the initial documentation of Fischer's German citizenship to the German embassy in Tokyo. The submitted papers, accepted by embassy counselor Matthias Richter, include a certified copy of Fischer's original birth certificate, which indicates that he was born to a German father, establishing his German citizenship. However, until German officials acknowledge the fact of his German citizenship in writing, Fischer is also seeking the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for politically persecuted and stateless persons.
Fischer's supporters are presenting the documentary proof of Fischer's German citizenship so Japanese officials would have to deport him to Germany instead of the United States if a deportation order were issued against him. Fischer renounced US citizenship in a handwritten letter to the US embassy that was delivered on Friday, August 6, after the US embassy consular staff repeated refused to do their legal duty to visit him in detention to take his renunciation declaration in person.
China News Asia is reporting that Fischer will not escape prosecution even if he renounces his US citizenship and marries a longtime supporter in Japan. The US State Department said generally that renouncing US citizenship has no effect on criminal prosecutions in the United States. "Renunciation does not allow a person to escape possible prosecution for crimes that they may have committed in the United States or repayment of financial obligations previously incurred in the United States," said Tom Casey, a department spokesman.
Japan Today asked its readers: "What do you think about the arrest of Bobby Fischer, compared to the arrest of Charles Jenkins?" The latter is a U.S. Army soldier who is accused of deserting to North Korea nearly 40 years ago. Jenkins is married to a repatriated Japanese abductee and like Fischer is currently seeking protection from extradiction from Japan to the US. Sample answer from Emiri, 23 (picture right): "I feel more sorry for Fischer than for Jenkins. Fisher should get just as much Japanese media coverage as Charles Jenkins. Jenkins is an old time US deserter who is trying to escape his crime through appealing to the Japanese public. Jenkins might have told North Korea confidential information about the US and he also apparently taught English to North Korean spies. That is definitely a political crime. If he could be saved, why couldn't be Fisher? What Fisher did wasn't really all that bad." There are many more opinions, mostly in similar vein, in this.
ok here's the link to the chessbase article.
fmgaijin 2 ( +1 | -1 )
Just Sent a "Good Luck" Message . . . . . . to my old friend Watai-san.
roland_l 404 ( +1 | -1 )
an answer to ... ... Desertfox's hateful post.
"Bush is anyway not going to be reelected. I told you that before the fiasco in Iraq even began. Now everyone knows what a bad gambit it was to invade Iraq and still be in the iraqi quagmire a few months before elction time. "
I hope he does get re-elected. I'm sorry, but if people think a country that has been under dictatorship for over a score of years can be changed 'over-night', they need to think again. Maybe 'think AGAIN' isn't the right phrase. They need to 'THINK'. In our fast-food, need-it-now society, I can see how a person might not understand. I point to Japan and S. Korea as examples of how in time, we can help countries become prosperous and free.
"A president who probably does not understand the rule of en passant in chess wants to put a genius like bobby fischer in jail?"
a. President Bush is a Harvard graduate. Hardly a 'dolt'.
b. Fisher is a genius, so he shouldn't go to jail? Interesting ...
" Bobby Fischer is not a war criminal. He has to make a living, and chess playing is his profession. So he played in Yugoslavia. Big deal!"
We can all make a living without breaking the laws of our countries. Yes, it was a big deal that he thumbed his nose at the gov't and broke the law. Once again, we can see some major 'spin' on this. 'Make a living' ... you mean, win $3 million? And it absolutely had to be in a place under santions, right?
" the criminals are the US government who bombed Yugoslavia. By what right? by whose authority? what did they achieve? a free Bosnia and Kosovo?"
Wow, so genocide and ethinic cleansing should be ignored? Just like the torture, oppresion and genocide of Hussein to the Kurds? This all 'smacks' of the ostrich with his head in the sand, hoping that that mean lion will just go away if he doesn't see him.
"they created a center for El Kaida in the heart of Europe! Europe is still sleeping but 9/11 will look like a child's game compared with what these people will create in Europe (remember what they already did in Spain?). "
Beautiful. So now, we've created El Kaida. Somehow, all of those bad terrorists become our fault. They weren't already there, organising, and spilling hatred and violence upon mankind. We made them do it. If we just left those poor terrorists alone, Spain would have never happened.
"I hope the Americans here vote for Kerry. He has been to the wars and knows how bad they are,"
I hope they don't. He was in war, and then came home and was involved with the protestors, thumbing HIS nose at the gov't, and undermining the whole effort. I certainly won't say Vietnam was without its problems, but we were trying to help a nation, and I'm ashamed of those who tried to 'tear it down from the inside'.
" unlike JW Bush who served as a pilot in the national guard of Texas.
What did he do there?"
He was serving his country, and was available if needed. Criticise the Guard all you want, but I have friends in the Guard who aren't 'puttering around at home." They have left their families and jobs for a year to go help people on the other side of the world.
"... stop some poor Mexican "wetbacks" from crossing the border in search for a living? LOL."
I just can't respond to that nonsense. Where else in the world could people even try to go into another country to make a life for themselves?
"His father was not the best of presidents, but the son is competing for the title "the worst president ever"."
I think Bush is a fine president, and fine man. Full of character and hard work, and compassion for others.
" I hope he and Don Rumsfeld who invented the WMD (not found until today) will be ousted of office and never heard of again,"
a. Ummm ... the nations of the UN signed several documents in reference to these WMD. They ALL believed they were there. We haven't found stockpiles. Oh well, the 100 foot guns from WWI have never been found either .. and they are much bigger.
b. I hope he gets re-elected, and keeps Rumsfeld. Once again, I believe them to be decent and very capable men with great character.
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Invisible Violence
MARIANNE NICOLSON, LIZ PARK
Friday February 15, 2013, 7PM, World Art Centre, 2nd Floor, SFU Woodwards, 149 West Hastings Co-presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Artspeak is pleased to launch Invisible Violence, a publication and discursive project guest-curated by Liz Park. In conjunction with the launch will be a talk by Victoria-based artist Marianne Nicolson.
Designed to incite thoughtful conversations about the representation of violence and its politicization today, this multi-part project consists of: publication of the artists’ work as a sequence of 5”x7” cards; a series of discursive events conceived as points of distribution for the publication; and a web hub that archives reflections on the discussions that take place at each event. As a set of provocations, the parts collectively evaluate the political conditions of the production, circulation and consumption of violent images.
Invisible Violence, brings together the work of four artists—Rebecca Belmore, Ken Gonzales-Day,Francisco-Fernando Granados, and Louise Noguchi—who use photography as a point of reference for histories of violence that inform a contemporary politics of representation. Their work intentionally covers, erases, withdraws or cuts apart the main subject of the photographs, delaying the recognition of the structural and systemic violence underlying each image. Taking this interruption as its starting point, the project asks that “we”—the audience who are informed by contemporary mediascape riddled with images of violence—problematize the first person pronoun. As Susan Sontag writes, “No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.”
All events are free and open to the public. Publication distributed free at the events. A series of commissioned texts in the form of blog posts will summarize and respond to each of the events below:
February 15: Artspeak in partnership with Simon Fraser University Community Engagement, Vancouver, BC, CA
February 20: Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON, CA
February 27: CEREVCentre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence at Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CA
March 2: Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
For more information about launch dates and events, please visit: www.gallerytpw.ca/rd/invisible-violence. This project was produced by Artspeak, with web component by Gallery TPW, and curatorial research support from Center for Photography at Woodstock.
If you would like to obtain a copy of the publication, but are unable to attend the events, please inquire about the availability of a copy by email: info@artspeak.ca
Artspeak gratefully acknowledges project support from the Audain Foundation.
Title: Invisible Violence
Category: Criticism
Artists: Rebecca Belmore, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Ken Gonzales-Day, Louise Noguchi
Writers: Liz Park
Design: Jen Eby
Publisher: Gallery TPW, Artspeak
Printer: Hemlock Printers
Edition: 200
Cover: Printed Cardstock Sleeve
Process: Digital Offset
Features: 11 colour postcards, 5 b&w postcards
Dimensions: 13 x 18.5 x 1.2 cm
Price: sold out
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Champion Philippines, Indonesia Fails Translucent Big 3
Yogyakarta – Philippines managed to come out as champions in the SEABA U-16 Championship held in Yogyakarta. Meanwhile, Indonesia has failed to meet its target to penetrate the top three.
In the last match against Singapore in GOR Among Rogo, Thursday (07/18/2013) evening local time, the Philippines won a landslide victory 84-44.
With this victory, the Philippines maintain perfection by winning four matches are skipped. Michael Ray Jarin landing team was also featured as a champion after the final standings.
Thus, the right to represent the Philippines in Southeast Asia Championship FIBA Asia U-16 to be held in Tehran, Iran, at the end of September to early October 2013. Also qualified with the Philippines is Thailand and Malaysia respectively finished second and third in the standings.
Philippines completes her title with the MVP award disabet by players, Jose Lorenzo Mendoza. He was entitled to receive the trophy from the King of Yogyakarta lane X.
Philippines coach, Michael Jay Jarin, said he was happy with the results achieved in the championship in Indonesia. However, he would still instruct young students to train hard in order to face the FIBA U-16 Championship in Tehran later.
“After this we will train harder and improve all the time lacked the match in Indonesia. Skill players will be increased again, especially when defense and offense,” said Michael.
“There are still about 3 months to train better and harder. Banga And we become one of the country’s representative in Southeast Asia for the next championship,” he added.
Meanwhile, Indonesia failed to meet predetermined targets, which qualified for the big three. In the last match against Thailand, Indonesia was forced to give up 59-67.
Thus, Indonesia had to settle for fourth place. Team ‘Red and White’ recorded one win and three defeats. While the caretaker position occupied by Singapore.
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Since 1993, Congressman James Clyburn has served in the U.S. House of Representatives from the Sixth Congressional District, South Carolina, as a leader for environmental justice and civil rights.
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James E. Clyburn has been a member of the U.S. Congress since 1993. In 1998, he was elected chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus in a rare unanimous vote.
Clyburn has been an ardent supporter of environmental justice issues and civil rights. He is widely recognized as a conciliator, and his leadership style is measured, reflective, and managerial.
Prior to his election to Congress, Clyburn worked as a high school history teacher. He also worked on Great Society programs. After attending University of South Carolina Law School, he served as South Carolina Human Affairs Commissioner.
In recent years, Clyburn has risen to prominence in the U.S. Congress. In 2005, he served in the House Democratic Caucus leadership as Vice Chair, and was the fourth-ranking Democratic representative for the 109th Congress. Additionally, Clyburn served as the House majority whip from 2007 to 2011. He has also been the Assistant Democratic Leader since 2011, making him the third most influential Democrat in the House.
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Throbbing Gristle - TG24
Throbbing Gristle. Progenitors. Transgressors. Wreckers Of Civilisation.
Lifted this from discogs as it tells you all you need to know at this point:
"The first real industrial group, the founders of Industrial Records and one of the most important electronic music innovators of all time. Growing out of the extreme performance art group COUM Transmissions, TG redefined music and laid a large part of the groundwork for all electronic music that followed. From their first performances in 1976 to their last gig in San Francisco in 1981 (recorded and released as "Mission Of Dead Souls"), they challenged and threatend so-called "normal" society - denounced from the floor of the House of Commons as "Wreckers of Civilisation" as the Coum Transmissions "Prostitution" art show in London's ICA (at which TG played their third show) came close to causing riots and set the stage for the punk revolution. Musically, they were extreme and uncompromising, using technology to make anti-music, which redefined music for all time. Their experimentation led them to pioneer sampling and looping techniques adopted by many of those who came after."
This material was originally released in 1980 as a set of tapes in a limited edition of 50, complete with a natty little briefcase. It was 49 really as Mike Wilkins of Industrial Records made #50 for himself. Staggeringly expensive at the time, but an essential document in that it catches Throbbing Gristle (and the attendant riots) in full on attack mode. Re-released on cd in 2002, this is the 25 disc version that was only available on pre-order from Mute. Whilst expensive, this was hoovered up by speculators so they could offer it back to you for five times the price.
Still staggers me that these were recorded 30+ years ago ... Throbbing Gristle were truly ahead of their time. If you want further info on Throbbing Gristle and Coum, there are two fantastic books out there (this one and that one) that I highly recommend.
As an aside, when I bought the Twenty Jazz Funk Greats book from Waterstones, a bosomly matriarch scanned the book and proclaimed "Ooohhh, Throbbing Gristle" at a volume that reverberated right across the shop ... still warms me cockles to this day!
01 Live at I.C.A., London, 18th Oct 1976
02 Live at Winchester and Air Gallery, London, 21st Aug 1976
03 Live at Nags Head, High Wycombe, 11th Feb 1977
04 Live at Brighton Polytechnic, 26th Mar 1977
05 Live at Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, 7th May 1977
06 Live at Rat Club, Pindar, London, 22nd May 1977
07 Live at Highbury Roadhouse, London, 29th Sept 1977
08 Live at Winchester Art School, 11 Nov 1977
09 Live at Rat Club, London, 17th Dec 1977
10 Live at Brighton Polytechnic, 25th Feb 1978
11 Live at Architectural Association, London, 3rd March 1978
12 Live at Goldsmith's College, London, 18th May 1978
13 Live at Industrial Training College, Wakefield, 1st July 1978
14 Live at Film Makers Co-Op, London, 6th July 1978
15 Live at Cryptic One Club, London, 11th Nov 1978
16 Live at Centro Iberico, London, 21st Jan 1979
17 Live at Ajanta Cinema, Derby, 12th April 1979
18 Live at Sheffield University, 25th April 1979
19 Live at The Factory, Manchester, 19th May 1979
20 Live at Guild Hall, Northampton, 26th May 1979
21 Live at Y.M.C.A., London, 3rd Aug 1979
22 Live at Butlers Wharf London, 23rd Dec 1979
23 Live at Fan Club, Leeds, 24th Feb 1980
24 Live at Scala Cinema, London, 1980
25 Live at Goldsmith's College, London, 13 Mar 1980
Roger Camden, 19 September 2010 at 22:18
I have this boxset
it's a truly staggering amount of noise to listen to
M, 22 September 2010 at 19:18
bleak bliss...thank you...
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Blog Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington in 1994. It was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of Nirvana after the death of Kurt Cobain. The group got its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II, which were known collectively as “foo fighters”.
Prior to the release of Foo Fighters’ 1995 debut album Foo Fighters, which featured Grohl as the only official member, Grohl recruited bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith, both formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate, as well as Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear to complete the lineup. The band began with performances in Portland, Oregon. Goldsmith quit during the recording of the group’s second album, The Colour and the Shape (1997), when most of the drum parts were re-recorded by Grohl himself. Smear’s departure followed soon afterward, though he would rejoin them in 2006.
They were replaced by Taylor Hawkins and Franz Stahl, respectively, although Stahl was fired before the recording of the group’s third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999). The band briefly continued as a trio until Chris Shiflett joined as the band’s lead guitarist after the completion of There Is Nothing Left to Lose. The band released its fourth album, One by One, in 2002. The group followed that release with the two-disc In Your Honor (2005), which was split between acoustic songs and heavier material. Foo Fighters released its sixth album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, in 2007. The band’s seventh studio album, Wasting Light, produced by Butch Vig was released in 2011, in which Smear returned as a full member. In November 2014, the band’s eighth studio album, Sonic Highways, was released as an accompanying soundtrack to the Grohl-directed 2014 miniseries of the same name. In 2017, the band released a single, “Run”, and released their ninth studio album, Concrete and Gold on September 15, 2017.
Over the course of the band’s career, four of its albums have won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album. As of 2015, the band’s eight albums have sold 12 million copies in the U.S alone.
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What is Pisco
Pisco - a strong alcoholic beverage produced by the method of dispersion in Chile and Peru from fermented according to an old recipe of Muscat grape juice. In the language of the indigenous people of Peru, the Quechua, Pisco means bird. The first mention of Pisco in Peru refers to 1613.
The origin of the word is associated with a beautiful legend, telling about the brave seafarers who went on a reed boat across the ocean in search of the center of the universe of the mysterious island "Te pita o Te Henua" (Navel of the Earth). Exhausted long voyage sailors have come to terms with the idea of imminent death, when on the horizon as a sign from above there was a flying bird Pisco, indicating the way to the blessed land. When many centuries later the Spanish conquistadors, who brought the vine and the art of distillation to Chile, for the first time created an incomparable, divine drink in the unique conditions of the Elki valley, without hesitation, called it Pisco, for its amazing properties to grant emancipation and a sense of freedom to the soaring bird.
Between Peru and Chile at the state level there are disputes, whose drink has the right to be called Pisco. Peru insists on the historical priority of the name and production of Pisco, and also indicates that the Chilean drink is produced by a different technology than the historical, Peruvian Pisco. Chile also argues for large volumes of production and import of the drink. And Chilean beverage companies launched a large-scale campaign in the country, advertising Pisco as a national drink of Chile.
Peruvian Pisco: it is produced by grapes of Quebranta, Moscatel, albilo, Torontel. Once Pisco is distilled from grape must that was vybrazhivaet with the pulp for about two weeks. Distillation is carried out, as in previous times, on the distillation apparatus Falca, built into a brick oven (it is believed that it is the fruit of creative efforts Quechua Indians), and then the distillate is aged from 3 to 6 months (now – usually in stainless steel vats). The average strength of the Peruvian Pisco – 43% vol. Pirouette Pisco water is not diluted.
Chilean Pisco: Muscat, Pedro Ximenez and Torrontes grapes are used for its production. Pisco is obtained by a single distillation in traditional copper cubes. Distillate has a fortress of 55-60% vol. Alcohols are kept in large wooden barrels for 2-3 months. High-quality Pisco is aged in American oak barrels for a longer time. Then the alcohols are assembled, diluted with softened water to the desired strength, filtered and bottled. Sometimes, before bottling the drink is further kept in wooden containers for a month-for final maturation. In accordance with the terms of aging in Chile distinguish the following types of Pisco: Pisco tradicional – 2 months; pisco especial – 4 months; pisco reservado – 6 months; gran Pisco-10 months. The strength of the Chilean Pisco is from 30 to 50% vol.
As a rule, Pisco is sold in traditional bottles. A new stage in the promotion of the drink, especially in the international market, was the successful decision of Capel LTD to produce Pisco Reservado in a dark green glass bottle in the form of a statue of Moai from Easter island. The design of this bottle received a gold medal at the international food exhibition in Paris.
Pisco is used both in pure form, and is used for preparation of cocktails.
Pisco harm: Traditionally, Pisco is considered a high-quality alcoholic beverage. But it is alcohol, which determines its harm to the human body. There is no harmless alcohol. In any case, alcohol is poison poisoning people and affecting its organs.
Other strong alcoholic beverages
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2016 writers' workshop - zambia
Twelve writers from six African countries convened at the Chaminuka Lodge near Lusaka for thirteen days (18 March – 29 March 2016) to write, read and discuss work in progress and to learn from Jamal Mahjoub, the writer also known as Parker Bilal, and Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE, Caine Prize Deputy Chairperson, literary critic, editor and broadcaster. Director of the Caine Prize, Dr Lizzy Attree said: "As Namwali Serpell won the 2015 Caine Prize we were pleased to bring the workshop, for the first time, to her home in Zambia."
This year's participants included the 2015 Caine Prize winner, Namwali Serpell (Zambia), as well as NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe); Chilufya Chilangwa (Zambia); Tope Folarin (Nigeria); Elnathan John (Nigeria); Billy Kahora (Kenya); Bwanga Kapumpa (Zambia); FT Kola (South Africa); Kafula Mwila (Zambia); Masande Ntshanga (South Africa); Timwa Lipenga (Malawi); and Okwiri Oduor (Kenya).
Top row: Okwiri Oduor (Kenya), Namwali Serpell (Zambia), Masande Ntshanga (South Africa), FT Kola (South Africa), Jamal Mahjoub (Facilitator), Kafula Mwila (Zambia), Timwa Lipenga (Malawi), Chilufya Chilangwa (Zambia)
Bottom row: Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (Facilitator), Billy Kahora (Kenya), Bwanga Kapumpa (Zambia), Vimbai Shire (Coordinator), NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), Elnathan John (Nigeria), Tope Folarin (Nigeria)
Award-winning author Jamal Mahjoub, who, along with Ellah Allfrey, facilitated the workshop this year, said: “The annual workshop allows writers a unique chance to develop their work and to see themselves as part of a literary community. It is always exciting to meet new writers and to help them realise their potential. The workshop is, in my view, one of the most important aspects of the Caine Prize.”
During the workshop, the writers wrote a short story for the 2016 Caine Prize anthology, which will be published in the UK by New Internationalist in the summer, and subsequently by a network of co-publishers. Alongside Interlink in the USA, eight African publishers receive a print ready PDF to print in their country, they include: Jacana Media (South Africa), Lantern Books (Nigeria), Kwani? (Kenya), Sub-Saharan Publishers (Ghana), FEMRITE (Uganda), Gadsden Publishers (Zambia), 'amaBooks (Zimbabwe) and Langaa (Cameroon).
The workshop also incorporated visits to local schools and a public event.
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Liv Lorent: “I was inspired by the rule-breaking women in dance”
8th March 2018 NewsballetLORENT
Choreographer Liv Lorent has been creating award-winning dance in the UK for over 20 years. She established her company balletLORENT aged 20, making the move from dancer to director. Her production of Rumpelstiltskin, which has been adapted into a new retelling of the story by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, will be presented at Sadler’s Wells as part of the season marking the 20th anniversary of our current building, before embarking on a UK tour. To celebrate International Women’s Day, we spoke to Liv about the female figures who have inspired her career and her view on the representation of women in fairy tales.
What was the ethos behind setting up your company balletLORENT?
balletLORENT was launched in 1993 with a graduation quartet called Shards that performed as part of an international platform of dance in France.
We were called Lorent Ballet at that time, and I called us that as I felt somewhat “other” than contemporary dance at that point. Having the word ballet in the company name reflected my heritage in terms of coming from Belgium and a desire to create dance performances that had ethereal, romantic and narrative aspirations… it was a 20 year old’s decision-making process!
The company was unusual in the early 90s, as it was more normal to have proven oneself as a distinguished dancer before turning to choreography. At that point choosing to focus immediately on choreography, and not perform in my own work, was even more unusual than being a female dance-maker. However, I wanted to have an independent company and all the freedom of creative choice I believed that would give us.
Your latest production, Rumpelstiltskin, is based on an adaptation of the classic fairy tale by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. What attracted you both to this story?
It was one of Carol Ann’s favourite stories long before it was mine. I think we both liked the magic of the alchemy of straw turning into gold, and with this interpretation enjoyed looking at the importance of Rumpelstiltskin finding his name and having his name found, and heard rather than being “name called” and rejected from the world he inhabits. We have celebrated him as the misunderstood outsider, and elevated the Shepherd’s daughter to a woman of resilience and invention, who does much, much more than weep helplessly in a pile of straw.
Rumpelstiltskin follows on from your productions of other fairy tale classics, including Rapunzel and Snow White. What is different about your interpretations of these much-loved stories?
I think that we very much enjoy updating them for 21st-Century audiences, and championing the unsung heroism in some of the characters, and giving an audience a deep understanding of why the dark behaviour of some of the characters’ behaviour happens. So, for example, the King in Rumpelstiltskin is not a greedy gold loving fanatic out of a love of riches, but a broken man mad with grief longing for gold as it helps remind him of his Queen who died while giving birth to their child. That child is Rumpelstiltskin and his ability to spin straw into gold is born out of his mother’s intense love… the mother he never knew.
Retelling these stories allows us to offer a reason why these famous fairy tale characters go to such extremes to get their needs met; especially when those desires are so powerful such as the need for one’s own child, or the need for love. It can make the characters relatable, forgivable and more like us.
Do you think it’s important for children to see new interpretations of these fairy tales?
As a parent reading fairytales to my children, I see them as yet another way to help explain some of the more challenging elements of life in a positive way. There are many, many different versions of each story and it is worthwhile choosing your version carefully before starting to read out loud! Many of the stories contain examples of great fortitude and resilience, as well as great adventure and courage in trying to change your life. Good inspiration for us all!
Many of the stories look very different to us now, such as Sleeping Beauty being kissed awake by a Prince when she is sleeping. Some of us want a different awakening for her, and have enjoyed the film of Maleficent for this and there are many other great endings out there. I loved the latest film version of Beauty and the Beast and agreed with Belle that she rather missed the look of the Beast when the Prince was uncovered at the end! I think that the new interpretations are a vital and continuing way that these tales have been retold through generations.
How do you feel about the way female characters are presented in fairy tales? Is this something you have addressed in your productions?
It has never interested me to show a woman abused, degraded, humiliated or exploited. If a classic fairy tale is leaning in that direction we will update and reform the role. Over our 25-year history, our dancers have performed female roles with great attention to the power, the vulnerability, the beauty and the passion of women. Equally, I would say we do the same with male dancers and the roles of men in our work. In all of balletLORENT’s work we have been very driven to present female and male roles in a powerful and enhancing fashion, while the drama comes in the truth of trying to hold on being the kind of human we want to be, and sometimes failing. I am interested in compassion and acceptance for difference. We make the work with the resolutions we would like to think were possible in real life.
Who are your female icons in the world of dance who have influenced or inspired your work?
They are so many. Every time I make a work with dancers who are collaborating with me they become goddesses and heroines in the making to me! And when I was a lot younger I was fully inspired by the rule-breaking women in dance such as Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham.
As a leading female director and choreographer in the UK, what does International Women’s Day mean to you?
It’s always good to bring the consciousness back to women I do think that we are all just “getting on with it” – whatever that may be – work, family and survival. It takes days like International Women’s Day to reflect sometimes on how far we have come, and yet how far there is to go. I think many of us are living in a day-to-day of unconscious bias, and yet the changes to this are moving rapidly.
Speaking of my own experience I wish that I had put up with a lot less and demanded differently, but I am from a generation brought up in the 70s and 80s. As a mother, I look forward to a better world for my daughter, and seek to arm her with much more self-confidence than I had.
I’m only now starting to feel that as a professional I have done ok; if the journey I took is in any way motivation for other women to make their own creative choices happen I can only welcome that.
Many of your productions feature a diverse cast of community and professional dancers as well as presenting intergenerational work that has featured children, older people and pregnant women. Is this something we can expect to see in Rumpelstiltskin?
As an independent dance company, we are privileged to put together a cast of people that best fits the stories we are trying to tell. Several professional dancers have been working together in balletLORENT for around 20 years now, and our shared skill-base and building of repertoire brings a great level of confidence to then be very daring and adventurous.
Some of the youngest dancers in the company have the benefit of extremely experienced mentorship, and a great family feel within the company. This foundation lends itself well to extending our arms further to include very young children and older guest performers that create an authentic feeling “otherworld” for our fairytale to play out in.
The production of Rumpelstiltskin fully enjoys this capacity within the company and will feature five year olds alongside performers in their 70s.
What do you want audiences to take away from Rumpelstiltskin?
I would like the audiences to give second thoughts to our own experiences of internal prejudice and fear against people who are seemingly different from us, and to see that happy endings are possible even if your start in life was not so good. Gold and straw are equally magical, and love is the most powerful force of all.
We know that the sheep and the lambs are a hit, so they will be well remembered, as well as the dancers’ fantastic dramatisations of their roles. We expect that the music will stay in your heart and your ear, as will the refreshing take on the story and the amazing lighting, set and costumes. The cast are unique, and audiences have been very moved by the production. Rumpelstiltskin has been made with a lot of love as well as skill.
Rumpelstiltskin runs at Sadler’s Wells as part of Family Weekend on 30 & 31 March. Tickets are available now priced at £12 for children and £18 for adults by calling the Ticket Office on 020 7863 8000 or book online.
balletLORENT is a National Strategic Partner of Sadler’s Wells.
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The first weather and climate studies in Ukraine were carried out in the 1930's and related to the expeditions organized by the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, which at that time was the main center of science in the Russian Empire. Simultaneously, in St. Petersburg, in 1722, the first meteorological observations were started, and then they began in other cities, particularly in Kharkov (1738-1741), in the village of Snovska (now Schors), near Chernigov (1769-1782). In the years 1770-1771, doctor Lerhe performed his first instrumental observations in Kyiv. At the beginning of the 19th century, amateur meteorological stations appeared in Ukraine in Kyiv (1804), Berdichev (1814), Odessa (1821), Poltava (1824). However, all these observations were conducted irregularly and according to different methodologies.
Founded in 1855 in St. Volodymyr's University of Kyiv, the Meteorological Observatory became, for some time, the center of climate research and played a significant role in the further development of meteorology and climatology in Ukraine, in fact launching the creation of a meteorological service in Ukraine.
The first director of the Kiev Meteorological Observatory was the physicist E.A. Knorr. The observatory at different times was led by prominent scientists-professors M.I. Talyzin, P.I. Brounov, Academicians M.P. Avenarius, J.J. Kosonogov, B.I. Sreznevsky, as well as meteorologist T.K. Bogatyr, who eventually became the head of the hydrometeorological service of Ukraine. Generally more than 30 directors led the observatory.
In 1924, the Observatory was withdrawn from the university and subordinated to UkrScience. In 1925, the Kiev Meteorological Observatory was reorganized into a magnetic-meteorological observatory. Since 1929, the Observatory became a part of the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Service. The Observatory was located (until 1964) at the address: L. Tolstoy Street, 14.
After the liberation of Kiev from the German occupation, the work of the Observatory was restored in 1944 in Kyiv on the street Tolstoy 14. His new leaders were V.P. Popov and І.І. Daniltsev, the name has also changed - the Research Geophysical Observatory.
In 1941, the second hydrometeorological institution was established in Kyiv - the Kiev Hydrological Observatory. By the decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on November 26, 1952, the Ukrainian Research Hydrometeorological Institute, which includes parts of both observatories of geophysical and hydrological, was organized in 1953 in Kyiv,. The Institute has been located at Science Avenue37 since 1958. In 1956 the Kyiv Hydrometeorological Observatory (from May 1973 - the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Observatory) was organized on the basis of the regime departments of the Hydrometeorological Service of the Ukrainian SSR - the main methodical center for all types of hydrometeorological observations (except marine).
Since 1964, the observatory is located in the newly built premises at Prospect Nauki 39, building 2. In the 1960's, a new direction of activity - the study and control of environment pollution began to develop in the hydrometeorological service. In order to guide this type of work at the Observatory in March 1973, a department for monitoring and controlling of the environment pollution was organized. Which, since its creation in 1980, was headed by V.I. Duginov. At this time the work on the study of radioactive contamination of the natural environment expand, that has been particularly intensified since 1986 after the Chernobyl disaster, when the combined radiation and ecological unit was created in Ukraine.
In the years 1980-1983, some changes were made in the Ukrainian GMO. In 1980, the Kyiv Center for the Study and Control of Environmental Pollution, which operated as an independent organization, was organized on September 30, 1988 on basis of the Department of Observation and Control over Pollution of the Environment. In 1983, the Ukrainian GMO was united with the Ukrainian Weather Bureau, and this organization was named as the Hydrometeorological Center of the Ukrainian Republican Department for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (UkrDHEC). However, since October 1, 1988, all of the regime departments of the Hydrometeorological Center were returned to the newly created Ukrainian Center for Radiological Control and Environmental Pollution (UkrUCREP). Since October 24, 1988, the Center was headed by O. Kosovets, who, from December 1985, headed the Department of study and control of environmental pollution of UkrDHEC. In accordance with paragraph 2 of the order of the Ukrainian Republican Department of Hydrometeorology of 20.02.1989 number 44, UkrUCREP was transformed in to the Ukrainian Center for Radiation and Hydrometeorological Observations (Ukrainian CGRS).
Since February 1, 1989 the Center has been transferred to an independent financial balance. From May 1, 1992, the Ukrainian CGRS was reorganized into the Republican Center for Environmental Monitoring (RCEM), and its leader became a member of the newly established Board of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology. In April 1993, the Center opened an account on special funds, which allowed, in conditions of a budget deficit, to reduce the negative consequences of the financial crisis in Ukraine.
From May 1, 1996, the RCEM receives a name that more fully corresponds to the modern and historical functions of the organization - the Central Geophysical Observatory (CGO). O.O.Kosovets is the director of the observatory. While working as Director of the CGO, Kosovets O.O. in parallel with the main work of the head is constantly engaged in scientific and educational work on environmental issues and environmental monitoring, is a co-author of four monographs, dozens of scientific articles and publications, by means of mass media, actively popularizes the activities of the hydrometeorological service of Ukraine and CGO.
The international aspect of Kosovets O.O. activity is important. in the field of monitoring of environment pollution. From 1992 to 2014, he led the monitoring groupe of the Interstate Council for Hydrometeorology of the Commonwealth of Independent States (ICH). In March 2000, by order of the Chairman of the State Hydromet, he was awarded the title "Honorary Worker of the Hydrometeorological Service", and in August 2006 he was awarded the title "Honorary Worker of the Hydrometeorological Service of Russia". In total, 21 employees of the Observatory were awarded the title "Honorary Worker of the Hydrometeorological Service" (without subordinated hydrometeorological stations).
Department of Meteorology. The main functions of the department were carried out since the establishment of the Observatory in 1855 - a generalization of observational data, methodological assistance to other observing organizations.
Today, the department provides the development of normative documents and the observance of common methods for conducting observations at meteorological stations and posts with the meteorological division of work on the territory of Ukraine, assisting in the development of new devices, technologies and methods of observation, control and generalization of meteorological and actinometric data. Meteorological monthly and yearly reports include regime data of all meteorological stations and stations.
All stations conduct eight-time monitoring of the main meteorological elements: temperature and humidity of air, temperature of the soil, direction and wind speed, atmospheric pressure, precipitation, cloudiness, snow cover.Round-the-clock observation of atmospheric and natural hydrometeorological phenomena is carried out.
At many stations, new devices of ukrainian production were introduced: Barometer BAR, anemometers MARK-60, automated precipitation meter APM-1M, meters of the lower edge of clouds "Promin", and the automated workplace of the meteorologist AWM-METEO was introduced at the stations. The transmission of synoptic and storm telegrams is carried out by means of Internet. The priority climatic network consists of reference stations, which have a long range of observations, the most skilled personnel and an expanded program of observations and work.
Weather information from 61 stations is used for regional international exchange. Telegrams with the index "Climate" with averaged over a month data are provided by 30 meteorological stations for exchange according to the program of the World Meteorological Organization.
The aerologic sector works as part of the meteorological department and provides methodological guidance to the network of air stations of the hydrometeorological service of Ukraine, incl. controls the observance of aerial surveillance techniques, data quality. The first issue of the radio probe in Kiev was carried out in the summer of 1935 from Bogdan Khmelnytskyi Square, and now it is carried out from the territory of the CGO meteorological station on the Nauky Avenue, 37.
Aerologic observations or temperature-wind sensing of the atmosphere are carried out with the help of radio probes, the result of this process is the determination of temperature, humidity, pressure, direction and wind speed at different heights.
The data of aerological observations are used by the forecasting bodies of the hydrometeorological service for the preparation of weather forecasts, including for aviation services, as well as scientists. The Department of Climatology exists since 1925 and prepares a climatological information. The most complete, and most convenient form for the consumer, the climatological information is presented in Directories, climatic atlases, monographs, and others.
In 2005, the Department of Climatology completed the fundamental work - "Climatic Cadastre of Ukraine". The prepared Cadastre differs from previously issued Guides both in form and content and reflects the current state of Ukraine's climate. "The Climate Cadastre of Ukraine" consists of 6 parts: "Solar radiation and sunshine", "Atmospheric pressure and wind", "Air and soil temperature", "Humidity, precipitation and snow cover", "Cloudiness", "Atmospheric phenomena and icing formations ".
The Cadastre presents long-term indicators of meteorological values in selected hours, day, month, and year. Based on climatic information, which was generalized to compile the "Climate Cadastre Ukraine ", in 2003 a collective monograph" Climate of Ukraine ", prepared by experts of the hydrometeorological service, was published.
The department actively participated in the preparation of the monograph "The Climate of Kyiv", which was published in 2010. At the initiative of the Director of the CGO in 2009, the "Climate Records of Kyiv" were printed, in 2010 the posters "Climate Records of Ukraine" and " Climatic records of Kyiv region ".
Department of hydrology and state water cadastre. In 1877 a water-meter post was opened in Kyiv on the Dnieper, and in 1881 the first edition with the data of water-based observations was published.
As part of the observatory, a separate unit on hydrology appeared in 1956. However, it's activity starts from October 1927, when the Hydrometeorological unit of the USSR Folk Commissariat was attached to the Office of the Meteorological Service of the Ukrainian SSR and the Office of the Meteorological and Hydrological Service of the Ukrainian SSR was established.
The Department of Hydrology carries out methodical management of hydrometeorological organizations of hydrometeorological service of Ukraine with hydrological sections of works.
The department carries out processing of data observations, preparation and publication of materials of the state water cadastre, incl. hydrological yearbooks and reference books.
A significant achievement of the department in recent years is the renewal of the publication of the reference "Long-term data on the regime and resources of surface water of land" in 3 issues, which today includes a synthesis of materials for 2010 with information on the regime of rivers, lakes and reservoirs.
The promotion of hydrological research is facilitated by the posters "Hydrological Records of Ukraine" (2012) and "Hydrological Records of the Waterpost Kyiv" prepared in the department (2014).
The Integrated Hydrographic Party (IHP) exists in the CGO since 1959 and is a specialized structural subdivision. IHP was established in 1952 to study natural and dangerous hydrological phenomena, conduct hydrographic surveys, mapometric and topographical-geodesic works, as well as methodological guidance for similar work performed on the network of observations of the hydrometeorological service.
In recent years, specialists of the IHP prepared and issued the "Catalog of meteorological network heights", "Materials of observation of snow cover and precipitation in the mountains", "Catalog of mud pools and cells", "Catalog of heights of the hydrological network of the hydrometeorological service of Ukraine". The Department of Chemical Pollution Monitoring was established in the Observatory in 1973, conducts monitoring of the state of chemical pollution of the natural environment on the network attached to the CGO (Kyiv and Kyiv region), and the analysis of environmental samples received from the hydrometeorological organizations forms the primary bank data on chemical pollution of atmospheric air and surface water of land according to observation network data.
It manages the methodological guidance of hydrometeorological organizations and monitors the quality of the results of monitoring the state of pollution of the environment.
The department consists of five laboratories: observations on atmospheric air pollution, observations on pollution of the surface waters of the land, hydrobiology, monitoring of soil contamination and monitoring of heavy metals, physical and chemical methods of analysis.
On the territory of Kyiv and the cities of Kyiv region - the Bila Tserkva, Brovaru, Obukhov and Ukrainka - observation of atmospheric air pollution is carried out at 21 posts. The total samples of atmospheric precipitation and snow cover samples, taken at observation stations on the chemical composition of precipitation on the territory of Ukraine, are analyzed. Also, at 41 stations, the pH of precipitation of each fall is determined.
The content of heavy metals in aerosols in Ukrainian cities is determined. Surveillance of the state of chemical contamination of surface water of land and on the hydrobiological indicators at the points of the observation network is monitored.
Every year, the survey of soils of agricultural lands in the regions of Ukraine on the content of residual amounts of pesticides and nitrates and soils in Ukrainian cities is carried out to determine the content of toxicants of industrial origin.
The Department of Radiation and Ecological Control was established in July 1986. Specialists of the Observatory, including the department's staff, took an active part in assessing the scale of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, identifying and clarifying contours of radioactive contamination zones in Ukraine.
The department includes: Radiation Control Laboratory (organized in 1964), Laboratory of Radiochemistry and Sampling, Spectrometry, and Information Processing Sector.
The main areas of activity of the department are the methodological supervision of the monitoring network of the hydromet of the radioecology section and the systematization and compilation of data on radioactive contamination of the environment in Ukraine.
The department specializes in the implementation of: - selection and laboratory analysis of samples of the environment using radiometric, radiochemical and gamma-spectrometric research methods; - measurement of the exposure dose rate of gamma radiation on land plots, industrial and residential premises; - determination of the content of radionuclides in food products, building and lumber, etc.
The department's activities include observation and laboratory monitoring stations, control points for radioactive contamination of atmospheric precipitation, air aerosol control points, and sampling points for surface waters.
The current radiometric network covers the whole territory of Ukraine and allows to control the main factors that form the dose load and can negatively affect the health of the population (in case of a violation of the technological cycle on radiation-hazardous objects).
The Department of Information on the state of pollution of the environment as an independent unit was separated from the Department of Monitoring of the state of pollution of the environment in August 1980.
The main tasks of the department are to provide the state bodies, organizations, enterprises, mass media with the current information on the state of pollution of the environment, as well as the collection and processing of operational and regime information from hydrometeorological organizationson the state of pollution of the environment on the territory of Ukraine; analysis of the coordination of the results of calculations of background concentrations of air pollution in the cities of Ukraine; calculation of background concentrations of harmful impurities in the air of Kiev and cities of the Kiev region and calculation of phone concentrations of pollutants in water of watercourses at the request of organizations; preparation of observation materials, informative materials on the state of pollution of the environment for the sectoral state archive of hydrometeorological service; Implementation of methodological guidance by the laboratories of the observation network on the preparation of informational materials.
The generalization of information on the state of environmental pollution on the territory of Ukraine is carried out according to laboratories of the environmental monitoring network of the State Hydrometeorological Service.
Information on the state of environmental pollution in Kyiv and cities of the Kiev region, as well as on the state of environmental pollution on the territory of Ukraine for the first half of the year and the year is posted on the site of the CGO (www.cgo.kiev.ua).
In 2003, according to the data of observations of the CGO and with its experts, the "Ecological atlas of Kiev" was prepared, issued with the assistance of the Kyiv city state administration; In 2006, the second, supplementary edition of this Atlas was prepared. Basically, according to CGO data, the State Research and Production Association "Kartografia" issued a training card "Ukraine. Ecological situation "(2011).
The branch state archive of hydrometeorological service of Ukraine (BSA of hydrometeorological service) was created in accordance with the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated July 31, 1995 No. 570 "On the creation of a sectoral state archive of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology". It is the successor to the hydrometeorological fund of the Hydrometeorological Service, founded in 1958.
The BSA is a subdivision of the CGO with a special status. This is the only specialized archive in Ukraine, which stores unique information about the past and present state of the environment of Ukraine on its quantitative and qualitative indicators, namely: documents on hydrology, meteorology, agrometeorology, aerology, weather forecasters, hydrobiology, information on radiation control and materials on observation of environmental pollution according to observations of hydrometeorological stations, hydrometeorological stations and observation posts for atmospheric pollution in several dozen Ukraine's cities.
The branch state archive of hydrometeorological service operates in three departments. The main task of the department of preparation and issuance of information is to provide specialized hydrometeorological information and information on the state of the environment of state authorities, ministries, departments, organizations and institutions of economic sectors of Ukraine of different forms of ownership. These works are made in accordance with contracts or one-time orders for the corresponding fee, the legal basis of which is the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated October 26, 2011 № 1102 "Some issues of providing paid services by units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations".
The data, prepared in the department, have the necessary scientific, technical and historical background, because they have undergone the necessary control in the appropriate methodological departments of the CGO before they are the basis for calculations or certificates.
In the storage department of paper information, hydrometeorological information and information on the state of pollution of the environment are found in funds: meteorological, hydrological, agrometeorological, synoptic, aerological,data on the monitoring of the state of pollution of the environment, data hydrometeorological observations of the departmental network, information reference and regulatory literature. The archive contains separate materials of meteorological observations from the beginning of the XIX century, the unique hydrological yearbooks of Austria-Hungary from the middle of the XIX century, documents of the period of the First World, Civil War and World War II.
The Department of storage of information on technical media receives for long-term storage hydrometeorological information and information about the state of the environment, which is formed by the Hydrometeorological Service of Ukraine. In accordance with the established requirements, provides compact and reliable storage and access to information on technical media.
The department of technology exists in the Observatory since 1965. It is engaged in regular preventive maintenance and repair of post monitoring equipment for atmospheric air pollution, conducts metrological calibration of monitoring devices, which number about 300 units. The department consists of the sectors of metrology, technical maintenance, maintenance of computer networks.
The observatory also possesses - accounting (1989), departments of economic provision (1944), personnel (1989) and organizational and planning (1994).
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In the case of constitutional bargaining strategies. Where the structure of an organisation is more complex. In extreme cases of standardisation. These reasons include: The head office of an organisation can. For some obvious reasons. In the context of external environmental demands such as legislation. Bendix The decision on the appropriate structure for collective bargaining is imperative particularly in countries where trade unionism and negotiation are so entrenched.
Grand strategies such as constitutional. As it were. Several factors have to be taken into consideration when such decision is being made. This is because it is unlikely that strong unions would allow management to amend collective bargaining procedure without resistance.
This is in view of the fact that it will basically facilitate either avoidance of or cooperation with trade unions. As you have observed. The decision as to whether or not a trade union should be formally recognised is also a fundamental one. In the past. The power of trade unions is probably one of the most crucial variables in deciding at what level negotiation will take place. Economic factors. The decision will also be influenced by the perceptions of strategic decision makers as to the level at which management has the best chance of shaping collective bargaining outcomes and processes to the best possible advantage of the organisation.
These factors include the state of the national economy. It is instructive to note that because trade unions argue that bargaining should be to their advantage. And by extension. An obvious implication arising from the above approach is this. In such cases.
The management may decide on an approach to react. Management may use this approach called institutional separation to limit trade union influence over organisational matters if the organisation policy requires it. In this vein. Marchington and Parker observe that collective bargaining is dealt with by specialist in industrial relations and personnel managers.
In the case of management-trade union cooperation strategies. The issue of central control may also be more strongly maintained over certain items about which collective bargaining takes place at a lower level. Since circumstances are constantly changing. It can be a complex matter and should not be dealt with haphazardly. Other aspects to be decided on in bargaining structure are whether management should: If matters such as fringe benefits.
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The previous section deals specifically with the devolution and specialisation decision and its implication for decisions about the size and organisational structures of the personnel and industrial relations department.
Apart from these appropriate organisational structures.
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Every organisation has to decide on these matters and also on precisely how the function is to be organised. There are diverse views on human resource management materials on where such department fits in organisationally and how it can be structured in the organisation. The other aspects of the framework to be considered are communication systems.
You The formulation of such procedures is a highly detailed task which usually does not fall within the ambit of the top management. You are aware from above that decisions concerning procedures are closely associated with formalisation and standardisation. The specialist function may. The implementation of industrial relations strategies is concerned with.
Too many rules. Procedures are meant to specify a precise. A structure of committees can be established at various levels in the organisation. The decision may be. It is also necessary for the top management to decide. Long-term decisions about the necessary mechanisms and procedures must therefore be derived from.
There are also other mechanisms which the management of an organisation may decide to use in order to implement its chosen strategy or policy on industrial relations management. These may include ad hoc management-worker task teams and management-union task teams. The purpose of such committees is to establish links at organisation level. Details of these procedures can be worked out at lower levels of the hierarchy.
Consultative committees and safety committees can play a valuable role. In the case of the strategy for trade union-management cooperation.
If top management intends.
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Smith also suggests other committees which can be formed to function at lower levels. Such committee comprises management and trade union representatives jointly taking care of managing the employment relations. Issues such as training.
There can be a committee that deals with corporate strategy in relation to the management of industrial-related matters. Smith suggests in this regard. Reese proposes organisational structures ranging from the workshop floor to plant management and even management board level. The above analysis also portrays that such decisions have strategic implications for the resources of the organisation.
Harvester Wheatsheaf. The unit discussed decisions on the use of standardisation and formalisation in the management of industrial matters. Mention and explain the reasons for the use of specialists in industrial relations management. The Basics of Industrial Relations. Evidence from Ten Countries.
Changing Patterns of Employee Relations. Developments in the Management of Human Resources. Give reasons for the use of decentralisation approach in industrial relations management in some organisations. Inleiding tot die bestuurswese. In some organisations. This sub-section also deals with decisions on the ideal framework within which they can be organised by the top management to manage the employment relationship in the organisation.
In this unit you will be exposed to the strategic roles to be played by the line managers or organisational officials at different levels of the organisation in industrial-related matters. Such a decision will obviously be closely linked with the specialisation or devolution decision.
It will also have a direct effect on related decisions. The top management is to determine the general. In the case of the later. In respect of the former. Figure 1 portrays a classical representation of the matrix which these two continuums can form.
Storey based on empirical evidence. The role of these specialists may even focus on business-related aspects. There is devolution: Storey posits that personnel specialists operating within this setup are found to be engaged in servicing the routine requirements of line management.
Specialists may. The employees of such department are available to assist in these areas when requested to do so by line managers. Storey 1. The regulator Regulators are the typical. There can be two variations within this type of role model.
Storey contends that the regulators formulate. The change agent The change agents have higher ambitions of initiating new forms of people management that are in line with the business needs of the organisation.
Important decisions on. In the former case. Thus interventions remain reactive. Interventions are introduced in a practical manner so as to make a strategic impact and to add value to the business by going the extra mile to achieve worker dedication. It is indeed an overriding profit-maximising role in which quantification and the bottom line are the predominant factors.
Storey contends that the orientation is away from bargaining. These rules range from personnel procedure manuals to joint agreements with trade unions.
Storey observes that personnel specialists of this type are decidedly interventional in the conduct of people management but their interventions rarely involve engagement with wider business strategy. In plotting these two dimensions on intersecting vertical and horizontal continuum. Their approach focuses more specifically on the role of line management in relation to that of the specialist department.
They stress the importance of tapping the creativity and commitment of the resourceful specialists. The focus of the personnel and industrial relations department is also on proactive interventions directed at business strategy per se. The softer role comprises a specific focus on the distinctive nature of their input to the team.
In such a set-up. They are not set apart as a group that provides a special. In this context. It is closely related to aspects of industrial relations management which we have already discussed.
They have small powerful departments monitoring and advising. Furthermore in this type of model. Empirical evidence provides that this type of role allocation is Brewster and Holt-Larsen describe pivotal role succinctly that pivotal on the grounds that small.
The concentration on the development and monitoring of policy is correlated with the devolution of responsibility and authority to carry out the policy to line management. The guarded strategist On the other hand. Brewster and Holt-Larsen observe that this role model is typical of Sweden and Switzerland. This specialist believes that there are many areas of specialty in which only the specialists can handle. On the basis of empirical evidence.
The line managers find that many aspects of relationships with subordinates are in practice abrogated by the personnel department. Brewster and Holt-Larsen observe that this represents the most classical model. The result therefore. Brewster and Holt-Larsen observe that the specialists are usually powerful figures within the organisation. The professional mechanic In the case of the professional mechanic role model. For the other managers. The integration of business strategy and the strategy for the management of the employment relationship is also well advanced.
In Germany. France and Norway. Brewster does mention that Germany is a special case. The choice may also fall on little devolution plus little integration of industrial relations management strategy with business strategy. While the employment relationship is largely managed by line management itself.
It can cover a wider field. These role players may even participate in shaping the nature and content of strategy and policy. The preceding discussion emphasises the importance and complexity of the top management decision on role allocation. Top management can use these typologies to guide it in this long-term decision.
Where this has not happened.
Both line management higher level and the personnel and industrial relations department have a part to play at various levels of the organisation and in respect of various aspects of industrial relations. The various typologies show many areas of overlapping and similarity.
Although the management of people employed by organisation is the responsibility of the line management. Brewster and Holt-Larsen observe that under this role model. The role. This is not necessarily a problem. You can also appreciate from the foregoing analysis that various categories of the line managers in the organisation have defined roles to play in the management of industrial-related issues. This is an important decision. It follows that the top management decision will have an important influence on decisions as to who must receive what types of training in the management of industrial relations.
Lower management levels. Top management decides which groups at which levels must engage in the formulation and implement of strategy. It is here that the shop steward also has an important role to play. MBA 5. The discussion will focus on the appropriate procedure for the management of disciplinary cases and the options available for disengaging erring employees from the organisation.
Sout Cranfield School of Management. Mention and explain the various role models which can be adopted in the management of industrial relations. The unit discussed decisions on the use of standardisation and formalisation as well the decisions regarding the appropriate framework for the management of collective bargaining issue in an organisation. Personal Interview with Researcher. Let Line Managers Manage. Industrial Relations Strategies: An International Approach.
Harvester Wheat Sheaf. Cape Town: Discipline and dismissal are Such employees believe in performing their work properly. Organisational discipline can be enforced with the use of appropriate measures such as sanctions. A disciplined workforce is a perquisite for the successful operation of any organisation. Many employees can therefore. In organisations. In another perspective. Once the employees are aware. In any organisation. In these circumstances. Such disciplinary problems may be excessive drinking.
There are many types of disciplinary problems in job situations which may confront the managers or superior officers but there are some other ones which stem from employee behaviour off the job. Another instance is that a system may be designed to include check and controls at each stage so that no task can be forgotten. An instance is a situation whereby a machine may be designed as to shut off automatically if its safety guard is not put in place by the worker. This is ensured by the organisation through creating conducive atmosphere for the employees to exhibit appropriate behaviour and attitudes towards discharging their responsibilities to the organisation.
In essence it involves the use of threat of punishment on disciplinary problems or misdemeanours as may be committed by the employees. Disciplinary action. Negative discipline. An informal. The negative discipline is predicative on the use of articulated and punitive measures which could be meted out to likely offenders among the workers.
It is just a warning of punishment on disciplinary problems and not essentially meant to harm the offenders. The following is a list of suggested steps of progressive disciplinary action. This is essential because the employees should be aware of what is required of them in terms of behaviour and attitudes appropriate to the organisational setting. Suspension Disciplinary layoff as it is also known. Basically some employee may not be impressed with oral or written warnings.
Oral warning This is a reprimand. Written warnings are particularly important and necessary in non-unionised situations. Suspension or the disciplinary layoffs usually extends over several days or weeks. It means that this is used in the instance of a repeated offence by the employee.
Demotion Demotion involves the loss of both pay and status as a result of grave infraction or repeated misdemeanour. In a situation where such sanctions are not provided for in the contract of employment. Immediacy Immediacy rule implies that after noticing the offence. This is necessary in order to maintain proper disciplinary and to have employees accept disciplinary action as fair.
Such steps are as follows: Advance warning It is essential that all employees are made aware in advance what is expected of them and what the organisational rules and regulations are. The action may also affect the morale of the work group of the affected employee. There are some basic rules. MBA 6. For the organisation. This makes many organisations to have a The required action is investigation where possible.
It means that the employee must be informed clearly that certain acts will lead to disciplinary action. Inconsistency in the application of disciplinary action can also breed contempt for the organisational rules and regulations by the employees. Some policy provisions can also be included in the recruitment literature and employment contracts.
It behoves on the organisation to make sure that each employee is also informed orally of what is expected of them in term of discipline. Inconsistency in the application of discipline tends to lower the morale of employees and diminishes their respect for the authority. Privacy It is a general rule that disciplinary action should be taken in the private.
Consistency This rule implies that each time an infraction occurs appropriate disciplinary action is taken. It can also lead to feeling of insecurity and anxiety by the employees. Impersonality Basically. This is done by ensuring that penalties are directly related to the act of misdemeanour and based on the personality involved. The preparation for the disciplinary interview involves: What are the specific standards of future behaviour or performance required?
The basic procedure in terms of the content of the interview is as follows: Basic issues to be taken into consideration for the interview are: The superior officer explains the purpose of the interview. The employee be given an ample opportunity to comment. Is the aim of the interview punishment or deterrent? How valuable is the employee to the organisation potentially? How far is the organisation prepared to go to help the employee improve or discipline him or her further?
The charges against the erring employee are delivered. It is always necessary to embark on adequate preparation for the interview session. Substantive fairness This relates to the reason for the dismissal. Considerations which indicate substantive fairness include the following: The only obligation in terms of common law is to give the employee the required notice agreed on in the contract of employment and the employer must provide the employee with a fair reason for dismissal.
Summary of the proceedings by the superior officer. In most cases. In terms of common law. Reasons behind any penalty to be imposed on the employee explained.
Procedural fairness This relates to the way in which an employee is dismissed. Investigate the matter. The employee must be given the opportunity to appeal against the decision of the management or the employer. The employer can also ignore procedural guidelines where the employee waives his or her right to a hearing. All such steps are related to procedural fairness. An employee is entitled to be assisted or represented by a trade union official or fellow employee but not normally by a legal representative.
Give the employee a reasonable period of time to prepare a response to the complaint. An employee is entitled to state his or her case in reply to a charge. Disciplinary hearing may not be necessary in some cases. If the employee is to be dismissed. A dismissal has to be both substantively and procedurally fair to qualify as a fair dismissal.
The employer has to take a number of procedural steps before dismissing an employee for misconduct. In other cases.
The steps involved are as highlighted below: Notify the employee in advance of the complaint or charge against him or her. Informal advice and correction is the best and most effective way for an employer to deal with minor violations of work discipline. The principle of progressive discipline means that the punishment becomes proportionately more severe as the seriousness or frequency of the misconduct increases. Instances are insubordination.
Formal procedures do not have to be involved every time a rule is violated or a standard is not met. Such offences may include the following: Dismissal should be reserved for cases of serious misconduct or repeated offences. When the employee arrives late the fourth time. In such a case. Probation should not be used to deprive employees of the status of permanent employment. The employer must prove that there is a reason for the dismissal.
If the employee is likely to be absent for an unreasonable long period. Dismissal for incapacity must be both substantively and procedurally fair just like the case of dismissal on the ground of misconduct.
Incapacity usually falls into one of two categories such as poor work performance or medical unfitness due to ill-health or injury. For the employer to dismiss an employee on ground of incapacity. The period of probation should be determined in advance and be of reasonable duration.
In case of permanent incapacity the employer must investigate the possibility of alternative work for the employee. Other examples include: Other topics discussed include basic principles of fair dismissal. The reasons for termination can be purely economic such as economic downturn resulting in low revenue.
You can also appreciation the fact that dismissal as an extreme disciplinary action which can be meted out to an employee is normally used as the last resort and in extreme cases. Identify the steps to be taken in disciplinary action towards ensuring procedural fairness. Enumerate and discuss the stages involved in progressive disciplinary procedure. The impact of the economic downturn as a result of the cyclical nature of the business cycle may compel a business entity to divest its interest from some operations.
The implication. This leads to excess personnel. The impact of industrial competition may spell misfortune for the business enterprise to the extent that it may find it very difficult to generate enough revenue to cover cost of operation. This leads to structural changes in the operational modality of the organisation.
The government as a social contract is not insulated from the inevitability of retrenchment of workers as we have witnessed over the years in Nigeria. The reason for that type of treatment by the private sector employers is largely because the relationship between such employees and their employers is described as that of master-servant relationship. The implication of the above is that the common law workers who are employed in the private sector or even in government establishment but whose terms of employment are governed or regulated by contract alone and not by statute can be declared redundant by their employers.
A distinction must be drawn between retrenchment and redundancy. It arises out of changes which management introduces in the economic work environment. In the public service it is normally attributed to the reform agenda or policy of the government. Redundancy is not the result of poor economic conditions. Acceding to requests by older worker to take early retirement. Organisations or industries change their activities. The following are some of the circumstances that can give rise to retrenchment: Such other methods include the following: The employer decides to rationalise or relocate the enterprise.
The business is taken over and certain work is no longer required. Procedural Fairness Since the retrenchment of workers is a drastic step. The employer must have a valid economic reason for terminating the services of employee. Retrenchment is essentially a result of employees having become redundant. Not appointing new employees to do the same work in the section where the employer intends reducing the number of employees.
It is unfair to retrench employees in order to avoid a disciplinary hearing. Such valid reason can be the introduction of new technology. Consideration must be given to possible alternatives to retrenchment. Where employees are represented at plant level. Retraining employees so that they can do work which has become available as a result of vacancies.
Consultation in the retrenchment procedure Basically consultation is a process that takes place at various stages of the retrenchment programme.
Temporarily closing a plant or a part of an enterprise. This type of consultation will most likely culminate in a general agreement pertaining to retrenchment.
MBA iii. Employees representatives will want to know in what circumstances the employer will regard retrenchment as essential. But the most important issues during this phase are the negotiation of mutually acceptable criteria for selecting employees for retrenchment.
It is also advisable to agree on mutually acceptable standards or methods for verifying such circumstances. Introducing a shorter working week. Compelling employees to take all their accumulated leave. Criteria for selection on retrenchment The question as to what criteria should be accepted for selecting employees for retrenchment is often one of the most controversial ones in the debate about retrenchment.
Criteria that must be objectively considered in making the selection include: To avoid a decline in morale and productivity. After-care for retrenched employees Once dismissals resulting from retrenchment or redundancy have been finalised.
Notice to employees on retrenchment The issue of the period of notice which must be given to employees remains one of the most controversial aspects of the retrenchment procedure. To know that one will be without work in a few days has a considerable blow to most employees. It also prevents any favouritism or discrimination against trade union members. Severance pay for retrenchment The amount of the severance pay in the case of retrenchment is normally negotiated by the employer.
Although their reasons for doing so are sound. One of the reasons why trade unions do this is the severe psychological effect which sudden notice has on employees. The appropriate procedure would be to inform the trade unions concerned of the vacant posts and to give them an adequate opportunity to contact retrenched employees who could possible fill such posts.
For these reasons. The undertaking to re-employ employees Many trade unions demand that preference be given to retrenched employees where vacant posts arise in the organisation in future. Even where the paper work has been done before the actual retrenchment takes place. The demand that reappointment be offered is a reasonable one. These could take the form of guidelines. A clear and fair retrenchment procedure is a prerequisite for ensuring consistency in the retrenchment of employee.
Employers should also keep on assisting those concerned to find other meaningful employment if possible. Such a procedure lays down principle and practices which will ensure that. It is a formal procedure which foresees the possibility of a reduction in the workforce which will regulate it.
Many companies that have agreements with trade unions have agreed on retrenchment policies and procedures. Retrenchment policy and procedure It is advantageous for an organisation to have a retrenchment policy irrespective of whether or not there is a trade union. In some other instance. A situation of excess manpower in an organisation can be caused by a variety of factors such as technological advancement or reduction in production as a result of downturn in the economy.
Thus an employee has no right not to be declared redundant outside his term of employment or collective agreement that is applicable to him or her. In the eye of the Industrial Act. It is not a voluntary or forced resignation.
Nevertheless the procedure stipulated in the Industrial Act must be complied with before the organisation reaches its decision to declare a particular worker redundant. Benefits payable in a redundancy situation are governed by the employment contract. It is rather a form unique only to its procedure whereby an employee is quietly and lawfully relieved of his post.
The general opinion is that it may be relatively easy to determine the relative skills and abilities of workers compared to the determination of the reliability of a worker. It is argued that there is no basis for the use of a subjective criterion like reliability in a consideration which is supposed to be an objective principle. This is a condition which is regarded as being precedent.
In the absence of such regulation on payment of redundancy benefits. The implication is that the condition ought to take place at the earliest opportunity if it is too meaningful at all. Negotiation of redundancy benefits The Minister of Labour is empowered by the Industrial Act to make regulations providing generally or in particular cases for the compulsory payment of redundancy allowances to workers affected by a declaration of redundancy.
The principle seems to support the view that redundancy does not apply to cessation of business as there would be no need to retain any worker in such a case. Differentiate between retrenchment and redundancy. Aturu holds the view that the provision of the Act seems to make the worker to be at the mercy of the employer in industries where there is collective bargaining process.
The unit has portrayed that retrenchment and redundancy are inevitable in the life of an organisation as a result of mainly exogenous dictates of the operating environment.
The unit also explained the issues relating to the regulation of redundancy by the Labour Minister in terms of benefits which may accrue to the employees in the redundancy. This is because what an employer may consider to be fair payments for redundancy may fall short of reasonable efforts to negotiate adequate redundancy benefits. Outline and discuss the factors to be considered when an organisation is embarking on retrenchment exercise.
When such situation arises. State what the procedures for pursuing a grievance should be. For the purpose of harmonious interrelationship in the organisational setting. State the rights of the employee for each type of grievance. Alternatively he can be allowed to attend a special appeals promotion board if he has been in his current grade for at least a certain number of years.
Distinguish between individual grievances and collective grievances. State what grades of employees are entitled to pursue a particular type of grievance. This can arise out of the feeling of being picked on. Collective grievances might occur when a group of workers or work group considers that it is being unfairly treated.
The entrenched grievance procedures should incorporate the following things: The first interview will be between the immediate boss unless he is the subject of the complaint. State time limits for initiating certain grievance procedures and subsequent stages of them. Cases referred to a higher authority should also be reported to the personnel department. Line management might decide to ask for the assistance or advice of a personnel manager in resolving the problem.
The involvement of the representative implies that there will be a common view on the appropriate procedures to take in the resolution of the matter. There should also be time scales for the management to determine and communicate the outcome of the complaint to the employee.
A Typical Grievance Procedure A typical grievance procedure goes though the following stages: The aggrieved individual discusses the problem with a staff. If the immediate boss cannot resolve the matter. A grievance procedure may even be initiated through the union or association rather than through official grievance procedures. If his case seems a good one. At this stage. Normally the grievance interview itself goes through three stages as enumerated and discussed below.
Reply The manager. The outcome. Exploration The problem of the aggrieved employee has to be explored: Consideration Under this stage. In this wise. It may be that the information obtained can be used to clear up the misunderstanding. The employees are bound to encounter some problems which may bother on denial of rights.
Provision for the right of appeal to the higher authority. Allow the aggrieved employee to be accompanied by a fellow employee or union representative.
Specify to whom they apply. Allow the employees to state their case exhaustively. You can also appreciation the fact that appropriate handling of employee grievances is an important requirement in ensuring organisational harmony and cordial personal interrelationship among the employee subsystem in the organisation. Ensure that every grievance is properly investigated before any action is taken.
Be in writing. All proceedings must be recorded and the final outcome distributed to the relevant persons such as the personnel manager. Be capable of dealing speedily with grievance matters. Indicate the remedy to which the aggrieved employee is entitled. Ensure that the employee is informed of the reasons for any decision taken on his case. Other topics discussed in this unit include inherent issues in grievance procedure. What are the inherent features of an appropriate grievance procedure?
Enumerate and discuss the stages involved in grievance interview. You have been exposed to the various strategies for encouraging the employees to follow laid down grievance procedure in order to avoid petition writing in the organisation.
You will understand that industrial harmony can only be achieved in an atmosphere of mutual trust and understanding between the management and the workers occasioned by constant interaction of their representatives. The appropriate forum for such mutual interaction is the subject matter of this study unit. Such basic methods of mutual interaction between the management and the unions are in the areas of deputation.
The three aspects of such basic methods are discussed herein. All these three issues are discussed in this unit but an elaborate analysis is devoted to the subject of collective bargaining since it constitutes the main preoccupation of the unit.
The ultimate decisions are still the prerogative of the employer or management. Under this scenario. For the purpose of joint consultation. Under this forum. The purpose for the existence of a joint consultation body is to provide a forum for regular contact between management and workers as a means of improving conditions of work and by extension the level of productivity.
Collective bargaining. The essence of the forum therefore. The nature. It involves the formulation of industrial agreements contracts. Akubuiro espouses that collective bargaining includes all methods by which groups of workers and relevant employers come together to attempt to reach agreement in matters by a process of negotiation.
It means that under the collective bargaining issues of divergent or congruent interest can be discussed. According to Akubuiro An important example is the issue of wage regulation. In an all-inclusive definition of collective bargaining. Another example of mandatory issues is the condition of service. The process of collective bargaining involves negotiations about working conditions and terms of employment between an employer and union for the purpose of reaching mutual agreement.
Davey as quoted by Egbo views it as those formal and informal processes of accommodation through which an employer. These are the items that both management and unions have accepted to constitute the issues of negotiation. Exclusive items: These are issues which are exclusive prerogative of the management of the organisation which fall under the procedural agreements. Examples of exclusive issues are employment.
Voluntary items: These are the items which neither party in the dispute can be compelled against its wish to accept for negotiation. In another view. Examples of such issues are fringe benefits like car loan. In another perspective this is the proprietary ability to withhold production or products pending the negotiations for transfer of ownership of wealth. In some cases. This is the ability of union to convince management to accept on one hand and management resistance against unions desires on the other.
The unions normally use tactics such as timing of strike. Management tactics and cost of disagreement Management has the capacity to increase cost of disagreement to unions through lockout by withholding employment except on terms agreeable to management necessarily with due cognisance to the prevailing market conditions. The parties involved in collective bargaining can change this power through the use of tactics with which to influence each other.
