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Birmingham is one of the most popular UK cities for Airbnb rentals
BIRMINGHAM, UK - 10/16/2018 (PRDistribution.com)
Birmingham has been transformed over the years and is now on the most popular UK cities for Airbnb rentals. Birmingham is the UK’s second largest city and the regional capital of West Midlands.
For corporate travellers, the city is home to approximately 1,900 international companies and has the largest Professional Services sector outside of the capital. HSBC is due to relocate it’s UK Head Office to Birmingham in 2018 and HMRC (UK Government Revenue and Customs) have announced a new West Midlands regional hub with more than 3,500 tax workers in Arena Central, Birmingham.
For leisure travellers, it is a centre of culture, sports, leisure and shopping with 33.5 million people a year visiting Birmingham for business and pleasure. It has a strong student population with 5 universities and 4 major colleges. It is at the heart of the UK’s road network and boasts its own international airport with direct flights to over 100 destinations including Europe, North America and Asia.
Where to Stay in an Airbnb Birmingham Property
City Centre (Birmingham, UK):
The area is the centre of the region’s retailing, banking and financial services and the civic and cultural heart of the city. It consists of the revitalised £600 million New Street Station, over 100 independent shops, Town Hall, Art Gallery and Museum, Council House and St Philips’s Cathedral, to name a few. To the north-west of the square lies the Colmore Business District, the heart of the city’s business and financial sector which supports over 24,000 jobs. Also, as the HS2 rail link will terminate in the city centre, it significantly raises the likelihood of major head-quarter relocations and expansion of existing business needs. Developments are in progress to strengthen it as a 24-hour city centre – a thriving shopping, leisure, and business destination which supports the civic and cultural role of Birmingham within a high quality, distinctive and vibrant environment.
As part of mixed-use developments or building conversions, more residential apartments are being encouraged in the city centre on upper floors to create a larger resident population that will support shops and services, and enliven the heart of the city.
Westside (Birmingham, UK):
Westside has been transformed in recent decades and is now the city’s primary business and leisure destination. Westside includes Broad Street, Brindleyplace, Five Ways, Centenary Square, Broadway Plaza and all the surrounding areas. It consists of many new and planned buildings and offices such as The Cube, Library of Birmingham, the V Building and Regal Tower. Broad Street and Brindleyplace are home to 300 businesses, providing 12,000 jobs. Westside hosts Birmingham’s biggest concentration of hotels. The southern part of Westside has a large residential population, with Ladywood home to 3,000 residents and the award-winning Park Central area incorporating 1,600 homes.
Work is in progress to enhance connections into and through the area, bringing in new life and activity by extending the network of linked public spaces within the area. Improvements to the Broad Street corridor and the eastern boundary of the quarter is key to achieving this. In addition, the Big City Plan will build on the success of Westside’s existing residential areas. In the longer term the aspiration is to transform Ladywood into a much improved family neighbourhood.
Jewellery Quarter (Birmingham, UK):
The area includes St Paul’s, the main Jewellery Quarter shopping and manufacturing areas, and all the strategically important areas that connect the Quarter to the city centre. It boasts the award-winning Museum of the Jewellery Quarter and the Pen Museum, together with art galleries including the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. It is a growing residential population and high quality bars and restaurants are making the quarter a working and living part of the city centre.
Specific emphasis is being placed on providing family housing and delivering town houses. Golden Square will become a new high quality public space drawing visitors into the heart of the quarter. Connectivity within the area and to the city centre is also being improved for residents and visitors to the Jewellery Quarter.
If you are looking for an Airbnb Birmingham property there are plenty of places available in this wonderful city. “We are passionate about Birmingham and passionate about short-term accommodation”, said Shah Karim who run a Airbnb management service in the UK. He added “We feel we are on an exciting journey by focusing on Birmingham city centre”.
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Entries Matching: Kirtsaeng
Another Kirtsaeng Question: Why Have the Distribution Right?
By Sherwin Siy
First Sale, Kirtsaeng
In the wake of the Kirtsaeng oral argument, I wanted to look at a strange thing about how the first sale doctrine works in our copyright laws. The first sale doctrine makes it legal for you to sell, lend, or give away copies of copyrighted works that you own.
What the Election Means for the Internet
By Gigi Sohn
Net Neutrality, Open Internet, Orphan Works, SOPA, Kirtsaeng
After nearly two years of debates, never-ending commercials, donation solicitations and ever-present polling, Election Day is over and the results are in. As many had predicted, the balance of government has not changed significantly. Democrats will retain the Presidency and control of the Senate, and Republicans will continue to control the House, albeit by a slightly smaller margin than before.
Impressions from Today’s Oral Argument in Kirtsaeng
I was able to attend oral arguments this morning at the Supreme Court, which included Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. For some background on the case, see the resources linked at this blog post.
There were three separate theories of section 109's interpretation in the Court today: Kirtsaeng's, made by Josh Rosenkranz; Wiley's, made by Ted Olson, and the U.S. Government's made by Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart. Kirtsaeng's position is that "lawfully made under this title" means "made lawfully," and that to judge what "lawfully" means, we look to the standards of title 17.
First Sale at the Supreme Court: Kirtsaeng
Today, the Supreme Court will be hearing arguments in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a case that could decide whether or not you fully own your own books, CDs, DVDs, and all your other things that contain copyrighted works—particularly if they were made outside the US.
Recordings of the oral arguments should be posted later in the week. In the meantime, if you’re looking for some background on the case, see Jodie's post here, or read on below.
Public Knowledge Urges Supreme Court to Preserve First Sale
Today, Public Knowledge filed a public interest amicus brief in the Supreme Court case of Kirtsaeng v. Wiley & Sons, Inc., a dispute that has the potential to drastically alter users’ property rights in their own copies of books, movies, music, software—in fact, any copyrighted material. The case began with a Thai student studying in the United States who realized that international editions of textbooks cost significantly less than the U.S. editions. He then imported international editions and resold them. Wiley & Sons sued under the theory that these sales violated their exclusive distribution rights.
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R&B singer R. Kelly arrested in Chicago, reportedly on federal sex-crime charges
Grammy Award-winning singer R. Kelly, who already faces state sexual assault charges, has been arrested in Chicago on federal charges after having been indicted there and in Brooklyn, New York, a law enforcement source said on Friday.
The source, who requested anonymity because the indictments were still under seal, declined to characterize the nature of the charges. NBC News, citing unidentified law enforcement officials, said they were for alleged sex crimes.
Kelly, 52, an R&B singer, was arrested on Thursday by New York police detectives and investigators with the Department of Homeland Security, and is expected to appear before a judge in Chicago later on Friday, the law enforcement source said.
"He’s expected to be arraigned today in federal court in Chicago and at later date in Brooklyn," the source said.
Kelly faces a 13-count federal indictment in Chicago and five counts in Brooklyn, the source said, adding that both indictments remain under seal.
Last month, the singer pleaded not guilty to 11 new felony counts of sexual assault and abuse at a Cook County, Illinois, court hearing, after state prosecutors expanded an indictment against him.
The R&B singer has vehemently denied abuse allegations for decades. In 2008, he was tried on child pornography charges and found not guilty.
The Chicago Sun-Times said Kelly's attorney Steve Greenberg, on Thursday confirmed the arrest, but declined to give details. Greenberg was not immediately available for comment to Reuters.
The Cook County charges involve alleged abuse of a victim between the ages of 13 and 16. The accusations center on someone identified only as J.P. and the crimes are alleged to have taken place between May 2009 and January 2010.
Kelly could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted on those charges.
In February, Kelly pleaded not guilty to charges that he sexually assaulted three teenage girls and a fourth woman.
The charges were brought after seven women, including his ex-wife, appeared on a Lifetime television documentary and accused him of emotional and sexual abuse.
The singer, known for such hits as "I Believe I Can Fly" and "Bump N' Grind," spent a weekend in jail on the sex charges before being released on $100,000 bail on Feb.
Published: 12/07/2019 by Radio NewsHub
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Radio 4’s No Sex Please: the Japanese have ‘grown tired of sex’ – and they’re not the only ones
The Guardian's advice columnist Annalisa Barbieri wonders whether a new BBC Radio 4 documentary about sex lives in Japan could be a sign of where we're all heading
By Annalisa Barbieri
Friday, 13th July 2018 at 8:00 am
Some years ago, I wrote an article about sex for a newspaper. A reader, a clergyman if that matters, wrote in to say I hadn’t mentioned love and that my description of sex sounded like my partner and I were going at it like “dogs on heat in the street”.
I wrote to thank him, and still have that letter as a glorious reminder of my past. I feel lucky to have lived at a time when my 20s – the prime shagging years – coincided with so much. It was pre-mobile phones, pre-webcams, pre-social media and pre-online porn. And it was post-widely available contraception and economic independence for women.
It was also back when sex was something people still did. But that’s all in the past now. No Sex Please, on Radio 4 this Friday, looks at the startling lack of heterosexual sex going on in Japan, a country that also has a rapidly declining birth rate, and more older people than any other industrialised nation.
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Ruth Evans, one of the No Sex Please presenters who, along with Chie Kobayashi, went to Tokyo to investigate what’s happening, says it’s like “an upsidedown pyramid”. And we all know how unstable they are. And the situation, Evans is keen to stress, is by no means unique to Japan; they’re just ahead of a curve.
Official Japanese government statistics show that 42 per cent of single men aged 18–34 have never had sex, and 44 per cent of women in the same age group haven’t either. Take a moment to digest those figures and not skim over them, like I usually do with numbers. And even when people have lost their virginity, had a relationship and got married, the sex then seems to stop: sexless marriages are also on the rise. One of the women from the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, which conducted this research, said that “people aren’t getting married, they’re not having sex, they’re not having babies”.
What are they doing? If they’re men, generally they’re working too hard; masturbating to online porn; having sex virtually with large VR visors strapped to their eyes; too scared to talk to women who are seen as too feisty by far these days; and visiting Idol Shows, where it’s all about the kawaii (cute), with girls wearing school uniforms and singing. And the more men do this, the less they are able to communicate with real, adult women, even if they wanted to.
For women, the reasons are slightly different. They also tend to be working too hard, but are also too tired for sex, too disappointed in men to want to have sex with them, and too busy looking after elderly relatives, which is like reverse-Viagra. Plus, educated women with a job don’t want to give that up, they don’t want to get married.
Evans also explains that, with this obsession with all things kawaii, “There’s a disconnect between what men see as sexy; by the time a woman is mature she’s ‘past it’ in men’s eyes.”
You really don’t need to look far to find similarly alarming sex-decline statistics in industrialised countries. Last year an American study showed that there had been a 15 per cent drop in the number of times Americans had sex in just over a decade. In 2013 the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal) found that, in Britain, people between 16 and 44 were having sex just under five times a month, which was a drop from the previous survey published in 2000. Five times a month! Tell that to the Japanese. There’s a similar decline in Australia.
The reasons there’s so little sex happening is complex and layered – it’s not just because of the reasons stated above. It is more of an issue in industrialised nations. But, also, men don’t seem to know what their role is any more; they fear rejection so they stay with what they know: the cute, the accepting, the virtual. Women no longer need men for financial stability. In Japan women are talked of as “carnivores” and men as [emasculated] “herbivores”.
In my day job as advice columnist for The Guardian, I get a lot of letters from people who aren’t having sex. Every sex therapist I speak to, and I speak to a lot, says this isn’t a problem as long as both parts of the couple agree on how much or how little sex they are having. The issue is, of course, when one part of the couple isn’t happy, and increasingly (although anecdotally) it’s the woman who laments the lack of sex.
It could be that more women write to me, but in the ten years I’ve been doing the job, the number of these letters has increased. The other gem I’ve learnt is that it’s the person with the low sex drive in the relationship who actually has the power and the control. I look at “my husband has a low libido” letters differently now. There also appears to be more understanding of, ergo more visibility in, asexuality. That is, people who are interested in romantic love, but not sex.
After listening to this programme I admit I was perturbed. I wondered if we were on the edge of something, and it didn’t seem to be an orgasm. Rather, the end of a world where people have sex. Which would, literally, be the end of the world. There’s a moment when the programme speculates whether marriage and relationships could become something only for the few – an elite. A bit like property ownership now is. One of the men interviewed in No Sex Please said we needed a “sexual revolution”. And I thought that happened 50 years ago.
No Sex Please airs on Friday 13th July at 11.00am on BBC Radio 4
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The 620-acre community known as Walden in Calgary sets an example for other new communities being built. In fact, it’s not even fully constructed yet itself, but it’s already long been turning heads due to its innovation. It’s borders include Macleod Trail SE to the west, the Bow River to the east, 210 Avenue to the south and 194 Avenue SE to the north.
Walden is a fully-realized master-planned community. It has not just residential but commercial buildings as well. Types of homes include condos, semi-detached and single-family. The townhomes in the community of Walden are located near the front and they were constructed by Avi Urban Development.
194th Avenue SE, which is the northern border of Walden, has many proposed bus stops; residents will, however, still need to walk to other stops before all the proposed stops are completed. Nearby is the Somerset-Bridlewood CTrain station as well.
Walden has a lot to do within its community. The major focus of new communities like Walden in Calgary is inclusiveness. Residents do not need to leave their neighborhoods in order to access most of what they want, but when they do the prime locations provide the opportunity as well. East of Walden is the famous Bow River, for example. Walden, however, has yet to finish its most ambitious outdoor space. This space consists of a huge man-made natural park complete with walking paths.
Walden doesn’t exclude entertainment and shopping. Nearby is the Shawnessy Town Centre and cinemas. Residents interested in not venturing far from the community will find many services and stores nearby like a Starbucks, Save-On Foods, gas station and pub just to mention a few.
Schools for Walden include Dr. E.P. Scarlett Senior High, Woodbine School, the Woodman School, St. Matthew, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, St. Sebastian, and Father James Whelihan
Houses of worship in Walden include Jehovah’s Witnesses McKenzie & Deer Valley, Midpark Christian Assembly, Canyon Creek Christian Fellows, All Saints Lutheran Church, Anglican Church of Canada and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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NFA Goldbacks team places 7th in the Drivers' World Championship
Donna Kessler Times Herald-Record
More than 1,200 students from across North and South America gathered in Detroit, Mich., to compete in the 11th annual Shell Eco-marathon Americas Competition, a global competition that challenges students to push the boundaries of energy efficiency on the road. The top performing teams earned the right to compete in the Shell Drivers’ World Championship Regional Final being held in London.
On May 22, 14 members of the Newburgh free Academy Goldbacks team took that trip to London - after coming in third place in a competition against six other teams from around the world to see who was the fastest energy-efficient driver - and qualifying to compete for the Drivers' World Championship title. The team returned on May 29 with an impressive 7th place finish in the world. They competed in a field of more than 400 teams in the London event.
In past years NFA has competed with a solar car. With a hefty cost of over $100,000 to make the car, this year’s team decided to make two cars, one diesel and one battery electric. Each of these cars cost $20,000 to make. Diesel and electric cars also proved to be much easier to work on.
With the help of academic advisor Matthew Schweizer, retired teacher Frank Wolf and Electrical Engineer Victor Valle, students built two cars that completed three valid runs consisting of five laps but only given enough fuel for four laps. A special speed component was also added.
The construction of the two cars was a total student effort. The engineering students came up with the idea, the welding and automotive students helped with the construction, the fashion students designed the uniforms, the culinary students made dishes for the fundraisers and the video production students (Goldback Television) filmed a documentary that can be seen on YouTube (NFA CVR Team Detroit 2017).
The entire car (frame) is made of aluminum and the body is constructed of carbon fiber. The students made the mold and molded the body themselves.
The work by team was an after-school program and it was open for every student, grades 9-12. The entire community also came out to support the team in their efforts.
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Woman survives being pushed out of car on…
Woman survives being pushed out of car on Harbor Freeway
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PUBLISHED: June 1, 2010 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: August 29, 2017 at 11:37 am
LOS ANGELES – A 29-year-old woman pushed from a moving vehicle today on the southbound Harbor (110) Freeway in South Los Angeles survived the ordeal, police said.
But the woman, whose name was not released, may need reconstructive surgery because of serious injuries to her face and body, KCAL9 reported.
It was unclear how fast the vehicle was moving when the woman tumbled out of the car about 8:30 a.m. near Manchester Avenue, said Officer Gregory Baek of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Media Relations Section.
“She has been cooperating with us. At this point, it is very unclear how she got there or who she was with … Prior to that, she was able to provide her name and where she lived and her family has been notified she’s at the hospital,” LAPD Detective Chris Barling told Channel 9.
The unidentified woman’s injuries appear to be more serious than first thought, the station reported.
Two southbound lanes were closed for about three hours while an investigation was conducted.
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Pasadena Finance Committee debates merits of…
Pasadena Finance Committee debates merits of Rose Bowl renovation plan
Rose Bowl officials Monday went to the city’s Finance Committee with a plan to put off $14.3 million in improvements to the stadium renovation now underway.
The move would bring the renovation estimate, which started at $152 million in the fall of 2010, down to $164.6 million and reduce the project’s funding gap to $25.3 million.
Saving the money would require eliminating the planned widening of four stadium entry tunnels. Additionally three promised concession stands would be replaced with cheaper temporary ones.
“We’re taking a definitive pivot away from a project that we clearly can’t afford towards a project that represents elements we can complete,” Councilman Victor Gordo, president of the Rose Bowl Operating Co., said.
While stadium officials are still in talks with tenants UCLA and the Tournament of Roses about the plan, “the project we can afford still seeks to complete the (renovation’s) material elements,” Gordo added.
Finance Director Andy Green said he’s working with consultants to consider what effect the delays would have on projected revenues to pay for the construction.
Green said he wanted to ensure the final proposal does not affect the city’s General Fund, which stadium and city officials have vowed to protect.
Councilwoman Margaret McAustin told Jim Mallon of Parsons, owner’s representative of the project, Monday that she felt some of the added renovation work could have been avoided.
Additional electrical upgrades around the concourse, she said, appeared “late in the game.”
“It seems to me, that a lot of problems we’re seeing, and this exemplifies it, is based on not a lot of due diligence on the front end,” she said.
“We all know we moved through this project very quickly, Were there no existing plans? Wasn’t all this stuff evaluated prior to the budget being formed and the bidding being done?”
Mallon said “every day tends to bring another concealed condition or a … surprise.”
While there were records of what electrical infrastructure existed, those were “poor,” Mallon said.
Crews also had to contend with the historical nature of the stadium and the fact that “it’s not a standard building construction project,” he said.
Councilman Terry Tornek said Monday he wasn’t ready to sign off on the new numbers; the council has only approved $152 million for the project so far.
“I want to express my unwillingness to accept $164.6 as the new normal,” Tornek said.
The plan, as currently proposed, would rely on an anticipated $19 million from Legacy Connections to help plug the funding gap but only $8 million in pledges have been raised so far, he said.
“You’re relying on $11 million dollars of future pledges that are conjectural,” Tornek said.
City Manager Michael Beck said the city would be defaulting on its contractual agreements with its tenants if it limited itself to building a $152 million project.
Tornek, however, suggested modifying those contractual obligations.
Councilman Chris Holden said there’s no way to know how feasible the proposal is until updated revenue projections are provided by Green in September.
City and RBOC officials “are trying really hard to keep this thing moving, even if it means taking out important pieces of the project to make sure they can cover it with revenue that would be produced from the project,” Holden, the committee’s chair, said Tuesday.
Councilwoman Margaret McAustin agreed, saying the revenue numbers will indicate how much debt the Rose Bowl would be able to support and how large the project could go.
“You can only borrow as much as you can afford to pay,” she said.
Meanwhile, Gordo has appointed three Rose Bowl Operating Co. members to an ad-hoc committee charged with overseeing a review of the renovation project.
Gordo named Paul Arevalo, West Hollywood’s city manager, Bill Cormier, who represents UCLA on the board, and Alex Aghajanian, an attorney with construction litigation experience who represents the Tournament of Roses, to the committee.
“It’s not about suspecting anything nefarious, it’s really learning from our own experience because we do have other projects as an institution that we need to carry out in the future,” Gordo told the Finance Committee.
But McAustin said Tuesday she’s not sure of the value or purpose of such a committee.
“To me, some of the problems are obvious. We don’t need a report that will just result in finger-pointing,” she said. “I’ll be interested to hear the scope of the report and really understand the purpose.”
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When Steve Sarkisian trusts his gut, USC fans…
When Steve Sarkisian trusts his gut, USC fans can expect the unexpected
Coach Steve Sarkisian shouts instructions. Football practice is in full swing on the Howard Jones Field at USC. Los Angeles, CA. 8/6/2014(Photo by John McCoy Daily News)
By Mark Whicker | mwhicker@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: August 8, 2014 at 1:53 pm | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 4:50 am
USC football has gotten past fire, rain, bowl ineligibility, scholarship cutbacks and Lane Kiffin.
Its fans are no longer bored by the Rose Bowl. Its recruits aren’t escaping NCAA jail to transfer elsewhere. Most of its important players, the ones who cruised up and down the field in the Las Vegas Bowl, are back.
This is renewal, a time to fill the Coliseum again, to keep up with hotshot recruits instead of coaching candidates.
The Trojans do so with Steve Sarkisian, the youngest of seven children, a committed ex-quarterback who played shortstop at USC for one semester, an ex-ex-quarterback when a junior college coach hounded him into playing.
And a guy who lost a stadium full of Brigham Young fans before he won them over again.
And a guy who endured three losing years in the Canadian Football League. And a guy who, given a chance to coach the Oakland Raiders at age 33, turned it down.
And a guy who found good money in a computer start-up and couldn’t wait to leave work so he could make no money coaching JC quarterbacks.
Some coaches have five and 10-year plans. Sarkisian, 40, has lived in a quick-pivoting sports car, not always using signals, barreling down the roads less traveled, looking straight ahead.
“I’m glad I took the path I took,” Sarkisian said recently, sitting in an assistant coach’s office at John McKay Center.
“I guess it would have seemed easier if I’d just come from high school to USC and walked into the situation and played quarterback here until I graduated. But it validated the trust I have in my gut.
“I’ve made a lot of decisions that might not make a lot of sense. But you can’t live life looking at the rear-view mirror. You’ve got to go for it.”