Since it is the power to exploit. According to Slitcher. Union tactics and cost of disagreeing The Trade unions normally use strike to withhold their industrial until their terms are met.
By and large. In a situation where the cost of disagreeing is less in relation to that of agreeing. For all intents and purposes. The implication is that while union seeks to strengthen strike. Favourable political climate This is the prevailing political climate.
Faith in Collective Bargaining Both parties in dispute must be convinced and ready to accept that collective bargaining offers a good means of regulating employment conditions in addition to the use of deputation and joint consultation.
In a particular situation where the government does not encourage the institution of collective bargaining such as the use of restrictions on trade unionism. Strength of the union The strength of the union in negotiation depends on some factors. Management can also weep up or resort to public opinion.
Management is also at liberty to sack the employees and replace them with others or machines. Naturally one party will win more concessions than the other. Such strength will make the employers to accord them recognition and hence. Freedom of association for the workers The institution of collective bargaining can only thrive if the workers are free to promote trade unionism among themselves and also at liberty to join trade unions of their choice.
Recognition of trade union A trade union that is recognised by the management can muster the necessary authority and power to negotiate on behalf of the workers in the process of collective bargaining. It means both parties will only present core demands as basis for negotiation and in the process of bargaining one party will agree to reduce its demand in return for some concession from the other party.
Joint authorship of agreement It is usually desirable and ideal for both parties to jointly sign agreement arrived at during the negotiation to indicate the willingness of both parties to honour the terms contained therein.
Willingness to give and take For a collective bargaining to be meaningful and achieve the desired result. The refusal of any party to sign the agreement can lead to creation of loophole for the subversion of the agreement.
The government can encourage freedom of association for the workers at the instance of an enabling legislation for the formation of associations. They bargain and if they succeed.
MBA 8. Therefore this agreement cannot be enforceable under the law of contract. The body known as a consultative committee consists of an equal number of representatives while passing a resolution. Contractual method Under this method the employer and the representatives of the workers meet for negotiation for the purpose of settling trade disputes.
Also a time limit is usually not fixed for its operation. Institutional method Under this method industrial and management come together to set up an institution and a constitution. The agreement remains static even when situation.
Such unfair trade practices include breaching of anti-union contracts by the unions. This style is normally used when the issues at stake are in areas of monetary benefits. This method is normally adopted to ensure that the objectives of both parties are satisfied. Distributive bargaining style This method of bargaining is somehow similar to the conjunctive bargaining since each party is only interested in what it can achieve even at the expense of the other party.
This method is weak in terms of complete incapacity to satisfy the objectives of both parties. This method of collective bargaining is widely practiced in US. The method is employed to ensure maximum cooperation by both parties. The method is capable of being used to establish a system of industrial jurisprudence whereby employer and employee resolve their dispute rationally and peacefully.
The method ensures that each party is depending on the other. In terms of bargaining relationship between both parties in dealing with matters of divergent interest. Examples of such groups of workers in the public sector in Nigeria are the lecturers and medical doctors. More so it is not unusual.
Fractional bargaining style Fractional method of bargaining involves the sectional activities of some work groups who. Some unions have conducted themselves in this manner for the purpose of joint protection of the industry from competitors or joint demand for special concessions from the government. Such groups of workers are usually cohesive with their informal authority structure. Under this bargaining method. Given that a work force is made up of a collective of different work groups.
In the event of the representatives particularly the executives trying to follow a policy of a particular local trade union which runs counter to the group interest. In this style.
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This method of bargaining becomes useful in period of economic recession resulting in shifting grounds on several issues under dispute. The method is particularly useful when the issues at stake are of common interest to both parties. Integrative bargaining style This method of bargaining is like the cooperative bargaining.
Individual bargaining style The method involves an individual employee seeking an improvement on the prevailing conditions of his employment. As you can observe. The style becomes useful in a situation where one party will be interested in seeing that organisational operations are on course but will not like to lose out either.
The civil service rules as obtained in the present day public sector regulate most of the conditions of employment which suffice for the collective bargaining process in the public sector. This is done mainly by the white collar job holders particularly in the middle and top management hierarchy in organisations. Since the creation of the public sector. National disputes: These are the political issues affecting the whole nation normally handled by the umbrella union such as the Nigeria Labour Congress.
According to The government also uses another approach in place of collective bargaining in form of the wages commission. Economic disputes: These are the issues that affect employee compensation in form of salaries. Gorsuch MBA MODULE 4 The crucial fact that must be pointed out is the absence of any machinery for government employees to participate in the determination of these conditions of service as contained in the civil service regulation.
Various forms of industrial disputes are as highlighted below: Examples of such issues are deregulation of the petroleum products pricing or the downstream sector of the industry.
Adebo The most recent one is the Shonekan Commission which has resulted into consolidated salaries for the public workers in January Miller The laid down procedures are not the same for all industries and such procedures for collective bargaining are the ones being used to settle the major types of disputes. The use of the wages commission to regulate salaries and allowances has been rationalised that the government has the right to set wage rate in any establishment where either the wages are unreasonably low or where no adequate machinery is available for adjusting wages and conditions of service.
It is vertical form of union organisation. This is irrespective of the occupation of the employees. Australian Workers Union. They are unpaid employees of unions, c the states, then to, they are employees of different firms.
Find out the apex body and briefly describe about it. Employer Associations seek to coordinate the behaviour of their member companies during negotiations with trade unions or government bodies, share information and advice among members, and approach other companies when support is needed. What are the implications of it? Choose an Employer Association active in Bangladesh and describe details about it. State institutions can establish substantive rules that affect the nature and quality of employment conditions, as well as procedural rules that shape the manner in which rules are made and disputes between employers and employees are conducted and resolved.
Conciliator, Arbitrator, Mediator - the state frequently provides services that are intended to facilitate the resolution of industrial disputes between employer and employees. Service Provider - the state is a provider of public goods like health care, vocational training, etc. Corporatist arrangements are more likely to emerge when governments are led by Labour or Social Democratic parties because of their close political affiliations and institutional links with trade unions.
Liberalism - a process where privatisation, liberalisation of trade and deregulation of financial markets occur. Integration of trade unions into the policy-making process is ceased and trade unions lose political leverage and influence as a consequence. Employers are empowered. What is the role of political government of Bangladesh in managing employer associations of the country? The Boilers Act, 2.
The Mines Act, 3. The Cotton Industry Statistics Act, 4. The Industrial Statistics Act, 6. The Trade Organisations Ordinance, 8.
The Tea Plantation Labour Ordinance, 9. The Control of Employment Ordinance, The Bangladesh Handloom Board Ordinance, Laws inconsistent with fundamental rights to be void Article - 26 2. Equality before law Article - 27 3. Discrimination on ground of religion, etc. Article - 28 4. Equality of opportunity in public employment Article - 29 5. Prohibition of foreign titles, etc.
Article - 30 6. Right to protection of law Article - 31 7. Prohibition of forced labour Article - 34 Freedom of assembly Article - 37 Freedom of association article - 38 Freedom of profession or occupation Article - 40 Freedom of religion Article - 41 Rights of property Article - 42 Enforcement of fundamental rights Article - 44 Modification of rights in respect of disciplinary law Article - 45 Power to provide indemnity Article - 46 Saving for certain laws Article - 47 Unions negotiate for the standard wage and employment benefits.
They create a surplus of manpower but not productivity. They tend to think that they have equal power and authority like management. They misinform the workers and blame is given on the management of their wrongdoing. Without registration a union cannot function legally. Situation of trade union right in Bangladesh.
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Zechariah 6
Book of Zechariah Click Verse Reference for Study Notes
6:1-15 - Study Chapter - Click for Chapter Audio
The Four Chariots
1 Now I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, four R127 chariots were coming forth from between the two mountains; and the mountains were bronze mountains. 2 With the first chariot were red R128 horses, with the second chariot black R129 horses, 3 with the third chariot white R130 horses, and with the fourth chariot strong dappled R131 horses. 4 Then I spoke and said to the angel who was speaking with me, "What R132 are these, my lord?" 5 The angel replied to me, "These are the four R133 spirits of heaven, going forth after standing before the Lord of all the earth, 6 with one of which the black horses are going forth to the north R134 country; and the white ones go forth after them, while the dappled ones go forth to the south R135 country. 7 "When the strong ones went out, they were F33 eager to go to patrol R136 F34 the earth." And He said, "Go, patrol F34 the earth." So they patrolled F35 the earth. 8 Then He cried out to me and spoke to me saying, "See, those who are going to the land of the north have appeased R137 F36 My wrath in the land of the north."
9 The word R138 of the LORD also came to me, saying, 10 "Take R139 an offering from the exiles, from Heldai, Tobijah and Jedaiah; and you go the same day and enter the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have arrived from Babylon.
The Symbolic Crowns
11 "Take silver and gold, make an ornate crown R140 and set it on the head of Joshua R141 the son of Jehozadak, the high priest. 12 "Then say to him, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, a man whose name is Branch, R142 F37 for He will branch R143 F38 out from where He is; and He will build R144 the temple of the LORD. 13 "Yes, it is He who will build the temple of the LORD, and He who will bear R145 the honor and sit and rule R146 on His throne. Thus, He will be a priest R147 on His throne, and the counsel of peace will be between the two offices."' F39 14 "Now the crown R148 will become a reminder in the temple of the LORD to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah and Hen F40 the son of Zephaniah. 15 "Those R149 who are far off will come and build F41 the temple of the LORD." Then you will know R150 that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And it will take place if you completely obey R151 the LORD your God.
F33: Lit sought to go
F34: Lit walk about through
F35: Lit walked about through
F36: Lit caused My spirit to rest in
F37: Lit Sprout
F38: Lit sprout up
F39: Lit of them
F40: I.e. Josiah
F41: Lit build in
R127: Daniel 7:3; 8:22; Zechariah 1:18; 6:5
R128: Zechariah 1:8; Revelation 6:4
R129: Revelation 6:5
R132: Zechariah 1:9
R133: Jeremiah 49:36; Ezekiel 37:9; Daniel 7:2; 11:4; Matthew 24:31; Revelation 7:1
R134: Jeremiah 1:14,15; 4:6; 6:1; 25:9; 46:10; Ezekiel 1:4
R135: Isaiah 43:6; Daniel 11:5
R136: Zechariah 1:10
R137: Ezekiel 5:13; 24:13; Zechariah 1:15
R138: Zechariah 1:1; 7:1; 8:1
R139: Ezra 7:14-16; 8:26-30; Jeremiah 28:6
R140: 2 Samuel 12:30; Psalms 21:3; Song of Solomon 3:11
R141: Ezra 3:2; Haggai 1:1; Zechariah 3:1
R142: Isaiah 4:2; 11:1; Jeremiah 23:5; 33:15; Zechariah 3:8
R143: Isaiah 53:2
R144: Ezra 3:8,10; Amos 9:11; Zechariah 4:6-9
R145: Isaiah 9:6; 11:10; 22:24; 49:5,6
R146: Isaiah 9:7
R147: Psalms 110:1,4
R149: Isaiah 56:6-8; 60:10
R150: Zechariah 2:9-11; 4:9
R151: Isaiah 58:10-14; Jeremiah 7:23; Zechariah 3:7
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Book of Dzyan
The Book of Dzyan (comprising the Stanzas of Dzyan) is a reputedly ancient text of Tibetan origin. The Stanzas formed the basis for The Secret Doctrine (1888), one of the foundational works of the theosophical movement, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.
Madame Blavatsky's claims regarding the Book of DzyanEdit
Madame Blavatsky claimed to have seen a manuscript of the Book of Dzyan while studying esoteric lore in Tibet. She claimed this and other ancient manuscripts were safeguarded from profane eyes by the initiates of an Occult Brotherhood. The work had originally, according to Blavatsky, been written in the sacred language of Senzar. She wrote [1]
This first installment of the esoteric doctrines is based upon Stanzas, which are the records of a people unknown to ethnology; it is claimed that they are written in a tongue absent from the nomenclature of languages and dialects with which philology is acquainted; they are said to emanate from a source (Occultism) repudiated by science; and, finally, they are offered through an agency, incessantly discredited before the world by all those who hate unwelcome truths, or have some special hobby of their own to defend. Therefore, the rejection of these teachings may be expected, and must be accepted beforehand. No one styling himself a "scholar," in whatever department of exact science, will be permitted to regard these teachings seriously.
Max Müller and others have been skeptical. Max Müller said that she has made the most valuable gift to archeological research in the Orient.[2]
The Book of Dzyan and the Buddhist TantrasEdit
In other references Blavatsky claimed the Book of Dzyan belonged to a group of Tibetan esoteric writings known as the Books of Kiu-Te. Blavatsky wrote before a standard transcription of Tibetan into the Latin alphabet had been agreed upon; it took David Reigle some time to establish that she was referring to what modern scholars write as rGyud-sde, parts of a voluminous Buddhist corpus commonly referred to as the Tantras.[3] Other researchers have suggested a source in Chinese Taoism or Jewish kabbala.[4]
The Stanzas of Dzyan in the works of other authorsEdit
Supposed verses from the same Stanzas of Dzyan were later published by Alice Bailey in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire in 1925. Bailey claimed these verses had been dictated to her telepathically by the Tibetan Master Djwal Kul.
Ufologist Desmond Leslie drew heavily on the Stanzas of Dzyan in his writing,[5] and theorized that they had originally been produced on the lost continent of Atlantis.
Swiss author Erich von Däniken claimed to have explored some of the book's content and its alleged history, reporting unsourced rumours that the first version of the book predates Earth, and that chosen people who simply touch the book will receive visions of what it describes.[6]
References to the Stanzas exist in the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, for example in his short story "The Haunter of the Dark",[7] and have been expanded upon by other writers who have worked within the Cthulhu Mythos.[citation needed]
Criticism regarding the sources of the Stanzas of DzyanEdit
When The Secret Doctrine appeared, William Emmette Coleman was “outraged by Madame Blavatksy’s pretensions of Oriental learning, [and] undertook a complete exegesis of her works."[8][9] He claimed that her main sources were H.H. Wilson's translations of the Vishnu Purana; Alexander Winchell’s World Life: or, Contemporary Geology; Ignatius Donnely’s Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882); and other contemporary scientific and occult works, plagiarized without credit and, in his own opinion, used in a blundering manner that showed superficial acquaintance with the subjects under discussion. He further claimed that she took at least part of her Stanzas of Dzyan from the Hymn of Creation in the old Sanskrit Rig-Veda. Coleman promised a book that would expose all of H.P.B.’s sources including that of the word Dzyan.[10]
In her biography HPB: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky, Sylvia Cranston tackles the claim of plagiarism that was leveled by William Emmette Coleman.[11] Her view, like Coleman's, is that HPB's plagiarism consisted of quoting primary sources, without acknowledging the secondary sources from which they came.
Cranston states that a research assistant of hers took on the task of finding Coleman's alleged 70 passages that HPB plagiarized from World-Life, and could only find 6. Coleman himself, far from being an authority on occult material, was a clerk in the Quartermaster Department of the US Army. He was likely not an impartial judge, having written to Coues on July 8, 1890, "I emphatically denounced and ridiculed the theory of occultism, of elementary spirits, etc., before the Theosophical Society was organized [in 1875], and from that time to this I have strenuously opposed Theosophy all the time." [12] Coleman promised to publish a book that would "prove" his charges against Blavatsky regarding the Book of Dzyan; this book and its proof never appeared.[13] The reason Coleman's book never appeared is that “Coleman lost his library and his notes in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and died three years later, his book unwritten”.[14]
FootnotesEdit
^ The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1, Page xxxvii Stanzas, which are (...) said to emanate from a source (Occultism) repudiated by science;
^ Alvin Boyd Kuhn. Theosophy: A Modern Revival of Ancient Wisdom (New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1939), Chapter VIII, page 195.
^ David and Nancy Reigle. Blavatsky's Secret Books (San Diego: Wizards Bookshelf, 1999).
^ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. Helena Blavatsky (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2006).
^ Desmond Leslie & George Adamski: Flying Saucers Have Landed, London: Werner Laurie, 1953
^ Erich von Däniken. Gods From Outer Space (New York: Bantam Books, 1972), p. 137.
^ The Haunter of the Dark
^ William Emmette Coleman, "The Sources of Madame Blavatsky's Writings", in Vsevolod Sergeevich Solov'ev, A Modern Priestess of Isis, Appendix C, pp. 353-366 (London: Longmans & Co., 1895). Available as a free download [2]
^ L. Sprague de Camp. Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature (New York: The Gnome Press Inc., 1954; reprint: Dover Publications, 1970), pp. 57-58.
^ Sylvia Cranston. H.P.B.: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 1993), p. 379-387.
^ Cranston, op.cit. p 380, citing William Q Judge, The Esoteric She, reprinted in H. P. Blavatsky: Her Life and Work.
^ Sylvia Cranston. H.P.B.: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 1993), p. 384.
^ L. Sprague de Camp. Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature (New York: Dover Publications, 1954), p. 58.
Reigle, David and Nancy. Blavatsky's Secret Books. San Diego: Wizards Bookshelf, 1999. ISBN 0-913510-76-9 (also see [3]).
Sri Krishna Prem, Sri Madhava Ashish. Man, the Measure of All Things: In the Stanzas of Dzyan. Theosophical Publishing House, 1969. ISBN 978-0-8356-0006-4.
Harvey Tordoff. O Lanoo! The Secret Doctrine Unveiled. Findhorn Press, 1999. ISBN 978-1-899171-62-0.
"The Origins of the Stanzas of Dzyan" - The Theosophical Network - https://web.archive.org/web/20101230202540/http://www.theosophy.net/profiles/blogs/the-origins-of-the-stanzas-of
The Book of Dzyan: The Quest for an Original Text of the Book of Dzyan A blog started by David Reigle and others in February 2012.
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The Bespectacled Spectacle
Ray-Ban Wayfarers were coveted in the ’80s. Worn by Tom Cruise in Risky Business and Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – both films that charted the shenanigans of young men who break free from parental constraints for a couple of crazy days, running a brothel from home and sinking an expensive sports car in a river – these sunglasses were the ultimate expression of coolness and rebellion.
They embodied that moment when someone is willing to contravene societal pressures, rules and responsibilities and say “fuck it, fuck everything”.
This characteristic or association appeared to remain intact as a new generation, gripped by an ’80s revival took up this symbol, adopting it as a signature item that any hipster with street cred should have in their homemade organic leather bag or hovering above a bushy beard. Those who lived through the Wayfarer’s rise in the ’80s were more than keen to sport them once again in an effort to reclaim their youth and hide those creeping crow’s feet. An English lecturer I knew used a pair of the glasses to seduce all the young men in his class. He never took them off, even at night and probably in bed too. The glasses were his source of seduction and concealed his age and the increasing cynicism which marked his gaze.
In the last couple of weeks since Michael Elion’s giant pair of Wayfarers took up position in Cape Town’s idyllic promenade in Sea Point as a public artwork dubbed Perceiving Freedom, the classic pair of sunnies have not only lost their street cred, but some of the more outspoken detractors of this contentious public artwork, such as the Berlin-based artist Candice Breitz, have called on South Africans to abandon their Ray-Bans in protest, forcing locals to weigh up their outrage against this public artwork with their vanity.
Aside from the artwork, Elion has made many mistakes, including directing misogynist barbs towards Breitz and laying a charge of incitement of violence against Breitz, Stephen Hobbs and Hermann Niebuhr. Perhaps his worst error was linking his giant glasses to Mandela and a political notion of “freedom” and rebellion within the context of South Africa’s apartheid past.
From all accounts it appears this link was only made when the giant glasses were to be installed on the promenade. According to Farzanah Badsha, a member of the selection committee for art54 (the agency tasked with implementing temporary public art in the city), the artwork they had approved was a pair of giant sunglasses that would be installed in Camps Bay with a network of sprinklers that would create rainbows on the beach. As Badsha confesses, the change of location had real implications. She claims Elion took advantage of the change of location and the seeming ineptitude of the City’s muddled processes around the commissioning and implementation of public art and added a political layer to a work that had up until that point been viewed by the selection committee as a “fun and popular work” that would be interactive and aimed at children.
As the new location now faced Robben Island, Elion began to embroil a narrative linked to Mandela, which was inspired by a famous photograph of Madiba posing in a pair of sunglasses and leaning on a spade. The picture was taken during a visit by journalists in 1977.
The image was not a reflection of the actual circumstances for Madiba on the Island – it was staged for the journalists. Mandela typically worked on a lime quarry and not in a garden.
Ironically, this staging would detract from Madiba’s standing as a professional and a political leader and cast him as a gardener |– a lowly status that the apartheid state designated for black people. In this way, this image and by proxy this portrait of Madiba in these sunglasses, which are apparently not Ray-Bans or Wayfarers, obfuscated not only the truth about the conditions on Robben Island, but also attempted to belittle the status of this great leader.
In this context the sunglasses could only be seen to operate as a symbol of obfuscation of the truth and a means of denying the agency of the subject in the image to assert his “truth”. Presumably, Elion was keen to link his giant sunglasses to Madiba in an effort to secure funding and sponsorship from Ray-Ban.
In the absence of a budget for public art, it seems the works that would be implemented are those that had secured funding from elsewhere. Who wouldn’t want to sponsor an artwork that pays tribute to Mandela?
The connection, which the photograph appeared to substantiate would also allow Elion to elevate this vacuous work and transform it from a work for children to something with serious political intent, something he seems ill-equipped to do. Interestingly, he kept the lenses of his giant glasses clear, so as to counter the notion of obsfucation that they engender and enhance this idea of lenses colouring perceptions.
Ray-Ban, the City of Cape Town, Art54 (who have thrown Elion under the bus) and even the Mandela Foundation itself, seem to have paid little attention to how Elion was evoking Madiba and his legacy.
Not that this is unusual; the Nelson Mandela statue in the eponymous square adjacent to Sandton City is perhaps testament to not only the abominable art that is made in Mandela’s name, but also how his legacy is exploited for commercial ends and, in this setting, has become associated with consumerism. I suppose this is what happens to the legacies of all great figures – their likeness will eventually adorn coffee mugs.
What is interesting about Elion’s artwork is the way in which a middle-class sense of freedom as the Ray-Ban Wayfarers evoke is collapsed with political freedom during a repressive era.
In those cult ’80s movies, which no doubt increased the sales of Ray-Bans substantially, the sense of freedom that is evoked is of the sort that only the privileged might enjoy – like renting out your parents double-storey home so that your friends can break their virginity with prostitutes and destroy an expensive sports car.
There is also the fact that RayBans are not cheap, hence they are the preserve of the moneyed classes. And while Mandela was undeniably middle class, this status had been completely denied to him in the image with the sunglasses and during his incarceration. In other words, it is an image where freedom has been suppressed..
Elion’s crass exploitation of history to secure sponsorship isn’t just indicative of an artist with little artistic integrity or conceptual nous but also of the attitudes in the corporate arena, where companies try to align itself with political works to leverage credibility. But this phenomenon is not limited to public art or corporate sponsorship programmes, but to our broader political landscape, where leaders exploit their struggle credentials to remain in power.
This subversion of political ideals for self-serving motives fittingly marked the final – or will it be? – act in this public art drama, the act of vandalism committed by the group dubbed the Tokolos-Stencils. They also evoke the notion of freedom on their tumblr site, implying that it guides their acts of vandalism. Though graffiti has lost its subversive character and is used by property developers to gentrify suburbs, they believe it play a significant role in fighting for social justice. On their site, they recount how one of their members spray-painted the "Remember Marikana" slogan around a shanty town near where the tragedy occurred, as if the community needed reminding, and in English - the language of the "master" they claim to be their enemy. They arrogantly or patronisingly presume that this act worked at unifying the community. This slogan might have had more impact had they placed it outside Nathi Mthethwa's (former Minister of Safety and Security) home or Riah Phiyega’s office, or perhaps that might have disrupted they objective to challenge "white supremacy."
Just as Elion exploited Madiba's legacy, so too did Tokolos-Stencil, take advantage of the attention his contentious public artwork generated. In an interview with the ConMag they express annoyance that their seemingly "subversive" graffiti or interventions had gone unnoticed by the press. So, it appeared as if their act was designed to draw attention to themselves.
Despite the group make observations about the poor conceptual content of Elion’s work, their own, was a seemingly empty gesture too (they did not engage with the flaws of the work) which also involved riding on the coat tails of political issues in an effort to shore up the “content” of their work. - first published in The Sunday Independent, 23 November 2014.
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Beyond Borders: Marcus Neustetter
Proximity I - IV
Within the last month, Marcus Neustetter has put on one solo exhibition, a joint show with Stephen Hobbs at the Rubixcube Gallery, a performance/installation at the Rocket Factory in Maboneng and launched a new set of stamps of his own design. This level of productivity isn’t unusual. There have been years when he has put out several solo exhibitions, participated in group shows, locally and internationally, and created performances, films.
Neustetter’s incredible artistic output can be ascribed to a number of idiosyncratic qualities; he is a 24/7 artist propelled by an almost childlike glee and curiosity about the world and interpreting it, his fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants approach to art-making, in which he is willing to try anything and prizes spontaneity, and art making which demands or is conceived to deal with space (physical or ideological) in the “moment”, the present.
In this way each work he makes is quickly replaced by another and art making or the art object isn’t such a loaded, weighted or agonising endeavour with long-term consequences. In other words, for Neustetter art is play. It’s a way of undercutting the traditional view of art as elitist and highly valuable.
It may have been his performance and collaboration with the Stockhausen-inspired musician Jill Richards in Antjie in Berlin (it had a run at the Market Theatre in 2012) which best embodied his approach. This live performance saw Neustetter intuitively respond to Richards’s music and Antjie Krog’s texts via abstract lines and marks, which he wasn’t completely in control of – he observed them on a screen where they were projected and enlarged, and therefore distorted.
Placing physical barriers between himself and his mark-making or image production (usually by not looking at what he is doing) is something he has employed quite a bit in his practice; it has retained the sense of spontaneity he craves, allowing for the accidental and ensured an end product that is abstract and exists to some degree as a by-product of other activities – such as looking at the subject; either tracing the stars in the sky or plotting the landscape he observes from the window in an airplane.
These optical barriers might have coincided with his fixation with observation – however, it also relieved him of the huge burden that comes from fully investing in the art product, where it is the focus and not just as a record or document of another activity. Through a turn in his practice that saw him dispense with technology such as Google tracings, photography and videography, he came to valourise unfinished, crude or seemingly insignificant, random drawings as proof of the incredible vast spaces he has attempted to map, whether in the sky or on the ground, for this allowed him to authentically articulate the manner in which the material world couldn’t be crafted into coherent, visually resolved images. His form of mapping therefore substantiated the impossibility of ordering space while paradoxically pursuing it.
Faultlines
His exhibition at Art On Paper, Defining Lines, marks another significant shift in his practice; for the works are not byproducts of another activity, there are no optical barriers that would place him at a remove from them and he has laboured over them – he didn’t show for a year. He is now invested in his mark, which is no longer spontaneous or accidental; the marks in this show are deliberate strokes, they are large and bold and aesthetically pleasing, though his vocabulary remains abstract. He is painting too; with ink and gauche.
This exhibition therefore presents a bold leap for Neustetter and the result is one of his strongest shows to date. Undoubtedly it is the most visually thrilling; and as its title intimates is centred on the lines that define it - the works are largely characterised by thick bold black lines, which signify those synonymous with boundaries on maps.
So, yes, once again he is concerned with map making but, this time, he distorts conventional cartography by zoning in on the invisible borders between countries. He enlarges these lines and imagines “the space” that exists inside them – this liminal space between belonging and separate, not quite on the other side of the border, but existing between borders. This ties in with his practice, which has so often been consumed by depicting this in-between space, whether it is between the sky and ground or between how something exists but cannot be seen - such as natural or scientific phenomena.
In this exhibition, he aims to make visible the invisible; the ideological baggage that sustains these invisible frontiers - they tend to only be given expression on maps. He doesn’t expose the specific politics, nor is one aware which boundaries they are, except for a work with a very long-winded title that lists over two dozen countries that have been layered over each other to form an abstract painting where these diverse places become unified by a uniform line that runs around them. They exist because of these lines.
Nations, countries and identities are defined by these jagged lines – they are rarely straight, implying that they are not artificially conceived. To give expression to the energy and investment in these national boundaries and the friction that often ensues in response to their perceived impenetrability, he presents works with abstract expression between these lines. It is rendered in colour and via rough short lines mirroring the visual vocabulary of cartography, a visual short-hand for a complex set of events, or conditions. They bring to mind those he has employed in his crude drawings in the past, summoning a kind of naïve rendition of friction. These chaotic lines were intended to resemble the drawings his two-year-old daughter makes, he says.
This echoes a mode he employs to render that which cannot be represented but also his idiosyncratic way of approaching big topics through naïve forms that expresses a kind of resignation in the face of such overwhelming conditions (how do, can you deal with nationhood, identity, war as a phenomenon) but also a persistence to explore them regardless and surrender to whatever can be discovered through this process.
In works such as Abrasion, he splits these dark borderlines, revealing in the cracks, light and colour, as if exposing the unseen dynamics. This work and others such as the one with a very long-winded title (too long to list here), brings to mind the Cave openings that Neustetter was quite recently fixated on.
Explorers, historians and scientists have traditionally viewed caves as a sort of magical portal into long-buried world's but Neustetter has reversed this view by positioning the light at the opening of caves as a threshold promising discovery. In a way, this exhibition at AOP is also about reversing perspective: shifting attention to the line rather than the space it demarcates.
It is a way of arriving at a familiar place anew. The abstract language he embraces advances this, as the pleasing visual character of the works does too: by taking these solid boundaries and aestheticising them, rendering them as abstract, he exploits them as imagined constructs and in so doing acknowledges what they are while similarly deconstructing them.
There was always a kind of poetry to Neustetter’s work but it almost always has been rooted in the ideas driving it or how he arrived at it – like tracing constellations in the sky with his gaze fixed on it and not the drawing of them. In this show, however, the end products are poetic – compositionally, aesthetically, on a sensual level. Faultlines is a good example of this; this painting is a mapping of a landscape, it’s geography via a concentration of strokes or marks. Neustetter probably worked with a reference but now he is able to truly inhabit the imaginative space he renders because he is immersed in it rather than his subject.
In other words, his gaze has shifted to his art, it is not just functioning as the tool to discover the world, but rather is a world within itself. - first published in The Sunday Independent.
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Islam4UK Exposed As British Intelligence Front
Islam4UK that proposed a march on Wootton Bassett, is actually a British Intelligence group hired by our corrupt government in order to cause further conflict between Muslims and Brits, to keep support for the wars high and to continue the trumped up threat of terrorism. Anjem Choudary is a unislamic fraud linked to Al-Mujaharoun, a group created by British Mi6 to fight the Serbians in the Kosovo war. Either it came back to bite us on the ass or he is still controlled by our own government! BNP and EDL supporters, and Islam4UK supporters are both dupes, being played like puppets by the new world order (global governance) agenda.
http://wideshut.co.uk
U.S. halt to Haiti evacuations stirs fears for sick
Critically injured Haitian earthquake victims are no longer being flown by the U.S. military for treatment in the United States, raising fears some will die in a dispute over where to treat them and who should pay the costs.
U.S. officials said on Saturday no solution had yet been found in order to renew the U.S.-run medical evacuations, which were halted earlier this week.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist is asking the federal government to share the burden of treating people seriously injured in the January 12 quake and who need specialized medical care in U.S. hospitals.
"Florida's health care system is quickly reaching saturation, especially in the area of high level trauma care. We will not be able to sustain these efforts alone," Crist said in a letter to the federal government earlier this week.
He asked the federal government to send some patients to other states and ensure that hospitals are paid for the treatment.
Hundreds of people have already been evacuated to the United States for treatment, most of them to Florida hospitals, but military officials said they canceled the flights on Wednesday because they no longer knew where to take them.
Israel ‘poisoned Hamas leader’
A hit squad that killed a top Hamas commander in his Dubai hotel room injected him with a drug that induced a heart attack, photographed all the documents in his briefcase and left a “do not disturb” sign on the door.
The body of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, was discovered by staff at the luxury Al Bustan Rotana hotel after lunch on January 20. There were no suspicious signs and local doctors diagnosed a heart attack.
Nine days later, after blood samples sent to Paris for analysis showed signs of poison, Hamas announced his death and blamed Mossad, the Israeli overseas intelligence service, for the assassination.
Israeli mind-scanner may take over US airports
As part of stringent measures to beef up airport security, US authorities may use an Israeli-made mind-reading scanner that allegedly predicts whether a passenger is a potential threat or not.
The Transportation and Safety Administration (TSA) and the Homeland Security are considering the installment of a controversial mind-reading system, that was recently developed by the Israeli-based WeCU Technologies, in all American airports, AP reported on Thursday.
The device, which functions by blending high computer technology and behavioral psychology, is essentially designed to "get inside the evildoers head" without the subject's knowledge and prevent him or her from placing the lives of fellow travelers in jeopardy.
According to WeCU Technologies CEO, Ehud Givon, people cannot help reacting mechanically to recognizable images that suddenly appear in unfamiliar places.
Haiti earthquake: orphans for sale for $50
In a remote area north of Port-au-Prince, a man was reported to have offered to sell a young boy to a Canadian man for just $50.
In camps around the capital there were several reports of men being lynched after being accused by earthquake victims of trying to steal infants from tents.
The incident near Gonaives raised fears that child trafficking gangs could move into desperately poor rural areas that have yet to be properly reached by aid agencies. The gangs are also be less likely to be picked up by authorities there.
Abduction of children by child traffickers was already a chronic problem in pre-earthquake Haiti, where thousands were handed by their families into lives of domestic servitude.
"There are an estimated one million unaccompanied or orphaned children, or children who lost one parent," said Kate Conradt, a spokesman for Save the Children. "They are extremely vulnerable."
As fears for the safety of Haitian orphans grew a group of 78 children sleeping in the street outside their shattered orphanage in the capital were being guarded at night by a group of local people.
Telegraph - International Save the Children Alliance
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Simulated volcanic eruptions to block Sun
A global plan to put man-made particles into the atmosphere to deflect the Sun's heat would rapidly lower global temperatures until cuts in carbon dioxide emissions took effect, they argued.
They acknowledged concerns about geo-engineering but said multi-national experiments should begin soon before it is too late to reverse climate change or in case a rogue state carried out separate measures.
The environmental scientists, David Keith of the University of Calgary in Canada, Edward Parson of the University of Michigan and Granger Morgan of Carnegie Mellon University, were writing an editorial in the journal, Nature.
They called for governments to establish a multimillion-pound fund for research into the simulated volcanoes and other solar-radiation management techniques for shielding the Earth against sunlight. More on Telegraph
Bin Laden deplores climate change
Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, has condemned the US and other industrial economies, holding them responsible for the phenomenon of climate change.
In an audio tape obtained by Al Jazeera, bin Laden criticised George Bush, the former US president, for rejecting the Kyoto pact and condemned global corporations.
"This is a message to the whole world about those responsible for climate change and its repercussions - whether intentionally or unintentionally - and about the action we must take," bin Laden said.
"Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury - the phenomenon is an actual fact." Bin Laden says "all the industrial states" are to blame for climate change, "yet the majority of those states have signed the Kyoto Protocol and agreed to curb the emission of harmful gases".
Corruption in Washington is smothering America's future
Gallup has found in polls for a decade now that two-thirds believe the government should guarantee care for every American: they are as good and decent and concerned for each other as any European. No: it is because private insurance companies make a fortune today out of a system that doesn't cover the profit-less poor, and can turn away the sickest people as "uninsurable". So they pay for politicians to keep the system broken. They fund the election campaigns of politicians on both sides of the aisle and employ an army of lobbyists, and for their part those politicians veto any system that doesn't serve their paymasters.
Look for example at Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic candidate for Vice-President. He has taken $448,066 in campaign contributions from private healthcare companies while his wife raked in $2m as one of their chief lobbyists, and he has blocked any attempt in the Senate to break the stranglehold of the health insurance companies and broaden coverage.
The US political system now operates within a corporate cage. If you want to run for office, you have to take corporate cash – and so you have to serve corporate interests. Corporations are often blatant in their corruption: it's not unusual for them to give to both competing candidates in a Senate race, to ensure all sides are indebted to them. It has reached the point that lobbyists now often write the country's laws. Not metaphorically; literally. The former Republican congressman Walter Jones spoke out in disgust in 2006 when he found that drug company lobbyists were actually authoring the words of the Medicare prescription bill, and puppet-politicians were simply nodding it through.
More by Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
Escalating violence against anti-mining campaigners in El Salvador
On 26th December, Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto became the third victim of a wave of violence against environmental campaigners in the Cabañas Region of El Salvador, where community members are protesting against the re-opening of a Gold Mine by Canadian Company Pacific Rim.
Dora Alicia was a member of the Cabañas Environmental Committee, and had been active in opposing the mine. She was eight months pregnant when she was shot dead, and her two year old son was also wounded in the attack.
Her murder comes six days after the fatal shooting of Ramiro Rivera Gomez, Vice President of the Cabañas Environmental Committee, who had survived being shot eight times in August this year. A passenger in his car was also killed in the attack, and a teenage girl wounded. In June, another environmental campaigner, Gustavo Marcelo Rivera Moreno, had been tortured and killed. Many other members of the community have received death threats, including youth workers and journalists for the local community radio station Radio Victoria, and the local priest Father Luis Quintanilla narrowly escaped an attempted kidnapping. Despite the clear indications that these murders and threats have been politically motivated, and organised, the local prosecutor has refused to investigate adequately, putting the initial attacks down to 'common delinquency'.
More on Indymedia Scotland
Support the call from Iranian bloggers to stop executions in Iran
Support the call by the Iranian bloggers to stop the executions in Iran. They are asking for Iran to halt all execution orders immediately. In particular, the execution of five men in relation to the election protests, a Kurdish woman and a political prisoner. All seven are in immiment danger of execution.
Whoever you are, wherever you are, even if you are not a blogger, go to this page and enter your name to be included in the comments to support this act.
Iran human Rights - وبلاگ نویسان علیه اعدام
Mussolini Audio Is Italy’s No. 2 iPhone Application
A collection of speeches by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is Italy’s second-most downloaded iPhone application on Holocaust Memorial Day.
The application, called iMussolini, is available on Apple’s online store for 79 euro cents ($1.11). It has been downloaded more than a video game based on the blockbuster film Avatar, according to Apple Inc.’s Italian iTunes store. A wallpaper application is the most downloaded item.
The Mussolini application makes 100 of the so-called Duce’s speeches available on the iPhone. Mussolini ruled Italy from 1922 until his death in 1945 at the end of World War II. His granddaughter, Alessandra Mussolini, is a politician and ally of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government.
US Conservatives Attack Avatar
Is the movie 'Avatar' anti-religion and anti-military? Some conservatives think so. CNN's Jason Carroll takes a closer look.
Iran 'executes two over post-election unrest'
Iran has executed two men arrested during the period of widespread unrest that erupted after June's disputed presidential election, reports say.
"Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmani Pour whose cases were confirmed by a Tehran appeals court were hanged on Thursday morning," the ISNA news agency said.
They had been convicted of being "enemies of God", members of armed groups and trying to topple the Islamic establishment, Isna news agency said.
The executions are believed to be the first related to last year's protests.
Millions demanded a re-run of June's poll at the largest demonstrations in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Opposition groups said it had been rigged to ensure the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a charge the government denied.
At least 30 protesters have been killed in clashes since the elections, although the opposition says more than 70 have died. Thousands have been detained and some 200 activists remain behind bars.
More on BBC News - Al Jazeera
Israel calls UN Gaza report 'anti-Semitic'
A UN report on Israel's 22-day offensive against Hamas-controlled Gaza is anti-Semitic, an Israeli government minister said, as the Jewish state prepares to formally respond to its allegations of war crimes.
"The Goldstone Report ... and similar reports, are simply a type of anti-Semitism," Diaspora and Information Minister Yuli Edelstein told the YNet news agency ahead of a trip to New York, where he will present Israel's rebuttal on Thursday. YNet's report suggested the Israeli leadership is planning an all-out attack on the report to coincide with Wednesday's anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz.
"The connection between the Goldstone Report and the international Holocaust memorial day is not an easy thing. On the other hand, however, we must learn the lessons from what happened," Edelstein said. "Then too, those who yelled out were told that Hitler is a clown and that all the gloomy predictions of the 1930s were nonsense," he added.
Israel has sought to discredit the UN report since its release in September, denouncing it as anti-Semitic even though its lead author, South African judge and international war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone, is Jewish. (AFP)
Chaotic scramble as thousands of hungry Haitians overrun peacekeepers delivering food
Thousands of hungry Haitians spilled into the streets defeating barbed wire and a tiny contingent of blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers distributing food. The chaotic scene unfolded outside the wrecked presidential palace in Port-au-Prince where aid agencies struggled to control 4000-strong mass of desperate Haitians, two weeks after the devastating earthquake struck.
Security forces fired pepper spray into the air in an effort to disperse the thousands of men, women and children jostling for food.
One peacekeeper (far right) can be seen using pepper spray to try and keep crowds under control.
Stalin's Complicity in "Operation Barbarossa"
Stalin's inaction despite foreknowledge of "Operation Barbarossa", Hitler's 1941 invasion of Russia, is one of the great mysteries of World War Two.
Like the improbable Dunkirk, where Hitler allowed the evacuation of 330,000 Allied soldiers, the explanation lies in the collusion of the wartime leaders: Hitler, Churchill, FDR and Stalin.
The Illuminati bankers manufacture war to advance a satanic world government agenda. The wartime leaders belonged to the Illuminati Order and were chosen to impose another catastrophe upon the human race. Their incongruous behavior was designed to prolong the war.
According to author David Murphy, Stalin had precise intelligence regarding Barbarossa yet "rejected it and refused to permit his military to take necessary actions to respond lest they 'provoke' the Germans." (What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa, 2005, p.xix)
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A crime of aggression: The damning verdict of top Whitehall lawyers on invading Iraq
Tony Blair and Jack Straw brushed aside repeated warnings from Government lawyers that they would not have a 'leg to stand on' if Britain invaded Iraq.
Devastating evidence at the Iraq inquiry yesterday revealed that every senior legal adviser at the Foreign Office believed the conflict was in breach of international law.
Astonishingly, Downing Street asked lawyers to assess what the consequences would be if Britain toppled Saddam Hussein without legal authority. When they received the lawyers' memo, No.10 demanded: 'Why has this been put in writing?'
Sir Michael Wood, then the Foreign Office's senior legal adviser, warned ministers again and again that to go to war without approval from a UN Security Council resolution would constitute a 'crime of aggression' in international law.
More on Mail Online
Web censorship in China? Not a problem, says Bill Gates
Less than two weeks after Google said it planned to uncensor its Chinese search engine in protest at attempts to break into the email accounts of human rights activists, Gates criticised his rival's decision and insisted that agreeing to Beijing's demands was just part of doing business in the country. "You've got to decide: do you want to obey the laws of the countries you're in or not? If not, you may not end up doing business there," he told ABC's Good Morning America programme.
He also brushed aside accusations that Microsoft has been complicit in helping filter the web by saying that it was not an issue because any censorship could be circumvented with technical knowledge. "Chinese efforts to censor the internet have been very limited," he said. "It's easy to go around it, so I think keeping the internet thriving there is very important."
Gates's comments echo those last week by Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, who took a swipe at Google by suggesting that the company had over-reacted in China. "People are always trying to break into other people's data," he said on Friday. "There's always somebody trying to break into Microsoft."
Hundreds held over Nigeria clashes
More than 300 people have been arrested over clashes between Muslim and Christian communities in central Nigeria that left at least 326 people dead, police have said.
Many of the suspects in the brutal attacks have been sent to Abuja, Nigeria's federal capital, to be interviewed, according to police and security sources.
Mohammed Lerama, the police spokesman for Plateau state, said on Monday that those responsible for the four days of violence would be "dealt with firmly and decisively".
However, the spokesman for the state government expressed concern that many of those held following the violence were the same people who perpetrated similar attacks in 2008 but never faced trial.
Report: US weapon test aimed at Iran caused Haiti quake
An unconfirmed report by the Russian Northern Fleets says the Haiti earthquake was caused by a flawed US Navy 'earthquake weapons' test before the weapons could be utilized against Iran.
A US High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) station, Gakon, Alaska
United States Navy test of one of its 'earthquake weapons' which was to be used against Iran, went 'horribly wrong' and caused the catastrophic quake in the Caribbean, the website of Venezuela's ViVe TV recently reported, citing the Russian report.
After the report was released, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez also made a similar claim, saying that a US drill, carried out in preparation for a deliberate attempt to cause an earthquake in Iran, had led to the deadly incident in Haiti, claiming more than 110,000 lives.
Though Russian Northern Fleets' report was not confirmed by official sources, the comments attracted special attention in some US and Russian media outlets including Fox news and Russia Today.
PressTV.com
The Israel lobby
An episode of the Dutch documentary program "Tegenlicht" about the Israel lobby in the USA. This documentary (April 2007) was created as a result of the controversy created by Mearsheimer and Walt's "The Israel Lobby" article. (English version)
Obama to indefinitely imprison detainees without charges
One of the most intense controversies of the Bush years was the administration's indefinite imprisoning of "War on Terror" detainees without charges of any kind. So absolute was the consensus among progressives and Democrats against this policy that a well-worn slogan was invented to object: a "legal black hole." Liberal editorial pages routinely cited the refusal to charge the detainees -- not the interrogation practices there -- in order to brand the camp a "dungeon," a "gulag," a "tropical purgatory," and a "black-hole embarrassment."
As late as 2007, Democratic Senators like Pat Leahy, on the floor of the Senate, cited the due-process-free imprisonments to rail against Guantanamo as "a national disgrace, an international embarrassment to us and to our ideals, and a festering threat to our security," as well as "a legal black hole that dishonors our principles." Leahy echoed the Democratic consensus when he said:
The Administration consistently insists that these detainees pose a threat to the safety of Americans. Vice President Cheney said that the other day. If that is true, there must be credible evidence to support it. If there is such evidence, then they should prosecute these people.
Vatican bank accused of money-laundering
Martin Amis in new row over 'euthanasia booths'
Martin Amis has never fought shy of an argument, whether it be with the critic Terry Eagleton (over Islamist extremism), his pal Christopher Hitchens (over Stalin) or fellow novelist Julian Barnes (over Amis leaving his agent – Barnes's wife).
But none of those opponents were as tough as his new target promises to be. Now 60, Amis has picked a fight with the grey power of Britain's ageing population, calling for euthanasia "booths" on street corners where they can terminate their lives with "a martini and a medal".
The author of Time's Arrow and London Fields said in an interview at the weekend that he believes Britain faces a "civil war" between young and old, as a "silver tsunami" of increasingly ageing people puts pressure on society.
The Guardian - The Martin Amis Web
Venezuela TV channels taken off air
The Venezuelan government has taken six cable television channels off the air for breaking a law on transmitting government material.
The privately owned RCTV International, openly opposed to President Hugo Chavez, is one of those affected. On Saturday the government had ordered RCTV to televise a government message, but the channel refused to comply.
The communications director for RCTV, Gladys Zapain, told AFP there was "no prior notification" of the move.
Last week RCTV, along with 23 other cable channels, was redefined by the government as a national, rather than international broadcaster. As such, the channels would now be expected to carry presidential addresses and government campaign material in what is an election year in Venezuela.
U.S. Preparing Gitmo for Haitian Migrants
The U.S. has begun preparing tents at Guantanamo Bay for Haitians migrants in case of a mass migration spurred by the earthquake, a senior official at the base said Wednesday.
About 100 tents, each capable of holding 10 people, have been erected and authorities have more than 1,000 more on hand in case waves of Haitians leave their homeland and are captured at sea, said Navy Rear Adm. Thomas Copeman.
Authorities have also has tested the latrine facilities and gathered cots and other supplies, said Copeman, the commander of the task force that runs the detention center for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo, where the U.S. holds nearly 200 men.
The Haitian migrants would be held on the opposite side of the base as the detention center, separated by some 2 1/2 miles of water across Guantanamo Bay, and would have no contact with the prisoners.
U.S.- China Military Tensions Grow
Even though the U.S. military budget is almost ten times that of China's (with a population more than four times as large) and Washington plans a record $708 billion defense budget for next year compared to Russia spending less than $40 billion last year for the same, China and Russia are portrayed as threats to the U.S. and its allies.
China has no troops outside its borders; Russia has a small handful in its former territories in Abkhazia, Armenia, South Ossetia and Transdniester. The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in six continents.
While Gates was in charge of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and responsible for almost half of international military spending he was offended that the world's most populous nation might desire to "deny others countries the ability to threaten it."
On December 23 of last year Raytheon Company announced that it had received a $1.1 billion contract with Taiwan for the purchase of 200 Patriot anti-ballistic missiles. In early January the U.S. Defense Department cleared the transaction "despite opposition from rival China, where a military official proposed sanctioning U.S. firms that sell arms to the island."
Rick Rozoff - BLN Contributing Writer
Koalas in Australia dying from AIDS, habitat loss
Koalas generate almost US$1 billion for the Australian economy, thanks to tourists who come to see this national icon. But these cuddly creatures are under serious threat from infectious disease and habitat loss and some scientists believe they are facing extinction.
"Extinction is inevitable in some areas," according to Dr Jon Hanger, a veterinary scientist at Australia Zoo's Wildlife Hospital. "I certainly hope we don't see it across Australia. But if we don't take the decline seriously and pick up on the warning signs now it's certainly a risk."
A recent report by the Australian Koala Foundation backs up those beliefs. It claims the national population has dropped from 100,000 to fewer than 43,000 in the past six years and if nothing is done to stop the decline, koalas could be extinct within 30 years.
Besides Chlamydia, there is another disease plaguing these marsupials -- and there is no vaccine or cure and it's spreading rapidly.
Koala AIDS or KIDS (Koala Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is similar to AIDS in humans. The immune system of the animals is weakened and they are made susceptible to cancer and other deadly infections.
The hospital's head veterinary scientist, Dr. Jon Hanger, discovered the retro virus causing the condition and says it's just as severe as AIDS in humans but affects koalas more quickly. "It's knocking off a large proportion of koalas that come into this hospital and that means a large number in the bush are dying from it too."
The disease is spread by koalas coming into contact with each other. Hanger believes most of the animals carry the virus, but only some are predisposed to it becoming full-blown KIDS.
Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media
Nick Davies - www.nickdavies.net
Israel accused of silencing political protest
Israel is arresting a growing number of prominent opponents to its policies toward the Palestinians, say critics who are accusing the government of trying to crush legitimate dissent.
In the most high-profile case yet, Jerusalem police detained the leader of a leading Israeli human rights group during a vigil against the eviction of Palestinian families whose homes were taken by Jewish settlers.
Since the summer, dozens of Palestinian and Israeli activists have been picked up, including those organizing weekly protests against Israel's West Bank separation barrier as well as others advocating international boycotts of Israeli goods.
Some of the Palestinians were released without charge only after weeks and months of questioning.
The arrests come at a time of shifting tactics in the protests against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and annexation of east Jerusalem, territories the Palestinians want for their future state. Israel captured both from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war.
PDD 51 & New Executive Order Give Obama Dictator Power
An Obama executive order that creates a council of state governors who will work with the feds to expand military involvement in domestic security, together with PDD 51, a Bush era executive order that gives the President dictatorial power in times of national emergency, eliminate the last roadblocks to declaring martial law in the United States.
The new order, which is entitled Establishment of the Council of Governors (PDF), creates a body of ten state governors directly appointed by Obama who will work with the federal government to help advance the “synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States”.
The governors will liaise with officials from Northcom, Homeland Security, the National Guard as well as DoD officials from the Pentagon “in order to strengthen further the partnership between the Federal Government and State governments,” according to the executive order.
The exective order combines seamlessly with Presidential Decision Directive 51 to hand Obama dictator status in times of declared, and not necessarily genuine, national emergency.
In May 2007, former President George W. Bush sparked much alarm by openly declaring himself to be a dictator in the event of a national emergency under provisions that effectively nullify the U.S. constitution, but such an infrastructure has been in place for over 70 years and this merely represented a re-authorization of martial law powers.
Legislation signed on May 9, 2007, declares that in the event of a “catastrophic event”, the President can take total control over the government and the country, bypassing all other levels of government at the state, federal, local, territorial and tribal levels, and thus ensuring total unprecedented dictatorial power.
More by Paul Joseph Watson on Prison Planet
Drugs in Drinking Water
Not just fluoride, which is bad enough - much of our drinking water, in the U.S., Canada and U.K. at least, is contaminated with Prozac and a "vast array" of other drugs.
And you wonder why everyone around is sleepwalking and/or sick?
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.
But the presence of so many prescription drugs — and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen — in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.... More on Freethought Nation
Study Finds Traces of Drugs in Drinking Water in 24 Major U.S. Regions - Prozac in Tap Water - Prozac 'found in drinking water'
Children Tortured and Mutilated in the name of Christianity
U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret 'Jesus' Bible Codes
Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found.
At the end of the serial number on Trijicon's ACOG gun sight, you can read "JN8:12", a reference to the New Testament book of John, Chapter 8, Verse 12, which reads: "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." The ACOG is widely used by the U.S. military.
The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers. The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army.
U.S. military rules specifically prohibit the proselytizing of any religion in Iraq or Afghanistan and were drawn up in order to prevent criticism that the U.S. was embarked on a religious "Crusade" in its war against al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents
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Dozens die in Nigeria clashes
Troops are patrolling the northern Nigerian city of Jos after clashes between Christians and Muslims left at least 26 people dead and injured around 100 more, officials said.
Violence erupted on Sunday over the rebuilding of homes destroyed in 2008 clashes between the two religious groups, residents said, although reports as to why the latest round of fighting broke out varied.
According to the Associated Press, Muslim youths set fire to a church filled with worshippers, starting a riot that saw mosques and homes burnt. But the AFP news agency said the unrest was sparked by youths protesting the building of a mosque in a predominantly Christian area.
Al Jazeera - Reuters
Earlier: Nigerian police and security forces have been accused of killing at least 90 people – almost all of them Muslims – during two-days of religious violence in the central city of Jos in November (2008). Telegraph
Frustration mounts over Haiti aid
Tensions are rising on the streets of Haiti as the bulk of earthquake survivors continue to go without food, medicine or proper shelter.
Aid organisations continued to struggle to reach them with supplies on Sunday, six nights after the devastating earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
A bottleneck at the capital's small airport – the main entry point for the massive assistance pledged by world leaders following the disaster – means little help has reached the many people waiting for help in makeshift camps on streets strewn with debris and decomposing bodies.
Al Jazeera – Pictures on All Eyes
H1N1 'false pandemic' biggest pharma-fraud of century?
The Council of Europe will launch a probe into pharmaceutical companies accused of manipulating Swine Flu data. This follows a claim by a renowned German scientist that vaccine manufacturers pressured the World Health Organisation into declaring a Swine Flu pandemic seeking to increase profits.
Chinese police shut down country's first gay pageant
Chinese police shut down the country's first gay pageant tonight, just one hour before the event was due to begin.
Participants hoped the contest would help challenge domestic stereotypes about homosexuality, classified as a mental illness until 2001, and show the rest of the world that gay people could be accepted in China. But officers arrived at a Beijing nightclub shortly before the Mr Gay China competition started and told organisers it was not properly licensed. They are understood to have told the venue's owners that it was "a sensitive issue".
The event was to feature a swimwear round and talent section, but contestants would also have been judged on their ability to represent the gay community. The winner was to take part in the Mr Gay Worldwide final in Norway next month.
Haiti's Pact with the Devil Created Earthquake
Watch more at http://www.theyoungturks.com
US images show how Osama Bin Laden may look
The US State Department has issued digitally-altered photos showing how Osama Bin Laden may look now, aged 52.
Its 1998 file image of the al-Qaeda leader has been adapted to take account of a decade's worth of ageing, and possible changes to facial hair.
The digitally-altered photos on the State Department's website show two options for how he may look now - one with a full beard, and one without. BBC
FBI Uses Lawmaker's Photo For Aged Bin Laden Image
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The long history of troubled ties between Haiti and the US
Historically US military deployments to Haiti have been controversial to say the least, and ties have often suffered.
Both countries were born out of a struggle against European colonisers.
The US declared independence from Britain in 1776 - the first to do so in the Western Hemisphere - followed by Haiti, which broke away from France in 1804.
But there the similarities end. While the American War of Independence was driven by a white elite unwilling to continue paying taxes to its colonial masters, the Haitian revolution was led by a freed slave, Toussaint Louverture.
The existence of a nation of freed slaves to the south became an inspiration for slaves in the US, and a thorn in the side of many Southerners who relied on slavery for their economy.
In 1868, President Andrew Johnson suggested the annexation of the whole island of Hispaniola - present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic - to secure a US presence in the Caribbean.
Many Haitians fled to the US during the political repression under Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier.
At first, the US government welcomed the refugees, but as the numbers swelled and boatloads of Haitians arrived on the South Florida coast in the 1970s and 1980s, this attitude changed to a policy of intercepting boats at sea and returning those on board to Haiti.
After decades dominated by dictatorships and coups, democracy was restored in 1990 when Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected in a popular vote.
The ousting of President Aristide by a military regime in 1991 led to a new wave of Haitians headed for the US.
US army to double weapons stockpiled in Israel
The US military plans to double the amount of military equipment it has stockpiled in Israel under a recent agreement with Tel Aviv. "The deal will double the value of military equipment kept on Israeli soil from 400 million to 800 million dollars," a Pentagon spokesman, Major Shawn Turner told AFP.
He ruled out the notion that Iran's nuclear issue was a major factor for the agreement and said that the US Congress initially authorized the expansion in 2007. "This is not in any way related to Iran or the current situation as the authorization was from 2007," he stated.
Washington's staunch ally Israel could have access to the weaponry in a military emergency. US missiles, armored vehicles, aerial ammunition and artillery ordnance are already stockpiled in Israel. The United States began by stockpiling $100 million worth of military equipment in Israel in 1990.
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Obama Information Czar Calls For Banning Free Speech
The controversy surrounding White House information czar and Harvard Professor Cass Sunstein’s blueprint for the government to infiltrate political activist groups has deepened, with the revelation that in the same 2008 dossier he also called for the government to tax or even ban outright political opinions of which it disapproved.
Sunstein was appointed by President Obama to head up the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, an agency within the Executive Office of the President.
On page 14 of Sunstein’s January 2008 white paper entitled “Conspiracy Theories,” the man who is now Obama’s head of information technology in the White House proposed that each of the following measures “will have a place under imaginable conditions” according to the strategy detailed in the essay.
1) Government might ban conspiracy theorizing.
2) Government might impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories.
That’s right, Obama’s information czar wants to tax or ban outright, as in make illegal, political opinions that the government doesn’t approve of. To where would this be extended? A tax or a shut down order on newspapers that print stories critical of our illustrious leaders?
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Chinese plead with Google not to quit
Google's threat to withdraw from China sent shockwaves through the country's internet users yesterday. Some pleaded with the search engine not to abandon them, while others applauded its tough stance after it uncovered cyber attacks on Chinese human rights activists.
While there was no official reaction from the government, ordinary people lit candles and left flowers outside the company's headquarters in Beijing. "Google – a real man" read one note attached to a bouquet at the Tsinghua Science Park. In such a politically charged environment as China, where dissent is not tolerated, the laying of flowers is a daring move.
Security at the science park has declared the act "illegal flower donation", according to a flurry of Twitter messages. "China has created a new term: 'illegal flower donation'. To put 'illegal' and 'flower donation' together in one phrase, we live in an era of truly distorted values," said one Tweet. (Although use of Twitter is blocked by the so-called Great Firewall of China, the web-savvy use virtual private networks or proxy servers to get around restrictions.) - The Independent
Timeline: Chinese internet censorship over the last year – The Guardian
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Israel: One law for all?
In 1948, Israel's founding fathers issued a manifesto declaring among other things that the new state would uphold the equality of all its citizens, without distinction of race or creed. Six decades later that is not a principal that many of Israel's Arab citizens - who make up about 20 per cent of the population - believe applies to them, especially in matters involving law and order.
In his film, One Law for All?, filmmaker Tony Stark investigates whether Israeli Arabs are regularly the victims of legal double standards.
Britain to fight ruling on police searches
The British government said Wednesday it will appeal a European court ruling that certain police stop-and-search powers are a breach of human rights.
Under Section 44 of Britain's Terrorism Act 2000, uniformed officers may stop any pedestrian or vehicle and search them, regardless of whether they have reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.
Human rights groups complain the rules are subject to abuse, but the British government calls the powers an important tool in the fight against terrorism.
British Home Secretary Alan Johnson said he was disappointed in Tuesday's ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, because the appeals had previously gone through the British courts and been rejected.
"We are considering the judgment and will seek to appeal," Johnson said in a statement. "Pending the outcome of this appeal, the police will continue to have these powers available to them." - CNN.com
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Iraq invasion violated international law, Dutch inquiry finds
The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a violation of international law, an independent inquiry in the Netherlands has found.
In a damning series of findings on the decision of the Dutch government to support Tony Blair and George Bush in the strategy of regime change in Iraq, the inquiry found the action had "no basis in international law".
The 551-page report, published today and chaired by former Dutch supreme court judge Willibrord Davids, said UN resolutions in the 1990s prior to the outbreak of war gave no authority to the invasion. "The Dutch government lent its political support to a war whose purpose was not consistent with Dutch government policy. The military action had no sound mandate in international law," it said.
Mars probe shows 'trees' on planet
A MARS probe has stunned NASA scientists by sending home pictures of what look like TREES. Rows of dark "conifers" appear to sprout from alien hills on the Red Planet.
Allegations fly over Iranian scientist's assassination
Even for a country deep in political turmoil, the killing of Massoud Ali Mohammadi in Tehran today came as a shock. There have been arrests, disappearances and occasional shootings, but the manner of his death was as meticulous as it was disturbing.
Mohammadi was blown up outside his home in an smart northern suburb of Tehran by a remote-control bomb that had been attached to a motorcycle parked on the street. As his stunned neighbours cleared up the rubble they struggled to understand why a little-known academic would have fallen victim to such a highly professional assassination.
The answer may lie in Mohammadi's profession and political inclinations. He was a particle physicist and a supporter of the Iranian opposition movement, raising the possibility he had become the latest victim in a covert war over Iran's nuclear aspirations. It is a war in which scientists find themselves potential soft targets.
Over the past three years, another nuclear scientist has died in mysterious circumstances, and a third vanished without trace while visiting Saudi Arabia last June. In the same period, a former deputy defence minister and general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards also disappeared while on a visit to Istanbul.
Research finds Neanderthals enjoyed makeup
For decades, our low-browed Neanderthal cousins have been portrayed as dim savages whose idea of seduction was a whispered "ug" and a blow to the cranium.
But analysis of pierced, hand-coloured shells and lumps of pigment from two caves in south-east Spain suggests the cavepeople who stomped around Europe 50,000 years ago were far more intelligent – and cosmetically minded – than previously thought.
In 1985, archaeologists excavating the Cueva de los Aviones in Murcia found cockle shells perforated as if to be hung on a necklace and an oyster shell containing mineral pigments, hinting that the cave's Neanderthal residents had developed a taste for self-adornment and makeup.
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Israeli Robots Remake Battlefield
Israel is developing an army of robotic fighting machines that offers a window onto the potential future of warfare.
Sixty years of near-constant war, a low tolerance for enduring casualties in conflict, and its high-tech industry have long made Israel one of the world's leading innovators of military robotics.
"We're trying to get to unmanned vehicles everywhere on the battlefield for each platoon in the field," says Lt. Col. Oren Berebbi, head of the Israel Defense Forces' technology branch. "We can do more and more missions without putting a soldier at risk."
In 10 to 15 years, one-third of Israel's military machines will be unmanned, predicts Giora Katz, vice president of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd., one of Israel's leading weapons manufacturers.
"We are moving into the robotic era," says Mr. Katz.
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UAE sheikh acquitted of torture
Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahayan, the brother of UAE president and Abu Dhabi emir Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan, has been acquitted of charges of torture, his lawyer has said.
An Emirati court on Sunday acquitted Shiekh Issa despite a video tape of the 2004 incident showing him torturing an Afghan man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails.
"The court acquitted Sheikh Issa after establishing he was not responsible," for the torture, lawyer Habib al-Mulla said on Sunday.
"The court accepted our defence that the Sheikh was under the influence of drugs [medicine] that left him unaware of his actions," al-Mulla said.
Bassam and Ghassan Nabulsi, former business partners of Sheikh Issa, who filmed and kept the video tape, were sentenced in absentia to five years each in prison.
The 'false' pandemic: Drug firms cashed in on scare over swine flu, claims Euro health chief
The swine flu outbreak was a 'false pandemic' driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare, a leading health expert has claimed.
Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, accused the makers of flu drugs and vaccines of influencing the World Health Organisation's decision to declare a pandemic. This led to the pharmaceutical firms ensuring 'enormous gains', while countries, including the UK, 'squandered' their meagre health budgets, with millions being vaccinated against a relatively mild disease.
A resolution proposed by Dr Wodarg calling for an investigation into the role of drug firms has been passed by the Council of Europe, the Strasbourg-based 'senate' responsible for the European Court of Human Rights. An emergency debate on the issue will be held later this month.
Dr Wodarg's claims come as it emerged the British government is desperately trying to offload up to £1billion of swine flu vaccine, ordered at the height of the scare.
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Afghan women turning to suicide in greater numbers
More Afghan women are choosing suicide to escape the violence and brutality of their daily lives, says a new human-rights report prepared by Canada's Foreign Affairs Department.
The 2008 annual assessment paints a grim picture of a country where violence against women and girls is common, despite rising public awareness among Afghans and international condemnation.
"Self-immolation is being used by increasing numbers of Afghan women to escape their dire circumstances, and women constitute the majority of Afghan suicides," said the report, completed in November 2009.
The document was obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.
The director of a burn unit at a hospital in the relatively peaceful province of Herat reported that in 2008 more than 80 women tried to kill themselves by setting themselves on fire, many of them in their early 20s.
Many of those women died, the report said.
The frank evaluation of the plight of women was written against the backdrop of international debate last year over the Afghanistan government's so-called rape law.
The legislation, aimed at courting votes in the minority Shiite community, legalized rape within a marriage. It prompted outrage in Canada and many other countries.
The move was an attempt to codify social and religious practises, but the international condemnation forced the government to review the law. It was eventually enacted with some amendments, although the basic tenets remained unchanged.
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An eight-year crime against humanity
Monday marks the eighth anniversary of the first renditions to the US concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay.
Almost 200 prisoners are still being held at the base despite pledges from President Barack Obama that the prison would be closed by the end of this month.
To mark the occasion, the 12-year-old daughter of the last Briton to be held in Guantanamo, Shaker Aamer, will hand a letter to Downing Street on Monday afternoon urging Gordon Brown to step up British efforts for the return of her father.
Mr Aamer, a Saudi national and long-term resident in Britain, has been held at Guantanamo since 2002. He was cleared for release in 2007, but his release has been blocked by the US authorities.
There are fears that Mr Aamer's release is being delayed as "punishment" for his role in acting as a representative of fellow detainees at the camp.
What's Islam? Don't Ask Google
Type a few words into the search field on Google's home page and the engine automatically returns a helpful list of popular, similar searches for the words you've typed in so far -- a convenient way to find the right information.
Enter "Christianity is" and you'll find results that, while offensive, at least indicate common discussions on the Internet. Likewise, type "Judaism is" and Google suggests other, potentially offensive searches such as "Judaism is false" and "Judaism is not a race."
But type "Islam is" into the search engine and Google's auto-results pane mysteriously vanishes, leading some to conclude that Google, whose mantra is "don't be evil," is censoring its search results. FOXNews.com
Italians cheer as police move African immigrants out after clashes with locals
Local people clapped and cheered yesterday as hundreds of Africans were moved by police out of a small town in Calabria following clashes in which immigrant farmworkers were shot at, severely beaten and run over.
More than 300 immigrants were loaded on to buses in the riot-torn town of Rosarno, destined for immigrant holding centres. Meanwhile, an immigrant was shot from a moving car with a pellet rifle, bringing to five the number who have been shot.
The first shooting, last Thursday, provoked a violent protest march by Africans through Rosarno, which left 66 injured. A second immigrant was beaten with metal bars yesterday despite a heavy police presence in and around Rosarno.
"There is a very serious security problem here and many immigrants working on local farms are scared and just want to get out, even though many have not been paid," said Laura Boldrini, a UN official, after touring some of the disused factories in which immigrants sleep after returning from poorly paid shifts in nearby fields.
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This week’s the American gay rights victory was historic, but the transgender community still faces staggering challenges. John Oliver focuses on the “T” in “LGBT."
Pope 'plans to chew coca leaves during Bolivia visit'
Pope Francis has requested to chew coca leaves during his forthcoming visit to Bolivia, according to Bolivian Culture Minister Marko Machicao.
Coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine, has been used in the Andes for thousands of years to combat altitude sickness and as a mild stimulant. Mr Machicao said the government offered the Pope coca tea and the pontiff had "specifically requested" to chew coca. Coca leaves were declared an illegal substance under the 1961 UN convention on narcotic drugs. But the growing of coca leaves for religious and medicinal purposes is legal and licensed in Bolivia.
The Vatican has not yet commented. The Pope travels to Bolivia on 8 July.
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The Fish is Dead
It’s with the heaviest of hearts and unbearable sadness that we must inform you of the passing of our dear friend and Yes co-founder, Chris Squire. Chris peacefully passed away last night in Phoenix Arizona.
"The Fish" was Chris Squire's nickname. He earned it primarily due to his very long baths he would take, back when several members lived in the same flat and had to share the bathroom.
For the entirety of Yes’ existence, Chris was the band’s linchpin and, in so many ways, the glue that held it together over all these years. Because of his phenomenal bass-playing prowess, Chris influenced countless bassists around the world, including many of today’s well-known artists. Chris was also a fantastic songwriter, having written and co-written much of Yes’ most endearing music, as well as his solo album, Fish Out of Water.
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Man trolls ISIS at LGBT pride event with fake penis flag — and CNN thinks it’s real
A man trolling the violently homophobic Islamic State at a London gay pride event got extra troll points Saturday for duping CNN.
CNN reporter Lucy Pawle was at the event when she stumbled upon that man, who to her bewilderment, everyone seemed to be ignoring. Turns out his fake “ISIS flag” was made up of images of dildos, Mediaite discovered.
Pawle tells CNN anchors that she was leaving work when she happened upon the annual London Gay Pride festival. She was shocked to see a man dressed in black and white carrying what she called “a very bad mimicry” but a “very clear attempt to mimic the ISIS flag.”
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Terror attacks on 3 continents, including 37 in Tunisia
Gunmen killed at least 37 people at a beachfront Tunisian hotel on Friday, the same day terrorists lashed out brutally in France and bombed a mosque in Kuwait.
Tunisia's health ministry reported those deaths as well as 36 injuries in and around the Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba in the coastal Tunisian city of Sousse, according to the state-run TAP news agency. There were three attackers -- one of whom was killed, one arrested and one escaped -- Interior Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui told reporters.
Tunisia's nightmare came on the same day as at least two deadly terrorist attack in other countries.
One person was beheaded and two injured at a gas factory near Lyon in south-eastern France, according to French President Francois Hollande. And ISIS has claimed responsibility for an apparent bomb blast at the Shiite-affiliated Al-Sadiq mosque in Kuwait's capital during Friday prayers, leaving at least 25 dead and more than 200 injured.
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“Jurassic World” was an instant box office hit when it opened in theaters two weeks ago. But now, moviegoers are noticing details that aren’t sitting well with some people. The uproar started when moviegoers began complaining about one of the dinosaur species in the movie called Pakisaurus.
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Al Jazeera demands Germany release its journalist
Al Jazeera has urged Germany to immediately release its journalist Ahmed Mansour, who was detained at a Berlin airport at the request of the Egyptian authorities. Mansour, a senior Al Jazeera Arabic TV journalist, was arrested at Berlin's Tegel airport at 13:20 GMT on Saturday as he tried to board a Qatar Airways flight from Berlin to Doha.
"The crackdown on journalists by Egyptian authorities is well known. Our network, as the Arab world's most-watched, has taken the brunt of this. Other countries must not allow themselves to be tools of this media oppression, least of all those that respect freedom of the media as does Germany," Acting Director General of Al Jazeera network Mostefa Souag said. "Ahmed Mansour is one of the Arab world's most respected journalists and must be released immediately." In a phone call, Mansour told Al Jazeera that he would remain in custody until Monday when he will face a German judge who will decide on his case.
Mansour was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison by Cairo's criminal court in 2014 on the charge of torturing a lawyer in Tahrir Square in 2011. He denied the charges. And in October last year, Interpol rejected Egypt's request for an international arrest warrant against him. Al Jazeera dismissed the accusation as a flimsy attempt at character assassination against of one of its leading journalists.
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Putin Says Russia Is Beefing Up Its Nuclear Arsenal
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday Russia would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) to its nuclear arsenal this year, prompting NATO's chief to accuse Moscow of dangerous "saber-rattling."
Putin made his announcement a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S. plan to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO member states on Russia's border as the most aggressive act by Washington since the Cold War a generation ago.
Tension has flared anew between Russia and Western powers over Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis, in which pro-Russian separatist forces have seized a large part of the country's east after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in early 2014.
The European Union and United States imposed economic sanctions on Russia. But Washington and Moscow are still bound by a 2010 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) that caps deployed strategic nuclear warheads at 1,550 each and limits the numbers of strategic nuclear missile launchers to 800 by 2018.
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How black slaves were routinely sold as ‘specimens’ to ambitious white doctors
The history of human experimentation is as old as the practice of medicine and in the modern era has always targeted disadvantaged, marginalised, institutionalised, stigmatised and vulnerable populations: prisoners, the condemned, orphans, the mentally ill, students, the poor, women, the disabled, children, peoples of colour, indigenous peoples and the enslaved.
Human subject research is evident wherever physicians, technicians, pharmaceutical companies (and others) are trialling new practices and implementing the latest diagnostic and therapeutic agents and procedures. And the American South in the days of slavery was no different – and for those looking for easy targets, black slave bodies were easy to come by.
There is a rich and rapidly expanding scholarly literature examining the history of human subject research, including studies of the burgeoning bio-medical economy in the US in the 20th century. The Tuskegee experiment and other episodes of medical racism all feature prominently.
The history of the acquisition and exploitation of slave bodies for medical education and research in the US, first explored in depth by historians James Breeden and Todd Savitt, focused primarily on medical schools and the traffic in slave bodies in Virginia. Savitt’s work drew attention to professional medicine’s use of slaves in classroom and bedside demonstrations, in operating amphitheatres, and experimental facilities.
Savitt argued that African Americans were easy targets for ambitious and entrepreneurial white physicians in the slave south. Slaves, as human commodities, were readily transformed into a medical resource, easily accessible as empirical test subjects, “voiceless” and rendered “medically incompetent” through the combined power and authority of the enslaver and their employee, the white physician. Savitt suggested that “outright experimentation upon living humans may have occurred more openly and perhaps more often owing to the nature of slave society,” and also that “the situation may have been (and probably was) worse in the Deep South.”
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U.S. House Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine
Last February, when ethnic Russian rebels were closing in on the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, the New York Times rhapsodically described the heroes defending the city and indeed Western civilization – the courageous Azov battalion facing down barbarians at the gate. What the Times didn’t tell its readers was that these “heroes” were Nazis, some of them even wearing Swastikas and SS symbols.
The long Times article by Rick Lyman fit with the sorry performance of America’s “paper of record” as it has descended into outright propaganda – hiding the dark side of the post-coup regime in Kiev. But what makes Lyman’s sadly typical story noteworthy today is that the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has just voted unanimously to bar U.S. assistance going to the Azov battalion because of its Nazi ties.
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Vatican charges former ambassador to Domincan Republic with sexual abuse
The Vatican’s former ambassador to the Dominican Republic has been charged with sexually abusing young boys in the Caribbean country and having child pornography on his computer, and will stand trial next month. In a statement, the Holy See said Jozef Wesolowski will have his first hearing on 11 July.
Wesolowski was recalled to Rome in 2013, and last year he became the first person to be arrested inside the Vatican on paedophilia charges. Since then he has been placed under modified house arrest, pending a decision by the Vatican criminal court on whether to charge him.
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UN peacekeepers gave Haitian women food in exchange for sex
United Nations peacekeepers gave more than 225 Haitian women food and medicine in exchange for sex, according to an internal report on exploitation that The Associated Press obtained. The draft by the Office of Internal Oversight Services looks at the way UN peacekeeping, which has about 125,000 people in some of the world’s most troubled areas, deals with the persistent problem of sexual abuse and exploitation.
Expected to be released this month, the report says major challenges remain a decade after a groundbreaking UN report first tackled the issue. Among its findings: About a third of alleged sexual abuse involves minors. “For rural women, hunger, lack of shelter, baby care items, medication and household items were frequently cited as the ‘triggering need,’ ” the report says.
Putin Long Dead Says EX
Putins ex came out in April 2015 to tell the world that he was replaced after he died. She was threatened with the death of their children if she refused to participate. She is coming out now but fears for her life and that of her children.
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What's Really Going on With the Trade in Services Agreement
The Obama administration’s desire for “fast track” trade authority is not limited to passing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). In fact, that may be the least important of three deals currently under negotiation by the U.S. Trade Representative. The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would bind the two biggest economies in the world, the United States and the European Union. And the largest agreement is also the least heralded: the 51-nation Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA).
On Wednesday, WikiLeaks brought this agreement into the spotlight by releasing 17 key TiSA-related documents, including 11 full chapters under negotiation. Though the outline for this agreement has been in place for nearly a year, these documents were supposed to remain classified for five years after being signed, an example of the secrecy surrounding the agreement, which outstrips even the TPP. TiSA has been negotiated since 2013, between the United States, the European Union, and 22 other nations, including Canada, Mexico, Australia, Israel, South Korea, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, and others scattered across South America and Asia. Overall, 12 of the G20 nations are represented, and negotiations have carefully incorporated practically every advanced economy except for the “BRICS” coalition of emerging markets (which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa).
The deal would liberalize global trade of services, an expansive definition that encompasses air and maritime transport, package delivery, e-commerce, telecommunications, accountancy, engineering, consulting, health care, private education, financial services and more, covering close to 80 percent of the U.S. economy. Though member parties insist that the agreement would simply stop discrimination against foreign service providers, the text shows that TiSA would restrict how governments can manage their public laws through an effective regulatory cap. It could also dismantle and privatize state-owned enterprises, and turn those services over to the private sector. You begin to sound like the guy hanging out in front of the local food co-op passing around leaflets about One World Government when you talk about TiSA, but it really would clear the way for further corporate domination over sovereign countries and their citizens.
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Does civil society need a reputation?
Iryna Loiuk, head of the civic organization Prostir mozhlyvostei shares her view on the matter
5 September, 2018 - 18:47
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Iryna LOIUK
Without building a civil society, Ukraine isn’t likely to become a free European democracy. Euromaidan would seem to have laid the foundations for it as one of its few achievements. With time, however, our civic organizations have started showing symptoms of the same disease that afflicts other [public] institutions, and their development is not always along the civilized lines. This caused Iryna LOIUK, head of the civic organization Prostir mozhlyvostei (Space of Opportunity), to take a closer look at the experience of developed countries. She began her civic activities in mid-2014 after cutting short a career in the financial sector and becoming a volunteer, like many others. She did free legal counseling for ATO combatants and families of KIAs. At the beginning of 2015, she was a co-founder of Project Legal Hundred, but quit toward the end of 2016. Over the period of civic activities she has been the author and co-author of bills on foreigners serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, protection of the state against corruptionists, and on rehabilitation. At present, together with partners from the civic network Svoyi, Ms. Loiuk is working to introduce into the civic sector adapted NGO models practiced in the West.
THREE NGO PILLARS
What is the purpose of your civic organization?
“We want to introduce ethics into the activities of non-governmental organizations. In a civilized society, these activities are most often described as resting on three pillars: openness, transparency, and accountability. Openness means keeping the organization’s books, structure, management, trends, and partners open for the public. Transparency means that this organization makes no secret of its relations with the state, society, sponsors, partners, beneficiaries, and other interested persons. Accountability means that what is being actually done is in conformity with the stated purpose. This organization is responsible for the trust placed in it by people, donors, and partners. Its decisions and actions affect the reputation of the entire civil society. Taking advantage of this trust or using resources for one’s own purposes is inadmissible.”
How close are these principles to Ukrainian society?
“In a number of cases the leaders of non-profit organizations, after declaring their purpose as champions of the poor, have proceeded to carry out secret plans of their own, getting in a position of power. [For them] helping people is not an end in itself but a tool, and people’s interests are taken into account only when this helps them reach their personal ends. I call this abuse of people’s trust, of those who donate money to help people.
“It’s not bad when public activists are elected to office. It’s bad when getting elected is that activist’s end in itself. In this case his road to power will be strewn with the bodies of deceived partners and beneficiaries. One’s intentions must be transparent. What makes a developed society different is the fact that being elected, getting a position in power implies being a member of a political movement.
“Another problem is effective partnership. Over 60 percent of [civic] organizations polled by Svoyi say they see other such organizations as rivals, rather than partners. A civilized approach rules out competition. If the purpose of an organization is to help others instead of winning preferences, there can be no competition. Organizations can work together if their leaders act according to the stated purpose and are not driven by ambition or greed.”
ORGANIZATIONS SEEK HIGH STANDARD IN A DEVELOPED SOCIETY
How can you make one abide by ethics?
“Not legislatively, anyway. We know what happened when the anticorruption activists tabled their bill on declarations of income, in order to settle the issue of transparency legislatively. They were accused of trying to enforce control. A civil society is free of state control. This freedom is important, especially in our post-Soviet reality. There are lots of organizations in the West that help their civil society’s progress and uphold NGO standards. One of them is the Partnering Initiative (http://thepartneringinitiative.org [3]) and its purpose is to facilitate partnership. There is also the Foundation Center (https://foundationcenter.org [4]) and its activities include securing the philanthropists’ transparency.
“It is interesting to note the system of NGO self-regulation. It envisages regulation from within, self-audits, verification, and self-improvement. NGOs unite into groups and adopt the rules of openness, transparency, and accountability. That way each such group keeps itself in check.
“This system was developed for good reasons. In the late 1990s, some NGOs in France, including the Red Cross, were found to be corrupt and mismanaged. At the time, there were no means of control and prevention. In the early 1990s, two initiatives appeared, aimed at solving this problem. One came from the NGOs that had decided to establish a system of self-regulation and the second one had to do with legislative changes. I don’t think that we should wait for corruption scandals to erupt in the civic sector to initiate a system of self-control.”
Who would control this system?
“A group of [civic] organization that would adopt the standards of openness, transparency, and accountability. It would receive a confirmation certificate after an audit and performance assessment report.
“In the civilized world, this system works as follows: there are certifying associations that confirm and guarantee that a given organization, after being checked, will not use any funds in its possession to meet the leadership’s personal interests. It has long been known in the West that building a reputation is harder than ruining it, and that any organization that doesn’t adhere to certain principles is doomed.”
WHY INTERNAL CONTROL IS IMPORTANT
In Ukraine, reputation means practically nothing. The man in the street is used to comparing bad with worse and trying to choose the lesser evil. Isn’t this true?
“I don’t think that we should wait for big fund abuse scandals. Otherwise our civil society will lose everything. We’ll lose trust in the first place. It would be a shame if other organizations had to stop functioning because of several corrupt ones. We have to establish an internal system of regulation of civil society – not because we’re under pressure to do so, but because we want this. NGOs must be the harbingers and come up with ethical standards. With time [non-profit] organizations will realize that certification is to their advantage. Let me stress that this is a working model for the Western civil society.”
Could you cite examples of unethical and irresponsible conduct on the part of civic organizations?
“There are many. And this considering that our NGOs should try to change for the better, even if from the self-preservation point of view. Cases of irresponsible conduct are seldom made public knowledge and this is largely explained by the donors’ attitude. They are actually ashamed to let the beneficiaries know that the money meant for them has been stolen. Now and then there are unpleasant media reports, like the one about the European Union demanding return of the grant allocated for the renovation of dorms for war victims in April 2015, referring to the EU press attache in Ukraine (https://ru.tsn.ua/video/video-novini/es-trebuet-ot-ukrainy-vernut-dengi-... [5]). Here is another one. Politicians who kindled the fire of war in Donbas and made every effort to weaken Ukraine’s positions there proceeded to launch a showcase campaign aimed at extinguishing that fire. They set up a number of organizations that are actually helping refugees, resettlers, people living on occupied territories. The rhetoric question is whether these activities are really charitable and won’t be used for political purposes. Defending human rights, while actually serving one’s self-interest or capitalizing on efforts to eliminate the consequences of one’s destructive activities, looks quite cynical.”
UKRAINIAN NGO CODE OF ETHICS
How do you propose to solve this problem?
“When studying movements within a civil society, we conceived an idea. Its inner development could be helped by introducing principles based on ethical standards. As a result, we had a systemic image of what our civil society should be like. A society supported not only by foreign donors (whose interest in Ukraine is on a downward curve, by the way), but also by domestic ones. Our country has a huge charitable potential. We saw this during the Maidans and at the start of the war when ordinary people and private businesses supported the volunteers, making donations for national defense. As the threat abated, so did the charitable effort.
What will happen when Ukrainians believe in the strength and fairness of the civic sector, its ability to control and regulate those ‘upstairs,’ and in its accountability? That was how the civic initiative Space of Opportunity came to be (http://pm.net.ua/uk/glavnaya/ [6]) and an ambitious objective was formulated: Impact on the mentality of public figures. Also, enlighten society on the importance of institutional reputation and implement it in Ukraine. This objective was met with approval by dedicated activists and became the main guideline for the civic network Svoyi which united ATO volunteers, philanthropists, and other activists across Ukraine. A code of ethics started being introduced within the network. Today, each of more than 40 member organizations has committed to abide by the ethics and principles of openness, transparency, and accountability.
“Working on the NGO Code of Ethics (https://svoyi.org/etyka [7]), we borrowed from the best international sources like WANGO. Among the network founders and participants are people with a reputation won during the Maidans and ATO battles. Without waiting for better times and positive changes, these people have decided to live, work, and move forward in accordance with the European standards. We have begun our way down that road. Svoyi is a declarative I-sign-your-Code entity and this is just the first step. We’re working on a complex of performance assessment criteria, so we can determine whether a given organization can be trusted and vouched for. Books and accounting reports, projects implemented, and accountability to donors and beneficiaries are studied. Records and current activities of persons that have a formal and informal influence on a given organization are analyzed. We provide manuals, memorandums, and self-assessment instruments for organizations wishing to work using high standards.”
Are the certifying associations or founders of such networks that vouch for partners immune to corruption?
“It’s a matter of principle. If an association proves unworthy of trust placed in it, no one will trust its certificate. The whole idea is to make international and domestic structures take seriously each such association and network. This requires crystal clear bona fide performance.”
Sounds idealistic.
“Like any other vision. As it is, a new model of the civic sector based on Svoyi experience is being put together. We’ll have to travel all the way from this crazy world, where aid to victims is converted into political dividends, to the world and society of tomorrow where reputation will be among the highest values. There is a quote from Warren Buffett I like: ‘It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.’ Here is another good one. Alfred Nobel said, ‘A good reputation is more important than a clean shirt. Unlike reputation, the shirt can be washed.’”
By Tetiana ZAROVNA
№45, (2018) [8]
Source URL: http://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/society/does-civil-society-need-reputation
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WILLIAM BREEDLOVE (ca. 1820–1871)
William Breedlove was a free African American who served as a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868. Breedlove was born in Essex County, the son of James Davis, a white man, and Polly Breedlove, a free African American. While little is known of Breedlove's early life, on the 1850 census he was identified as a blacksmith by trade and as being literate. With his wife Susan Breedlove, he had at least two sons and a daughter, but only one of his sons survived into adulthood. Susan Breedlove died of typhoid fever in December 1857, and Breedlove married another free African American, Eliza Ann Davis a year later. They had at least two sons and two daughters.
Breedlove was relatively successful, accumulating real estate and personal property in the antebellum years. He also operated a ferry service across the Rappahannock River. After the Civil War began, Breedlove and other free African Americans had to keep a low profile because of a number of laws that regulated the behavior of African Americans and the risk of being impressed into working for the Confederate forces. Breedlove and an employee were arrested for ferrying an African American across the Rappahannock in November 1863. Breedlove was under the impression the man had an authorization to travel, but the man was actually attempting to escape slavery. The punishment facing both men for attempting to help a runaway slave was that they be sold into slavery.
The prosecuting attorney, some of the convicting justices of the peace, and other local dignitaries, including Lieutenant Governor Robert Montague, recommended both men receive gubernatorial clemency. They described Breedlove as an honest and industrious blacksmith, a man of good character, and a valuable member of the community. Governor John Letcher pardoned Breedlove on December 19, 1863.
Breedlove was politically active following the Civil War. In October 1867, he was elected to the state constitutional convention. During the convention he served on the Committee on Taxation and Finance and voted consistently with the Radical majority. In 1869 Breedlove was appointed one of six new justices of the peace for Essex County. He also served on the town council for Tappahannock and for one year as the local postmaster, to the outrage of many of the local whites. He died of “Brain Fever” near Tappahannock on June 15, 1871.
“Breedlove, William.” Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Edited by Sara B. Bearss et al., 2:212–213. Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1998– .
Notable African Americans 2007: William Breedlove
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Amazing things you didn't know about Apple
Steve Jobs, who passed away in 2011, was a standout amongst the most cryptic leaders and innovators of our era. But a few years after his death, his legacy may still be smelled in the air and Apple turned into the most valuable company in the world in 2014. However, the business still remains as secretive as it's ever been and its fanatics just know a lot of matters. For people who aren't just Apple enthusiasts, there are a lot of interesting things about the company you might not know about. Let's take a look at several of the most intriguing facts about Apple Inc. I am certain you'll be surprised and they may present you a glance of the top secret formulas that bring in such revolutionary products such as the iPhone and the iPhone.
If there is any company that is best known for its secrecy that is remarkable, it'll be none apart from Apple. It is difficult to trust that no other people (except for Steve Jobs and his little team of engineers) has seen what an iPhone looked like when it was initially introduced in 2007. We all wonder how these men succeeded to reach that, although this type of secretiveness is unexpectedly astonishing. Some pundits have frequently asserted the business frequently comes up with forgery endeavors in order to have a tryout of how trusted their workers can be with Apple's secrets. They will be fired instantly when an employee is assigned such projects and advice gets leaked out.
Based on an 2013 study, Apple's income per worker is off-the-chart. Each Apple employee brings in a staggering $2. 13 million in revenue for the business. This really is an insane number in the event that you consider that each IBM employee just brings in revenue for the company in less than $250,000. Trailing behind in the next place is the $500,000 along with Cisco revenue each employee brings in is still far fetched from what the employee brings in. sum each AppleIt is intriguing to see how far such trend could continue and if it is even potential to allow them to shatter its own record.
Apple is known globally for their iconic design. However, their shops are income producing power stations. Tiffany & Co was a brand that always came out on top, when discussing in terms of sales made per square foot. In 2013, each Apple shop apparently produced twice as much revenues compared to Tiffany & Co. and that record was shatteredWhen the former record holder sells $3,017 Apple records $6,050 for every square foot. Till date, no company has touched or come close to this record held by Apple Inc.
Apple's start day is unlike any other launch day. Attendees for their launching day and the quantity of media attention outdoes any company by hundreds of miles. Thousands of fans queue for hours each year on the launch day only to be the first to purchase new products. There hasn't been another episode of supporters lining up for hundreds of hours on the launch day and this only occurs for Apple. A Japanese Apple fanatic made news around the world in 2014 for waiting outside a shop for the iPhone 6 before it was pronounced.
Apple keeps on amazing every one of us at how nicely they've accomplished much since we are at the beginning of the brand new millenium. The business hasn't done than expanding and growing their brands tremendously at a rate that could have fit. They have performed well at every level and continue to attain magnificence as they transcend heights man never thought possible at such an early part of the new millennium. Steve Jobs' successor, Tim Cook definitely has a giant job ahead of him, filling such big boots. Many consider that Apple's finest days are over but Tim Cook and his team has thus far shown that they can keep the company's increase at least for now. But we all are conscious that nothing lasts forever. The next few years will probably be interesting if the planned release of Apple watch will be another hit or miss, and everyone will be watching closely.
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Engineers have achieved Wi-Fi using 10,000 times less power
By2016-12-13 10:39:50
Wi-Fi is amazing, but there's no denying that all those hours of Netflix binging and scrolling Facebook can be a real energy suck, rapidly draining your phone's battery life.
But engineers in the US have just generated Wi-Fi transmissions that use 10,000 times less power than conventional methods, which means you can have everything downloading all the time, without sacrificing battery life. And it can already be used with off-the-shelf smartphones.
So far, the team from the University of Washington has only managed to achieve speeds of 11 megabits per second with the new connection, which isn't going to break records any time soon (it's no Li-Fi).
But they're working on getting the connection faster, and, more importantly, they've already shown that their 'passive Wi-Fi' technology works in real-world testing - it reportedly integrates "seamlessly" with existing routers and smartphones.
"We wanted to see if we could achieve Wi-Fi transmissions using almost no power at all," says one of the team, Shyam Gollakota.
"That’s basically what Passive Wi-Fi delivers. We can get Wi-Fi for 10,000 times less power than the best thing that’s out there."
A paper on the results is being presented in March next year at the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation.
It has yet to be peer-reviewed and independently verified, so we need to take it with a grain of salt, but the technology looks so promising, it's already been listed as one of the top 10 breakthrough technologies of 2016 by MIT Technology Review.
So how does it work? Right now, Wi-Fi signals require information to be sent across a digital frequency, known as a digital baseband, as well as an old-school analogue radio frequency (RF).
Those two frequencies work together to send 'packets' of information that are decoded by your smartphone.
But while digital baseband technology has gotten a whole lot more efficient over the past few decades, allowing information to be sent using hardly any energy at all, analogue radio frequency devices have stalled, and still suck up hundreds of milliwatts of power.
That's a problem, because to receive Wi-Fi on your smartphone, you need a digital and an analogue RF receiver, hence your phone's crappy battery life.
The new University of Washington system overcomes that, by decoupling analogue and digital, and relegating all analogue RF functions to one single plug in device.
That plugged in device generates the Wi-Fi signal using an array of sensors, and those Wi-Fi packets are then reflected and absorbed using a digital switch known as the 'passive Wi-Fi' device, which runs on barely any energy at all.
The passive Wi-Fi bounces the information to your smartphone or router, where it can be received by consuming only 15 to 60 microwatts of power - 10,000 times less than current devices.
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Follow-Up to Console Post of the Week
Let's have a little fun with math.
It's instructive to use Japan for our purposes, both because they have very accurate weekly data for unit sales and because I think they had a relatively similar inventory situation after Christmas--in other words, there was unfulfilled demand until the second week of January, but at that point there were PS3's just about everywhere.
In the first week of January, according to VG Charts (which often has a 10% variance from other published numbers, but it's fine for our purposes here), the PS3 sold 70,000 units in Japan. For the next four weeks, it sold a total of 95,000 units.
See what I mean about unfulfilled demand getting filled in that first week in January?
So after the first week in January, the PS3 was selling at about 1/3 the rate of the first week, when Christmas demand was finally satisfied.
Let's look at the January-February NPD numbers now. In January (a five-week reporting period), the PS3 sold 244,000 units. If the pattern is similar to what happened in Japan, that would be 105,000 the first week and 35,000 for each of the next four weeks (that actually works out to 245k units, but the rounded numbers are easier to use).
So based on that pattern, what would we have expected February sales for the PS3 to be? About 140,000 units. And while that's modestly over the numbers NPD reported yesterday, it's still within about 10%.
Why did I say I expected 160,000 a few weeks ago, when I seemingly used the same procedure to guess last month? Well, because I'm a dumbass, basically. I was sort of "rule of thumbing" the math (and got 40,000 units a week) instead of actually doing the math and using the exact same percentages as Japan. Lesson learned.
It's also certainly possible that the NPD numbers are off. It wouldn't be the first time they had to issue revised numbers, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if they lower January's final numbers and raise the February numbers slightly.
Either way, though, selling 35,000 units a week, even if that sounds like a large number in isolation, is going to get them killed in gaming. However, as I've mentioned previously, in the high-definition format war versus HD-DVD, it's helping them much, much more.
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French Riviera Highlights
Discover the pearls of the Cote d'Azur in one day - Nice, Antibes, Cannes, St Paul, Eze and a bit of Monaco.
highlights on things to do and see in French Riviera shared by Real Travelers. Browse attractions, maps, travel guide information, and blogs. Price compare hotels, flights, and packages to French Riviera across multiple sites to help plan your trip.
Fort Carre - Antibes
This defensive building was once a circular tower dating back to 1550 on the site of the Saint-Laurent Chapel. Its construction was perfected under Vauban's command and adapted to the evolution of fire-arms and military siege techniques. Today, the Fort is classified as an historic monument.
Abbaye de Lerins - Cannes
Founded in 410 A.D. by Saint Honorat, this monastery was a landmark for Christianity in the west throughout the 5th and 6th centuries. The Abbey's influence covered a considerable area of the mainland. After undergoing looting and destruction, it was rebuilt in 1869 and has since been home to a community of Cistercian monks.You can visit the church, museum and fortified monastery. Accommodation, spiritual retreats and facilities for prayer.
Chappele Notre Dame - La Brigue
The chapel is the site of a legendary pilgrimage. It's set on a tiny clearing in a thickly forested valley, and there's a mountain stream just below. A remarkable collection of wall frescos in a 12th century shrine, entirely decorated by the Italian masters Canavesio and Baleison in 1492.
Citadelle Saint-Elme
To protect the County of Nice from invaders, the Duke of Savoy had the Citadel built in the 16th century, together with the satellite fortresses of Mont-Alban and Saint-Hospice, and the port of La Darse where the galleys were moored. These constructions entrusted to Italian engineers were fore-runners of a new type of bastion fortification. Today, this remarkable complex accommodates the Town Hall, the Volti, Goetz-Boumeester Museums and the Roux Collection.
Notre Dame De Laghet - La Trinite
Still attracts pilgrims from all over the region, from Provence to Italy. Crowned by a statue of the Virgin Mary covered in gold-leaf, this Italian baroque-style church dates back to 1656. The museum in the cloister contains very precious ex-votos, preserved since the 19th century.4Accommodation provided by the Benedictine nuns for those seeking spiritual nourishment.
Russian Orthodox Cathedral - Nice
The Saint-Nicolas Cathedral was built in 1912 by a Russian architect, thanks to the Tsar Nicholas II, and is the largest orthodox religious building to have been built outside Russia. From a religious point of view, this claim is considered by the local noble Russian community as unlawful, since the cathedral belongs to the Orthodox Church of Constantinople and therefore has nothing to do with the Church of Moscow.
Les Arenes de Cimiez - Nice
Cimiez is one of Nice's most desirable neighbourhoods and has been a status address ever since the Romans built the city of Cremenelum on its slopes. What remains of this settlement are the public baths (thermes) and the amphitheatre (arenes) where the Romans held their games. The worn white stones overgrown with vegetation are an evocative reminder of Nice's earliest residents. At the heart of a splendid olive grove, every year the Arènes de Cimiez host the Nice Jazz Festival.
Ephrussi de Rothschild
All the atmosphere of the Riviera is to be found in this enchanting site overlooking the quayside of Villefranche and Baie des Fourmis. Built by Baroness Ephrussi de Rothschild during the "Belle Epoque", this architectural "folly" was inspired by the great renaissance residences of Venice and Florence. Its seven different gardens are alone worth a visit : Spanish, Florentine, Japanese, Provençal, oriental, exotic and classic French.
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TORONTO (AP) — The New York Islanders have placed forward Jordan Eberle on injured reserve due to an upper body injury Colorado Avalanche T-Shirts Womens , and recalled forward Michael Dal Colle from Bridgeport of the AHL.Eberle missed practice on Thursday and then sat out the Islanders’ 6-3 win over Ottawa on Friday night due to stiffness. The move Saturday is retroactive to last Sunday.The forward has seven goals and 10 assists in 35 games this season, after totaling 25 goals and 34 assists a year ago in his first season with the Islanders.Dal Colle, selected by New York in the first round of the 2014 NHL Draft, has no goals and no assists in six career NHL games, including two in a stint with the Islanders last month. He has 12 goals and 16 assists in 28 games with the Sound Tigers this season.The Islanders play at Toronto on Saturday night, facing former captain John Tavares for the first time since he left to sign with his hometown Maple Leafs in the offseason. Coach’s challenges for goaltender interference and the ensuing arguments aren’t going away.There will just be a new place to direct the complaints.With the goal of refining the consistency of goalie interference challenges, NHL general managers on Wednesday recommended shifting the decision from on-ice officials to the league’s situation room in Toronto. The change could go into effect as soon as the playoffs, which begin April 11, after the NHL Players’ Association signed off and now just needs approval from the board of governors.”The players want consistency in the application of the rule Colorado Avalanche Hoodies Womens , and therefore support this proposed change in order to help accomplish that goal,” said NHLPA special assistant to the executive direct Mathieu Schneider said after consulting with competition committee members and other players.Commissioner Gary Bettman said only perhaps a half-dozen of about 170 challenges this season were controversial, yet GMs overwhelmingly were in favor of a centralized location for final decisions.”The objective is to be as close to perfect as possible,” Bettman said, noting goalie interference is a judgment call. ”The recommended change is intended to help resolve the rare cases in which the situation room and the referees might have different opinions of a particular play and is intended to produce more predictability for our players and coaches.”Currently, on-ice officials have the final say on whether a goal should count or be disallowed when challenged. Under the proposed change, the officials would continue to be involved, but a member of the NHL Officiating Management Team – made up of former referees – would be part of the decision-making process.Washington Capitals coach Barry Trotz said this won’t affect how he approaches challenging goalie interference but believes having someone outside the area making the call is a positive.”There’s some referees who are more established and, I’d say Colorado Avalanche Hats Womens , sure of themselves, they won’t reverse the calls,” Trotz said. ”They almost say, `That’s the way I saw it and that’s the way it is and live with it.’ And others get swayed by what they see or maybe the crowd or another coach or how the game’s going.”So it’s no different than the student marking their own papers. Let’s have a non-emotional person who has no skin in the game and is not in an emotional environment to make those calls and I think you’ll find it will be more consistent.”Coaches and goaltenders have complained about the inconsistency all season. Bettman said during All-Star weekend in late January that officials might be ”overthinking” reviews and that the intent was, ”Take a quick look, but don’t search it to death.”The league sent a memo to all teams outlining the standard, which is closer to what Dallas Stars coach Ken Hitchcock prefers. Hitchcock said he and his colleagues want to lean toward allowing more contact and counting more goals.”We’re tie goes to the runner,” Hitchcock said. ”I think that’s how a lot of the coaches feel is that when you see a situation that is a positive-area sacrifice (for players), give the runner the benefit.”It took years of debate for GMs to approve coach’s challenges for offside and goaltender interference Custom Colorado Avalanche Jerseys , which are in their third season. The gray area in interpretation still causes issues.”I don’t know what is and what isn’t,” New York Islanders coach Doug Weight said recently. I think there’s a lot of confusion. That’s tough. It’s frustrating for us.”The hope is to lessen the frustration by letting a rotation of former officials take over. But nothing about the way goalie interference is called is being changed.Former player Ray Ferraro suggested adopting the international standard that says a goal is waved off if a skater interferes with a goalie’s positioning but allows it to count if the goalie initiates contact.”You’re never going to find a solution for this because what you see when you’re 200 feet away in a press box is different from what you see on TV, which is different from what is happening on the ice,” goaltending analyst Justin Goldman of The Goalie Guild said. ”I feel bad for the referees because it’s so hard to make that call in that moment, but to go to Toronto and expect Toronto to get it right every single time, you’re at the mercy of what they’re seeing on a TV screen, not what actually happened on the ice. For the goalies, that’s super frustrating.”—
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The US expressed condolences to the family of Miriam Mirzahani
15 July 2017 21:23 4965
Washington: Alan Ayr, an employee of the Bureau of Energy Resources of the US State Department, expressed condolences to the family and friends of the Iranian scientist Mariam Mirzahani.
"Condolences to the family and friends of Miriam Mirzakhani. Let him rest in peace, "said Ayr.
In turn, Gary Lewis, the coordinator of the UN system in Iran, also spoke about the death of the only female laureate of the Fields Prize in mathematics.
"It was sad to learn about the death of Miriam Mirzakhani ... Iran's smart daughter, wife, mother, professor. May her soul rest forever in peace, "Lewis said.
Today, July 15, at the age of 40, the only woman who was awarded one of the most prestigious Fields Prizes in mathematics - Iranian Mariam Mirzahani, died.
Mariam defended her doctoral dissertation at Harvard, and in 2008 she became a professor at Stanford University. In 2014 she became the first woman, and also the first representative of Iran to receive the Fields Prize for "outstanding contribution to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and the theory of the spaces of their modules".
In 2013, Mariam Mirzahani was diagnosed with breast cancer, because of which she died.
The Fields Prize is awarded to several mathematicians every four years at the International Mathematical Congress. The award bears the name of the President of the VII International Mathematical Congress, who proposed in 1924 to reward young mathematicians for outstanding services in the field of this science.
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Faces of Fort Fisher 1861–1864
Faces of Fort Fisher 1861 – 1864
by Chris E. Fonvielle Jr.
By late 1864, Wilmington, NC was the lifeline for General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederacy’s most important city.
Faces of Fort Fisher, 1861-1864, examines the early history of the fort, nicknamed the Gibraltar of the South, from its construction beginning in 1861 until the eve of it being attacked by Union forces at Christmas 1864.
Faces of Fort Fisher 1861–1864 quantity
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Fort Fisher was was the Confederacy’s strongest seacoast fortification. It guarded New Inlet, the northern entryway into the Cape Fear River and the port of Wilmington, North Carolina. By the summer of 1863, Wilmington was the Confederacy’s main seaport along the Atlantic seaboard.
Commerce vessels brought in essential weapons, equipment, and provisions for its armed forces on the battlefront and civilians on the home front. To do so, they had to evade U.S. Navy ships deployed to blockade the South’s coastline and seaports. Strong defenses like Fort Fisher were needed to protect Wilmington for blockade-runners, the inlets they used to access its harbor, the port facilities, and the railroads along which supplies were transported.
By late 1864, Wilmington was the lifeline for General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederacy’s most important city.
It looks at the officers who planned, designed and commanded the works, and the soldiers who built, garrisoned and defended them. The book also explores events associated with the fort’s fascinating history.
Hardcover: 160 pages- with dust jacket.
Publisher: SlapDash Publishing and NC Starburst Press
Book review: – ‘Faces of Fort Fisher 1861-1864′
by Ben Steelman –StarNews Online
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My Name Is Charlie Wilson
Charlie Wilson, the famed R&B artist widely known as the lead vocalist for the GAP Band in the 1980s and his gold-certified album, Charlie Last Name Wilson, announced that he is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. He also announced that he is teaming with the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) to raise awareness and research funds for prostate cancer. His second solo album on Jive Records, Uncle Charlie, featuring the top-ten single There Goes My Baby, is scheduled for
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Unity Build, Week 4
For many, Unity Build 2017 was the closing of a circle and a time of reconnecting.
For Tim Shipkin, the NOAHH Site Supervisor leading the build, Unity Build brought to a close his time with Habitat in the same way that it started.
“I was part of Unity Build 2015 as an AmeriCorps,” Tim said. “I had just moved to New Orleans. I was working for Habitat probably two months, and then it was a very special experience for me. It was my first house, start to finish, and everyone was nice. I can remember it was a very positive experience. It made me want to continue doing this longer. It was one of those things that you just don’t want to end. It made me excited about this job. In 2015, that was my first house, and Unity Build 2017 is going to be my last house. It’s the start of my Habitat career and the end of my Habitat career, so when I found out this Saturday was gonna be my last day, it was like ‘oh.’ Ending my Habitat career kinda where it started. I’m happy to finish out a house on my last day. It’s always nice. I’m leaving a house completely done and coming full circle. Some of the people are the same. It’s been fun to see them again. It’s the same kind of deal, though, building a house. It’s been really cool. I haven’t seen some of them in two years. It’s been a blast.”
For Patrice Mimitte, NOAHH homeowner and Trinity Episcopal Children’s Ministries and Business Administrator, it was a return to the Habitat build site two years after her Habitat home was completed in a similar build–the 2015 Habitat AmeriCorps Build-A-Thon.
“[At Build-A-Thon] Watching the walls go up, I stood on the other side and just watched and took a bunch of pictures,” Patrice said. “It was amazing. It was fast. Looking at all the people who was out supporting it, it was great, and that’s why I’m back, just to give back. It feels good to see someone else go through this process.”
Being back on the build site brought back memories and connected her with Nicole.
“I love it,” Patrice said. “It brings back memories of when my house was being built. I am learning flooring, which was something I did not get to do at my house, and that was something I was interested in. I’m putting floors in today. It feels good to give back. Even though this is a day out with my job here today, with me going through this process before, it feels good to watch somebody else go through it and become a homeowner. I remember what it felt like. It’s amazing. It all works out in the end. It’s a blessing, and I’m happy for Nicole.”
For John Haspel of Temple Sinai, it was about getting back to his roots.
“From my faith, we basically believe in helping others,” said John. “I feel very fortunate that I’m in that position to be able to do so. It’s called ‘tikkun olam,’ repairing the world. The temple and my parents have taught me to give back whenever you’re able to give back, so we do some volunteer work. It’s kinda in my DNA.”
For the congregants of St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church, it’s a chance to reconnect with NOAHH, whose offices used to be at St. Charles Baptist.
“The legacy remains strong,” said Rev. Elizabeth Lott. “St. Charles Baptist is proud to play a small part in Habitat’s story of emerging as the organization it is now in New Orleans, and to reconnect is just a full circle moment.”
In the final week of Unity Build 2017, new connections were also being made.
“For a congregation that could not pull off a build like this on their own, it’s been a wonderful act of solidarity to connect with other people of faith and participate in this build together,” said Rev. Lott. “We had ten or twelve people over the course of the month who were here. It’s been such a source of energy and hope for those of our congregation who’ve been able to participate.”
“Meeting new people from all over’s been good,” said Patrice. “Everybody’s helping everybody, moving from one room to the next, checking out other jobs. It’s been fun.”
“All the congregations have been really good with sending out volunteers every day, and it’s just been great to see the different congregations and different backgrounds,” said Tim. “It’s great seeing everyone come together and form relationships that they didn’t have before.”
Others connected with Nicole, who was out on the site every day helping to build her own home.
“It’s nice to know that people who you built the house for realize they have some sweat equity in it,” said John. “It’s a community build. I’m very familiar with community building. So it’s nice when you’ve got the individuals who benefit from it putting some time into it. I’m sure they appreciate the people helping out–strangers. What better faith can you have? It’s a show of good human nature.”
“Nicole is great,” said Tim. “She’s just a positive ball of energy every day. She’s very quiet but she can tell she’s incredibly kind and she’s great with volunteers. She makes everyone feel welcome.”
“It’s been a great experince for me,” said Nicole. “As far as having everyone come out and all, the excitement. Some of them are even more excited than I am.”
And Nicole connected with Patrice, and they shared a bond over their experiences in the Habitat program and accelerated build homeowners.
“It’s been good because she knows the whole steps and everything,” Nicole said. “She gets to work with me. She worked with other people as well on their homes.”
Fittingly, the original Unity Build came from these kinds of connections. The participants in the 2015 Unity Build inspired others to join this year.
“I’m fortunate to go to lunch regularly with some of the clergy in town,” said Rev. Lott, “and I got to hear Henry Hudson [formerly of Trinity Episcopal] and Antoine Barriere [of Household of Faith] talking about their work together. Clearly that project was much more than the build. It was a friendship between those two pastors, and it was contagious. The energy that existed between the two of them. It’s important for our congregations to lean on each other and grow together. And one of the themes today over and over again is when times seem divided and neighbors seem divided, it’s so important for us to come together and remember again how much we hold in common.”
As well as a chance to connect, the build was also a chance to learn.
“I think I can do the siding when the next hurricane hits,” said Nicole. “If a few pieces come off, I can put it up myself. Learning how to use the power tools has been pretty nice. It’s been a great learning experience.”
“I touch up a whole lot of paint inside and outside of my Habitat house,” said Patrice. “Working with gardens. I keep up with that a lot. Just everything. I’m excited about the flooring, because I didn’t get to do my own flooring at my house. That’s something I was always curious about. It’s exciting working with other people and learning new things. Learning how do to things around your house.”
And at the end of the build, the home was completed and everyone came together to celebrate Nicole’s achievement–and their new connections.
“It’s such an honor to be part of this family’s story, and I think it’s a reminder that none of us is alone,” said Rev. Lott. “We carry each other, and that was my big takeaway from today. Watching all these people who were strangers a month ago surround Nicole with love is just really inspiring and encouraging.”
“It’s amazing,” said Patrice. “There’s nothing like having your own space. I have to say that’s the first thing, when I pull up in my driveway, I think, ‘It’s mine.’ It belongs to me.”
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Trinity Episcopal Church
Trinity Episcopal Church is a longtime supporter that partnered with Household of Faith on this year’s Faith Build.
The local Nadeau store has donated to the ReStore often over the last few years.
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Women of Habitat: Michelle White
Growing up in New Mexico, Michelle White learned about hard work, independence, and rattle snakes. Her five step brothers would catch the snakes, and she sometimes ended up involved in their antics.
“We’re out in the desert,” she said. “There’s nothing else for us to do, so you get comfortable with animals. It’s lonely [in the desert]. Coming to the city as an adult, I realized that time alone, I got to know myself. I didn’t get distracted by anything.”
Growing up in the desert living on a farm 13 miles from anything, they had to do the chores and work the fields before dinner every day. The independence she learned in the desert helped drive her in adulthood. Raising two children on her own, starting her own business, working her sweat equity, she survived without a lot of support.
“I was on a farm growing up. We had to pull so many rows of weeds before dinner. My grandfather would say, ‘no working, no eating.’ I hated him every day I came home. I didn’t have a social life because I lived 13 miles outside of town, but he prepared us for life. My grandfather, he built homes for a living. When [his family] moved from Kansas to New Mexico, they had to build three log homes. I wasn’t there day after day, but I was familiar with nailing, sawing. I wasn’t uncomfortable using tools. It made me thankful to my grandpa once I got out on site. It was time to reconnect with my roots.”
As a future Habitat homeowner, she has decided to bring a little bit of New Mexico to her house.
“My house color is graceful ballerina. It’s coral with shades of blue. It reminds me of New Mexico, all the different colored rooms.”
She first came to New Orleans in 1999. For a brief period, she returned to New Mexico, but after Hurricane Katrina, she felt a duty to come back.
“I saw the city coming back, and I wanted to be part of it. I remembered how much I love the weather here. It’s cold and miserable in New Mexico. I really wasn’t sure how I was gonna make it work. My friend had a home uptown, and she accepted my housing voucher.”
While in New Mexico, she had a Section 8 voucher, meaning her rent was partially subsidized. When she came back to New Orleans, she realized she had to give up the voucher to do what was best for her family, because she needed to find better housing more quickly than the program allowed.
“I started looking around at neighborhoods that were accepting Section 8, and in the apartment places there was a waiting list, which I wasn’t familiar with. Back in New Mexico, things took a couple of weeks, but here you might be on the waiting list for a year. I had to let that go, and I stepped out on faith.”
She found a job in one part of the city while going to school for massage therapy in another part of the city, all the way across the river. With her two children to look after as well, she found it difficult to manage.
“My children were small. I didn’t have anybody to watch them or any help. For a while, I didn’t have a car. I had a car up until I started school, and then my car broke down. I was living in Gentilly, working in Lakeview. I rode my bike so much, and massage school was on the West Bank. That was really emotionally challenging.”
She faced challenges when trying to find an affordable home. Like many women, she was met with discrimination because she was a single mother.
“Before I found the place in Gentilly, I put in my application in some places, and I think they thought as a single mom I couldn’t pay my bills. Which is probably the stereotype we get. To look back now, I can see they think a man guarantees bills will be paid. That doesn’t guarantee anything.”
She and her two children lived for a while at a friend’s place before moving to Gentilly to an apartment that cost them $1,100 a month. The high cost of rent meant she often had to go without anything extra for herself or her children.
“I do nails and massage. I hustle. I went without. My kids were still young. It is amazing that I had that money. Often I gave my landlord a stack of cash.”
Besides the inflated rent, she also had struggles with her landlord in her previous home.
“I had been renting there for five years, paying rent, $1,100 dollars. Faith, I had that money every month. When we had that freeze, my pipes busted, and my landlord refused to come out, but her husband came and shut the water off. My brother came out and fixed them, and they broke again, which lets me know they didn’t have stuff right under the house. I was so angry. I did the calculation. After five years, I had paid $60,000. You mean you’re not gonna come fix these pipes?”
She had learned about the Habitat homeownership program a few years before, but she had to improve her financial situation. By the time she first applied, she still had some bills to pay off. Like many applicants, she had to try again.
“There were some houses going up in Pigeon Town. I saw they were decent. That’s when I looked into it. I didn’t have steady work or any income. My credit wasn’t that great. But when I eventually applied, it was easy stuff I needed to do.”
She applied again a few months later, and when she got into the program, she also started renting from Habitat in an incubator home. Incubator rentals are properties NOAHH rents to homeownership applicants who need to improve their financial situation before they are eligible for the program, or for partner families who are in difficult renting situations when they apply. The lower rent has helped Michelle save money and find better stability.
“Let me tell you, Habitat saved my life. I’m certain of it now. My peace of mind was being in the rental. At least I know I’m here, and the next move will be into the house. It’s way more stable. From having my rent half of what it was, it just made things easier. So what I’m working on now is paying off my truck I’m not stressing out about silliness. Gas money, the truck. All those little things. My daughter needs shoes for sports. I put a limit at $100, but I can take her and do those extras. I can pay off bills. There were times I had to live off my credit cards, paying for clothes. Now I can breathe.”
The Habitat program provides homebuyers with a 0% interest mortgage and no financial down payment (instead, partner families work 350 hours of sweat equity). The home is usually a 3-bedroom home, built brand new. For some, this doesn’t seem real until they get into the program.
“You know you run into scams or different opportunities that seem too good to be true. I talked to other partner families. They had the same feeling. Once I got into the rental, I thought, ‘oh yeah, this is for real.’ I really feel like once I got into the program, Habitat just put big arms around me.”
Now that she is living in the Lower Ninth Ward in a rental–and about to be a homeowner there–she has begun attending community meetings and becoming more involved.
“I never went out there. Maybe to drop off a coworker. Now that I’m out there, I talk to people that grew up out there. There’s a stigma. It’s kinda sad, because it’s so quiet out there. I went to a community meeting. Living there has made me ready to become part of the community.”
Her home will be completed later this year–in just 12 days. Michelle is this year’s Women Build homebuyer, and she will be part of the all-woman accelerated build in May. Coincidentally, her first day volunteering on a build site was during last year’s Women Build.
“It was my first time being on construction last year. It was a good feeling. I was carrying that truss up the ladder with four young women. I remember looking over at one point and thinking wow, we’re putting this whole house together by women. That’s pretty amazing. It’s intense, even just to stay there for the whole day. We all have a common struggle: married, single, children, no children, we all have a struggle. It’s nice to see us come together.”
On site that first day, she met Gray DeHaven. Gray was an AmeriCorps crew leader during Women Build 2018, one of seven women leading the construction of the two homes. This year, Gray is now on staff as a site supervisor and the leader of Women Build 2019’s construction team.
“I paid attention to different people I worked with. Both men and women do great work, but the one who’s gonna be on the site, Gray, she’s very meticulous with stuff. I like that. When I first met her, she was really sweet. She was excited. She wanted to get it done. From there to now, I can tell she’s more commanding. Now she’s just more confident. It’s been amazing to see.”
Through it all, whether biking across town to school, working day and night to pay the rent, or putting in sweat equity in the hot summer months, Michelle has been motivated by her children.
“I kept telling them my goal is to get y’all in a house. I kept telling them, it’s just me, so it’s gonna take me twice as long. I’m supporting y’all on one income. I’m doing it, but it’s gonna take longer. I want them to remember, I said I was gonna do it. Everything you wanna do, you have to do it. I show this as an example for [my daughter]. You have to get your education, you have to be independent. I ended up single, two children. It’s a harder road. It’s much easier if you make wiser choices.”
Before she had children, she traveled more, but she still finds place for adventure in her life. At the age of 37, she decided to take up rugby for the exercise.
“I play just touch now, but for a while I was involved in the women’s. There’s a lot of injuries, so I felt like I was playing with fire. I picked it up at 37 years old. Playing with a bunch of 20-year-olds. I liked it for the exercise. That’s originally how I got into it. After a while, I was in the scrum. That’s a lot of work. I took a lot of poundings. People think it’s aggressive, but I found out those girls are doctors, engineers, veterinarians, physical therapists. I wish I would have met them younger. It would have shaped me as a person. It gives you this confidence, and the camaraderie with all the girls is amazing. I wish I would have found them years ago. Now the touch team I’m with, it’s all guys. I’m the only woman out there. I wouldn’t have been out there if it wasn’t for the women’s team.”
Once she has her home, she’s ready for a new adventure.
“One of my goals is to get certified in scuba diving after I get the house built. I went scuba diving for the first time a couple of years ago. I went to see a friend in St. Croix. It’s a whole other world. It’s as big as the world up here. I think it’d be fun to explore. It gets boring on the beach. You can sit on the beach anywhere.”
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HEALTHY FATHERS
The importance of dads
PETA RASDIEN
The father’s role in producing a healthy baby doesn’t begin and end with conception.
Evidence is now pointing to an important link between the father’s health pre-conception and the health of their child over their lifetime.
“There’s this phenomenon called the developmental origins of health and disease where influences during early life, during pregnancy, during the early post-natal period change your metabolic set up for the rest of your life,” Dr Scott White, WA spokesman for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said.
“Babies born after a period of inter-uterine hostility — where they are a bit smaller than they want to be, their placenta is not fantastic, they are a bit growth restricted — are at significantly increased risk for diabetes and heart disease and some cancers and all sorts of ‘badness’ in later life.
“Traditionally the effect of that was looked at from the maternal point of view and the fathers were pretty much ignored but more recent studies looking at the paternal contribution suggest there is a significant role for the health of the father prior to pregnancy and the health of the offspring.”
Perhaps the clearest association between a dad’s health and that of his offspring is seen in obesity, where it has been shown that paternal BMI is linked with the birth weight of baby boys and a correlation between a father’s “fatness” with a daughter’s increase in body fat from age five to nine has been identified.
Sperm carry not just DNA, but also signals known as non-coding RNA which can influence how development proceeds, according to scientists from the Robinson Research Institute, writing for The Conversation. These non-coding RNA are different in the sperm of obese men than in men of a healthy weight and, in some research in mice, have been shown to make their offspring fatter.
“There are significant epigenetic changes in the sperm of obese men so we know the healthier the father is, the better quality the sperm is, the better-quality embryo you make and that seems to have important lifelong impacts,” Dr White, who also provides preconception counselling at King Edward Memorial Hospital, said.
Alcohol, too, can be a catalyst for epigenetic changes that either switch on or off, or turn up or down, the expression of different genes that are carried both in the sperm and the egg, influencing the long-term health of offspring.
James Fitzpatrick, head of alcohol and pregnancy and FASD research at Telethon Kids Institute, said while Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder could only be diagnosed if there had been direct exposure to the foetus by the woman’s drinking, some studies linked behavioural problems in children and adolescents with changes in the genetic expression of male sperm that are associated with alcohol exposure.
“It is not as hard and fast as the direct toxic effects of alcohol if the woman drinks, but there is the possibility these epigenetic effects that are passed on before the point of conception can modify later behavioural and indeed health outcomes,” Dr Fitzpatrick said.
It takes three months to make a mature sperm so any changes required to ensure a father is in peak condition for conception must be made well in advance, Dr White recommends. Just like prospective mothers, dads are advised to adopt a healthy lifestyle in the lead up to trying to conceive by maintaining a healthy weight, limiting alcohol intake to safe levels and not smoking or using illicit drugs.
Factors such as obesity and alcohol could reduce the number and quality of sperm, making it harder to get pregnant in the first place.
There’s also a role for dad’s-to-be to support their partner in staying on a healthy path during the nine months of pregnancy and beyond.
One of the biggest drivers of a woman drinking in pregnancy is her male partner drinking in pregnancy, according to Dr Fitzpatrick.
“That’s why it is very important that men support their partners not to drink in pregnancy and ideally that would be through taking a pregnant pause themselves or having the nine months off with their partner to support her during pregnancy.”
Weighting to be a mother
Obesity is linked to reduced fertility and poor outcomes
Improving blood flow to avoid miscarriage
WA researchers are looking at how abnormal blood clots form during pregnancy.
What we've discovered
Breakthroughs made by researchers at Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and Telethon Kids Institute.
Hearts like hush
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Heart disease stalks deprived kids
Study shows children who grow up in poor households have a higher risk of heart problems as adults.
Go for 2 fruit & 5 veg
Eating plenty of fruit and vegetables not only contributes to good health, it also protects us against a number of diseases and helps us maintain a healthy weight.
Cut back on alcohol
Just like any other food or drink, alcohol should be limited if you're trying to maintain a healthy weight.
Be active every day
The more active you are, the more energy you'll have for other things.
A LiveLighter Christmas
Christmas doesn't mean you have to put your health goals on hold.
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Department of Defense US: no troops withdrawn from Syria
The United States have, so far, no troops withdrawn from Syria, the ministry of Defense Friday night in a statement.
“We have a number of logistical measures are taken to ensure an orderly withdrawal support”, let the ministry know.
According to a spokesman for security reasons it is not disclosed when and how the withdrawal will take place. “But we confirm that so far no military personnel from Syria was transferred.”
Friday, said colonel Sean Ryan, spokesman of the US-led coalition in the fight against the Islamic State, that the armed forces had commenced to retreat from the north and east of Syria. More he said not. Thus, it was not yet clear whether the withdrawn troops or equipment went
Trump announced the departure of troops in december to
In Syria sit some two thousand American soldiers. The armed forces have in recent years used for operations of special units against IS, the support of fighters with whom the U.S. cooperates and performing air strikes on IS-targets.
In december last year, president Donald Trump, he’s the American military out of Syria would withdraw. That decision led an international stir.
The U.s. government later became known, however, first of Turkey the guarantee to want to get to be the country’s Koerische fighters will not attack. The against IS fighting Kurds are allies of the US.
US withdraws from Syria: ‘IS is far from dead’
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You are here: Home / Horse Racing Business / THE ULTIMATE INSURER RULE
THE ULTIMATE INSURER RULE
April 10, 2010 by Bill Shanklin 1 Comment
A shorter version of this article appeared in the Blood-Horse on March 27, 2010. Republished by permission.
The various state racing commissions that govern horse racing within their jurisdictions have instituted the doctrine that the trainer of a horse is responsible for the physical condition of said horse. This “ultimate insurer” rule encompasses the principle that if an animal in a trainer’s care tests positive for an illegal medication, the trainer is assumed to be the guilty party. The trainer is accountable even if he or she knows nothing about how the medication got into the horse’s system. For instance, a groom could have inadvertently tainted a bridle bit, a veterinarian could have administered the substance, or another party with sinister motives could have been the perpetrator. The trainer is presumed to be guilty and must prove his or her innocence and, even then, may still be held liable.
Whenever a racing commission suspends a trainer, the horses under his or her care often are turned over to the trainer’s licensed assistant for the period of the suspension. The assistant’s name appears in the racing program as the trainer of record. The owner of the animal that was the reason for the trainer’s suspension is penalized to the extent that the purse in the race in which his or her horse raced with illegal medication is forfeited. However, the owner can continue to race the horse with no hiatus.
How does this compare with sanctions in other business endeavors?
In the corporate world, the chairman of the board and chief executive officer is not typically dismissed or fired for the misconduct of subordinates. Fortune 500 companies have so many employees that a CEO is not expected to monitor the behavior of everyone. Corporations are routinely sued and lose some of the litigation. They pay fines and damages and suffer from negative public relations, but the CEO is not suspended, as with the trainer responsibility rule.
Where criminal conduct is perpetrated by the chairman and CEO, the situation is, of course, different. Dennis Kozlowski was the chairman and CEO of Tyco International when he was found guilty of stealing from the company and sentenced to prison. Sam Waksal was chairman and CEO of ImClone when he was convicted of insider trading and jailed. Martha Stewart was snared in the same scandal and also imprisoned.
Sometimes a company is accused, convicted, and later exonerated, but cannot recover from all of the negative publicity. Arthur Anderson LLP was one of the longtime premier CPA firms in the world. Securities & Exchange Commission obstruction of justice charges against it over its auditing of the Enron fraud led to its conviction in federal court and ultimate demise. The government filed charges against all of the Arthur Anderson partners, in effect saying that they were all ultimate insurers, rather than pursuing only the partners who were involved with Enron. The U. S. Supreme Court ultimately overturned the conviction, but by then it was too late to resurrect Arthur Anderson. The same fate could happen to a trainer who was wrongly accused of running a horse on prohibited medication.
Collegiate athletics has nothing approaching a trainer responsibility rule. In fact, in big-time college football and basketball, a coach can run an outlaw program and walk away with no sanctions whatsoever. A university’s football or basketball team may be severely penalized by the NCAA for violations that occurred under a coach’s tenure, while the coach who was responsible for the mess immediately gets a high-paying job at another university, as though nothing ever happened. He can then damage his new employer’s athletic program, and move on to another job. Under racing’s ultimate insurer rule, the coach would be suspended or banned from plying his winning but unscrupulous ways.
Similarly, in professional sports, the coaches and managers are largely exempted for the actions of players, including substance abuse. If the head coaches in the NFL and NBA and the managers in Major League Baseball were under an ultimate insurer rule, the coaching/manager pool would be thinner.
Compared to the domains of business and college and professional athletics, racing’s trainer responsibility rule is a very strict legally enforceable standard for the person in charge. I do not know of any profession where the CEO is so clearly singled out if anything untoward is carried out by a low-level employee. A trainer with 100-200 horses in training at three or four locations is responsible for the actions of all of his or her employees.
Granted, under the rule, state racing commissions sometimes mete out punishment that is too severe and at other times they let offenders off with a slap on the wrist. But this is true of any system of justice. The ultimate insurer rule is a rigorous attempt to protect the betting public, one that the industry can be proud of. If one modification is needed, it would be to also hold horse owners (and possibly attending veterinarians) responsible when their animals test positive for illegal medications. In so doing, owners would be more cautious in putting their racehorses in the hands of trainers with a history of certified medication violations.
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Which it is exactly why the horse should receive a suspension also. When owners can’t race their horses, they will be forced to insist on compliance.
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Richard Bushnell
March 21, 2016 Steve Gregory
Richard Bushnell, of Fairfax, VT, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his family, on Sunday, March 13, 2016. He was 73. He was born in Arvida, Canada. He was the son of the late Eli and Ida (Pomerleau) Bushnell.
He attended Aviation Technical Institute for Architectural and Mechanical Design. After graduation, he moved to Vermont to become one of the three first EMT's in Burlington. He then was assigned to the Fire and Rescue for 8 years. He then worked for Pomerlaeu Real Estate for many years. Richard then moved on to open his own Construction and Home Inspection business. He also served in the U.S. Army Reserved.
Richard loved to travel, make wooden toys, and to spend time with his family. His dream when he moved back to Vermont was to go gold panning with his step sons, but unfortunately wasn't able to. Richard is known for his strength, humor, and sweet soul.
Richard is survived by his wife Jari Bushnell, son Michael Bushnell, step sons Ronald (Lynn), Matthew (Gina), his four step daughters Julie (Michael), Heather, Courtney (Shiwon), and Nickie (Demetrius). He also leaves behind grandchildren Chelsea, Christopher, Callie, Darren, Brooke, Taylor, Logan, Lorelai, Lily, BrookLynn, Niomi and Baby George. His daughter Lauren Ann predeceased Richard.
A private service will be held at the convenience of his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to his family through Stephen C. Gregory and Son Cremation Service, 472 Meadowland Drive, Suite 7, South Burlington, VT 05403.
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Tag: US
Yemen Genocide About Oil Control
1st December 2018 1st December 2018
It has little to do with any Shi’ite versus Wahhabite Sunni conflict. Rather it has to do with strategic control of world energy. So long as Saana was in control of a Saudi proxy, whether Saleh or then Hadi, it was a secondary priority for Washington. The oil was “safe,” even if the Yemen government had expropriated the US company oil properties. Once a determined independent Houthi Zaidi force was in control of Yemen or a major part, the threat became serious enough to give the eager new Saudi Defense Minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman the green light to begin the war. That Houthi-controlled Yemen would be potential client for Russian or Chinese oil companies to open up serious exploration of the potentials. That combined with the fact that the Houthi also had friendly relations with Iran clearly set off red lights in the Obama Administration.
There is far more at stake in Yemen than we are being told.
Economy / Indonesia
Killing and Plundering : Special Investigation of BP in West Papua – Slow Motion Genocide, High Speed Profit
Many indigenous Papuans ask “Why are we so poor when our country is so rich?”
BP is profiting from a giant gas field in West Papua while the indigenous population face ‘slow motion genocide’ under Indonesian military occupation, an undercover investigation by New Matilda can reveal. The oil giant is collaborating with the army and police who are implicated in the killing and torturing of pro-independence activists as part of an escalating militarisation to secure West Papua’s gas reserves.
After fifteen years in West Papua, BP is endangering human rights and failing to deliver ‘a material improvement in fundamental living conditions’ of some of the world’s poorest people.
“BP are siphoning off West Papuan resources to Indonesia blind to the brutal repression going on around them, The Indonesian Government are desperate to hide what is happening from the rest of the world”, said Lord Harries.
FBI: Neo-Nazi Militia Trained by US Military in Ukraine Now Training US White Supremacist
According to a recent FBI indictment, several American white supremacists were allegedly radicalized by and received training from Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, which receives funding from the current government of Ukraine as well as the U.S. government. The group has also received weapons from the Israeli government.
Russia & China Invest in Infrastructure; U.S. Instead Spends on Military
The only ways that the global public can effectively fight back against the US-and-allied aristocracies’ plan to enslave the entire world to their coercive and sanctions-laden ‘free market’ are:
(1) to boycott America’s brands and, as much as possible, conduct all international transactions in any other type of currency than the US dollar; and,
(2) to vote against any politician who has endorsed America’s invasions, such as of Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, Syria 2012-, Yemen 2015-, and US coups, including its coup that conquered Ukraine in 2014 and installed a nazi Government there. And,
(3) to organize marches, if possible, against any US military base occupying their nation. The occupying power needs to be expelled in order for the given nation’s public to control their own country.
Otherwise, the US aristocracy can simply continue with its pillage of our planet. The global public needs to do its part, not to leave it to the targeted countries alone to try to put down this global resurgence of fascism, by America’s oligarchs. This also means abandoning the two aristocracies that work the most closely with America’s: Israel’s and Saudi Arabia’s.
False Flag Terror Acts Press Europe To Sanction Iran
It is likely that the false flag operations in Europe, like the ones in Belgium and Denmark, are run by the CIA with the Mossad only in an auxiliary role. The U.S. can hardly admit that it is faking terrorist incidents in Europe while the overrated Mossad loves to take credit for everything that happens on this world.
Europe has no interest in supporting or escalating Trump’s war on Iran. EU countries should demand hard evidence from Denmark and other accusers of Iran and should not act on the basis of only vague accusations.
The U.S. Military’s Empire of Secrecy
We, the citizenry, trust our military with immense responsibility, but as a supposed democracy, that same military ought to be accountable to Congress and to the public. These days, that seems ever more like a distant fantasy.
This all matters. America has a choice. It can be an empire—or it can be a genuine republic. It may not be both.
Watch the film the Israel lobby didn’t want you to see
The Electronic Intifada has obtained a complete copy of The Lobby – USA, a four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s covert influence campaign in the United States. The film was made by Al Jazeera during 2016 and was completed in October 2017.
But it was censored after Qatar, the gas-rich Gulf emirate that funds Al Jazeera, came under intense Israel lobby pressure not to air the film.