Pat Haden, USC’s athletic director, was a quarterback, too. He picked Sarkisian largely on feel. Sarkisian was 34-29 in five years at Washington, not bad considering the Huskies were 0-12 the year before he got there. But 34-29 cuts no ice at USC.
To some it seemed a “family” hire, since Sarkisian was the quarterback coach and then the co-offensive coordinator in Pete Carroll’s years. And Sarkisian fits the part, with the easy smile and banter that has distinguished the most popular USC coaches.
“The South Bay, where he’s from, is full of Trojan fans,” said John Featherstone, Sarkisian’s El Camino College coach.
But it is difficult to know what to expect because Sarkisian doesn’t know. Call it organized spontaneity.
Last year at Washington he adopted an up-tempo offense that he has brought to USC. Norm Chow was his offensive coordinator when Sarkisian played at BYU and coached at USC. He lived on his toes.
“We spend hours with these play sheets, these giant playbooks,” Sarkisian said. “Some guys call plays right off that sheet, depending on the situation. Others don’t look at it. Norm made a lot of calls from his gut. I think I’m somewhere in the middle on that.
“People ask when you should call a shot play downfield. I can’t tell you. You just know when the timing is right. You trust your preparation and your coaches, and you understand that the opposing coach is coaching, too. And the last decision can’t affect the next decision.”
Sarkisian’s independence came from home. The sixth child was five years older than Steve. “The other ones raised me,” Steve said, although his father Seb laughed and said, “Well, they raised him by giving him a hard time.”
Seb was born in Teheran, part of an Armenian family that was displaced. When he was 18 he went to Worcester Poly Tech in Boston, across from Fenway Park, and studied engineering. That’s also where he met his wife Sally. The first six children were born in Massachusetts, before they moved to the South Bay, and then Steve arrived.
“I always joke with them,” Steve said. “I tell them I’m not sure if I was planned or not.”
Seb ran auto parts stores and other businesses, then worked as an engineer at Rockwell. One of the stores was in Inglewood, and Steve would go to work with Seb and then play in the streets with local kids, in a neighborhood different from his own. That, Steve said, was the great thing about El Camino, which lured students from Hawthorne and Palos Verdes alike. His first roommate at BYU was African-American.
“I coached his soccer teams and after practice they’d play games,” Seb said. “Steve wouldn’t leave the field until he won. ‘One more, one more,’ he’d say. Drove us crazy but that’s when I knew he wasn’t interested in second place.”
Sarkisian played quarterback at West Torrance but wasn’t recruited by the majors. He could have gone to UC Davis, where Chris Petersen, his eventual successor at Washington, had played. But he wasn’t happy with football, and he was a good enough shortstop to get recruited by Mike Gillespie at USC.
“And he could have been a really good college player,” Gillespie said. But football lured him back in. That was 1992, when UCLA edged USC 38-37 in the “John Barnes game,” and Sarkisian watched it wistfully, from his dorm.
“Christmas came and my wife said, ‘Steve is here and wants to talk,’ and I said, ‘Oh, what now?’” Seb said. “He told me he wanted to play football at El Camino. I was disappointed but we’ve always let him make his decisions as long as they turn out right, which they have.”
Featherstone was ecstatic, especially when he learned Sarkisian would be in his health class.
“I had a football up there on the desk,” Featherstone said. ‘I’d say, ‘Steve, come on. Let’s go to practice today.’ He kept saying no, until the last day. It was like he never left. We were running option routes and he thrived. You can talk about big quarterbacks and fast quarterbacks. I’ve always wanted smart quarterbacks.”
In two seasons at El Camino, running the offense Featherstone and assistants Fred Peterson and Gene Engle installed, Sarkisian threw for 7,275 yards and 62 touchdowns. Against College of the Desert he threw for 645. Now the recruiters were buzzing, and Sarkisian went to BYU, following old friend John Walsh.
“It always seemed like the game was easy for me, then hard,” Sarkisian said. “It was hard in high school. It was easy at El Camino. It got hard again at BYU.”
Sarkisian was intercepted four times and sacked twice in an ugly 34-17 loss to rival Utah. He closed the season with a 31-for-34 performance, an NCAA record at the time, at Fresno State.
He stayed in Provo the next summer, became more connected. “I wasn’t the new guy anymore,” he said. In 1996 he led the NCAA in pass efficiency and BYU went 14-1, winning the Cotton Bowl.
He wasn’t drafted, so you’d figure Sarkisian would show up at an NFL camp. Instead he went to the Saskatechewan Roughriders, where the CFL field was too wide for his arm strength. “Everybody knew I’d be throwing inside the numbers,” he said with a smile.
Three years of that was enough. But, typically, he took something precious out of the rubble. “That was one of the last teams around,” he said, “that let you call your own plays.”
Sarkisian went home and got a job with KiKo, in Long Beach. “Knowledge In, Knowledge Out,” he said. The start-up paid well, but Featherstone recruited him again, to coach quarterbacks.
Eventually, Sarkisian chose the chalkboard over security. Or at least the illusion of it. “KiKo? They’re not around anymore,” he said.
His wife Stephanie got a job as a substitute teacher and Sarkisian learned to coach. In 2001 Carroll came to USC and hired Chow, who hired Sarkisian, who now got to work with Carson Palmer, who won a Heisman, as did Matt Leinart.
Sarkisian became a commodity. Oakland hired him as the QB coach in 2004, with Kiffin as the head coach. Then Sarkisian returned to USC as offensive coordinator. In 2007 Al Davis wanted to make him the Raiders’ head man, at age 33.
“We were at our house in the desert,” Seb said. “The phone reception isn’t that good, so I was going from room-to-room. Steve said something about coaching the Raiders and then turning it down. I kept saying, ‘What?’”
Back at USC, Sarkisian tutored John David Booty and Mark Sanchez, who won Rose Bowls. Washington called, and Sarkisian highlighted his first year with a seismic upset of USC, then four bowls the next four years.
Seb was on the Husky Stadium sideline for the Washington-USC game, as he will be at USC this year.
“This herd of kids came out of the stands to celebrate and I thought we were going to be run over,” he said. “It’s fun to be down there, depending on how the team does. Steve knows I’m there, but I don’t say anything. I’m too tense.”
Riding in the career coupe with Steve Sarkisian can be a white-knuckle experience. But the driver stays cool. In fact, he gets bigger cars.
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Written By Natasha Patidar | Mumbai | Published: July 13, 2017 12:07 IST
In spite of having terror threats thousands of Hindu devotees make an annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave every year
The cave shrine is situated at an altitude of 3,888 meters and the journey to the location also involves several 'life risks'
'Faith can move mountains'- the statement is evident by the fact that Amarnath Yatris return for pilgrimage every year despite several terror threats and challenging weather conditions. Amarnath cave, which is believed to be an abode of Lord Shiva, is a Hindu shrine located in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. As the cave is situated at an altitude of 3,888 meters, the journey to Amarnath includes a steep trek from Pahalgam town. During summer as the snow melts in the area, devotees head towards the location to get a glance of the frozen 'Shiva Linga' formed inside the cave. Science explains, the structure is a stalagmite which is formed as the water droplets freeze while falling from the roof of the cave. The trek is a difficult and not everyone manages to reach up to the location.
The cave which is situated in the lap of the Himalayan range is considered as one of the holiest shrines in Hinduism. Surrounded by snow covered mountains the cave itself remains ice-blocked for most of the year. As the ice melts during summer, the ice 'Shiva Linga' becomes visible. According to Hindu mythology, Amarnath is believed to be the place where Lord Shiva explained the secret of life and eternity to his wife Parvati. Moreover, the Hindu beliefs also claim that the 'Linga' grows and shrinks with the phases of the moon but the phenomenon is not backed by any scientific evidence.
The trek to Amarnath includes risk of life. Several people attempt to scale the height every year, but only a few of them manage to make it up to the cave. There are two major risk factors that claims hundreds of lives every year- the weather conditions and the terrorist attacks. The cave is located in Kashmir, that happens to be near the border of India and Pakistan and is often eyed by the terrorist groups.
The above timeline shows how terror failed to deter the pilgrims as thousand of pilgrims continue to visit the place every year.
Another risk factor is the weather. Heavy rains, shooting stones and landslides are very common in the mountains. In fact, every year several people die falling prey to sudden environmental changes and a lot of them are stuck in the mountains given the bad weather conditions. However, the risks couldn't surpass the faith of the devotees. Hundreds of people make an annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave across challenging mountainous terrain every year. In fact, as per media reports, there is a consistent increase in the number of people who are willing to scale the height every year.
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EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Report 2018
In this report, the EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) market is valued at USD XX million in 2017 and is expected to reach USD XX million by the end of 2025, growing at a CAGR of XX% between 2017 and 2025.
Geographically, this report split EMEA into Europe, the Middle East and Africa, With sales (K Units), revenue (Million USD), market share and growth rate of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) for these regions, from 2013 to 2025 (forecast)
EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) market competition by top manufacturers/players, with Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) sales volume (K Units), price (USD/Unit), revenue (Million USD) and market share for each manufacturer/player; the top players including
Mitsubishi Electric Corp
Medium Pressure
Inverter & UPS
Industrial System
1 Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Overview
1.1 Product Overview and Scope of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET)
1.2 Classification of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET)
1.2.1 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Size (Sales) Comparison by Type (2013-2025)
1.2.2 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Size (Sales) Market Share by Type (Product Category) in 2017
1.2.3 Low Pressure
1.2.4 Medium Pressure
1.3 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market by Application/End Users
1.3.1 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (Volume) and Market Share Comparison by Application (2013-2025)
1.3.2 Energy & Power
1.3.4 Inverter & UPS
1.3.5 Electric Vehicle
1.3.6 Industrial System
1.4 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market by Region
1.4.1 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Size (Value) Comparison by Region (2013-2025)
1.5 EMEA Market Size (Value and Volume) of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) (2013-2025)
1.5.1 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2025)
1.5.2 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue and Growth Rate (2013-2025)
2 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Competition by Manufacturers/Players/Suppliers, Region, Type and Application
2.1 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Competition by Players/Manufacturers
2.1.1 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume and Market Share of Major Players (2013-2018)
2.1.2 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue and Share by Players (2013-2018)
2.1.3 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sale Price by Players (2013-2018)
2.2 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) (Volume and Value) by Type/Product Category
2.2.1 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
2.2.2 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue and Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
2.2.3 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sale Price by Type (2013-2018)
2.3 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) (Volume) by Application
2.4 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) (Volume and Value) by Region
2.4.1 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
2.4.2 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue and Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
2.4.3 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Price by Region (2013-2018)
3 Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) (Volume, Value and Sales Price), by Players, Countries, Type and Application
3.1 Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Value (2013-2018)
3.1.1 Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
3.1.2 Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
3.2 Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Market Share by Type
3.3 Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Market Share by Application
3.4 Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume and Value (Revenue) by Countries
3.4.1 Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume by Countries (2013-2018)
3.4.2 Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue by Countries (2013-2018)
3.4.3 Germany Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
3.4.4 France Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
3.4.5 UK Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
3.4.6 Russia Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
3.4.7 Italy Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
3.4.8 Benelux Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
4 Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) (Volume, Value and Sales Price), by Region, Type and Application
4.1 Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Value (2013-2018)
4.1.1 Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
4.1.2 Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
4.2 Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Market Share by Type
4.3 Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Market Share by Application
4.4 Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume and Value (Revenue) by Countries
4.4.1 Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume by Countries (2013-2018)
4.4.2 Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue by Countries (2013-2018)
4.4.3 Saudi Arabia Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
4.4.4 Israel Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
4.4.5 UAE Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
4.4.6 Iran Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
5 Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) (Volume, Value and Sales Price) by Players, Countries, Type and Application
5.1 Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Value (2013-2018)
5.1.1 Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
5.1.2 Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
5.2 Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Market Share by Type
5.3 Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Market Share by Application
5.4 Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume and Value (Revenue) by Countries
5.4.1 Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume by Countries (2013-2018)
5.4.2 Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue by Countries (2013-2018)
5.4.3 South Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
5.4.4 Nigeria Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
5.4.5 Egypt Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
5.4.6 Algeria Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
6 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Manufacturers/Players Profiles and Sales Data
6.1 STMicroelectronics
6.1.2 Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Product Type, Application and Specification
6.1.3 STMicroelectronics Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
6.2 Toshiba Corporation
6.2.3 Toshiba Corporation Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
6.3 Mitsubishi Electric Corp
6.3.3 Mitsubishi Electric Corp Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
6.4 Fuji Electric
6.4.3 Fuji Electric Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
6.5 ROHM Semiconductor
6.5.3 ROHM Semiconductor Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
6.6 NXP Semiconductors
6.6.3 NXP Semiconductors Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
6.7 Vishay
6.7.3 Vishay Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
7 Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Manufacturing Cost Analysis
7.1 Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Key Raw Materials Analysis
7.3 Manufacturing Process Analysis of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET)
8.1 Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Industrial Chain Analysis
8.3 Raw Materials Sources of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Major Manufacturers in 2017
11 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Forecast (2018-2025)
11.1 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales, Revenue and Price Forecast (2018-2025)
11.1.1 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales and Growth Rate Forecast (2018-2025)
11.1.2 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2018-2025)
11.1.3 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Price and Trend Forecast (2018-2025)
11.2 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast by Region (2018-2025)
11.3 Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast by Region (2018-2025)
11.4 Middle Eastt Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast by Region (2018-2025)
11.5 Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast by Region (2018-2025)
11.6 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Forecast by Type (2018-2025)
11.7 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Forecast by Application (2018-2025)
Figure Product Picture of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET)
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume (K Units) by Type (2013-2025)
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume Market Share by Type (Product Category) in 2017
Figure Low Pressure Product Picture
Figure Medium Pressure Product Picture
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume (K Units) by Application (2013-2025)
Figure EMEA Sales Market Share of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) by Application in 2017
Figure Energy & Power Examples
Table Key Downstream Customer in Energy & Power
Figure Consumer Electronics Examples
Table Key Downstream Customer in Consumer Electronics
Figure Inverter & UPS Examples
Table Key Downstream Customer in Inverter & UPS
Figure Electric Vehicle Examples
Table Key Downstream Customer in Electric Vehicle
Figure Industrial System Examples
Table Key Downstream Customer in Industrial System
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Size (Million USD) by Region (2013-2025)
Figure Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) and Growth Rate (2013-2025)
Figure Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) Status and Forecast by Countries
Figure Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) and Growth Rate (2013-2025)
Figure Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) Status and Forecast by Countries
Figure Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) and Growth Rate (2013-2025)
Figure Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) Status and Forecast by Countries
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume and Growth Rate (2013-2025)
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) and Growth Rate (2013-2025)
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Major Players Product Sales Volume (K Units) (2013-2018)
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume (K Units) of Major Players (2013-2018)
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Share by Players (2013-2018)
Figure 2017 Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Share by Players
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Major Players Product Revenue (Million USD) (2013-2018)
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) by Players (2013-2018)
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Share by Players (2013-2018)
Table 2017 EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Share by Players
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sale Price (USD/Unit) by Players (2013-2018)
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Share by Type (2013-2018)
Figure Sales Market Share of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) by Type (2013-2018)
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) and Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Share by Type (2013-2018)
Figure Revenue Market Share of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) by Type in 2017
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sale Price (USD/Unit) by Type (2013-2018)
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Market Share by Application (2013-2018)
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Share by Application (2013-2018)
Figure Sales Market Share of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) by Application (2013-2018)
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share by Application in 2017
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Share by Region (2013-2018)
Figure Sales Market Share of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) by Region (2013-2018)
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share in 2017
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) and Market Share by Region (2013-2018)
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Share by Region (2013-2018)
Figure Revenue Market Share of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) by Region (2013-2018)
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share Regions in 2017
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Price (USD/Unit) by Region (2013-2018)
Figure Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Table Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) by Type (2013-2018)
Table Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
Figure Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Share by Type in 2017
Table Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) by Application (2013-2018)
Table Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Share by Application (2013-2018)
Figure Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Share by Application in 2017
Table Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) by Countries (2013-2018)
Table Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share by Countries (2013-2018)
Figure Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share by Countries (2013-2018)
Figure Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share by Countries in 2017
Table Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) by Countries (2013-2018)
Table Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share by Countries (2013-2018)
Figure Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share by Countries (2013-2018)
Figure Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2017
Figure Germany Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure France Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure UK Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Russia Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Italy Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Benelux Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Table Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) by Type (2013-2018)
Table Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
Figure Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
Table Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) by Applications (2013-2018)
Table Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Market Share by Applications (2013-2018)
Figure Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share by Application in 2017
Table Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume (K Units) by Countries (2013-2018)
Table Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume Market Share by Countries (2013-2018)
Figure Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume Market Share by Countries in 2017
Table Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) by Countries (2013-2018)
Table Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share by Countries (2013-2018)
Figure Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share by Countries (2013-2018)
Figure Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2017
Figure Saudi Arabia Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Israel Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure UAE Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Iran Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Table Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) by Type (2013-2018)
Table Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
Figure Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share by Type (2013-2018)
Figure Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share by Type in 2017
Table Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) by Application (2013-2018)
Table Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share by Application (2013-2018)
Figure Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share by Application (2013-2018)
Table Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Volume (K Units) by Countries (2013-2018)
Table Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share by Countries (2013-2018)
Figure Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share by Countries (2013-2018)
Figure Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share by Countries in 2017
Table Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) by Countries (2013-2018)
Table Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share by Countries (2013-2018)
Figure Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share by Countries (2013-2018)
Figure Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share by Countries in 2017
Figure South Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Nigeria Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Egypt Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Algeria Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Table STMicroelectronics Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Basic Information List
Table STMicroelectronics Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Figure STMicroelectronics Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure STMicroelectronics Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share in EMEA (2013-2018)
Figure STMicroelectronics Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share in EMEA (2013-2018)
Table Toshiba Corporation Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Basic Information List
Table Toshiba Corporation Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Figure Toshiba Corporation Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Toshiba Corporation Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share in EMEA (2013-2018)
Figure Toshiba Corporation Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share in EMEA (2013-2018)
Table Mitsubishi Electric Corp Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Basic Information List
Table Mitsubishi Electric Corp Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Figure Mitsubishi Electric Corp Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Mitsubishi Electric Corp Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share in EMEA (2013-2018)
Figure Mitsubishi Electric Corp Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share in EMEA (2013-2018)
Table Fuji Electric Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Basic Information List
Table Fuji Electric Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Figure Fuji Electric Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Fuji Electric Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share in EMEA (2013-2018)
Figure Fuji Electric Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share in EMEA (2013-2018)
Table ROHM Semiconductor Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Basic Information List
Table ROHM Semiconductor Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Figure ROHM Semiconductor Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure ROHM Semiconductor Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share in EMEA (2013-2018)
Figure ROHM Semiconductor Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share in EMEA (2013-2018)
Table NXP Semiconductors Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Basic Information List
Table NXP Semiconductors Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Figure NXP Semiconductors Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure NXP Semiconductors Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share in EMEA (2013-2018)
Figure NXP Semiconductors Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share in EMEA (2013-2018)
Table Vishay Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Basic Information List
Table Vishay Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units), Revenue (Million USD), Price (USD/Unit) and Gross Margin (2013-2018)
Figure Vishay Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate (2013-2018)
Figure Vishay Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share in EMEA (2013-2018)
Figure Vishay Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share in EMEA (2013-2018)
Figure Manufacturing Cost Structure of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET)
Figure Manufacturing Process Analysis of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET)
Figure Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Industrial Chain Analysis
Table Raw Materials Sources of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Major Manufacturers in 2017
Table Major Buyers of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET)
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) and Growth Rate Forecast (2018-2025)
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2018-2025)
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Price (USD/Unit) and Trend Forecast (2018-2025)
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) Forecast by Region (2018-2025)
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share Forecast by Region (2018-2025)
Table EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) Forecast by Region (2018-2025)
Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share Forecast by Region (2018-2025)
Table Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) Forecast by Countries (2018-2025)
Figure Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share Forecast by Countries (2018-2025)
Table Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) Forecast by Countries (2018-2025)
Figure Europe Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share Forecast by Countries (2018-2025)
Table Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) Forecast by Countries (2018-2025)
Figure Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share Forecast by Countries (2018-2025)
Table Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) Forecast by Countries (2018-2025)
Figure Middle East Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share Forecast by Countries (2018-2025)
Table Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales (K Units) Forecast by Countries (2018-2025)
Figure Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share Forecast by Countries (2018-2025)
Table Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue (Million USD) Forecast by Countries (2018-2025)
Figure Africa Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Revenue Market Share Forecast by Countries (2018-2025)
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Figure EMEA Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) Sales Market Share Forecast by Type (2018-2025)
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Research Trends -
Issue 33 - June 2013
June 2013 - Dr. Lutz Bornmann & Dr. Werner Marx
The use of assessment reports to generate and measure societal impact of research
Since the 1990s, research evaluation has been extended to include measures of the (1) social, (2) cultural, (3) environmental and (4) economic returns from publicly funded research. The best known national evaluation system in the world is without a doubt the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), which has evaluated research in the UK since the 1980s. It is due to be replaced by the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in 2014. The REF defines research impact as “... the social, economic, environmental and/or cultural benefit of research to end users in the wider community regionally, nationally, and/or internationally” (1). In the new REF, research impact on society will not only be quantified, but expert panels will also review narrative evidence in case studies supported by the appropriate indicators (informed peer review).
Scientific impact measurement is carried out using a number of established methods (such as the statistical analysis of bibliometric data), which undergo continual development, and is supported by a dedicated community. Research on societal impact measurement is still in its infancy: so far, it does not have its own community with conferences and journals. Godin and Dore see research on the measurement of societal impact as being at the stage where the measurement of research and development (R&D) was in the early 1960s (2). Even though no robust or reliable methods for measuring societal impact have yet been developed, societal impact is already measured in terms of its budget relevance (or will be in the near future). In the REF, 20% of the evaluation of a research unit for the purpose of allocations will be determined by the societal influence dimension (65% by research output and 15% by environment). This uneven relationship between research and practice is astonishing when one considers how long it has taken for the methods for measuring scientific impact to develop sufficiently to reach the stage of budget-relevant practice.
The lack of an accepted and standardized framework for evaluating societal impact has resulted in the "case studies" approach being preferred, not only by the planned REF, but also in other evaluation contexts (3). Although this method is very labor-intensive and very much a ‘craft activity’ (4), it is currently considered the best method. Other approaches such as the "payback framework" are, however, similarly or even more laborious (5). We have developed an approach which, unlike the case study approach (and others), is relatively simple, can be used in almost every subject area and delivers results regarding societal impact which can be compared between disciplines (6). Our approach to societal impact starts with the actual function of science in society: to generate reliable knowledge. Robert K. Merton, who founded the modern sociology of science, used the term communalism to describe one of the norms of science: that scientific knowledge should be considered "public knowledge" and should be communicated not only to other scientists and students, but also to society at large (7).
That is why a document which we would like to refer to as an assessment report, summarizing the status of the research on a certain subject, represents knowledge which is available for society to access. A summary like this should be couched in generally understandable terms so that readers who are not familiar with the subject area or the scientific discipline can make sense of it. Assessment reports can be seen as part of the secondary literature of science, which has up to now drawn on review journals, monographs, handbooks and textbooks (primary literature is made up of the publications of the original research literature). They would be items of communal knowledge made available to society. To ensure that they are of high quality, they should be written by scientists (specialists in their field) and should undergo peer review to determine their correctness. The reviewers are asked to recommend the publication or rejection of the report and possibly formulate suggestions for improvement to the submitted work (8). Since the report will be read by scientists from other fields and non-scientists, it should be reviewed not only by an expert in the field but also by a stakeholder from the government, the industry or an advice centre.
What is an assessment report?
It can be produced for almost every discipline
It summarizes the status of research for those outside of the expert community
It should be written by scientists (specialists in their field), reflect above all research excellence and undergo peer review to determine its quality
It could be narrative reviews reporting on just the research results from the primary literature. For subjects in which effect sizes are available in empirical studies, on the other hand, it would be possible to carry out meta-analyses (the statistical analysis of a large collection of analysis results from individual studies)
It should be couched in generally understandable terms so that readers who are not familiar with the subject area or the scientific discipline (e.g. stakeholders from government, industry or an advice centre) can make sense of it
It could be produced separately, or be integrated as part of literature reviews written for the scientific community (as sections summing up the situation for those outside of the community)
In order to establish the assessment report as a service provided by science for society, it would be important firstly for research funders to make the production of assessment reports obligatory, and secondly that when research is evaluated (by institutes, research groups and individuals) assessment reports are regarded as content for society to generate societal impact
Societal impact is given when the content of an assessment report is addressed outside of science (in a government document, for example). This can be verified with tools which measure the attention that academic papers receive online (for example, Altmetric or ImpactStory).
Societal impact of research is obtained when the content of a report is addressed outside of science (in a government document, for example). This can be verified with tools which measure the attention that academic papers receive online. Altmetric, for example, captures hundreds of thousands of tweets, blog posts, news stories and other pieces of content that mention academic documents. In Scopus, the Elsevier literature database, it is possible to display not only the extent of the scientific impact, but also that of the societal impact of individual publications. This type of societal impact measurement would be carried out in a similar way as the measurement of scientific impact. In other words this would mean applying an established and successful method of measuring scientific impact (the analysis of citations in scientific publications) to the measurement of societal impact, which has clear benefits. For tools like Altmetric, citations should ideally be classified and weighted: for example, a citation by a member of the president’s council of economic advisors should have a different weight than a mention in a random blog post.
The assessment reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are a good example of public knowledge which aims to generate societal impact from one subject area. This panel was founded in 1988 by UNEP, the United Nations Environmental Program, and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to summarize the status of climate research for political decision-makers. Its main function is to assess the risks and consequences of global warming to the environment and to society and to develop strategies to avoid it. Climate research is exceptional in that it is a strongly interdisciplinary field like almost no other and encompasses many of the Natural Sciences, such as Biological and Environmental Sciences, Atmospheric Chemistry, Meteorology and Geophysics. There are many points at which they intersect with Politics and Economics. With a broad focus in many fields and a rapidly expanding volume of publications, this area of research has become confusing even for insiders; it requires processing and summarizing to allow the results to be used outside of science and make them available for implementation in the form of policies. Working groups involving numerous scientists collate the results of research for the assessment report at regular intervals. The goal is a coherent representation of the research. As the reports reflect the current consensus of science on climate change, they have become the most important basis for scientific discussion and political decisions in this area. The scientific impact of the IPCC reports can be measured by using citations in scientific publications (such as the Web of Science and Scopus literature databases). The societal impact can be quantified with tools such as Altmetric (see above).
Measuring scientific impact with citations in journal papers can be used to great effect in the Physical and Life Sciences but hardly at all in Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities. An assessment report, on the other hand, can be produced for almost every discipline and its societal impact can be clearly measured. Since Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities are disciplines where impact is generally very difficult to measure, assessment reports offer the advantage of reporting not only on journal papers and monographs, but also on exhibitions and art objects. In our view, it is of fundamental importance that an assessment report reflects above all research excellence in the subject area. Thus, only publications which have been previously subjected to peer review should be included in an assessment report. For certain issues or in certain subject areas, it could be helpful if the reports for society were not produced separately, but integrated as part of the literature reviews written for the scientific community. This could be done in sections summing up the situation for those outside of the community (as a sort of comprehensive layman’s summary).
Although in many countries there is a wish (and a will) to measure societal impact, “it is not clear how to evaluate societal quality, especially for basic and strategic research” (9). In many studies in which societal impact has been measured, it is more often postulated than demonstrated by research. With the breadth of subject matter and complex content of the challenges facing society today (such as population growth or environmental pollution), the demand for available information to be summarized and evaluated for social and political purposes is rising. We have presented an approach with which the societal impact of research outcomes can be initiated and measured (6). We suggest that, as with the IPCC, assessment reports are written on certain research subjects which summarize the status of the research for those outside of the expert community. Tools such as Altmetric can verify the extent to which the assessment reports generate an impact. It would be desirable if these tools were to search through documents for citations used in various contexts for decisions, such as documents from governmental bodies, advisory bodies and consumer organizations.
(1) RQF development advisory group (2006) Research quality framework: assessing the quality and impact of research in Australia. The recommended RQF (report by the RQF development advisory group). Canberra, Australia: Department of Education, Science and Training.
(2) Godin, B., & Dore, C. (2005) Measuring the impacts of science; beyond the economic dimension, INRS Urbanisation, Culture et Société. Paper presented at the HIST Lecture, Helsinki Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Helsinki, Finland. Available at: http://www.csiic.ca/PDF/Godin_Dore_Impacts.pdf
(3) Bornmann, L. (2012). Measuring the societal impact of research. EMBO Reports, Vol. 13, No. 8, pp. 673-676.
(4) Martin, B. R. (2011) “The Research Excellence Framework and the 'impact agenda': are we creating a Frankenstein monster?”, Research Evaluation, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 247-254.
(5) Bornmann, L. (2013) “What is societal impact of research and how can it be assessed? A literature survey”, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 217-233.
(6) Bornmann, L., & Marx, W. (in press) “How should the societal impact of research be generated and measured? A proposal for a simple and practicable approach to allow interdisciplinary comparisons”, Scientometrics.
(7) Merton, R. K. (1973) The sociology of science: theoretical and empirical investigations. Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press.
(8) Bornmann, L. (2011) “Scientific peer review”, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Vol. 45, pp. 199-245.
(9) van der Meulen, B., & Rip, A. (2000) “Evaluation of societal quality of public sector research in the Netherlands”, Research Evaluation, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 11-25.
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January 24, 2011 / 7:38 PM / 8 years ago
Christina Aguilera to sing Super Bowl national anthem
Singer Christina Aguilera performs at the 2008 American Music Awards in Los Angeles November 23, 2008. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Christina Aguilera will sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl on February 6, Fox television and the National Football League announced on Monday.
“I have been performing the anthem since I was seven years old and I must say the Super Bowl is a dream come true,” the five-time Grammy award winning singer-songwriter said in a statement. “I am really excited to be part of such an iconic event.”
Aguilera, who made her movie debut in December as the star of the musical “Burlesque” and began singing professionally as a teenager, previously performed at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2000.
The performers at this year’s halftime show will be The Black Eyed Peas.
The Pittsburgh Steelers will take on the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl in Dallas on February 6. The game is the most-watched event annually on U.S. television and last year drew more than 153 million viewers.
Editing by Jill Serjeant
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Investment firm founder charged with trying to defraud NBA union
Jessica Dye
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The founder and managing director of Prim Capital Corporation has been charged with attempting to defraud the National Basketball Association players’ union out of $3 million with a bogus contract, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said.
A complaint unsealed on Thursday charges Ohio-based Prim Capital founder Joseph Lombardo, 72, with attempted wire fraud, attempted mail fraud and obstruction of justice.
Carolyn Kaufman, 72, who served as president of Prim’s advisory services component, was charged with obstructing justice.
From 2001 until 2013, Prim Capital served as the primary outside investment advisory firm handling the investments and finances for the New York-based National Basketball Players Association, the union representing NBA players.
Prim, described on its website as a boutique investment banking firm, managed up to $250 million of the NBPA’s assets, reviewed individual players’ investments and conducted financial seminars for players, federal prosecutors said.
Prim was asked to turn over copies of its agreements with the NBPA in 2012 as part of a probe by the U.S. Department of Labor into potential criminal activity at the union, according to the complaint.
In response it produced an agreement showing the firm’s fees were $350,000 per year.
Several months later, the firm produced another contract listing the firm’s annual fee at $602,000 for a five-year term, prosecutors said.
But an investigation showed that a signature from former NBPA general counsel, Gary Hall, on the contract had been forged months after his death, prosecutors said. Another signature on the contract was allegedly forged as well, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Lombardo and Kaufman are charged with trying to thwart a grand jury investigation and giving false testimony.
“As alleged, Joseph Lombardo faked the signature of a dead man as part of manufacturing a multi-million dollar contract out of whole cloth that, had it been enforced, would have caused significant losses for basketball players who entrusted him with their savings,” U.S. attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. “And together with his partner in crime, Carolyn Kaufman, he allegedly lied about it to a federal grand jury.”
Lombardo and Kaufman were arrested at their residences in Ohio on Thursday, and will make their initial appearances in Manhattan federal court on May 2, according to the Manhattan prosecutor’s office.
Lombardo faces up to 20 years on each fraud charge. He and Kaufman face up to 20 years on the obstruction of justice charge.
A lawyer who represented Lombardo and Kaufman during a court hearing in Ohio was not immediately available for comment Thursday evening. Prim Capital and the NBPA did not immediately return requests for comment.
Reporting by Jessica Dye; editing by Xavier Briand
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Even The Taliban Questions Afghan Media Ban
By Abubakar Siddique
The Afghan government is attempting to regulate the media
An unlikely voice has joined the chorus of criticism directed against the Afghan government's commitment to civil liberties -- the Taliban.
In a statement issued on March 3, the Taliban said it considers the Afghan government's March 2 decision to ban live war coverage, on the basis that militants were using it to their tactical advantage on the battlefield, "a flagrant violation of the recognized principle of freedom of speech."
"The monopolization of activities of independent mass media outlets by the Kabul Puppet Administration is a clear-cut violation of norms and regulation of neutrality, independence, and liberty of speech and has no justification in the light of national and international laws," the statement continued.
In releasing the statement, the group renowned for its oppressive rule over Afghanistan, added its own unique take to the upbraiding and expressions of concern Kabul has received from media watchdogs and foreign officials.
It also put itself in direct competition with Kabul's efforts to regulate the media, lauding "the courageous efforts of the fact-finding and investigative journalists, reporters, and photographers who continue their duty to reflect the ground realities of the Afghan issue despite threats and obstacles that they are facing in their way."
Farida Nekzad, editor of the Kabul-based Wakht News Agency, was among the representatives of Afghan media outlets summoned this week to the headquarters of the Afghan intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security (NDS).
In what she described as a "friendly" atmosphere, Nekzad was informed by a senior intelligence official that she and her fellow journalists in the country would be working under severe restrictions when it comes to reporting on the ongoing insurgency. "He said that the electronic media should be very careful while covering suicide attacks, or the type of attack we recently witnessed," she says.
Nekzad adds that she was told that the media should not provide live coverage of insurgent attacks "because it raises concerns among people, [and that] insurgents or terrorists can benefit from such coverage."
In officially announcing the decision during a press conference later that day, presidential spokesman Wahid Omar addressed rapidly increasing criticism of the move at home and abroad by saying the new guidelines had not yet been drawn up, and promising they would not amount to "censorship."
But many among the Afghan media remain unconvinced, and suggestions abound that ulterior motives are at play.
Some suggest it is obvious that the Afghan government wants to have an upper hand in the propaganda war against insurgents, and is increasingly unnerved by the coverage and criticism of Afghanistan's mushrooming media outlets.
'Concerns'
Some argue that the ban, which comes just weeks after President Hamid Karzai took control of an Afghan electoral watchdog, shows that he now seeks to tame a media whose rapid expansion has meant it has outgrown the government's control.
The argument goes that Karzai, still struggling to gain parliamentary approval for his cabinet, might be particularly concerned about the protecting his government's image with parliamentary elections slated for this fall.
Editor Nekzad, who is also vice president of the South Asia Media Commission -- a regional body that promotes press freedom -- says that the situation in Afghanistan is fragile. "These kinds of signals raise concerns," she tells RFE/RL.
"I think these are the restrictions that begin with requests and suggestions but eventually might have very serious consequences for the journalists. I don't see a good year ahead for the journalists."
During his March 2 press conference, presidential spokesman Omar said the ban was necessitated by the discovery that militants have been using televised coverage of battles to their tactical advantage, "and this has caused serious threat to everybody."
Coordinated suicide attacks in Kabul that targeted guests houses frequented by foreigners is cited as the leading example of insurgents using live coverage of the attacks to alter their tactics on the ground. Sixteen people, including nine Indians, an Italian diplomat, and a French filmmaker were killed in the course of the attacks and ensuing gun-battles.
Saeed Ansari, a spokesman for the NDS, claims that live footage from the nearly two-hour long carnage provided insurgents a window into the countermeasures being taken by Afghan security forces. "Live coverage does not benefit the government, but benefits the enemies of Afghanistan," he says.
Ansari says that from now on journalists would only be allowed to film the aftermath of attacks after securing permission from the NDS. Afghan authorities have conveyed to journalists that it might invoke a national security law to detain journalists or seize the equipment of journalists who violate the ban.
This has led to worries within the Afghan media that the ban will deprive people from up-to-date information about security while the attacks are under way, particularly in large sprawling cities like Kabul where a lack of timely information will only add to the chaos.
International media watchdogs agree. "It is for news organizations to determine whether it is safe for their staff to report," Robert Mahoney, deputy director of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said in a statement on March 2. "The Afghan authorities should allow reporters to work freely and clarify whether it is considering restrictions on broadcast coverage."
Washington has indicated that it will raise the issue with Kabul. Talking to journalists yesterday, U.S. President Barak Obama's special Richard Holbrooke said that they "don’t like restrictions" on the press. "I and the [U.S.] Secretary of State [Hilary Clinton] are concerned and we will make our support of free access by the press clear to the [Afghan] government," he said.
Kabul already is sending signs that it might soften the ban, leading some observers to see an avenue for the government and the media to work out an arrangement similar to that in neighboring Pakistan. Last November eight major television news networks in that country agreed to adhere to a voluntary code of conduct on how to cover terrorism.
Abubakar Siddique
Abubakar Siddique is editor of RFE/RL's Gandhara website.
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Casio America, Inc. Named As A Winner Of The 25th Annual MMR Dealers' Choice Award
Casio Digital Piano Line Recognized for Pro Digital Piano Line of the Year
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Dec 07, 2017, 09:00 ET
DOVER, N.J., Dec. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Casio America, Inc. is excited to announce that it has been named a winner in the 25th Annual Musical Merchandise Review (MMR) Dealers' Choice Awards for Pro Digital Piano Line of the Year. With innovative features, authentic piano feel, and uncompromised sound quality, Casio's digital pianos deliver brilliant performance and incredible functionality for musicians who want to recreate the sound and feel of a grand piano on the go, on stage, or at home.
Casio's Privia and CELVIANO lines honored with MMR Dealers' Choice Award.
"Pro Digital Keyboard Line of the year was a hotly contested category this year. Casio snuck by the competition, though, taking home the 2017 MMR Dealers' Choice Award trophy as dealers pointed to the company's commitment to innovation and value as the main reasons," said Christian Wissmuller, Executive Editor, MMR. "If you still think of those fun little keyboards from the '80s when someone says 'Casio,' it's time to update your reality. These days the company is producing some of the finest, feature-rich keyboard consoles out there and both consumers and MI retailers have been taking notice for years."
Casio's Privia and CELVIANO lines are the hallmarks of its digital piano offerings. The popular Privia line includes modern home pianos and professional stage instruments, while Casio's CELVIANO line of digital pianos – in particular, its series of Grand Hybrid Pianos combine the advantages of both digital and acoustic pianos while delivering the performance of a grand piano in tone, keyboard quality and playing response.
"This award means so much to us at Casio. To be honored by our dealers means that we are delivering on our commitment to develop products that meet the needs of today's musicians," said Stephen Schmidt, Vice President of Casio's Electronic Musical Instrument Division. "We want to thank everyone who chose Casio for this honor, and rest assured that we will continue to raise the bar for digital piano technology and create instruments that musicians of any experience level will love."
For 25 years, readers of MMR have selected the top instruments across an array of categories, honoring those companies which have designed, produced, and marketed gear that has resonated most with end-users and generated sales and profit for retailers. Winners of the MMR Dealers Choice Award are highlighted in the December 2017 issue of MMR. Additionally, Casio will be presented an award for this outstanding win at its booth during the 2018 Winter NAMM show.
To learn more about Casio's full portfolio of electronic musical instruments, please visit www.casiomusicgear.com.
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Casio America, Inc., Dover, N.J., is the U.S. subsidiary of Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics and business equipment solutions. Established in 1957, Casio America, Inc. markets calculators, keyboards, digital cameras, mobile presentation devices, disc title and label printers, watches, cash registers and other consumer electronic products. Casio has strived to fulfill its corporate creed of "creativity and contribution" through the introduction of innovative and imaginative products. For more information, visit www.casiousa.com.
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Mumbai: The Plot Unfolds, Lashkar Strikes and Investigators Scramble
Sajid Mir, a mysterious Lashkar chief with close ties to Pakistani security forces, American David Coleman Headley to scout hotels and other targets in Mumbai where foreigners are likely to be found. During the attack, Mir's voice is heard on intercepted phone calls urging the gunmen to kill.
Nov. 14, 2010, 10:36 p.m. EST
This is the second part of our investigation into the plot behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Read the first part. Both were co-published with the Washington Post.
David Coleman Headley seemed like a gregarious, high-rolling American businessman when he set up shop in Mumbai in September 2006.
He opened the office of an immigration consulting firm. He partied at swank locales such as the ornate Taj Mahal Hotel, a 1903 landmark favored by Westerners and the Indian elite. He joined an upscale gym, where he befriended a Bollywood actor. He roamed the booming, squalid city taking photos and shooting video.
But it was all a front. The tall, fast-talking Pakistani American with the slicked-back hair was a fierce extremist, a former drug dealer, a onetime Drug Enforcement Administration informant who became a double agent. He had spent three years refining his clandestine skills in the terrorist training camps of the Lashkar-i-Taiba militant group. As Headley confessed in a guilty plea in U.S. federal court this year, he was in Mumbai to begin undercover reconnaissance for a sophisticated attack that would take two years to plan.
In 2006, U.S. counterterrorism agencies still viewed Lashkar primarily as a threat to India. But Headley’s mentor, Sajid Mir, had widened his sights to Western targets years earlier. Mir, a mysterious Lashkar chief with close ties to Pakistani security forces, had deployed operatives who had completed missions and attempted plots in Virginia, Europe and Australia before being captured, according to investigators and court documents.
Now Mir’s experience in international operations and his skills as a handler of Western recruits were about to pay off. Lashkar had chosen him as project manager of its most ambitious, highly choreographed strike to date.
Pedestrains walk past Leopold Cafe, the first target of the Islamist attacks in Mumbai, India, on Nov. 30, 2008. (Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images)
Mir’s ally in the plot was a man known to Headley only as Maj. Iqbal, who investigators suspect was an officer of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) and a liaison to the Lashkar terrorist group. Iqbal is a common Pakistani last name, and investigators have not been able to fully identify him. Maj. Iqbal and Mir worked as handlers for Headley, their lead scout, during his missions in India, according to investigators and court documents.
The iconic Taj hotel was the centerpiece of the plan. When Headley returned to Pakistan after his first scouting trip to Mumbai, Mir told him he needed more images and also schedules for the hotel’s conference rooms and ballroom, which often hosted high-powered events, according to investigators and court documents.
“They thought it would be a good place to get valuable hostages,” an Indian anti-terrorism official said.
ProPublica has tracked the rise of Lashkar through Mir’s career as a holy warrior. It is a story of a militant group that used political clout and support from Pakistani security forces to develop global reach and formidable tradecraft, according to investigators and court documents. It is also a story of how, despite a series of warning signs, anti-terrorism agencies were caught off-guard when Lashkar escalated its war on the West with a 2008 attack on Mumbai that targeted Americans, Europeans and Jews as well as Indians.
Mir convicted in Paris
As Mir and Headley plotted in 2006, French investigators were confronting the potential dimensions of the threat posed by Lashkar, a longtime al-Qaeda ally founded in the late 1980s and used by Pakistan as a proxy army in the fight against India for the Kashmir region.
France’s top counterterrorism magistrate, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, had spent three years investigating Mir after one of Mir’s French operatives, Willie Brigitte, was arrested in a foiled bomb plot in Australia. Brigitte gave a long confession identifying Mir as his Lashkar handler, describing him as a figure whose influential connections made him “untouchable in Pakistan.” With the help of foreign investigators, Bruguiere built a case that Mir was a kingpin leading terrorist operations on four continents.
The evidence also convinced Bruguiere that Mir was an officer in the Pakistani army or the ISI, a branch of the military. This point is murky: Senior European and U.S. counterterrorism officials concur with the French judge, but some U.S. investigators do not think Mir was in the military. Pakistani officials say they have no information on Mir or Maj. Iqbal and deny any role of the security forces in terrorism.