The resulting film exposes the efforts of Israel and its lobbyists to spy on, smear and intimidate US citizens who support Palestinian human rights, especially BDS – the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
The Saudi-US Crisis Will Pass
U.S.-Saudi ties have withstood crises in the past and will withstand this one, says As’ad AbuKhalil.
Washington and Riyadh Have Had Worse Crises and Will Survive Khashoggi Murder.
US Sanctions Cost Venezuela $ 6 Billions Since Aug 2017, Sparking Humanitarian Catastrophe
3rd November 2018 3rd November 2018
Cutting Caracas out of the international market has already triggered a widespread humanitarian catastrophe causing ordinary Venezuelans to suffer the consequences.
WikiLeaks’ Legacy of Exposing US-UK Complicity
3rd November 2018
WikiLeaks is vilified by governments (and increasingly by journalists) for its exposures, including of the U.S.-UK “special relationship” in running a joint foreign policy of deception and violence that serves London and Washington’s elite interests, says Mark Curtis.
Russia And China Are Apparently Both Under The Impression That War With The US Is Coming
Could it be possible that the U.S. is heading for a major war? If you ask most Americans that question, they will look at you like you are crazy. But the Russians and the Chinese both see things very differently. As you will see below, Russia and China both seem to be under the impression that war with the United States is coming.
After repeatedly slapping Russia with sanctions, endlessly demonizing their leaders and blaming them for just about every problem that you can imagine, our relationship with Russia is about the worst that it has ever been.
And when the Trump administration announced that it was withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, that pushed things to a new low.
US Nuclear Missiles Deployed in Italy, against Russia
25th October 2018 24th October 2018
The B61-12, the new US nuclear bomb which replaces the B-61 deployed in Italy and other European countries, will begin production in less than a year. The announcement was made officially by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). It reveals that the revision of the final project has now been completed with success, and the qualification stage will begin this month at the Pantex Plant in Texas. Production will be authorised to begin in September 2019.
In March 2020, the first unit of production will begin fabricating a series of 500 bombs. As from that time, in other words in about a year and a half, the United States will begin the anti-Russian deployment in Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland and probably certain other European countries, of the first nuclear bomb in their arsenal with a precision guidance system. The B61-12 is designed with penetrating capacity, built to explode underground in order to destroy bunkers housing command centres.
Economy / Politics
The Self-Defeating US Empire
Trump is trying to square a globalized world through a national-based American capitalism. It won’t work. And the more the US government tries to achieve that the more the dollar and American power falls into decline. Which makes US militarism a greater compensatory danger.
Indonesia / Politics
Indonesia ‘Proudly’ Joins US-led Military Exercises to Antagonize China
Indonesia (RI), the 4th most populous nation on Earth and the country with the largest Muslim population is, and since the 1965 US-orchestrated anti-Communist coup has been, the most radically pro-Western and anti-socialist place in Asia.
This is where you could end up in prison for publicly declaring that you are a Communist, or just an atheist. And this is where Western pop music, junk food and brutally meaningless Hollywood blockbusters are rubbing shoulders with the Saudi-style interpretation of Islam; with Wahhabism, that has been spread with the direct involvement of the US, UK and other Western countries.
Could Killing of Washington Post Writer by Saudi ‘Murder Team’ Finally Put Crack in US Support of ‘Criminal Regime’?
9th October 2018 9th October 2018
Spurring fresh outrage among those who criticize the cozy relationship between the U.S. government and the Saudi monarchy—with emphasis on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS)—political dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabia national living in self-imposed exile abroad, was tortured and killed last week by a Saudi government ‘murder team,’ according to Turkish sources, while inside the Saudi consulate building in Istanbul, Turkey.
The killing, if confirmed, would mark a startling escalation of Saudi Arabia’s effort to silence dissent. Under direction from the crown prince, Saudi authorities have carried out hundreds of arrests under the banner of national security, rounding up clerics, business executives and even women’s rights advocates.
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Kim Philby was the epitome of the upper middle class British boy. He started his schooling in a horribly brutal boarding school, then went to Eton and then on to Cambridge just like everyone else he knew. But Philby had a deep aversion to rules. He hated keeping them and would do everything he could think of to wiggle out of obeying them. He considered his greatest skill to be making friends and he was very good at that. And he could also keep a secret - like the one about his being in a Pro-Nazi group in his youth.
He entered the British secret service by dropping hints among people he knew and then he just waited. He didn't have to wait long. He was hired into MI6 Section D (for destruction) and was sent into covert training. On leave from this training he met Nicholas Elliott. Their fathers were friends and so were they. Philby prepared British spies for occupied Europe and Elliott intercepted foreign spies sent to Britain. Philby was in the perfect position as he now knew who was both coming and going.
Elliott began to emulate Philby. They rose rapidly through the ranks and both were eventually placed into counter intelligence. They served together at Bletchley Park. Everything Elliott told Philby, Philby automatically transmitted to the Russians. Philby soon added Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt to his group. With the addition of Donald MacLean, and John Cairncross the group became known as "The Cambridge Six."
Most people think Philby was a spy for Germany. No, he was a spy for Russia. He was responsible for passing along thousands of pieces of information and for the destruction of many lives. He spied in Spain, Britain and he passed along American intelligence. He was a one man wrecking machine and he got away with it because he was "charming." He was the subject of several investigations, but never charged most likely because his friend, Guy Lidell, was the head of counter-intelligence. A defecting Soviet spy mention that there was a Soviet spy in the British intelligence but he never mentioned Philby's name. Philby was eventually outed by an acquaintance, a most anti-climatic end.
This book is not an autobiography and it is not told through official file information. The files are still sealed. It is told through secondary source material and told it is. Fast paced, it reads like a spy novel, which is really what it is. But you couldn't make this story up - no one would believe it. Except that it's true.
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the burning stage...
To set people's minds at rest -- as a lot of you have been writing and asking this morning -- the fire today on the 007 stage at Pinewood shouldn't cause major problems for Stardust. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5228794.stm -- and there's a short film clip at that page as well).
This is because, as of Friday, it's wrapped. Everything that's going to be shot has been shot, except for the chorus of Ghosts (Rupert Everett, Mark Heap, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Noel Fielding and David Walliams as Secundus, Tertius, Quartus, Quintus and Sextus respectively, along with the briefly dead Primus, Jason Flemyng, and Septimus, Mark Strong) who get shot against green screen in September.
I think we'll find out when people go in tomorrow how much dust and ash is around, whether it's damaged costumes and so on, but we're okay -- and Casino Royale had wrapped as well.
(The 007 stage last burned down back in 1984, with LEGEND. So two major fires with no loss of life...)
Miss Holly Gaiman makes a special guest appearance (as does the 007 stage) in Moriarty's set visit report -- http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=23960 this is the second of two.
And here's a photo of the door to the 007 set, the last time I passed it, a few weeks ago. They'd left it open, and there weren't any security guards about, but it seemed much more fun to take the photo of the door than to go inside and snap away...
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ISS-USA mobilizes a domestic and international network of legal and social work professionals to efficiently connect vulnerable children, adults and families who are separated by international borders to the services and support they need.
In the spirit of international cooperation, we:
Assist those who, as a result of voluntary or forced migration, or other social problems of an international character, have to overcome personal or family difficulties.
Study the conditions and consequences of migration and make recommendations.
Help prevent social problems linked to migration or intercountry mobility.
Inform professionals and the public of the needs of migrant individuals and families.
Develop and maintain an international network of bodies to meet the needs of individuals and families who require the services of International Social Service.
In 1924, a group of women sat down and resolved “…that skilled case work service to families in trouble…should be extended to operate at long distances and across frontiers…” For 90 years, that resolution has stayed at the forefront of our mission. (Click on image below to enlarge)
1910s: A Simple Idea Takes Shape
• 1914 (Stockholm): World’s YWCA resolves to study hardships of immigration.
• 1914: Outbreak of WWI, the resolution is delayed.
1920s: An Evidence-Based Beginning to an International Network
• 1920 (Switzerland): A Standing Migration Committee is formed to handle persons displaced after WWI.
• 1921: “The Welfare of Migrants” report is published for the International Emigration Commission of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and widely circulated.
• 1924: The International Headquarters of International Migration Service (now International Social Service) is established in Geneva. International Social Service-USA (ISS-USA), the U.S. branch of the ISS network, is incorporated in NYC in 1926.
• 1924: The U.S. Quota Act of 1924 comes into effect.
• 1928: The Great Depression begins.
1930s: Socio-Legal Cooperation
• Early 1930s: International Social Service is instrumental in aiding immigrants to understand the global effects of the great depression.
• Early 1930s: Studies lead to International Social Service’s mission of ‘socio-legal’ cooperation.
• 1939: ISS-USA begins finding homes for WWII refugee children.
1940s: A New Name, Same Best Practices
• Early 1940s: Over 3500 British children are placed in temporary U.S. homes.
• Early 1940s: Over 100,000 refugees are resettled.
• 1946: The organization’s name changed is changed from International Migration Service to International Social Service.
1950s: The Beginnings of Intercountry Adoption: A Child-Centered Approach
• Family-finding begins for the children of U.S. service men born out of wedlock.
• ISS begins to study the effects of intercountry adoption.
• ISS successfully advocates for the 1951 “United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.”
• International Social Service-USA develops procedures to assist with the 1953 Refugee Relief Act.
• 1955: The U.S. government grants it’s first subsidy to International Social Service-USA as a part of the orphan adoption program.
1960s: Building Capacity and Cooperating Globally
• A medical social work unit is added to ISS services.
• ISS-USA assists the U.S. Department of State (DOS) and the Children’s Bureau in the recruitment and training of international caseworkers.
1970s: Changing Refugee Resettlement Practices and Policies
• ISS sponsors a forum to focus on the special needs of unaccompanied refugee minors being resettled from Indochina as part of the United States refugee program.
• ISS develops a Task Force on Unaccompanied Refugee Minors.
1980s: Expanding the International Network
• ISS-USA increases their global presence by partnering with additional U.S. & international child welfare organizations.
• Advisory roles for ISS-USA now include the U.S. Department of State (DOS) Advisory Committee on the Inter-American Convention on Adoption.
• 1989: ISS participates in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
1990s: The Hague Takes Center Stage
• 1993: ISS takes part in the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.
• 1994: The U.S. signs the Hague Adoption Convention.
• ISS-USA is instrumental in understanding and carrying out the Hague Adoption Convention.
• 1994: ISS-USA becomes part of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, a nonprofit organization based in Baltimore, Maryland.
2000s: The Mission Remains the Same
• 2004: ISS-USA is re-established as an independent nonprofit organization located in Baltimore, Maryland.
• ISS grows to a global network of organizations located in 120 countries.
• 2007: The Arthur C. Helton Institute is established as the research and advocacy wing of ISS-USA.
2010s: Expanding the Network and Moving Forward
• 2010: ISS-USA Executive Director, Julie Rosicky, is elected as PAC Chair of the ISS global network.
• 2011: ISS-USA renews their U.S. Repatriation Program’s cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for an additional five years.
• 2014: The ISS Network celebrates 90 years of reuniting families across borders.
ISS-USA Welcomes Two New Board Members
ISS-USA Announces Date for 2019 Conference
ISS-USA Welcomes Summer 2019 Intern
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ISS-USA provides international services for adult adoptees, adults searching for biological family and vulnerable adults living abroad.
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SUMMARY OF THE CHANGES TO ORDINANCE NO. 5-ORDINANCE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF SHORELAND AREAS OF KANABEC COUNTY, AND CORRESPONDING CHANGES TO THE ZONING MAP OF KANABEC COUNTY, MINNESOTA, ADOPTED BY A RESOLUTION OF THE KANABEC COUNTY BOARD ON JUNE 12, 2019
On June 12, 2019, the Kanabec County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution/motion adopting the proposed changes to Ordinance No. 5-Ordinance for the Management of Shoreland Areas of Kanabec County, with corresponding changes to the zoning map of Kanabec County.
What follows is a summary of the amendments to the ordinance, as authorized by Minnesota Statutes Section 375.51, subd. 3, and a description of the type of changes made to the county zoning map. This is only a summary and is not to be taken to be, nor is it intended to be, a full recitation of each and every change made to Ordinance No 5. Those interested in knowing the exact language of the newly amended ordinance should read the full text of the ordinance and the newly amended zoning map, on file and available as indicated below.
The newly amended Ordinance has a new table of contents, and there has been a general reorganization of the location and layout of some of the provisions and sections in the ordinance.
Section 2 of the newly amended ordinance, covering general provisions and definitions, contains over 20 new definitions, defining such phrases as “expansion enlargement or intensification,” and “recreational vehicle;” and adding definitions for such things as patios, platforms, docks, buffers, agricultural use, building, and resort, among other additions. Some definitions were added to specifically define terms used in the ordinance. A number of other definitions have been changed slightly, such as the provision on planned unit developments, to read more fluidly and/or to conform to changes in the law, to be more inclusive of items, or to be less ambiguous.
Section 3 of the newly amended Ordinance covering Administration has many new provisions regarding the County Board of Adjustment, the County Planning Commission, and their procedures and criteria for decision making. There are new provisions dealing with variances, appeals of administrative decisions, conditional uses, and interim uses. There is a new section adding criteria to look at when considering any amendments of the ordinance.
Section 4 of the newly amended Ordinance deals with nonconformities, meaning those lots, uses or structures that don’t meet the requirements of the current ordinance, but are allowed to continue to exist because they were legally established in a manner allowed at the time they came into being. Section 4 is now reorganized and broken down more specifically as to provisions dealing with nonconforming uses, nonconforming lots, nonconforming structures and nonconforming septic systems.
New language has been added to specify the conditions under which such nonconformities can or cannot be expanded, transferred, or otherwise changed.
Section 5 of the newly amended ordinance covers the shoreland classifications for the county and the allowed land uses. Among other changes, this section of the ordinance has been changed to create a new mixed use land district that allows residential planned unit developments, commercial planned unit developments, commercial uses and multiple unit structures such as duplexes and quad homes in the district on recreational development lakes. Commercial uses are allowed in mixed use districts on rivers.
Section 6 of the newly amended ordinance contains some special land use provisions for mixed use, public and semi-public uses. There is a newly added section regulating the use of homes rented as the operation and use of private homes for rental. The section also contains provisions on buffers pursuant to recently adopted state laws on agricultural buffers, and provisions on the harvesting of timber.
Section 7 of the newly amended ordinance contains dimensional and general performance standards that reflect area and dimensional requirements as well as structure and septic requirements for uses now allowed in the mixed use districts.
Section 8 or the newly amended ordinance has some changed provisions on home occupations, with additional performance standards added to them.
Section 9 of the newly amended ordinance, covering Vegetation and Land Alterations, has been reorganized, had some more specific provisions added to clarify what can be done, and has added a reference to the Minnesota buffer law.
Section 11 of the newly amended ordinance governs the application, processing and standards applicable to planned unit developments allowed in the newly created mixed use districts in the County Shoreland areas. Density requirements, design criteria, open space requirements, and conversions of provisions of this newly created section of the ordinance.
Section 13 of the newly amended ordinance is an expanded provision of enforcement of the ordinance, laying out in more detail than the existing ordinance the types of enforcement that may be undertaken by the County when violations of the ordinance occur.
The changes to the newly amended zoning map show where the mixed use districts are located within the County, and properties located therein.
The above is merely a summary of elements of the amendments to ordinance No. 5 and the zoning map of Kanabec County. A complete copy of the full text of the newly amended ordinance and the newly amended county zoning map is available for review during the regular office hours in the Kanabec County Auditor’s Office, during the regular office hours in the Kanabec County Environmental Services Department, and on the Kanabec County Website at www.kanabeccounty.org.
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Commissioner’s learning curve very steep
A county commissioner’s job has a steep learning curve and new lessons are experienced daily.
That is District Two Commissioner Karen Keith’s assessment of the job she started three years ago.
Now, as she starts her fourth year and prepares to run for a second term in 2012, Keith said that not only has the job been a welcome challenge, it also has been fun to represent people in her district.
“I love the job, the area and the people,” she said. “This job has been a labor of love, a joy for me, and the more I get to know people the more I understand its importance.”
As a group, the Tulsa County Commissioners work well together,” she said. That cohesiveness has been important because 2011 was a tough year. Despite the economic difficulties, no county employee was laid off.
“We run a lean, mean machine in Tulsa County,” Keith continued.
“Because of that, it has been possible to get through the year and are prepared for 2012.”
Tulsa County did very well during 2011 and was able to complete a variety of road projects.
“We continue to work on the Juvenile Justice Center issue and will continue that effort during 2012 to find a real solution to replacing the worn out center on Charles Page Boulevard.”
Keith said she also was very pleased that Tom Rains was selected as county engineer and was able to tackle the job that was opened by Ray Jordan’s retirement.
Looking specifically at District Two, Keith said she made maintenance and improvements of roads and bridges a top priority.
Crews worked tirelessly on Avery Drive during the construction season to mill out the old road to its base, repair the base and resurface it and upgrade the guard railing bordering the road.
In addition, a major upgrade to the infrastructure was completed for the 51st Street and 65th West Ave.
Old North Road in Sand Springs received a new overlay that will prepare the way for completion of the project to Triangle Park. County crews also completed work on an 81st Street intersection near the school, re-decked three bridges and through interlocal agreements began work on several area parking lots.
Work on key elements of the Jenks/Haikey Creek Levee system kept Tulsa County out in front of flood control work in Jenks.
In addition to completing a video inspection of relief wells within the system, the County also updated the main pump station for the levee, Keith said.
The County was responsible for inspection work of the draining aspects for the Village on Main project that included the road going over the levee.
Crews also completed four mowing cycles throughout the year while working specifically to clear timber and debris for the South Lakes addition.
Redistricting based on the 2010 Census data required a major accomplishment for the future of District Two road maintenance and improvements, she said. Previously, the District’s geological boundaries were a hurdle to efficient operation during ice and snowstorms and for mowing and debris clearing. The new boundaries should make this work more efficient.
“Snowpocalypse 2011” brought new challenges for District Two crews, Keith said. Between the two major snowstorms, crews treated approximately 1,000 miles of roadways, used, 1,114.5 tons of sand and 21.5 tons of salt to treat the roadways.
“The accomplishments of my team are made all the more impressive because they did the work with two graders, two large plows, one small plow and five sand trucks,” said Lewis Long, District Two highway maintenance superintendent.
Neighborhood cleanup projects were another of Keith’s priorities.
County resources were utilized to assist with neighborhood cleanup efforts.
The Mayfair neighborhood received help not only from the district, but also from the Tulsa Shock women’s basketball team.
A second project was the cleanup activities near the former Jane Addams Elementary School. Area cleanup efforts were enhanced when the county was able to contract for a major building demolition at 65th West Ave. and Charles Page Blvd.
Work on the Juvenile Justice Center continues as funding efforts are sought to help fund the project.
“We have continued a dialogue with various components of the Family Court System and other support agencies to develop a comprehensive picture of what the facility will include,” Keith said. “In the interim, the County has installed a fire suppression system in the existing facility.
Park improvements also were made during 2011.
Chandler Park Community Center saw a major improvement through the installation of an array of solar panels to help generate electricity for the facility, she said. The approximately $3 million project was completed with the help of grant money from the U.S. Department of Energy. The program already has begun to pay dividends by qualifying the County for rebates through PSO’s Model Cities Program of $175 per kW of peak demand reduction and $0.06 per kWh of first year energy reduction, resulting in an initial savings of $7,000 to $10,000 annually.
An extensive amount of work has been done with the Tulsa County Drainage District 12 to maintain and improve the operational efficiency of that district, she said. The effort was made in an effort to stay out in front of flood issues in the west Tulsa area.
District 12 is faced with post-Katrina flood mitigation standards that are far stricter than in past years.
Underscoring the seriousness of the situation, the U.S. Army Corps of engineers deemed the Tulsa and West Tulsa levee system “unacceptable” which placed it at risk of decertification and de-enrollment from the National Flood Insurance program.
Commissioners unanimously named Todd Kirkpatrick as levee foreman, Keith said. Kirkpatrick already has begun a pilot inspection program that will put the levee system well on its way toward a better understanding of what that system needs to stay in compliance with FEMA’s regulations while west Tulsa business and citizens for the next 60 years of its life cycle.
Burn bans were common because of hot, dry weather during 2011, Keith said. The existing statute and information collection process generated confusion amongst area fire chiefs as to whether they should vote for a burn ban despite agreeing the County needed to have one in place.
“I have been working actively towards improving that process with which the County decides to declare a burn ban,” she said. “My office has drafted and submitted proposed legislation for the coming year through the Coalition of Tulsa Area Governments (CTAG) that I firmly believe will improve that efficiency and provide clarity of the process that will benefit Tulsa County as a whole.”
By Ralph Schaefer of the Tulsa Daily Commerce & Legal News
Read more from this Tulsa Daily Commerce & Legal News article at http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=53455&SectionID=10&SubSectionID=69&S=1
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Dean Wallace
(VP Electrical Business Development / General Superintendent)
Dean brings 30+ years of managing and overseeing field operations in the electrical industry. In 1988, he was hired, as a third year electrical apprentice, by Little Rock Electric. From there, he found his way to the role of Vice President / General Superintendent. In 2012, Dean parted ways with LRE and joined the IPS team. Dean is a highly recognized electrical superintendent among electrical and general contractors in the Central Arkansas sector. Dean’s duties include management of all field personnel, project safety plan, conducting and attending weekly progress meetings, establishing and maintaining project schedules, among various other daily duties. Dean is also responsible for regular communication with contractors, subcontractors, project superintendents, city officials, designers and engineers. Dean has performed work across the country and holds a Master Electrician license in 25 states.
Gene Terry
(Vice President of Energy Services)
After 30 years in the business, Gene retired from architecture and began his second career at Innovative Power Solutions in 2006. His area of focus is energy conservation through lighting design. His innate attention to detail is invaluable with regard to energy audits, project development, scheduling and management. He has managed projects of various sizes and complexities from the audit phase through proposal analysis and preparation to project installation. Energy conservation with a desirable payback is the goal for a successful project.
Lynn Russell
(VP of Sales & Service)
Lynn has worked in the electrical industry since 1981. He started out in the electrical distribution business where he gained genuine appreciation for the multifaceted lighting industry from electrical switchgear to motor control systems. He joined Innovative Power Solutions as the Vice President of Sales, Service, and Specialty Projects in 2013. With over 35 years of experience in generating electrical work, Lynn’s primary responsibilities include management of the service department, sales, and marketing. Lynn is heavily involved in turn key design and design build projects, business development, estimating, and project management efforts. His wide range of experience, technical expertise, and structured management is instrumental to the electrical and service departments as it ensures a quality customer experience.
Steve started out as an electrician’s apprentice at Bradshaw Electric in 1972. He then progressed from a journeyman electrician to a managerial position due to his responsibility, work ethic, and attention to detail. Steve quickly became a skilled estimator and has worked with many of the top electrical companies in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Steve is now a valued member of Innovative Power Solutions. He works as a highly qualified Project Manager and Estimator, ensuring his work is organized, efficient, and completed with diligence.
Rick Price
Rick Price began his career in the electrical contracting industry in 1984. He started in the field and quickly moved to estimating and project management due to his responsibility and technical expertise. He eventually became a part of upper management as he worked closely and was heavily involved with many different departments in of one of the largest electrical contracting companies in central Arkansas. Rick moved on to become part of a low voltage and a lighting retrofit startup, and was able to expand his knowledge in all aspects of the industry. After 2003, Rick spent the next ten years primarily as a construction consultant, working on estimates and negotiations for owners across the country ranging up to $500 million in total project value. In 2014 Rick began working with Innovative Power Solutions as an estimator and project manager. While sticking to a strict bid schedule, he also supervises large scale projects and hold his crew to a high standard.
Robert Corey Hughes
Robert Corey Hughes is the service department manager at Innovative Power Solutions. Corey has over 25 years of multi-faceted experience in the electrical industry. He started working as an electrician and crew supervisor, and quickly advanced to sales, service, and department management positions. He has also owned and operated his own residential electrical business for 11 years. Corey has been an integral part of many types of projects ranging from routine service calls to retrofits and new construction projects. His responsibilities at Innovative Power Solutions include supervision of the service technicians, estimating projects, purchasing material, and coordinating schedules. Corey maintains excellent customer relations through diligent communication. His wide range of experience and structured management style is instrumental to the service department as it ensures a quality customer experience.
Beau Estes
Beau Estes has been doing electrical work since 2010 and moved to Innovative Power Solutions in 2012. He started as a service technician and is now a Project Manager for Innovative Power Solution’s Energy & Retrofit Department.
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All-Electric Maxar 1300-Class Communications Satellite to Deliver Broadcast Services for Eutelsat Customers
EUTELSAT 7C is performing according to plan after launch
WESTMINSTER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) today announced that the all-electric EUTELSAT 7C communications satellite, built for Eutelsat, one of the world’s leading satellite operators, is performing according to plan.
The Maxar-built EUTELSAT 7C all-electric satellite has successfully launched and will soon begin providing broadcast services for Eutelsat customers. (Photo: Business Wire)
The satellite launched yesterday aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the Arianespace launch base in Kourou, French Guiana. EUTELSAT 7C deployed its solar arrays on schedule and began firing its SPT-140 electric propulsion thrusters to propel toward its final orbit at 7 degrees East longitude, where it is designed to provide service for a minimum of 15 years. Once in service, EUTELSAT 7C will deliver high-quality broadcast services to multiple regions, including Africa, the Middle East and Turkey.
“An innovative and reliable spacecraft manufacturer for more than 60 years, Maxar Space Solutions has built and launched 280 spacecraft with a combined 2,200 years of on-orbit service. EUTELSAT 7C is the third satellite built by Maxar for Eutelsat,” said Megan Fitzgerald, Maxar’s Senior Vice President and General Manager of Space Solutions. “I would like to thank our long-term customer, Eutelsat, for their collaborative working relationship and forward-leaning approach to integrating cutting-edge technologies that result in superior satellite capability to meet next-generation broadcast demand.”
Based on Maxar’s decades-proven 1300-class platform, EUTELSAT 7C is equipped with 44 Ku-band transponders and a steerable antenna beam, which enables Eutelsat to adjust coverage as needed while the satellite is on-orbit. The satellite also carries a highly innovative photonics payload, which will demonstrate technologies to enable more efficient payload designs in the future.
All-electric satellites provide efficient solutions for satellite operators by reducing launch mass while increasing spacecraft flexibility and performance. As a pioneer in the field of electric propulsion, Maxar’s extensive experience includes in excess of 100,000 hours of active electric propulsion thruster operation across more than 30 spacecraft currently in orbit.
“Maxar has been a valued and trusted partner in innovating and advancing the capabilities of our satellite fleet for many years,” said Yohann Leroy, Eutelsat’s Deputy CEO and Chief Technical Officer. “We are delighted to take our relationship further with EUTELSAT 7C, the third satellite to be built by Maxar for Eutelsat.”
The operations of DigitalGlobe, SSL and Radiant Solutions were unified under the Maxar brand in February; MDA continues to operate as an independent business unit within the Maxar organization.
About Maxar Technologies
As a global leader of advanced space technology solutions, Maxar is at the nexus of the new space economy, developing and sustaining the infrastructure and delivering the information, services, systems that unlock the promise of space for commercial and government markets. The operations of DigitalGlobe, SSL and Radiant Solutions were unified under the Maxar brand in February; MDA continues to operate as an independent business unit within the Maxar organization. As a trusted partner with 5,900 employees in over 30 global locations, Maxar provides vertically integrated capabilities and expertise including satellites, Earth imagery, robotics, geospatial data and analytics to help customers anticipate and address their most complex mission-critical challenges with confidence. Every day, billions of people rely on Maxar to communicate, share information and data, and deliver insights that Build a Better World. Maxar trades on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange as MAXR. For more information, visit www.maxar.com.
Certain statements and other information included in this release constitute "forward-looking information" or "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") under applicable securities laws. Statements including words such as "may", "will", "could", "should", "would", "plan", "potential", "intend", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate" or "expect" and other words, terms and phrases of similar meaning are often intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Forward-looking statements involve estimates, expectations, projections, goals, forecasts, assumptions, risks and uncertainties, as well as other statements referring to or including forward-looking information included in this presentation.
Forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from the anticipated results or expectations expressed in this presentation. As a result, although management of the Company believes that the expectations and assumptions on which such forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking statements because the Company can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. The risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to, the risk factors and other disclosures about the Company and its business included in the Company's continuous disclosure materials filed from time to time with U.S. securities and Canadian regulatory authorities, which are available online under the Company's EDGAR profile at www.sec.gov, under the Company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com or on the Company's website at www.maxar.com.
The forward-looking statements contained in this release are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. All such forward-looking statements are based upon data available as of the date of this presentation or other specified date and speak only as of such date. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements in this presentation as a result of new information or future events, except as may be required under applicable securities legislation.
Omar Mahmoud
Maxar Media Relations
omar.mahmoud@maxar.com
Maxar VP Investor Relations
Source: Maxar Technologies
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Location：Homepage>> A Brief Introduction to the Institute of International Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
The Institute of International Law of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) is a research institute directly under CASS that specializes in the research of international law. The predecessor of the Institute was the Department of International Law under CASS Institute of Law. In 1959, one year after the establishment of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an International Law Research Group was set up under the Institute of Law. In September 1978 the Group became the Department of International Law of the CASS Law Institute. In October 2002, the Center for International Law Studies was officially established on the basis of the Department of International Law and Professor Xia Yong was appointed the director of the Center. In September 2009, with the approval of State Commission Office for Public Sector Reform, the Center was renamed the Institute of International Law and Professor Chen Zexian was appointed the first Director of the Institute. In September 2017, Professor Chen Su, who is the current director of CASS Law Institute, became the acting director of the Institute of International Law.
the Institute of International Law
Professor Chen Su, Acting Director of the Institute
The Institute of International Law consists of four research departments and one editorial office: Department of Public International Law, Department of Private International Law, Department of International Economic Law, Department of International Human Rights Law, and the Editorial Office of Chinese Review of International Law. By relying on its disciplinary advantage, the Institute has established under it three non-entity research centers and one research base, namely the National Center for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, China Competition Research Center, International Criminal Law Research Center, and the “Belt and Road” Judicial Research Base of the Supreme People’s Court.
Professor Feng Jun, Deputy Director of the Institute and Secretary of the Joint Party Committee of the Institute of Law and Institute of International Law
Currently the Institute has a total of 34 full-time staff members, among them, eight research fellows, nine associate research fellows, eight supervisors of doctoral candidates, and twelve supervisors of graduate students. This high-level research team is in a leading position in many research areas of international law in China: the academic periodical published by the Institute, Chinese Review of International Law, which started publication in 2014, is the earliest Chinese language periodical in the field of international law; and the Institute has many prominent scholars with important international influence: among them, one arbitrator of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, one vice chairman of the International Association of Constitutional Law, and one vice chairman of the Chinese Chapter of the International Association of Penal Law. The Institute provides masters, doctoral and post-doctoral programs in the fields of public international law, private international law, international economic law, and international human rights law.
In the past 60 years, researchers of the Institute, in the process of opening to the outside word in China, have carried out extensive and in-depth researches and achieved remarkable results in various fields of international law. By the end of 2017, they have published over 150 monographs, more than 40 translated works, over 1,000 academic papers, and more than 300 translated academic articles. Meanwhile, the Institute has undertaken many national- and provincial-level key research projects, such “the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Millennium Goals in China and Italy”, “Studies on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”, “Analysis of the Status of International Treaties in the Chinese Legal System and Studies on Related Institutional Designs”, “the Chinese Law on Choice of Law for Foreign-related Civil Relationships and Its Implementation”, and “Investigation on the Development of Free Trade Zone in (Shanghai) China”. With respect to international cooperation, the Institute has established and maintained good relations of academic exchange and cooperation with many prominent foreign universities and research institutions, sent out about 160 visiting scholars to various foreign countries, received about 300 foreign visiting scholars, and hosted or jointly organized over 70 international conferences and seminars. Moreover, the Institute also undertakes tasks of legislative and judicial consultation. So far, it has submitted to relevant state legislative, judicial and decision-making organs more than 260 pieces of legislative proposals, research reports and legal opinions in such fields as the negotiation and revision of international treaties and agreements, drafting and amendment of laws and regulations involving foreign elements, and plans and countermeasures for dealing with major international political and diplomatic incidents, and major international economic law cases—all of which have been attached great importance to and received unanimous praise by the relevant state organs. Many scholars of the Institute also hold positions of legal advisors and part-time professors in various government and judicial organs and law schools and, as such, have made outstanding contributions to legal research, legal practice, and the construction of the rule of law in China.
In the future, the Institute will, in close cooperation with all these engaged the practice, research and teaching of international law, continue to promote the modernization of international law study and the development of socialist rule of law in China.
Address: 15 Shatan Beijie, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
Postal Code: 100720
Telephone/fax: 010-64010742
Sponsors: Institute of Law and Institute of International Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Address: 15 Shatan Beijie, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100720
Telephone：+86 10 6403 5493 Fax：+86 10 6401 4045
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Many Pneumonia Patients Get Too Many Antibiotics
FRIDAY, July 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Two-thirds of hospitalized pneumonia patients may be prescribed antibiotics for too long, increasing their risk for potentially harmful side effects, researchers say.
In 93#37; of cases, overprescription involved the number of antibiotics patients received upon being discharged from the hospital.
Each year in the United States, pneumonia sends 1 million adults to the hospital. The new study examined the medical records of 6,500 pneumonia patients treated at 43 Michigan hospitals. Of those, 60% were interviewed by phone within a month after they left the hospital.
Most patients who received too-long prescriptions for antibiotics got an average of two extra days’ worth of pills, according to a research team led by Dr. Valerie Vaughn of the University of Michigan. As she explained, the more days of antibiotics a patient received beyond the recommended minimum, the higher their risk of experiencing side effects such as upset stomach or yeast infections.
“‘Antibiotic stewardship,’ which includes choosing the right drug and the right duration for each patient, has become a part of most hospitals,” said Vaughn, an assistant professor of internal medicine.
“But these results show us that we need to pay more attention to stewardship at discharge — and suggest that guidelines for prescribers should be clearer about how to calculate an appropriate duration based on a patient’s condition,” she said in a university news release.
Overprescription of antibiotics is also a known contributor to antibiotic resistance, where bacteria find ways to mutate around the drugs.
The study found wide variation among hospitals in the percentage of pneumonia patients who were prescribed antibiotics for too long. In some hospitals less than 50% of patients got too many of the drugs, while other hospitals gave an oversupply to nearly every patient.
Adding to the problem is the fact that national guidelines for treating pneumonia are not precise, Vaughn noted.
She said that determining the amount of antibiotics a pneumonia patient requires depends on their diagnosis, plus how long it took them to stabilize after treatment began. In general, most patients without risk factors need about five days’ worth of antibiotics; while those with risk factors, or pneumonia caused by especially difficult bacteria, need about seven days’ worth, Vaughn said.
The study was published June 8 in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has more on pneumonia.
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In Response To: Southern Black-Eyed Peas ()
that I listened to daily. It was in Raleigh, NC, and I think it was called "Ask Your Neighbor". People would call in to ask for recipes and to contribute recipes, maybe other household hints. I did my share on both sides. I would tape (yes on cassette tapes!) the radio show and then play it over and over again so I could write down the recipes as I played it. I still have that notebook somewhere...
I think it was ironic that someone from NC called in a recipe for "Snow Cream" and being from NY, I HAD NEVER HEARD OF IT!!! After our return to NY, a friend wrote to me and said someone had called in and wondered what happened with the "the lady from New York". She told me she called in to tell them I returned to NY. I should have written down the number and called in to surprise them.
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New Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective series from Nine Muses Books
Nine Muses Books, PearTree Press, Smashwords
The Agitated Elocutionist: A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mini-Mystery has just been published by Nine Muses Books as part of their Lizzie-Mini series. This series will make Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective stories available in e-book format, including two stories that did not appear in Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective (PearTree Press, 2010) and two brand new adventures previously unpublished.
The Agitated Elocutionist is the first in the series and was published to Smashwords.com on January 2, 2015. More stories will be published over the next few months. Later in the year, Nine Muses will publish a full-length Lizzie novel The Minuscule Monk. Check this site in months to come for more details.
Join Lizzie as she matches wits with the Agitated Elocutionist in this wry tale of mystery set in a Victorian New England mill town. When Mrs. Arbuthnot, the Agitated Elocutionist of Fall River, reports the disappearance of her coveted Star of Swansea, Lizzie Borden the Girl Detective enters into a maze of secrets, lies and tongue twisters. Together with her loyal cousin Sarah Borden, Lizzie explores Fall River’s dark side.
You can download The Agitated Elocutionist for free to your e-book library at Smashwords.com.
Blog, Mini-Mysteries, The Agitated Elocutionist
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Employee Spotlight – Shaquia Warren
Home / Blog / Employee Spotlight - Shaquia Warren
We are excited to spotlight Shaquia Warren, Production Supervisor at Lucerne International. Shaquia Warren is best known for being an all-around team player. In 2014, she started her career at Lucerne International as a table lead and has worked diligently to advance in her career. She has continuously proven to be a valuable team member to the Lucerne family by exhibiting dedication to the company, through her strong work ethic and her ability to encourage and uplift those around her. Her day-to-day responsibilities include, overseeing the manufacturing and shipping process to ensure maximum efficiency as well as delegating, managing, planning, scheduling and approving daily production workload.
At a young age, Shaquia found her love for manufacturing. Inspired by her mother and stepfather who both worked in the industry, she was motivated by their drive and admiration for the manufacturing field, and knew she wanted to explore the industry in her own right and follow after her family’s footsteps.
To the younger generation looking to begin a career in manufacturing, Shaquia encourages individuals to remain humble and be open to change. With advancements in technology and product materials, change in direction can occur at the drop of a dime!
Shaquia is the recipient of Lucerne’s 2017 President’s Award – an award given out to an employee to spotlight efforts taken that go above and beyond.
We are thrilled to announce her promotion to Production Supervisor – a role in which she has been active in for the past month.
Employee Spotlight – Hari Menon
Lucerne International 2018 WBENC National Conference & Business Fair Event Overview
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87 upazilas go to polls tomorrow
first phase of election
ABU JAKIR, Dhaka
The Awami League's (AL's) local leaders are going to face each other in the ensuing upazila parishad elections, to be held in five phases. The first phase of elections to 87 upazilas will be held tomorrow (Sunday).
In most of the upazilas, the AL's local leaders are prepared to contest the polls against party nominated candidates, as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) had earlier announced that it would not field any candidate to contest the local government elections.
The BNP high-ups have already expelled over hundred local leaders who wanted to contest the elections violating party instructions.
Besides, the AL high-ups also decided to make the local body elections free, fair and competitive and that’s why the party this time would not take any punitive or organisational actions against any local leader who will contest the polls independently.
This time the ruling party also announced that nomination papers for the posts of chairman and vice-chairman will be opened for all local leaders. Anyone can collect nomination papers to contest the local body elections. Therefore, it is clear to all that the party would not stop anyone if he/she wants to contest the polls as an independent candidate.
In Kahalu upazila of Bogura district, AL local leader Mushfiqur Rahman Kajol, who failed to get party nomination, is contesting the elections against Abdul Mannan nominated by the party.
“I have collected a nomination form to contest the polls as an independent. I will surely win if the polls are held in a free and fair manner,” he said.
The local AL leaders are contesting in five out of twelve upazilas of the district (Bogura) as rebel candidates.
A total of 24 rebel AL candidates have submitted nomination papers for the upazila election in Noakhali district. AL local leaders have become puzzled to contest the Cox’s Bazar Sadar upazila elections due to the introduction of electronic voting machines (EVMs) for the first time. A total of nine contenders have submitted their nomination papers to contest the posts in Cox’s Bazar Sadar upazila. Five out of nine contenders are from the ruling party.
Talking to this correspondent, AL joint general secretary Abdur Rahman said the party high-ups’ decision is to make the local body elections competitive. “iI is a local body election, anyone can contest the polls. We want free, fair and competitive elections with the participation of a large number of candidates from different political parties.”
Replying to a question, the AL leader said: “We will not take any organisational action if any local leader contests the polls independently.”
Candidates for the post of upazila chairman were seen carrying out last moment campaigning as the deadline for campaigning ended at midnight on Friday.
According to the Election Commission, elections to 481 upazilas will be held in the fifth upazila parishad elections that start on Sunday.
So far, 96 candidate for the post of upazial chairman have already been elected uncontested.
The first phase of the local body polls will be held in all upazilas of Panchagarh, Kurigram, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat and Rangpur in Rangpur division, all upazilas in Jamalpur and all upazilas in Netrakona, except Atpara in Mymensingh division, all upazilas in Sunamganj, except Jagannathpur and all upazilas in Habiganj, except Shayestaganj, in Sylhet division, and all upazilas in Sirajganj, Joypurhat, Natore and Rajshahi in Rajshahi division.
In the second phase, elections will be held in all the upazilas under Thakurgaon, Rangpur, Gaibandha, Dinajpur, Bogura, Naogaon, Pabna, Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Gopalganj, Faridpur, Rangamati, Bandarban, Khagrachhari districts, seven upazilas in Chattogram district, Hatiya upazila of Noakhali and Chakria upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
IK/SI
The Awami Leagues (ALs) local leaders are going to face each other in the ensuing upazila parishad elections, to be held in five phases. The first phase of elections to 87 upazilas will be held tomorrow (Sunday). In most of the upazilas, the ALs local leaders are prepared to contest the polls against party nominated candidates, as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) had earlier announced that it would not field any candidate to contest the local government elections. The BNP high-ups have already expelled over hundred local leaders who wanted to contest the elections violating party instructions. Besides, the AL high-ups also decided to make the local body elections free, fair and competitive and thats why the party this time would not take any punitive or organisational actions against any local leader who will contest the polls independently. This time the ruling party also announced that nomination papers for the posts of chairman and vice-chairman will be opened for all local leaders. Anyone can collect nomination papers to contest the local body elections. Therefore, it is clear to all that the party would not stop anyone if he/she wants to contest the polls as an independent candidate. In Kahalu upazila of Bogura district, AL local leader Mushfiqur Rahman Kajol, who failed to get party nomination, is contesting the elections against Abdul Mannan nominated by the party. I have collected a nomination form to contest the polls as an independent. I will surely win if the polls are held in a free and fair manner, he said. The local AL leaders are contesting in five out of twelve upazilas of the district (Bogura) as rebel candidates. A total of 24 rebel AL candidates have submitted nomination papers for the upazila election in Noakhali district. AL local leaders have become puzzled to contest the Coxs Bazar Sadar upazila elections due to the introduction of electronic voting machines (EVMs) for the first time. A total of nine contenders have submitted their nomination papers to contest the posts in Coxs Bazar Sadar upazila. Five out of nine contenders are from the ruling party. Talking to this correspondent, AL joint general secretary Abdur Rahman said the party high-ups decision is to make the local body elections competitive. iI is a local body election, anyone can contest the polls. We want free, fair and competitive elections with the participation of a large number of candidates from different political parties. Replying to a question, the AL leader said: We will not take any organisational action if any local leader contests the polls independently. Candidates for the post of upazila chairman were seen carrying out last moment campaigning as the deadline for campaigning ended at midnight on Friday. According to the Election Commission, elections to 481 upazilas will be held in the fifth upazila parishad elections that start on Sunday. So far, 96 candidate for the post of upazial chairman have already been elected uncontested. The first phase of the local body polls will be held in all upazilas of Panchagarh, Kurigram, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat and Rangpur in Rangpur division, all upazilas in Jamalpur and all upazilas in Netrakona, except Atpara in Mymensingh division, all upazilas in Sunamganj, except Jagannathpur and all upazilas in Habiganj, except Shayestaganj, in Sylhet division, and all upazilas in Sirajganj, Joypurhat, Natore and Rajshahi in Rajshahi division. In the second phase, elections will be held in all the upazilas under Thakurgaon, Rangpur, Gaibandha, Dinajpur, Bogura, Naogaon, Pabna, Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Gopalganj, Faridpur, Rangamati, Bandarban, Khagrachhari districts, seven upazilas in Chattogram district, Hatiya upazila of Noakhali and Chakria upazila of Coxs Bazar. IK/SI
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{{Guide|title=Research Guide: International Commercial Arbitration|author=Alison P. Sherwin|updated=December 15, 2015 by Hunter Whaley}} The purpose of this research guide is to provide a brief overview of International Commercial Arbitration (“'''ICA'''”) and the resources available on the topic, in Columbia's Diamond Law Library, through the library homepage, and on the Internet. For additional assistance in finding ICA materials at the library, please do not hesitate to contact the reference librarians at the Reference Desk. Please consult the ''[http://www.law.columbia.edu/library law library homepage]'' for general library information and reference desk hours. ==Background== ICA is a method of resolving disputes through an arbitration proceeding heard by one or more arbitrators, instead of pursuing resolution of the dispute through an applicable court system. There are many reasons why parties may prefer arbitration to litigation. One, parties may wish to avoid the high costs of litigation, the uncertainty of proceedings in foreign (to the party) court systems and laws, and the potential difficulties in enforcing foreign judgments. Two, arbitrations are normally binding and usually do not allow for an extensive appeal process. Three, arbitral awards are normally confidential, unlike most court decisions issued in litigation. Finally, the parties to the dispute traditionally select the arbitrators to hear the dispute--which allows for the selection of arbitrators well versed in the subject-matter of the dispute at issue. Parties normally choose ICA to resolve disputes when drafting contracts and other agreements--a clause selecting the institution or arbitral rules to be used in any future disputes can be added to the agreements during negotiations. ==Print Resources== The following is a selected list of the print resources available at the Diamond Law Library on ICA. There are many more print resources available. See the ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/search/a?searchtype=d&searcharg=international+commercial+arbitration&searchscope=9&SORT=DX&SUBMIT=Search library catalog]'' and limit the display to material type: print. ==Monographs== '''1.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b721960~S9 Research and Practice in International Commercial Arbitration Sources and Strategies]'' K2400 .S66 2009 Written by S.I. Strong, a former practitioner of ICA, this book is written for a novice in the ICA field. Chapter 1 sets forth some of the unique issues in researching ICA, while Chapter 2 explains the different sources of law involved (and sources of law that do not apply to ICA, but are commonly assumed to apply). Chapter 3 discusses where to find the various sources of law and Chapter 4 discusses customs in practicing ICA. Chapter 5 provides an extensive bibliography regarding ICA--including treatises, journals, conventions, treaties and electronic resources. '''2.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b765708~S9 Comparison of International Arbitration Rules]'' 4th Floor, K2400 .C67 2013 Written by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, this publication is a chart comparing the model clauses and rules of the: International Chamber of Commerce (the "'''ICC'''") Arbitration Rules (2012), American Arbitration Association ("'''AAA'''")/International Center for Dispute Resolution ("'''ICDR'''") International Arbitration Rules (2009), London Court of International Arbitration ("'''LCIA'''") Rules (1998), Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Institute ("'''SCCAI'''") Arbitration Rules (2010), International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes ("'''ICSID'''") Arbitration Rules (2006), United Nations Commission on International Trade Law ("'''UNICITRAL'''") Arbitration Rules (2010) and Center for Public Resources ("'''CPR'''") International Arbitration Rules (2007). The first five sets of rules are institutional arbitration rules and the last two are ad hoc arbitration rules. Please note that the chart maybe slightly out-of-date, as the ICC, AAA/ICDR, SCCAI and UNICITRAL rules have been amended since the chart was published in 2008. Links to the updated rules are available below in ''[http://library.law.columbia.edu/guides/International_Commercial_Arbitration#Arbitration_Proceedings_.26_Institutional_Bodies Arbitration Proceedings & Institutional Bodies] '''3.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b562194~S9 International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration]'' 2nd Floor & 3rd Floor Reserve. JX6279 C8441 2000 Written by W. Laurence Craig, William W. Park and Jan Paulsson, this book addresses arbitration before the ICC Court of Arbitration. The book begins with a general discussion of the ICC and arbitration procedures. It continues with an extensive discussion of the clauses of arbitration agreements and the selection (and challenge) of arbitrators. There is also a brief (and easy to understand) discussion of the relationship between ICC arbitration and the New York Convention (see ''Conventions and Protocols'' below), as well as the impact other treaties may have on the New York Convention. The appendices contain a variety of statistics on ICC arbitration, including amounts in dispute, the costs of arbitration and the nationalities of the arbitrators and parties, through 1999. The authors included an extensive Table of Cases (with citations to the case as well as the discussion in the text) as well as a similar Table of Arbitral Awards and a Table of Authorities. '''4.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b719882~S9 International Commercial Arbitration]'' 3rd Floor Reserve. K7690 .B67 2009 Written by Gary Born, a leading practitioner of ICA, this is a two-volume treatise. Volume I contains an extensive history of ICA, an overview of the major conventions and treaties, and an overview of the major institutional arbitration organizations. The remainder of Volume I provides a substantive overview of the different aspects of an international arbitration, including choice of law and enforcement issues. Volume II includes chapters on the substance of arbitration agreements as well as the selection of arbitrators and the procedure for challenging arbitrators. Volume II also includes extensive lists of books, articles, legislation, treaties and UN documents regarding ICA. There is also an index of the arbitral awards referenced in the text. '''5.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b752942~S9 Practitioner's Handbook on International Commercial Arbitration 2nd Edition]'' 3rd Floor Reserve. K2400 .P733 2009 Edited by Frank-Bernd Weigand, this is a one volume handbook. The book begins with a general introduction to ICA (and an extensive bibliography) and follows with separate chapters on ICA in Austria, Belgium, China and Hong Kong, England, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. Each country chapter also contains a thorough bibliography. The handbook concludes with chapters of commentaries on the UNICITRAL Model Law on ICA, the Arbitration Rules of the ICC, the UNICITRAL rules, the ICDR International Commercial Arbitration Rules and the LCIA Rules. Geared toward practitioners, the country chapters and commentary are to the point and succinct. There is also a Table of Cases and subject index. For more information regarding finding monographs on ICA, please see the research guide ''[http://library.law.columbia.edu/guides/Finding_Books_and_Articles_on_International_and_Foreign_Law Finding Books and Articles on International and Foreign Law]''. ==Reporters== ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b735226~S9 World Arbitration Reporter]'' 3rd Floor Reserve. K2400 .W672 A six volume publication. Volumes 1 through 1B contain information and commentary on the arbitration laws of each applicable country. Volume 2 contains information and commentary on national arbitration institutions, normally with the applicable rules for such institution attached as an appendix. Volume 3 covers international arbitration institutions (with applicable rules attached as an appendix). Finally, Volume 4 covers treaties, bilateral and regional agreements (with the text of appropriate documents attached as appendices). ==Periodicals== The following is a selected list of the ICA periodicals available at the Diamond Law Library. There are many more periodicals available through the ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/search~S9?/dinternational+commercial+arbitration/dinternational+commercial+arbitration/1%2C54%2C1049%2CB/exact&FF=dinternational+commercial+arbitration+periodicals&1%2C51%2C library catalog.]'' '''1.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b295067~S9 The American review of international arbitration]'' (1990 to present) 3rd Floor Reserve & Cellar. JX1 Am334. Also available ''[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/3324860 electronically]'' through CLIO. Published on a quarterly basis, this journal publishes articles (written by practitioners and academics) as well as book reviews of books on ICA. '''2.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b613749~S9 ASA Bulletin]'' (2003 to present) 3rd Floor Reserve and Cellar. JX1 As12. Also available ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b791692~S9 electronically]'' (Volume 1 (1983) to present) through Pegasus. Published on a quarterly basis, this is the journal of the Swiss Arbitration Association ("'''ASA'''"). Issues can include articles written by practitioners and academics, cases from Swiss courts, cases from foreign jurisdictions, arbitral awards and orders, book reviews and information regarding ASA. Articles can be published in English, French or German. '''3.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b361256~S9 The ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin]'' (1990 to present) 3rd Floor Reserve and Cellar. JX1 Ic15. Published twice a year, this is the publication of the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration. Issues may contain reports and information regarding the ICC, new rules or regulations regarding ICA and excerpts from ICC arbitral awards. '''4.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b205720~S9 ICSID Review Foreign Investment Law Journal]'' (1986 to present) 3rd Floor Reserve and Cellar. JX1 Ic7. Also available ''[https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/10264439 electronically]'' (1986 to present) through CLIO. Published twice a year, this is the publication of ICSID. Issues may contain articles (sometimes on a particular subject or theme), student articles, reports and book reviews. '''5.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b648187~S9 International Arbitration Law Review]'' (1997 to present) 3rd Floor Reserve and Cellar. JX1 In823. Published six times a year, this journal includes shorter articles and news relating to ICA. Each article has keywords associated with it, which can be used to locate similar articles via the annual index. '''6.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b205092~S9 Journal of International Arbitration]'' (1984 to present) 3rd Floor Reserve and Cellar. JX1 J7825. Also available ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b709778~S9 electronically]'' (1984 to present) through Pegasus. Published six times a year, this publication includes shorter articles (from practitioners and academics) and the International Arbitration Events Calendar. ==Finding ICA Articles Using Periodical Indexes== Individual journal articles on ICA can also be found by using ''[http://library.law.columbia.edu/eresources/ptindexes.html periodical indexes]'' (follow the link for a complete list of periodical indexes available at the law library). Here are some search terms to get started: * International Commercial Arbitration * International Chamber of Commerce * Model International Commercial Arbitration Act * Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards * Commercial Arbitration / International Aspects * International Arbitration * Enforcement of arbitral awards For more information regarding finding journal articles on ICA, please see the research guide ''[http://library.law.columbia.edu/guides/Finding_Books_and_Articles_on_International_and_Foreign_Law Finding Books and Articles on International and Foreign Law]''. The ''[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/databases/2134941.html ProQuest]'' database (available to the Columbia University community) may be especially helpful for finding news articles regarding ICA. ==ICA Conventions== ICAs are normally governed by conventions signed by member states. The following is a list of the major conventions in ICA today. Please also see the ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b735226~S9 World Arbitration Reporter]'' (discussed in '''Reporters''' above) for additional ICA conventions and treaties. '''1. Geneva Protocol and Geneva Convention''' Two early modern agreements on ICA are the 1923 ''[http://0-www.heinonline.org.pegasus.law.columbia.edu/HOL/Page?handle=hein.unl/lnts0027&id=158&collection=unl&index=unl/lnts Geneva Protocol]'' (27 L.N.T.S. 157, from HeinOnline, available to the CLS community) and the 1927 ''[http://0-www.heinonline.org.pegasus.law.columbia.edu/HOL/Page?handle=hein.unl/lnts0092&id=301&collection=unl&index=unl/lnts Geneva Convention]'' (92 L.N.T.S. 301, from HeinOnline, available to the CLS community). '''2. New York Convention''' (United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards) Replacing the Geneva Protocol and Geneva Convention is the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, otherwise known as the ''[http://www.uncitral.org/pdf/english/texts/arbitration/NY-conv/XXII_1_e.pdf New York Convention]''. Once a state becomes a party to the New York Convention, they are no longer subject to the Geneva Protocol and Geneva Convention. The list of parties to the New York Convention and any declarations or reservations made by such party to the convention are available at through the ''[http://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XXII-1&chapter=22&lang=en UN Treaty Collection]''. '''3. European Convention on ICA''' The ''[http://www.jurisint.org/doc/html/ins/en/2002/2002jiinsen6.html European Convention]'' on ICA deals with arbitration agreements, arbitral procedures and awards. The list of parties to the European Convention on ICA and any declarations or reservations made by such party to the convention are available through the ''[http://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XXII-2&chapter=22&lang=en UN Treaty Collection]''. '''4. Panama Convention''' (Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration) This convention was entered into in 1975 among the United States and most South American nations. It is also known as the ''[http://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201438/volume-1438-I-24384-English.pdf Panama Convention]''. The signatories to the convention can be found through the website of the ''[http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/Sigs/b-35.html General Secretariat of the Organization of American States]''. '''5. ICSID Convention; Washington Convention''' (International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes Convention) This convention is also known as the ICSID Convention or the Washington Convention of 1965. It deals with investment disputes between a state (or some state entities) and an individual who is a national of another state that signed the ICSID convention. The language of the ''[http://icsid.worldbank.org/ICSID/StaticFiles/basicdoc/CRR_English-final.pdf convention]'', rules and regulations regarding arbitrations through the can be found through the website of the World Bank as well as a relatively current list of ''[https://icsid.worldbank.org/apps/ICSIDWEB/icsiddocs/Documents/List%20of%20Contracting%20States%20and%20Other%20Signatories%20of%20the%20Convention%20-%20Latest.pdf parties]'' to the ICSID convention. '''6. Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters''' This ''[https://assets.hcch.net/docs/bacf7323-9337-48df-9b9a-ef33e62b43be.pdf convention]'' was concluded in 1971, but has been entered into by only 5 countries. Currently, the five ''[http://www.hcch.net/index_en.php?act=conventions.status&cid=78 signatories]'' are: Albania, Cyprus, Kuwait, Netherlands and Portugal. '''7. Council Regulation (EC) No. 44/2001 of December 22, 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters''' This ''[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2001:012:0001:0023:en:PDF regulation]'' deals with the issue of enforcement of arbitral decisions for members of the European Union. '''8. Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration''' The text of the ''[http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/treaties/b-35.html convention]'' and the ''[http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/sigs/b-35.html signatories]'' can be found on the Organization of American States website. '''Bilateral Investment Treaties''' Bilateral Investment Treaties ("'''BITs'''") are treaties between two countries that often contain clauses allowing foreign investors to require international arbitration of some categories of investment disputes with the state in which the foreign investment has been made. These treaties often have provisions relating to the enforceability of international arbitration awards. ICSID’s website contains a ''[https://icsid.worldbank.org/apps/ICSIDWEB/resources/Pages/Bilateral-Investment-Treaties-Database.aspx database]'' of bilateral investment treaties. One can browse by country or year of signature. One can also search for a particular treaty between two countries. This database consists of information provided by the countries which enter into such BITs and is therefore not necessarily complete. The looseleaf publication ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b538673~S9 Investment Promotion and Protection Treaties]'' (Fourth Floor, K1112 .I581) is complied by ICSID and contains the text of the bilateral investment treaties that ICSID has been provided by the signatories to such treaties. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's ("'''UNCTAD'''") website contains a database where one one can search all the ''[http://investmentpolicyhub.unctad.org/IIA/IiasByCountry#iiaInnerMenu bilateral investment treaties]'' entered into by a particular country, with date of signature and date of entry into force. Individual countries will sometimes provide a list of their BITs. The ''[http://tcc.export.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral_Investment_Treaties/index.asp list]'' of BITs currently in force by the United States can be found at the website of the Trade Compliance Center, along with links to the text of such treaties. '''UNICITRAL Model Law on ICA''' The ''[http://www.uncitral.org/pdf/english/texts/arbitration/ml-arb/06-54671_Ebook.pdf ICA model law]'' was originally adopted in 1985 to help states adapt their laws to accommodate international commercial arbitration and was ''[http://www.uncitral.org/pdf/english/texts/arbitration/ml-arb/07-86998_Ebook.pdf amended in 2006.]'' UNICITRAL keeps track of which ''[http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/uncitral_texts/arbitration/1985Model_arbitration_status.html countries]'' have adopted ICA legislation consistent with the language of the Model Law. ==Arbitration Proceedings & Institutional Bodies== There are two types of arbitrations—institutional and adhoc. Institutional arbitrations are overseen by an institutional body and controlled by arbitration rules specific to the particular institution (which can also play an administrative role), while adhoc arbitrations are conducted by individual arbitrators, normally controlled by the particular arbitration rules agreed to by the parties in the contract of the underlying dispute and potentially any applicable national arbitration legislation. In an institutional arbitration proceeding, the arbitration bodies will normally administer the resolution of the dispute, as opposed to resolving the disputes directly. In other words, the arbitrators are selected by the parties to the dispute (although often confirmed by the institutional body and sometimes the arbitrators are chosen by the institutional body), but the arbitrators are not part of the institutional body itself. The following is a list (and links to) some of the major international arbitration bodies: ==Major International Arbitration Institutions== '''1.''' '''[http://www.iccwbo.org/court/ International Chamber of Commerce''' (“'''ICC'''”)] The ICC publishes rules of arbitration to govern ICA disputes. The 2012 version of the ''[http://www.iccwbo.org/products-and-services/arbitration-and-adr/arbitration/icc-rules-of-arbitration/ rules]'' are available on the ICC website in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, and Ukrainian. Only the English and French versions are official versions. '''2.''' '''[http://www.lcia.org/ London Court of International Arbitration''' (“'''LCIA'''”)] Arbitrations are governed by the ''[http://www.lcia.org/Dispute_Resolution_Services/lcia-arbitration-rules-2014.aspx LCIA rules]'', most recently revised in 2014. The LCIA provides a brief summary of the rules ''[http://www.lcia.org/Dispute_Resolution_Services/LCIA_Arbitration.aspx here]''. '''3.''' '''[http://www.icdr.org/ International Centre for Dispute Resolution''' (“'''ICDR'''”)] The ICDR administers all of the American Arbitration Association’s international arbitrations. The ICDR’s rules, the ''[https://www.icdr.org/icdr/faces/i_search/i_rule?_afrLoop=938947937428629&_afrWindowMode=0&_afrWindowId=asorg830r_196#%40%3F_afrWindowId%3Dasorg830r_196%26_afrLoop%3D938947937428629%26_afrWindowMode%3D0%26_adf.ctrl-state%3Dasorg830r_256 ICDR International Dispute Resolution Procedures]''(updated in 2014), are available in ''[https://www.icdr.org/icdr/ShowProperty?nodeId=/UCM/ADRSTAGE2020868&revision=latestreleased English]'', ''[https://www.icdr.org/icdr/ShowProperty?nodeId=/UCM/ADRSTAGE2030057&revision=latestreleased Spanish]'', ''[https://www.icdr.org/icdr/ShowProperty?nodeId=/UCM/ADRSTAGE2030300&revision=latestreleased Portuguese]'', ''[https://www.icdr.org/icdr/ShowProperty?nodeId=/UCM/ADRSTG_002035&revision=latestreleased Chinese]'', ''[https://www.icdr.org/icdr/ShowProperty?nodeId=/UCM/ADRSTAGE2034683&revision=latestreleased Italian]'', and ''[https://www.icdr.org/icdr/ShowProperty?nodeId=/UCM/ADRSTG_021616&revision=latestreleased Arabic]''. '''4.''' '''[https://www.swissarbitration.org/sa/en/ Swiss Chambers' Arbitration Institution''' '''(SCAI)'''] The SCAI conducts arbitrations based on the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration. Copies of the ''[https://www.swissarbitration.org/sa/en/rules.php rules]'' (2012) in a variety of languages (including English, Chinese and Arabic) are available on the SCC website. Note that the ''[https://www.swissarbitration.org/sa/en/former_rules.php 2004 rules]'' were based on the ''[http://www.uncitral.org/pdf/english/texts/arbitration/arb-rules/arb-rules.pdf UNICITRAL rules]'' (''[http://www.uncitral.org/pdf/english/texts/arbitration/arb-rules/arb-rules.pdf updated 2014'']), with some modifications. The 2012 rules struck this introductory language. You may find a ''[https://www.swissarbitration.org/sa/download/SRIA_synopsis_revision_20120309.pdf comparison of the 2004 and 2012 rules here]''. '''5.''' '''[http://www.viac.eu/en/ Vienna International Arbitral Centre''' ("'''VIAC'''")] VIAC coordinates arbitrations based on the ''[http://www.viac.eu/en/arbitration/arbitration-rules-vienna VIAC Rules]'' (updated 2013). The main advantage of the Vienna Rules is their flexibility which enables the parties and arbitrators to tailor the proceedings exactly to the needs of the parties and their dispute. The rules are reproduced in a variety of languages with an English PDF of the ''[http://www.viac.eu/images/documents/Vienna_Rules_2013/Wiener_Regeln_Brosch%C3%BCre_en_Onlinefassung_20140324.pdf updated 2013 rules here]'' and the previous ''[http://www.viac.eu/images/documents/VIAC_Arbitration_Rules_2006_1.pdf 2006 rules here]''. The entire VIAC website (http://www.internationales-schiedsgericht.at/) and arbitration rules are available in English, German, Czech and Russian. '''6.''' '''[http://www.hkiac.org/ Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre''' ("'''HKIAC'''")] HKIAC administers arbitrations pursuant to the ''[http://www.hkiac.org/en/arbitration/arbitration-rules-guidelines/hkiac-administered-arbitration-rules-2013 HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules]'' (updated 2013) which are available in English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, and Russian. The English language version is the official version. HKIAC states that their rules are based on the UNICITRAL arbitration rules. The previous version (2008) of the rules can be found ''[http://www.hkiac.org/en/arbitration/arbitration-rules-guidelines/hkiac-administered-arbitration-rules-2008 here]''. '''7.''' '''[http://www.cietac.org/index.cms China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission''' ("'''CIETAC'''")] CIETAC administers arbitrations in accordance with the ''[http://cn.cietac.org/rules/rule_E.pdf CIETAC Arbitration Rules]'' (updated 2014). The rules are available in English, ''[http://cn.cietac.org/rules/French_2015.pdf French]'', ''[http://cn.cietac.org/rules/Japanese_2015.pdf Japanese]'', ''[http://cn.cietac.org/rules/Korean_2015.pdf Korean]'', ''[http://cn.cietac.org/rules/Spanish_2015.pdf Spanish]'', and ''[http://cn.cietac.org/rules/Russian_2015.pdf Russian]''. '''8.''' '''[http://www.crcica.org.eg/ Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration''' ("'''CRCICA'''")] CRCICA administers arbitrations based on the CRCICA rules which it states are based on the UNICITRAL rules with minor modifications. Copies of the ''[http://www.crcica.org.eg/arbitration_rules.html rules]'' are available in English and Arabic. '''9.''' '''[http://www.sccinstitute.com/ Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Institute''' ("'''SCC'''")] The SCC administers arbitrations in accordance with its rules, the ''[http://www.sccinstitute.com/dispute-resolution/rules/ SCC Arbitration Rules]'' (2010) or other arbitration rules agreed to by the parties to the dispute. The SCC Arbitration rules are available in English, Swedish, Russian, and Chinese, but the English version is the official version. '''10.''' '''[http://www.cpradr.org/Home.aspx International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution''' ('''CPR''')] Developing its own rules for arbitration of international disputes in 2013, the ''[http://www.cpradr.org/Portals/0/CPR_Admin_Arb_Rules_Intl_Disputes.pdf CPR's rules]'' reflect best practices and are modeled on ''[http://www.uncitral.org/pdf/english/texts/arbitration/ml-arb/07-86998_Ebook.pdf UNICITRAL's rules]''. A synopsis of key features of CPR's international arbitration rules can be found ''[http://www.cpradr.org/Portals/0/Intl_Admin_Arb_Key_Features_1.pdf here]''. ==Subject-Specific International Arbitration Institutions== Institutional arbitration bodies can choose to administer arbitrations dealing with a particular subject matter. The following are two of such institutional bodies: '''1.''' '''[http://www.wipo.int/portal/en/ World Intellectual Property Organization]''' The World Intellectual Property Organization (“'''WIPO'''”) offers a variety of dispute resolution services, including ''[http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/arbitration/ arbitration]'', that focus on intellectual property. However, disputes of any topic may be heard by WIPO. You may view the ''[http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/arbitration/rules/newrules.html WIPO arbitration rules here]'', but for more information on WIPO, please see the ''[http://library.law.columbia.edu/guides/International_intellectual_property Resource Guide for Researching Intellectual Property Law in an International Context]''. '''2.''' '''[http://www.tas-cas.org/en/index.html Court of Arbitration of Sport]''' The Court of Arbitration of Sport deals with sports-related disputes. The website is available in English and French and its arbitration rules (updated 2013), similarly, are available in ''[http://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Code20201320corrections20finales20_en_.pdf English]'' and ''[http://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Code_2013_FINAL_CLEAN_PUB__fr_.pdf French]''. Recent arbitral decisions are available in ''[http://www.tas-cas.org/en/jurisprudence/recent-decisions.html English]'' or ''[http://www.tas-cas.org/fr/jurisprudence/decisions-recentes.html French]'' in .pdf format. An ''[http://www.tas-cas.org/en/jurisprudence/archive.html archive]'' of non-confidential decisions since 1986 are in a ''[http://jurisprudence.tas-cas.org/sites/caselaw/help/home.aspx database]'', also in .pdf format. One can browse decisions by sport or by year and can do keyword searching. ==Ad Hoc Arbitrations== Ad hoc arbitrations are not conducted under the auspices of an institutional body--rather they are organized by the parties to the dispute. '''1. UNICITRAL''' The UNICITRAL Arbitration Rules are designed to be used in ad hoc arbitrations. The text of the UNICITRAL ''[http://www.pca-cpa.org/upload/files/UNCITRAL%202010.PDF rules]'' (most recently revised in 2010) are available on the UNICITRAL website. The original UNICITRAL Arbitration Rules were adopted in 1976. The text of the 1976 ''[http://www.cnudmi.org/uncitral/en/uncitral_texts/arbitration/1976Arbitration_rules.html version]'' can also be found on the UNICITRAL website. '''2. CPR''' The ''[http://www.cpradr.org/Home.aspx CPR]'' created the ''[http://www.cpradr.org/Portals/0/Resources/ADR%20Tools/Clauses%20&%20Rules/2007%20CPR%20Rules%20for%20Non-Administered%20Arbitration%20of%20International.pdf CPR Rules for Non-Administered Arbitration of International Disputes and Commentary]'', which were most recently revised in 2007. ==Arbitral Awards== In contrast to court opinions, arbitration submissions and awards are often confidential. This makes locating the awards much more difficult than locating court opinions. However, there are a variety of electronic databases and print reporters that publish arbitral awards. These awards are sometimes excerpts (and confidential information has been removed). '''1.''' ''[http://www.un.org/law/riaa/ Reports of International Arbitral Awards]'' Part of the United Nations website, this database contains pdf versions of the Reports of International Arbitral Awards (“'''RIAA'''”), currently through Volume XXIX (2012). Each volume contains a table of contents, index and foreword explaining the awards published in the particular volume. One can search by volume of the RIAA or by party to a dispute. One can also conduct a full-text search of the volumes. The RIAA is limited to arbitral decisions between states or between states and international organizations. There are also some decisions between individuals and states in which the individual has a sponsoring state. The awards are published in English and French (and normally both)--with footnotes stating when the translation has been done by the United Nations Secretariat. The RIAA publishes recent awards, as well as older awards (previously published elsewhere) which have become less accessible over time. There are sometimes maps published in connection with an award--such maps are only available in the print version. This United Nations publication is also available in ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b233537~S9 print]'' (through Volume 29) and online through ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b710271~S9 Hein Online]'' (currently through Volume 29, from HeinOnline, available to the CLS community). '''2.''' ''[http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/case_law.html Case Law on Uncitral Texts]'' (“'''CLOUT'''”) Part of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law website, this is a freely accessible database of court decisions and arbitral awards relating to: * United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (1958) * United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 (Hamburg) * United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna, 1980) * UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (1985) * UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce (1996) * UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency (1997) Decisions and awards are collected by national correspondents of each state that is a party to one of the conventions listed above and/or has adopted legislation based on one of the model laws listed above. The correspondents then prepare abstracts of such decisions and awards. The abstracts are published intermittently and are made available in the six official UN languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Abstracts can be browsed (by date of publication) or searched by a number of subjects: legislative text and article, date, country, court, parties and keyword. '''3.''' ''[http://icsid.worldbank.org/ICSID/FrontServlet?requestType=CasesRH&actionVal=ShowHome&pageName=Cases_Home ICSID Cases]'' ICSID provides lists of pending and concluded cases to browse, with fairly extensive information about each case. Citations to decisions (if publicly available) are also provided. Under "Search Online Decisions and Awards" there is also a list of, and links to, the publicly available information or decisions from ICSID cases starting in the 1980's. By selecting the advanced search option, one can search by party, type of document, case number, time period and language. '''4.''' '''UNCTAD''' UNCTAD provides a ''[http://unctad.org/en/Pages/DIAE/ISDS.aspx database]'' of information regarding arbitral awards (concluded or pending) that one can browse or search. There are a variety of facets available (parties, home country of investor, type of investment, rules etc.). However, the search feature is extremely slow (and isn't always working) and there are no links to the actual awards. '''5.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b609731~S9 Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards]'' Fourth Floor, K2400.A47 C65 There are five volumes of ICC Court of Arbitration cases, covering years 1974-2007. Each volume contains abstracts of awards and commentary on the Court of Arbitration cases that have been previously published in the Yearbook Commercial Arbitration and the Journal du Droit International. There are indexes to search by date (and case number) and by subject. Abstracts and commentaries are available in English and French (but not always both). This resource is also available on Westlaw (Database ICC-AWARDS) covering the years 1974-2004. '''6.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b233081~S9 Yearbook Commercial Arbitration]'' Fourth Floor, K2400.A15 Y43 Starting in 1976 and published annually, this publication provides references to new or amended foreign arbitration rules, a short description of recent ICA developments in relevant countries and, most importantly, arbitral awards and court decisions. Many of the awards are excerpts, but the complete award or decision is available at ''[http://www.kluwerarbitration.com Kluwer Arbitration.com]'' (which is a subscription database available to the CLS community). The awards are organized by arbitral body and the court decisions are organized by the ICA convention that is relevant to the case. For ease of searching, there is a subject index for arbitral awards. '''7.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b444253~S9 ICSID Reports]'' 3rd Floor Reserve, JX1976.S1 Ic71 1993 Currently a 15 volume set, the ICSID Reports publish arbitral reports (in full text when available) by tribunals or ad hoc committees based on the ICSID Convention. Volume 1 contains cases commenced between 1972 and 1981 and Volume 15 covers cases commenced between 1998 and 2004. Each volume contains a table of cases published in the particular volume, a table of cases published in all existing volumes and a digest for cases published in the particular volume. There is also a subject index at the back of each volume. Volumes 1 through 10 have cumulative subject indexes, while volumes 11 through 15 have individual subject indexes. All reports (either full-text or excerpts) are printed in English. For each report, the editors have added headings (in bold) indicating the main issues of law and a summary of the proceedings. '''8. World Trade and Arbitration Materials''' This publication is available in ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b478052~S9 print]'' (starting with Volume 6 1993/1994 to present) and ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b710741~S9 online]'' through Kluwer Law International (Volume 9 1997 to present, although missing Volume 10). The contents of the online issues appear to be pdf scans of the printed version, but missing the cover page and the table of contents. This journal publishes some arbitration awards and information on arbitration statutes and legislation (in addition to reports relating to trade policy in various countries). '''9.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b518691~S9 Mealey's International Arbitration Report]'' This print publication contains information and commentaries on awards and issues relating to international arbitration, as well as some full-text awards and other publications. The "Cases in this Issue" chart on the inside cover page of each issue indicates which full-text documents are available in the publication. Other full-text documents are available at ''[http://www.mealeysonline.com Mealeys Online]'' for a fee (search using the document numbers provided in the print version). ''[http://www.mealeysonline.com Mealeys Online]'' has a search box where one can search for articles in Mealey's International Arbitration Report (be certain to select the publication to search), using keywords and date limitations. The articles are available online for a fee. This publication is also available through Lexis Nexis under the International Arbitration tab as International Arbitration: Mealey's Litigation Report. Links to the various documents referenced in the articles are also available. '''10.''' Subscription Databases Arbitral awards are also available through the subscription databases listed below (available to members of the CLS community). ==Subscription Databases== There are several subscription databases available to the CLS community for ICA: '''1.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b686268~S9 Kluwer Arbitration]'' This database includes a large number of books, including Born's International Commercial Arbitration, Yearbook Commercial Arbitration and Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration. One can browse the books through the table of contents or search in particular sources (using the advanced search feature). There are also several journals available through this database. The full-text of many ICA conventions, national legislation, rules and BITs can be browsed as well. In addition, there is a collection of New York Convention decisions, organized by article of the convention. Kluwer also has a ''[http://kluwerarbitrationblog.com/ blog]'' with posts by practitioners and scholars in the ICA field. The blog is available without a subscription to the database. Using the advanced search feature, one can search for different types of documents (awards, rules, commentary etc.), party, source and organization (among others). '''2. LexisNexis''' LexisNexis has an "International Arbitration" tab which includes databases such as: International Arbitration: Mealey's Litigation Report (starting in 1993) and the journal American Review of International Arbitration (from 1996). There is also a database of U.S. Treaties. See the International Arbitration tab in LexisNexis for a full list of available databases. '''3. Westlaw''' Under the Alternative Dispute Resolution area of practice, Westlaw provides a number of ICA databases including: International Commercial Arbitration-Cases (ICA-CASES) which includes published and unpublished cases from a number of countries, a variety of ICA treatises and rules and ICA journals. See the Alternative Dispute Resolution section in Westlaw for a full list of available databases. '''4.''' ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b731519~S9 Investment Arbitration Reporter]'' This database provides both news articles on investment arbitration and copies of the underlying arbitration documents. One can browse new articles by topic, for example, ICC Rules, NAFTA or Environmental Disputes (among many others) and download pdf copies of the documents mentioned in the news articles. The news articles are compiled into newsletters which can be downloaded as pdfs. There is no search feature in the database. Instead, the database suggests searching the ''[http://www.italaw.com/ Investment Treaty Arbitration ]'' website for publicly available documents (to which Investment Arbitration Reporter contributes documents). The Investment Treaty Arbitration website only has a basic search box, there are no advanced search features. '''5.''' ''[http://0-www.transnational-dispute-management.com.pegasus.law.columbia.edu/ Transnational Dispute Management]'' Transnational Dispute Management is an online journal published approximately 4 to 5 times a year, focusing on international arbitration. Issues can be browsed (or downloaded as pdfs) and articles can be browsed by topic or author. There are search features (regular and advanced). The advanced search feature gives the option of full-text searching, but limited to a particular category of articles. The database also includes a variety of documents--arbitration agreements, legislation, awards and cases that can be browsed or searched. The most helpful browsing capability is by country. Although not ICA specific, the ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b574195~S9 Foreign Law Guide]'' and the ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b727478~S9 Global Legal Information Network]'' are also useful databases for foreign and international resources. ==National Arbitration Laws== Conducting research on ICA will often require research into the arbitration laws of individual countries. Although such laws are beyond the scope of this research guide, the ''[http://pegasus.law.columbia.edu/record=b735226~S9 World Arbitration Reporter]'' (discussed in '''Reporters''', above) contains information and commentary on the arbitration laws of many countries. The American Society of International Law ''[http://www.asil.org/erg/?page=arb International Commercial Arbitration]'' research guide contains links to many national arbitration laws. ==Other Research Guides== For more information, please see the following research guides on ICA: Cornell Law Library. ''[http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/WhatWeDo/ResearchGuides/Intl-Commercial-Arbitration.cfm International Commercial Arbitration]'' Georgetown Law Library. ''[http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/guides/internationalcommercialarbitration.cfm International Commercial Arbitration Research Guide]'' Miccioli, Gloria. The American Society of International Law. ''[http://www.asil.org/erg/?page=arb International Commercial Arbitration]'' Please send comments regarding this guide to Alison P. Sherwin, Reference Librarian, Columbia University, Diamond Law Library, at alison.sherwin@law.columbia.edu
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Home Talent 8 Years Ago, She Was Ridiculed For Her “Frumpy” Look. 1st Audition...
8 Years Ago, She Was Ridiculed For Her “Frumpy” Look. 1st Audition Still Gives Goosebumps Today
We’ve been taught since we were children not to judge a book by its cover. It doesn’t matter if the cover is plain or even in tatters as long as the words inside are meaningful and powerful.
People are like books too. Every one of them has their own story to tell, but you can only appreciate what’s inside if you don’t judge them by their appearances. Sometimes the most beautiful people can be empty inside, while the most talented individuals are not the shiniest on the outside.
Perhaps one of the most powerful examples of this in our time might be Susan Boyle. She is one of the most loved singers today, but she wasn’t always this way. When she came to audition for Britain’s Got Talent, she was ridiculed and made fun of. She got onstage with no makeup, and with an outfit that most would have called frumpy. Simon was so snarky when she got onstage, but she wasn’t about to let anything dull her light.
This video shows the iconic audition tape from 2009 when Boyle first shocked the world. The judges were stunned when she revealed that she was 47 years old. Nobody believed in her and her abilities. She decided to perform “I Dreamed A Dream”, and as soon as she hit that first note, all the jaws in the room dropped to the floor! Her voice was totally flawless, and Simon couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows in disbelief.
As they say, the rest is history. Susan went on to be a finalist in that season of the show. Although she didn’t win the title, she turned out to be a successful singer who is still wowing people with her music today!
Check out this iconic audition below:
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9 Yr Old Sings A Classic From 1959, Then Her Voice Gives Everyone Goosebumps
Gymnast almost lost his balance, but what he ended up doing left everyone in stitches
90-Year-Old Granny Sings Patsy Cline Classic, But Pay Close Attention To The Words
Little Girl Joins Daddy For A Duet, Song Choice Is Stealing Everybody’s Heart
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A Street Named Liberation, by Dr. Benito J. Legarda Jr.
(Published here with the permission of the author. Part of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Manila.)
In the Galas district of Quezon City, near the Manila city boundary, there is a street named Liberation. It had another name previously but the present one was given to celebrate the end of the nightmarish Japanese Occupation. In Mandaluyong City, there is an important street named 9 de Febrero commemorating the date of the liberation of that city in 1945.
A friend of my youth in Balic-balic (adjacent to Galas), Isagani A. Cruz who later rose to Associate justice in the Supreme Court, recalls his feeling of “exhilaration” at the time of liberation.
I mention these things as there seems to be a tendency among latter-day writers to limit the term “liberation” to the freeing of Allied internees at Santo Tomas. The British writers Connaughton, Pimlott and Anderson observe: “Historians have argued that the Santo Tomas operation was an American operation to save American lives. No nation could have been expected to have done otherwise, yet it bears repeating that the relief of Santo Tomas was but one of three goals, two of which were satisfactorily achieved” (The Battle for Manila). The other goals were Malacañang, which was taken ahead of Santo Tomas, and the Legislative Building, which was not, owing to fierce Japanese resistance at the approaches to Quezon bridge, later blown up.
With a demolished Quezon bridge in the foreground, a portion of Manila, south of the Pasig, lay in ruins. (Photo courtesy of the Occupation: The Later Years by Dr. Benito J. Legarda Jr.)
Photo of Nagtahan Bridge from Correos Filipinas tumblr, February 1945.
For the people in Galas, Balic-balic, Mandaluyong and many other areas, liberation was a reality, not just “so-called.” Many of those who survived the holocaust in southern Manila also felt liberated. I remember pedaling past the northern approaches to the then provisional Nagtahan bridge as dazed and destitute refugees streamed in from the zone of battle. I overheard a young wife tell her husband, “Salamat at bagong buhay.” For them it was more than liberation, it was a new life.
A ceremony at Manila’s City Hall on February 3 commemorated the 58th anniversary of the Battle for Manila, a change in terminology from previous observances of the Liberation of Manila—“mere” liberation, as some would say. In my view, liberation was the end, the battle was the means, and I am not sure what is gained by shifting the focus from the end to the means. Both are inseparable. Good Friday, after all, leads to Easter Sunday, and we do not refer to the latter as a “mere” Resurrection.
I myself have generally used the longer term “Battle for the Liberation of Manila,” to make clear which battle for Manila one is talking about, there having been at least four others down through the centuries.
I am completely in accord with Chairman Ambeth Ocampo of the National Historical Institute when he says in a recent column that “we should really look into this terrible page in our history, not only to blame the criminals, but also to bring closure to our lives.”
We need to do this because most of the survivors for half a century preferred to black out the unbearable memories of their hellish experiences and only started to unburden themselves on the 50th anniversary of the liberation in 1995. But one consequence of this long silence was that succeeding generations grew up in ignorance of what had happened, hence the necessity for a detailed account of actual events.
We are still discovering little-known sequels to well-known massacres. One of them relates to the De La Salle College slaughter of February 12, 1945. Fr. Ganzenwinkel, a German priest at Christ the King seminary on España Extension, was called to the Chinese cemetery to bless some bodies from the De La Salle atrocity before they were interred. While he was giving his benediction, he heard a moaning and found a young man, still barely alive.
He was 20-year-old Servillano “Billy” Aquino, one of Ninoy’s elder half-brothers. The priest had often played tennis at the Aquinos’ court when they lived in New Manila. He moved Billy to another place and notified the stepmother, Dona Aurora, who lived on San Rafael St., half a block from La Consolacion College, then converted into an army hospital.
Dona Aurora requested a jeep and a GI escort, retrieved Billy and brought him home to San Rafael, where U.S. Army doctors from the nearby hospital treated him and gave him plasma.
He had been at De La Salle with his 18-year-old bride Trinidad Cojuangco when the killing started. Since he thought he was going to die anyway, he decided to go down fighting, and took 32 bayonet wounds. His wife was killed along with 40 others, but by a quirk of fate, he survived.
There are many such untold incidents that deserve to be recorded, and historians who heed Professor Ocampo’s injunction to make detailed studies of our travails leading to the liberation will be helping to fill the lamentable gap in the modern generation’s knowledge of that time.
But I am not optimistic that Prof. Ocampo’s desire for closure can be easily attained—not while 1,068 World War II criminals, including Gen. Hideki Tojo who started the Pacific War, are enshrined in Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, continuing symbols of an unregenerate militarism.
(Published in the March 1, 2003 issue of the Philippines Free Press. Part of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Manila.)
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Cedric Boeckx
Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), a member of the Universitat de Barcelona Institute for Complex Systems, and a member of the section of General Linguistics at the Universitat de Barcelona. Before joining ICREA, he was Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including Islands and Chains (2003), Linguistic Minimalism (2006), Bare Syntax (2008), Language in Cognition (2009), Syntactic Islands (2012), Elementary Syntactic Structures (2014), and the editor of numerous volumes. He is also the founding co-editor of the Open Access journal Biolinguistics, and the founding editor of the Oxford University Press monograph series 'Oxford Studies in Biolinguistics'.
My current research focuses on developing new ways of advancing the biolinguistic program, a growing interdisciplinary enterprise seeking to uncover the biological foundations of the human language faculty, a critical part of 'human cognitive biology'. My graduate training and early career were in theoretical linguistics, but my more recent work has a more explicit biological orientation. My current projects are all intended to facilitate integration among disciplines (linguistics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and genetics), and lead to better experimental testing of theoretical hypotheses, as well as to more solid interpretations of experimental findings. I also seek to exploit the full pluralism characteristic of the life sciences to force a rethinking of long-held assumptions in theoretical linguistics and other domains of cognitive science.
- Martins PT, Mari M & Boeckx C 2018, 'SRGAP2 and the gradual evolution of the modern human language faculty', Journal of Language Evolution. 3, 1, 67 - 78.
- Boeckx C & Theofanopoulou C 2018. '(Neural) syntax'. In Language, syntax, and the natural sciences, ed. A. Gallego and R. Martin, 295-315. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Benitez-Burraco C, Theofanopoulou C & Boeckx C 2018, 'Globularization and domestication', Topoi. 37, 2, 265 - 278.
- Duguine M, Irurtzun A & Boeckx C 2018. Linguistic diversity and granularity: two case-studies against parametric approaches. Linguistic Analysis41, 445-458.
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I was in Skerries parish for most of my day today (2 Oct 2013). The patron saint of Skerries parish is St. Patrick and the church is in the centre of the town. St. Patrick’s Parish was constituted in 1730 from the neighbouring parish of Lusk. The present Church of St. Patrick replaced an older church on the same site. The bell tower of the old church was retained and the bell still tolls daily inviting people to prayer.
The main thing for me today was a meeting with Fr. Richard and the principals of the schools to facilitate the running of the parish preparation programme for Confirmation children, and to agree dates for the Sacraments of Confirmation and Communion in the parish. The parish preparation programme “Confirming Our Children” is designed to help all parents, guardians and the parish community to become more actively involved in the sacramental journey, as the children prepare for Confirmation. In addition to the preparation given to students in school, it is important that they are also supported both in the home and in the parish. With this in mind, the “Confirming our Children” parish programme will involve a special focus on Confirmation at a number of the Saturday evening Masses, over the coming months, and the Confirmation Classes will be involved in a short Confirmation Ritual at these Masses. It is also an important opportunity for all parishioners, as the wider Christian family, to support and pray for the children as they prepare to receive this special Sacrament. Dates for these Masses in Skerries are as follows: (All Sat. at 6pm) 12 October; 9 November; 7 December; 25 January 2014 and 1 March 2014.
This year, for the first time I am organising the same Confirmation programme in Lusk parish and the Masses there are going to be on the same dates but at the 7.30pm Mass – so I hope I can make it from Skerries to Lusk ok. (I will just have to be super-organized!)
But I have a great group of parents in each parish who will be working with me to plan and organise everything so I know it will all be fine when the time comes! I met the Lusk group this evening and it was so wonderful to meet people for whom nothing is a problem! They are so willing to get involved and go into the schools and do all the arranging for me – its great and such a relief for me. Thank God! These things just cannot happen in parishes without the involvement of parents – so Im going to enjoy these events this year as I know I have an enthusiastic group behind me who want the best for their children and who are interested in getting involved in these church events.
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Asian Music
Going with the Flow: Embracing the Tao of China's Jiangnan Sizhu
Kim Chow-Morris
Volume 41, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2010
10.1353/amu.0.0056
Going with the Flow:Embracing the Tao of China's Jiangnan Sizhu
Kim Chow-Morris (bio)
Religion has for many decades been a sensitive subject in mainland China. So, too, has tradition. Despite the social freedoms gained since the early 1980s, the people I encountered during my four research excursions to Eastern China from 1998 to 2006 were at times quite nervous about questions I posed which might reveal that they had warm feelings for religion, particularly as expressed in China's feudal past. The New Culture Movement of 1919, the more lenient Communist Party of the 1920s, the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) all attempted to eradicate so-called "feudal superstition" from Chinese music and culture (see Hsü 2000; Lary 2007). As the atrocities of the Cultural Revolution, which labeled traditional Chinese culture "backward" and "superstitious," remain fresh in the minds of the older generation, the questions that I posed during my fieldwork may have been perceived by some as "baiting the snake out of the hole"—a technique of subtle interrogation common during the revolution that prompted individuals to incriminate themselves, and often resulted in a forced exile from their home to a commune in the country, where they endured "re-education" through hard labor.1 However, traditional religious worship is significantly less taboo than it once was. Since the overthrow of the Gang of Four in 1976, the Third Party Plenum in 1978, and the Fourth Congress of Arts Workers in 1979, sanctions against tradition and religion have become more relaxed. In fact, as one professional musician from Shanghai commented, "there are no restrictions on religion now. No one is worried. Only on superstition" (George Gao, personal communication, 1999). Nonetheless, this musician's perception of a clear and rigid division between superstition and religion serves only to highlight the governmental control over whose beliefs may today be considered religion, and whose superstition.
In my travels on the mainland, several people were eager to point out the revived St. Ignatius Cathedral now actively functioning in Shanghai. Throughout the Cultural Revolution, the same cathedral had lain quiet, filled with grain.2 [End Page 59] Moreover, during my 1998 climb up Taishan—one of the five sacred Taoist mountains of China—I engaged in a lengthy and animated conversation with a well-traveled Chinese man in his mid-twenties, in which we discussed our personal religious beliefs, and the difficulties of his plight as one of the few Christians in China. Such liberal debate would have been quite impossible only a few years previous. Nonetheless, unpredictable, recurrent backlashes against these new freedoms, such as the (1989-1990) Seven Evils Campaign, which railed against "feudal superstition," have kept mainlanders cautious in their speech and writing.3 The Chinese government's ongoing arrests of members of the Falun Gong meditation movement, which authorities regard as a cult, have raised new questions regarding mainlanders' freedom of religious expression, and the government's intentions in protecting its citizens from the group.
While in Shanghai, I was invited to play bamboo flute with a large number of Jiangnan sizhu (silk and bamboo from south of the Yangtze River) ensembles. This musical exposure, in conjunction with my interest in the strong historical connections between Chinese philosophy and music, led me to ponder the socio-musical and philosophical influences of Taoism on the Jiangnan sizhu instrumental ensembles.4 As no cohesive research has been devoted to this issue, this paper attempts to lay a foundation for the examination of Taoist influence on the genre. In a broader sense, this paper also explores the intersections between traditional Chinese religious culture and contemporary musical practice. In so doing, I question the sanitized secular historiographies of Jiangnan sizhu widely propagated by local Chinese performers and historians and western academics alike who have, with the notable exception of Stephen Jones (1995) and a few brief references in J. Lawrence Witzleben's ground-breaking monograph on Jiangnan sizhu (1995), largely portrayed the genre as secular "teahouse music" or described the music in positivistic terms (cf. Thrasher 1985, 1989, 1993; Wong 1997; Lau 1998, 2008; Witzleben 2002; Miller 2009; Stock 2009).5
Jiangnan sizhu is, along...
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Culture of child marriage in medieval Europe
Muslim Villa > Forum > Category 8 > The Writing Room > MV inputs - > Culture of child marriage in medieval Europe
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Zeynab
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Some 'uncomfortable' facts.
Child and teenage marriages in medieval Europe - common as a cup of tea.
John McLaughlin, PhD, writes in his article MEDIEVAL CHILD MARRIAGE: ABUSE OF WARDSHIP?
" .. in 1396, Richard II of England was joined in marriage to young Isabel of France, who had been 7 years old when their engagement was announced the previous year in Paris. Not only was there no uproar; there was considerable happiness expressed over the assumed probability that this marriage would end the Hundred Years War then in one of its periodic states of truce between the two kingdoms. Peace was to be ensured by joining together this man and this little girl in marriage.
"A social practice which entered the written record in the 12th century, but which seems to have had roots in the barbaric past, that extended from the royal abattoirs down to the lives of neighboring fishmongers and shop-keepers in medieval London, yet that seems to have received little more than passing notice in canon law beyond exhortation to limit it to age seven and ensure mutual consent of the parties ..... But still it is not even indexed in most contemporary discussions of medieval marriage and family life, from Barbara Hanawalt to James Brundage, GL Brooke to Frances & Joseph Giese, Ian MacFarlane to Georges Duby. It is not exactly passed over in their texts, when you read closely
" .... there is not a single book, not a single article, on the separate topic of medieval child marriage in contemporary scholarship, even where there are passing references in the middle of other discussions of medieval childhood, as in problems of medieval wardship.
"By 'child' in this context is meant a male or female human being above the age of 7 -- for either gender -- and below the age of 14 for males, and 12 for females. This follows medieval canon law, in recognizing these as the limits of infancy and puberty
"Thus, for example, when the Wife of Bath boasts of having had five husbands since the age of 12, she is not casting herself in the role of child bride, technically speaking, at least not in medieval terms. Lee Patterson's discussion of child marriage in Peter Beidler's lovely new edition of The Wife of Bath, is thus irrelevant to the present discussion, except as it relates to Richard and Isabel; Christine de Pisan, for example, was already aged 15 when she was 'given' to her husband, and therefore according to medieval definition an adult woman."
Rachelle Carter writes in Marriage in Medieval Times
"In the Middle Ages children were married at a young age. Girls were as young as 12 when they married, and boys as young as 17. The arrangement of the marriage was based on monetary worth. The family of the girl who was to be married gives a dowry,or donation, to the boy she is to marry. The dowry goes with her at the time of the marriage and stays with the boy forever (Renolds). After the marriage was arranged a wedding notice was posted on the door of the church. The notice was put up to ensure that there were no grounds for prohibiting the marriage."
In 'Juana the Mad of Castille' J.N.W. Bos writes:
"Queen Juana I of Castile (1479-1555) .... was born on November 6, 1479, as the second daughter of Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon. At the age of 16, Juana was betrothed to Philip the Handsome of Austria (1478-1506), only son of the Emperor Maximilian I. For Philip the attraction to the beautiful, dark haired Juana (to the left) was carnal and little more, but Juana became totally infatuated with her husband ..... his life mainly consisted of feasting, drinking and chasing women - and he had no intention to change his philandering ways. For Juana, however, only absolute togetherness would do. She was too young and inexperienced to realise that she expected too much from a politically arranged marriage."
Now, here's an interesting piece form a 'historian' blogger.
This blogger then tries to justify the child marriages by saying that this practice existed only among royals and other elites and not among middle or lower classes, a point already refuted by John McLaughlin. The blog author writes "Church law forbade child marriage and allowed young brides and grooms to repudiate the marriage once they reached the age of puberty, which was officially set at 12 for girls and 14 for boys. So, the most common age for a young woman of middle or low status to marry was from the age of 22 years old." In the process the author acknowledges that rulers and aristocrats of medieval Europe did not respect the rule of law. This is what happens when writers try to use a lie as a cover-up .... it simply brings up some other serious contradiction.
Now, marriages of noble and royal women were usually for political and dynastic consideration. So, at what age did a young noblewoman enter into marriage. In Italy the average age for marriage was 17; in France it is 16 ; and in England and Germany 18 yo was the average age - all for first marriages. (Source: “Medieval Households” by David Herlihy, Harvard University Press, 1985). However, the following examples are exceptions:
Bianca of Savoy, Duchess of Milan was married aged 13 (1350), and aged 14 when she gave birth to her eldest son, Giangaleazzo (1351).
Theodora Comnena was aged 13 when she was married King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (1158).
Agnes of France was 12 when, widowed, she was married to Andronicus Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (1182).
St Elizabeth of Portugal was aged 12 when she was married to King Denis of Portugal and gave birth to three children shortly thereafter.
Caterina Sforza was betrothed aged 9, married aged 14, and gave birth aged 15.
Lucrezia Borgia was married to her first husband aged 13 and bore a son within a few years.
Beatrice d'Este was betrothed aged 5 and married aged 15.
The LiveJournal writes
"When the Austrian-born Archduchess Marie Antoinette was married off at age fourteen to France's future king -- crowned Louis XVI in 1774 -- her overriding duty was to give the kingdom an heir."
And finally, as Wikipedia mentions, tracing the history of marriage in ancient Greece
"For most of European history, marriage was more or less a business agreement between two families who arranged the marriages of their children. Romantic love rarely, and even simple affection was not considered essential. In fact at some times, too much affection in a marriage was considered a sin.
"In Ancient Greece .... Men usually married when they were in their 20s or 30s and expected their wives to be in their early teens.
"Married Greek women had few rights in ancient Greek society and were expected to take care of the house and children.
"In the 12th century, aristocrats believed love was incompatible with marriage and seeked romance in adultery."
The above are just a few examples of the culture of child marriage in Europe. As we keep rummaging through the history of that region, we come across plenty more.
Re: Culture of child marriage in medieval Europe
Wonderful read sister. You must have really worked hard to find all these very authentic facts and figures. At present, people in the West look upon the 7th century history of young age marriages in the Middle-East with such astonishment as though it never happened in their part of the world. This article catches them head-on! It's also important to note that at present when girls and boys, especially girls, are getting married in their 30s - this hasn't resolved the problems of marital abuse. If anything at all, it's worsened.
-CHRISTIAN HEAD COVERING ACROSS THE CENTURIES
-DEATH PENALTY BY BEHEADING NOT A QURANIC CULTURE
This also proves the contradiction and ignorance of Westerners about their own culture. When they read about political marriages of convenience in Islamic history for the purpose of helping to promote peace between countries or tribes, they disagree and deride. Yet history shows that much after Islam, both child marriages and political marriages of convenience were rampant all over Europe.
Child marriages among the Roma people in Europe are still prevalent. Roma is an unprivileged minority group in Romania, Spain, Italy, France etc. and are orthodox Christians.
Recently in Spain a 10-year-old daughter of a woman in her 30s gave birth to a baby. The father is 13. Shocking!
The West is so cleverly silent about containing what it condemns for others that you hardly know it exisits within their community until some sudden news story comes up in that regard.
Moreover, in the West they consider it okay if both are minors. But they will object if a 16 year old gets married to a 19 year old because the 16 year old is officially a minor whereas the 19 year old isn't. Now this is pure madness! Similarly if a 14 year old girl gets married to a 15 year old boy, they accept that. But if that 14 year old gets married to a 28 year old man, the guy becomes a "pedofile." Again, this is highly stupid. A 14 year old girl can be much better looked after and supported by a 28 year old than by a 15 year old. Needless to say, I don't at all support marriage of underage girls. But what I mean to say is that if a minor girl ends up getting married, it only makes the mess bigger if the boy she marries is also a minor.
Now read the messy story below. Very sad state of affairs.
Mom happy that her 10-year-old gave birth
MADRID - A Roma woman whose 10-year-old daughter just gave birth in Spain says she's delighted to have a new granddaughter and doesn't understand why the birth has shocked anyone — let alone become an international sensation.
Spanish authorities have released few details about the case to protect the girl's privacy.
But in comments published Wednesday, her Romanian mother told reporters the baby's father is a 13-year-old boy who is still in Romania and is no longer going out with her daughter.
The 10-year-old girl and her baby daughter plan to stay in Spain because the young couple separated, said the girl's mother. She identified herself only as Olimpia and appeared to be in her 30s but did not give her age.
She also said she didn't understand the attention the case was generating because she and her daughter are Roma and their custom is to allow girls to marry young even though that's against the law in Romania.
"That's the way we get married," the girl's mother told reporters Tuesday outside the modest apartment building in the southern town of Lebrija where the family lives.
Meanwhile, the story was going viral on the Internet and causing an uproar in Spain.
"Mother at 10 years old" blared a headline in Barcelona's La Vanguardia newspaper, which dedicated two pages to the story.
In contrast, news about the 10-year-old mother barely registered in Romania, with stories buried inside newspapers focusing on the controversy the birth had caused among Spaniards.
The girl moved to Spain about three weeks ago, her mother said, and her baby was born in a public hospital last week in the nearby city of Jerez de la Frontera. There were no complications during the birth, and the 10-year-old and her baby are doing fine, her mother said.
"She's doing well and is very happy with her daughter," the woman said.
The 10-year-old and her baby are living with the new grandmother while Spanish social welfare authorities determine whether the family will be able to provide for the baby.
Under Spanish law, having consensual sex with someone under age 13 is classified as child abuse. But a Justice Ministry official said this particular case is complicated, because the alleged father is not in Spain and is also a minor. It is not clear whether he could be charged, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of ministry policy.
Romanian law allows girls to get married at age 16 with parental consent, or at 18 without it.
But arranged "marriages" between teenagers are relatively common among Roma, who make up about 1.5 million of Romania's 22 million people. Families "marry off" daughters when they reach puberty, with the "husband" usually being a couple of years older. The marriages are not recognized by the state.
Roma girls are often not encouraged to pursue a full education, and Romanian authorities do not widely enforce education laws that require children to attend school until age 16.
In 2003, there was an international outcry after the European Union envoy to Romania, Baroness Emma Nicholson, demanded that a 12-year-old Roma girl and her 15-year-old common-law husband separate and cease all intimate relations until they were legally able to be married. The couple did separate for an unknown amount of time.
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Good exposure of the truth the West frantically tries to conceal, downplay and altogether ignore in the present era. I don't know how I missed this thread earlier. I happened to read it at a time when there came another such example in Europe. Today was announced the death of Marshal Tito's 88-year-old widow who led an abandoned life in a Belgrade suburb. I guess you all know who Marshal Tito was .. the Yugoslav strongman .. though he had his problems as a ruler, he handled Yugoslavia far better than what was to happen in the 1990s after his death in 1980. Some reports say Tito married thrice and some say 5 times. Anyhow, the old lady who died today of natural causes in a Belgrade hospital was his last wife. He married his first wife in 1919 who was then 14-years-old. Tito was born in 1892 which means when he married his first wife, he was 27. So, according to present-day Europe, Marshal Tito was a "pedophile" by definition.
HE WHO KNEELS BEFORE ALLAH CAN
STAND BEFORE ANYONE.
Thanks for the information br. Truthseeker. Yeah, I read about Tito's widow's death today. But I didn't know there were more who preceded this lady as Tito's wives. Indeed, your calculation is right. According to the current European rules, that's the category he would be put into.
Came across this info just now as I was doing some reading online and thought I'll put it up here. Mary, Queen of Scots, who was the queen of Scotland and well-known in British history was married in France to the king of France named Francis II in 1557 when she was 15 and he was 14. It's very likely that the youth of the French king is phoney, reduced to 14 from an older age only to make it stand well with the age of Mary so that he wouldn't be called a "pedophile" according to today's laws. In those days European men (including Britain) seldom or never married females of same age or older. Very rare, almost non-existent.
Eye opening disclosure. Thanks sis. I too think the husband wasn't 14 ... now come on propagandists! That's been manipulated because she was actually 15.
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Decadal Study Update Tells NASA To Fly More Missions
By Keith Cowing on August 7, 2018 1:41 PM.
NASA Makes Progress Toward Planetary Science Decadal Priorities, National Academy of Sciences
"Despite significant cuts to NASA's Planetary Science Division budget early in this decade, the space agency has made impressive progress in meeting goals outlined in the 2013-2022 planetary decadal survey by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, says a new midterm assessment from the National Academies. The report notes that the agency met or exceeded the decadal survey's recommendations for funding research and analysis, and for technology programs. However, NASA has not achieved the recommended timeline for New Frontiers and Discovery missions for the decade. At least one more New Frontiers mission and three Discovery missions should be selected before the end of the decade in order to achieve the schedule recommended in Vision and Voyages. The decadal survey, "Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022", recommended a suite of planetary science flagship missions that could provide a steady stream of important new discoveries about the solar system as well as prospective mid-size missions and science, research, and technology priorities. It also included a set of decision rules on how to deal with funding shortfalls as well as possible increases. The new report assesses progress made by NASA so far and offers recommendations for preparing for the next decadal survey."
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NASA Makes Progress Toward Planetary Science Decadal Priorities, National Academy of Sciences \n\n\"Despite significant cuts to NASA's Planetary Science Division budget early in this decade, the space agency has made impressive progress in meeting goals outlined in the 2013-2022 planetary decadal survey by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, says a new midterm assessment from the National Academies. The report notes that the agency met or exceeded the decadal survey's recommendations for funding research and analysis, and for technology programs. However, NASA has not achieved the recommended timeline for New Frontiers and Discovery missions for the decade. At least one more New Frontiers mission and three Discovery missions should be selected before the end of the decade in order to achieve the schedule recommended in Vision and Voyages. The decadal survey, \"Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022\", recommended a suite of planetary science flagship missions that could provide a steady stream of important new discoveries about the solar system as well as prospective mid-size missions and science, research, and technology priorities. It also included a set of decision rules on how to deal with funding shortfalls as well as possible increases. The new report assesses progress made by NASA so far and offers recommendations for preparing for the next decadal survey.\"
This page contains a single entry by Keith Cowing published on August 7, 2018 1:41 PM.
NASA Wallops Is Examining Downsizing In Plain Sight was the previous entry in this blog.
NASA Attends Stealthy SpaceX Mars Meeting (Shh!) (Update) is the next entry in this blog.
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State of the Climate 2018: Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO
Michael Grose and Lynette Bettio
Michael Grose is the Lead Chief Investigator in the ESCC Hub’s Project 2.6: Regional climate projections science, information and services, which is contributed to State of the Climate 2018.
State of the Climate 2018 is the latest biennial snapshot of climate change in Australia. It focuses on observed long-term trends that are happening now and are likely to continue into the near future, as well as significant climate events that have occurred over the past two years. These changes are described through the latest observations from CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology marine, atmospheric and terrestrial monitoring programs.
The report also summarises the latest climate research from Australia and around the world. This will help inform a range of economic, environmental and social risk assessments and responses by government, industry and communities.
Read more: State of the Climate 2016: Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO
Multiple lines of evidence show the climate system changing in ways that are discernible from natural variability, and consistent with a human influence on climate. These changes are having an impact on our natural and built environment.
In particular, climate change is being felt through an increase in the frequency and severity of high-impact weather events such as heatwaves, extreme fire weather conditions, coastal inundation and marine heatwaves. These trends are projected to continue.
Some of the report’s major findings are described below.
Passing major milestones
Australia’s average air temperature has warmed by just over 1℃ since national records began in 1910. Oceans around Australia have also warmed by around 1℃ since 1910.
Annual mean temperature over Australia and the seas surrounding Australia.
Bureau of Meteorology, Author provided
Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide are rising globally. Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels continue to increase, and are the main contributor to the rise in CO₂, with some contribution from changes in land use.
Atmospheric CO₂ concentrations measured at Cape Grim, Tasmania (one of three main global measuring stations, alongside Mauna Loa, Hawaii, and Nunavut, Canada), have persisted at levels above 400 parts per million (ppm) since 2016. What’s more, the combined concentration of all greenhouse gases exceeded the equivalent of 500 ppm CO₂ in mid-2018. These milestones haven’t been crossed for at least 800,000 years, and likely 2 million years.
Changes in the atmosphere and land
Australia’s warming trend has led to an increase in the frequency of extreme heat events. For example, very high monthly maximum temperatures that used to occur around 2% of the time (based on the average for 1951–80) now happen about 12% of the time (2003–17).
Other elements of Australia’s climate have also shown long-term changes. New analysis techniques now provide a more detailed picture of changes to fire weather through time. The annual total of daily values of the Forest Fire Danger Index is increasing over large areas of Australia. Most regions also saw an increase in the most extreme 10% of fire weather days, and fire seasons have lengthened.
Rainfall in April–October has been steadily decreasing in Western Australia’s Southwest, and has decreased since the 1990s in southeast Australia. In contrast, rainfall has increased in parts of northern Australia since the 1970s.
The observed long-term reduction in rainfall across southern Australia has led to even greater reductions in streamflow. Long-term average streamflow has decreased in most regions of southern Australia, and increased in regions of northern Australia.
A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, and this is an important driver of the observed increase in the intensity of short-duration rainfall, sometimes linked to flash flooding. Southern Australia is projected to experience decreases in average rainfall and more time spent in drought. Meanwhile, most of the country can expect an increase in rainfall intensity.
Historically, significant weather and climate events are often the result of the combined influence of several extreme factors at once. Higher temperatures during periods of below-average rainfall, for instance, can exacerbate drought conditions. Temperature, dryness and wind come together to create dangerous bushfire conditions.
Trend in the annual sum of Forest Fire Danger Index, 1978–2017.
Changes in the ocean
The warming in Australia’s oceans has contributed to longer and more frequent marine heatwaves – defined as periods when sea surface temperatures are much warmer than average. The world’s oceans are a crucial moderator of the climate, taking up more than 90% of the extra heat in the system – most of it is absorbed by the Southern Ocean.
Sea levels continue to rise through the combined effects of warming oceans and melting ice from land-based glaciers and ice sheets. Global average sea level has risen by more than 20cm since 1880, but the rate varies from place to place. About 25% of the CO₂ emitted by human activity diffuses into the oceans, making them more acidic in the process.
The past two years, 2016 and 2017, have seen back-to-back bleaching events in parts of the Great Barrier Reef, linked to marine heatwave events. These changes are very likely linked to warming oceans, and primarily driven by the human influence on the climate.
Global sea level change from 1880 estimated from tide gauges and satellites.
CSIRO, Author provided
Well-established scientific theory and climate model studies both show that the warming would largely not have occurred without the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations. In addition, the current increase in temperatures accords with projections made nearly 30 years ago. Warming is projected to continue into the future as the effect of past emissions continue, and more greenhouse gases are emitted. Australia is projected to experience increases in sea and air temperatures, with more hot days and marine heatwaves, and fewer cool extremes.
It takes time for the climate system to warm in response to increases in greenhouse gases, and the historical emissions over the past century have locked in some warming over the next two decades, regardless of any changes we might make to global emissions in that period. However, by the mid-21st century, higher ongoing emissions of greenhouse gases will lead to greater warming and associated impacts, and reducing emissions will lead to less warming and fewer associated impacts.
Australian average annual temperature 1861-1900 period in observations and global climate models.
State of the Climate 2018 can be read on either the Bureau of Meteorology or CSIRO websites. The online report includes an extensive list of references and useful links.
You can also watch accompanying behind-the-scenes videos on our research on climate extremes and ocean warming.
Michael Grose, Climate Projections Scientist, CSIRO and Lynette Bettio, , Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Debating the Thistle and the Drone: A Response to the Distortions of Christine Fair
By Harrison Akins
As senior researcher for The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam by Akbar Ahmed (Brookings Institution Press, 2013), I watched the many responses and reviews to the book with interest. They have been overwhelmingly positive, including a cover story review by Malise Ruthven in The New York Review of Books, but there have also been critical reviews. Given the importance of the topics discussed—drones, terrorism, violence across the Muslim world, and the future direction of America’s war on terror—scholarly debate on these issues and critiques which engage with the ideas, interpretation, and opinions of the author is welcomed and encouraged.
Unfortunately, one particular review published in the academic journal Small Wars & Insurgencies, “Drones, spies, terrorists, and second-class citizenship in Pakistan” by Christine Fair, a professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, neither engages with the ideas of the book nor treats the author with respect, though it was written with the veneer of scholarly method and approach. While it is clear that Professor Fair, for some unknown reason, is not shy about sharing her contempt for Professor Ahmed in a very glib fashion on social media, having referred to the book as “The Thimble and the Dumbass” on Twitter, this article is shocking in its cavalier attitude to the text and near slanderous claims about the author. As a well-respected and prominent academic who appears frequently in the media as an expert on Pakistan, Professor Fair’s factual errors and unsubstantiated claims in reviewing The Thistle and the Drone need to be addressed, which I will do in this article.
Most flagrantly, through what can be no more than a cursory and incomplete reading of the text, Professor Fair ignores the fundamental thesis of the book. The Thistle and the Drone examines America’s war on terror and the tribal communities on the peripheries of the Muslim world from which much of the violence is emanating. It argues that, rather than Islam, this violence is a product of the broken relationship between central governments and tribal peripheries, which has been exacerbated by the involvement of the United States. Nowhere in her review of The Thistle and the Drone does Professor Fair refer to this thesis which forms the basis for all of the arguments and recommendations which Professor Ahmed makes in the book, including those about the use of the drone.
Before discussing the multitude of inaccuracies and distortions in Professor Fair’s review, it is first necessary to briefly expand on the thesis of The Thistle and the Drone. Throughout history, tribal communities, residing deep in the mountains and deserts in clan or family groups and living by a code of behaviour emphasizing honour, hospitality, and revenge, have strongly resisted outside encroachment in their territory, dating to the time of various caliphates and empires. A cursory glance at the early failures of British expeditions into Afghanistan and other colonial adventures and misadventures elsewhere in Asia and Africa is testament to the violent struggles between the colonizing states of Europe and the people they sought to subject to their rule. The subjugation of these tribal communities at the hands of brutal military tactics was too often a bloody affair causing the deaths of thousands, if not millions, of people.
At the creation of the post-colonial modern state in the 20th century, the dominant groups within the colony, often those who occupied the settled towns and cities and were educated and worked under the European colonial power controlled the economics and politics of the newly formed country. They found themselves holding the undisputed reins of power. These leaders often times were a different ethnic group, spoke a different language, or even had a different religion to the tribes on the periphery. They saw the tribal communities as a threat to the cohesiveness of the new state and a great hindrance towards their efforts to modernize their nations. At the hands of the central government, the tribes were forcibly settled and assimilated to the dominant language and culture, strategically neglected, or even exterminated. As the jubilation over independence subsided, a cycle of violence between the central government and the tribes often took its place. The era of independence was often no better, if not worse, than the colonial past for these oppressed communities.
After 9/11, the United States, backing the military and intelligence services of central governments, looked to these peripheral regions—which were already in a state of turmoil—in their hunt for terrorists. The involvement of the US has exacerbated and expanded the violence between centre and periphery but is not the cause of it. Unfortunately, the US has not demonstrated that it has any understanding of this history and dynamic between center and periphery in the conduct of the war on terror over the past decade. Rather, the US continues to implement the same failed policies in new conflict areas. I would challenge anyone, including Professor Fair, to take one glance at the current state of Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, FATA, or other regions of the Muslim world where America is engaged and argue that its policies to halt the violence have been anything but a failure.
It is only by understanding the historical context of the conflicts between center and periphery, something which far pre-dates America’s involvement in these societies, and the motivating factors for further acts of terror, that we are able to come up with any effective solutions for the tragic violence which continues to rage in many parts of both the Muslim and non-Muslim world. If we are able to understand the root causes of the violence, it is clear why the drones, despite what Professor Fair has argued in a number of essays and articles, are an ineffective way to promote peace and stability in the region. Drones as well as training, arms, and other assistance given by the US to central governments are too often used in local conflicts between centre and periphery, contributing to a cycle of violence that seems unending and has made life for so many in these societies unbearable.
The bulk of the research data supporting Professor Ahmed’s thesis is found in chapters 3, 4, and 5. From Professor Fair’s review, there is no evidence that she actually read these chapters all that closely, having skipped over 200 pages of text in her discussion of The Thistle and the Drone, from pg. 97 to pg. 305. For the record, it was in these glossed over pages in which the historical arc of the conflict between centre and periphery from the time of the emirate through colonization and into the modern state and the current war on terror was laid out and which forms the basis for the recommendations which Professor Ahmed makes in Chapter 6. Waziristan, the core case study of the book, is one of 40 case studies which all demonstrate the same tensions between centre and periphery, including other regions where the drone is used such as Yemen and Somalia. While Professor Fair only focuses on Waziristan as her essay is primarily a review of scholarship studying the use of the drone in FATA, what is written about Waziristan and FATA in The Thistle and the Drone cannot be fully understood if separated from the broader thesis of the book, as Professor Fair has done having selected only bits and pieces in order to support her own assumptions.
Besides omitting the entire thesis of The Thistle and the Drone in her review, Professor Fair has misrepresented the arguments of the book. She seems taken with the idea that Professor Ahmed’s arguments are “orientalist” and his aim is to restore the “old colonial system” in Pakistan. Professor Fair writes:
“Ahmed’s idyllic fondness for the repressive colonial era is out of touch with contemporary critics who believe the only way to pacify the region is by integrating the residents of FATA and making them fully enfranchised citizens of the state. The recent Crisis Group report is clear that only way to proceed is by ‘incorporating FATA into the constitutional mainstream, abolishing the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR, 1901) and replacing it by the Pakistan Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code and Evidence Act’. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has denounced the FCR as a ‘bad law nobody can defend’, except it would seem Akbar Ahmed.”
This contention that Professor Ahmed wishes to continue to support the oppressive Frontier Crimes Regulations in FATA, which gives the central government such broad powers, and opposes the extension of enfranchisement and full rights to the residents of FATA is false. On the contrary, Professor Ahmed writes on pg. 95 of The Thistle and the Drone:
“Some things need to change. Rights for women and those not on the tribal charter need to be introduced and vigorously protected. The Frontier Crimes Regulations that governs the Tribal Areas, the excessive and unchecked powers of political officers, the role of traditional elders who so easily compromised with the administration, the population’s limited participation in elections and, above all, the sense of isolation must go. In any case, little of these past traditions and structures will survive considering the scale of the changes taking place in the region. However, wise and authentic tribal leadership, genuinely educated and scholarly religious leaders, and efficient and honest political officers are crucial to the reconstruction of Waziristan society.”
I also must point out the irony in an American who writes about Pakistan calling a Pakistani writing about Pakistan an orientalist. I feel the need to remind Professor Fair what Edward Said writes about Orientalism in his seminal work:
“To the extent that Western scholars were aware of contemporary Orientals or Oriental movements of thought and culture, these were perceived either as silent shadows to be animated by the Orientalist, brought into reality by him, or as a kind of cultural and intellectual proletariat useful for the Orientalist’s grander interpretative activity, necessary for his performance as superior judge, learned man, powerful cultural will.”
Said writes elsewhere in Orientalism, “These contemporary Orientalist attitudes flood the press and the popular mind. Arabs, for example, are thought of as camel-riding, terroristic, hook-nosed, venal lechers whose undeserved wealth is an affront to real civilization.” I would advise Professor Fair to assess her own work in light of the above quotes, such as when she describes the victims of drone strikes in Pakistan as “terrorist garbage” or in her article for The Atlantic, “The Case for Calling Them Nitwits,” when she reduces what she calls “the jihadist community” to a caricature of incompetent porn addicts who have sex with cows and donkeys. Such crude stereotypes serve only as a hindrance to understanding the actual source of the violence and the impact of the war on terror on millions of innocent people around the Muslim world.
In fact, the entire purpose of The Thistle and the Drone is to demonstrate that these beleaguered communities—those in FATA and the other societies discussed in the book—are denied their full rights and equal participation by the modern state and this is the problem which needs to be solved in order to establish peace in these societies and, as Professor Ahmed writes, “win the war on terror.” They need to be better integrated into the state, not further marginalized or denigrated. Despite their potential to play a positive role in the state, these tribal communities are denied the opportunity to do so due to the policies of central governments eager to tap into the benefits of globalization. This point is argued extensively throughout the book’s 369 pages.
The arguments which Professor Ahmed make in the book which Professor Fair misinterprets as the restoration of the old colonial system, concern the need for a functioning and effective structure through which law and order can be maintained, a structure that is unfortunately non-existent in FATA today. Instead, the Pakistani government has relied upon a series of military invasions of Waziristan that have proven ineffective in stemming the violence emanating into the rest of Pakistan with the drones only making the situation worse. Only by understanding how a society traditionally operates can such a structure be established that is largely viewed as legitimate by the population. It is for this purpose that Professor Ahmed’s experiences in the field are used in this study, as a benchmark to understand how the tribal societies of FATA have traditionally functioned in the past and how they have changed within a single generation. By understanding the contrast, the reader is able to see the specific problems that need to be addressed in order to begin to understand how to re-establish an administrative structure for the periphery.
Professor Fair also objects to Professor Ahmed’s use of “tribe” in his analysis of Muslim societies that today commonly define themselves on the basis of clan or family identity and descent from a common ancestor such as the Pashtun, Somalis, or Yemenis. These societies, Professor Ahmed writes, have been described by anthropologists as “segmentary lineage systems.” Professor Ahmed in the book provided an extensive justification for use of this term and its relevance in the modern era, which Professor Fair does not engage with. Instead she criticizes Professor Ahmed’s use of concepts such as “tribal Islam”, “tribal Muslim”, and “segmentary lineage systems,” writing: “Ahmed’s confidence in the changeless categories of tribes and tribalness is frustratingly out of touch if not outright Orientalist.”
This simplistic dismissal of a social scientist’s models without actually engaging in why he is using them and their place within the field of anthropology is a further indication of Professor Fair’s superficial analysis. The contention that Professor Ahmed constructed a “changeless” category is also false. Professor Ahmed states:
“When I discuss ‘segmentary lineage systems’ and ‘models’, readers must not lose sight of the fact that these are abstract terms employed to provide an idea of reality on the basis of surveys and aggregates. So when I place communities into categories, keep in mind that this is little more than an exercise in imagination and merely the basis for further discussion and debate. These categories are not watertight and frequently overlap.”
In yet another misrepresentation of Professor Ahmed’s argument, Professor Fair indicates that Professor Ahmed’s so-called “Orientalism” prohibits him from seeing groups like the Pashtun as modern and dynamic. She writes: “Whereas for Ahmed, the Pashtun is a rustic with no desire other than to remain far from the reaches of the state, more thoughtful analysis posits the Pashtun as one of the most globalized communities of Pakistan whose diaspora expands from Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Southwest Asia, and onward to Europe and North America.”
Professor Fair apparently missed the sub-section of Chapter 1 titled “Muslim Tribes in History” in which Professor Ahmed discusses the regional and global impact that the Pashtun have played in history, as well as other tribal people elsewhere in the Muslim world. The Pashtun, he writes, “have produced celebrated artists, sportsmen, statesmen, Sufi saints, and advocates of nonviolence.” He goes on to recount the names of famous Pashtun who have in the 20th and 21st centuries been the leaders of nations, global sports icons, and famous movie stars.
Professor Fair additionally dismisses Professor Ahmed’s arguments by writing that his time as the Pakistani government official in charge of Waziristan, the Political Agent, was from 1978-1980 and he is therefore “out of touch” and his “‘in-country’ expertise is dated”. She goes on to state that Professor Ahmed’s “claim to fame is that he served for two years as a ‘political officer’ in Waziristan in 1979 and 1980 and who is now a professor at American University in the School of International Service.”
She ignores the fact that Waziristan is not Professor Ahmed’s only experience in FATA during a 35-year career as a member of the Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP), having also previously served as the Political Agent in Orakzai Agency and conducted extensive fieldwork in Mohmand Agency for his PhD in anthropology. He also served as Commissioner in three divisions in Baluchistan and as Founding Director General of the National Center for Rural Development in Pakistan. Additionally, he held various senior postings in the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and what was then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) as well as serving as Pakistani High Commissioner to the UK.
In addition to his years of government service, Professor Ahmed is a world-renowned anthropologist and has written dozens of books about tribal society and Islam since the 1970s, based in anthropological fieldwork. For Professor Fair to dismiss Professor Ahmed’s anthropological methodology and use and development of anthropological models when she has stated herself that her PhD is in “South Asian literatures” is odd indeed.
It is clear that Professor Fair has critiqued The Thistle and the Drone based on what she assumes it is about rather than what it is actually arguing. I find it very difficult to believe that she “carefully” read this book as she claims in her article. It is worrying that such a prominent academic would publish such a poorly written and researched article. Her antipathy towards Professor Ahmed remains a mystery but I can only hope that the next time she chooses to review one of Professor Ahmed’s works, or indeed write anything else, she will utilize scholarly methods reflective of her scholarly position and reputation.
Harrison Akins is the Ibn Khaldun Chair Research Fellow at American University’s School of International Service and was senior researcher for Professor Akbar Ahmed’s The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam (Brookings 2013).
1. Malise Ruthven, “Terror: The Hidden Source,” The New York Review of Books, October 24, 2013.
2. C. Christine Fair, “Drones, spies, terrorists, and second-class citizenship in Pakistan,” Small Wars & Insurgencies, Vol. 25, Issue 1, May 2014, pgs. 226-229
Source: http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/debating-the-thistle-and-the-drone-a-response-to-the-distortions-of-christi
URL: http://www.newageislam.com/books-and-documents/harrison-akins/debating-the-thistle-and-the-drone--a-response-to-the-distortions-of-christine-fair/d/100226
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At the age of 16, Papa Bear began his journey researching his hidden passions via books and other literature (the only legal recourse when one discovers such proclivities at such a tender age); at age 18, a wonderful Miss took him under her wing. Under her tutelage, he learned step-by-step how to use the tools he fetishized, and he hasn’t looked back since. An active member of the Las Vegas community for some time now, Papa Bear is the 2015 President for LUC of LV, a member of the Las Vegas Leadership Council, a member of Vegas Valley TNG, a core staff member of Sin in the City, and served as the Associate Director for the last Las Vegas Mentors Program. In March of 2014, he was honored to win the title of Mr. Southwest Olympus Leather 2014, competed with his class in Los Angeles at International Olympus Leather during DomConLA and then won the title of International Person Of Leather in 2015.
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US and China Prepare for Trade Clash
The previous time when Washington prepared for a trade clash, the president was Ronald Reagan and Japan was the adversary. Today the White House is preparing for a similar type of situation which is a mix of tariffs and the quotas are typically aimed at Chinese imports. It actually has sights on almost everything ranging from steel to solar panels and washing machines. A record trade surplus of China with the United States was announced in the previous week which is a potential catalyst for hostile behavior after a year of bluster from US president Donald Trump. This is certainly not a trade war but if it happens so, it will be quite similar to the one that took place in the 1980s over cars, semiconductors and television sets from Japan.
This time, the forces are more evenly matched since the United States has never been at a trade war with an opponent like China in terms of the size of the economy, industrial capabilities and global ambitions at the same time. When the same trade war happened previously, Japan was an ally of the United States but in this case China is increasingly a rival which raises the risk of a counter attack especially because of the support for Beijing is crumbling throughout the political spectrum of the United States as well as in the business community of the nations at the same time which is traditionally a strong advocate for the trade of China. In this brewing battle of trade which is fuelled by protectionists in both the US and Chinese camps where each of the sides has an exaggerated sense of their own advantages.
Scott Kennedy who is an expert on Chinese industrial policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies which is actually a Washington-based think tank mentioned that a trade war is coming because of ideological extremism and absolutely contradictory estimates of who has more leverage. The global markets seem to be absolutely unprepared for what could result into a clash of the titans. Besides the nuclear threat of North Korea, the trade war between the United States and China could turn out to be the biggest potential economic spoiler of the year 2018. Once the trade war is under way, its effects would be felt beyond the combatants themselves. The friends and allies of the United States along Asian supply chains would be facing early collateral damage.
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Lorian Hardcastle, LL.M., was a Law Fellow with the O’Neill Institute from 2010-2012. She completed her law degree (with Health Law and Policy Specialization Certificate) at Dalhousie University. She completed her LL.M. and is nearing completion of her S.J.D. at the University of Toronto. Her research interests are health privacy law, health system financing, regulation and governance of the health care system, constitutional health law issues, and governmental health sector tort liability.
During law school, Lorian worked in the legal department of the Calgary Health Region and as a research assistant to a number of professors in the Health Law Institute. Following law school, she worked at a law firm with a significant health law practice. Lorian also worked as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. Lorian has taught Health Care Law in the Faculty of Health at York University.
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Education Schools in Bradenton, Florida
There are 16 schools located near Bradenton, FL offering education programs. In 2010, 2,333 students graduated from programs at Bradenton education schools. 1,001 of all these students graduated with bachelors degrees and 816 of all these students graduated with masters degrees.
2,251 students graduate from programs in this municipality in education, on average, each year. This accounts for approximately 14% of students who Florida schools graduate from education programs. Out of those, 322 students graduated with certificates in education, 11 with a degree at the associate's level, 1,001 with a degree at the bachelor's level, 816 with a degree at the master's level, and 183 with a degree at the doctorate level.
16 education schools are in Bradenton. And out of these, while nine schools are private, seven schools are public. While public education school tuition varies from $2,822 to $5,198, tuition at a private education school varies from $10,680 to $23,218.
Average tuition for programs in education is $9,236. While the lowest tuition in Bradenton, which is $2,822 each year, is at State College of Florida-Manatee-Sarasota, the highest tuition for education programs, which is $23,218 per year, is at the University of Tampa.
Education schools in Bradenton offer certificates, associates degrees, bachelors degrees, masters degrees, and doctoral degrees.
Education Program Completions 2006 - 2010 in Bradenton, Florida
Certificate 2006: 177
Certificate 2009: 23
Bachelor 2010: 1001
Master 2006: 858
Doctorate 2006: 175
Education Program Availability in Bradenton, Florida
Bradenton schools offer a total of 101 education programs. Of these programs, around 44.6% are master's level programs. The remaining programs are certificates and degrees at the bachelors level, the doctoral level, and the associates level.