In October 2006, two years before the Mumbai attacks, Bruguiere issued an arrest warrant for Mir that was circulated worldwide by Interpol. There was no response from Pakistan.
A Paris court convicted Mir in absentia and sentenced him to 10 years in prison in 2007. Nonetheless, Bruguiere says most Western investigators he dealt with continued to view Lashkar as a regional actor confined to South Asia.
“For me it was a crucial case, a turning point,” Bruguiere said, “because of what it revealed about the role played by Pakistani groups in the global jihad and about the role of the Pakistani security forces in terrorism. We had the impression that Mir was protected at the highest levels of the state.”
In summer 2007, Bruguiere met at the White House with a top security adviser to President George W. Bush. The French judge shared his fears about Lashkar and his suspicion that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was playing a “double game.” (Musharraf has asserted publicly that he was a staunch ally in the fight against terrorism.)
Bruguiere said the White House official, whom he declined to identify publicly, did not seem convinced.
“The U.S. government is a huge machine,” said Bruguiere, who is now the European Union’s envoy to Washington in efforts against terrorism financing. “It’s difficult to make it change course.”
In 2007, Headley carried out two more reconnaissance missions.
Before and after each trip, he met with Mir and Maj. Iqbal in Pakistani safe houses, turning over photos, videos and notes, according to investigators and U.S. court documents. At one point, Mir showed Headley a plastic-foam model of the Taj that had been built using the information Headley had gathered, according to investigators and documents.
Mir focused Headley on terrorism targets around India. Maj. Iqbal directed him to also collect military intelligence, according to officials and documents.
Police vehicles patrol as the ongoing security operation continues outside the Oberoi Trident Hotel in Mumbai, India, on Nov. 27, 2008. (Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images)
Headley’s work was complicated by a tangled personal life that got him in trouble again in December 2007. His estranged fourth wife, a Moroccan, told officials at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad that she believed he was a terrorist. She made references to training and suicide bombings and described his frequent travel to Mumbai, including her stays with him at the Taj hotel, U.S. law enforcement officials say.
But U.S. agents at the embassy decided the woman’s account lacked specifics. Headley continued to roam free.
As the plot took shape in 2008, the FBI and CIA began hearing chatter about Lashkar. The agencies warned India at least three times about threats to Mumbai. The intelligence may have come from communications intercepts or sources in Pakistan. But privately, some U.S and Indian anti-terrorism officials express suspicion that U.S. agencies were tracking Headley’s movements and picking up bits and pieces about the plot without realizing he was deeply involved.
U.S. intelligence officials say they did not warn the Indians about Headley because they did not connect him to terrorism until months after the attacks. Although they say Headley was no longer working as a DEA informant by early 2008, it isn’t clear when that relationship ended or whether it evolved into intelligence-gathering. The CIA and the FBI say Headley never worked for them.
In April 2008, Headley’s Moroccan wife returned to the embassy in Islamabad with another tip. She warned that her husband was on “a special mission.” She also linked him to a 2007 train bombing in India that had killed 68 people and that India and the United States blamed on Lashkar, U.S. officials say. Authorities have not implicated Headley in that still-unsolved attack, however.
It is not known how the U.S. Embassy personnel responded to the wife’s allegations, but a federal official said the FBI did not receive the information until after the attack. Headley returned to Mumbai on a fourth scouting mission in May. He went on boat tours, using a GPS device that Mir gave him to assess landing sites for an amphibious attack, court documents say.
That same month, U.S. agencies alerted India that intelligence suggested Lashkar was planning to attack the Taj and other sites frequented by foreigners and Americans, according to U.S. and Indian anti-terrorism officials.
The group also considered hitting the U.S. Consulate in Mumbai. Indian and U.S. investigators say another accused Lashkar scout had a map identifying the consulate along with other targets that were ultimately attacked.
Mir and the other Pakistani masterminds decided on a classic Lashkar “fedayeen raid” in which fighters take hostages to inflict maximum chaos and casualties. (Fedayeen is an Arabic word for guerrilla fighters and means “one who sacrifices himself.”) Mir oversaw a veteran Lashkar trainer who prepared 32 recruits during months of drills in mountain camps and at the group’s headquarters outside Lahore, according to investigators and court documents.
The plan called for a team of fighters to infiltrate Mumbai by boat. Fifteen candidates were sent to Karachi for swimming and nautical instruction. But the youthful country boys had little experience with water. Some got seasick. Some ran away from swim training. Trainers had to bring in eight replacements, Indian and U.S. anti-terrorism officials say.
In July, Headley began his final scouting trip. In September, the anti-terrorism chief of the Mumbai police visited the Taj hotel to discuss new U.S. warnings. Hotel management beefed up security, Indian officials say.
The plotters isolated the 10-man attack team in a safe house in Karachi in mid-September and outlined their mission, using videos, photos and maps. In November Headley also headed for Karachi, where he met again with Mir but had no contact with the attack team, according to documents and officials.
On Nov. 18, eight days before the attacks, American officials told Indian intelligence that a suspicious ship might be en route to Mumbai. The Indians requested more information, the Indian anti-terrorism official said.
The strike
The attack squad left Karachi at 8 a.m. on Nov. 22.
The gunmen hijacked an Indian fishing trawler, killed the crew and sailed to about five miles off the shores of Mumbai. On the evening of Nov. 26, the squad transferred to an 11-seat dinghy and landed in a slum where lights, phones and police were scarce.
Lashkar had set up a remote command post in a safe house or a hotel that U.S. and Indian officials believe was in Lahore or Karachi. The room was stocked with computers, televisions, voice-over-Internet phones from a New Jersey company and satellite phones that were manned by Mir and five other handlers, according to U.S. and Indian officials and a report prepared by Indian intelligence.
The assault began about 9:30 p.m. Two-man teams hit four of the targets within a half-hour. Assault rifles chattered; time bombs exploded in taxis; panic engulfed the city. Despite the U.S. warnings, Indian security forces were caught off-guard. Elite National Security Guard commandos did not fly in from Delhi until the next morning, according to the Indian intelligence report.
Indian intelligence officers frantically checked known phone numbers associated with Lashkar and were able to intercept and record nearly 300 calls. Mir’s voice dominated the conversations, according to officials and documents. Thanks to Headley, he knew the targets inside-out.
Using the alias Wassi, Mir oversaw the assault on the Taj hotel, the prime target, where 32 people died. The phone hand lers in Pakistan made the attack interactive, relaying reports about television coverage to the gunmen and even searching the Internet for the name of a banker they had taken hostage. After killing 10 people at the historic Leopold Cafe, a second assault team joined the two gunmen at the Taj.
“They wanted to see the Taj Mahal burn,” a senior U.S. law enforcement official said. “It was all choreographed with the media in mind.”
Mir chided a gunman who grew distracted by the luxuries of a suite instead of setting the hotel ablaze, according to one intercepted call.
“We can’t watch if there aren’t any flames,” said Mir, who was viewing the action on live television. “Where are they?”
“It’s amazing,” the gunman exclaimed. “The windows are huge. It’s got two kitchens, a bath and a little shop.”
“Start the fire, my brother,” Mir insisted. “Start a proper fire, that’s the important thing.”
At the nearby Oberoi Hotel, two attackers hunted Americans and Britons, demanding passports at gunpoint, according to U.S. investigators. They stormed the restaurant and shot Sandeep “Sam” Jeswani, 43, an Indian American customer relations director for a radiation therapy company in Wisconsin. At another table, they executed Alan Scherr, 58, and his daughter Naomi, 13. The former art professor from Virginia had taken his daughter on a spiritual pilgrimage to India.
A policeman is seen through a bullet hole in the window of a restaurant at the central train station, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, in Mumbai, India, on Dec. 2, 2008. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
The gunmen killed 33 people at the Oberoi, then took refuge in Room 1856. Their handlers instructed them to divide ammunition magazines and keep their weapons on burst mode to conserve bullets. After one gunman was killed, Mir encouraged the other to go out in a blaze of glory.
“For your mission to end successfully, you must be killed,” Mir said in one of the intercepted calls. “God is waiting for you in heaven. . . . Fight bravely, and put your phone in your pocket, but leave it on. We like to know what’s going on.”
Another team rampaged through Mumbai’s central train station, killing 58 and wounding 104. Their tactics reflected Lashkar’s expert training. They avoided running, which is tiring and churns up emotions. They stayed within arm’s length in a “buddy pair” combat formation, a Lashkar signature technique that enabled them to support one another psychologically, sustain fire and exchange ammunition.
Unlike the others, however, the duo at the train station failed to call the command post. Instead of barricading themselves with hostages as ordered, they left the station. It was a dramatic error that underscored the crucial role of the hand lers’ round-the-clock phone instructions, their ingenious method of compensating for the limitations of their fighters.
In the running gunfights that followed, the chief of Mumbai’s anti-terrorist unit was killed along with an attacker. The other gunman, a diminutive 21-year-old with a fourth-grade education, was captured. The confession of the lone surviving attacker proved vital to the investigation.
Death calls at Chabad House
The six-story Jewish center known as the Chabad House was attacked about an hour after the assault began.
Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, the red-bearded, 29-year-old director, and his pregnant wife, Rivka, 28, had entertained visitors in the second-floor dining room that night. Two rabbis from New York, Aryeh Leibish Teitelbaum and Ben-Zion Chroman, had stopped in to say goodbye as they wrapped up a trip to India to certify kosher food products.
When Holtzberg heard shots and screams, he grabbed his cellphone and called a security officer at the Israeli consulate.
“The situation is bad,” he said.
Then the line went dead.
The gunmen shot the Holtzbergs and the visiting rabbis. The Holtzbergs’ son, 2-year-old Moishele, wandered among corpses and debris until the next day, when his Indian nanny crept upstairs, grabbed him and escaped.
News that one of his men had been captured reached Mir in the command post. Mir decided to try to win his release by using the two female hostages who were still alive at Chabad House: Yocheved Orpaz, an Israeli grandmother, and Norma Rabinovich, a Mexican tourist.
Mir told a gunman to hand Rabinovich the phone. He ordered her to propose a prisoner exchange to Israeli diplomats. She reported back to him after her conversation with the Israelis, addressing him as “sir.”
“I was talking to the consulate a few minutes ago,” she said, her voice shaking. “They are calling the prime minister and the army in India from the embassy in Delhi.”
Mir’s serene tone made him sound like a helpful bureaucrat.
“Don’t worry then, ah, just sit back and relax and don’t worry and just wait for them to make contact,” he told her.
Hours later, Mir gave the order to kill her. A gunman named Akasha sounded reluctant. Mir turned icy when he learned the two women were still alive. He demanded: “Have you done the job or not?”
Akasha executed the women as Mir listened, according to the transcript. The gunfire echoed over the phone.
The next morning, helicopter-borne commandos swooped onto the roof. Mir gave real-time orders as he watched the gunfight on television. Akasha reported in a hoarse, strangled voice that he had been wounded in the arm and leg.
“God protect you,” Mir said. “Did you manage to hit any of their guys?”
“We got one commando. Pray that God will accept my martyrdom.”
“Praise God. Praise God. God keep you.”
The three-day siege of Mumbai triggered international outrage.
The United Nations put Lashkar chiefs on a blacklist. Pakistan detained Hafiz Saeed, the group’s founder, for another in a series of short-lived house arrests. Western authorities scrambled to reassess the threat from Lashkar.
Unruffled, Mir and Headley were already at work on their next target: a Danish newspaper that in 2005 had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. In November, Mir gave his scout a thumb drive with information about Denmark and the Jyllands Posten newspaper, according to documents and officials. They christened the new plot “The Mickey Mouse Project.”
In December, Mir met Headley again, even though the other handler, Maj. Iqbal, had cut off contact with the American. Headley suggested narrowing the scope of the newspaper plot and killing only the cartoonist and an editor. Mir disagreed. Despite the uproar over Mumbai, he seemed eager to take an audacious terrorism campaign into Europe, according to documents and investigators.
“All Danes are responsible,” Mir declared, according to U.S. officials and documents.
About the same time, the FBI was pursuing yet another tip about Headley. A friend of his mother in Philadelphia had come forward after seeing the news about the Mumbai attacks. She told agents that she believed Headley had been fighting alongside Pakistani militants for years. Agents conducted an inquiry but then put it on hold because they thought he was out of the country, U.S. officials said.
In January 2009, Headley traveled from Chicago to Denmark. Using his business cover, he visited the newspaper’s offices and inquired about advertising his immigration firm. He shot video of the area and — because Mir mistakenly believed the editor was Jewish — of a nearby synagogue, documents say.
But a few weeks later, Mir put the plan on hold, according to documents and investigators. Pakistani authorities had finally arrested a big fish: Lashkar’s military chief. They also arrested a Lashkar boss who had allegedly worked the phones with Mir at the command post for the Mumbai attacks, and some low-level henchmen.
In March, Mir sent Headley to India to scout more targets. But Headley was fixated on Denmark. For help, he turned to IIyas Kashmiri, an al-Qaeda boss. Kashmiri offered to provide Headley with militants in Europe for the attack. He envisioned attackers decapitating hostages and throwing heads out of the newspaper office windows, documents say.
Headley accepted the offer. Still, he kept urging Mir to return to the Mickey Mouse Project, according to documents and officials. In an e-mail in August, Headley described another reconnaissance trip to Copenhagen. He jokingly complimented Mir about his “music videos” — code for a TV program about Mumbai that had featured Mir’s voice directing the attacks.
With affectionate exasperation, Mir warned his operative to be careful, according to documents and officials.
“Your skin is dear to me, more than my own,” Mir wrote.
In September 2009, documents show, Headley again discussed joining forces with Mir for the Denmark attack, a sign that Mir was operating freely. But Headley wasn’t so lucky. His contact with two known al-Qaeda suspects in Britain had put him on the radar of British intelligence, who alerted their U.S. counterparts. In October, the FBI arrested Headley in Chicago, where he had a Pakistani wife and children.
The FBI had been working the Mumbai case ever since a team of agents from Los Angeles rushed to India after the attacks. Their leads — phone analysis, forensics, money trails — had been instrumental to the Indian and Pakistani investigations.
Headley’s cooperation gave the FBI a treasure trove of evidence and intelligence. In March he pleaded guilty to helping organize the Mumbai attacks and the Denmark plot. His confession and the contents of his computer showed he had scouted scores of targets, including American ones, around the world, officials say. Investigators say he did not do reconnaissance in the United States, but they noted a chilling detail: His immigration consulting firm had offices in the Empire State Building.
Headley helped U.S. investigators overcome a basic problem they had run into on the Mumbai case. American agencies lacked data on Lashkar: photo books, organizational charts, profiles.
“The intelligence was very thin before Mumbai,” said Rep. Gary L. Ackerman (D-N.Y.), whose House Foreign Affairs subcommittee held hearings on Lashkar this year.
Charles Faddis, a former CIA counterterrorism chief, contends the intelligence community did not dedicate enough resources to Lashkar.
“It’s a classic problem in the U.S. intelligence community: failing to anticipate new threats and focusing completely on the one that already hit us,” Faddis said.
A U.S. counterterrorism official disagreed, saying: “It’s simply wrong to suggest that we’ve underestimated [Lashkar].”
It seems clear the government did underestimate Headley. A review this month by the director of national intelligence found that U.S. agencies had received six warnings about Headley from his wives and associates from October 2001 to December 2008. Yet federal agents didn’t place him on a terrorist watch list or open a full investigation until July 2009, eight months after the Mumbai attacks. The office of the intelligence director has said nothing publicly about Headley’s work as a U.S. informant.
Quest for justice
The Mumbai case could put Washington and Islamabad on a collision course. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has vowed to prosecute the killings of the six Americans as required by law. The prosecutions of the Mumbai and Denmark plots are being led by U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald in Chicago. But it’s unlikely Pakistan would extradite the suspects to the United States, officials say. And Pakistani courts tend not to convict accused radical Islamists.
The evidence against at least half a dozen suspected masterminds of Mumbai who are still at large includes Headley’s statements implicating officers in Pakistan’s ISI along with Lashkar, officials say. There are also physical clues. The FBI identified a phone number that is believed to connect Mir, Headley and Pakistani intelligence officials. Headley called Pakistani military officers at the number while working for Lashkar; the number was also called by an accused ISI spy who went on a secret mission with Mir in India in 2005, investigators say.
The Pakistani government publicly denies any official link to the 2008 attacks.
“Why should there have been involvement of the Pakistani government in the Mumbai attacks at a time when Pakistan and India were dealing seriously with issues between them?” said a senior Pakistani official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic. “The Mumbai incident provided a pretext for India to shy away from settling the contentious issues between the two countries.”
An Indian National Security Guard (NSG) commando swoops onto the rooftop of Nariman House at Colaba Market in Mumbai, India, on Nov. 28, 2008. (Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images)
The question of Pakistani government involvement drives a high-stakes debate. Some Western anti-terrorism officials think that, at most, Pakistani officials provided limited state support for the Mumbai attacks. A senior U.S. counterterrorism official believes a few mid-level Pakistani officials had an inkling of the plot but that its dimensions surprised them. Others speculate that the government of President Asif Ali Zardari may even have been a secondary target because of his overtures to India and his opposition to extremism.
“Perhaps it was done by people who didn’t like the way the ISI and the army were moving, particularly in Kashmir,” a European official said. “Maybe it was a rogue operation destabilizing the Pakistanis as well as the Indians.”
In contrast, a number of Western and Indian anti-terrorism officials cite the in-depth scouting, amphibious landing and sophisticated communications as signs of Pakistan’s involvement. Headley’s disclosures and Lashkar’s history make it hard to believe that military leaders were unaware of the plan, they say. Indian leaders go as far as accusing the ISI of planning and executing the attacks alongside Lashkar.
“It was not just a peripheral role,” Indian Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said publicly in July. “They were literally controlling and coordinating it from the beginning till the end.”
Mir and Maj. Iqbal are keys to the mystery because they allegedly connect Lashkar and the government. Western and Indian investigators suspect that Mir is a former military or ISI officer, or at least had close links to the security forces. They believe that Maj. Iqbal was an ISI officer using a code name. A recent Interpol notice of an Indian arrest warrant gives only his rank and last name.
It remains to be seen whether Mir, Maj. Iqbal and other suspected plotters will be successfully prosecuted. An Indian court convicted the lone surviving gunman in June. But U.S. officials say the Pakistani trial of the Lashkar military chief and six lower-level suspects captured last year seems hopelessly stalled.
Pakistani leaders say they have gotten tougher on Lashkar, freezing its assets and appointing an administrator at its headquarters.
“The government is working to prevent the preaching of extremism, bring them into the mainstream and implement curriculum changes,” the senior Pakistani official said.
Critics call the crackdown largely symbolic, however. Lashkar camps, a longtime magnet for Western extremists attracted by slick English-language propaganda, still train aspiring fighters, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said last week. And Pakistani leaders seem reluctant to confront the group and risk backlash from its trained fighters and the vast support base it has built through its charities and social programs.
Unlike al-Qaeda and other militant groups, Lashkar has not attacked the Pakistani government. But its professionalism, global networks and increasing focus on Western targets have made it one of the most dangerous forces in terrorism, many investigators say. Recent warnings of Mumbai-style plots by al-Qaeda in Europe reflect Lashkar’s influence in the convergence of militant groups that a British official calls “the jihadist soup in Pakistan.”
“The American side is telling us that Lashkar is as much of a threat as al-Qaeda or the Taliban,” the senior Pakistani official said.
As the second anniversary of Mumbai approaches, the families of the victims are waiting for authorities to keep their promises of justice.
“We are not going to give up,” said Moshe Holtzberg, a brother of the slain rabbi. “The families want to see full justice being done for all those organizations and individuals involved in the Mumbai attacks.”
ProPublica reporter Sharona Coutts and researchers Lisa Schwartz and Nicholas Kusnetz contributed to this report.
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"Strategic Investment Subsidies under Asymmetric Oligopoly," Review of Development Economics, Vol. 18 No.3, 2014, pp. 490-501 (with Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu).
"Comparative Statics for Oligopoly: A Generalized Result," Economics Letters, Vol. 124, 2014, pp. 79-82.
"International Knowledge Flows and Productivity: Intra- vs. Inter-Industry Spillovers," International Economic Journal Vol. 29 No.3, 2015, pp. 451-474 (with Xingyuan Zhang).
"Trade Patterns and International Technology Spillovers: Evidence from Patent Citations," Review of World Economics Vol. 151 No. 4, 2015, pp. 635-658 (with Xingyuan Zhang and Shoji Haruna).
"Optimal Rules of Origin with Asymmetric Compliance Costs under International Duopoly," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade Vol. 16 No. 1, 2016, pp. 1-24 (with Yoshihiro Mizoguchi).
"Rules of Origin and Technology Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment under International Duopoly," Japan and the World Economy
"Strategic Policy for Product R&D with Symmetric Costs," Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 36 No. 4, 2003, pp. 993-1006.
"Strategic Mandatory Labeling of Biotechnology Products in the Absence of Quality Difference," International Trade Journal, Vol. 17 No. 4, 2003, pp. 305-320.
"Minimum Quality Standards under Asymmetric Duopoly with Endogenous Quality Ordering: A Note," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 26 No. 2, 2004, pp. 189-199 (with Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu).
"Endogenous Timing in a Vertically Differentiated Duopoly with Quantity Competition," Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, Vol. 45, No. 2, 2004, pp. 119-127.
"Strategic Use of Recycled Content Standards under International Duopoly," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 51 No. 2, 2006, pp. 242-257 (with Keisaku Higashida).
"International Trade and Terrestrial Open-access Renewable Resources in a Small Open Economy," Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 39 No. 3, 2006, pp. 790-808.
"Optimal Policy for Product R&D with Endogenous Quality Ordering: Asymmetric Duopoly," Australian Economic Papers, Vol. 45 No. 2, 2006, pp. 127-140 (with Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu).
"Quality Differentiation, Welfare, and the Mode of Competition in a Vertically Differentiated Product Market: A Note," Japanese Economic Review, Vol. 58 No. 3, 2007, pp. 407-416 (with Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu).