Bachelor: 38
Master: 45
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Total Employed 2007: 80
Bradenton vs Florida Education Employment
Employed in Bradenton: 1.559% (395)
Early Childhood Education Schools in Bradenton, Florida
Average tuition for programs in early childhood education is $6,533. The highest tuition for early childhood education programs is at the University of Phoenix-West Florida. The highest tuition for early childhood education training is $10,680 per year. Early Childhood Education Schools in Bradenton, Florida
Educational Leadership Schools in Bradenton, Florida
Average tuition for educational leadership programs is $9,037. The highest tuition for educational leadership programs is at Argosy University-Tampa. The highest tuition for training in educational leadership is $19,812 each year. Educational Leadership Schools in Bradenton, Florida
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On average, 668 students graduate from programs in Bradenton, FL in elementary education per year. This accounts for close to 18% of students who schools in the state of Florida graduate from elementary education programs. 615 students graduated with a degree in elementary education at the bachelor's level. Elementary Education Schools in Bradenton, Florida
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The University of South Florida-Main is a public school. Average tuition for an ESL program at this university is $5,198. On average, public tuition at Florida ESL schools is $5,110. ESL Schools in Bradenton, Florida
Special Education Schools in Bradenton, Florida
Five special education schools are located in Bradenton, FL. One school is private. Four schools are public. Special Education Schools in Bradenton, Florida
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Ten teaching schools are in Bradenton, FL. Five schools are private. Five schools are public. Teaching Schools in Bradenton, Florida
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Education Schools in Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville schools offer a total of 41 programs in education. Of these programs, close to 65% are bachelor's level programs. The remaining programs are certificates and degrees at the masters level, the doctoral level, and the associates level. Education Schools in Jacksonville, Florida
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North Port schools offer certificates, associates degrees, bachelors degrees, masters degrees, and doctoral degrees for students pursing education. 167 students graduated with education certificates. 36 students graduated with an education degree at the associate's level. Education Schools in North Port, Florida
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Schools in Bonita Springs, FL offer a total of 22 programs in education. Of these programs, around 45.5% are bachelor's level programs. The remaining programs are certificates and degrees at the masters level and the associates level. Education Schools in Bonita Springs, Florida
Education Schools in Panama City, Florida
37 students graduated with certificates in education. The number of students who graduated with education degrees went up by close to 236.4% from 2008 to 2010. The number of students which certificate programs graduate climbed by 26 students. Education Schools in Panama City, Florida
Education Schools in Pensacola, Florida
Four education schools are located in Pensacola, FL. One school is private. Three schools are public. Education Schools in Pensacola, Florida
Education Schools in Homestead, Florida
Average tuition for education programs is $18,503. The highest tuition for education programs is at the University of Miami. The highest tuition for training in education is $37,836 per year. Education Schools in Homestead, Florida
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There are two schools located by Melbourne, FL offering education programs. 197 students graduated from programs at Melbourne education schools in 2010. 156 of all these students graduated with certificates. Education Schools in Melbourne, Florida
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Pinellas Park education schools offer certificates, associates degrees, bachelors degrees, masters degrees, and doctoral degrees. 402 students graduated with certificates in education. 12 students graduated with a degree in education at the associate's level. Education Schools in Pinellas Park, Florida
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220 students graduated with certificates in education. Five students graduated with a degree in education at the associate's level. 256 students graduated with a degree in education at the bachelor's level. Education Schools in Ocala, Florida
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Average tuition for programs in education is $10,877. The highest tuition for education programs is at Lynn University. The highest tuition for education training is $30,900 every year. Education Schools in Riviera Beach, Florida
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343 students graduated with education certificates. 11 students graduated with a degree in education at the associate's level. 1,076 students graduated with a degree in education at the bachelor's level. Education Schools in Deltona, Florida
Education Schools in Largo, Florida
402 students graduated with education certificates. 11 students graduated with a degree in education at the associate's level. 1,198 students graduated with a bachelor's level education degree. Education Schools in Largo, Florida
Education Schools in Palm Coast, Florida
Palm Coast schools offer certificates, associates degrees, bachelors degrees, and masters degrees for students pursing education. 115 students graduated with education certificates. 11 students graduated with an associate's level degree in education. Education Schools in Palm Coast, Florida
Education Schools in Clearwater, Florida
Schools in Clearwater, FL offer a total of 112 programs in education. Of these programs, around 45.5% are programs at the master's level. The remaining programs are certificates and degrees at the bachelors level, the doctoral level, and the associates level. Education Schools in Clearwater, Florida
Education Schools in Hialeah, Florida
1,757 students graduated with certificates in education. 20 students graduated with an associate's level education degree. 1,320 students graduated with a bachelor's level degree in education. Education Schools in Hialeah, Florida
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There are 21 schools near North Miami Beach, FL offering education programs. In 2010, 7,174 students graduated from programs at North Miami Beach education schools. 3,449 of all these students graduated with masters degrees. Education Schools in North Miami Beach, Florida
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There are 20 schools close to Miami Beach, FL offering education programs. In 2010, 7,065 students graduated from programs at Miami Beach education schools. 3,449 of all these students graduated with masters degrees. Education Schools in Miami Beach, Florida
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15 education schools are located in Kissimmee, FL. Six schools are private. Nine schools are public. Education Schools in Kissimmee, Florida
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Schools in Coral Gables, FL offer a total of 236 programs in education. Of these programs, approximately 39.4% are programs at the master's level. The remaining programs are certificates and degrees at the bachelors level, the doctoral level, and the associates level. Education Schools in Coral Gables, Florida
Education Schools in Coconut Creek, Florida
1,864 students graduated with education certificates. 22 students graduated with an associate's level degree in education. 1,344 students graduated with an education degree at the bachelor's level. Education Schools in Coconut Creek, Florida
Education Schools in Jupiter, Florida
1,104 students graduate from programs in Jupiter, FL in education, on average, every year. This accounts for 7% of students who schools in the state of Florida graduate from education programs. 246 students graduated with education certificates. Education Schools in Jupiter, Florida
Education Schools in Tampa, Florida
The number of students who graduated with education degrees went up by around 22.4% from 2008 to 2010. In particular, the number of undergraduate students climbed by 115 students. The number of students which certificate programs graduate increased by 455 students. Education Schools in Tampa, Florida
Education Schools in Ormond Beach, Florida
Ormond Beach schools offer certificates, associates degrees, bachelors degrees, masters degrees, and doctoral degrees for students pursing education. 141 students graduated with education certificates. 11 students graduated with an education degree at the associate's level. Education Schools in Ormond Beach, Florida
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16 education schools are located in Orlando, FL. Six schools are private. Ten schools are public. Education Schools in Orlando, Florida
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Education schools in Miami, FL offer certificates, associates degrees, bachelors degrees, masters degrees, and doctoral degrees. 1,757 students graduated with certificates in education. 20 students graduated with an education degree at the associate's level. Education Schools in Miami, Florida
Education Schools in Gainesville, Florida
Schools in Gainesville, FL offer a total of 42 programs in education. Of these programs, close to 40.5% are programs at the master's level. The remaining programs are certificates and degrees at the doctoral level, the bachelors level, and the associates level. Education Schools in Gainesville, Florida
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St. Petersburg schools offer a total of 138 programs in education. Of these programs, 44.2% are programs at the master's level. The remaining programs are certificates and degrees at the bachelors level, the doctoral level, and the associates level. Education Schools in St. Petersburg, Florida
Education Schools in Palm Bay, Florida
156 students graduated with education certificates. 35 students graduated with an education degree at the bachelor's level. Six students graduated with a master's level education degree. Education Schools in Palm Bay, Florida
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There are 22 schools located around Lauderhill, FL offering education programs. 7,209 students graduated from programs at Lauderhill education schools in 2010. 3,460 of all these students graduated with masters degrees. Education Schools in Lauderhill, Florida
Education Schools in Fort Myers, Florida
Fort Myers schools offer a total of 22 programs in education. Of these programs, around 45.5% are bachelor's level programs. The remaining programs are certificates and degrees at the masters level and the associates level. Education Schools in Fort Myers, Florida
Education Schools in Dunedin, Florida
402 students graduated with certificates in education. 11 students graduated with a degree in education at the associate's level. 1,198 students graduated with an education degree at the bachelor's level. Education Schools in Dunedin, Florida
Education Schools in Oakland Park, Florida
The number of students who graduated with education degrees fell by 2.2% from 2008 to 2010. In particular, the number of undergraduate students decreased by 186 students. The number of students which certificate programs graduate climbed by 430 students. Education Schools in Oakland Park, Florida
Education Schools in Miramar, Florida
Miramar schools offer a total of 240 programs in education. Of these programs, approximately 38.8% are master's level programs. The remaining programs are certificates and degrees at the bachelors level, the doctoral level, and the associates level. Education Schools in Miramar, Florida
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The number of students who graduated with degrees in education climbed by 28% from 2008 to 2010. In particular, the number of undergraduate students went up by 97 students. The number of students which certificate programs graduate went up by 111 students. Education Schools in Daytona Beach, Florida
Education Schools in Boynton Beach, Florida
1,665 students graduated with education certificates. 13 students graduated with a degree in education at the associate's level. 802 students graduated with an education degree at the bachelor's level. Education Schools in Boynton Beach, Florida
Education Schools in Pompano Beach, Florida
Pompano Beach schools offer a total of 249 programs in education. Of these programs, 37.8% are master's level programs. The remaining programs are certificates and degrees at the bachelors level, the doctoral level, and the associates level. Education Schools in Pompano Beach, Florida
Education Schools in North Miami, Florida
The number of students who graduated with education degrees dropped by 3.4% from 2008 to 2010. In particular, the number of undergraduate students dropped by 182 students. The number of students which certificate programs graduate increased by 326 students. Education Schools in North Miami, Florida
Education Schools in Hallandale Beach, Florida
Hallandale Beach schools offer a total of 240 programs in education. Of these programs, around 38.8% are master's level programs. The remaining programs are certificates and degrees at the bachelors level, the doctoral level, and the associates level. Education Schools in Hallandale Beach, Florida
Education Schools in Key West, Florida
Florida Keys Community College offers certificates in education. 12 students graduated with education certificates in 2010. The number of students which certificate programs graduate went up by 12 students. Education Schools in Key West, Florida
Education Schools in Altamonte Springs, Florida
2,027 students graduate from programs in Altamonte Springs, FL in education, on average, every year. This accounts for close to 14% of students who schools in the state of Florida graduate from education programs. 541 students graduated with education certificates. Education Schools in Altamonte Springs, Florida
Education Schools in Coral Springs, Florida
The number of students who graduated with education degrees went down by 2.2% from 2008 to 2010. In particular, the number of undergraduate students dropped by 186 students. The number of students which certificate programs graduate climbed by 430 students. Education Schools in Coral Springs, Florida
Education Schools in Margate, Florida
On average, 7,290 students graduate from programs in Margate, FL in education per year. This accounts for 43% of education students who schools in the state of Florida graduate. 1,864 students graduated with certificates in education. Education Schools in Margate, Florida
Education Schools in Plantation, Florida
Plantation schools offer a total of 249 education programs. Of these programs, around 37.8% are master's level programs. The remaining programs are certificates and degrees at the bachelors level, the doctoral level, and the associates level. Education Schools in Plantation, Florida
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Tamarac schools offer certificates, associates degrees, bachelors degrees, masters degrees, and doctoral degrees in education. 1,864 students graduated with certificates in education. 22 students graduated with an associate's level degree in education. Education Schools in Tamarac, Florida
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Schools in Lake Worth, FL offer certificates, associates degrees, bachelors degrees, masters degrees, and doctoral degrees in education. 959 students graduated with education certificates. Four students graduated with an associate's level degree in education. Education Schools in Lake Worth, Florida
Education Schools in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
There are 22 schools located around Fort Lauderdale, FL offering education programs. In 2010, 7,209 students graduated with degrees from Fort Lauderdale education schools. 3,460 of all these students graduated with masters degrees. Education Schools in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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22 education schools are in Sunrise, FL. 14 schools are private. Eight schools are public. Education Schools in Sunrise, Florida
Education Schools in North Lauderdale, Florida
There are 22 schools near North Lauderdale, FL offering education programs. 7,209 students graduated with degrees from North Lauderdale education schools in 2010. 3,460 of all these students graduated with masters degrees. Education Schools in North Lauderdale, Florida
Education Schools in Apopka, Florida
1,998 students graduate from programs in Apopka, FL in education, on average, each year. This accounts for close to 14% of education students who Florida schools graduate. 488 students graduated with education certificates. Education Schools in Apopka, Florida
Approximately 3 schools across the nation offer Bradenton students online education degrees at the following degree levels:
These online education schools offer students in Bradenton the opportunity to pursue credentials in education through one of 27 online education programs. In 2010, there were 1089 online education school graduates from these programs. Online Education Schools
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1. The Manatee Technical Institute
Bradenton, FL 34210-5603
(941) 751-7900x2244
The Manatee Technical Institute, which is located 28.4 miles from Pinellas Park, is located a short commute away from within Bradenton and it offers one program in education. This school is a public 2-year institution and it is one out of two Bradenton institutions offering education.
2. State College of Florida - Manatee-Sarasota
State College of Florida-Manatee-Sarasota, which is just 28.8 miles from neighboring Pinellas Park, is located a short commute away from within Bradenton. This school offers two education programs. Out of those, this school offers students one education certificate and one associate's level education degree. It is a public 4-year institution and this big school is one out of three institutions in Bradenton, FL offering education.
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Written by Liane Shepley-Brown / Summaries / September 23, 2016
Defendant’s Motion for DMEs Dismissed, while also Chastised for Not Taking Pre-Trial Preparations Seriously
Released August 24, 2016 | Full Decision [CanLII]
In this motion, the Defendant insurer, Wawanesa, sought an order requiring the Plaintiff to be examined by several medical specialists. The Plaintiff opposed the order on various grounds, including that the Defendant required leave to bring the motion, the request was in violation of the Rules of Civil Procedure (“the Rules”), and that the motion was brought after the pre-trials took place.
The Defendant argued that it was entitled to the examinations as of right under the Courts of Justice Act, since these were the first examinations that the Defendant had sought. It argued that the examinations were required as a matter of fairness in order to permit the Defendant to properly defend the action.
The Plaintiff argued that he would be prejudiced as the examinations would likely delay the trial. He argued the Defendant had ample time to arrange the examinations and only now sought defence medical examinations after two pre-trials had been conducted. The Plaintiff also argued that the Defendant required leave pursuant to Rule 48.04.
While Justice Ray held that the Defendant did not require leave under Rule 48.04 as it did not expressly consent to the trial date, he went on to dismiss the Defendant’s motion. He rejected the Defendant’s argument that it had an unfettered right to a defence medical. He also dismissed the Defendant’s argument that the timing of the request was irrelevant. Justice Ray held that the failure of the Defendant to seek defence examinations prior to the pre-trials required that the court scrutinize the requested orders more closely.
Justice Ray noted that the Rules for pre-trials make it clear that the case must be ready for trial with all reports available. All reports must be filed 60 days before the pre-trial, not 90 days before trial, which was the previous practise.
Notably, Justice Ray chastised the Defendant and its counsel for not taking its preparations for pre-trial seriously. He wrote:
Since earlier trial dates were made available, then all counsel needed to take their preparation seriously. Wawanesa’s motion has not been triggered by anything the plaintiff did or failed to do. It was caused solely by its own failure to take these obligations seriously. An additional problem created by Wawanesa is that the trial time was estimated at the time of the pretrial without the benefit of knowing what if any defence experts were necessary. That in and of itself raises the spectre of additional trial time being necessary; and at a time of tight judicial scheduling, it may not be available and may have to be re-scheduled. Counsel’s position in its factum ignores all of the foregoing, makes no apologies, and says the only relevant factor is whether the trial date will be delayed.
Read the full decision on CanLII
#DME #insurer #medical examination #motion #pre-trial
Liane Shepley-Brown
Liane first joined Oatley Vigmond as a law student and later joined the team as an Associate Lawyer after her call to the bar. She holds a JD from the University of Windsor and an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Guelph.
Liane is committed to representing individuals who have suffered serious personal injuries and to families who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Her practice concentrates on personal injury law, including accident benefits, motor vehicle collisions, medical malpractice, occupiers’ liability, product liability and wrongful death cases.
When Liane isn’t practicing personal injury law, she enjoys working out and spending time with family and friends.
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Palin slams 'bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie'
Palin has given a steady stream of interviews since Election Day.
(CNN) - Sarah Palin fired a new salvo in her war on the media, unloading in a new interview on her home state paper and “bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie.”
The Alaska governor, who has granted a steady stream of interviews since Election Day, also told an Esquire reporter that she wishes she had told McCain campaign advisors she’d be “callin’ some of the shots.”
"Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me....I'll tell you, yesterday the Anchorage Daily News, they called again to ask — double-, triple-, quadruple-check — who is Trig's real mom,” she said, in an interview to be published in the magazine’s March issue.
“And I said, Come on, are you kidding me? We're gonna answer this? Do you not believe me or my doctor? And they said, No, it's been quite cryptic the way that my son's birth has been discussed. And I thought, Okay, more indication of continued problems in the world of journalism."
But Palin said she had adopted a philosophical attitude on the downside of the spotlight. "You have to let it go,” she said. “Even hard news sources, credible news sources — the comment about, you can see Russia from Alaska. You can! You can see Russia from Alaska. Something like that — a factual statement that was taken out of context and mocked — what you have to do is let that go."
The former Republican vice presidential candidate said again she regretted not taking a greater leadership role during the campaign season. "If I were giving advice to myself back on the day my candidacy was announced, I'd say, Tell the campaign that you'll be callin' some of the shots,” she said. “Don't just assume that they know you well enough to make all your decisions for ya. Let them know that you're the CEO of a state, you're forty-four years old, you've got a lot of great life experience that can be put to good use as a candidate."
Despite a season of barbs aimed at the coastal elites, Palin seemed to offer an olive branch to the Big Apple: "I would think we all tear up during the national anthem at the beginning of a baseball game, don't we? That's an alikeness between Alaskans and New Yorkers," she said.
Update: In an Anchorage Daily News column published last week, the paper's editor said the only questions reporters there had asked about Trig's birth came when the paper undertook a project to debunk conspiracy theories surrounding the event, but that they had abandoned the effort because of a lack of cooperation from the Palin family.
"I don't believe we have ever published in the newspaper a story, a letter, a column or anything alleging a coverup surrounding your maternity," wrote the editor in an e-mail sent to Palin and reprinted on the paper's blog. "In fact, my integrity and the integrity of the newspaper have been repeatedly attacked in national forums for our complicity in the 'coverup.'
Later, he added: "...So I don’t understand the behavior of the governor’s press office. Did the governor not share my email with the press staff? Did the press staff deliberately ignore what I said in order to have a longer list of press 'outrages'? Or are they just sloppy with details? I don’t know."
Filed under: Sarah Palin
As a Upstate New York resident, I know a lot of people like Sarah Palin, but I wouldn't want any of them to be VP either. Don't get me wrong, I think there was a lot of sexism involved with her candidcy, but unlike Hillary Clinton who fought through that sexism with strength and grace, Palin just cries about it and plays the victim. Maybe someday we'll get beyond sexism in our lives, but until that time there's still no way a woman will be elected by embracing victimhood. And as if that wasn't enough, stupid arguements like "The state I live in is close to Russia so I know foriegn politics" really doesn't help. I can see the stars at night, that doesn't make me an astronaught.
January 13, 2009 11:40 am at 11:40 am |
natkat
Ok. So the entire world is wrong and she is right? Oh... c'mon... give me a break. Sarah, there are great deals on Amazon. com on history, geography and other instructional books that you might find useful.In addition, there is a copy of USA Constitution you just have to Google it. And, there are resources you can use prior to being interviewed so that you would not look like a complete fool.
George Benda
Can Ms. Palin, the loser, please shut up and crawl back under her rock where she belongs
Proud Liberal
Doesn't she have a state to run into the ground?
Holy cow I wish this cry baby would shut up. The world of politics is a tough place. If you can't handle it, get out.
I think Sarah is right on with what she said! People took it to a whole different level with hammering her and her family. They didn't deserve it. Sarah is intelligent, honest, and refreshing person!
John in Ohio
The top ten things that annoy Palin:
1. Free speech
2. A free press
3. People who notice that the daughter of this "champion of abstinence" got knocked up
4. Quebecois comedians who pretend to be Nicholas Sarkozy and successfully prank her for several minutes
5. Larry Flynt's right to free speech
6. Liberals
7. Democrats
8. Liberal Democrats
9. People saying things that she can't control
10. Republicans that aren't sufficiently conservative
Mike Hall
She walked onto the national stage without understanding that the press would rake her over the coals on every little thing, no matter how silly or irrelevant? If that's the case, she's even less politically savvy than the American electorate seems to have deemed her.
And she really knows how "to let it go"?
Enough already.
Palin's history since becomming McCain's running mate is that she is always slamming someone or some thing and her attacks are rarely supported by the truth and facts. Palin, like President Bush, uses McCarthy tactics to divide people and attack the character of specific targets then acts surprised that the public doesn't like her.
Be quiet, Sarah, we don't want to see you or hear from you any more.
The journalists are still trying to find something to wear in Sarah Palin's closet. Let's play reverse rolls on the journalists. Did your mom ever have an abortion? Is your mom your real mom? Governor Palin, let's launch an investigation on the journalists? Let's see if there's anything in their closet they hung up that's dirty. I'm sure when we open up their closet, everything is going to fall out.
Randall from FL
Get'em Sarah! We got your back!
Oh please! Why is she being interviewed... there are so many other important things happening in this world. Palin can bash up democrats later sometime.
Go home Sarah, your fifteen minutes are over.
Monty Delaware GOP!!!!
an alikeness????
Really... she is killing her chances to be a national candidate. She would do better to just shut up and disappear for 2 years and maybe come back with a clearer and better strategy. She hasn't learned that she will lose this fight. Never fight with someone or something that you can't see or hit back. You will Lose.... Someone please tell her this... for her sake.....
Time for this ignoranus to go away.......you've had your fifteen minutes of shame, Sarah. GO AWAY!
I wonder how she would characterize Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. Honorable champions of the truth? That's the world of politics, Governor. Both sides are equally guilty. Get a little thicker skin.
You can disagree with Governor Palin all you want, but some of the comments and lies made up on purpose by people that use...
to describe someone that simply has a different view on abortion or religion are just
Al, NY NY
She is ALWAYS the victim. What a crybaby. If HRC had been the candidate and said some of this drivel, the GOP "pundits" (aka shills) would have blasted her as unworthy to take the heat. But since she is a pathtic excuse for a candidate (and a Republican woman) she's being unfairly targeted. GIVE ME A BREAK fido!!!
We don't CARE Sarah. Please GO AWAY.
this women needs to go away. you lost. get over it. you are just as insignificant as you were the day before mccain's campaign picked you to be his running mate.
Tracee
Will she ever go away?
tom from des moines, not anonymous
now that is articulate. was this women really the republican party's answer to barack obama? what a joke
Will she ever go away? Why is she still making the news? Does ANYONE care anymore honestly?
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Country Profile Armenia
President: Serzh Sargsyan
Capital (and Largest City): Yerevan
Population (2011): 2,872,000
Total Area: 29,743 km²
Official Language: Armenian
Currency: Armenian Dram (AMD)
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a sovereign state in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located in West Asia on the Armenian Highlands. It is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and Azerbaijan's exclave of Nakhichevan to the south. The Republic of Armenia constitutes only one-tenth of historical Armenia.
Armenia has a small lower-middle-income economy. Armenia’s national and regional contexts show that the country is at an inflection point. Since 2000, growth has slowed, and with it, the rate of poverty reduction. Some deceleration is due to the weaker performance of the country’s main trading partners and a slowdown in remittance-providing countries. Although poverty reduction has been impressive, a large proportion of people in Armenia are still vulnerable. Persistent disparities indicate that a deeper understanding of the causes and possible solutions is needed, bearing in mind that the economy is still heavily dependent on mineral resources, services and agriculture. On January 2, 2015, Armenia joined the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), withdrawing from the process of implementing the steps toward the AA and the DCFTA being negotiated with the EU in 2013. By joining the EEU, Armenia gets to benefit from all the customs union has to offer, while not having to carry out the complicated reforms, some of which are mandatory under the AA and the DCFTA frameworks. However, Armenia and the EU continue their political and trade dialogue in areas where this is compatible with Armenia’s participation to the EEU.
On March 21, 2017, the EU and Armenia initialed the EU-Armenia Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement. The Agreement will be an important step to broaden the scope of bilateral relations between the parties. It will strengthen the political dialogue and set a solid basis for the continuation of economic and social reforms, thus bringing their relations to a new and higher level.
Armenia’s transition from a semi-presidential system to a parliamentary republic is close to complete. Parliamentary elections in April 2017 were conducted according to the amended Constitution and a new electoral law, and the president will be elected by parliament rather than popular vote in spring 2018.
Transparency, accountability, and corruption are crucial concerns in the country. With higher public debt (5.6 billion USD as of September, 2016) and damaged business confidence, the macroeconomic framework has been severely damaged. Other challenges that Armenia faces are large-scale emigration (about 30,000 per year), poverty (officially 29.8% of population),social and political problems, etc.
Armenia’s medium-term outlook remains sensitive to internal and external factors, entailing both upside and downside risks.
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Published: Friday, 02 March 2018 18:04
Written by Pot Luck Quiz
Pot Luck #43 - General Knowledge Quiz Questions
1. 'Carl and the Passions', changed their band name to what?
2. How many coloured rings make up the Olympic flag?
3. What colour is vermilion a shade of?
4. King Zog ruled which country from 1922 to 1939?
5. What colour is Spock's blood?
6. Where in your body is your patella?
7. Where can you find the original London Bridge today?
8. What spirit is mixed with ginger beer in a Moscow Mule?
9. Who was the first man in space?
10. What would you do with a Yashmak?
11. Who betrayed Jesus to the Romans?
12. Name a mammal that lays eggs?
13. On the television show 'Flipper', what kind of animal was Flipper?
14. Who formed the band, 'The Quarrymen' in 1956?
15. Which horse has won the Grand National the most times?
16. Which actor originally starred as the Six Million Dollar Man?
17. In the song Waltzing Matilda - What is a Jumbuck?
18. Who was Dan Dare's greatest enemy in the Eagle?
19. What is Dick Grayson better known as?
20. What was given on the fourth day of Christmas?
21. What was Skippy ( on TV )?
22. What does a funambulist do?
23. What is the name of Dennis the Menace's dog?
24. What are bactrians and dromedaries?
25. Who played The Fugitive in the 1963 TV Series?
1. Beach Boys
2. Five
4. Albania
5. Green
6. The patella is commonly referred to as the kneecap. It is a small, freestanding, bone that rests between the femur (thighbone) and tibia (shinbone)
7. USA (Lake Havasu City, Arizona)
8. Vodka - Moscow mule is a cocktail made with vodka, spicy ginger beer, and lime juice, garnished with a slice or wedge of lime. It is a type of buck and therefore sometimes known as a vodka buck.
9. Yuri Gagarin - On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space when he launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft (Vostok 1).
10. Wear it - A yashmak, yashmac or yasmak (from Turkish yaşmak, "a veil") is a Turkish type of veil or niqab worn by some Muslim women to cover their faces in public.
11. Judas Escariot - Matthew directly states that Judas betrayed Jesus for a bribe of "thirty pieces of silver" by identifying him with a kiss – "the kiss of Judas" – to arresting soldiers of the High Priest Caiaphas, who then turned Jesus over to Pontius Pilate's soldiers.
12. Duck billed platypus or echidna (also known as spiny anteaters)
13. A dolphin
14. John Lennon
15. Red Rum - Red Rum became, and remains, the only horse to have won the Grand National three times, in 1973, 1974, and 1977.
16. Lee Majors - Colonel Steve Austin, portrayed by American actor Lee Majors.
17. Sheep - Jumbuck (noun) is an Australian English term for sheep, and is featured in Banjo Paterson's poem "Waltzing Matilda".
18. Mekon - The Mekon of Mekonta was the arch-nemesis of space hero Dan Dare. He was characterised by his large domed head and tiny body.
19. Robin (Batman and Robin)
20. Calling Birds
21. The Bush Kangaroo
22. Tightrope Walker - funambulist. The key to remembering funambulist is "ambulate," which comes from the Latin root meaning "to walk" — in this case referring to someone who walks on a tightrope.
23. Gnasher
24. Camels - Dromedaries have only one hump and flourish in the deserts of north Africa and the Middle East and bactrians have two humps.
25. David Janssen
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"Kinky Boots", Adelphi Theatre, London, 25/11/16
My second return visit to what has become one of my all-time favourite shows proved just how astoundingly joyful and uplifting the show really is.
This is the first time I've seen the production since its first cast change and I think I noted a few minor little changes here and there, although I could, of course, be wrong.
'Charlie Price' reluctantly takes over the his family's shoe factory and must work to find a way to save the factory and its workers. Unexpectedly encountering drag queen 'Lola' an idea is born which may just be the answer. 'Lola' and 'Charlie' join forces and face adversity and bigotry head-on, both external and internal, leading to the realisation that finding and accepting one's self is as important as accepting each other.
Matt Henry remains from the original cast and he just gets better and better; his comic timing, his physicality, his glorious voice and the powerful emotional performance he elicits is brighter than ever and he truly deserved the Olivier award for his performance. He is magnetic as 'Lola' and the dimensions he brings to the role seem forever fresh.
David Hunter has taken over as 'Charlie' and he is simply perfect for the role. His everyday charm and warmth, his physical presence and his honey-like vocals, together with his natural appeal indicate that he was born to play the role and he manages to elevate the standing of 'Charlie' when next to 'Lola' with the energy and chemistry between the two perfectly attuned. Hunter fits even more naturally into the part than his predecessor and this is equally true of Elena Sky who has taken over as 'Lauren' who bestows a more naturalistic take on the part as does Alan Mehdizadeh as 'Don'. Michael Hobbs is another holdover form the original cast and his 'George' is even more enjoyable and humorous than before.
The entire ensemble, whether new or old members of the company (and including the young actors), all work together to create a powerfully effective ensemble and this is never truer than in the portrayal of the various 'Angels' who are the back-up singers/dancers for 'Lola'; each is a clearly defined individual and their interactions, even when not the primary focus of a scene, are little gems amongst a treasure trove of glories that constitute the cast of 'Kinky Boots'.
The orchestra is equally on fire and the sound they produce is one of the pillars that holds the production up so well. The sound design of John Shivers works perfectly in tandem with the musicians and I have a greater appreciation for the music and lyrics that Cyndi Lauper which prove to be irresistible and sublimely suited to the production. Harvey Fierstein's book seems to work even better than before and this may be due to the fresh influx of performing talent that performs it.
Gregg Barnes' costumes are as radiant as ever and are set off against the set design of David Rockwell which morphs effortlessly as required and is complimented and set off by the lighting design by Kenneth Posner who lights the cast stirringly.
Jerry Mitchell's direction and choreography is clear and concise allowing his performers, both new and old, to take ownership of their characters in the best possible way. His staging is sympathetic to the requirements of the story-telling whilst also providing a conducive environment for the company to thrive in. Mitchell's contrasting use of lively action and stillness is well executed and he handles the comedy with ease. Though, at times, it may seem that the production is a little light-handed given the plot and themes, this is ultimately not the case as Mitchell delicately and deftly balances the more frivolous aspects with the more heavy material and ultimately all is perfectly appropriate to the nature of the show.
There is such economy in the story-telling and staging and the music so ultimately uplifting that is hard to see how this cannot be classed as perfect entertainment material. The fact that the message behind the plot is deftly handled without being in any way preachy makes this a production that has many levels and one that can appeal to one and all.
I cannot shout loudly enough at how outstanding 'Kinky Boots' is and I cannot recommend it highly enough; it is a show that, for many a reason, should be seen by as many people as possible. Especially in this day and age.
I have now seen the production thrice and I shall see it again. And again. And ...
So: 'Just Be!'
Labels: Kinky Boots, London, Musical, Review, Theatre, West End
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Preterm Birth, Group B Streptococcus, and a Lipid Toxin
Preterm birth—the birth of an infant before 37 weeks of pregnancy—is the greatest contributor to infant death, and a leading cause of long-term neurological disabilities in children. One of the causes of preterm birth is Group B Streptocuccus (GBS) infection in pregnant women. GBS frequently colonizes the lower genital tract of healthy women without causing any symptoms. However, it may cause severe infections during pregnancy by ascending from the lower genital tract into the amniotic cavity. Infection of the amniotic fluid can lead to fetal injury.
Group B Streptococcus. Image credit: NIAID, NIH, CC BY 2.0
GSB is able to penetrate the human placenta with the help of a hemolytic pigment toxin, which consists of lipids. This toxin is a lipid that stains the bacteria orange/red and is able to induce not only hemolysis, or destruction of red blood cells, but also pyroptosis—a specific form of cell death—in macrophages, white blood cells that eliminate microscopic particles, such as bacteria and dead cells.
Now, results from a new study (Group B Streptococcus circumvents neutrophils and neutrophil extracellular traps during amniotic cavity invasion and preterm labor) published in the journal Science Immunology (October 14, 2016) show that the GBS pigment toxin damages neutrophils and neutrophil extracellular traps in placental membranes. The study was carried out using a pregnant nonhuman primate model that closely mimics pregnancy in humans and allows monitoring of uterine contractions, timing of microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity, and immune responses during pregnancy-associated infections. Using this model, researchers could follow the course of GBS infection from the initial stages until preterm labor, a process that would be impossible to experimentally follow in humans.
The researchers found that increased production of the hemolytic pigment toxin enables GBS to penetrate the placental membranes and infect amniotic fluid and fetal organs as early as within 15 minutes to within a few hours after infection. The infectious process induced increased release of messenger proteins that specifically recruit neutrophils. However, despite the recruitment of neutrophils, GBS producing large amounts of the hemolytic pigment toxin were able to infect multiple fetal organs.
Neutrophils are white blood cells involved as a first line of defense in controlling the spread of infectious microbes, and kill these microbes using a process called phagocytosis—they engulf and then digest the microbes using an arsenal of powerful toxic substances. Therefore the neutrophil is one type of phagocytic cell, so-called after the Greek for “devouring cells”. Neutrophils use an additional strategy to entangle, immobilize and kill microbes—they extrude stringy DNA webs known as neutrophil extracellular traps. Large numbers of neutrophils reside in the bone marrow and circulate in the blood. At the beginning of an infection, the early inflammatory process results in the production of a specialized set of cytokines and chemokines, protein messenger that signal neutrophils to travel from the blood and bone marrow to the site of infection.
The researchers found that the hemolytic pigment toxin induced neutrophil cell death. Therefore, when the neutrophils reached the site of infection to kill GBS following cytokine and chemokine signals, they were killed themselves by the GBS hemolytic pigment toxin, which damaged the neutrophils’ cell membrane. Moreover, the toxin induced formation of neutrophil extracellular traps in the placental membranes. However, GBS that produced large amounts of the hemolytic pigment toxin could not be killed by the neutrophil extracellular traps, and were therefore able to invade the amniotic fluid.
Together, the study results show that the hemolytic pigment toxin enables GBS to avoid killing by neutrophils and their extracellular traps. In absence of killing by neutrophils, GBS is able to damage the placental membranes and induce both fetal injury and preterm labor. The study results also indicate that the GBS hemolytic pigment toxin could be a target for novel strategies developed to prevent GBS infection in pregnant women and subsequent damage to the fetus.
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Shane Gillooly says:
What really grabbed me about this article was the efficiency of GBS to infect the amniotic fluid and fetal organs in a matter of minutes to hours. Something so effective at avoiding host immune response and infecting so quickly combined with an organism that can be “frequently” found in women, I have to admit I’m surprised that this is the first I’m hearing about this issue. Granted, I’m a male, so perhaps that’s why. So how “frequently” is GBS actually found in women? According to the CDC, a whopping 25% of pregnant women actually carry GBS! With a number so high, my next question is, statistically, how much more risk is there for preterm birth associated with GBS? One study sought to answer this very question by examining nearly 1000 women, nearly 100 of whom were established as carrying GBS. The study ultimately concluded that pregnant women carrying GBS were over twice as likely to have premature labour, among other potential complications. With these kinds of eye-popping numbers, it’s clear why the CDC recommends that pregnant women be tested for GBS during pregnancy.
Citation: Prevention in Newborns. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/groupbstrep/about/prevention.html. Published 2016. Accessed November 9, 2016.
Citation: Allen U, Nimrod C, MacDonald N, Toye B, Stephens D, Marchessault V. Relationship between antenatal group B streptococcal vaginal colonization and premature labour. Paediatrics & Child Health. 1999;4(7):465-469.
Any type of infection during pregnancy can be tricky to deal with as the rules of placental transmission and swapping of mother and baby’s fluids during birth can provide an easy pathway for vertical transmission of the pathogen. Because GBS is asymptomatic in up to 30 percent of the women infected, a pregnancy screening for this bacteria can be the first time the expectant mother is aware she is infected. Luckily, intravenous antibiotic prophylaxis given during birth has an effectiveness of 86-89 percent in preventing transmission of GBS to the newborn. This seems like a simple enough solution, but unfortunately antibiotic resistance can be an issue. Therefore a vaccine would be the best method to prevent infection in the first place, though one has not yet been developed. It would make the most sense to put our efforts into development of a GBS vaccine to prevent these associated problems. However Group B Streptococcus is so prevalent in the environment and typically colonizes humans transiently, that it perhaps it would only be beneficial to those who are seeking to become pregnant and are not already infected with the bacteria.
Citation: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr5910.pdf Published October 2010. Accessed November 9, 2016.
Alassandro Osiglia says:
Due to the mother having to produce the require amounts of antibody it may be good for gynecologists and obstetricians to inform their female patients as soon to become vaccinated for GBS. A survey conducted for women regarding their willingness to take an antenatal vaccine after being informed about the effects that GBS would have on their infants was over 80% average from all of their asked groups, with those that rejected taking a vaccine doing so due to concerns of risks/safety or not believing in vaccines. This would indicate that once a vaccine becomes legally available in the U.S it would be a matter of gynecologists ( as a male I am sorry if I misunderstand the kind of conversation carried out with one’s gynecologist) and obstetricians informing women who are pregnant or planning on getting pregnant. An advantage that women who were planning to get pregnant over those already pregnant would be that they could take the vaccine with ample time for it to run it’s course on the body and produce the beneficial IgG long before it could pose any danger to the embryo.
citation: McQuaid, F., Jones, C., Stevens, Z., Plumb, J., Hughes, R., Bedford, H., … & Snape, M. D. (2016). Factors influencing women’s attitudes towards antenatal vaccines, group B Streptococcus and clinical trial participation in pregnancy: an online survey. BMJ open, 6(4), e010790.
Ishita Choudhary says:
@Ashley I completely agree with you. I believe that vaccine would be the best solution for GBS infection. A vaccine would significantly reduce the need for antibiotics in pregnant women during labor and in infants who contract a group B strep infection, which also means removing one more contribution to antibiotic resistance concerns and reducing one more need for antibiotics that can influence infants’ gut bacteria development.
There was a Phase 2 study conducted at University Hospital Antwerpen in Antwerp, Belgium where they found a vaccine covering three strains of group B strep(Ia, Ib and III) to be effective with no major safety concerns, though more studies with many more women are necessary before the study would undergo the process for FDA approval. In this study, research team randomly divided 86 women from Belgium and Canada into 51 women who received the vaccine and 35 women who received a placebo.
The researchers focused on how effectively the vaccine led mothers’ antibodies to transfer to their infants. About 66-79% of the women who received the vaccine transferred antibodies to their infants, and those antibody concentrations remained in the babies at a rate of 22-25% three months later. The antibody levels of the mothers themselves increased by 16 to 23 times, depending on the serotype, after vaccination.
Donders, Gilbert G.G. MD, PhD; Halperin, Scott A. MD; Devlieger, Roland MD, PhD; Baker, Sherryl PhD; Forte, Pietro BA; Wittke, Frederick MD; Slobod, Karen S. MD; Dull, Peter M. MD Maternal Immunization With an Investigational Trivalent Group B Streptococcal Vaccine: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Obstetrics & Gynecology: February 2016 – Volume 127 – Issue 2 – p 213–221
C. Fischer says:
This bacteria is something that researchers should be putting a lot of focus on since it is fast acting, difficult to diagnose and just as hard to treat and prevent. Especially with the knowledge of how this bacteria evades the immune system, this should help us develop preventative measures.
This month a group of researchers published a study on preventative measures to fight this bacteria. A soluble form of Siglec-9 provides a resistance against Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infection in transgenic mice is an investigation into the specific genes that aid in GBS binding to neutrophils. They found that a component of GBS called capsular polysaccharide (CPS) binds to Siglec-9 and this is what down-regulates the effects of neutrophils on the infection. From here they were able to create a soluble form, sSiglec-9, that can inhibit the binding of CPS through competition with the original form of Siglec-9. This gene therapy gave a line of treated mice the tools they needed to eliminate GBS. With this study being so new it’s hard to tell how relevant it would be to preventing preterm birth complications but I thought it was an interesting development.
Citation: Saito, M., Yamamoto, S., Ozaki, K., Tomioka, Y., Suyama, H., Morimatsu, M., Nishijima, K.-i., Yoshida, S.-i., Ono, E., 2016. A soluble form of Siglec-9 provides a resistance against Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infection in transgenic mice. Microbial
The utilization of competitive inhibition to neutralize the effect of the toxin seems like an innovative move by the researchers as it would make it harder for the bacteria to evolve a measure around the inhibitor without loosing efficiency. Treatment plans that would utilize a combination both, this drug and a vaccine ( that covers 3 strains of GBC and has finished phase 2 trials) , to functionally eliminate the spread of GCB with humans being their main reservoir .
Porsha Brown says:
C. Fischer,
The article you posted was inspiring. We now know that some research is being done to try and remedy the GBS problem 25% of pregnant women deal with. If the competitive inhibitor works in humans, then I think this could stop premature birth caused by GBS infection. I think the soluble sSiglec-9 would be a good treatment because it is not an antibiotic and we won’t have to worry about new antibiotic resistant GBS evolving.
After thinking about this kind of treatment, there are some drawbacks. One drawback is that GBS is not cleared or eliminated from the colon or vagina with this treatment. Thus, the second drawback is the question of whether the pregnant women would have to take the soluble sSiglec-9 for the duration of her pregnancy, similar to how she would take prenatal vitamins? I assume the answer to this question would be yes because if she stops taking the treatment, GBS would inhabit the amniotic cavity. This leads me to another drawback. Would taking the treatment reverse infection or just prevent it? This is an important question because carriers of GBS deliver their babies to full term without intervention. They are not infectious. However, this is not true for pregnant women infected with GBS. So, in other words, does this mean if your infected with GBS already the treatment won’t help/work? Another inquiry is the impact the soluble sSiglec-9 has on the fetus. I doubt that it would harm the fetus because the treatment would be an inhibitor of GBS binding. Nonetheless, I appreciate how the researchers found some way to block GBS.
After reading the Group B Streptococcus (GBS) and pregnancy article, I was shocked to learn 1 in 4 or 25% of pregnant women are carriers of GBS. The literature provides some relief by disclosing that not all carriers are infected. Carriers don’t become sick and there is no risk to your health as a carrier. Also, no treatment is available for a carrier. GBS is commensal microbiota of the colon and vagina. Commensal microbiota are resident micro-organisms that cover the surfaces of the human body. The skin, respiratory tract, and gastrointestinal tract are a few environments where non-harmful bacteria reside. These bacteria evolve with the host and offer protection. If an invader or foreign microorganism joins the community, their growth is inhibited because the resident microbes consume all the resources and usually the resources available only support the resident microbiota.
I believe GBS sees a window of opportunity as the fetus begins to develop. There are several changes in the microbiota of the uterus and new cells are formed as the placenta matures. These changes may induce GBS infection.
More on commensal bacteria can be found at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15158604
Arya says:
This is a very interesting study about GBS infection and its colonization and its impact during pregnancy. It is very sad that the fetal organs get infected with GBS and may also lead to death soon after the birth. GBS is a complex issue, it is not very evident that the current treatment pattern is fully flourished and get the best way to eliminate the worst impact. It also has potential dangers in and of itself. There are antibiotic resistant GBS and treating them with antibiotics may lead to kill the normal flora and make the situation worst.and some mothers are allergic to antibiotic may lead to anaphylaxis Both of these factors make it important for consider how to avoid the infection as such during the pregnancy in natural and healthy way.
It is always important and beneficial for all the pregnant mothers to build a healthy routine and healthy [intake of food into their lifestyle to foster healthy microbiota](https://www.naturalbirthandbabycare.com/prevent-group-b-strep), and to focus particularly on good flora in the vagina at the end of pregnancy. This not only helps build lifelong health for them , but it also keeps the baby healthy gut flora from the start – and it’s most likely far better treatment for GBS than the antibiotic treatments .
Outbreak of Late-onset Group B Streptococcal Infections in Healthy Newborn Infants after Discharge from a Maternity Hospital: A Case ReportJ Korean Med Sci. 2006 Apr; 21(2): 347–350.
Published online 2006 Apr 20. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2006.21.2.347
I completely agree with you on the potential hazards of overusing antibiotics to manage these types of situations. While it seems appropriate to start blanket antibiotic therapy on all neonates to protect them from the potential GBS meningitis or sepsis, it could be causing unintended harm to the neonate in ways not immediately considered. For instance, in a 2012 study by Fouhy et al. found that newborns who received IV antibiotic therapy within 48 hours of birth had a lower level of beneficial gut microbes, at 4 and 8 weeks after antibiotic administration, than those newborns who did not receive antibiotics. (Fiona Fouhy, Caitriona M. Guinane, […], and Paul D. Cotter. High-Throughput Sequencing Reveals the Incomplete, Short-Term Recovery of Infant Gut Microbiota following Parenteral Antibiotic Treatment with Ampicillin and Gentamicin. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2012 Nov; 56(11). This highlights the fact that antibiotic administration should not occur nondescriminately in all birth situations, but should be taken on a case by case basis. Both the mother’s and baby’s risk factors for potential infection should be taken into account when deciding to give antibiotics. If an active GBS infection is present during or leading up to birth then it is likely more beneficial to provide the antibiotic therapy to the newborn since the risk for infection is high, even if the effect on gut microbiota is negative. It comes down to a cost versus benefit analysis that the clinician must complete to make the best decision for both baby and mother.
I was very surprised to know how the infection with GBS in mother can infect the fetus in such a short time. I admit that this is for the first time I am hearing any infectious agent being so fast. Though above post has given a great detail of information about the GBS, it says a little about the effect of GBS on fetus. So, I tried to delve deeper into this aspect. Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a type of gram-positive streptococcal bacteria, also known as Streptococcus agalactiae. GBS is commonly found in adults and older children, and usually does not cause infection. There are two ways in which it may be passed on to a newborn baby. The infant can become infected as the baby passes through the birth canal. In this case, babies become ill between birth and 6 days of life (most often in the first 24 hours). This is called early-onset GBS disease. The infant may also become infected after delivery by coming into contact with people who carry the GBS infection. In this case symptoms appear later, when the baby is 7 days to 3 months or more old. This is called late-onset GBS disease. Most babies who become infected can be treated successfully with IV antibiotics and can make a full recovery. However, infection can sometimes cause life-threatening complications, such as: blood poisoning (septicemia), infection of the lung (pneumonia), and infection of the lining of the brain (meningitis). According to CDC, in the United States, GBS is the leading cause of meningitis and sepsis in a newborn’s first week of life. GBS bacteria can rarely cause meningitis in adults. There are some factors that can increase an infant’s risk for group B streptococcal infection such as being born more than 3 weeks before the due date, especially if the mother goes into labor early, mother who has already given birth to a baby with GBS sepsis, and rupture of placental membranes more than 18 hours before the baby is delivered. Presence of GBS bacteria in a blood sample from infected newborn is considered to be a positive diagnostic test.
Sonya Randolph says:
This article was very interesting to me. Group B Streptococcus (GBS) can cause significant maternal and neonatal morbidity. Group B Strep is a commensal bacterium that can live in the human host without being helpful or harmful. Colonizing in the GI tract, vagina, or urethra it can cause urinary tract infections, compromising the neonate who can develop an infection during or following birth. This article left me wondering how many fetuses make it to full-term and lead healthy lives if affected with GBS. According to research, the GBS bacteria is found in about 25% of all healthy adult and pregnant women. In the UK, where this is prevalent, 300-400 infants develop early-onset group B streptococcal disease every year with 40 of them being fatal. 99.85% of infants born to mothers with GBS will not be affected by death or disability. A precautionary screening is preferred to determine risks for GBS.
Ahmadzia H, Heine R. Diagnosis and Management of Group B Streptococcus in Pregnancy. Obstetrics And Gynecology Clinics Of North America [serial online]. December 1, 2014;41(Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy):629-647. Available from: ScienceDirect, Ipswich, MA. Accessed November 12, 2016.
Beacock M. Newborn examination on full-term neonate whose mother had group B streptococcus colonisation. British Journal Of Midwifery [serial online]. September 2016;24(9):643-649. Available from: Consumer Health Complete – EBSCOhost, Ipswich, MA. Accessed November 12, 2016.
Kimberly Myers says:
According to World Health Organization(WHO), prematurity is the leading cause of death in children under the age of 5 across the globe. More than 60% of preterm births occur in Africa and South Asia. It is estimated that preterm birth affects about 1 of every 10 infants born. The infant mortality rate among African American infants is 2.4 times higher than that of White infants, primarily due to preterm birth. In the United States, the risk of preterm birth for Non-Hispanic black women is approximately 1.5 times the rate seen in white women. Though Group B Streptococcus (GBS) was found in humans in 1938 it wasn’t until the 1970s that it was linked to preterm birth. The CDC suggests that 1 in 4 women carries GBS and the disease rates are higher among infants born to African-Americans of all age groups.
This was an interesting correlation that shows that African American women are at a higher risk for preterm births and GBS. This leads to the question what are the possible reasons for this occurrence. According to a study there are several factors were associated with GBS including the number of deliveries occurring among women who had received no prenatal care, were on medical assistance, low birthweight babies, as well as the number of deliveries in African American patient. Hospitals with more African American obstetric patients and more obstetric patients lacking prenatal care had more GBS disease, while hospitals with GBS screening policies had significantly less disease. The disparity of GBS amongst African Americans is due mainly in part to lack of access to proper healthcare. Since the late 1990s there has been a 75% decrease in the disparity between blacks and whites with GBS due to early testing of mothers. Testing for GBS has significantly improved the survival rate of infants and decreased the gap.
1.http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs363/en/
2.https://www.cdc.gov/media/subtopic/matte/pdf/cdcmattereleaseinfantmortality.pdf
3.http://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/toolstemplates/entertainmented/tips/strep.html
4.Schuchat, A. (1998). Epidemiology of Group B Streptococcal Disease in the United States: Shifting Paradigms. Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 11(3), 497–513. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88893/
5.http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/6/751.full.pdf
James Blount says:
A vaccine for GBS recently finished phase II clinical trials. The results are promising – http://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Citation/2016/02000/Maternal_Immunization_With_an_Investigational.5.aspx – though one case of neonatal asphyxia was found to be potentially due to the vaccine. Interestingly the paper found that timing of administration had no demonstrable effect on effectiveness so potentially it could be administered in early adolescence with a booster later in adolescence or early in the pregnancy. This could allow the risk of seriously adverse side effects to be minimized.
The Group B Streptococcal infection can cause threat to the woman because 25% of all woman are infected with GBS .1 in 200 babies of infected mothers are become ill. Eventhough the person is responsive to the antibiotic, Treating the mother with oral antibiotics during the pregnancy cannot completely eliminate the bacteria from her sysytem and make the baby protected. During the vaginal birth , the baby get exposed to the bacteria and if we are trying to treat treat the baby with antibiotics after birth is often too late to prevent illness if the baby is at high risk for contracting GBS. Intravenous antibiotics are recommended during delivery to reduce the chance of your baby becoming sick. It is recommended that antibiotics are given once labor has begun and every four hours during active labor until the baby is delivered.
Williams Obstetrics Twenty-Second Ed. Cunningham, F. Gary, et al, Ch. 58. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov March of Dimes, http://www.marchofdimes.com
Alessandrio K. Gutzmore says:
This is interesting, I had no idea that there was a bacterial infection that is present in such a large number of women and has such negative impact on the fetus. I agree with C. Fischer that something needs to be done and I’m glad that there are already measures taken with promising results showing nearly a 57% increase in the survival rate for mice infected with GBS who received treatment in comparison to those who did not. If clinical trials go well this could potentially be a strong first step against a prevalent bacterial infectious agent.
C. Fischer’s citation:
Saito, M., Yamamoto, S., Ozaki, K., Tomioka, Y., Suyama, H., Morimatsu, M., Nishijima, K.-i., Yoshida, S.-i., Ono, E., 2016. A soluble form of Siglec-9 provides a resistance against Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infection in transgenic mice. Microbial
Quentin Dolly says:
After reading the article, the ultimately solution to this issue is the elimination of the bacteria from our normal flora all together. As expressed before, our normal flora provides us with many benefits such as: a manipulated pH environment that inhibits the growth of harmful bacteria and also covers the surface of the gastrointestinal tract and skin to prevent colonization of those bacteria, but a bacteria of the normal flora by the name of Group B streptococcus (GBS) has been found to produce a pigment toxin that causes pre-term births and fetal injury, and because it is proven to be harmless to most people (1), its removal should have no adverse effects. GBS can be eliminated from the body through use of ampicillin (3), an antibiotic therapy that attacks the bacteria’s cell structure and causes osmotic lysis. If the bacteria is removed prior to pregnancy, there would be no need to administer antibiotics during the term, which on its own has been proven to cause asthma in the fetus later on in life due to the use of antibiotic taken in the third semester (2). This is usually the time that pregnant women will be tested for GBS according to the CDC (4). A new approach should be taken to eradicate Group B Streptococcus prior to pregnancy and thus move our focus from treatment to prevention.
1. Mayo Clinic Staff. Group B strep disease. Mayo clinic. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/group-b-strep/home/ovc-20200548. Accessed November 13, 2016.
2. Stensballe L, Simonsen J, Jensen S, Bønnelykke K, Bisgaard H. Original Article: Use of Antibiotics during Pregnancy Increases the Risk of Asthma in Early Childhood. The Journal Of Pediatrics [serial online]. April 1, 2013;162:832-838.e3. Available from: ScienceDirect, Ipswich, MA. Accessed November 13, 2016.
3. Woods, Christian J., Streptococcus Group B Infections Treatment & Management. Medscape. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/229091-treatment. Published October 24, 2016. Accessed 13 November, 2016.
4. Prevention in Newborns. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/groupbstrep/about/prevention.html. Published May 23, 2016. Accessed November 13, 2016.
Yes it is imparitive that antibiotics are begun immediately following birth if the mother is infected with GBS. Proper management of the infection is important as it can manifest in meningitis or overwhelming sepsis in the newborn. In a study of clinicians who encounter a high risk birth (where there is a definite infection), 99 percent would treat the newborn with antibiotics. Even in the low risk birth case, 29 percent of clinicians would start antibiotic therapy. (Van Herk, et al. Variation in Current Management of Term and Late-preterm Neonates at Risk for Early-onset Sepsis: An International Survey and Review of Guidelines. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Vol. 35 – Issue 5: p 494–500) So it seems that it is better to err on the side of caution and begin antibiotics for the newborn if there is even a possibility of bacterial infection.
As far as treatment in the womb, I would hope that one day this would be a possibility as it is a more proactive way to deal with potential infection.
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Adam Brookes
Adam Brookes was born in Canada, but grew up in the UK, in a village in Oxfordshire. In the 1980s, he studied Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and went on to become a journalist, working briefly in magazines before landing a post as a 'copytaster' at the BBC, a job now extinct. Adam became a radio producer at the BBC World Service, and then a foreign correspondent, based first in Indonesia, then China and the United States, where he now lives. Along the way he has reported from some thirty countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea and Mongolia, for BBC television and radio.
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Clemency, Stigma, Changes and Transitions In The Career of Ara Chackerian
Clemency or leniency to someone’s wrongdoing may have nothing strictly to do with leadership or a company’s success, but in the case with how Ara Chackerian succeeds in his career, such attribute plays a definitive role. Having leniency resorts to compassion. Having mercy on the wrongdoing of an employee, partner or associate can elevate leaders way above the standard position given to them. The leader rises above what is expected, and as a result, the company rises with such leadership. This is one of the lessons that may be gleaned on from the interview that Ara Chackerian did with Interview.net.
Ara Chackerian’s roots is in San Francisco, California. He is based there, and from there, has built a named in the world of philanthropy and business. Most of the work that Chackerian has done are centered on improving communities. He wants the people around him to grow, tap potentials and expand their horizons. Chackerian believes that with the help of TMS Health Solutions, his company, that goal would be easier to achieve. No prosperous person gets to where he or she wants to be without getting the right good health first. For more details check out angel.co
It is also in the interview that people can learn how Chackerian decided to be a co-founder of his latest venture, the TMS Health Solutions. It’s a company that he decided to build with his partner as a means to expand the services, privileges and benefits that people could enjoy from the recent diagnostic tech today. With the radiology centers from TMS Health Solutions, many people in the outpatient psychiatry industry could benefit from what latest technology can offer. You can visit pipelinerx.com
Another relevant and latest news about Ara Chackerian today would be found in his Medium article. He wrote several articles there, but one of them would be about how to end the stigma of suicide today. Despite the fact that suicide claims 100 lives every day, not much has been done about it yet. Not many people are discussing the horror behind the situation, and the many ways that can be done to address such condition. However, Chackerian believes that it is understandable why the people are not discussing too much the issue. People may not know how to properly react, and that in itself can breed the stigma.
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ClassDojo: The Classroom App Changing How Children Interact & Learn
ClassDojo is a communication platform that enables children, parents and teachers to all collaborate on the educational process of a child. This is a tool of empowerment and connection between students, parents and teachers. This tool is growing in popularity because it creates a sense of community. This platform was created with mission of cultivating an enjoyable and positive community of classrooms and households interacting together.
One in eight families in the United States with children under the age of fourteen already interact with ClassDojo in someway. These users use the application on a daily basis to experience the connection between the classroom and homes of students. Families are enjoying the tools and benefits of this communication platform. This app inspires ideas, causes for hands on involvement and heavily influences an elementary education.
Kindness is so important for children to learn. ClassDojo is aiding parents with the ability to foster the need and act of kindness in their children. The app is influencing millions of school aged children to do kind acts. Dr. Michele Borba is an expert on child development working with ClassDojo. She is helping the tech company create a program to establish kindness amongst children. The Summer Kindness Series is the program that helps families do fun acts of kindness. All of the kind activities are free of charge and encourage family participation. This allows for parents to do fun things with their children while school is out for the summer. Research has been implemented into creating habits of kindness and compassion.
ClassDojo will release a new kind habit weekly from June 21 to August 16. The weekly habits of kindness include tips, activities and ideas. The strategies involved in these acts are based off of research that involves both parent and child involvement. These strategies include collaborative play, learning opportunities and practice essential elements to being kind. These elements include mindfulness, reading emotions, curiosity and collaboration. This summer series is vary fun for children of all ages. The application hopes to continue to sponsor these types of programs to allow children to learn about being kind.
Jeremy Goldstein Makes a Diifference in the Society Through Fountain House
Jeremy Goldstein is one of the best business attorneys in the United States. The New York University alumnus who has a J.D. from the institution specializes in advising clients on corporate governance and executive compensation. He also holds an MA degree from the University of Chicago. Learn more about Jeremy: https://lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/jeremy-goldstein-1275422
The renowned lawyer is also an author and commentator of his specialties. Apart from being a board member of the NYU Journal of Law, he is also a dedicated board member of Fountain House. He has a wide experience of more than 15 years in corporate transactions such as Chevron and the Bank of America Corporation.
Goldstein recently hosted a charity dinner with fine Chateau Latour vintage wines among them 1990 and 1929 to support the initiatives of Fountain House. Tickets to the dinner which was held at Nomad Hotel were sold at $3700.
Fountain House is a charity organization that has been working since 1944 to help the rehabilitation of individuals with mental illness. Mental illness is a challenge that affects more than 450 million people in the world according to statistics provided by WHO. Read more: Jeremy Goldstein | Ideamench and Jeremy Goldstein | Facebook
Fountain House gives an opportunity to people living with mental disorders to give back to the community through several projects. The organization has been successful in their rehabilitation projects including the employment, education and school programs.
Most of its members are employed and have a high school completion rate. This success can be attributed to the organizations model that earned it the Conard N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize in 2014.
Fountain House’s model focuses on encouraging its members to build and grow their confidence, build relationships and fit in the society.
It has been adopted locally and internationally. The model is used in 32 states in the United States and 30 countries around the world.Through this model, the organization has impacted the lives of more than 100,000 people.
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You are here : Welcome » Leslie O'Callaghan by Crowther Smith
Leslie O'Callaghan by Crowther Smith
O: O'Callaghan
It is impossible to explain how the 1912 Open champion makes his many marvellous shots, but boosting means running hoops hard to the boundary
O Callaghan makes many marvellous shots
Which win for him numberless beautiful pots
Leslie O'Callaghan (1880 - 1944) , usually known as CL to distinguish him from his brother won 73% of all games recorded on Croquet Records. Notwithstanding the verse he seems to have had his best season in 1921. Prichard1 has photographs on pages 73-4 in the chapter in which he discusses the Irish Terrors, Corbally, O'Callaghan & Duff Matthews, and:
Close on the heels of Corbally came C.L. O'Callaghan, who led a seasonal life. The winter he spent in Ireland hunting with a variety of packs
[and] in 1904 he took on the mastership of the Fingal Harriers. He rode with considerable success in point-to-points and steeplechases on his own horses and those of his friends. The summer he devoted to croquet. ... Whereas Corbally tempered ebullience with discretion, C.L. was unpredictable. He had the manner of a stage Irishman; once at Roehampton, when his opponent had committed an infringement, the question arose of whether the ball should be replaced or not, whereupon C.L. exclaimed in his Irish brogue, 'If it's got to be moved, it must stay where it is.' There was a peculiar magnetism about his play that invariably drew a large audience. Corbally and C.L. overlapped, but the latter was at his peak when Corbally was on the wane. Between 1901 and 1921 C.L. won the Champion Cup and the Open Championship three times each, the Gold Medal four times and the Gold Cup at Devonshire Park five times." Then quite suddenly in 1922, at the age of forty-two, his zest for croquet deserted him. He took to golf and never played croquet again, though sometimes as a rare spectator after a round of golf at Roehampton hinting that he might do so again one day.
Robertson board 183 x 268 mm with an irregular 5 cm strip on the R, and signs of attachment or covering removed from the top. A pencil name and number is probably a telephone number, or similar, unconnected with the subject. The image is cleaner than most but marked on the edge top, R and bottom. There is one filled pin (or other ) hole about 10mm from the middle of the Left edge. There are, possibly pencil, marks in the corners suggesting framing activity.
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by Alexander Keidel
In the course of the last years, music videos have lost their impact on the development of popular culture. Music television channels such as MTV or VIVA were broadly received in the 1990s. Nowadays, television loses its influence since the internet has taken over many of its functions. Users are able to listen to their favourite music on video platforms as YouTube or via streaming softwares as Deezer or Spotify. Thus, there is no necessity for people to wait for their preferred music in front of a TV. In contrast to television channels, online platforms are not bound to a specified place but can be accessed anywhere. Although some TV channels are made available online, it is still more difficult to make use of them. Similarly, in the mid of the 1970s, radio loses influence as a medium of advertising. The inevitable next step was the introduction of the music video and own channels for that genre (Neumann-Braun and Schmidt 11).
To start with, one should find a definition for music video. Neumann-Braun and Schmidt say a music video is a “three to five-minute film in which a song (pop or rock) is visualized by different means” (10). Beyond that is the idea of stimulating both the optical and the acoustic attention. In music history, there have been several attempts to combine these two sensory impressions: ballet, dance scenes in operas etc. In his work Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin included a colour organ. Each key had its own colour that he associated therewith. He was influenced by synaesthesia. This was a way to combine sound and image in art music in the beginning of the 20th century. Film music emulates today what programme music has paved the way for. Other key terms for this combination of senses are isomorphy, synchrony and analogy (Neumann-Braun and Schmidt 10).
According to Neumann-Braun and Schmidt there are three types of music videos. Firstly, the performance clips: the protagonist is seen in one or two scenes singing. Apart from performing the song, there is no action. Secondly, the narrative video: as the name tells, the plot of the song is staged around the interpreter. The narrator of the story and the singer are the same. The video just presents the story as a short film without commenting or adding a subtext. Thirdly, the concept video: here, the image and music are connected in an associative-illustrative way. The main concern is to transfer the star’s personality. The message is the product, which is the star (Neumann-Braun and Schmidt 13). Nevertheless, there is a difference between music videos and film music. In music videos, the image follows the music whereas film music refers to a certain action in the film. Another aspect of music videos is the staging of the star (Neumann-Braun and Schmidt 20). This is a central element in the music video „Black or White“ by Michael Jackson which will be discussed in the following.
For the first time, the music video “Black or White” was simultaneously screened on November 14, 1991 in 500 countries around the world. Immediately afterwards it was cut and mitigated due to controversial sexual scenes (Wenzel 49). Wenzel also divides the video into three parts (47): a surreal frame story and two main parts.
The surreal frame story consists of an American suburban family that sits in the living room consuming standard media products. The son listens to rock music on the radio. Since the volume seems to be too loud for the father, he shouts upstairs to his son to turn the volume down. The son does not follow his father’s instructions and so the father steps into the room of his son and repeats his order. By slamming the door, he destroys a poster of Michael Jackson which was fixed at the back of the door. “This begins one of the recurring motifs in the video, that of breaking glass” (Burnett and Deivert 24). Angrily, the son wants to take revenge and pushes two big amplifiers into the living room, plugs in his electric guitar and turns the volume controller to “Are you nuts!?!”. The child now plays a power chord according to which the father -along with his armchair- is blown through the roof of the house into the desert. There, he finds himself surrounded by dancers, but also by lions. Here, the second of recurring motifs is introduced, that of cats (Burnett and Deivert 25). This frame story is revisited about ten minutes later at the end of the music video with the Simpson family (Wenzel 47). Bart Simpson sits in front of the TV, his father joins him and tells him, “turn off that noise”. Bart refuses and tells his father to “chill out”, but Homer takes the remote control and turns off the TV (Burnett and Deivert 32). This mirrors the introductory scene.
The first main part shows similarities to the advertisement of the clothing company Benetton from 1991[1]. This is why Wenzel calls that part “Benetton-Sequence” (47). Michael Jackson dances and is surrounded by dancers that represent different ethnicities and skin colours (African, East-Asian, Indian, Native American and Russian). In the following, the video shows a black and a white baby that sit on a globe, Michael Jackson walking in front on flames, war and military tools as well as a rap scene. The latter is embedded in a “street corner society” (Wenzel 48). But, striking is the alienation. The people that hang around are starred by children. Even the rapper himself is played by a white boy who imitates his black, adult idol with a deep man’s voice in the typical Afro-American rap genre (Keazor and Wübbena 228). Subsequently, Michael Jackson stands on the Statue of Liberty surrounded by a fantasy scenery including The Giza Sphinx, Hagia Sophia, Pamukkale, The Parthenon, Taj Mahal, St. Basil's Cathedral, Pyramids of Giza, Golden Gate Bridge, Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower. The end of the first main part is a morphing scene in which faces of Asian, European and Latin-American people morph into one another.
The second main part contains only one scene, the so-called “Panther-Sequence”. In this part, there is another morphing scene: a panther walks out of the film studios into an industrially looking area where it morphs into Jackson. He is no longer dressed in white, as he is in the “Benetton-Sequence”, but in black. It is worth mentioning that there is no music at all during this scene. Jackson just dances and utters sounds and unarticulated screams (Wenzel 48). On the one hand his movements are smooth but on the other hand they are hard and edged as well. Moreover, Jackson insinuates masturbatory movements with enjoyment. Suddenly, the dance develops into a sally of anger. He destroys windows, a car and signs of a hotel. “Many of the glass-breaking sequences in the video are filmed in slow motion, including the originator of the motif, the breaking poster frame” (Burnett and Deivert 31). After this outbreak of violence he morphs back into a panther and walks away. What follows is the scene in the Simpsons’ living-room. The video has a total length of 11 minutes.
Filmic specifics
To speak about the filmic specifics of the video “Black or White” means to talk about a complex structure. The director, John Landis, is famous in his field. He was also responsible for the production of the music video “Thriller”, so it was conceivable that he exceeded the normal length for music videos (Keazor/Wübbena 226). A masterly move of director John Landis was to incorporate famous actors: Macaulay Culkin and George Wendt. Wendt was part of a series’ cast, whereas Culkin became even more famous by playing Kevin in Home Alone. Both actors have been on TV in prominent programs at the beginning of the 1990s. Hereby, they do not only have a recognition value but also a certain function which will be discussed later (Keazor/Wübbena 226). The position of Jackson himself in the video is very obvious: he is the staged object, he is in the centre. The clothes, hairstyle, voice, moves, dancing etc. are characteristic for him (Mattern 154). Nevertheless, his face is rarely shown but never in close-up (Mattern 155).
The camera work is very explicit. Jackson is filmed from different but definite perspectives, in which he is the key element and the crucial point from the viewer’s perspective. There are only few camera movements (zoom, panorama) and no extremes (close-up, total view). Most frequently Landis uses medium long short and medium short views. Moreover, the visual and auditive reception alternates, meaning the rhythm of the music fits to the change of scenes. The rap scene that lasts only 20 seconds consists of 28 different views. The camera movement is very fast and nearly elusive (Mattern 155). Most of the camera perspectives follow the phenomenon of observation. Right at the start of the video, there are very quick camera movements from space top down into a house (Wenzel 56). Often, the video works with tunnel views. The viewer is not acting but controlled by the objects themselves. It appears as the objects fly towards the camera perspective and one moment later they are behind it. Wenzel calls it “panoramic vs. analytic-distancing view” (57).
Another parameter that needs to be taken into account is time. Mattern subdivides the first main part into nine scenes. Each scenes does not last any longer that 18-24 seconds. Only scene 1 and 9 exceed this time frame, which also have longer camera moves and more narrative structures (48 and 30 seconds) (Mattern 155). In contrast to the main parts, the frame story takes up a lot of time. The actual song does not start until 1:50 minutes and ends at 06:20. The panther scene follows with a length of more than four minutes.
Furthermore, the video is full of symbolism which is also dramatized in terms of filmic elements. There are many circles in the video that stand for eternity, perfection but also for femininity (Mattern 157). The camera movements are also very circular, as the perspective circles around the two babies sitting on the globe. Another symbol is fire. Jackson walks through flames and thereby represents a brave person resisting the destruction. The camera is outside the fire but lets the viewer feel the heat by directly facing the flames (Mattern 157). Additionally, Jackson forms symbols with his body, for instance a cross which might stand for Jackson as a saviour in relation to Christian symbolism. Hurth analyses that Jackson is even more illustrated as a representative of a new Jesus. There are many visual expressions in his live-shows, such as rites to celebrate his appearance, flies through the air from above or self-dramatisation in terms of messianic self-fashioning to idolise him (Hurth 58). Moreover, he demands love from his disciples, for instance in his song Will you be there where parts of the lyrics (“love me... carry me... lift me up...”) are repeated in a “call and response-liturgy” (Mattern 157). The camera moves underline this statement as they only concentrate on Jackson who is dressed in white in the first part. All ethnic dance groups form circles around Jackson. He is the middle of everything. Even at the end of the first part when he stands on the torch of the Statue of Liberty, he can be seen as the “centre of the world” (Mattern 155).
The costs of the production are very high due to one special effect which was quite new at that time. Directly before the “Panther-Sequence” starts, there is a 50 second morphing sequence. This technique became famous since it was used in the 1985 music video “Cry” by Godley & Creme. However, that video used a different technique. There, the different pictures are layered on top of each other and cross-faded, whereas in Jackson’s video the faces literally morph into each other due to a modern technology. The innovative technique is not only money but also time consuming. One second of a morphing image needs four to five hours of work (Mattern 152). This morphing, however, implicates the quality and comparability of races. Moreover, the images break down cross-cultural borders and form a message (Keazor/Wübbena 229).
Media-reflective background
The following paragraphs try to explain why Wenzel says that the video “Black and White” can be seen as a “a media-reflexive piece of art” (56). A first criterion is the staging of media reality. For the viewer it is obvious that some scenes are constructed, e.g. scene in the steppe. Everybody can see the stage in the middle of the landscape where Jackson and his fellows dance on. Same is true for the end of the morphing-sequence. Directly after that last picture, the camera zooms out and the viewer sees the film studio with all the involved workers and hears the director say to one of the face models: “Cut, it’s perfect, how do you do that?”. “This ironic line delivered straight is part of the self-reflexive nature of the production, a meta film or meta video (Burnett and Deivert 28). Reality is modelled in a certain way and everybody is aware of that (Wenzel 57). Wenzel goes on and states that the viewer is in the role of a competent media recipient who knows the genre specific codes, film historical presets and media-technical potential. So, they are able to deal with the images and music in an objective and distanced way (64).
Secondly, one needs to go back to the intrinsic peculiarities of the genre music video. They are essential parts of popular subcultures and reflect the affiliation to an exclusive interpretation world. Here, meaning is created through montage which only members of a certain subculture understand. However, this exclusivity is also reflected (Wulff qtd. in Wenzel 53). The frame story of “Black and White” supports this thesis: the boy imitates the clothing of Jackson, and Jackson imitates the boy’s air guitar playing in the video. Thereby, he offers the boy the admittance to a subcultural identity pool (Wenzel 53).
Thirdly, the frame story suggests the victory of children over their complaining parents who do not tolerate them and their medial preferences. This message is close to the “Home Alone” movie where Kevin, also played by Macaulay Culkin, wins against the stupid burglars. Children seem to have more competencies that adults (Mattern 149). The “Black or White“-Video tells us that a better world can only consist of self-confident children who are the basis for the equality of nations and races on earth. Similarly, Jackson promotes this in his song “We Are the World”, describing a world that all people belong to, irrespective of race, skin colour, age, sex and appearance (Mattern 150). Beyond that, it is interesting that the advertisement of Benetton also includes children from every part of the world (Mattern 151).