"Tariff Revenue Competition in a Free Trade Area: The Case of Asymmetric Large Countries," Review of Development Economics, Vol. 11 No. 2, 2007, pp. 300-312 (with Taiji Furusawa).
"International Trade and Renewable Resources under Asymmetries of Resource Abundance and Resource Management," Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 37 No. 4, 2007, pp. 612-642.
"A Note on Strategic Trade Policy and Endogenous Quality Choice," Review of International Economics, Vol. 16 No. 1, 2008, pp. 173-185 (with Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu).
"Is the Development of Agro-Processing Industry Pro-Poor?: The Case of Thailand," Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 20, 2009, pp. 443-455 (with Michio Watanabe and Mitsuyo Kurihara).
"Patent Citations, Technology Diffusion, and International Trade: Evidence from Asian Countries," Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 34 No. 4, 2010, pp. 365-390 (with Shoji Haruna and Xingyuan Zhang).
"Factor Market Monopsony and International Duopoly," Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Vol. 21 No. 2, 2012, pp. 271-286.
"Fisheries Subsidies and Management in Open Economies," Marine Resource Economics, Vol. 27 No. 1, 2012, pp. 25-41.
"Is Corporate Environmentalism Good for Domestic Welfare?" Review of International Economics, Vol. 21 No. 5, 2013, pp. 901-911.
"Social Dumping and Trade Policy," The International Economy, Vol. 16, 2013, pp. 59-77.
"The Effect of Regional Trade Agreements on Technology Spillovers through International Trade," (with Xingyuan Zhang and Shoji Haruna) in S. Egashira ed., Globalism and Regional Economy. Routledge, 2013, pp. 49-66.
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Imad Moosa obtained a BA in economics and business studies, MA in the economics of financial intermediaries and a PhD in financial economics from the University of Sheffield (UK) in 1975, 1976 and 1986, respectively. He has received formal training in model building, exchange rate forecasting and risk management at the Claremont Economics Institute (USA), Wharton Econometrics (USA), and the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies (Switzerland). Until 1991, Imad had worked as a financial analyst, financial journalist and a professional economist/investment banker. As a result, he gained practical experience in foreign exchange, money market operations, new issues, securities portfolios and corporate finance. He was also an economist at the Financial Institutions Division of the Bureau of Statistics at the International Monetary Fund (Washington, DC). Imad has served in a number of advisory positions with private and public institutions, including KPMG, AUSAID, US Treasury, Central Bank of Kuwait and the Gulf Monetary Council.
In 1991 he started an academic career by lecturing in Economics and Finance at the University of Sheffield (UK). In 1994 he joined La Trobe University, where he ended up holding a chair in finance, before joining Monash University as a professor of finance during the period September 2006-July 2010. Ever since he has been a professor of Finance at RMIT.
Imad has published 19 books and some 250 papers in academic journals spanning several fields including international finance, financial markets, macroeconomics, energy economics, applied econometrics and the history of economic thought. His work has appeared in the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Quantitative Finance, Journal of Financial Studies, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, IMF Staff Papers, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. He has also written for professional magazines such as the prestigious Euromoney. His most recent books include Quantitative Easing as a Highway to Hyperinflation, The Costs and Benefits of Environmental Regulation and Good Regulation, Bad Regulation.
GCE (Advanced Level): Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Economics, City of Bath Technical College (England), 1972
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M.A., Economics of Financial Intermediaries, University of Sheffield (England), 1976 (Dissertation: The Demand and Supply of Money Functions: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation)
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Econometric Modelling, Claremont Economics Institute, California, USA, January - February 1982
Exchange Rate Forecasting, Wharton Econometrics, Philadelphia, USA, July-August 1983
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Exchange and Interest Rate Forecasting, International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies, Geneva, September 1989
Pham, H.,Vikash, V.,Moosa, I. (2019). The effects of environmental regulation on the stock market: the French experience In: Accounting and Finance, , 1 - 26
Moosa, I.,Moosa, N. (2019). Eliminating the IMF: An Analysis of the Debate to Keep, Reform or Abolish the Fund, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland
Moosa, I. (2019). Country Effects, Industry Effects and the Effectiveness of International Diversification within the GCC Region In: Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, , 1 - 10
Al-Jassara, S.,Moosa, I. (2019). The effect of quantitative easing on stock prices: a structural time series approach In: Applied Economics, 51, 1817 - 1827
Hille, E.,Shahbaz, M.,Moosa, I. (2019). The impact of FDI on regional air pollution in the Republic of Korea: A way ahead to achieve the green growth strategy? In: Energy Economics, , 1 - 39
Moosa, I. (2018). Publish or perish: perceived benefits versus unintended consequences, Edward Elgar, Chltenham, United Kingdom
Moosa, I. (2018). The economic rationale for the proposed banking reform in Iceland In: Journal of Banking Regulation, 19, 317 - 326
Moosa, I.,Ma, M. (2018). Linear and Nonlinear Attractors in Purchasing Power Parity In: Economia Inernazionale (International Economics), 71, 149 - 172
Moosa, I.,Vaz, J. (2018). Direct and Indirect Forecasting of Cross Exchange Rates In: Economia Internazionale, 71, 173 - 190
Huy, P.,Ramiah, V.,Moosa, I.,Moyan, L. (2018). The wealth effect and diamond risk structure of financial regulation In: Applied Economics, 50, 1852 - 1865
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Basel, 13 July 2015
In a pivotal study, Roche’s investigational immunotherapy atezolizumab shrank tumours in people with a specific type of bladder cancer
Results showed that high levels of PD-L1 expression were associated with greater responses to atezolizumab
Roche will discuss results with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as part of atezolizumab’s Breakthrough Therapy Designation in bladder cancer
Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced that in the IMvigor 210 study, the investigational cancer immunotherapy atezolizumab (MPDL3280A; anti-PDL1) shrank tumours (objective response rate, ORR, the primary end point of this Phase II study) in people with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial bladder cancer (UBC) who had progressed on initial treatment (second-line or later). High amounts of PD-L1 (Programmed Death Ligand-1) expression by a person’s cancer correlated with increased response to the medicine. Adverse events were consistent with what has been previously observed for atezolizumab.
“We are encouraged by the number of people who responded to atezolizumab and maintained their response during the study because minimal progress has been made in advanced bladder cancer for nearly 30 years,” said Sandra Horning, M.D., chief medical officer and head of Global Product Development. “We plan to present results at an upcoming medical meeting and will discuss next steps with health authorities to bring a new treatment option to patients as soon as possible.”
Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for atezolizumab in people whose metastatic bladder cancer expressed PD-L1. This designation is designed to expedite the development and review of medicines intended to treat serious diseases.
About IMvigor 210
IMvigor 210 is an open-label, multicenter, single-arm Phase II study that evaluated the safety and efficacy of atezolizumab in people with locally advanced or metastatic UBC, regardless of PD-L1 expression. People in the study were enrolled into one of two cohorts. Cohort 1 consisted of people who had received no prior therapies for locally advanced or metastatic UBC, but who were ineligible for first-line cisplatin-based therapy; results from this cohort are not yet mature. Cohort 2, for which results were announced today, included people whose disease progressed during or following previous treatment with a platinum-based chemotherapy regimen (second-line or later). People received a 1200-milligram intravenous dose of atezolizumab on day one of 21-day cycles until progressive disease (Cohort 1) or loss of clinical benefit (Cohort 2). The primary endpoint of the study was ORR. Secondary endpoints included duration of response (DoR), overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS) and safety. PD-L1 expression was assessed using an investigational immunohistochemistry (IHC) test being developed by Roche Diagnostics.
In addition to the IMvigor 210 study, Roche has an ongoing randomised Phase III study, IMvigor 211, comparing atezolizumab with standard-of-care chemotherapy in people who have relapsed UBC, and a planned Phase III study, IMvigor 010, that will evaluate atezolizumab compared with observation in people with early-stage muscle-invasive bladder cancer who are selected for PD-L1 expression and are at risk for recurrence (adjuvant). All studies include the evaluation of a companion test developed by Roche Diagnostics to determine PD-L1 status.
About metastatic urothelial bladder cancer
Metastatic urothelial bladder cancer is associated with a poor prognosis and limited treatment options. It is a disease that has seen no major advancements for nearly 30 years. Bladder cancer is the ninth most common cancer worldwide, with 430,000 new cases diagnosed in 2012, and it results in approximately 145,000 deaths globally each year. Men are three times more likely to suffer from bladder cancer compared with women and it is also three times more common in developed countries than in less developed countries.
About atezolizumab
Atezolizumab (also known as MPDL3280A; anti-PDL1) is an investigational monoclonal antibody designed to interfere with a protein called PD-L1. Atezolizumab is designed to target PD-L1 expressed on tumour cells and tumour-infiltrating immune cells, preventing it from binding to PD-1 and B7.1 on the surface of T cells. By inhibiting PD-L1, atezolizumab may enable the activation of T cells.
All studies of atezolizumab include the evaluation of an investigational IHC test that uses the antibody SP142 to measure PD-L1 expression on both tumour cells and infiltrating immune cells. The goal of PD-L1 as a biomarker is to identify those people most likely to benefit when treated with atezolizumab alone, and to determine which people may benefit most from a combination of atezolizumab and another medicine. There are 11 ongoing or planned Phase III studies of atezolizumab across certain kinds of lung, kidney, breast and bladder cancer.
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Alta’s prehistoric rock carvings and the Alta Museum
The road to Finnmark
Accessed along the E6, Alta’s prehistoric rock carvings, the Helleristningene i Hjemmeluft, form part of the Alta Museum. Count on at least an hour to view the carvings and appreciate the site. A visit begins in the museum building, 5km from town, where there’s a wealth of background information on the carvings in particular and on prehistoric Finnmark in general. It also offers a potted history of the Alta area, with exhibitions on the salmon-fishing industry, copper mining and so forth.
The rock carvings themselves extend down the hill from the museum to the fjordside along a clear and easy-to-follow footpath and boardwalk that stretches for just under 3km. On the trail, there are a dozen or so vantage points offering close-up views of the carvings, recognizable through highly stylized representations of boats, animals and people picked out in red pigment (the colours have been retouched by researchers). They make up an extraordinarily complex tableau, whose minor variations – there are four identifiable bands – in subject matter and design indicate successive historical periods. The carvings were executed between 2500 and 6000 years ago, and are indisputably impressive: clear, stylish, and touching in their simplicity. They provide an insight into a prehistoric culture that was essentially settled and largely reliant on the hunting of land animals, who were killed with flint and bone implements; sealing and fishing were of lesser importance. Many experts think it likely the carvings had spiritual significance because of the effort that was expended by the people who created them, but this is the stuff of conjecture.
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Review of "Closer"
By Elinor Carucci
Chronicle Books, 2002
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Apr 23rd 2003
Closer is an extraordinary collection of photographs of Elinor Carucci's family. It is not like Richard Billingham's Ray's a Laugh, exposing the secrets and shocking behavior of the family. It is rather a series capturing her family at odd moments of intimacy. Carucci's relationship with her mother is central, showing how she identifies with and loves her mother. In "Mother puts on my lipstick, 1993" we see her mother nurturing her daughter, who is 22 at the time of the photograph. In "My mother's back, 1996" we see the fading imprint, probably of a bathing suit, on her mother's skin. In "My mother and I, 1996," the two women are lying on a bed together. Her mother, lying on her back looking a little preoccupied, wears a nightdress, while Carucci is just wearing underwear, and is snuggling up to her mother. Their relationship is close, and certainly, her mother shows a tolerance for being photographed close up that most other mothers would probably not share.
Carucci takes pictures of small details that most people would not notice or maybe would not want to notice. "Zipper mark, 1999" is reminiscent of a fossil record of an ancient fish. "Oral surgery, 2000" shows streaks of saliva mixed with blood at the bottom of a bathroom sink. "Stress marks, 1999" shows the indentations from where she pressed her nails into her own hand. There is a slightly studied artfulness to such images, yet in the context of her work as a whole, they provide a sense of the images which might fleetingly strike one as moving.
Another theme in this collection is the relationship between husband and wife. The cover picture shows her husband Eran gazing into the camera lens over Carucci's nude body. "Wedding rings, 1999" show their torsos in a bath as they lie with their heads at opposite ends. "Bite #1, 2000" has her mother and father sitting on a bed, her father in his boxers, her mother in a black dress, playfully biting her husband's arm. "Mom touches father, 2000" is another moment of closeness, with her father looking into the lens, and her mother, with her head on her husband's chest, reaching up and holding his cheek. In "I hold Eran's wounded hand, 1998," we see the six stitches in his middle finger and we get a sense of the tenderness between her and her husband.
One feature that makes Closer unusual is the openness of the family. Her parents seem comfortable with Carucci's nakedness, and even to be photographed undressed themselves. Her husband Eran lies with his head in his father's lap and his father's arm resting on his shoulder. Her own father touches her hair lovingly but also with curiosity. Most families I know don't have the same casual intimacy once the children are adults, although there maybe an element of cultural difference here. It may be relevant that her family is from Israel.
Carucci's photographs are unique as a portrait of a family – no other photographer has done similar work. There's a sense of emotional poise to the work, and some might wish for greater urgency or drama to reveal how the family copes in crisis. However, Carucci is a young photographer, and there is plenty of time for her to expand the scope of her work. Closer is an impressive first book.
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© 2003 Christian Perring. All rights reserved.
Christian Perring, Ph.D., is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Dowling College, Long Island, and editor of Metapsychology Online Review. His main research is on philosophical issues in medicine, psychiatry and psychology.
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Best White Bay Snorkeling
The 12th most popular snorkel dive spot in British Virgin Islands.
Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands | SNORKELINGDIVES.COM™ | April 2, 2017
Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands
On Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands, the snorkeling off White Bay is known to be excellent. The best snorkeling in White Bay is directly off the point from White Bay Campground where you'll find plenty of marine life.
To reach the snorkeling in the British Virgin Islands by air, you will need to fly into either Virgin Gorda Airport (VIJ) or nearby St Thomas...
To reach the snorkeling in the British Virgin Islands by air, you will need to fly into either Virgin Gorda Airport (VIJ) or nearby St Thomas Airport (STT) in the US Virgin Islands. Virgin Gorda Airport is served by inter-island flights from San Jose, Puerto Rico (SJU) by Cape Air and Seaborne. St Thomas Airport has flights from mainland US and also from San Jose. There are several regular ferry services connecting St Thomas with Tortola and Virgin Gorda. In addition, there are BVI inter-island ferries interconnecting Virgin Gorda, Tortola, Jost Van Dyke and Anegada. When leaving BVI, there is a $20USD depature tax that must be paid in cash.
Overall, White Bay is the 12th most popular snorkel dive spot of all 27 snorkeling dives in British Virgin Islands.
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Home » Schools » CHRISTIAN BROTHERS’ COLLEGE, ST KILDA
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS’ COLLEGE, ST KILDA
Established by the Christian Brothers in 1878, CBC St Kilda has a long and proud history of providing educational programs for boys which encourage excellence. The college community is known for its friendly and welcoming atmosphere and for the diversity of backgrounds amongst the student body.
Curriculum: At CBC they are committed to the education of the whole person. In achieving this aim they provide a wide range of subject choices as well as comprehensive sporting, outdoor educational, extra-curricular and pastoral programs. At the Middle School level, a wide range of elective classes is offered to students, allowing them to pursue studies which will lead to broad and challenging options. At the Senior levels, the choice of subjects broadens further as VCE classes are shared with their sister school, Presentation College Windsor. At VCE students can choose from a wide range of studies drawn from Humanities, Mathematics, Science, Visual and Performing Arts, Physical Education and Outdoor Education. CBC St Kilda caters for students aspiring to university places as well as those following vocational pathways, through the delivery of the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL), and VET certificates in Engineering, Sport and Recreation, Information Technology and Multimedia. VCAL is offered at Foundation, Intermediate and Senior levels. CBC St Kilda is proud of their long and successful academic and sporting history and traditions. Many former students have made notable contributions to Victoria’s public and cultural life.
Sport: There is a strong sporting tradition within the college. The program embraces a house competition within the college and fields representative teams in the Associated Catholic Colleges (ACC) competition in sports such as athletics, basketball, cricket, cross-country, football, golf, hockey, swimming, soccer, tennis and volleyball. ACC chess and debating are also part of this competition. CBC has developed a comprehensive and extensive outdoor education program in activities such as orienteering, canoeing, kayaking, rafting, surfing, rock climbing, mountain biking, bushwalking, bush camping and cross-country and downhill skiing.
Extra-curricular activities: Junior ensemble, brass band, drama, debating, chess, photography and a highly successful walk-a-thon, which has raised more than $650,000 for charity.
Student welfare programs: The college is proud of its pastoral policy, which includes counselling services, chaplaincy groups, peer support, cross-age tutoring and social outreach programs, literacy support, careers advice and special education support.
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Scotsman Guide > News > July 2018 > News Story
Jul 11, 2018 12:45 ET Subscribe to our weekly e-newsletter, Top News.
Inventory crunch squeezes out first-time homebuyers
Existing-home sales have flagged this year, despite a booming economy and fierce competition among buyers. The reason isn’t a mystery, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). First-time homebuyers have been locked out the housing market to a large degree.
A critical shortage of entry-level listings has translated into lower sales of homes priced under $250,000, the pool of homes that most first-time homebuyers buy, according to NAR.
In May, home sales rose solidly in the four price categories of properties above $250,000, compared to a year ago, NAR data suggests. But sales were down year-over-year in May by 18 percent for homes priced under $100,000 and declined by 5.6 percent for homes priced between $100,000 and $250,000.
This lower end of the market represents nearly 50 percent of all existing sales, according to NAR. Homes priced in the $100,000-$250,000 range account for 40 percent of all sales, the single largest sales price pool.
“That tells you quite a bit,” said George Ratiu, NAR’s managing director of Housing & Commercial Research. “It says that at the lower price ranges, No. 1, inventory is extremely tight and, No. 2, it is now impacting sales, which have declined in those lower-priced ranges.”
Ratiu said this story was playing out in all regions of the country, but the most seriously in the high-priced markets. Ratiu said the expensive West region, for example, saw the steepest decline in sales of entry-level properties, with sales of properties priced under $100,000 down 38.5 percent, and sales in $100,000-$250,000 range down about 25 percent.
“In my view, that tells quite a bit about the story, and the impact it has on first-time buyers,” Ratiu said.
Other tracking data, including NAR’s surveys, have suggested that millennials have been active in the market, however. Last year, NAR estimated that millennials were the largest group of active buyers for the fourth consecutive year. Millennials were the buyers in roughly a third, or 34 percent, of all home sales.
Ellie Mae's millennial tracking data suggests that younger buyers have become a dominant force, although they would perhaps be more so, if there were more lower-priced homes to buy.
“Our data shows that many millennials are representing a greater percentage of the total homebuyers in all metropolitan areas,” said Joe Tyrrell, executive vice president at Ellie Mae. Tyrrell noted, though, that the share of homes bought by millennials in rural areas has grown at a faster rate than in metros areas, suggesting that the lower cost of homes, less competition among buyers and higher inventories in rural areas are a factor.
Tyrrell said just a fraction of the estimated 24 million millennials who will reach homebuying age by 2021 have yet to buy homes.
A declining share of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans also may point to the struggles of first-time homebuyers, according to Attom Data Solutions. Looser underwriting and the lower downpayment option have made FHA traditionally popular with new homebuyers. The FHA share has been declining, however, and stood at just 11.9 percent of homes bought with FHA loans in the first quarter, the lowest share in four years and the third lowest since the 2008 recession, Attom reported.
Attom Data senior Vice President Daren Blomquist also said first-time buyers tend to be the ones hurt by rising prices for the simple reason that they aren’t accumulating equity. The existing homeowner is building equity. That means, if a homeowner should sell, they will have more money to put down on a home. The first-time homebuyer is thus at a disadvantage if they are bidding against an equity-rich homebuyer.
“The faster home prices rise, especially if wages are not keeping up, the further these prospective homebuyers fall behind on the affordability treadmill,” Blomquist said. “For current homeowners moving up, rising home prices means they have rising home equity in their current home that should be at least roughly keeping pace with the rising home price of their future home.”
NAR estimated that first-time homebuyers accounted for 31 percent of buyers in May, down from 33 percent in April and a year earlier. Ratiu said the share of first-time buyers last year ran about six percentage points below the 40 percent share considered normal. Ratiu was skeptical that this would change soon.
“The builders have obviously been slow to ramp up construction for various reasons,” Ratiu said. “In the absence of new supply, and given that buyers are still interested in purchasing, this is going to continue to put pressure on prices. With that strong price increase, especially coupled with the mortgage rates increasing as well, it is going to squeeze first-time buyers the most.”
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Questions? Contact Victor Whitman at (425) 984-6017 or victorw@scotsmanguide.com.
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Krishnendu Majumdar to chair Bafta
By Robin Parker, Broadcast2019-06-21T07:38:00+01:00
Source: Broadcast File
Krishnendu Majumdar
Me+You Productions co-founder Krishnendu Majumdar is set to become the next chair of Bafta.
Majumdar, who has chaired Bafta’s TV committee since 2015, was voted deputy chair at the organisation’s AGM this month.
Under Bafta’s procedures, the deputy automatically takes over from the chair at the end of their two-year tenure.
Incumbent chair, Neal Street Pictures’ Pippa Harris, is due to step down next year.
The first BAME individual to hold the position in its 72-year history, Majumdar has also chaired learning and events committee from 2006 to 2010. He also sits on the Pact council and has sat on the board of Directors UK.
His executive producer credits include Karl Pilkington’s Sky 1 comedy series Sick Of It and An Idiot Abroad, David Hasselhoff’s Emmy award-winning Dave mockumentary Hoff The Record and producing Channel 4’s upcoming drama anthology I Am.
Harris said of his appointment: “Krish has been a passionate supporter and advocate of our work for many years, especially our learning and new talent initiatives.
I’m looking forward to working closely with him over what promises to be an exciting year ahead.”
This story first appeared on Screen’s sister site Broadcast.
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They kinda want to believe Apollo 11 moon landing was maybe a hoax
July 1, 2019 at 10:53 am Updated July 3, 2019 at 4:31 pm
A photo provided by NASA shows astronauts Buzz Aldrin, left, and Neil Armstrong at the Johnson Space Center in April 1969, practicing for the Apollo 11 lunar-landing mission. Conspiracy theories about the moon landing used to be serious business, but, with the internet, it is no longer necessary to commit to the cause to help spread it around. (JSC/NASA via The New York Times)
Amanda Hess
Shane Dawson, an impish, sandy-haired star of YouTube, has always had an instinct for the platform’s shifting moods. When he started posting videos 10 years ago, he dealt in sketch comedy and song parody. But in 2015, he pivoted to paranoia.
Now, in a typical video, Dawson pipes in eerie music, wiggles his fingertips in the malevolent style of Mr. Burns and breathily announces: “It’s time for some conspiracy theories.”
Dawson’s “theories” are assembled from pop culture detritus, stitched together through video clips, off-the-cuff podcast interviews and spooky internet chatter. His videos are pegged to trending topics — whipping up nefarious plots around fidget spinners and Avril Lavigne — but they also plug into old-fashioned lines of conspiratorial thinking: the Illuminati rules humanity, the Earth is flat, and the Apollo 11 mission was faked. His “MOON LANDING CONSPIRACY THEORY” video has been viewed more than 7 million times.
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Dawson is a capricious conspiracist. In the middle of his paranoid rant about the moon, he places his hands sincerely over his chest and says: “Once again, it’s a theory. I don’t want to get sued or put in jail.” Then he narrows his eyes, as if to size up the whole field of space science, and scoffs, “But I mean, the evidence is not looking good.”
This is a newly fashionable posture. “I go back and forth with conspiracies. I have a love-hate relationship with conspiracies,” Joe Rogan said in April on his podcast, which has hosted discussion on theories around chemtrails, flying saucers and Magic Johnson’s HIV status. In March, YouTube shock jock Logan Paul dropped a 50-minute pseudo-documentary that stages him pratfalling into Flat Earth paranoia, inhaling anti-NASA propaganda and finally pronouncing it the dumbest thing he has ever heard.
The internet’s biggest stars are using irony and nonchalance to refurbish old conspiracies for new audiences, recycling them into new forms that help them persist in the cultural imagination. Along the way, these vloggers are unlocking a new, casual mode of experiencing paranoia. They are mutating our relationship to belief itself: It’s less about having convictions than it is about having fun.
Moon conspiracy theorizing used to be a serious business. Bill Kaysing, a former employee of a company that built rockets for NASA, boosted the movement in 1976 when he self-published “We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle” — a 200-page pursuit that quoted Lincoln and Shakespeare and featured arcane meditations on rocket propulsion and grainy photocopies of “evidence.” The theory was rekindled in 2001, at the dawn of the crowdsourced web, when a guy named Bart Sibrel produced a 47-minute “documentary” called “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon.” It mashed up moon footage with ominous shots from the Soviet Union and Vietnam, was narrated by a severe British woman, and was sold on a website called MoonMovie.com.
The quasi-investigations of Kaysing and Sibrel share similarities to the ones we see today. Dawson, like his predecessors, is a collage artist. All three men are personal essayists, too, unspooling their theories as tales of each man’s journey toward skepticism.
But the mood has shifted.
Kaysing and Sibrel were sincere kooks. Self-publishing a book through great personal expense requires a steadiness of conviction. So does making an almost-feature-length movie that you sell, for money, on DVD. When Sibrel finally accepted his belief in the moon hoax, he told The New York Times in 2003, he wept.
But today, it is no longer necessary to commit to the cause to help spread it around. You can just type it into Reddit, or blurt it out on a podcast, or drag a crying-laughing emoji onto a picture of the lunar lander and post it on Instagram.
In recent years, the specter of a fake moon landing has been raised by figures as disparate as Infowars founder Alex Jones (who treated it as a deathly serious issue), podcast host Rogan (who conjured it as a trippy thought experiment) and NBA star Steph Curry (who tossed it out as a joke, prompting a NASA invitation to visit its moon rock collection). Dawson, YouTube’s conspiracy king, channels all of those moods at once, modulating his perspective line by line and shot by shot. He represents a new archetype: the ambivalent conspiracy theorist.
In Richard Hofstadter’s 1964 diagnosis of “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” he described paranoid thinkers as “angry minds” addled by “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness and conspiratorial fantasy.”
But today’s more fashionable conspiratorial figures are not mad at all. You won’t find them crying over the moon. Rogan has cultivated a persona as an easygoing bro, willing to entertain out-there ideas before swatting them aside. And though Dawson is preaching from among the internet’s largest platforms — his channel surpassed 20 million subscribers this year — he acts as if he is bumbling through the dark corners of the web and reacting with wonder at whatever freaky idea pops up, as if he is watching a scary movie with millions of his closest friends.
At the end of his moon investigation, he decides: “I kinda believe it.”
Emotional ambivalence may be contemporary internet culture’s dominant mode. It is the hallmark of the internet troll, who blurs the line between sincerity and jest to wreak havoc online. It is the posture of the alt-right, which recycles old ideas about white nationalism into the language of internet memes, cloaking its seriously held beliefs with an ironic sheen. But it is a feature of the sunny YouTube personality, too.
Like his fellow vloggers who monologue about makeup or relationships or family life, Dawson pingpongs easily between self-confidence and self-deprecation. He stakes claims and then awkwardly undermines them in quick cuts and asides.
A looping snippet Dawson cut from one of his videos sums this up. “That’s just the facts,” he confidently tells the camera amid his “investigation” into the integrity of Chuck E. Cheese pizza. Then he blinks, throws up his hands in a protestation of innocence, and abashedly corrects himself: “No wait, no it’s not. It’s just an opinion.” The camera zooms in as his mouth curdles into a cringe.
The point isn’t whether the conspiracy is true or false, opinion or fact, or even remotely plausible. The point is that it’s stimulating.
If the classic conspiracy theorist was said to be motivated by distrust of authority and a feeling of social powerlessness, the ambivalent one can be animated by an even simpler impulse: boredom. Finding patterns in the endless ephemera of internet culture is fun and even soothing, like a real-life matching tile game. Like any other late-night Google search, it is a kind of vacation for the mind. And resurrecting old theories accesses nostalgia. Dawson’s videos often begin with a disclaimer that the content is for “entertainment purposes” only.
YouTube recently vowed to crack down on conspiracy content, to fight theories with facts. Sibrel’s movie — which is now, of course, available on YouTube — is fitted with an automated rebuttal: YouTube has inserted a stub of an Encyclopaedia Britannica article about the moon landing onto the page. (NASA tried this too, in 1977. “DID U.S. ASTRONAUTS REALLY LAND ON THE MOON?” a public relations fact sheet asked. The answer: “Yes. Astronauts did land on the Moon.”)
For now, Dawson’s video remains untouched. Now that conspiracy theories have been converted into pure entertainment, with no pretense of conviction, they have been infused with plausible deniability, for hucksters and for platforms, too. It is not just Reddit trolls and YouTube stars who act ambivalently. The mood is built into the structure of the internet itself. Platforms like YouTube and Facebook must posture to care about the quality of the content they host, but not too much. Dawson is among YouTube’s biggest stars.
There is no evidence that crowdsourced platforms like YouTube, Facebook or Reddit have stoked belief in conspiracy theory. Some segment of the population has always been drawn to outlandish tales of government plots. But the internet has achieved something even more cynical. It has made belief irrelevant. As soap operas have been supplanted by reality television and now YouTube vlogging, the line between fantasy and reality has become somewhat passé. Conspiracy theorizing is no longer stigmatized; it’s just for fun.
As Dawson put it last year, in a video questioning whether the Earth is, in fact, round: “Maybe 20 years ago, everybody thought, ‘Oh, that’s stupid. That’s crazy.’ But now, I feel like kinda everybody’s down for the moon landing being fake.”
Kinda.
This story was originally published at nytimes.com. Read it here.
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The Ethics
Benedict de Spinoza
Preview: Issue 1 of 30
PART I. CONCERNING GOD.
I. By that which is self--caused, I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent.
II. A thing is called finite after its kind, when it can be limited by another thing of the same nature; for instance, a body is called finite because we always conceive another greater body. So, also, a thought is limited by another thought, but a body is not limited by thought, nor a thought by body.
III. By substance, I mean that which is in itself, and is conceived through itself: in other words, that of which a conception can be formed independently of any other conception.
IV. By attribute, I mean that which the intellect perceives as constituting the essence of substance.
V. By mode, I mean the modifications of substance, or that which exists in, and is conceived through, something other than itself.
VI. By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite--that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.
Explanation--I say absolutely infinite, not infinite after its kind: for, of a thing infinite only after its kind, infinite attributes may be denied; but that which is absolutely infinite, contains in its essence whatever expresses reality, and involves no negation.
VII. That thing is called free, which exists solely by the necessity of its own nature, and of which the action is determined by itself alone. On the other hand, that thing is necessary, or rather constrained, which is determined by something external to itself to a fixed and definite method of existence or action.
VIII. By eternity, I mean existence itself, in so far as it is conceived necessarily to follow solely from the definition of that which is eternal.
Explanation--Existence of this kind is conceived as an eternal truth, like the essence of a thing, and, therefore, cannot be explained by means of continuance or time, though continuance may be conceived without a beginning or end.
AXIOMS.
I. Everything which exists, exists either in itself or in something else.
II. That which cannot be conceived through anything else must be conceived through itself.
III. From a given definite cause an effect necessarily follows; and, on the other hand, if no definite cause be granted, it is impossible that an effect can follow.
IV. The knowledge of an effect depends on and involves the knowledge of a cause.
V. Things which have nothing in common cannot be understood, the one by means of the other; the conception of one does not involve the conception of the other.
VI. A true idea must correspond with its ideate or object.
VII. If a thing can be conceived as non--existing, its essence does not involve existence.
PROPOSITIONS.
PROP. I. Substance is by nature prior to its modifications.
Proof.--This is clear from Deff. iii. and v.
PROP. II. Two substances, whose attributes are different, have nothing in common.
Proof.--Also evident from Def. iii. For each must exist in itself, and be conceived through itself; in other words, the conception of one does not imply the conception of the other.
PROP. III. Things which have nothing in common cannot be one the cause of the other.
Proof.--If they have nothing in common, it follows that one cannot be apprehended by means of the other (Ax. v.), and, therefore, one cannot be the cause of the other (Ax. iv.). Q.E.D.
PROP. IV. Two or more distinct things are distinguished one from the other, either by the difference of the attributes of the substances, or by the difference of their modifications.
Proof.--Everything which exists, exists either in itself or in something else (Ax. i.),--that is (by Deff. iii. and v.), nothing is granted in addition to the understanding, except substance and its modifications. Nothing is, therefore, given besides the understanding, by which several things may be distinguished one from the other, except the substances, or, in other words (see Ax. iv.), their attributes and modifications. Q.E.D.
PROP. V. There cannot exist in the universe two or more substances having the same nature or attribute.
Proof.--If several distinct substances be granted, they must be distinguished one from the other, either by the difference of their attributes, or by the difference of their modifications (Prop. iv.). If only by the difference of their attributes, it will be granted that there cannot be more than one with an identical attribute. If by the difference of their modifications--as substance is naturally prior to its modifications (Prop. i.),--it follows that setting the modifications aside, and considering substance in itself, that is truly, (Deff. iii. and vi.), there cannot be conceived one substance different from another,--that is (by Prop. iv.), there cannot be granted several substances, but one substance only. Q.E.D.
PROP. VI. One substance cannot be produced by another substance.
Proof.--It is impossible that there should be in the universe two substances with an identical attribute, i.e. which have anything common to them both (Prop. ii.), and, therefore (Prop. iii.), one cannot be the cause of the other, neither can one be produced by the other. Q.E.D.
Corollary.--Hence it follows that a substance cannot be produced by anything external to itself. For in the universe nothing is granted, save substances and their modifications (as appears from Ax. i. and Deff. iii. and v.). Now (by the last Prop.) substance cannot be produced by another substance, therefore it cannot be produced by anything external to itself. Q.E.D. This is shown still more readily by the absurdity of the contradictory. For, if substance be produced by an external cause, the knowledge of it would depend on the knowledge of its cause (Ax. iv.), and (by Def. iii.) it would itself not be substance.
PROP. VII. Existence belongs to the nature of substances.
Proof.--Substance cannot be produced by anything external (Corollary, Prop vi.), it must, therefore, be its own cause--that is, its essence necessarily involves existence, or existence belongs to its nature.
PROP. VIII. Every substance is necessarily infinite.
Proof.--There can only be one substance with an identical attribute, and existence follows from its nature (Prop. vii.); its nature, therefore, involves existence, either as finite or infinite. It does not exist as finite, for (by Def. ii.) it would then be limited by something else of the same kind, which would also necessarily exist (Prop. vii.); and there would be two substances with an identical attribute, which is absurd (Prop. v.). It therefore exists as infinite. Q.E.D.
Note I.--As finite existence involves a partial negation, and infinite existence is the absolute affirmation of the given nature, it follows (solely from Prop. vii.) that every substance is necessarily infinite.
Note II.--No doubt it will be difficult for those who think about things loosely, and have not been accustomed to know them by their primary causes, to comprehend the demonstration of Prop. vii.: for such persons make no distinction between the modifications of substances and the substances themselves, and are ignorant of the manner in which things are produced; hence they may attribute to substances the beginning which they observe in natural objects. Those who are ignorant of true causes, make complete confusion--think that trees might talk just as well as men--that men might be formed from stones as well as from seed; and imagine that any form might be changed into any other. So, also, those who confuse the two natures, divine and human, readily attribute human passions to the deity, especially so long as they do not know how passions originate in the mind. But, if people would consider the nature of substance, they would have no doubt about the truth of Prop. vii. In fact, this proposition would be a universal axiom, and accounted a truism. For, by substance, would be understood that which is in itself, and is conceived through itself--that is, something of which the conception requires not the conception of anything else; whereas modifications exist in something external to themselves, and a conception of them is formed by means of a conception of the thing in which they exist. Therefore, we may have true ideas of non--existent modifications; for, although they may have no actual existence apart from the conceiving intellect, yet their essence is so involved in something external to themselves that they may through it be conceived. Whereas the only truth substances can have, external to the intellect, must consist in their existence, because they are conceived through themselves. Therefore, for a person to say that he has a clear and distinct--that is, a true--idea of a substance, but that he is not sure whether such substance exists, would be the same as if he said that he had a true idea, but was not sure whether or no it was false (a little consideration will make this plain); or if anyone affirmed that substance is created, it would be the same as saying that a false idea was true--in short, the height of absurdity. It must, then, necessarily be admitted that the existence of substance as its essence is an eternal truth. And we can hence conclude by another process of reasoning--that there is but one such substance. I think that this may profitably be done at once; and, in order to proceed regularly with the demonstration, we must premise:----
1 - The true definition of a thing neither involves nor expresses anything beyond the nature of the thing defined. From this it follows that----
2 - No definition implies or expresses a certain number of individuals, inasmuch as it expresses nothing beyond the nature of the thing defined. For instance, the definition of a triangle expresses nothing beyond the actual nature of a triangle: it does not imply any fixed number of triangles.
3 - There is necessarily for each individual existent thing a cause why it should exist.
4 - This cause of existence must either be contained in the nature and definition of the thing defined, or must be postulated apart from such definition.
It therefore follows that, if a given number of individual things exist in nature, there must be some cause for the existence of exactly that number, neither more nor less. For example, if twenty men exist in the universe (for simplicity's sake, I will suppose them existing simultaneously, and to have had no predecessors), and we want to account for the existence of these twenty men, it will not be enough to show the cause of human existence in general; we must also show why there are exactly twenty men, neither more nor less: for a cause must be assigned for the existence of each individual. Now this cause cannot be contained in the actual nature of man, for the true definition of man does not involve any consideration of the number twenty. Consequently, the cause for the existence of these twenty men, and, consequently, of each of them, must necessarily be sought externally to each individual. Hence we may lay down the absolute rule, that everything which may consist of several individuals must have an external cause. And, as it has been shown already that existence appertains to the nature of substance, existence must necessarily be included in its definition; and from its definition alone existence must be deducible. But from its definition (as we have shown, notes ii., iii.), we cannot infer the existence of several substances; therefore it follows that there is only one substance of the same nature. Q.E.D.
PROP. IX. The more reality or being a thing has, the greater the number of its attributes (Def. iv.).
PROP. X. Each particular attribute of the one substance must be conceived through itself.
Proof.--An attribute is that which the intellect perceives of substance, as constituting its essence (Def. iv.), and, therefore, must be conceived through itself (Def. iii.). Q.E.D.
Note--It is thus evident that, though two attributes are, in fact, conceived as distinct--that is, one without the help of the other--yet we cannot, therefore, conclude that they constitute two entities, or two different substances. For it is the nature of substance that each of its attributes is conceived through itself, inasmuch as all the attributes it has have always existed simultaneously in it, and none could be produced by any other; but each expresses the reality or being of substance. It is, then, far from an absurdity to ascribe several attributes to one substance: for nothing in nature is more clear than that each and every entity must be conceived under some attribute, and that its reality or being is in proportion to the number of its attributes expressing necessity or eternity and infinity. Consequently it is abundantly clear, that an absolutely infinite being must necessarily be defined as consisting in infinite attributes, each of which expresses a certain eternal and infinite essence.
If anyone now ask, by what sign shall he be able to distinguish different substances, let him read the following propositions, which show that there is but one substance in the universe, and that it is absolutely infinite, wherefore such a sign would be sought in vain.
PROP. XI. God, or substance, consisting of infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality, necessarily exists.
Proof.--If this be denied, conceive, if possible, that God does not exist: then his essence does not involve existence. But this (Prop. vii.) is absurd. Therefore God necessarily exists.
Another proof.--Of everything whatsoever a cause or reason must be assigned, either for its existence, or for its non--existence--e.g. if a triangle exist, a reason or cause must be granted for its existence; if, on the contrary, it does not exist, a cause must also be granted, which prevents it from existing, or annuls its existence. This reason or cause must either be contained in the nature of the thing in question, or be external to it. For instance, the reason for the non--existence of a square circle is indicated in its nature, namely, because it would involve a contradiction. On the other hand, the existence of substance follows also solely from its nature, inasmuch as its nature involves existence. (See Prop. vii.)
But the reason for the existence of a triangle or a circle does not follow from the nature of those figures, but from the order of universal nature in extension. From the latter it must follow, either that a triangle necessarily exists, or that it is impossible that it should exist. So much is self--evident. It follows therefrom that a thing necessarily exists, if no cause or reason be granted which prevents its existence.
If, then, no cause or reason can be given, which prevents the existence of God, or which destroys his existence, we must certainly conclude that he necessarily does exist. If such a reason or cause should be given, it must either be drawn from the very nature of God, or be external to him--that is, drawn from another substance of another nature. For if it were of the same nature, God, by that very fact, would be admitted to exist. But substance of another nature could have nothing in common with God (by Prop. ii.), and therefore would be unable either to cause or to destroy his existence.
As, then, a reason or cause which would annul the divine existence cannot be drawn from anything external to the divine nature, such cause must perforce, if God does not exist, be drawn from God's own nature, which would involve a contradiction. To make such an affirmation about a being absolutely infinite and supremely perfect is absurd; therefore, neither in the nature of God, nor externally to his nature, can a cause or reason be assigned which would annul his existence. Therefore, God necessarily exists. Q.E.D.
Another proof.--The potentiality of non--existence is a negation of power, and contrariwise the potentiality of existence is a power, as is obvious. If, then, that which necessarily exists is nothing but finite beings, such finite beings are more powerful than a being absolutely infinite, which is obviously absurd; therefore, either nothing exists, or else a being absolutely infinite necessarily exists also. Now we exist either in ourselves, or in something else which necessarily exists (see Axiom. i. and Prop. vii.). Therefore a being absolutely infinite--in other words, God (Def. vi.)--necessarily exists. Q.E.D.
Note.--In this last proof, I have purposely shown God's existence à posteriori, so that the proof might be more easily followed, not because, from the same premises, God's existence does not follow à priori. For, as the potentiality of existence is a power, it follows that, in proportion as reality increases in the nature of a thing, so also will it increase its strength for existence. Therefore a being absolutely infinite, such as God, has from himself an absolutely infinite power of existence, and hence he does absolutely exist. Perhaps there will be many who will be unable to see the force of this proof, inasmuch as they are accustomed only to consider those things which flow from external causes. Of such things, they see that those which quickly come to pass--that is, quickly come into existence--quickly also disappear; whereas they regard as more difficult of accomplishment--that is, not so easily brought into existence--those things which they conceive as more complicated.
However, to do away with this misconception, I need not here show the measure of truth in the proverb, "What comes quickly, goes quickly," nor discuss whether, from the point of view of universal nature, all things are equally easy, or otherwise: I need only remark that I am not here speaking of things, which come to pass through causes external to themselves, but only of substances which (by Prop. vi.) cannot be produced by any external cause. Things which are produced by external causes, whether they consist of many parts or few, owe whatsoever perfection or reality they possess solely to the efficacy of their external cause; and therefore their existence arises solely from the perfection of their external cause, not from their own. Contrariwise, whatsoever perfection is possessed by substance is due to no external cause; wherefore the existence of substance must arise solely from its own nature, which is nothing else but its essence. Thus, the perfection of a thing does not annul its existence, but, on the contrary, asserts it. Imperfection, on the other hand, does annul it; therefore we cannot be more certain of the existence of anything, than of the existence of a being absolutely infinite or perfect--that is, of God. For inasmuch as his essence excludes all imperfection, and involves absolute perfection, all cause for doubt concerning his existence is done away, and the utmost certainty on the question is given. This, I think, will be evident to every moderately attentive reader.