Lastly, music videos have aesthetic expressions and so, they are a piece of art. Into the bargain, “Black or White“ offers the viewer a synasethetic experience. Neither the understanding of the lyrics nor of the images are the concern of the video but, the realisation that everything is staged: Jackson himself, the sound, the dancers, the instrumental passages etc. (Mattern 158). Mattern also hints at the short segues between the scenes. The images of the old scene are picked up in the new scene, e.g. the dancing Russians become smaller and smaller and end up being dancers in a small tub that the babies play with (159). Also, there are certain references in “Black or White“ that are “of narrow significance to a larger group, but are decodable for viewers with special interest. Burnett and Deivert argue that this is intended (22).
The controversy of the Panther-Sequence
The first screening of the video caused a great controversial debate. Concerning the video, it had consequences: there were two versions on the market afterwards. One version ended after the morphing scene, where the actual song ends. This version was broadcasted in the daily program of music video TV channels due to the sexual insinuations and the aggressive outbreak on Jackson at the end. More and more people did not seem to understand the meaning of the violence. Hence, the second version, called “The Complete Version”, contained the panther sequence which had been modified in certain points. Burnett and Deivert explain the differences very explicitly why they will be quoted to a greater extent:
The first change is the appearance of a Nazi swastika on the front left side window of the car, as well as “Hitler lives” on the left back window. We then see that “Nigger go home” is written on the back window, and “no more wetbacks” on the windshield. The words “KKK rules” appear later in a shot on the window of the store. All these windows are smashed. After the final section with Bart Simpson, where the video normally ends with the TV shut off and a snowy screen, the text “prejudice is ignorance” is superimposed on a shot of Michael Jackson with his black hat (33).
Especially “Prejudice is Ignorance” can be seen on a meta level. Not only racism but also every prejudice and the wider focus beyond it are ignorance (Keazor and Wübbena 231). Keazor and Wübbena also see the direct aggression in the second main part as a complement to the first main part where it is restrained. Furthermore, they see the cut-off of the panther-sequence as a “mutilation”. (230).
There are different opinions whether the modification of the “Panther-Sequence” was right or not and what the reasons for that were. One the one hand Wenzel claims that it was right to alter the video because the public at large wanted the destruction to make sense. Consequently, the destroyed objects needed to be assembled with racial paroles. Only then can the violence be understandable (Wenzel 65). Keazor and Wübbena have a contrary view. They say the modification was definitely not to legitimate the violence. The makers of the video only wanted to support and elucidate the message. Since the audience did not accept the previously given references, the video had to exaggerate boldly (Keazor and Wübbena 230). Nevertheless, both authors question whether the message is still the same as before the editing; the subtle and less apparent racism is not conspicuous anymore. Burnett and Deivert, however, state correctly that intertextuality is in the eye of the viewer. “Without the interpretation of the viewer, intertextuality ceases to exist” (35). Hence, every viewer needs to find his own way in dealing with the panther sequence and the present violence.
The cross-generational approach
At the first glance, the Simpsons’ family and Macaulay Culkin do not share many characteristics. But, they both have a relation to Michael Jackson. Firstly, Culkin is the godfather of Jackson’s son Prince Michael Jr. (Mattern 146). Secondly, Jackson was a great supporter of “The Simpsons”. In 1991, he worked as the voice actor for a Jackson double which is a very self-ironic way of commenting on being stereotyped. But these two facts do not only explain why John Landis included both Culkin and the Simpsons in the music video of “Black or White”.
At the end of the “Panther-Sequence”, the viewer gets the impression as if the video is over now. However, the viewer needs to step back even one more level. Not the viewer, but Bart Simpson watches the music video in the first place. The viewer only watches Bart watching the video (Keazor and Wübbena 230). Symmetrically to the poster in the first frame story, Bart wears a t-shirt with the label “Michael Jackson”. Both scenes focus on the abolition of colour bar and racism (Keazor and Wübbena 231). The connection to the first frame story with Culkin is evident in the following. Only when the Simpsons’ scene appears, some questions concerning the Culkin scene are answered. They both work as a pendant. The characters in the first frame story seem to be cartoon-like figures that are transferred into realistic film version. The revenge of the boy played by Culkin is totally inordinate and more likely to be seen in a cartoon sequence. Nonetheless, the Simpsons’ scene is rather untypical and tame for the series itself. Normally, Homer chokes his son in such situations where he refuses to follow his father’s order (Keazor and Wübbena 244).
There are more parallelisms between the two frame stories. Keazor and Wübbena found out that the nose dive of the camera at the very beginning of “Black or White” is similar to the camera perspective in the opener of the Simpsons. There, one can see clouds at first, then Springfield. The camera rushes through the streets into the school where Bart needs to do an extra exercise. Before the boy in the first frame story plays his power chord on the guitar he says to his father, “Eat this!” This is also parallel to Bart’s favourite saying “Eat my shorts!” (231).
Macaulay Culkin’s and George Wendt’s as well as Homer and Bart Simpson’s confrontation represent the extreme forms of hope and frustration that Jacksons formulates in his song. John Landis chose actors from adult series, children’s movies and cartoon series to attract young and old viewers. Thereby, he facilitates the wish of a cross-generational audience. Maybe there is also another hope articulated in between the lines, namely that generations explain the parts of the video to each other while watching it together.
It’s hardly surprising that “Black or White” was first published immediately following an episode of “The Simpsons”.
Burnett, Robert and Bert Deivert. “Black or White: Michael Jackson's Video as a Mirror of Popular Culture.” Popular Music and Society 3, 1995: 19-40.
Hurth, Elisabeth. “Die Jesus-Gesalt im Rock-Pop-Gewand: Beobachtungen zur 'Jesus-Welle' in der Pop-Religiösität.” Medien praktisch 21, 1997: 57-62.
Keazor, Henry and Thorsten Wübbena. Video thrills the radio star: Musikvideos: Geschichte, Themen, Analysen. 2. Bielefeld: transcript, 2007.
Mattern, Kirsten. Fernsehstars und Kinderalltag: Die Bedeutung von TV-Helden für die Selbstkonzeptentwicklung von Kindern. Oberhausen: Athena, 1999.
Neumann-Braun, Klaus and Axel Schmidt. “McMusic. Einführung.” Viva MTV!:Popmusik im Fernsehen. Ed. Klaus Neumann-Braun. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1999. 7-44.
Wenzel, Ulrich. “Pawlos Panther. Musikvideos zwischen bedingtem Reflex und zeichentheoretischer Reflexion.” Viva MTV!:Popmusik im Fernsehen. Ed. Klaus Neumann-Braun. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1999. 45-73.
Jackson, Michael. “Black or White.” YouTube. Web. 11 April 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IH0N469RF8
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Saline Boys U12 Baseball Team wins the State Championships this Weekend
by Sonia Gottfried
26 teams from all over the State headed to Canton, MI to compete for the AA State Tournament championship this past weekend. With tons of talent on the dozen fields at Canton Sports Center, Saline earned their status of State Champs with 6 wins, 0 losses.
“I want to congratulate and thank our boys, coaches and parents. This weekend really was amazing. Our boys came together and really just outplayed everyone that got in their way. As usual, we played great defense, pitched well and kept the bats hitting. This weekend we've never hit better. Anytime we needed runs all 11 guys from our team were contributing. It really was fun to watch and I feel so lucky have been a part of this whole experience,” said Coach Andy Gottfried.
Gottfried started this team 5 years ago with 11 talented young 8-year-old boys. With time, patience and strong coaching he turned these boys into a desirable team that can win with grace and learn from losses.
“We've been working very hard over the last 5 years to get this team where we are today. We've had our ups and downs and we have had to make some very difficult decisions to get to the group we have today. When you have a weekend like we just had... STATE CHAMPS... it makes all the hard work, stress and obsessing about the team worth it,” added Gottfried.
Worth noting about the tournament: Saline outscored their opponents 57 to 14, resulting in 5 mercies out of 6 games.
The championship game (8-0) was against Michigan Storm from Southgate. USSSA awarded the Saline Hornets U12 team with gold state championship rings for all the players and coaches. Michigan Storm received silver runner-up rings.
The 12U Saline Hornets have been selected to play in the Cooperstown Dream Park and American Youth Baseball Hall of Fame Invitational Tournament during the week of July 15 - 21 in Cooperstown, NY.
About SAYBS:
Saline Area Youth Baseball and Softball is a non-profit organization located in Saline, MI. SAYBS provides developmental leagues to reinforce the ideals of good sportsmanship, honesty, loyalty, courage and respect for authority while teaching the fundamentals of baseball and softball. For more information visit http://www.saybs.org.
About USSSA:
The United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA), headquartered in Osceola County, Florida, USSSA is the World’s Largest Multi-sport Athletic Organization. Founded in 1968, USSSA has grown to over 3.7 million participants, competing in 13 nationally sanctioned sports including Baseball, Fastpitch, Slow Pitch, Karate, Basketball, Soccer and more! For more information on USSSA and to register your team visit USSSA.com.
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Perceived Qualifications Necessary for Black Females Seeking Head Collegiate Basketball Coaching Positions
Submitted by Joan Sloan, Ph.D.
Dr. Jo Sloan is an Assistant Professor at Lane College teaching in the areas of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and is also a certified Personal Trainer through the American Council on Exercise.
Surveys were sent to 231 randomly selected athletic administrators from the 2008-09 NCAA Directory of Colleges and Universities across the United States in Divisions I, II, and III seeking their perception of qualifications necessary for Black females seeking opportunities to head coach Women’s basketball programs at the Division I, II, or III level. The rate of return for the surveys was 67%. The statistical significance of the information was tested using t-tests, one-way ANOVAs, and the Tukey’s Post Hoc procedures. There were items of significance from the Athletic Directors across the divisions as it related to education (p<.00), qualifications (p<.00), being unaware of openings (p<.02), experience at their level (p<.00) and being single (p<.02). There was a significant result from the Commissioners as it related to experience (p<.02) for the division at its level. With the passage of Title IX some 42 years ago, the adoption of affirmative action guidelines and the increase in the number of women in sports one would be lead to believe that things would change especially for the Black female. However the number of minority women head coaches have not increased (Abney & Richey, 1992). Given as the top five perceived qualifications necessary for the employment of Black females according to athletic administrators were: strong communication skills, ability to recruit/travel, personality, educational level, and Division 1 coaching experience. Each division believed that experience at their level was definitely necessary. Having four out of the five qualifications and the Black female is still denied the opportunity. Between the years of 2000 and 2002, 90.3% of those new positions were filled by men (Acosta & Carpenter, 2002).
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Summer in the Forest
Posted on: 19th June 2017 |
Tags: film, L'Arche, Jean Vanier
R2W Films
Director: Randall Wright
Starring: Jean Vanier
Running time: 108 mins
Selected UK screenings from 23 June 2017
Two people are taking a walk together in the Compiègne forest. A voiceover reflects on nature: how the birds do not worry, they simply are who they are, and how we human beings, like the birds, can also find this quietness within us. This prayerful beginning sets the tone for a film which is characterised by its stillness and peace.
Summer in the Forest (originally titled The Idiots) communicates to its viewers historical information about L'Arche, the now-vast network of communities that support people with learning disabilities, by telling a story. Its larger narrative is made up of several personal stories told simultaneously – about Jean Vanier, the founder of L’Arche whose voice we hear at the beginning of the film; and about several community members with disabilities: David, Andre, Patrick, Michel and Phillipe.
This format is the perfect way to introduce L’Arche, as its philosophy is based on the fact that everybody has a unique story, each part of which is sacred. The times we have felt loved and appreciated, and the times we have felt hurt and rejected – they have all shaped who we are and we should embrace them. The film responds to this challenge: we hear Jean speak about how the trust his parents showed in him had a profound lifelong effect; and we also hear Michel telling us about his difficult experiences of institutions, which have had an equally significant effect.
The film includes plenty of meal times, which speaks to the importance of the table in L'Arche. The community is built around the table, particularly at supper, when everybody gathers to share a meal, to talk about their day, to listen to each other, to enjoy a joke and to have fun. It is the friendship, as much as the food, that is to be savoured.
Such companionship is the heart of L'Arche – living in community, sharing life together, in both joy and sorrow. It is about mutuality as opposed to competition – Jean speaks about the need always to be better, cleverer, faster than the next person as a weakness in our nature. It divides us and leads us away from what we really need: to be loved and appreciated just as we are, with all of our beautiful flaws.
The film echoes the ethos of L’Arche in advocating the need for authentic relationships. Because weakness and vulnerability are championed in L’Arche, the petty rivalry which dominates so much of ‘ordinary’ society is largely reduced, and people with disabilities are allowed to become our teachers. This is truly where the gospel comes alive. And in times of anguish, the community journeys together, which brings growth and healing, individually and corporately. I remember thinking after the death of one community member, a lady with disabilities, that I had never, in L’Arche or in wider society, seen a community so united, never seen such an outpouring of love for somebody of no ‘worldly’ stature in eulogy after eulogy.
In the later part of the film we find ourselves watching a scene in a L'Arche home. It looks the same as the other French homes that we have been shown, but for one difference: all of the female assistants are wearing a hijab. This is L'Arche Bethlehem. We then see the landscape – dry, sun-bleached mountains, so different from the lush green countryside of France – and other differences soon become obvious. Yet we also see, importantly, the similarities that cut through these differences: our need for love, for community, for companionship. We see that the depth of our nature is the same, no matter where we are.
We see Jean with this Middle Eastern community. We see him sitting outside, contemplating the rocky countryside, its clusters of housing, its biblical landscape, the sound of jets roaring overhead. Jean reflects on the nature of fear, which he says is humanity’s biggest problem, the root of all social ills. The fear that the cry for love that comes from the depth of our being will not be heard, that we will be left alone, gives rise to the need to be better than others, stronger than others. When this need for power manifests itself on a societal or national level, it can lead to great horrors.
L’Arche is a symbol of what is really possible if people open their minds to what is different. It is not all that long ago that to have disabilities, or to have a child with disabilities, was seen as shameful: the world locked up people with disabilities in institutions, separating them from what they needed, which is the same as what all human beings need – one another. But the vision of those who could see past difference and to our shared humanity allowed things to change. Institutions began to close, walls came down and we began to move towards a more inclusive, empathic society in which everyone is valued for their uniqueness and not judged upon difference. Only in this environment can we flourish, can we overcome the fears and negative thinking that isolate people and groups. L'Arche is a small sign of the peace that can be achieved if people would outgrow fear and embrace difference, and this film is a celebration of that achievement.
SUMMER IN THE FOREST (2017) OFFICIAL TRAILER
Video of SUMMER IN THE FOREST (2017) OFFICIAL TRAILER
Reviewer: Dan Nisbett
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Index term: House of Justice, National (Secondary)
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The Lord hath ordained that in every city a House of Justice be established
The institution of the House of Justice consists of elected councils which operate at the local, national and international levels of society. Bahá'u'lláh ordains both the Universal House of Justice and the Local Houses of Justice in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, in His Will and Testament, provides for the Secondary (National or Regional) Houses of Justice and outlines the method to be pursued for the election of the Universal House of Justice.
In the verse cited above, the reference is to the Local House of Justice, an institution which is to be elected in a locality whenever there are nine or more resident adult Bahá'ís. For this purpose, the definition of adult was temporarily fixed at the age of 21 years by the Guardian, who indicated it was open to change by the Universal House of Justice in the future.
Local and Secondary Houses of Justice are, for the present, known as Local Spiritual Assemblies and National Spiritual Assemblies. Shoghi Effendi has indicated that this is a "temporary appellation" which,
. . . as the position and aims of the Bahá'í Faith are better understood and more fully recognized, will gradually be superseded by the permanent and more appropriate designation of House of Justice. Not only will the present-day Spiritual Assemblies be styled differently in future, but they will be enabled also to add to their present functions those powers, duties, and prerogatives necessitated by the recognition of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh, not merely as one of the recognized religious systems of the world, but as the State Religion of an independent and Sovereign Power.
the number of Bahá
The abjad numerical equivalent of "Bahá" is nine. The Universal House of Justice and the National and Local Spiritual Assemblies currently have nine members each, the minimum number prescribed by Bahá'u'lláh.
It behoveth them to be the trusted ones of the Merciful among men
The general powers and duties of the Universal House of Justice, the National Spiritual Assemblies and the Local Spiritual Assemblies and the qualifications for membership are set forth in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá, in the letters of Shoghi Effendi, and in the elucidations of the Universal House of Justice. The major functions of these institutions are outlined in the Constitution of the Universal House of Justice, and in those of the National and Local Spiritual Assemblies.
O ye Men of Justice!
It has been elucidated in the writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi that, while the membership of the Universal House of Justice is confined to men, both women and men are eligible for election to Secondary and Local Houses of Justice (currently designated as National and Local Spiritual Assemblies).
n183.
O ye the learned ones in Bahá
Bahá'u'lláh eulogizes the learned among His followers. In the Book of His Covenant, He wrote: "Blessed are the rulers and learned among the people of Bahá." Referring to this statement, Shoghi Effendi has written:
In this holy cycle the "learned" are, on the one hand, the Hands of the Cause of God, and, on the other, the teachers and diffusers of His Teachings who do not rank as Hands, but who have attained an eminent position in the teaching work. As to the "rulers" they refer to the members of the Local, National and International Houses of Justice. The duties of each of these souls will be determined in the future.
The Hands of the Cause of God were individuals appointed by Bahá'u'lláh and charged with various duties, especially those of protecting and propagating His Faith. In Memorials of the Faithful 'Abdu'l-Bahá referred to other outstanding believers as Hands of the Cause, and in His Will and Testament He included a provision calling upon the Guardian of the Faith to appoint Hands of the Cause at his discretion. Shoghi Effendi first raised posthumously a number of the believers to the rank of Hands of the Cause, and during the latter years of his life appointed a total of 32 believers from all continents to this position. In the period between the passing of Shoghi Effendi in 1957 and the election of the Universal House of Justice in 1963, the Hands of the Cause directed the affairs of the Faith in their capacity as Chief Stewards of Bahá'u'lláh's embryonic World Commonwealth (see note 67). In November 1964, the Universal House of Justice determined that it could not legislate to make it possible to appoint Hands of the Cause. Instead, by a decision of the House of Justice in 1968, the functions of the Hands of the Cause in relation to protecting and propagating the Faith were extended into the future by the creation of the Continental Boards of Counsellors, and in 1973 through the establishment of the International Teaching Centre, which has its seat in the Holy Land.
The Universal House of Justice appoints the Counsellor members of the International Teaching Centre and the Continental Counsellors. Members of Auxiliary Boards are appointed by the Continental Counsellors. All these individuals fall within the definition of the "learned" given by Shoghi Effendi in the statement quoted above.
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What to see: Treasures from the Royal Collection, Oslo
As previously mentioned the government’s present to the King and Queen for their 75th birthdays is six exhibitions of treasures from the Royal Collection to be shown in various locations throughout the country. The first of these was presented to the King and Queen at an event at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Oslo last Wednesday and will be on show there until 26 August.
This first exhibition is titled “Royal Journeys 1905-2005” and shows items from the Royal Collection related to various forms of journeys undertaken by the members of the present dynasty since its establishment in 1905, which at the same times reflects the wide range of the Royal Collection.
The exhibition is divided into four rooms, of which the museum’s great hall is dedicated to coronations and consecrations and the journeys across the country undertaken in connection with these ceremonies. The pièce de résistance of this room is the magnificent coronation coach made for the coronation of King Haakon VII and Queen Maud in 1906 and not seen in public since 1940. In this room one will also find Queen Maud’s spectacular coronation gown together with the dresses worn by Princess Astrid and Queen Sonja for the consecrations of 1958 and 1991, as well as the uniforms worn by King Haakon, King Olav and King Harald for the ceremonies in 1906, 1958 and 1991.
One room is dedicated to King Haakon and Queen Maud, and includes a mountain of luggage symbolising the fifty suitcases with which Queen Maud travelled. Here are also the young Princess Maud’s sketchbook and photographs made during her first visit to her future kingdom in 1893, items related to the royal election of 1905 and the new King and Queen’s departure from Denmark and arrival in Norway along with uniforms, dresses, orders and gifts from their state visit, all illustrated throughout with photos and video footage.
The next room focuses on King Olav and Crown Princess Märtha, but also includes World War II. Particularly dominant in this room are the sumptuous gifts King Olav received on state visits to exotic countries such as Iran and Thailand. The final room deals with the current King and Queen and the journeys they have undertaken within and without Norway since their accession 21 years ago.
The photos above show some of the many diverse items included in this exhibition. The first photo shows the coronation coach, followed by Queen Maud’s coronation gown and Ida Lorentzen’s painting of the consecration of King Harald and Queen Sonja.
The fourth picture shows the Grand Cross of the Russian Order of St Catherine, set with diamonds, which was given to the then Princess Maud of Britain on the occasion of her cousin Grand Duchess Xenia of Russia’s wedding in 1894. The fifth photo is of a gold casket given to King Haakon and Queen Maud by the Corporation of the City of London during their state visit to Britain in 1906.
The sixth photo shows an electrical Cadillac which Crown Prince Olav was given by his doting grandmother, Queen Alexandra of Britain. Next is Per Palle Storm’s bust of Crown Princess Märtha, followed by her miniature medals and family orders.
The ninth picture shows the blanket and pillow used by King Haakon during the campaign of 1940. Then comes presents given to King Olav during a Thai state visit, a detail of the royal table set for the return dinner during the official visit to Denmark in 2005 and finally a bust given to the King and Queen by Nelson Mandela on his last visit to Norway that same year.
Labels: art, exhibitions, Glücksburg, history, Norway, Oslo, royalty, sights
Wonderful photos. I think I perhaps saw at least Queen Mauds coronation gown last summer in Monte Carlo. The Norwegian room was one of the best of that royal exhibition. I think I will use some of my Eurobonus point for a trip to Oslo this coming summer to see this exhibition and possibly visit the Royal Palace. I have been so many times to Oslo but never been able to visit the Palace.
Martin Rahm
Trond Norén Isaksen 20 February 2012 at 15:31
Yes, Queen Maud's coronation gown was indeed loaned to the Monaco exhibition last summer. I think Norway had actually made some very good loans to that exhibition, including not only the coronation dress, but also the splendid Viking silver and Gabriel Kielland's coronation painting from Stiftsgården in Trondheim.
I am perhaps a bit biased, but I would say both the exhibition and the Royal Palace are well worth visiting - following the restoration the Palace is now one of the best examples of Nordic empire style. This year it will be open from Saturday 23 June to Wednesday 15 August.
Do drop me a note if you do come to Oslo, so that we may perhaps meet if I am myself in Oslo at that time.
Naomi 20 February 2012 at 22:23
TY for the photo's, I can't travel due to severe back and circulation problems, these photo's are just wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!
TY so much for the photo's they are just wonderful. Severe back problems prevent me from traveling, seeing these phot's is allmost like coming to Norway
Vasily Chernov 23 February 2012 at 16:35
Dear Trond Norén Isaksen, a very interesting blog. Our gallery will be holding the Royal Portraits exhibition in London, and I would like to ask you a couple of questions. Could you please email me back vasily@vzgallery.com
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Princess Ragnhild laid to rest
At noon today the funeral service of Princess Ragnhild took place in the Palace Chapel in Oslo, the same chapel where she was held over the baptismal font by her grandmother Queen Maud 82 years ago.
It was a small, intimate ceremony; her coffin draped in the Norwegian flag and flanked by an honorary guard of His Majesty the King's Guard. Her son, Haakon Lorentzen, spoke in memory of his mother, while one of the readings was done by her granddaughter Sophia.
Following the funeral service the King and Queen hosted a reception at the Royal Palace, and the coffin was thereafter driven to the churchyard in Asker, where the Princess was laid to her final rest in a private ceremony attended only by those closest to her. It was in Asker Church, which is just around the corner from the crown princely residence Skaugum, that Princess Ragnhild married Erling S. Lorentzen in 1953, and although they spent their entire married life in Brazil they had long ago decided that this was where they wanted to be buried.
Present in the Palace Chapel were some 120 mourners. Among them were her widower as well as all her children and grandchildren, the King and Queen, Princess Astrid (who was with her sister in Rio for a week shortly before her death) and Johan Martin Ferner, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, Princess Märtha Louise, Crown Princess Victoria (representing her parents, who were close to Princess Ragnhild through the Brazilian connection), several children, children-in-law and grandchildren of Princess Astrid, her aunt by marriage Princess Kristine Bernadotte, her cousin Madeleine Kogevinas, the Speaker of Parliament, the Prime Minister, some other representatives of the authorities, courtiers and friends.
As Erling S. Lorentzen walked out of the Palace Chapel, carrying the flag which had draped his wife's coffin in one hand, Crown Princess Victoria took his other hand.
Labels: ceremonies, funerals, Glücksburg, Norway, royalty
My latest article: The Princess Norway never knew
Today Princess Ragnhild, who died on 16 September at the age of 82, will be laid to rest. To mark the occasion I have written an article which appears in Aftenposten this morning, where I try to sum up her life and explain why the people of Norway never really had the chance to get to know the Princess properly. You may read the article here (external link).
The funeral service will take place in the Palace Chapel at noon and is expected to last an hour. Thereafter the King and Queen will host a reception and at 2.30 p.m. the funeral cortege will depart from the Palace’s main gate to the cemetery in Asker, where the Princess will be laid to rest in a private ceremony attended only by the family.
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My latest article: Carl XIII, the first union king
If King Carl XIII of Sweden and of Norway (1748-1818) is remembered at all today, it is mostly either as the younger brother of Gustaf III, the adoptive father of Carl XIV Johan or as the husband of the diarist Queen Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta. No complete biography of him has ever been published, but in this year’s third issue of Historie, which is on sale today, I have written a 25-page-article about his life.
Carl XIII was a weak man, who, during his regency for the minor Gustaf IV Adolf in 1792-1796, let his favourite Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm govern in his place. By the time he succeeded to the Swedish throne in 1809, he was too old and frail to play much of an active role, but in his younger years he was known as an intriguer, who, it has been alleged, probably had prior knowledge of the conspiracies which led to the assassination of Gustaf III in 1792 and the deposal of his nephew Gustaf IV Adolf in 1809.
In 1814 he became the first king of the Swedish-Norwegian union, but he only set foot on Norwegian soil once, during the war in August 1814, when he had not yet been acknowledged by the Norwegians as their king.
From 1810 the reins of power were in the hands of his adopted son, but Carl Johan came to experience, as Philippe d’Orléans and other regents before and since, that someone who was not himself the monarch did not have full freedom to go through with his own plans. This involved the amalgamation of the two kingdoms into one, something which the eminent historian Sverre Steen has argued was prevented by sheer existence of Carl XIII, to whom Carl Johan always showed deference. This would have been most easily accomplished in the early, insecure years of the union, but when Carl XIII died in 1818 and Carl XIV Johan himself became king, it was already too late.
The photo shows Erik Gustaf Göthe’s statue of Carl XIII in the Royal Garden in Stockholm, which was erected on the orders of Carl XIV Johan in 1822. It shows him with an anchor and crowned with a laurel wreath, recalling his supposed military glory. Created Admiral of the Fleet in his cradle, the then Prince Carl in 1788 presided over (but did not in fact lead) the battle with Russia at Hogland in the Gulf of Finland, which ended with an even draw, but was hailed as a splendid victory.
Today the statue is generally overlooked. As late as this summer I was approached by a man in the King’s Garden who asked if I knew who the man on the statue was; his colleagues having suggested Hjalmar Branting, the first Social Democratic Prime Minister.
Labels: 1814, Bernadotte, history, Holstein-Gottorp, Norway, royalty, Sweden
Princess Ragnhild’s coffin arrives in Norway
Around 6.30 p.m. the plane carrying the coffin of Princess Ragnhild arrived at the military part of Oslo Airport Gardermoen from Rio de Janeiro, where the Princess had lived since 1953 and where she died last Sunday.
The coffin was draped in the Norwegian flag and was carried from the plane by eight soldiers of His Majesty the King’s Guard. The King and Princess Astrid received their sister’s coffin at the airport.
The Princess’s husband, Erling S. Lorentzen, her two daughters, Ingeborg Lorentzen Ribeiro and Ragnhild A. Lorentzen Long, the latter’s husband Aaron Long, and the granddaughters Victoria Ribeiro, Alexandra Lorentzen Long and Elizabeth Lorentzen Long escorted the coffin on the journey from Brazil.
Following a short ceremony at the airport the coffin was driven to the Royal Palace in Oslo, where the funeral will take place on Friday.
King attends opening of another royal jubilee exhibition - and appoints new ministers
Today I have been to Elverum to attend the opening of the exhibition “The Longest Journey, 1940-1945” at the Glomdal Museum. The exhibition is one of the six exhibitions based on the Royal Collection which are the government’s 75th birthday present to the King and Queen. The King attended, wearing mourning for his sister, Princess Ragnhild, who died on Sunday.
“The Longest Journey, 1940-1945” is a travelling exhibition which deals with the royal family’s flight, exile and homecoming. Elverum seemed a natural starting point as this small town, some two hours north of Oslo, was the second stop on the royal family’s and government’s flight and it was there that King Haakon on 10 April 1940 refused the German demand that he should appoint a government led by the leader of the Norwegian Nazi party, Vidkun Quisling. (Most of the town was consequently flattened by German bombers).
The exhibition will later be shown at Ørlandet, Ålesund, Bodø, Tromsø, Alta, Hammerfest, Harstad, Lista and Stord before ending up at the Defence Museum in Oslo in 2014.
The exhibition was supposed to be opened by Culture Minister Anniken Huitfeldt, but a cabinet reshuffle meant that she was no longer Culture Minister by the time the exhibition opened. Instead the task of declaring it open fell to Rigmor Aasrud, Minister of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs.
The reshuffle was formalised in a State Council at the Royal Palace at 11 a.m. The King appointed Hadia Tajik, a 29-year-old MP from Rogaland, who is considered as a rising star of the Labour Party, Minister of Culture. Jonas Gahr Støre, who had been Foreign Minister for seven years, was moved to the Ministry of Health and Care Services and was succeeded by Espen Barth Eide, until now Minister of Defence. Støre replacesAnne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen, who returns to the Ministry of Defence, where she also preceded Mr Eide. The outgoing Minister of Culture, Anniken Huitfeldt, took on the portfolio of Labour, until now held by Hanne Bjurstrøm, who left the government today.
Labels: Elverum, exhibitions, Glücksburg, Norway, politics, royalty, WWII
Memorial service for Princess Ragnhild held in Rio de Janeiro
At 5 p.m. local time tonight (10 p.m. Norwegian time) a memorial service was held in the English church, Christ Church, in Rio de Janeiro for Princess Ragnhild of Norway, who died on Sunday at the age of 82. The Princess had been living in Rio since 1953.
Her son, Haakon Lorentzen, gave an address at the memorial service, something he will also do during the funeral in the Palace Chapel in Oslo next Friday. The Norwegian priests Anne Netland and Ørnulf Steen officiated.
Princess Ragnhild’s coffin will now be flown to her native Norway, where the King and Princess Astrid will receive their sister’s casket at Oslo Airport Gardermoen on Saturday.
Labels: Brazil, Glücksburg, Norway, royalty
King awards Grand Cross to last Private Secretary
The King has been pleased to award the rare honour that is the Grand Cross of the Order of St Olav to his outgoing Private Secretary, Berit Tversland, making her only the third non-royal Norwegian woman to receive this honour. An era comes to an end at the Norwegian royal court when Tversland now retires as the King’s Private Secretary, a position which was created by King Haakon VII in 1905 and now ceases to exist.
Berit Tversland has been employed by the royal court since 1977, first as governess to the then Prince Haakon and Princess Märtha Louise and later as their secretary. In 2000 she succeeded Magne Hagen as Private Secretary, becoming the first woman to hold that position.
The position as Private Secretary is now abolished, and its office merges with the office of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess into a new entity which will be known as the Royal Secretariat. It will be led by Gry Mølleskog, with the title Chief of Staff. Mølleskog was also head of the office of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess from 2003 to 2006.
The first Norwegian woman to receive the Grand Cross of St Olav was Crown Princess Märtha, who was awarded it with its collar in 1942. The Grand Cross was subsequently given to the author and Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset and the actress Johanne Dybwad in 1947, to Princess Astrid (with collar) in 1956, to Crown Princess Sonja (with collar) in 1972, to Princess Ragnhild in 1982, to Princess Märtha Louise (with collar) in 1989 and to Crown Princess Mette-Marit in 2001.
Labels: courtiers, decorations, Norway, royalty
Flowers and a candle for Princess Ragnhild
Given her low profile in Norway through the last sixty years, public reaction to the death of Princess Ragnhild has, understandably, been subdued. There was no long queue for the book of condolences which was opened at the Royal Palace yesterday, but what seemed to be a steady flow of people. Today I also noticed that some flowers and a candle have been left at the statue of Crown Princess Märtha, the Princess’s mother, in the Palace Park. Princess Ragnhild, like her siblings, absolutely loved this statue and a small version of it stood on a table in her living room in Rio de Janeiro.
Tomorrow, a 5 p.m. Brazilian time and 10 p.m. Norwegian time, a memorial service will be held in Christ Church in Rio before the coffin is flown to Norway.
Finnish state visit to Norway in October
The Norwegian royal court and the office of the President of Finland today announced that the new Finnish President, Sauli Niinistö, and his wife Jenni Haukio will pay a state visit to Norway from 10 to 12 October. There will be the usual welcoming ceremony in the Palace Square, followed by lunch and a wreath-laying ceremony at the National Monument at Akershus Fortress. President Niinistö will then call on the First Vice-Speaker of Parliament, Øivind Korsberg, and the Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, while his wife will open an art exhibition. The King and Queen will give a state banquet in the evening, which will also be attended by the Crown Prince and Crown Princess and Princess Astrid.
The next day the President will give a lecture at the House of Literature and then attend a conference, while his wife, who is herself a poet, will remain longer at the House of Literature together with the Queen in order to get a presentation of Norwegian poetry. The Prime Minister will host a luncheon before the guests visit a school at Stovner. The day ends with a reception at the Opera House, hosted by the President and First Lady of Finland.
On the third and final day, the Finnish guests will visit Tromsø and attend engagements focusing on mutual Finnish-Norwegian issues concerning the Arctic area. Unusually, the King and Queen will not accompany their guests on the final day, as they always do, but delegate this task to the Crown Prince.
Sauli Niinistö was elected President of Finland in February, in succession to Tarja Halonen, and sworn in on 1 March. In keeping with Finnish tradition he made a state visit to Sweden shortly after his inauguration.
Labels: Finland, Norway, royalty, state visits
Princess Ragnhild’s funeral to take place on 28 September
The court has announced that the funeral of Princess Ragnhild, who died on Sunday at the age of 82, will take place in the Palace Chapel in Oslo at noon on Friday 28 September.
The Bishop of Oslo, Ole Christian Kvarme, and the Dean of Oslo, Olav Dag Hauge, will officiate. The King and Queen, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, Princess Märtha Louise and Princess Astrid will be among the 120 mourners present. Subsequently the King and Queen will host a reception at the Palace.
Princess Ragnhild will, as announced already in her lifetime, be laid to rest in the cemetery at Asker Church. Only the family will attend the burial, which it is their wish that the press will stay away from.
A memorial service will be held in the English church in Rio at 5 p.m. on the coming Thursday before the coffin is flown to Norway. The King and Princess Astrid will receive their sister’s coffin at Oslo Airport Gardermoen on Saturday.
The members of the royal family will carry on with their public engagements as usual and court mourning has not been declared. Indeed this seems to be a custom which has lapsed during the present reign. If I recall correctly the death of Queen Ingrid of Denmark in 2000 was the last time court mourning was declared.
Nothing has been said officially about any foreign royals attending the funeral, but most of those foreign relatives to whom Princess Ragnhild was close are by now either dead or too old to travel, the exceptions being her aunt by marriage, Princess Kristine Bernadotte, and the King and Queen of Sweden.
Labels: funerals, Glücksburg, Norway, royalty
Book of condolences to be laid out at Palace tomorrow
On the occasion of the death of Princess Ragnhild a book of condolences will be laid out at the Royal Palace tomorrow. The Speaker of Parliament, the Prime Minister and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court will sign it at 9.30 a.m., followed by the diplomatic corps from 10 a.m. to noon. From 12.30 p.m. to 4 p.m. the general public will be admitted. Entry is through the main gate of the Palace.
At the road’s end: Princess Ragnhild of Norway, Mrs Lorentzen (1930-2012)
Princess Ragnhild, who has died of cancer at the age of 82, was the princess Norway never really got to know.
Princess Ragnhild was born on 9 June 1930 and first saw the light of day at the Royal Palace in Oslo, the family home Skaugum in Asker having burned down to the ground just a few weeks before. She was the eldest child of the then Crown Prince Olav and his Swedish-born wife Märtha and was born two days after the 25th anniversary of the dissolution of the personal union between the two kingdoms.
Moreover, she was the first royal person to be born on Norwegian soil since the birth of the future King Olav Håkonsson in 1370 and the first princess to be born in Norway since Ingebjørg Håkonsdatter in 1301.
The names chosen pointed to her royal heritage. Ragnhild was the name borne by both the wife and the mother of Harald the Fairhaired, the king who first united Norway into one kingdom in the late ninth century. The second name, Alexandra, was for her great-grandmother, Queen Alexandra of Britain.
The Princess was christened in the Palace Chapel on 27 June 1930. Her grandmother Queen Maud held her over the baptismal font, and her other godparents were her grandfather King Haakon VII, her maternal grandparents Prince Carl and Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, her great-uncle King Gustaf V of Sweden, her great-aunt Princess Victoria of Britain, her aunt Princess Margaretha of Denmark, and her father’s first cousin, Prince Albert of Britain, Duke of York (later King George VI).
She spent her first years at Villa Solbakken, just outside Oslo, until the new Skaugum was ready in August 1932. By then she had been joined by a sister, Princess Astrid. At the time, women did not have succession rights in Norway, but as the years went by after the births of the two princesses and no brother seemed to appear, one started to think of introducing female succession.
If so, Ragnhild might have become Queen Regnant, a fate she would later say she was happy to escape. And these discussions came to an end with the birth of a brother, Prince Harald, the present King, on 21 February 1937.
With barely one and a half year between them, the two princesses were inseparable. When it was time for Ragnhild to start school, a few girls of “good families” were chosen to join her and Princess Astrid for private schooling at Skaugum and later, when the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, caused petrol to be rationed, at the Royal Palace.
In the early hours of 9 April 1940, Germany attacked Norway, and Princess Ragnhild and her siblings were awakened by their parents and told to pack a suitcase with their favourite toys. The sinking of the German battleship “Blücher” in the Oslofjord gave the royal family, the government and most of the MPs time to escape from the capital before the Germans marched in.
However, as it was clear that it would be a long fight and one could obviously not take children along on a military campaign, it was decided that the Crown Princess would bring the children to safety abroad. In the evening of 9 April she crossed into her native Sweden, not knowing if she would ever see her husband again.
Later in the summer Crown Princess Märtha and the children made the dangerous crossing of the Atlantic to the USA, where they stayed for five years under the supervision of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who became something of a substitute grandfather to the three children. Their father only came for Christmas, making the children particularly dependent on their mother.
Following liberation, the royal family returned to Norway on 7 June 1945, two days before Princess Ragnhild’s fifteenth birthday. They were met by ecstatic crowds and in the photos from that day the royal children, who had led peaceful, ordinary lives in the USA, look frightened.
Obviously it was a major change to return to a public life they had mostly forgotten. They had attended an ordinary school in the USA, but now that they were back home their parents wanted to go back to the pre-war arrangement with schooling at home. The princesses, and Ragnhild in particular, absolutely refused and in the end got their way. It was not the last time that Princess Ragnhild would make it clear that she had a strong will.
Among the royal bodyguards during that first summer of peace was Erling S. Lorentzen, the son of a shipping magnate and a veteran of the elite resistance group Company Linge. He was entrusted with the task of teaching the princesses to sail, and by 1946 the Princess was in love.
With hindsight it might seem a perfect match: the princess and the dashing war hero falling in love in the hour of victory. But this was not how it appeared at the time. There had been princesses marrying commoners before – for instance Patricia of Britain in 1919, Dagmar of Denmark in 1922 and Eikaterini of Greece in 1947 – but it was not yet quite normal.
King Haakon and Crown Princess Märtha went to considerable lengths to try to put an end to the relationship between Princess Ragnhild and Mr Lorentzen, while Crown Prince Olav apparently could not stand for his daughter’s tears – she was always the apple of his eye.
In the end Ragnhild got her way and on 15 May 1953 the happy couple walked down the aisle of Asker Church, just down the road from Skaugum. The problem of what if any official position should be given to the non-royal spouse of a princess was solved with the announcement that the couple would live abroad for the first years.
The choice fell on Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where the Lorentzen family had business interest. The plan was that they would stay for two years, but two years eventually became the rest of their lives. The Princess relinquished the style “Her Royal Highness” and became known as Princess Ragnhild, Mrs Lorentzen. When abroad she was accorded the style of “Her Highness”.
Apparently it was expected that Princess Ragnhild’s marriage to a commoner would be an exception rather than the rule, and Princess Astrid has said she thought she would not be able to marry a commoner as her sister had already done so. However, Princess Ragnhild’s marriage turned out to be a ground-breaker, and both her siblings as well as the children of the current King have followed her example.
Crown Princess Märtha was very ill at the time of her daughter’s wedding, but was looking forward to the birth of her first grandchild, expected in the late summer of 1954. However, just a few days before her and Crown Prince Olav’s silver wedding in March 1954, the Crown Princess’s health took a sudden turn for the worse and her pregnant daughter dashed across the Atlantic to get there in time. The Crown Princess died on 5 April 1954.
In August Princess Ragnhild gave birth to her first child in August 1954 and named him Haakon for his great-grandfather. The second child, born in 1957, was named Ingeborg for her great-grandmother, Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, Haakon and Ingeborg themselves being siblings. The afterthought, born in 1968, was named Ragnhild Alexandra for her mother, and was the only of the Lorentzen children to be born in Brazil and attain Brazilian citizenship.
King Haakon died in 1957 and Ragnhild’s widowed father succeeded to the throne as King Olav V. While Princess Ragnhild went on with her life in Brazil, her younger sister took on their mother’s mantle as first lady of Norway. Princess Astrid thus remained highly visible at home, while Princess Ragnhild gradually faded from the public stage. She held only one patronage and her only public duty, which she gave up in the mid-1990s, was the opening of the annual Christmas bazaar at the Norwegian seamen’s church in Rio.
She did, however, maintain close links with Norway, in particular her group of friends from school, her sister and her father. Despite the 24-hour journey and her fear of flying, she made frequent visits to Norway, where she always stayed with her father. Thus she came close to him in a way neither of her siblings did. When not together, father and daughter wrote to each other on a weekly basis (it caused quite a furore when Princess Ragnhild announced some ten years ago that she had burned her father’s letters).
Following King Olav’s death in 1991, the Princess invested in her own apartment at Frogner, a fashionable area of Oslo. When turning the key to the flat, it dawned on the 61-year-old Princess that it was actually the first time in her life that she was entirely alone.
To her biographer Lars O. Gulbrandsen the Princess explained that the difficult thing was that when travelling between Norway and Rio, she felt she was going home both ways. She always insisted on celebrating traditional Norwegian Christmas at the height of the Brazilian summer, but as the years went by and the Lorentzen children decided to make Brazil their future, it became clear that the Princess and her husband would never return permanently to Norway.
As is often the case with people settling outside their native land, the Princess’s opinions eventually became rather out of touch with Norwegian reality. In the mid-1990s she voiced her opposition to the increasingly common practice of couples living together before being married, an opinion she repeated when her nephew Crown Prince Haakon chose to live together with his future wife before they were neither married nor engaged.
Her great mistake, which had grave consequences for her public image, came a few years later, when the King and Queen made a state visit to Brazil in November 2003. The King had not visited his sister for 35 years and the Princess looked greatly forward to entertaining him for lunch in her home. However, the King and Queen cancelled on short notice in order to watch a beach volleyball match. The Princess apparently felt publicly humiliated and let her hurt feelings get the better of her by giving an interview to TV 2 in which she made some very critical comments about the Crown Prince’s and Princess Märtha Louise’s choices of partners – opinions she, as a member of the royal family, ought to have saved for the King’s ear only.
The interview caused a huge furore when it was broadcast in early 2004, and the public image of Princess Ragnhild – by then unknown to many Norwegians – became that of a bitter old woman more or less “exiled” to Brazil. I am told the Princess herself greatly regretted it all, but, being a wise man, the King chose to forgive and forget. His only comment was that he would not allow this to ruin family relations.
Princess Ragnhild rarely missed a family occasion in Norway, but as the years began to take their tolls her journeys to Norway became fewer. The passing of time also meant that she had fewer friends and acquaintances on this side of the Atlantic. Her bond to her sister was always very strong, although the two did not meet very often. Of her other royal relatives she was close to her uncle, Prince Carl Bernadotte, and his wife Kristine, as well as three of her first cousins and their spouses: King Baudouin of the Belgians, Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg and Count Flemming of Rosenborg. The Brazilian connection also meant an increasingly close relationship to the Queen of Sweden, herself half Brazilian by birth.
In February 2007 Princess Ragnhild declined her invitation to attend the King’s seventieth birthday, and in July of the same year she attended only parts of the Queen’s seventieth birthday celebrations. Her own eightieth birthday was celebrated at the Royal Palace in June 2010.
Her last but one visit to Norway was in February this year, when she attended the celebration of Princess Astrid’s eightieth birthday. By that time, Princess Ragnhild had begun using a wheelchair. She fractured her hip during Easter, and it was then that it was discovered that she suffered from cancer. When the great war hero Gunnar Sønsteby, an old friend who had been Erling Lorentzen’s best man died in May of this year, Lorentzen travelled to Norway to attend the funeral without his wife. She was however able to come to Norway to spend some summer weeks at the family’s island holiday home.
At the age of 82, Princess Ragnhild died in her home in Leblon in Rio de Janeiro at 9.45 a.m. local time today (2.45 p.m. Norwegian time). Although she chose Brazil in life, she had made it known already a few years ago that she would choose Norway in death and be buried in the cemetery of Asker Church.
Princess Ragnhild had a strong personality with some sharp edges and she and was always ready – sometimes perhaps too ready – to voice her opinions. But her shyness meant that the public never got to see the other sides of her personality, such as her dry sense of humour and her sharp powers of observation. These characteristic were highly evident when one met her privately, as I had the chance to do on a couple of occasions, and it is indeed unfortunate that they remained hidden to the public.
The photo is a press handout by Sven Gj. Gjeruldsen/the Royal Court.
Labels: Glücksburg, Norway, obituaries, royalty
PRINCESS RAGNHILD HAS DIED
The royal court has just announced the death of Princess Ragnhild. The Princess, the eldest sister of the King, died in her home in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil at 9.45 a.m. local time (2.45 p.m. Norwegian time). The Princess was 82 and had been frail in recent years. She died of cancer.
The government has offered her the honour of state funeral, but her family has turned down the offer. The date for the funeral has not yet been set, but it will take place in the Palace Chapel and the Princess will be interred in the cemetery at Asker Church, where she married Erling S. Lorentzen on 15 May 1953. He survives her, along with three children and six grandchildren. I will write more about her later.
Royal jewels: Queen Desideria’s malachite parure
Today the Nordic Museum in Stockholm opens a new exhibition showing some 1,000 items of jewellery from the museum’s vast collection. Among the highlights is a neoclassical parure of gold and malachite which has belonged to Queen Sophia of Sweden and of Norway.
The parure consists of a tiara, a necklace, a large brooch, a pair of earrings (one of them damaged) and two bracelets. The tiara is 5 centimetres high and 19 centimetres long, while the necklace measures 44.5 centimetres.
Gold of four nuances surround the cameos carved in malachite with classical scenes after the great Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. The central cameo of the tiara shows “day”; the brooch depicts “night”. In the necklace are cameos showing Aiskylos and Hygieia, Hercules and Hebe.
The tiara bears the mark “SP” and the French assay mark 1819-1839, which has made it possible to establish that it was created by the jeweller Simon Petiteau (1782-ca. 1860) in Paris, probably in the 1820s or 1830s.
It has been suggested that the parure may have belonged to Queen Desideria of Sweden and of Norway, and a look at the inventory of her jewels drawn up after her death in December 1860s proves that this is indeed the case. The parure is also listed in the jewellery inventory of her daughter-in-law Queen Josephina following her death in 1876 and then in the inventory after Queen Sophia’s death in 1913.
Apparently none of the heirs of Queen Sophia wanted this parure, which may have seemed very out of date by 1913, and it was decided to donate it to the Nordic Museum. Queen Sophia also owned a similar parure of gold and lava which had also belonged to Queen Desideria and is now the property of Queen Sophia’s great-great-granddaughter, Désirée af Rosenborg, who was given it by her grandmother, Princess Margaretha of Denmark, on her coming of age.
There is also a similar parure, of malachite and pearls, which may have belonged to Empress Joséphine of the French, in the possession of the Fondation Napoléon.
No definite closing date has been set for the exhibition at the Nordic Museum, but it is expected to last at least until May. Read more about the exhibition here (external link). All photos are press photos by Mats Landin, copyright the Nordic Museum.
Labels: Bernadotte, exhibitions, France, Jewels, neoclassicism, Norway, royalty, Sweden
British Parliament’s clock tower renamed in honour of Queen Elizabeth II
In a ceremony at its foot yesterday, the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which is home to the British Houses of Parliament, was renamed the Elizabeth Tower in honour of Queen Elizabeth II. The decision to rename the tower, popularly but incorrectly known as “Big Ben” (which is actually the name only of the main bell), was taken earlier this year in connection with the celebrations of Queen Elizabeth’s diamond jubilee. Thus the two main towers of the Palace of Westminster are now named, respectively, the Elizabeth Tower and the Victoria Tower, commemorating the two British monarchs who have reigned for more than sixty years.
Labels: Britain, British diamond jubilee 2012, London, parliament, royalty, Windsor
New books: Jubilee diamonds
Hugh Roberts’s The Queen’s Diamonds is not the only book accompanying the current exhibition of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain’s diamonds at Buckingham Palace. In addition to that monumental book there is also the smaller Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration by Caroline de Guitaut, curator of decorative arts at the Royal Collection.
While Roberts’s volume is the definite account, de Guitaut’s book aims at a more general audience. While Roberts’s book gives the detailed history of 74 items of jewellery, there are only 22 included in this book, but the selection is varied and representative of many different sort of diamonds, types of jewellery and historical epochs. The items included in de Guitaut’s book are those which are also included in the exhibition.
de Guitaut’s book also includes some items from the diamond exhibition which are not included in Roberts’s book, most of them not Queen Elizabeth’s personal property: Queen Victoria’s small diamond crown, Queen Alexandra’s coronation fan, a snuff box once belonging to King Friedrich II of Prussia and two jewelled swords.
It opens with a short general introduction to the history of diamonds and their association with the English/British royal family. Like Roberts’s book it is well illustrated, both with close-ups of the jewels and photos of them being used. However, there are some mistakes in the captions which appear unnecessary: Lord Snowdon is certainly not 119 years old, although a caption says he is born in 1893; the King of Norway’s name is not Harold, but Harald; and a photo of Queen Mary wearing the tiara and necklace made for the Dehli Durbar in 1911 cannot possibly show her “as Princess of Wales” in 1910, as the jewellery had not yet been created by then.
Caroline de Guitaut’s book can well be read on its own as an introduction to the British royal diamonds, but also as a useful supplement to Roberts’s larger book.
Labels: books, Britain, British literature, exhibitions, Jewels, reviews, royalty, Windsor
New books: British royal diamonds
As Queen Elizabeth II of Britain is in possession of some of the world’s most spectacular diamonds it seems only logical that the Royal Collection is marking her diamond jubilee with an exhibition on diamonds at Buckingham Palace this summer. There are two books to go along with the exhibition, both published by the Royal Collection: a smaller one by Caroline de Guitaut, aimed at a general audience, and a large one by Hugh Roberts, aimed at those who want the details.
However, Roberts’s monumental book, The Queen’s Diamonds, is not a complete account of all the jewels in the possession of Queen Elizabeth II. Such a work would surely require volumes, and this book is restricted to jewellery consisting entirely or primarily of diamonds, leaving out the emeralds, the sapphires, the rubies and so on. But this seems a fitting choice not only given the occasion of the diamond jubilee, but also because diamonds are arguably the stones most worn by and most associated with Queen Elizabeth. (Britain is also one of the few countries where the crown jewels are still worn by the Queen, but these are not included in the book as they are state property and not personal possessions of the monarch).
The book treats the selection of jewels chronologically. There are chapters devoted to Queen Adelaide, Queen Victoria, Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) and Queen Elizabeth II, and after an introduction about each queen, her jewellery and her use of it we find what is to all means and purposes a catalogue of individual pieces of jewellery acquired by the queen in question, describing their origins, their provenance and the changes made to them.
Altogether there are some 74 pieces of jewellery included in the book, among them eleven tiaras and several necklaces, brooches, earrings, bracelets, pendants, rings and other items. There are three entries for Queen Adelaide, eight for Queen Victoria, six for Queen Alexandra, 29 for Queen Mary, fourteen for the late Queen Elizabeth and fourteen for Queen Elizabeth II, reflecting that much of the jewels worn by the current Queen have been acquired during the past three generations.
The book is very richly illustrated. All the items are shown in full, but for many there are also detailed close-ups, and for most of them there are also historical photos of the jewels being worn (sometimes the captions does not say when and where, which is a minus).
Along the way, some mysteries are solved and some misunderstandings corrected, making this the definite account of the British royal diamonds. However, while reading the book I occasionally wished for more details. For instance, the footnote saying that one of the tiaras most frequently worn by Queen Alexandra was inherited by Princess Victoria and then “disposed of” begs the questions how, when and perhaps why. Sometimes a subtle difference in wording also seems to suggest what might have been spelt out. For instance, the phrase “was loaned” seems to suggest an occasional loan, while the phrase “has been loaned” appears to indicate a permanent loan.
Perhaps one might also wish for more on each queen’s use of jewels, for instance how they used their jewellery for ceremonial purposes and for the enhancement and staging of the monarchy and themselves. For instance one may note that the current Queen has worn the so-called Diamond Diadem on her arrival to every State Opening of Parliament, but apparently this was not the case with her predecessors (her mother and grandmother wore private tiaras or their coronation crowns without arches). Roberts claims that the diadem has been worn by all the queens treated in the book and notes that it was slightly altered in 1937 for George VI’s consort. But apparently there is no record of Queen Elizabeth actually having worn it, which makes one wonder what may be the reasons for this.
This being an “official” publication means that some potentially interesting issues are passed over, probably out of discretion. For instance, Roberts writes that Queen Adelaide dutifully handed over what was considered crown heirlooms to Queen Victoria within days of William IV’s death and we know from James Pope-Hennessy’s official biography of Queen Mary that it caused some tensions when Queen Alexandra after the death of Edward VII insisted on retaining some of the jewels which should by right have been handed over to the new Queen. In Roberts’s book one notes that some of these crown heirlooms, which should have passed to Queen Elizabeth II in 1952, were apparently retained by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother for a full fifty years until her own death. No point is made out of this, but one may wonder if this was by special arrangement or if the new Queen simply did not care (or thought she already had access to enough jewellery as it was).
Nevertheless, this is a well-researched and beautifully illustrated account of the diamonds in the possession of Queen Elizabeth II and the book will by its sheer existence be an inescapable work of reference for anyone with an interest in the history of royal jewels.
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DOJ Calls Out Dems for Refusing to Read Less Redacted Report
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The DOJ recently called out the complaining Dems in Congress for not reading a less redacted version of the Mueller report despite being given the opportunity to do so.
Justice Department officials chided congressional Democrats this week for ignoring a less-redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report made available to them, even as they pursue a subpoena for the full document and accuse the department of stonewalling.
“The Attorney General also voluntarily released the Special Counsel’s confidential report with minimal redactions to Congress and the public, made an even-less redacted report available to Chairman Nadler and congressional leadership (which they have refused to review), and made himself available to the Committee by volunteering to testify this week,” spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said.
Democrats had objected to Barr’s decision to transmit the report to Congress with redactions, and Nadler has subpoenaed the full report along with underlying materials. But Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd, in the letter to Nadler on Wednesday, said the less-redacted version already available to key members “would permit review of 98.5 percent of the report, including 99.9 percent of Volume II, which discusses the investigation of the President’s actions.”
“Regrettably, before even reviewing the less-redacted version or awaiting the Attorney General’s testimony, you served a subpoena ...” he wrote. “You served such a subpoena knowing that the Department could not lawfully provide the unredacted report, that the Committee lacks any legitimate legislative purpose for seeking the complete investigative files, and that processing your requests would impose a significant burden on the Department.”
The GOP members who have viewed the less-redacted version say that it does not change the overall conclusions to be drawn from it.
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HootSuite Appoints New Chief Technology Officer
Posted By Tami On Monday April 14, 2014 @ 6:27 am In Business News,Careers,National News,Social Media | 1 Comment
[1]HootSuite [1] has announced the appointment of Ajai Sehgal as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Sehgal brings expertise in building high-growth, high-volume development organizations to his role at HootSuite, heading the company’s team of software engineers and driving product strategy.
Ajai Sehgal
Sehgal brings over 18 years of product and technology experience to HootSuite, most recently as vice president of product and technology at Groupon. Sehgal played a crucial role in the development of Groupon Travel, the travel arm of the group-buying website pioneer. Sehgal built a startup within a startup in the five-year-old business, transforming Groupon Travel into a scalable, e-commerce platform with integrated web and mobile products from the ground up.
Prior to Groupon, Sehgal spent over a decade in senior leadership and software engineering roles at leading online travel website Expedia. As vice president of technology, Sehgal oversaw a global team of over 300 developers, software engineers and managers. Sehgal helped transform the company of 60 people from a pre-IPO startup to the world’s largest travel agency with over 14,000 global employees. At the time of Sehgal’s departure in 2012, Expedia had an annual revenue of $4 billion.
This announcement comes at a time of expansion for HootSuite, which now has over 8 million users including 744 of the Fortune 1000 organizations. The addition of experienced senior talent with proven skills in leading teams and scaling infrastructure through rapid expansion is strategic for the company.
“I can’t think of a more exciting time to join the team at HootSuite,” says Sehgal. “The innovation and collaboration that drives this company is the type of culture I thrive in. HootSuite’s engineers are some of the best and brightest; we’re going to do awesome things.”
“Ajai’s experience in scaling high growth organizations adds great value to our senior leadership team,” says Ryan Holmes, CEO of HootSuite. “His drive for developing world class products that solve our customers’ most pressing needs aligns well with HootSuite’s core values.”
Simon Stanlake, HootSuite’s former CTO, has played a key role in the development of HootSuite’s platform since 2010 and will remain a part of HootSuite’s engineering leadership team.
Additional career opportunities [3] are available now across many HootSuite departments. Follow @HootHR [4] to receive updates on HootSuite’s available opportunities.
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#1 Comment By Tami Quiring (@VillageGamer) On Sunday April 13, 2014 @ 11:30 pm
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by Laura Danielson, ABIL Lawyer
The Lamp Beside the Golden Door
When I was a child and someone called me a name or said something hurtful I shielded myself with these magic words . . . “Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.” Brave and sometimes helpful though these words were, they weren’t true. Words really can hurt us deeply. We realize as we grow that in fact words are powerful and that the words we choose matter. We learn that there are evocative, racist, sexist, or hateful words that shouldn’t be spoken.
My Grandma referred to African Americans as “nigros”, which I thought was appallingly close to a really bad word and mortified me every time she said it. At first I cut her some slack, allowing for the fact that she was an older woman (born in 1900) unaware of how the words describing race had changed in her lifetime. But then my brother dated a woman from India and Grandma asked, “But isn’t she a nigro?” It confirmed my suspicion that the word wasn’t spoken in innocence. In Grandma’s mind the word “nigro” meant someone who is outside our acceptable circle. It was an ostracizing word that made clear that we white people were different, that we were better.
The word “illegals” has similar power. It connotes the idea of people who are far outside our circle of acceptable friends. We, the “legal” ones, are better than they are. When I think about the word “illegals” the first thing that strikes me is that it is a descriptive phrase that has been turned into a noun, which has happened only recently. When I first started practicing immigration law over twenty years ago no one ever referred to “illegals”. They might be “undocumented people”, “people without papers”, or even the offensive ”illegal aliens” (how’s that for a phrase connoting outsiders?) but never just “illegals”. The use of nouns to distance ourselves from other groups of people is common. Overweight people are “fatties”. Homosexual people are “homos”. We recognize, however, that these words aren’t polite or kind and most of us know better than to use them.
We do call people who’ve committed crimes “criminals” because they’ve engaged in behavior that divides them from polite and civilized society. Ostracizing them is considered ok because they’ve done something bad. They deserve it, at least up until the point at which they’ve paid their dues. A friend of mine who is never soft on crime once argued that it is ok to call undocumented people “illegals” for the same reason that we call people “criminals”. Reasoning that the undocumented people among us have committed crimes, which is what has made them “illegal” in the first place, it is acceptable to shun them.
So let’s examine what crimes have been committed by those who are unauthorized to be in the U.S. Those adults who enter the U.S. without inspection have committed a federal misdemeanor which carries a fine of between $25 and $250 or a maximum imprisonment of 6 months. As such, it is a Class B federal misdemeanor, a petty offense which is on a par with a first time DUI. There is no crime greater than this for first time offenders. (Do we brand those who have first-time DUI’s as “criminals” or do we look upon them more as petty offenders, who can redeem themselves and learn from their mistakes?)
For the vast majority of unauthorized people, however, it is critical to realize that NO crime has been committed. As my colleague Dan Kowalski argues eloquently, citing Keith Cunningham-Parmeter and his excellent law review article, Alien Language: Immigration Metaphors and the Jurisprudence of Otherness, ”[N]early half of all people described as ‘illegal aliens’ obtained their ‘illegal’ status by overstaying valid visas — a civil immigration violation that involves no criminal conduct whatsoever.”
Add them to the groups of people who were brought to the U.S. as innocent children, the asylum seekers who are awaiting their day in court, and the students who have failed to maintain their full course of study and you have a group far larger than those Class B petty offenders, all branded as “illegals” who have not committed any crimes.
The other thing at play here is race. If you close your eyes and imagine a person who fits the word “illegal” I would bet that you don’t envision a Canadian (even though we see plenty of Canadians who’ve wandered south and for a variety of reasons have never gone home.) As Keith Cunningham-Parmeter says, “Through metaphor, the immigrant becomes the alien, the alien becomes the illegal, and the illegal becomes the Mexican.” This is why nearly half of all Latino voters polled find the term “illegal immigrant” offensive. We’re talking about Latino U.S. citizens who feel this way, which is something politicians would be smart to pay attention to.
If you still don’t believe a metaphoric link has been created between Latinos and “illegals”, watch this clip of the Southern Mississippi Band chanting “Where’s your green card?” as a (very legal) Puerto-Rican born player from the other team shoots free throws. It is likely no coincidence, either, that this happened within hours of the Mississippi house passing an Arizona-style immigration bill.
In response to the racism and hatred that the word “illegals” engenders, the on-line magazine Colorlines began a campaign two years ago called “Drop the I Word”. Even though this word remains pervasive in our media, the 7800-member Society of Professional Journalists recognized its powerful, insidious effect and voted to drop it last fall. We can do our bit too and take the pledge to relegate ”illegals” to that obscure place where my Grandma’s offensive word “nigros” now rests. I just did.
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What would be a suitable value for the absolute minimum proportion of female speakers at genomics/bioinformatics conferences?
June 29, 2015 by Keith Bradnam
Photo by ViktorCap/iStock / Getty Images
Hopefully, many people reading this will be aware of Jonathan Eisen's valiant efforts to highlight the Yet Another Mostly Male Meeting (YAMMM) problem; these are conferences where the gender bias is disproportionately skewed towards male speakers. You can see all of Jonathan's YAMMM posts on his blog, and in his latest post he highlights a particularly egregious case: a CSHL meeting on the Evolution of Sequencing where only 7.8% of speakers are women.
In my last ACGT post I looked at how this figure (7.8%) compared to the male/female ratio of senior researchers at 10 different genomics/bioinformatics institutes. Nine out of the ten places that I looked at had a much higher proportion of female scientists. I tried making the point that this suggests that conference organizers have no excuses for not doing a better job at recruiting more female speakers.
But it struck me that my analysis was a bit too shallow, especially as the numbers of researchers in each place differed quite a bit (from 10 to almost 60). So I went back and looked at many more academic institutions and kept track of the absolute numbers of men and women in senior research roles.
In total, my updated dataset comprises details from 40 different academic institutes (or centers/departments) that specialize in genomics and/or bioinformatics. The vast majority (33/40) mention 'genome', 'genomics', or 'bioinformatics' in their title (the exceptions to this include the Broad Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).
The 40 different institutes represent locations in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. In some cases, the named institute represents an umbrella organization connecting researchers in different locations across that country (e.g. the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics). There is probably an element of selection bias towards research institutes that provided an English-language version of their staff/personnel page (not all non-English websites have translations of every page available).
I think that this dataset contains most of the widely known research institutes that have a dedicated focus on genomics and bioinformatics. The list could probably be further expanded if I targeted more University departments that have a specialization in these fields.
In total I logged the gender of 1,039 people in various 'senior' research roles (e.g. Faculty, 'Group leaders', 'Project leaders', etc.). In many cases I deduced gender from first names, but looked for images of researchers where this was not easy to do so.
I've uploaded the main table of data to Figshare so that others can look at all of the detailed numbers if they so desire.
The most equitable result for any one academic institute with at least 15 senior research scientists was the Duke Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (40.4% female, N=52)
Only two other institutes had figures of 40% or higher: the National Human Genome Research Institute (40% female, N=40) and the Functional Genomics group at the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (50% female, N=6).
Only 3 out of 40 institutes had a lower proportion of female scientists than at the aforementioned CSHL meeting with 7.8% female speakers.
Discounting the bottom placed institute due to small sample size (0% female, N=4), the next worse place was NBIC, the Netherlands Bioinformatics Center with only one female Faculty member (4.8% female, N=21).
The overall ratio of female scientists in senior research roles is 23.6% (N=1,039).
It is somewhat depressing to see such a systematic gender bias in my field, where female scientists only account for approximately a quarter of senior research positions. This figure is in line with UK data for the proportion of female professors all biological sciences (25.1%). The lack of equal gender representation is presumably due to bias and discrimination (conscious or otherwise). In 2014 I conducted a survey to look at gender bias in bioinformaticians across different career stages. This survey had 370 responses — from undergraduate level right through to Deans of academic schools — and showed that there is essentially no gender bias at all stages prior to the level of Faculty (or equivalent). This suggests that there is no shortage of talented women coming through the system, they just are hitting a barrier when it comes to attaining senior research positions…a situation clearly not helped by further discrimination at conferences.
Based on the figures that I show here, one might argue that the figure of approximately 25% could be seen as a minimum target for female participation at conferences. However, such a target would only be encouraging the current levels of discrimination. Far better would be a target that not only attempts to reduce discrimination, but which also better reflects the equal representation of female scientists in post-doc and graduate student positions.
For these reasons I feel that conference organizers — in the fields of genomics and bioinformatics — should be aiming for at least a third of all speakers to be female. Ideally, we want to be doing better than this which is why I suggest this as an absolute minimum target. Depressingly, even this low target is something which most (all?) of the YAMMM meetings described by Jonathan Eisen fail to meet. Of course, such a target should apply for male speakers too, though I'm doubtful that there has ever been a conference in this field where men accounted for less than a third of all speakers.
I don't attend many conferences, but from now on I won't be attending any if at least 33% of the talks are not by women.
Update 2015-06-30: Added link to data for percentage of female professors in UK biological sciences, and clarified that my suggested target figure should also apply to male speakers. I also added a caveat that my methods of choosing institutes is biased towards websites written in English (or with English translations available).
June 29, 2015 /Keith Bradnam
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Can We Really Call It A Victory?
A funny thing happened on the way to the latest government scam. It seems that when the Western Shoshone were asked to contribute their ideas on how to distribute the money the government wanted to “give” through the Indian Claims Commission judgment, they threw a monkey wrench into the whole operation.