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Mirkarimi case a political minefield for S.F. pols
ROSS MIRKARIMI CASE Decision on sheriff's fate could shadow campaigns
By Rachel Gordon and John Coté
Published 4:00 am PDT, Sunday, March 18, 2012
Beverly Upton, executive director of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium, speaks during a press conference in which San Francisco anti-domestic violence advocates called on Mayor Ed Lee and the Board of Supervisors to take the necessary action to remove Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi from office on Thursday, March 15, 2012 in San Francisco, Calif. In response to Sheriff Mirkarimi's statement this week that he had no plans to step down, after his guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of false imprisonment, anti-domestic violence advocates demand Mirkarimi's immediate removal from office. less
Beverly Upton, executive director of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium, speaks during a press conference in which San Francisco anti-domestic violence advocates called on Mayor Ed Lee and the Board ... more
Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle
An official misconduct charge against embattled San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi would suck the political oxygen out of City Hall over the coming months and test Mayor Ed Lee's reputation as a get-along mayor, political observers said.
It also would put tremendous pressure on the Board of Supervisors at a time when five of the 11 members are standing for election in November. The board would serve as the tribunal that decides whether to uphold the misconduct charge and remove Mirkarimi from office.
The decision to pursue a misconduct case would be one of Lee's most important since he was sworn in as mayor 14 months ago. He said he would make up his mind after Mirkarimi's scheduled sentencing Monday for misdemeanor false imprisonment of his wife, a crime he pleaded guilty to last week.
"This is the most controversial thing Ed Lee will have done," David Latterman, a University of San Francisco lecturer on politics, said of the mayor's dilemma. "This isn't easy by any stretch, and it's going to require some political courage."
Lee said he is considering the issue more from a legal standpoint - do Mirkarimi's actions rise to the level of official misconduct as defined by the City Charter? - than from a political one.
However, Lee said that in addition to seeking counsel from the city attorney, he also has turned to former mayors "about how they handled political situations like this." Lee would not name which of his predecessors he consulted.
Board of Supervisors President David Chiu and his colleagues have been trying to duck reporters' questions on the issue, citing their potential role in official misconduct proceedings. But Chiu said Friday that if the issue lands before the board, it will be handled appropriately.
"I know that every potential decision maker - the mayor, the Ethics Commission or my board colleagues - knows that we should not take political or personal considerations into account in this matter of utmost importance," Chiu said.
Mirkarimi served for seven years on the board as a member of the progressive flank.
The supervisors are in a tough spot, especially the progressives who are running for election in November, said Jason McDaniel, a San Francisco State University political scientist who follows city politics. While the issue probably won't be the deciding factor in the election, it may follow the incumbents on the campaign trail. Advocates for victims of domestic violence have made it clear to the city's elected leaders that they believe if Mirkarimi won't leave voluntarily, he should be forced out.
"There's no doubt in my mind, now that he's pleaded guilty, that there's going to be a lot of pressure to get him to step down," McDaniel said. "I don't think this is something that's just going to go away."
Mirkarimi's detractors could launch a recall drive as soon as July 8, the six-month mark from when he took office.
If the mayor doesn't move on Mirkarimi, "the electorate will take care of the matter itself," Latterman said, predicting that would most likely come in the next sheriff's race in 2015.
Mirkarimi has resisted calls to resign. Since he was charged in January with three misdemeanor counts of domestic violence battery, child endangerment and dissuading a witness, he has steadfastly maintained his innocence.
But he agreed to plead guilty to the less serious charge of false imprisonment under a deal struck with prosecutors last Sunday evening.
District Attorney George Gascón said the false imprisonment charge stems from the same incident in which it has been alleged that Mirkarimi bruised his wife's arm during an argument on New Year's Eve in front of their 2-year-old son.
If the sentencing judge signs off on the negotiated punishment, Mirkarimi, who oversees the city jails and one of the state's largest law enforcement agencies, will serve three years' probation, attend domestic violence intervention classes for a year, perform 100 hours of community service, pay $590 in fines and fees and, if ordered by his probation officer, take parenting classes. He also had to apologize to his neighbor, Ivory Madison, who alerted police of the alleged incident after Eliana Lopez, Mirkarimi's wife, confided in her. She shot a video of Lopez displaying the bruise and recounting the alleged incident.
Lopez has stated publicly that her husband did not abuse her. Meanwhile, Mirkarimi remains under court order to stay away from his wife, and the court won't even consider lifting the restriction until he has started the domestic violence classes.
"Inside the bubble, there's all this political maelstrom. What's the mayor going to do? What's the board going to do? What's the sheriff going to do?" said P.J. Johnston, a political communications specialist who served as spokesman for Willie Brown when he was mayor and also has been close with former Mayor Gavin Newsom and Lee.
"Outside the bubble," Johnston added, "it's a no-brainer. Public sentiment is overwhelmingly against the sheriff staying in office."
But Mirkarimi is no novice to city politics, having played behind-the-scenes roles at City Hall and the Hall of Justice before winning two terms as district supervisor and the citywide sheriff's office last fall. He has given no indication he plans to give up the three-plus years remaining on his term. He still has the backing of former longtime Sheriff Michael Hennessey and former Mayor Art Agnos. Two recent fundraisers to help cover his legal costs signal he still has support.
The sheriff is expected to make a public statement after his sentencing Monday that may illuminate his next move. If Lee seeks removal, he would need to have supporting evidence prepared, which probably would require a lengthy process.
"If I make a decision to go one way or the other, I have to justify it," Lee said.
Rachel Gordon and John Coté are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. rgordon@sfchronicle.com and jcote@sfchronicle.com
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The Moorings are an ultra-energetic quintet famous for delivering an efficient mix between celtic folk and alternative rock.
Since 2011, The band has been faithful to the traditional themes of the Anglo-Saxon repertoire. It has been chosen many times to share the bill with the most respected bands of the genre such as The Dubliners, The Pogues or The Dropkick Murphys.
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Giants banged up at cornerback and safety for Vikings' game
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) The New York Giants are so short of players in the secondary that rookie coach Ben McAdoo had to have a couple of his receivers play safety in practice.
McAdoo would not identify the guys who got shifted on Thursday nor would he say whether any of them might be used Monday night when the Giants (2-1) face the Vikings (3-0) on the road.
Who knows? Imagine Odell Backham Jr. back there! He did it in the Pro Bowl.
The truth is the Giants need some bodies in the secondary, and it's not just safety. They are hurting at cornerback, too.
Let's start at safety. Rookie starter Darian Thompson missed last weekend's game with a foot injury. He is still wearing a boot. His backup, Nat Berhe, is in the concussion protocol after being hurt this past week against the Redskins.
Second-year safety Mykkele Thompson went on injured reserve on Sept. 20 with a knee injury.
That leaves starter Landon Collins, Andrew Adams, who was signed off the practice squad late last week, and veteran cornerback Leon Hall, who has shifted to the back line.
Janoris Jenkins is the only healthy starting cornerback. Dominique Rodgers Cromartie (groin) and first-round draft pick Eli Apple (hamstring) had to leave Sunday's game. They did not practice on Thursday although they worked outside with the team's trainers.
If neither can't go, veteran backup Trevin Wade and rookie Michael Hunter are next up.
The only good thing for the Giants is that the Vikings are 31st in the league in offense and 28th in passing.
''The plan is the faces change but the expectations remain the same,'' McAdoo said when asked about who would start with Collins at safety.
Adams would seem to be next in line, but he has very little experience. Hall is a nine-year veteran who says he could make the adjustment.
Beckham would not mind a crack at safety.
''I wouldn't mind hitting someone,'' said Beckham, who has gotten his fair share of fines for illegal hits as a receiver. ''There's a lot less rules when you're on defense. They expect the defense to be the aggressor. I think as an offensive player, when you come out here and are very aggressive it's a little different from what they usually see.''
Collins, who started all 16 games as a rookie last season, never worked with Adams in training camp. Adams was at the lower end of the depth chart and was among the final cuts. He was signed to the practice squad and was elevated to the roster last week with the injuries to both Thompsons.
Collins said that he, Adams, and Hall need a crash course on communicating.
''He is agile, he is quick, he is fast,'' Collins said of Adams. ''He knows what he is doing and he is assertive.''
Adams had an unsettling NFL debut. He was called for a fourth-quarter unnecessary roughness penalty that wiped out a punt block that would have given New York the ball at the Washington 18, trailing 26-24.
In the days after the game, Adams wondered whether the mistake would cost him. Not only did he stay, he now has a chance to start.
''I'm just grateful for the opportunity and I am going to make the best out of it,'' he said. ''That's what I have been waiting for. This is what you play football for. I didn't come here to watch. I'm here to play. That's my mentality.''
Hall just as easily could play opposite Collins.
''Being next to him, of course, he is going to know what he needs to be doing because he has played the game for so many years and he knows exactly what he has done,'' Collins said.
Apple, who got his first start last week, said he felt better than the day before. He said he jogged a little, but refused to say he felt ''good.''
Rodgers-Cromartie, who has never had a groin injury, insisted on Wednesday that he would play on Monday night.
Wade, who played in all 16 games last season with three starts, is ready to step in.
''You just have to be ready and make the most of the opportunity,'' Wade said.
NOTES: RB Rashad Jennings (hand) was limited at practice. He missed last week's game. ... DE Olivier Vernon (wrist) was a full-go at practice. ... OT Marshall Newhouse (calf) did not practice. ... McAdoo on the Vikings' new U.S. Bank Stadium: ''It's going to be loud. I'm sure it's not going to be much louder than the Metrodome.'' ... DT Robert Thomas is over the illness that sidelined him the first three games. He has refused to say what it was.
Online: AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL
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Rugged, mountainous, and culturally complex, Uzbekistan is a fascinating country at the heart of Central Asia. Among its neighbors –which include Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan – Uzbekistan is the most populous and the most powerful in terms of military force. It has a large but unstable economy based largely on mining and cotton production, which is a risky basis for an economy in an arid region ill-suited to this kind of intensive monoculture. As a result, the Uzbekistani economy fluctuates fairly widely based on crop yields and prices of natural resources such as petroleum and natural gas. Culturally, it is heavily influenced by Islamic art and architecture and its historical place at the center of the Turkic empire under the famous conqueror Timur or Tamerlane.
Living and studying in Uzbekistan is an experience unlike any in the world. Beautiful, ancient mosques of staggering size and complexity can be found in the capital city, Tashkent, while the sparsely-populated north is dominated by red sand deserts. As one of the main stops on the Silk Road, Uzbekistan has a rich history and many ancient cities, as well as archaeological sites that draw scholars and excavators from many countries. Many people in Uzbekistan’s larger cities and towns have studied in Western countries and are eager to converse with foreigners, learn about other cultures, and improve their English.
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SPJ hires two seasoned journalists to lead Quill and awards program
Isaac Taylor, SPJ Communications Coordinator, 317-920-4785, itaylor@spj.org
INDIANAPOLIS — The Society of Professional Journalists is pleased to announce the addition of two seasoned journalists to its national headquarters team.
Starting this month, Lou Harry will take over as Quill editor/program manager, and Matthew Kent will handle the program coordinator responsibilities.
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Lou Harry’s journalism career includes editing stints at Philadelphia magazine, Indianapolis Monthly and the Indianapolis Business Journal along with freelance work for more than 50 publications and websites.
The winner of multiple SPJ awards, Harry has taught writing classes at Temple University, the University of Indianapolis and the Midwest Writers Workshop. He has served as emcee for many fundraisers, has organized conferences and once took a pie in the face from Soupy Sales. During downtime, he enjoys writing plays and trying new board games with friends, family and strangers.
“I look forward to using my talents to publish intelligent, insightful work that the journalism industry needs,” said Harry.
Matthew Kent is SPJ’s new awards/programs coordinator overseeing the Society’s annual awards programs and elections. Because SPJ is in the midst of awards season, Kent is diving right in and will handle all questions regarding awards submissions and judging.
A Chicago native, Kent is a graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in English.
“I am excited to be a part of SPJ’s team and look forward to continuing my work in the journalism industry,” Kent said.
Before coming to SPJ, Matthew worked as a reporter at The (Columbus) Republic in Indiana, The Chillicothe Gazette in Chillicothe, Ohio, and several newspapers in Missouri. In his free time, he enjoys live music and attending different festivals and events in the Indianapolis area.
“I say with confidence that Lou and Matthew will push SPJ’s mission forward to the best of their abilities,” said SPJ Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie. “Their backgrounds in journalism give them a certain level of relatability you can’t find anywhere else.”
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Buffalo Sabres: Still on the outside looking in
By Michael Klipstein
Evander Kane, Jack Eichel, Tyler Ennis celebrate OT goal against San Jose Sharks
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The Buffalo Sabres can be tantalizing and terrible, and they were both Tuesday in a wild 5-4 overtime victory over the San Jose Sharks in KeyBank Center. Buffalo stormed back from a 4-1 deficit in the third period when Ryan O’Reilly, Evander Kane and Kyle Okposo scored in a 3½-minute stretch to extend the game. Kane scored in overtime off a perfect feed from Jack Eichel before barreling into the boards.
It is a great sign that the Sabres pulled off a remarkable comeback against a team that were in the Stanley Cup Finals in 2016. It was the first comeback when trailing by three goals in the final 12 minutes for the first time since Nov. 6, 2006, against Boston. They never quit and showed the character and competitiveness of a team going in the right direction. Now they need to build off that effort and start stacking wins. Too often over the past two seasons, they looked ready to sprint up the standings before falling on their faces.
Buffalo showed signs of a breakthrough last week when it dominated Ottawa in a 4-0 victory. Right when you thought the Sabres would forge ahead, they tripped over their own feet in New Jersey. They were stumbling around Tuesday, too, before collecting themselves and beating one of the NHL's best teams. Oddly, the Sabres are 24-6-2 with four ties, including 17-1-1 at home, all-time against the Sharks.
Currently, the Sabres are on pace for 83 points, two more than they had last season. Was it reasonable to assume that the Sabres could trust Okposo and Dmitry Kulikov to lift a young, developing team into the postseason?
Jack Eichel’s injury before the opener didn’t help matters, of course, but people were kidding themselves if they believed his return would solve their problems. Buffalo was two games under .500 without him this season. They’re three games over .500 with him in the lineup. One man can only do so much.
Some believe that the problem with the Sabres tanking for the first or second pick overall in 2015 was that too much emphasis was placed on a single player being a savior. The Sabres could have traded the pick to Pittsburgh for Evgeni Malkin or Sidney Crosby, and they still would have been miles away from becoming a playoff team.
Eichel has 12 goals and 25 points in 32 games, including two assists Tuesday, putting him on pace for 32 goals and 64 points over an entire season. He’s the Sabres’ best offensive player. But he also failed to score in 24 of 32 games and does not have a point in more than half of his contests. At 20, he’s a young player searching for consistency.
It’s impossible to say when everything will come together. The Sabres haven’t had a five-game winning streak since 2012. It’s hard to fathom in professional sports today. Look at the Miami Heat. They were 11-30 at season’s midpoint before rattling off 11 straight victories.
The Sabres are a year or two away from contending for the playoffs, assuming Tim Murray makes the right personnel decisions. In the meantime, you can look for indications they’re getting close to the postseason. You’ll know the Sabres have a playoff team when …
* Their best players perform at a big-time level. O’Reilly has 12 goals while collecting $11 million this season. He’s the first to say he needs to be more productive, and he’s right. Matt Moulson, who was on the fourth line and also scored Tuesday, has 11.
Rasmus Ristolainen hasn’t scored in 22 games. Sharks defenseman Brett Burns would lead Buffalo in scoring on assists alone. He had two assists Tuesday, giving him 57 points in 54 games. The Sabres haven’t had any player average a point per game since Derek Roy in 2007-08.
* Players stop making excuses while trying to sound like they’re not making excuses. If it’s not injuries, it’s the officials or puck luck or some other external force working against them. It’s the mark of a fragile team that rationalizes failure rather than overcoming adversity … like they did Tuesday.
Robin Lehner had the honors after a 2-1 loss Monday in which the Devils scored two power-play goals. “We didn’t get the calls today,” Lehner said, “not that that was an excuse because I think we played a poor game.”
* Players stop discreetly whining about the coach. Believe me, players have ways of getting their message across behind the scenes. Sometimes, they have a point. Usually, when they start moaning about the coach or style of play, it’s an attempt to disguise their collective shortcomings.
Bylsma didn’t fail to pick up Logan Couture in the first period when the Sharks winger picked up a rebound for a 2-1 lead. Eichel did. Bylsma wasn’t grossly out of position when Melker Karlsson walked untouched into the slot. That would be Jake McCabe. Bylsma didn’t fumble a pass to Okposo for a partial breakaway in the third period. O’Reilly did.
* Payroll matches production, particularly along the blue line. Too many defensemen are making too much money and not helping their team enough. Four of their five highest-paid D-men have failed to provide value even when they’re healthy: Kulikov, Zack Bogosian, Josh Gorges and Cody Franson.
* Players are in the right places. Fans get hung up on lines. Every time Reinhart scores, his legion of apologists blast me for suggesting he’s a bottom-six forward on a contender. Their gripe: “He’s their second-leading scorer.” Reinhart is the second-leading scorer on a mediocre team.
And that’s the point.
The Buffalo Sabres are not Cup contenders and will need to build off the success of this season. Reinhart is a solid player, but he’s not a top-six forward on an NHL heavyweight. It’s not a crime. If he played on the third line, it would indicate the Sabres added talent and placed him into a slot more suited for him. The same goes for Marcus Foligno.
Remember when the Sabres were contenders? Derek Roy and Thomas Vanek were on the third line, causing matchup problems. Both had a tougher time when thrust onto the No. 1 line because they were forced to play against skilled defensive forwards and shutdown defense pairings. That was a decade ago.
That long ago???
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Alliance Data sells Epsilon for $4.4 billion
Publicis to acquire Epsilon for $4.40B in cash
Publicis (PUBGY) announced it has entered into an agreement with Alliance Data Systems (ADS) under which Publicis will acquire Alliance Data’s Epsilon business for a net purchase price of $3.95B after tax step-up – total cash consideration of $4.40B – and build a strategic partnership with Alliance Data remaining business.
Publicis to acquire Epsilon for $4.40B in cash , Stockwinners
The acquisition gives Publicis access to Epsilon’s data capabilities. The company says, for example, it has more than 250 million unique consumers identified in the U.S. The company says it can build on top of a client’s first-party data with its own assets, like behavioral and transactional data.
The Directoire, or Management Board, and the Conseil de Surveillance, or Supervisory Board, of Publicis have unanimously approved this transaction.
Alliance Data sells Epsilon for $4.4 billion, Stockwinners
Arthur Sadoun, Chairman and CEO of Publicis, said that, “Our clients are facing increasing pressure from the rise in consumer expectations, the mainstreaming of direct-to-consumer brands and new data regulations. The only response is to deliver personalized experiences at scale. They have to transform to meet this new market imperative.”
Edward Heffernan, Alliance Data Systems’ President and CEO, added that, “I’m pleased to say today’s announcement represents a trifecta win for Alliance Data, Epsilon and Publicis Groupe.
The announcement of this transaction represents the culmination of an extensive assessment of strategic options for our Epsilon business.
With this transaction, we have found what we believe to be the right home for Epsilon’s technology, data assets and associates.
Publicis Groupe will be the ideal cultural and strategic fit for Epsilon and its Conversant business, and will help drive Publicis Groupe’s own transformation in today’s data-driven digital world.
Furthermore, the unique relationships that have been cultivated between Epsilon and our other Alliance Data businesses will remain intact, and we look forward to working with Publicis Groupe to develop an even broader relationship promoting mutual and sustainable growth going forward.”
Under the terms of the agreed transaction, Publicis will acquire Epsilon for a cash consideration of $4.40B, representing a net purchase price of $3.95B after deducting the benefit of acquisition-related tax step-up.
This implies an 8.2-times multiple, based on a 2018 Adjusted EBITDA of $485M.
According to Publicis, the transaction will be double digit accretive to its headline EPS and free Cash Flow per share from year one.
Publicis also said that it “remains committed” to its 45% dividend payout ratio and will put on hold its share repurchase program in the context of this acquisition.
The transaction remains subject to customary approvals and is expected to close in Q3 2019.
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Kforce Government Solutions sold for $115 million
ManTech to acquire Kforce Government Solutions for $115M
KForce sold for $115 million, Stockwinners
ManTech (MANT) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kforce Government Solutions, or KGS, formerly a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kforce (KFRC) for $115M in cash.
Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, KGS provides technology solutions, transformation management, data management and analytics in support of federal health and defense missions.
KGS has built a legacy of success with its customers particularly within the Department of Veterans Affairs, or VA.
The acquisition adds over 500 employees to the ManTech team. In 2018, KGS generated approximately $98M of revenue and has profitability comparable to ManTech.
The combination will substantially increase ManTech’s footprint at the VA and enable ManTech to deliver services through the VA’s Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation, or T4NG, program.
The T4NG program is a 10-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract awarded by the VA Technology Acquisition Center to help the VA transform its information technology programs.
ManTech will fund the acquisition from cash on hand with additional funding from its existing line of credit. ManTech expects the acquisition to be slightly accretive to earnings per share in 2019.
The acquisition is subject to various closing conditions and approvals, including approval under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, and is expected to be completed in March.
David L. Dunkel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer commented, “Our federal government solutions business has been a meaningful part of our business since our initial government acquisition in 2006. I am immensely proud of the success that our KGS management team has had in growing and positioning this business for continued future success despite the competitive challenges it has faced, given its scale.
We are excited for our KGS management team and associates to join forces with ManTech, which we expect will enhance KGS’s competitive positioning and leverage its deep and long-standing customer relationships to drive further growth. We firmly believe in the strong secular drivers within the commercial technology space and, with this divestiture, virtually all of our revenues are derived from domestic professional and technical staffing services and solutions.”
Pareteum to acquire iPass
Pareteum to acquire iPass in all-stock transaction
Pareteum to acquire iPass, Stockwinners.com
Pareteum (TEUM) and iPass (IPAS) announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Pareteum will acquire iPass in an all-stock transaction whereby iPass shareholders will receive 1.17 shares of Pareteum common stock in an exchange offer.
With this accretive acquisition, Pareteum expects to gain a strategic position with new marquee brands and new markets including the enterprise, airline, hospitality, retail and internet of things sectors.
Pareteum expects to strengthen its established intellectual property portfolio with the addition of over 40 U.S. and international patents.
With more than 500 expected new customers and a global network of over 68M Wi-Fi hot spots, coupled with proven connection management technology, location services and Wi-Fi performance data, Pareteum is now poised to take its global communications software solutions to every market vertical.