Carrie Dann went to the United Nations about the Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863 and got a response that the United States should, “freeze”, “desist” and “stop” all actions against the Western Shoshone. Invariably, since the formation of the Indian Claims Commission there continue to be Indians who are apprehensive of white men bearing gifts. They would warn in the tribal meetings, “If you take the money, you are selling the land”. The BIA representative present would respond, “If you take the money, you are not selling the land”. Here you have a government authority, who is supposedly our trustee, who is supposedly looking after our interests, telling the people, “Take the money, you are not selling the land”.
If they were not selling the land by taking the money, the tribe thought, then the government should not have a problem having the clause inserted into the Western Shoshone Claims Distribution Act:
“Receipt of a share of the funds under this subsection shall not alter any treaty rights or the final decisions of the Federal courts regarding those rights pursuant to the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley.”
Suggesting this clause for insertion into Senate bill 958 apparently got Senator Harry Reid’s attention as he immediately asked, “Would you read that again, please?” After a few more questions from Senator Reid and Chairman Inouye, BIA assistant secretary McCaleb said: “Just one moment, Mr. Chairman. If I may, Mr. Chairman, this is Daisy West who is the resident expert on this subject.”
If you really want to know if the Indians are selling their land by taking the Indian Claims Commission judgment money, the direction the Senate hearings on this bill took from this point should be of interest to you. As you read between the lines keep in mind that #1, the Doctrine of Discovery says that the white man owns everything and #2 , when the Indian Claims Commission Act was passed in 1946, it said, “…payment of any claim…shall be a full discharge of the United States of all claims and demands touching any of the matters involved in the controversy”.
Ms. West: My name is Daisy West and I work in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Branch of Tribal Government Services. From the research that I have done on this, the Treaty of Ruby Valley is a treaty of peace and friendship, not a treaty that recognized aboriginal title or gave recognized title to land in Western Shoshone country. This is an issue that was addressed in a similar case in the 1930’s with the Treaty of Box Elder which is one of the five Shoshone treaties that was negotiated by Commissioner Doughty back in 1863. That case was originally brought under a special jurisdiction act and, in that case, the Supreme Court held that those treaties were not treaties of recognition of land. Since they were not when they went to the Indian Claims Commission, they could only determine aboriginal title. So the title was never given under the Treaty of Ruby Valley.
Chairman Inouye: Do you agree with the Secretary’s statement that the receipt of a share of the funds under this subsection shall not alter any treaty rights or the final decisions of the Federal courts regarding those rights pursuant to the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley?
Ms. West: I agree.
Chairman Inouye: Then you also agree with the statement of the Secretary that article V of the Treaty of Ruby Valley is not in effect?
Ms. West: Right now I’m not sure what article V says. I don’t have a copy of the treaty with me.
Chairman Inouye: It is on land.
Ms. West: And it describes the boundaries. My understanding is that according to the case that was in Northwestern Shoshone, that describes the land that was claimed by the Shoshone, so I’m sure that since it wasn’t a treaty of recognition, nothing would change that, that is what they claimed.
Chairman Inouye: Is it your position that the Treaty of Ruby Valley is still in force?
Ms. West: I would say that it is still in force.
Chairman Inouye: Why don’t you stay there and bring up the Secretary also.
Mr. McCaleb: I think what I’m trying to convey is that there is an impression that the Treaty of Ruby Valley under Section V retains some legal claim to land rights. The vote that was held seems to indicate it reserves those rights. The point I’m trying to make is our opinion, the opinion of the Department, that no land rights still reside in the treaty as a result of the court decisions.
Chairman Inouye: You speak of the referenda. I presume that the Department of the Interior was involved?
Mr. McCaleb: NO; WE WERE NOT.
Chairman Inouye: You did not supervise the referendum?
Mr. McCaleb: That’s correct.
Chairman Inouye: Were you notified of it?
Ms. West: We were aware of it occurring. We were notified of the date that it would occur.
Chairman Inouye: You were notified after the conclusion of the referendum?
Ms. West: We were notified first of the date it would be held which was June 3 and we were also notified of the results after the election count had been certified.
Chairman Inouye: When you were notified of the referendum, did you take steps to involve yourself?
Ms. West: No; I’m not sure what that means.
Chairman Inouye: To monitor the referendum?
Ms. West: No; no one attended from the Bureau of Indian Affairs [BIA] in their capacity as a Bureau official.
Chairman Inouye: Is that the usual practice?
Ms. West: We considered this an internal Shoshone matter, one they had not requested our assistance for.
Chairman Inouye: You stated that the results of the referenda were certified. Who certified them?
Ms. West: I’m thinking that it was the Western Shoshone Claims Committee.
Chairman Inouye: It’s not certified by the Department?
Ms. West: No.
Chairman Inouye: Mr. Secretary, do you have any views on the findings of the preliminary report of the Inter-American Commission?
Mr. McCaleb: Yes; I do, relative to their observation that there has been a violation of the rights of the Dann family. The position of the United States, as well as the Department, is the Commission’s report is in error for several reasons. No. 1, the Danns’ contentions regarding the alleged lack of due process in the Indian Claims Commission proceedings were fully and fairly litigated in the United States courts and should not be reconsidered here. No. 2, the Commission lacks jurisdiction to evaluate the process established under the 1946 Indian Land Claims Commission Act since the act predates the U. S. ratification of the OAS Charter. Three, the Commission erred in interpreting the principles of the American Declaration in light of article 18 of the not yet adopted OAS draft Declaration of Indigenous Rights.
Chairman Inouye: so you find the preliminary report to be in error?
Mr. McCaleb: Correct.
Chairman Inouye: You do not concur with it?
Mr. McCaleb: Yes, sir: that’s correct.
Chairman Inouye: What is the history of negotiations of your department and the Western Shoshone with regard to the settlement of land rights? You have had negotiations?
Mr. McCaleb: Yes; as early as 1980 and several times over the 22 years intervening, including 1984 negotiations in which we actually provided $240,000 to assist in the negotiations, provide staff, and facilitated negotiations on the distribution and again in 1994 when Congress requested the Department of the Interior to reopen negotiations on the distribution. Along this process there have been numerous indications of popular support for the distribution of these funds on a per capita basis, the most recent being the election I made reference to earlier.
Chairman Inouye: But you have not reached a settlement yet?
Mr. McCaleb: there are members of the Western Shoshone Tribe that do not think there should be a distribution of the funds, they feel that additional distribution of the funds will somehow adversely affect their land claims but according to the vote they are in a substantial minority. For your edification, I have the results of that vote if you are interested in it. There were three issues. The first was on the acceptance of the payment and the vote was 647 for, 156 against. On the next issue, the limiting of the distribution to those members of the Western Shoshone Tribe who are a quarter or more blood quantum, 1,601 for, 1,906 against. On the third question, the use of the accounting funds for educational purposes, 1,024 for and 769 against.
Chairman Inouye: Thank you. Do you have any questions?
Senator Reid: I have a couple. Daisy, tell me what your job is at the Bureau?
Ms. West: My title is Tribal Relations Officer and I have several different functions. One is to prepare judgment fund distribution plans. In order to do that, I have to do historical research on the tribes and the claims and work with the tribes in developing the plan or, if necessary, in developing the draft legislation.
Senator Reid: How long have you been with the Bureau?
Ms. West: I’ve been with the Bureau since 1972.
Senator Reid: What is your educational background?
Ms. West: Most of my education in this area has occurred on the job. I graduated from high school and attended a number of classes that were preparing me for a future in accounting.
Senator Reid: Thank you. Mr. Secretary, what I’ve heard you say is that if this money is distributed, whatever claims that exist, valid or invalid, would not be extinguished as a result of these moneys being distributed. Is that right?
The important thing to remember is that the Treaty of Ruby Valley is still in force but it is up to you to decide if the Supreme Court decision Johnson v. M’Intosh nullifies it. The government debate is between the Congress and the Interior Department. The Interior Department says go ahead and put the clause in because the Supreme Court rulings in history say the Indians don’t own anything---the white man owns everything. The Supreme Court decision in Johnson v. M’Intosh said as much. It ruled that the government’s title acquired by “discovery” is superior to that of the Indians. But Senator Reid and the Congress know that Johnson v. M’Intosh is white supremacist colonial law. Wrapping our heads around this warped mindset is necessary to understanding just how the system is rigged against the Indians. The government’s legal position is that we own it because we took it and now that we admit that there have been “wrongs” done in the past, we are willing to set up this panel of three cowboys to hear your grievances. Oh, and by the way, they can only recommend monetary settlements to congress. Oh, and the payment will be based on the value of the land at the time of taking. Interest? We will pay only six years interest from the time of taking. Anthropolgist, Nancy Oestreich Lurie, called as an expert witness to certify tribes as being genuine, later remarked, “Even where there is understanding that awards are based on lost lands, there is bitterness because often it is not understood that compensation is based on the appraised value of land at the time it was ceded and not on the wealth the land generated for the white man since then.” When a government’s jurisdiction is based on white supremacist colonial law, it can only be legitimized by passing more racist law. In 1940, the U.S. Congress passed a law called, “Limiting Jurisdiction of the Court of Claims in Indian Cases”. In this way, by the time the Indian Claims Commission Act was passed in 1946 all this twisted thinking was already in place. Twisted laws like the “offsets” clause which said the government could deduct any gratuities expended on the Indians in the past. Monroe E. Price, in his Law and the American Indian, wrote, “…in no other field of law…is a defendant permitted to set off against a valid judgment a gratuity given to the plaintiff. For example, a person defending against a tort claim of rape cannot offset the award by the value of the incidental pleasure his victim enjoyed as a result of the attack. It may be difficult for one to distinguish such a case from that of the United States’ treatment of Indians”. The Indian Claims Commission was devoid of due process of law because the system has been rigged. The result being, as Carrie Dann, waving her treaty, has been saying for the last thirty years, “We have never had a title argument.” Having “title” is having ownership and if the government can’t get it one way it will try another way.
When the Suzie Island in Lake Superior was returned to the Grand Portage Ojibwe People, and they were celebrating on the internet, native attorney, Barbara Bilek commented, “This is very cool! However, can we really call it a victory? Not so much when one realizes that tribes do not own trust land-the federal government does. We only have the right to occupy it. Refer to the Department of Interior, ‘The Indian land Record of Title is the official record of title documents and instruments affecting Indian land that require approval by the Secretary or other federal officials. The Division of Land Titles and Records (DLTR), and its eleven Land Titles and Records Offices (LTRO), are the official Federal offices-of- record for all documents affecting title to Indian lands, and for the determination, maintenance, and certified reporting of land title ownership and encumbrance on Indian trust and restricted lands.”’
If you visit the Interior Department’s Division of Land Titles and Records website you will find that they are very meticulous in their record keeping. The one prominent legal term they use is “chain-of-title”. If you buy a piece of land in the private sector, make sure you do it through a title company. Part of their service is title insurance which is a guarantee that their research gives you a “clear” title to your property. “Chain –of-title” is the history of how that piece of property has changed hands.
When Felix Ike, Willie Johnny and Nancy Stewart made their statements at the hearing of the Committee on Indian Affairs concerning the Western Shoshone Claims Distribution Act, they all mentioned land expansion of their reservations.
Now that the government is about to “give” the Indians of Nevada land, the question that should be asked is are they really “giving” anything or are they in fact taking everything? Perhaps the government’s goal now is to just get the Nevada Indians to sign something they can enter into their “chain-of-title” documents---something that shows the Indians happily recognizing federal ownership. A government that can make a treaty an then turn around and ignore it is the supreme forked-tongue devil. They say one thing but their laws say the opposite (Johnson v. M’Intosh/Doctrine of Discovery). Havard law Professor Austin Wakeman Scott (1886-1981) explained that the purpose of a trust is to, “separate the benefits of ownership from the burdens of ownership.”
Finally, here is one last thing that the Indians of Nevada have to consider before they sign anything that has to do with land. The author of Planet Earth, Jonathan Weiner wrote, “The images from Landsat multispectral Scanners (and new thematic mappers, which record and even broader range of the spectrum) are radioed to earth and assembled by computer which tints them in brilliant, artificial colors to make the various details stand out. More than 1 million Landsat images of earth now stored in a U.S. Geological Survey computer in Sioux Falls South Dakota…Landsat files in the supercomputer at Sioux Falls are the space age equivalent of treasure maps. For anyone canny enough to decipher them, they conceal clues to billions of dollar worth of buried ore. This fact has not escaped the attention of the big oil companies.”
The U.S. Geological Survey is a part of the Department of Interior, our trustee. Did you get a map? No? It is probably as with the Tee-Hit-Ton Indians of Alaska who had their timber sold by the government and clear cut. The Supreme Court ruled against any Indian compensation. In the 1955 majority opinion, Justice Stanley Reed wrote, “…It leaves with Congress, where it belongs, the policy of Indian gratuities for the termination of Indian occupancy of Government-owned land rather than making compensation for its value a rigid constitutional principle.”
(Photo courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey)The remote sensing mineral map is of Cuprite, Nevada or better known as Goldfield, Nevada.
Steve Melendez
Northern Paiute
President of the American Indian Genocide Museum
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House Republicans Ungreen Cafeteria by Bringing Back Styrofoam Cups
Styrofoam cups at Congressional cafeteria (photo: Treehugger.com)
Claiming the program was too expensive to continue, House Republicans have eliminated former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “Green the Capitol” initiative, which involved using only biodegradable cups and dishware in congressional cafeterias.
As a result, an old enemy of environmentalists—Styrofoam cups—has made a comeback on Capitol Hill.
Representative Dan Lungren (R-California), chairman of the House Committee on Administration, said the eco-friendly program was costing the House nearly half a million dollars a year, which was too much to spend when reducing the deficit is so important.
In addition to requiring only biodegradable utensils, plates and trays—which staffers complained were prone to breaking, Pelosi had climate-friendly vending machines and compact fluorescent light bulbs installed throughout the Capitol. The Democrats claim the effort reduced energy consumption by 23% and water consumption by 32%.
The winner of the GOP’s decision to return to Styrofoam is WinCup, a supplier owned by former Koch Industries executive George Wurtz. Koch Industries is owned by the Koch Brothers, two of the Republican Party’s most important donors.
Styrofoam Makes a Comeback in House Cafeterias (by Laura Klairmont, CNN)
Former Koch Exec Supplying House's New Styrofoam Cups (by Elise Foley, Huffington Post)
Inside the New GOP-Run, Styrofoam-Filled Congressional Cafeteria (Photos) (by Brian Merchant, Tree Hugger)
A Conservative Teacher 8 years ago
Mr. Wurtz served as Executive Vice President of Georgia-Pacific for four years, which ended in December 2005 or January 2006. Koch Industries acquired Georgia-Pacific on December 23, 2005. It is clear that Koch's acquisition of Georgia-Pacific caused George Wurtz to leave that company. So your story is that someone who worked for the Koch's for a month or two and then left because of them and got a job working for another company which several years later was hired by a non-partisan group demonstrates that private individuals donating to causes they believe in is corrupt and evil? Just making sure I have your deluded story correct.
dagwud 8 years ago
Oh, for Pete's sake. The GOP members of congress made the decision to go back to styrofoam. But the decision as to the supplier was made by the company who manages the cafeteria. Unless one can show that the GOP influenced Restaurant Associates' decision and that said influence was, itself, influenced by the Koch brothers or their donations, then the inclusion of Mr. Wurtz's past association is a non sequitur serving only to show the political bias of the author.
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Long-Term Care Costs for Americans Continue to Rise
(photo: Abel Mitja Varela, Getty Images)
By Tom Murphy, AP Business Writer
Long-term care grew more expensive again this year, with the cost of the priciest option, a private nursing home room, edging closer to $100,000 annually, according to a survey from Genworth Financial.
Americans also are paying more for other care options like home health aides and assisted living communities, while adult day care costs fell slightly compared to 2015, Genworth reported in a study (pdf) released Tuesday.
Private nursing home rooms now come with a median annual bill of $92,378, an increase of 1.2 percent from last year and nearly 19 percent since 2011. That breaks down to a monthly bill of $7,698.
Genworth Financial Inc. sells long-term care coverage and didn't address that cost in its study, which was based on information from 15,000 long-term care providers.
Coverage costs also are rising, and many people don't understand these expenses until they face them, said Joe Caldwell of the National Council on Aging, which is not connected with the study.
"It's really becoming more and more difficult for the average family ... to even purchase long-term care insurance," said Caldwell, the nonprofit's director of long-term services and support policy.
Medicare doesn't cover long-term stays, so a large swath of people who need that coverage wind up spending down their assets until they qualify for the government's health insurance program for the poor, Medicaid.
There are no cheap options for those without long-term coverage. Semi-private nursing home rooms cost $82,125 annually, a bill that has climbed nearly 17 percent over the past five years, according to Genworth.
Nursing home costs are rising largely because residents are more likely to arrive with chronic conditions like diabetes or emphysema that need more medical attention, said Greg Crist, a spokesman for the American Health Care Association, the country's largest trade group for nursing homes. He added that the average nursing home resident takes 11 prescription medications.
"They're living longer, they're not necessarily living healthier," he said.
Genworth found that the median annual cost for assisted living communities adds up to $43,539 this year. In-home health aides, who help patients with non-medical tasks like bathing or dressing, cost $46,332 annually, or $3,861 a month.
The median annual cost for adult day care fell $224 to $17,680.
Annually, Genworth found that the cost of everything except an in-home health aide has risen by at least 11 percent since 2011.
Summary of 2016 Survey Findings (Genworth) (pdf)
Long-Term-Care Policyholders Sue CalPERS after 85% Premium Increase (by Ken Broder, AllGov California)
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Welcome To Witton Albion Juniors
Witton Albion JFC is an FA Charter Standard Community Club based in Northwich, Cheshire. We run teams from U7s to U18s who play in the Mid Cheshire Youth Football league. We also have Girls'... More
(Andy Ralph 19/08/2018)
Witton Albion JFC is an FA Charter Standard Community Club based in Northwich, Cheshire.
We run teams from U7s to U18s who play in the Mid Cheshire Youth Football league. We also have Girls' Teams playing in the Girls League. We enter our teams into the Cheshire District FA Cup and the Cheshire County Cup competitions.
Our younger teams, U7s and U8s play mini-soccer (5 v 5), U9s and U10s play 7 v 7 and the U11s and U12s play 9 v 9. From U13s upwards our teams play 11 v 11.
Being an FA Charter Standard Community Club provides a best practice framework for running a football club. This has been achieved through the dedication of all its Management team, trained coaches and volunteer workforce.
Our Club welcomes parents, relatives or friends who may be able to assist us in running and improving our club. All our Team managers and coaches give up much of their own time in organising games and training sessions, so any help that is available for them or the club in general is always appreciated.
We are all passionate about being the best and setting the standard, so we need all to think long and hard about the Clubs behavioural expectations of Managers, Coaches, Players and Spectators
We are constantly looking at the way in which we operate and how we can improve, if you have any suggestions please feel free to contact any one of us as we are currently in the process of building a new Club website, fit for the purpose of leading the way off the field of play, just as we appear to be on it.
In order to join one of our teams, contact the relevant team officials for more information. If you wish to become involved with the club as an official, please contact the club Secretary or Chairman. New teams are formed at the beginning of summer - in particular the early age groups. For enquiries regarding new teams, contact the club Secretary.
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Where are you? Home > News > Martin Alvarado - Latin UK Award and new Record Deal
Martin Alvarado - Latin UK Award and new Record Deal
Argentine tango singer Martín Alvarado has won a prestigious award last month in the United Kingdom.
He was declared winner of the category “Concert by International Artist of the Year” in the Latin UK Awards for a performance in London last year. Alvarado was nominated for the awards – the only awards in the UK that recognise excellence in the Latin American entertainments world – by Latino Music UK, a London-based website which reviewed his concert at The Forge in Camden last March.
Alvarado will collect the award at the Café de Paris (during his March UK tour - see here for details: www.worldmusic.co.uk/martin_alvarado_tango_uk_tour_march_2013) in the heart of London’s West End.
He said: “I am very proud to have won this award, and I would like to thank all those people who voted for me religiously day after day. I really have the best fans in the world! The messages of support I have received from all over have been amazing. It is quite humbling.”
Alvarado clinched the title after a 12-week internet ballot. The exact number of votes he amassed has yet to be confirmed by the organisers but it is believed he came close to the 9,000 mark and is believed to have achieved the highest number in the entire awards which had over 50 categories. Competing in the same category were the likes of Colombian rock star Juanes, salsa legend Oscar de Leon and Grammy-winning Spanish pop singer David Bisbal - and even Jennifer Lopez.
Winning the award is a double success for Alvarado who also just signed a deal with a highly regarded UK-based world music record label World Music Network release his last album "Más Allá". The deal, which will see the album released in the summer (2013), and distributed worldwide for the first time in both digital and physical format, makes him the only Argentinean artist to have an entire acoustic tango album released through this label, which has some of the biggest names in world music on its roster.
Alvarado, who was born and raised in the Buenos Aires barrio of Flores, has won wide acclaim across the world for his “extraordinarily beautiful” tenor voice, and already, his acknowledged artistry is such that he is increasingly being recognised as a highly influential vocalist in the history of tango.
In Russia last year, he was described as “a new Carlos Gardel” while in Argentina recently he was described as a modern “cantor nacional” – (national singer), the term used to describe artists, such as Gardel with the talent to sing in many different styles.
As well as tango, Alvarado also sings milongas, valses, candombes, zambas, and has written over 70 pop and rock songs as well as Spanish versions of several well-known Finnish and Russian tangos.
He has been touring almost continuously for the past ten years. During this time, his tours have been entirely self-funded without any artistic bursaries or grants and have seen him perform and headline at many major venues and festivals, often being the first Argentine artist to have ever performed at such venues. His current tour takes in Finland, Russia, Belgium and the UK.
In Argentina, where his music has daily airplay on tango radio stations, Alvarado engenders much national pride for the way the way he has become something of a cultural ambassador for his country’s rich musical heritage.
As well as being a naturally gifted vocalist, he is also renowned for his commanding and charismatic stage presence and his outstanding and carefully chosen repertoire from four albums, which features work by Argentina’s most celebrated poets and composers, including rare work by Astor Piazzolla, as well as some of his own, as yet unrecorded, compositions.
He discovered his talent to sing at the age of 19, by chance, while studying guitar in Buenos Aires. A few years later he travelled to Spain where he was spotted singing in Barcelona and invited to perform in Finland, where tango is a hugely popular activity. News of his talent quickly spread and within two months of arriving there, he was performing with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra.
Since then he has performed more than 400 times, often to sold-out audiences, had numerous TV performances in Finland, Russia, Slovenia and Argentina and collaborated and performed with some of the leading musicians in the genre.
These include the highly revered bandoneon player, Leopoldo Federico, who was a guest performer on his second album, “Así es mi tango”, Horacio Avilano, a prominent guitarist in Argentina, who worked with him on his last album “Más Allá” and renowned Finnish tango nuevo quintet Otra Vez with whom he recorded his third album “Tango Norte Tango Sur”.
In 2008, Alvarado starred in the cutting-edge "El concierto del Nuevo Tango” with internationally-renowned conductor and flautist Patrick Gallois, Otra Vez and symphony orchestras and, separately, with Finland’s celebrated UMO jazz orchestra.
In 2009, he took part in Piazzolla’s operita “María de Buenos Aires” on its first Polish version and several times in Finland. He starred in it again in July last year (2012) after being invited to perform, for the second time, at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, one of the most prestigious chamber music festivals in the world.
He is currently working on three new albums, one with Horacio Avilano, one with highly acclaimed pianist Mikko Helenius, of Finland, and another with one the most avant garde tango pianists in the world today, Finland’s Matti Laukkanen.
[The quote “extraordinarily beautiful” voice was taken from a review in the Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s largest national paper in 2012.]
[Carlos Gardel is generally regarded as tango’s most famous and finest vocalist. He died in a plane crash at the height of his career in 1935].
http://www.martinalvarado.com.ar/
http://www.reverbnation.com/martinalvarado
Martin on YouTube – a recent TV performance and interview in Argentina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3NhiBJJYXU
Martin singing a Gardel classic with Mikko Helenius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clnuYGQkOY4
For a full, in-depth review of Martin's 2011 concert at the mac, Birmingham, click here: www.worldmusic.co.uk/martin_alvarado_birmingham_201111
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Rowing Towards Olympic Glory
By the time this story is published, local athlete Victoria Nolan, will be training in Portugal en route to the 2012 Paralympics Games in London, England.
No stranger to winning, Victoria and her crew won bronze, silver and gold medals at the World Rowing Championships and came sixth at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing. She and her team broke the world record in their racing class for Canada in New Zealand in 2010.
Growing up, Victoria always remembers wanting to be a teacher and really had no interest in sports. Now at age 37, she is a public school teacher in Toronto and also a member of Canada’s national Paralympic rowing team – and did we mention she is almost totally blind?
Victoria started to lose her sight at an early age. She was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at 18, an eye disease that starts with night blindness, followed by a progressive narrowing of vision. Her condition worsened after the birth of her second child, which caused her depression. She took up rowing to “regain my independence” and became a member of the Argonaut Rowing Club, one of Canada’s oldest and most reputable clubs.
Although Victoria’s team has been in place since 2010, like any team, rowers have to work together to be successful.
“Being blind may give me an advantage,” she says, “I’ve had to learn to trust others and rely on them quite a bit—something that is very important for any team sport.”
2012 Canadian Paralympic Rowing Team
She is one of four team members in the boat, plus a coxswain—an able-bodied person who calls the pace and directs the steering. The only difference between her boat and the team, compared to that in the able-bodied Olympics, is the mix of two men and two women.
“Everything else is the same,” she adds, referring to the thin, racing shells used in Olympic rowing competition.
Each team member has a disability, but only one, other than Victoria, is vision impaired. Victoria’s position is at the bow (the back) of the boat, although this might change once final training begins.
Victoria began intensive training with her rowing team earlier this summer in St. Catherines, Ontario, where her name is engraved on a sidewalk beside a statue commemorating rowers in Port Dalhousie. Five days before the Paralympics begin, she’ll travel to the UK, then stay for the duration, August 29 to September 10. Although she was born in Liverpool, in the UK, she’s only been back a few times.
“Ultimately, we’d like a gold medal,” says Victoria, thinking ahead to the day of her race, “but most of all,” she adds, “we’d like to know that we executed our race plan and did our best. The worst feeling in the world would be to think that you hadn’t done the most you could do.”
During competition, Victoria will be cheered on by her husband, children ages 7 and 9, parents, sister, aunts, uncles and of course her guide dog Vegas (who doesn’t even like the water).
“Simple messages really matter,” says Victoria, “It’s amazing the strength you get just knowing that others are behind you.”
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Bentleigh ANA Cricket Club
A Lesson in History
Part 9. 1985-90
Following the departure of Everard Schoorman, Cedric Jansz assumed the Captaincy role once again, prior to the 1985/86 season. The First Eleven was strengthened by the return of allrounders Craig Haw and Debinder Singh, who had both had brief stints at South Melbourne. However, these two were replacing the loss of regular First Eleven players, Mick Biddle and Graham Bodley, who had both left the Club to play with the Baden Powell Cricket Club in their local Mornington Peninsula Competition. Also, promising opening bowler and hard hitting lower order batsman Graham Wilson left the Club to play with Omega. The �Longmuir Shield� team continued to perform well but once again finished in fifth position, missing out on the finals by only half a game. Neil Vorbach had a fine season with the bat, averaging almost 40, but a lack of consistency from the rest of the team was the major reason for missing the finals. The year was significant in finally marking the end of an era with the retirement of the ANA �evergreen�, Don Haw, who many doubted would ever retire. In a career which spanned over four decades, Donny had played at the Club consecutively for 34 seasons, amassing a Club record of 346 games which included 120 at the First Eleven level. Although he had played in three Premierships along the way, that keenly sought after maiden century had always managed to elude him.
The �Under 16C� Grade team, led by all-rounder Louis Parthenios, had a season of mixed success, but managed to sneak into the finals, finishing in fourth position. They came up against top team East Sandringham Boys Club in the Semi-final and Skipper Parthenios bowled splendidly, taking 4/46, as ESBC were routed out for a meagre 129. ANA had little difficulty in reaching the target, due mainly to the efforts of wicketkeeper and opening batsman Steve Kleytman, who hit up an aggressive 43, and allrounder Scott Gilder, who added support with 30. ANA cruised to 5 for 137 and an unexpected place in the Grand Final. The young ANA team then came up against the strong Ormond side in the Grand Final and elected to bat first. Kleytman again got the team off to a fine start with a brisk 48, and his opening partner Louis Parthenios stroked an elegant 35, which took his season�s aggregate to a monstrous 533 runs, which is rivalled only by the former junior champion, David Crozier (631), back in the season of 1972/73. Left hander Greg Gelfond batted excellently also for a fine 41 and number eleven batsman Rob Feldman even chipped in for a brisk 29, as ANA soared towards a match winning total of 236. Still needing to dismiss Ormond for victory, ANA set about their task aggressively. They were led by the pumped up Gelfond, who bowled one of the quickest spells ever seen by an ANA junior to send the Ormond bats reeling. Gelfond took his season�s aggregate to 36 wickets and ended with 4/70 in the Final, but these figures failed to indicate the devastation his pace bestowed upon the hapless Ormond batsmen as they crashed to be dismissed for a season�s low of only 117. The Premiership was fine reward for team manager Richard Smith and Captain Louis Parthenios, and capped off an incredible year for Parthenios.
Season 1986/87 saw hard working committeeman, and former First Eleven Captain, Neil Vorbach, take over the Presidency from John Chessum, and with Cedric Jansz�s working commitments now taking up more of his time, he relinquished the Captaincy. Last minute negotiations saw Darren Haw return from District Cricket Club Fitzroy, to lead the Longmuir Shield team. Fitzroy Crozier still remained in the role as playing Coach and once again carried the ANA bowling attack, taking 30 wickets. The team struggled throughout the season and at the Christmas break had won only one game. However, the committee stuck loyally with their Captaincy choice and the move paid off, as ANA eventually ended up with 24 points and finished out of the relegation zone. The last round of the year was a sad one indeed, as it saw the end of the career of �The Man� as he was distinguishably referred to, in Fitzroy Crozier. At the grand old age of 50, Crozier led the team from the familiar playing grounds of the King George VI reserve for the last time. To the tune of three cheers, and a standing ovation from players and spectators alike, Crozier had aptly bowled another marathon stint of 23 overs, and for the 31st time had taken 5 wickets in an innings for ANA. In rather lean times for the Club, Crozier had played in 95 First Eleven games, including two Premierships, had made 2221 runs at an average of just over 32 and had taken 329 wickets at about 11 runs apiece. Not bad for a bloke who didn�t play his first game with the Club until he was 38 years of age. Mick Egan led a very strong Second Eleven team in �B� Grade, and they finished in second position prior to the finals. They came up against the newly introduced East St.Kilda team in the Semi-final, a team which had no answer to the accurate outswing bowling of Bob Dolman. Dolman mesmerised the Saint�s batsmen, capturing 5/41, as East St.Kilda plummeted to be all out for a paltry 136. With such a small target ahead of them the ANA team should have had no problem winning their way into the Grand Final. But the strong batting line-up capitulated, with only the stocky frame of wicketkeeper John Chessum defiantly knocking up 33 runs. It was a sad sight when Graham Johnson ran out of partners and the hapless ANA team had been dismissed for a miserable 104 runs, throwing away any chance of a Premiership.
Bentleigh ANA introduced a Fifth Eleven and also a Women�s team in 1987/88, making it one of the largest clubs in the CMCA. After the previous disappointing year, Cedric Jansz regained the First Eleven Captaincy from Darren Haw. Although the team had lost Fitzroy Crozier, the side, overall, appeared stronger, due to the recruiting of Sri Lankan District player Peter Wijeyaratne from Columbo, who was on a twelve month scholarship in Australia. Indoor Cricket Champion, Paul Morgan, was recruited and his strong frame led the bowling attack, receiving added support with the return of Mick Biddle from Baden Powell. However, the team started disastrously, taking until Round 9 to defeat the reigning Premiers Elwood and win their first game. Fortunately they still managed to avoid relegation by the end of the season. Even with the elegance of Wijeyaratne with the bat, the team still sadly lacked consistent batsmen and would need either new blood or dramatic improvement to be a force in the coming years.
The Second Eleven in �B� Grade was led this season by the popular clubman John Smith, in his first year as Captain, and once again possessed a very talented team. They finished in second position prior to the finals and once again confronted the rival East St.Kilda team in the Semi-final. With the previous year�s disaster still clear in the memories of many of the players, ANA approached the game determined to avenge last season�s debacle and batted first in the game at LePage Park. Opening batsmen Craig Haw and Dean DeGiorgio batted defiantly to add 99 for the first wicket, with DeGiorgio making a fine 50 and Haw batting for over five hours to amass an excellent 76. Skipper John Smith gave fine support with a nuggety 46, while the big hitting Peter Crawford cracked up 43. And when Des Falconer chipped in with a solid 28, ANA had all but batted their way into the Grand Final with a monstrous score of 338. To their credit, however, the aggressive East St.Kilda team set about the task at hand positively, and in only an hour and a half, managed to knock up a belated 148, with Mick Biddle being the best of the bowlers taking 4/44. Surprisingly, ANA then came up against the fourth placed Brighton Union team who were strengthened by the return of injured speedster, and former Longmuir Shield Premiership player, Dave Blair. Having defeated Union by 130 runs in the last game of the year, ANA possibly went into the match being understandably over confident, and when openers Craig Haw and Dean DeGiorgio added 50 for the first wicket, the Green and Gold appeared to be cruising. Disaster struck, however, as the team then plummeted to be 8 for 91 before wicketkeeper Darren Haw defiantly added 33 late in the innings. His dismissal brought tail-enders David Millar and Bob Dolman together with the score at 9 for 117. The 17-year-old Millar, with a season�s best score of only four, then despatched the ball to all parts of the field as he hit up an impressive 45, while the pair took the score along to a respectable 169 before the last wicket fell. Encouraged by the performances of the tail-enders, the ANA bowlers then toiled hard but without much success, as Union amassed a potentially match winning total of 268, giving them a lead of 99 runs on the first innings. Again it was Mick Biddle who was the best of the bowlers in taking 4/52 with his unusual left arm slinging action. Not having the luxury of playing themselves slowly into a winning position, the ANA batsmen recognised the necessity of quick runs if they were to have any chance of victory. Openers DeGiorgio and Craig Haw again started the innings off well with DeGiorgio making a smart 38. The wickets then fell gradually and with only forty minutes of play remaining on the third day, the big hitting Peter Crawford strode to the wicket with ANA in diabolical trouble at 8 for 136, a lead of only 37 runs. Crawford showed little respect for the reputation of Blair and his fellow Brighton Union bowlers, as he awesomely belted up 64 in those forty minutes, in an innings which included 3 sixes and 10 fours. Tail-enders Dolman and Millar defiantly hung around once again as ANA amazingly clawed their way back into the match by hitting up a total of 218 runs, thus taking an overall lead of 119 going into the last day�s play. After having frustrated Brighton Union with the bat, Bob Dolman led the now confident ANA attack and soon Union were reeling at 4 for 10. The determined competitor, who had once again fully exploited his talents, bowled superbly to eventually snare 3/32, with an immaculately controlled spell of swing bowling. As if he hadn�t already done enough this match, Peter Crawford then unleashed a fearsome spell of pace bowling to break the backbone of the Union innings, by taking 5/33, and when Des Falconer became airborne to hold onto a blinder in the slips, Union were down for the count and were routed out for a meagre 98 runs, giving John Smith and his ANA �B� Grade team one of the most amazing Premiership victories ever seen in the CMCA.
The ANA Fourth Eleven, in �G� Grade, was led by Paul Biddle and performed consistently throughout the year to finish in third position prior to the finals. ANA clashed with the newly introduced Scotts Elwood team in the Semi-final and appeared to be in with a good chance after Scotts had slumped to 8 for 142. As so often happens though, the Elwood combine recovered to eventually end up with a total of 272, with Greg Gelfond being the best of the ANA bowlers, taking 4/36. ANA attacked the large total positively and got off to a good start after Mark Crawford with 37 and Stuart Saunders with 31, saw ANA reach 4 for 143. But the tail offered no resistance and they collapsed to be all out for 181, finishing well short of their required target.
In �I� Grade, the ANA Fifth Eleven was led by Ian Ward and performed excellently in their first year in the competition, sneaking into the four after the last game of the season. They came up against top team Bentleigh in their Semi-final and gave themselves a real chance of victory by dismissing Bentleigh for a modest total of 170, with Tim Foreman taking 5/64 and 15-yearold Paul Tyers ending up with 4/46. The young Tyers then batted superbly to make 61, but the only support came from tailender Carl Stibilj, whose 26 guided the frivolous ANA team to a total of 154, 17 runs short of victory. As mentioned, this year was also significant in seeing ANA field a Women�s Team for the first time in its history. Club legend, Paddy Crozier, needed little persuasion to take on the role of team manager, and a team led by Sandra Kreymborg was entered into the �C South� Grade of the VWCA. It wasn�t all smooth sailing for Paddy and the team, but their performances on the field were impressive throughout the year and they finished in third position prior to the finals. ANA came up against Elwood in the Semi-final and dismissed them for a total of 176. Tammy Neale was the chief destroyer taking 7/33 in a spell of tenacious pace bowling. ANA then set about smashing the ball to all parts of their familiar Eastmoor Primary School ground, and led by Captain Sandra Kreymborg, knocked up an enormous score of 390. Kreymborg hit up an incredible 151 which included 5 sixes and 19 fours. She was well supported by Nikki Worth who made a fine 69, as well as Sue Holdsworth who made 35, Sue Bartlett with 33 and Tammy Neale who contributed 31, as ANA confidently won its way into the Grand Final. The Green and Gold Ladies then came up against top side East Brighton in the final but collapsed to be all out for a meagre 77. Tammy Neale was again outstanding with the ball, taking 4/33 off 27 overs, but Brighton�s score of 219 put the game beyond reasonable doubt, and when Sandra Kreymborg was dismissed for 39 in ANA�s second innings, bringing her season�s aggregate to 730 runs, the game was called off with ANA struggling at 6 for 93 and still 40 runs in arrears.
The �Under 16B� Grade team, led by Leigh Williams, also had a good year and found themselves in fourth position prior to the finals. They struggled with the bat in their Semi-final clash against Moorabbin West and if not for the efforts of Paul Tyers with 36 and Leigh Williams making 29, would not have even ended up with their eventual total of 126. ANA then began defending the relatively meagre total, but Moorabbin West had no answer to the ANA pace barrage. Malcolm Wineberg captured 4/18 and Paul Tyers polished off a fine game by taking 3/26, as ANA amazingly bundled out the top team for a paltry 57 runs. The confident ANA �Under 16s� then came up against Hampton Central in the Grand Final and toiled hard with the ball. Continuing on their excellent final�s series, Paul Tyers bowled accurately to finish with 5/55 and Malcolm Wineberg took 3/35, as Centrals were dismissed for 174 runs. At 5 for 131, ANA appeared to be in the box seat, but once the burly Cameron Mahoney was dismissed for a hard hit 47, ANA crumbled to be all out for 133 and had thrown away any chance of winning the flag. In an outstanding year for the Bentleigh ANA Cricket Club, five of its eight teams had made the finals and full credit must go to President Neil Vorbach and his Committee for securing one of the Clubs most successful years to date.
1987/88 �B� GRADE PREMIERS - Match Statistics
Bentleigh ANA - 1st Innings
DeGiorgio D . . . . . lbw Blair 26
Haw C . . . . . . . . . c Sorbello 22
Crozier T . . . . . . . c Blair 0
Smith J . . . . . . . . . c Sorbello 0
Bacon J . . . . . . . . c Lake 19
Falconer D . . . . . . b Blair 0
Haw D . . . . . . . . . .c O�Connor 33
Biddle M . . . . . . . . c Sorbello 7
Crawford P . . . . . . b Sorbello 0
Millar D . . . .. .. . . . run out 45
Dolman R . . . . . . . not out 8
Bowling - Blair D. 3/17, Morros O. 0/50, Sorbello K. 4/46,
Lake A. 1/17, O�Connor M. 1/29.
Brighton Union - 1st Innings
Bozinovic M . . . . . . run out 7
Sadler N . . . . . . .. . c DeGiorgio b Crawford 27
Turnball B . . . . . . . c DeGiorgio b Biddle 72
Lake A . . . . .. . . c D.Haw b Biddle 15
Egan S . . . . . . . . . not out 60
Sorbello K . . . . . .b Dolman 9
Adams B . . . . . . b Biddle 12
O�Connor M . . . . b Biddle 0
Morros O . . . . . . . b Millar 39
Wingfield D . . . . . c Smith b Crawford 0
Blair D . . . . . . . . . c C.Haw b Millar 4
Sundries 23
Bowling - Biddle M. 4/52, Dolman R. 1/71, Crawford P. 2/67,
Millar D. 2/32, Falconer D. 0/7, DeGiorgio D. 0/16.
Bentleigh ANA - 2nd Innings
Haw C . . . . . . . . c Blair 20
DeGiorgio D . . . . . c Morros 38
Crozier T . . . . . . . b Blair 24
Bacon J . . . . . . . c Sorbello 14
Smith J . . . . . . . . c Blair 1
Falconer D . . . . . . . b Sorbello 6
Haw D . . . . . . . . . c Sorbello 20
Biddle M . . . . . . . b Blair 5
Crawford P . . . . . . b Morros 64
Millar D . . . . . . . . . . . not out 10
Dolman R . . . . . . . . . b Blair 9
Sundries 9
O�Connor M. 0/27.
Brighton Union - 2nd Innings
Sadler N . . . . . . . . . c D.Haw b Dolman 0
Bozinovic M . . . . . c Smith b Dolman 2
Turnball B . . . . . . . c & b Crawford 6
Lake A . . . . . . . . . . . lbw Dolman 2
Egan S . . . . . . . . . c Falconer b Crawford 6
Sorbello K . . . . . . . c Smith b Millar 42
Adams B . . . . . . . . not out 26
Morros O . . . . . . c D.Haw b Crawford 7
O�Connor M . . . . . b Crawford 0
Wingfield D . . . . . . c Falconer b Biddle 3
Blair D . . . . . . . . . . c D. Haw b Crawford 0
Bowling - Biddle M. 1/4, Dolman R. 3/32, Crawford P. 5/33, Millar D.
Bentleigh ANA won outright by 21 runs.
1987/88 �UNDER 16B� RUNNERS-UP - Match Statistics
Toss won by Bentleigh ANA
Hampton Central - 1st Innings
A�Moore C . . . . . . b English 33
Stefanec J . . . . . c Ward b Wineberg 40
Nelson B . . . . . . . c Tyers b English 2
Henderson D . . . . . . . c wkt b Tyers 0
Worland C . . . . . . . . . . . . . b Wineberg 28
Reed C . . . . . . . . . . . . not out 24
Deveraux G . . . . . c wkt b Wineberg 17
Deveraux R . . . . . . c Mahoney b Tyers 0
Dakis W . . . . . . . c Mahoney b Tyers 2
Newman J . . . . . . c Mahoney b Tyers 1
McGrath D . . . . . . . b Tyers 6
Bowling - Tyers P. 5/55, Fowler J. 0/25, Wineberg M. 3/35,
English R. 2/32, Mahoney C. 0/6.
Westoby P . . . . . . b Stefanic 12
English R . . . . . . . . b Devereaux 6
Williams L . . . . . . . c Devereaux 24
Tyers P . . . . . . . . . c Nelson 3
Mahoney C . . . . . c Stefanic 47
Wineberg M . . . . run out 8
Mockett A . . . . . . c Stefanic 13
Ward A . . . . . . . c Devereaux 0
Russell D . . . . . . c Stefanic 0
Stanes A . . . . . . . b Devereaux 0
Fowler J . . . . . . . not out 0
Bowling - Devereaux 4/54, Nelson B. 1/22, Stefanic J. 4/23, Reed C. 0/14, A�Moore 0/0.
Hampton Central won on 1st Innings by 41 runs.
Opening bowler Paul Morgan was appointed as Captain/Coach for season 1988/89 and wasted no time in commencing an extensive pre-season program which saw the teams probably the best prepared they had ever been at the start of a season. Morgan recruited several players from his Moorabbin Indoor Cricket Centre, the most significant being former Carlton First 37 Eleven opening bowler Grant Treeby. Peter Wijeyaratne returned to Sri Lanka and former Captain Darren Haw headed to Brighton Union, but these two losses were well and truly compensated for by the recruiting of 17-year-old speedster James McKinley from Omega, former Chelsea Heights Captain/Coach Chris Beattie, Mornington Diggers batsman Andrew Collison, and all-rounder Graham Bodley who had returned to the Club after several years with Baden Powell. Sadly, injury robbed ANA of the best of Paul Morgan and this, along with his business commitments, forced him to resign mid-season. His deputy, Cedric Jansz, once again assumed the Captaincy role. The arrival of Collison at the Club proved to be the big bonus of the year. After the tall policeman wandered into training one night asking for a game of cricket he began a blistering run with the bat, scoring 48, 50, 71, 83 and 62 in his first five hits at the �Longmuir Shield� level. Cedric Jansz had his best season for almost a decade and compiled 378 runs for the year, while Craig Haw with 343 runs, Collison with 322 and Vorbach with 267, saw ANA finally produce the much needed form with the bat that they required to be a top team. However, even with Grant Treeby�s 32 wickets, the ANA First Eleven still narrowly missed out on a final�s berth once again.
The Second Eleven had been promoted to �A� Grade (which was the old �B� Grade prior to the introduction of the Longmuir Shield title for the old �A� Grade) this season, and still under the guidance of Premiership Captain John Smith, performed excellently to finish in third position prior to the finals. ANA came up against Mackie in the Semi-final and struggled from the outset as Mackie hit up an impressive total of 239. Consistent final�s performer Bob Dolman was once again the best of the bowlers, taking 3/52. Opener Graham Bodley batted defiantly for 47 and skipper John Smith battled hard for his 28, but the rest of the batsmen put in a shocker as ANA plummeted to be all out for a disappointing score of 136.
The Third Eleven, in �D� Grade, was led by the very experienced Dennis Williams. The team comprised a mixture of youth and experience and had an excellent season finishing in first position prior to the finals. ANA came up against Cluden in the Semi-final and opening batsman Richard Smith led the charge by making an excellent 72, as ANA headed towards a strong total of 224. Tim Foreman with 36 was also in fine touch, as ANA had hit itself into a winning position. Brett Walton, Shane Warren and Richard Smith all took two wickets apiece as Cluden were bowled out for a meagre 117 runs, allowing ANA to grab a much deserved Grand Final berth. Coming up against Carnegie South in the Final, the long haired Richard Smith was again in superb touch getting the innings off to a fine start by making 73. He received good support from Mark Horsfield with 41 and veteran wicketkeeper Ron Russell who made a fighting 27, as ANA hit up an impressive 205. But, in losing their last 5 wickets for only 11 runs, ANA had given Carnegie a chance to get back into the match. Again, however, the ANA bowlers stuck to their task and bundled Carnegie South out for only 126. Richard Smith, who was having an incredible final�s series, took 3/11 and Barry Masefield captured 3/21, as ANA appeared to have sewn up the Premiership by taking a 79 run first innings lead. But, as if the �hoodoo� ground at Elwood was yet again going to be the scene of another ANA disaster, the Third Eleven plummeted to be all out for a meagre 88 in the second innings, leaving Carnegie 166 runs to make in ten overs for victory. Rising to the occasion, Shane Warren then captured 3/23 leaving Carnegie with 4 for 44 at stumps and putting a dampener on any Premiership hopes Carnegie may have had. Thus, after 17 years with the Club, Dennis Williams finally got his much deserved Premiership win.
The Fourth Eleven was once again led by Paul Biddle in �G� Grade and performed excellently throughout the season to finish in second position prior to the finals. They came up against the newly introduced Menzies team in the Semi-final and led by Paul Russell with 4/40 and a fine spell of 4/19 from Peter �Frosty� Miller, ANA bundled Menzies out for only 127. John �Jacko� Smith then hit up an impressive 58 not out, as ANA overcame several hiccups early in their innings, to eventually get home with a score of 7 for 147 and enter into the Grand Final. ANA faced McKinnon in the Final but struggled from the outset as McKinnon hit up an impressive 279, putting enormous pressure on the ANA batsmen. Veteran leg spinner Ken Wilson bowled a marathon 40 overs to take 3/68 while �Frosty� Miller took 3/84 off 35 overs and 15-year-old Richard Vargas bowled well to take 3/32. Try as they might, the ANA batsmen never really threatened the large total and only through the efforts of �Frosty� Miller once again with 56 and Paul Russell with 38, were the Green and Gold able to reach a respectable score of 153, having to be content with a Runners-Up pennant. It was a disappointing finish to the season for Paul Biddle and his Fourth Eleven team as they had performed excellently throughout the season. One of the most amazing performances in the �G� Grade was seen from one of the players who did not play in their final�s team, Frank Loiacono. Frank, a regular First Eleven player, was selected to play in the Fourths one game early in the season as he was only able to play for one week. Seeing the ideal opportunity for some extra batting practice, Frank gave the team more than a bit of a boost, as he hit up a colossal 206 not out, becoming the first and only player at ANA to have made a double century, eclipsing Max Papley�s thirty-year-old Club record of 196. His whirlwind innings consisted of an unbelievable 14 sixes and 18 fours, as he surpassed his previous best score of only 54.
Season 1989/90 saw the Bentleigh ANA Cricket Club reach the milestone of 60 years. This event was celebrated with a magnificent reunion which saw old team mates and opponents, from all over the country, come together for an evening which brought back many memories and stories alike. The success of the night was a credit to Neil Vorbach and his Committee, but the number of ex-players who once again returned to the Club was surely a glowing tribute to all the people associated with ANA over the years. It must have been astounding for many of the old ANA �greats� to return to the environment which they had helped to establish back in the early days and many were amazed to hear of the amount of money that was now in the CMCA. It was widely accepted that the introduction of Bingo had now made it possible for several clubs to finance players, some receiving five figure sums, and many clubs were having trouble competing in a rapidly increasing financial competition. In front of the large crowd forming for the reunion at King George, ANA recorded a memorable victory over last year�s finalists Brighton Union. Former Carlton opening bowler Grant Treeby was Captain/Coach for the season and embarked on a pre-season training program that saw the ANA players resembling Kennedy�s Commandoes back in the early sixties. Treeby and 19-year-old David Millar led the First Eleven attack and both had reasonably good seasons while, for the first time in over ten years, no less than six players ended up with over 200 runs for the season. Former Chelsea Heights Captain/Coach Chris Beattie led the aggregates with 289, while �evergreen� Neil Vorbach won the batting averages. Excellent support was also provided by wicketkeeper Stewart Kreltszheim, Trevlyn Crozier, Debinder Singh and Cedric Jansz - all of them collected over 200 runs each for the year. Even as late as the Saturday evening, after the last game, the First Eleven appeared to have made the finals in the Longmuir Shield for the first time in 16 years. Alas, Bentleigh Uniting had got up to snatch an unexpected victory in their last game and, yet again, the hapless ANA team was just pipped out of the four by less than a game. This was a great disappointment, and for the first time in five seasons, ANA failed to have a senior side represented in the finals.
The �Under 14 C� Grade team saved some face for the Club when it won its way into the finals, being the first Under 14 team to do so for many years. Led by Garry Litinsky, they came up against Hampton United, who won the toss and elected to bat, in their Semi-final encounter. After starting soundly, Hampton slowly began to falter to the ANA pace attack and eventually were bundled out for a meagre total of 118 with skipper Litinsky being the chief destroyer, taking 3/10 off ten overs, and leading a fine team performance. The ANA bats had been inconsistent throughout the season to say the least, but this final�s match brought out the best in them as they cruised to a score of 3 for 133. The run onslaught was due mainly to the efforts of opening batsman Ian Chick who stubbornly defied the Hampton United attack to remain unconquered on 51, his finest performance for the year. ANA then came up against top team Washington Park in the Grand Final and all of the bowlers performed well as the Park were dismissed for a modest total of 169. Garry Litinsky was again outstanding with the ball as he captured 4/33 off 24 overs in an excellent performance. At 1/43 the ANA team appeared to be headed for an unexpected Premiership, but wickets slowly began to tumble, and they were eventually bundled out for only 103. Adam Kain batted determinedly for 31 but the lack of support that he received proved to be the crucial factor, and Team Manager Mark Horsfield had to be content with a Runners-up pennant for this year.
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Trump's Mideast Dilemma: Chaos or New Order?
The new Middle East policy that Donald Trump, the president-elect of the United States, will follow closely concerns Turkey as well as all the other countries in the region.
With the condoning of the proxy wars in the region, which triggered fractures along sectarian and ethnic fault lines, as a result of the Obama administration's policy of handling the crisis from afar, the central governments in countries, such as Libya, Syria, Iraq and even Lebanon, have collapsed.
This policy resulted in further instability in the region, which in turn fueled terrorism and internal conflicts.
And this is exactly what President-elect Trump will inherit from Obama: a Middle East that has become a wreck.
Here is the most important question Turkey is seeking to answer: In this post-Obama wreck that is the Middle East, will Trump just continue with the policies of the Obama era through a new rhetoric or prefer to create a new order?
If Trump and his team incline more towards the creation of a new order, then the question of which particular regional powers Trump will create this order with will be of direct concern to Ankara.
Ankara is perfectly aware of the importance of these critical decisions awaiting Trump. Therefore, with Trump's election victory, a cautious atmosphere of optimism has begun to prevail in Turkey regarding the future of Ankara-Washington relations, which became remarkably strained during the Obama era and which many think would have become further strained if Clinton had been elected.
Owing to the telephone conversation between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Donald Trump immediately after the election and to a number of news reports saying Trump's daughter appreciated Erdogan as a political figure, public opinion in Turkey inclined more toward thinking that there would be an improvement and even a new beginning in Turkish-American relations under Trump's presidency.
However, those who know the volatile nature of Turkish-American relations are skeptical and ready to err on the side of caution and are therefore pointing out the necessity of waiting until Trump and his team give out real signs with regard to their Middle East policy.
During the time that has passed since the elections, President-elect Trump has named the members of his team step by step, but despite this certainty regarding his aides, we are still far from being able to make definitive observations and cannot discuss the next U.S. administration's Middle East policy except over a bunch of scenarios.
Conjuncture awaiting Trump team
There are many reasons for the ambivalence we are talking about. The primary reason is, the general stance and ideas of Trump's team (Flynn, Pence, Pompeo, Priebus, Sessions, Bannon and Mattis) mirror the general Republican and conservative orientation regarding domestic policy issues, but when it comes to foreign policy and security policies, it remains to be seen whether this team will adopt an approach in which deterrence is ensured by a show of power, a pragmatic approach or a neo-conservative approach.
We should remember that Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan managed to make different policy decisions at times despite remaining within the bounds of a Republican understanding. Another question is what particular Republican foreign policies and security approaches that the prevailing bureaucratic and organizational orientation in Washington DC (or the so-called "Establishment" that we so often hear) will be able to "digest" with greater ease.
Likewise, we should also keep in mind that there are a number of primary factors that will essentially determine the future of U.S. foreign policy and what its choices regarding the Middle East might be. These are; the situation the Middle East is currently mired in, the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Syria and the course of U.S.-Russia relations on a regional as well as global level.
Setting out from this premise, let us list the three political priorities that Trump and his team have been consistently underscoring so that we are able to discuss which particular scenarios are more likely to be realized in the future of the conflict -- which has assumed greater intensity in Iraq and Syria -- and what these scenarios are promising for Turkey.
In spite of the mixed signals Trump and his team have so far given regarding the Middle East, three particular points get constantly repeated, and the first and most stressed of these is Trump's promise to wipe out Daesh.
When promising to put an end to Daesh, Trump also points out that there will be no American boots on the ground, which signifies that his second priority is fighting terrorism without a direct U.S. intervention in the region.
The third priority is to establish cooperation with regional states. As a matter of fact, we cannot deny that these three priorities are introducing a package of compatible plans. Despite their compatibility, however, there are elements that further complicate the situation, and of these, the most important is the present political conjuncture in the Middle East.
If we push our memory a little, we remember that cooperation with regional states seemed like an instrument put on the table by the U.S. in the early years of the Obama Doctrine, which had meant a departure from the Bush administration's approach.
Moreover, this cooperation was criticized by those who prioritized democracy since such a step toward cooperation meant the maintenance of the status quo/stability with the current authoritarian leaders and dictators. In the period following 2011, when the people took to the streets, up in arms against autocracies, military rule and dictators, the United States made a very carefully thought through preference in favor of its interests, which catered to the destabilization of the region, but in any case, all of the administrations that the U.S. had habitually established ties with or opposed began to topple one by one.
In short, it will be more difficult for Trump to be on good terms with the countries in the region than it has been for Obama because today's Middle East is a multi-faceted chaos rising from the disintegration of the states there.
Trump's Middle East options
Trump and his team may cling to the formula they are familiar with in order to overcome this difficulty and may choose to prioritize and support Turkey, Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, its traditional allies as well as an axis of status quo in the region once upon a time.
The actual meaning of "status quo" has, of course, undergone a radical change in the Middle East along the way, and the days when we were able to say "Ankara, Cairo, Tel Aviv and Riyadh can agree on just anything" are long gone.
We should, however, keep in mind that these regional actors are uniformly disconcerted by the rising power of the Iran-Hezbollah axis as a security problem and that there are common problems caused by terrorism. In this regard, there may as well be an agenda of the fight against terrorism that would be launched with a primary focus on Daesh.
Iran's influence rising in the Middle East -- something Trump often emphasized during his election campaign -- extending from Iraq to Yemen through sectarian wars may be counterbalanced in this manner.
The second option awaiting Trump and his team is leading us to consider some more complex possibilities. The part of Trump's policy of dealing with Daesh terrorism first that is problematic for Turkey is hidden in the rationalization of this option.
In many speeches he made, Trump kept saying that he did not know who the groups from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) that proved effective in the fight against Daesh in Syria were; groups that gained greater efficiency thanks to the Operation Euphrates Shield.
This viewpoint matches the Russian perspective on Syria, according to which anybody opposed to the Syrian regime is a terrorist.
Therefore, Trump and his team may opt to support Russia and the Syrian regime instead of the FSA, which they perceive to be militarily weak and fragmented, which means giving Aleppo to the regime.
Such a decision to be made by the new U.S. administration would be problematic for Turkey from two aspects. It would primarily mean that the FSA, which is significant also in terms of Turkey's Operation Euphrates Shield, would be trapped, and controlling an FSA, now economically and psychologically overburdened, would be considerably more difficult for Turkey, if not impossible.
Secondly, and more importantly, the fall of Aleppo would trigger a new exodus wave into Turkey. Ankara is not refraining from making all the necessary arrangements against such a possibility. First, Ankara continually underscores that the objective of Operation Euphrates Shield is not to invade Syria or Aleppo, a principle frequently stressed by President Erdogan.
This is as much a disclaimer to the FSA as it is to everybody else, but Turkey, on the other hand, has not given up the idea that the opposition forces in Syria must play a role in its future. Therefore, negotiations with Russia over a number of issues, such as opening an aid corridor in Aleppo, is meaningful and important.
Indeed, given the current point arrived at in the Turkish-Russian dialogue, we understand that Moscow will not oppose the operation being carried out with the support of Turkey as long as Operation Euphrates Shield does not interfere in the domain of Russian influence.
As the strategic dialogue between Turkey and Russia is continuing with such a hard-to-sustain balance in Al-Bab, what the U.S. preference in the face of this picture, namely, that of Russia and the regime, will be is also an important question.
Trump occasionally talked about establishing strong ties with Russia; yet it is something to get along well with Moscow, but conceding Syria to Russia while accusing the Obama administration in relation to Iran is another.
Therefore, the attitude of the Trump team towards two particular issues is not yet clear: 1) What are the limits of U.S. tolerance towards a Russia with greater ambitions and influence before it has close ties with it? That is, what is the red line of the U.S. regarding Russia? 2) Will the Democratic Union Party (PYD) / the People's Protection Units (YPG) continue to be useful instruments for the U.S.?
Scenarios awaiting Turkey
Turkey's attitude towards these two issues is clear and open: the PYD/YPG are as unacceptable as Daesh; namely, Ankara will definitely oppose any plan that envisages the use of terrorists in the fight against terrorism.
To this end, the Operation Euphrates Shield will continue in accordance with its objectives in the north of Syria.
Additionally, given that the operation is a military one being carried out on a very complex ground, the risks of the operation will be felt from time to time. For this reason, as long as the new administration of the U.S. remains undecided regarding the PYD, the Turkey-Russia dialogue and the new limits that will emerge out of this dialogue will bear importance.
There are experts pointing out that a day may come when the team that will be governing the U.S. will be uncomfortable with Russia, and hence it does not seem quite possible for the PYD option to cease to be viable all of a sudden.
They have a point; foreign policy is as much about transformations as sustainability since no actor would be willing to shelve its strategic investments overnight and admit and incur the cost of its strategic errors.
And for those who keep asking whether we will fall into the same vicious circle and whether the worst-case scenario will be constantly imposed on Turkey/always on Turkey, let us drop some hints about a positive scenario:
We are talking about a future when the U.S. military will not be physically present on the ground. In such a future, however much they desire it, neither Assad nor Iran could possibly secure the territorial integrity of Syria.
And Russia, which we view as an important force to be reckoned with due to its conventional military capacities, seems to have got what it desired in Syria by building up a presence in the Mediterranean, having captured all of the seaports.
It is not crossing Moscow's mind to win all of Syria for Assad, jeopardizing all the gains it has achieved at the expense of the military and economic hardships it is currently enduring. As for Turkey; it will remain on the ground militarily, politically and diplomatically until it guarantees a terror-free belt and the future security of such a belt.
At this point, when the nature of the rivalry goes from regional and tactical to strategic, the U.S. might possibly remember that it is actually a NATO ally on the ground, which is exactly what the Obama administration has forgotten about.
Moreover, Ankara will be constantly reminding the US that all the attempts at destabilizing Turkey, which has succeeded in Operation Euphrates Shield, have consistently failed (the PKK/Daesh terrorism, the FETO/PDY's three attempts at overthrowing the government, economic pressures etc.). As a result of all of these (occasions to remember and remind, facing up to the necessity to be both on the ground and at the table to effectively benefit from the balance of the U.S.-Russia relations), Turkey may become the guarantor of a neighboring area freed from terrorism where the necessary investments can be made for the return of the refugees.
There are indeed many issues that Trump and his team will have to consider, so many paths they can take depending on each particular scenario. However, it is said that the Trump team, which will set out with the hope of somewhat bettering relations with Ankara based on a balance of sympathy-rationality, will have to concede certain things to a Turkey which has resisted against various attacks. The thing that will be conceded may be the leadership of FETO, which is known to be as important to Ankara as the issue of the PKK. But, since it may prove difficult to take any steps solely with the initiative of the administration because of the inner workings of U.S. domestic law, perhaps the U.S. will be tilted more toward the good scenario in Syria.
Translated by Omer Colakoglu
* Opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Anadolu Agency's editorial policy.
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Biography – RICHARDSON, JAMES (d. 1832) – Volume VI (1821-1835) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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RICHARDSON, JAMES, naval officer, mariner, miller, and merchant; b. c. 1759 near Horncastle, England; m. prior to 1789 Sarah Bryant, née Ashmore, and they had at least three children; m. secondly 14 Aug. 1809 Mary Louisa McDonnell in Kingston, Upper Canada; d. 20 Sept. 1832 in Presqu’ile Point, Upper Canada.
For three years during the American revolution, James Richardson was a naval quartermaster in the West Indies. In 1782 his ship, the Ramillies, sailing to England in Commander Thomas Graves*’s squadron, sustained heavy damage in a gale and had to be destroyed. Taken aboard a merchant vessel, he was subsequently captured by an American frigate and imprisoned in France. In 1785 he was appointed a second lieutenant in the Provincial Marine on Lake Ontario, where he served for the next few years. After the regulations prohibiting private vessels on the lower lakes were revoked in 1787, Richard Cartwright* hired Richardson to superintend construction of, and later to command, the Lady Dorchester. The joint enterprise of Cartwright, Robert Hamilton*, and Todd, McGill and Company of Montreal, she was launched in 1789 and thenceforth carried furs and supplies between Kingston and Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), principally for the North West Company. Richardson appears to have taken up residence in Kingston when work began on the Lady Dorchester. He remained captain of the vessel until 1793.
That same year Richardson and a number of partners, including the firms of Crooks and Company and Auldjo and Maitland, agreed to challenge the monopoly on Lake Ontario of Richardson’s former employers. Cartwright, though he respected Richardson’s qualities as a seaman, claimed that the captain “has made himself so universally abnoxious that I shall not be very sorry to get rid of him.” While Cartwright did his best to impede construction of the rival vessel, Richardson went to Montreal during the winter of 1794 to make what Cartwright called “insidious Attempts” to get a piece of the NWC’s business. Although he was unsuccessful, he and his partners nevertheless launched the Kingston Packet in 1795. Subsequently, Richardson took advantage of his status as part-owner of the Packet and as an ex-officer of the Provincial Marine to launch a succession of petitions for land, most of which were granted. The land he obtained included sites on the Kingston waterfront, in York (Toronto), and in Newcastle (Presqu’ile Point).
After the wreck of the Packet, probably in 1801, Richardson’s career temporarily took a new tack. By the early 1800s he was importing goods from the United States and appears to have begun operating as a merchant and miller. His failure at these trades prompted a reconciliation with Cartwright in 1807, and the captain assumed command of Cartwright’s sloop Elizabeth. Later he took charge of the larger Governor Simcoe, owned by many of the men originally associated with the Lady Dorchester.
It was at the helm of the Simcoe that Richardson served in the early stages of the War of 1812. On the eve of the battle of Queenston Heights on 13 Oct. 1812 he delivered a shipment of gunpowder to Niagara and afterwards returned to York with prisoners and the news of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock*’s death. Scarcely a month later, the Simcoe ran past the American fleet into Kingston. Though skilfully piloted, she had been struck by American shot and virtually sank at the wharf. When, in the spring of 1813, the Simcoe was absorbed into Commodore Sir James Lucas Yeo*’s fleet, Richardson signed on as a master. He was discharged that fall.
After his discharge Richardson quickly reestablished himself as a Kingston merchant, setting up a partnership with his son-in-law, James Lyons. Before he closed his Kingston business affairs in 1818 Richardson had run this shop on his own and in partnership with his son Robert. At some point in the immediate post-war years he moved from Kingston to the neighbourhood of Presqu’ile Point. There he began to develop the property he had accumulated 20 years earlier. By July 1816 he was advertising for sale a wharf and large store at his waterfront site in Cramahe Township. His son James* was collector of customs at Presqu’ile (he went on to become a Methodist bishop), and James Lyons became the local mha in 1824.
But before retiring to the life of country squire, Richardson once again took up command of a vessel. On 9 May 1818, less than a year after the Frontenac (the first Canadian-built steamboat on the Great Lakes) began running on Lake Ontario [see James McKenzie], the Charlotte took to the waters of the upper St Lawrence and the Bay of Quinte. For her first few voyages Richardson was at the helm. He did not complete the first season, however, perhaps because of a debilitating stroke he is known to have suffered about this time.
Richardson had been a generous benefactor and controversial churchwarden of the Church of England congregation in Kingston. When, in 1795, he proposed the rather radical step of abolishing pew rentals, the Reverend John Stuart* was incensed, describing Richardson as a “little blustering Sea Captain” and “a turbulent ambitious man . . . willing to try his Power & Influence.” Turbulent and ambitious Richardson certainly was, with a mean streak for good measure. Twice he was found guilty of assault by the Midland District assizes. Yet Cartwright, a year after being “rid of him,” described his replacements as “destitute in a great measure of that Energy, or perhaps Violence of Temper, which enabled [Richardson] to get the Duty better done by the People under him.” From the introduction of private enterprise on the lower lakes to the first years of steam, these qualities made Richardson one of the most successful, though certainly not loved, captains on Lake Ontario.
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Title of Article: RICHARDSON, JAMES (d. 1832)
Publication Name: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 6
Publisher: University of Toronto/Université Laval
Year of revision: 1987
Access Date: July 19, 2019
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