The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to Pareteum’s non-GAAP EPS and free cash ow after anticipated synergies.
Pareteum anticipates achieving more than $15 million in annual cost synergies with greater than $12 million of those expected to be realized in the rst full quarter of combined operations. Pareteum currently estimates approximately $2.0 million of GAAP earnings accretion and $5.5 million of non-GAAP earnings accretion in the rst full year after closing the transaction.
In addition, the acquisition will add new offices and talent in Silicon Valley, California and Bangalore, India, expanding Pareteum’s presence globally.
Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pareteum will commence an exchange offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of iPass common stock, offering 1.17 shares of Pareteum common stock in exchange for each share of iPass common stock tendered.
Upon satisfaction of the conditions to the exchange offer, and after the shares tendered in the exchange oer are accepted for payment, the agreement provides for the parties to effect, as promptly as practicable, a merger, which would not require a vote by iPass stockholders, and which would result in each share of iPass common stock not tendered in the exchange offer being converted into the right to receive 1.17 shares of Pareteum common stock.
The exchange offer is subject to customary conditions, including the tender of at least a majority of the outstanding shares of iPass common stock and certain regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in the rst quarter of calendar year 2019.
No approval of the stockholders of Pareteum is required in connection with the proposed transaction.
Terms of the agreement were approved by the board of directors for both Pareteum and iPass.
Athenahealth sold for $5.7 billion
Athenahealth to be acquired by Veritas Capital for $135 per share in cash
Athenahealth sold for $5.7 billion, Stockwinners
Athenahealth (ATHN), Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which an affiliate of Veritas and Evergreen will acquire athenahealth for approximately $5.7B in cash.
Under the terms of the agreement, athenahealth shareholders will receive $135 in cash per share.
The per share purchase price represents a premium of approximately 12% over the company’s closing stock price on November 9, 2018, the last trading day prior to today’s announcement, and a premium of approximately 27 percent over the company’s closing stock price on May 17, 2017, the day prior to Elliott Management Corporation’s announcement that it had acquired an approximate 9% interest in the company.
Following the closing, Veritas and Evergreen expect to combine athenahealth with Virence Health, the GE Healthcare Value-based Care assets that Veritas acquired earlier this year.
The combined business is expected to be a leading, privately-held healthcare information technology company with an extensive national provider network of customers and world-class products and solutions to help them thrive in an increasingly complex environment.
Following the close of that transaction, the combined company is expected to operate under the athenahealth brand and be headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts.
The company will be led by Virence Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bob Segert and an executive leadership team comprised of executives from both companies.
Following the completion of the transaction, Virence’s Workforce Management business will become a separate Veritas portfolio company under the API Healthcare brand.
Athenahealth investor Elliott Management has expressed support for the transaction.
Elliott Partner Jesse Cohn said, “We are pleased to support this transformative transaction combining athenahealth and Virence, which we believe represents an outstanding, value-maximizing outcome for athenahealth shareholders.”
Upon completion of the transaction, Elliott’s private equity subsidiary, Evergreen Coast Capital, will retain a minority investment stake in the combined company.
The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2019, subject to the approval of the holders of a majority of athenahealth’s outstanding shares and the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
The athenahealth Board of Directors has unanimously approved the merger agreement and intends to recommend that athenahealth shareholders vote in favor of it at a Special Meeting of Stockholders, to be scheduled as soon as practicable.
The transaction is not subject to a financing condition. In light of today’s announcement and the pending transaction, athenahealth will no longer be hosting its previously announced Q3 2018 earnings call.
ATHN closed at $120.35.
Investment Technology Group sold for $1 billion
ITG to be acquired by Virtu Financial for $30.30 per share in cash
Investment Technology Group sold for $1 billion, Stockwinners
Investment Technology Group (ITG) announced that it has reached a definitive agreement for Virtu Financial (VIRT) to acquire all outstanding shares of ITG’s Common Stock for $30.30 per share in cash.
Investment Technology Group, Inc. operates as a financial technology company in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Asia Pacific.
Virtu Financial, Inc. provides market making and liquidity services through its proprietary, multi-asset, and multi-currency technology platform to the financial markets worldwide.
The price represents a premium of more than 40% over ITG’s average closing share price of $21.55 in the 30 days prior to news reports of a potential sale on October 4, 2018.
Minder Cheng, Chairman of the Board of Directors, said, “ITG has made tremendous progress in executing on its Strategic Operating Plan over the past two years, and the agreement with Virtu is a result of the dedicated efforts of our management team and employees.
After careful consideration, ITG’s Board of Directors determined that the proposal from Virtu, which provides an immediate and significant cash premium, offers the most value for ITG stockholders. The combination of Virtu and ITG will create an industry-leading financial technology franchise with true global capabilities and scale.” J.P. Morgan is serving as the financial advisor and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is providing legal counsel to ITG.
ConvergeOne sold for $1.8 billion
ConvergeOne to be acquired by CVC for $12.50 per share
ConvergeOne sold for $1.8 billion, Stockwinners
ConvergeOne Holdings (CVON) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by affiliates of CVC Fund VII in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.8B.
ConvergeOne Holdings, Inc. provides collaboration and technology solutions for large and medium enterprises in the United States. The company offers unified communications solutions, including communications applications, such as voice, email, presence, chat/text, and video technologies; voice and text messaging solutions; mobility and bring your own device solutions for business continuity with the seamless connection of mobile, landline, cellular, and Wi-Fi enabled devices.
Subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, ConvergeOne expects the transaction to close in the fourth quarter of 2018 or the first quarter of 2019.
ConvergeOne will maintain its corporate headquarters in Eagan, MN and continue to be led by its current executive team.
Pursuant to the terms of the merger agreement, affiliates of CVC will commence a tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of the company in an all-cash transaction valued at $12.50 per share of common stock of the company, representing a 35% premium to the thirty-day VWAP prior to October 25, 2018 and representing over a 56% premium to the closing price on ConvergeOne’s debut date on the Nasdaq on February 23.
John McKenna Jr., Chairman and CEO of ConvergeOne commented, “Today’s announcement is a tremendous accomplishment for ConvergeOne and highlights the continued success of the Company. We are extremely proud of the ConvergeOne team, and we truly appreciate our phenomenal partnership with Clearlake and our other shareholders that has resulted in significant value creation. Our team is thrilled to partner with CVC to execute on the compelling growth opportunities in the rapidly evolving collaboration and technology services market.”
CVON closed at $9.43.
JP Morgan is positive on NY Times
NY Times rises on subscriber growth, Analyst Comments
JP Morgan is positive on NY Times, Stockwinners
Shares of New York Times (NYT) have jumped after the company reported better than expected third quarter results and strong subscriber growth.
Notably, the Times’ 203,000 total net new digital-only subscriptions represents the highest gain in digital subscribers in a quarter since the “Trump bump” in the fourth quarter of 2016 and the first quarter of 2017 after the presidential election.
Commenting on the announcement, JPMorgan analyst Alexia Quadrani told investors that she is “extremely encouraged” by the results and sees momentum continuing on digital subscriber additions.
New York Times reported third quarter adjusted earnings per share of 15c and revenue $417.35M, both above consensus of 11c and $408.54M, respectively.
The number of digital subscribers showed a net increase of roughly 203,000, with 143,000 of those signing on for digital new products and the remainder paying for the company’s cooking and crossword features.
Operating profits rose 30% to $41.4M in the period.
Mark Thompson, president and CEO, said, “This was a strong third quarter for the company. […] We passed two significant milestones, and now have more than 3M digital-only subscriptions and more than 4M total subscriptions. We’re executing on our subscription-first strategy; this quarter, subscription revenues accounted for nearly two-thirds of the company’s revenues. We’re investing aggressively in our journalism, product and marketing and are seeing tangible results in our digital growth.
Turning to advertising, as expected, we are seeing a much stronger second half of the year. We had an exceptional third quarter with digital advertising up 17% and growth of 7% in total advertising.”
Responding to a question during its earnings conference call from JPMorgan’s Quadrani regarding potential subscription drivers, including stories that may have caused a spike in adds, the company highlighted the “important role” played by the $1 per week promotion.
NY Times also acknowledged that “there were some spikes” during the quarter related to specific stories, namely “the anonymous editorial, the story about family separation at the border and the one on the Trump family.”
MOMENTUM TO CONTINUE
In a post-earnings note, JPMorgan‘s Quadrani pointed out that NY Times reported third quarter earnings with revenue, adjusted operating profit, and EPS all ahead of consensus and her estimates.
Most notably, the analyst noted that digital subscriber net adds in the quarter were 203,000 compared to her 130,000 estimate, with the core news product adding 143,000 and digital other adding 60,000.
The 143,000 net adds for news compares to 68,000 in the second quarter, and is the best quarter for the company since the “Trump bump” driven first quarter of 2017, Quadrani contended.
Overall, the analyst said she is “extremely encouraged” by these results and sees momentum continuing on digital subscriber additions helped by the current elevated news cycle and the midterm elections. Quadrani has an Outperform rating on the shares.
FAILING’ NEW YORK TIMES
Last month, Trump criticized a NY Times investigation into his and his family’s use of “dubious tax schemes” over the years and the origins of his own wealth, calling the article an “old, boring and often told hit piece.”
In a tweet, the President said “The Failing New York Times did something I have never seen done before. They used the concept of “time value of money” in doing a very old, boring and often told hit piece on me. Added up, this means that 97% of their stories on me are bad. Never recovered from bad election call!”
This is not the first time Trump called the publication the “failing New York Times.”
Denouncing what he referred to as a “gutless editorial” posted by the New York Times in September, in which an unnamed administration official alleged that advisers to the President were intentionally attempting to thwart his misguided impulses from the inside, Trump tweeted: “Does the so-called “Senior Administration Official” really exist, or is it just the Failing New York Times with another phony source? If the GUTLESS anonymous person does indeed exist, the Times must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to government at once!”
PRICE ACTION
In Thursday’s trading, shares of New York Times gained 7.5% to $28.39.
Peoples Natural Gas sold for $4.28 billion
Aqua America to acquire Peoples in all-cash transaction for $4.28B
Peoples Natural Gas sold for $4.28 billion, Stockwinners
Aqua America (WTR) announced it will acquire Peoples in an all-cash transaction that reflects an enterprise value of $4.275B, which includes the assumption of approximately $1.3B of debt.
This acquisition marks the creation of a new infrastructure company that will be uniquely positioned to have a powerful impact on improving the nation’s infrastructure reliability, quality of life and economic prosperity.
Peoples consists of Peoples Natural Gas Company LLC, Peoples Gas Company LLC and Delta Natural Gas Company Inc.
The multi-platform entity brings together the second-largest U.S. water utility and fifth-largest U.S. stand-alone natural gas local distribution company and will serve 1.74 million customer connections, which represent approximately 5 million people.
In 2019, the new company will have approximately $10.8 billion in assets and a projected U.S. regulated rate base of over $7.2 billion.
The transaction is not expected to have any impact on rates.
The combined enterprise will be among the largest publicly traded water utilities and natural gas local distribution companies in the U.S., uniquely positioned to meaningfully contribute to the nation’s natural gas and water infrastructure reliability.
The transaction will bring together two companies that each have more than 130 years of service and proven track records of operational efficiency, complementary service territories and strong regulatory compliance.
Aqua will acquire Peoples from infrastructure funds managed by Sausalito, California-based SteelRiver Infrastructure Partners.
The resulting company will be well positioned to grow and generate shareholder value through increased scale, a balanced portfolio and stable capital structure.
L3 Technologies and Harris to merge
Harris, L3 Technologies to combine in merger of equals
L3 Technologies and Harris to merge, Stockwinners
Harris Corporation (HRS) and L3 Technologies (LLL) have agreed to combine in an all stock merger of equals.
Under the terms of the merger agreement, which was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies, L3 shareholders will receive a fixed exchange ratio of 1.30 shares of Harris common stock for each share of L3 common stock, consistent with the 60-trading day average exchange ratio of the two companies.
Upon completion of the merger, Harris shareholders will own approximately 54% and L3 shareholders will own approximately 46% of the combined company on a fully diluted basis.
The combined company, L3 Harris Technologies, will be the 6th largest defense company in the U.S. and a top 10 defense company globally, with approximately 48,000 employees and customers in over 100 countries.
For calendar year 2018, the combined company is expected to generate net revenue of approximately $16B, EBIT of $2.4B and free cash flow of $1.9B.
The combination is expected to generate approximately $500M of annual gross pre-tax cost synergies, or $300M net of savings returned to customers, in year 3.
The savings will come from reducing direct and indirect spend, rationalizing footprint, consolidating corporate and segment headquarters, establishing a common shared services platform for IT and finance and reducing other overhead costs.
The company is expected to invest approximately $450M cash to achieve the synergies over the next 3 years.
The combined company will target $3B in free cash flow by year 3, driven by organic growth, cost synergies, working capital improvements and capital expenditure efficiencies. L3 Harris Technologies will be well capitalized with a strong balance sheet and a leverage ratio of 2.2 times net debt to trailing twelve months EBITDA.
The combined company will remain committed to maintaining an investment grade credit rating and a dividend payout consistent with each company’s current practice and deploying excess cash toward share repurchases, including up to $2B in share repurchases in the 12 months post-closing.
L3 Harris Technologies will be headquartered in Melbourne, Florida.
The combined company’s Board of Directors will have 12 members, consisting of six directors from each company. William Brown will serve as chairman and CEO, and Christopher Kubasik will serve as vice chairman, president and COO for the first two years following the closing of the transaction. For the third year, Brown will transition to executive chairman and Kubasik to CEO, after which Kubasik will become chairman and CEO.
The merger is expected to close in mid-calendar year 2019, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including receipt of regulatory approvals and approval by the shareholders of each company.
Online retailers fall on Amazon concerns
Online retailers slide as Amazon reportedly testing recommendation service
Shares of several retailers and online personal shopping services are slipping in afternoon trading after CNBC reported that Amazon (AMZN) is testing a new on-site recommendation service known as Scout.
CNBC reported that Amazon is testing a new service called Scout, a shopping site for consumers who don’t know specifically what they want to buy but are willing to take some automated recommendations.
Scout asks shoppers to like or dislike a product and responds by showing other products based on user responses, according to CNBC.
Scout is currently available for home furniture, kitchen and dining products, women’s shoes, home decor, patio furniture, lighting and bedding, with more categories coming soon.
“This is a new way to shop, allowing customers to browse millions of items and quickly refine the selection based solely on visual attributes,” an Amazon spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “
Amazon uses imagery from across its robust selection to extract thousands of visual attributes for showing customers a variety of items so they can select their preferences as they go.”
WHAT’S NOTABLE
The CNBC report noted that Amazon is utilizing machine learning technology to address one of the major criticisms of its service, namely that it’s a great place to buy things but not a great place to browse.
While Amazon is easily the biggest U.S. e-commerce company, e-retailers such as Stitch Fix (SFIX) and Walmart’s (WMT) Bonobos provide a more personalized experience and have given social media services such as Instagram (FB) and Pinterest more room to use their large collections of data in turning their networks into fledgling commerce sites, CNBC said.
Following the news, Wayfair (W) slipped 4.3%, Williams-Sonoma (WSM) fell 1.9%, Stitch Fix dropped nearly 9%, and Steven Madden (SHOO) slid 1.3%. Meanwhile, Amazon (AMZN) shares are 1.5% lower in Wednesday afternoon trading.
Integrated Device Technology sold for $6.7 billion
Renesas acquires Integrated Device for $49 per share or $6.7B
Integrated Device Technology sold for $6.7 billion, Stockwinners
Renesas Electronics (RNECY) and Integrated Device Technology (IDTI) announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which Renesas will acquire IDT for $49.00 per share in an all-cash transaction representing an equity value of approximately $6.7B.
The stock closed yesterday down 58c to $42.08. Closing of the transaction is expected to occur in the first half of 2019, following approvals by IDT shareholders and the relevant regulatory authorities.
Renesas anticipates near- and long-term revenue growth from “expanded opportunities and access to fast-growing industries, and cost savings from a greater scale business platform to bring innovation and improvements” with an expected financial impact of approximately over $250M.
The transaction is expected to be accretive to Renesas’ non-GAAP gross margin and non-GAAP earnings per share by approximately 1.6%pts and 18%, respectively, immediately after closing.
Renesas plans to finance the transaction with cash reserves and approximately 679B yen of bank loans. Renesas does not intend to raise equity financing for this transaction. T
he companies said, “The acquisition combines two recognized leaders in embedded processors and analog mixed-signal semiconductors, each with unique strengths in delivering products to improve performance and efficiency in high-computing electronic systems. The boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved the transaction.”
Duo Security sold for $2.35B
Cisco confirms intent to acquire Duo Security for $2.35B
Duo Security sold for $2.35B, Stockwinners
Cisco (CSCO) announced its intent to acquire privately-held Duo Security, headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.
Duo Security’s solution verifies the identity of users and the health of their devices before granting them access to applications – helping prevent cybersecurity breaches.
Integration of Cisco’s network, device and cloud security platforms with Duo Security’s zero-trust authentication and access products will enable Cisco customers to easily and securely connect users to any application on any networked device.
Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay $2.35 billion in cash and assumed equity awards for Duo Security’s outstanding shares, warrants and equity incentives on a fully-diluted basis.
The acquisition of Duo Security will: Extend intent-based networking into multi-cloud environments.
Cisco currently provides on-premises network access control via its Identity Services Engine product. Duo’s software as a service-based model will be integrated with Cisco ISE to extend ISE to provide cloud-delivered application access control. Simplify policy for cloud security.
By verifying user and device trust, Duo will add trusted identity awareness into Cisco’s Secure Internet Gateway, Cloud Access Security Broker, Enterprise Mobility Management, and several other cloud-delivered products.
Expands endpoint visibility coverage. Cisco’s in-depth visibility of over 180 million managed devices will be augmented by Duo’s broad visibility of mobile and unmanaged devices.
The acquisition is expected to close during the first quarter of Cisco’s fiscal year 2019, subject to customary closing conditions and required regulatory approvals.
Duo Security, which will continue to be led by CEO Dug Song, will join Cisco’s Networking and Security business led by EVP and GM David Goeckeler.
CSCO closed at $41.86.
Shopify little changed after Q2 results
Analysts diverge on Shopify after quarterly results
Shopify little changed after Q2 results, Stockwinners
Following the company’s second quarter results, Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson downgraded Shopify (SHOP) to Neutral saying the quarter was “not good enough” and the stock’s valuation fairly reflects current business trends.
Meanwhile, his peers at Baird and Canaccord both reiterated buy-equivalent ratings and raised their price targets on the shares following what they view as a “solid” quarter.
Shopify reported second quarter adjusted earnings per share of 2c and revenue of $245M, above consensus of (3c) and $234.64M, respectively.
GMV for the second quarter was $9.1B, an increase of 56% over the second quarter of 2017, and Gross Payments Volume, or “GPV,” grew to $3.6B.
The company said it sees third quarter revenues between $253M-$257M, third quarter GAAP operating loss in the range of $40M-$42M and adjusted operating loss in the range of $9M-$11M.
Additionally, Shopify said it expects FY18 revenues between $1.015B-$1.025B, FY18 GAAP operating loss in the range of $105M-$110M and adjusted operating profit in the range of $0-$5M.
PIPER MOVING TO THE SIDELINES
In a research note to investors, Piper Jaffray’s Olson downgraded Shopify to Neutral from Overweight and lowered his price target to $145 from $155 as he believes the stock’s current valuation adequately reflects the long-term growth story.
The analyst argued that the company’s second quarter was “good, but not good enough,” with monthly recurring revenue below investor expectations with a deceleration from 57% to 49% year-over-year growth between Q1 and Q2.
While Olson acknowledged that Shopify is performing well, the analyst told investors he believes this performance is mostly reflected in the shares’ valuation.
‘SOLID QUARTER’
Still bullish on the name, Canaccord Genuity analyst David Hynes told investors to not let yesterday’s post-earnings selloff in shares of Shopify confuse them on the fundamentals.
The analyst believes this was another “solid” quarter for Shopify as the company grew its nearly $1B revenue run-rate at 62% in the quarter.
Further, Hynes pointed out that he does not believe Shopify’s growth is decelerating faster than expected or that merchant churn is “going to sneak up and bite” the company.
He continues to believe that Shopify is one of the best-positioned growth stories in application software, and is confident that this business will ultimately scale to material profits. Hynes reiterated a Buy rating on the shares, while raising his price target on the stock to $165 from $160.
Meanwhile, Baird analyst Colin Sebastian also raised his price target for Shopify to $165 from $150 and reiterated an Outperform rating on the shares. While acknowledging that slowing monthly recurring revenue growth, a new shelf filing and its third quarter loss guidance weighed on the shares, the analyst said that this was another “solid” quarter for the company.
Ramping Plus adoption, international expansion, and new Merchant Solutions features should continue to drive significant growth, he contended. Sebastian told investors that he continues to like Shopify based on the significant e-commerce growth opportunity and defensible market leadership position he sees being demonstrated in the second quarter results.
In Wednesday morning trading, shares of Shopify were fractionally down to $137.60.
Dropbox drops as Facebook mulls switch to Google
Dropbox drops as Facebook mulls switch to Google for cloud storage
Dropbox drops as Facebook mulls switch to Google, Stockwinners
Shares of Dropbox (DBX) fell in morning trading following a report that said Facebook (FB) is considering moving its cloud storage away from the file hosting service.
FACEBOOK CONSIDERING SWITCH
Facebook is considering switching to Google (GOOG, GOOGL) for email and productivity applications, The Information reported earlier, citing two people with knowledge of the discussions.
The move would be a setback for Microsoft (MSFT), whose applications Facebook currently uses. Facebook, which has about 27,000 employees, stopped using Google apps inside the company several years ago. Additionally, Facebook is also considering moving its cloud storage to Google from Dropbox, according to The Information.
Last month, Dropbox announced a new chapter in the evolution of Magic Pocket, its custom-built storage infrastructure, saying it is deploying Shingled Magnetic Recording, or SMR, drive technology to increase overall storage density, reduce the company’s physical data center footprint and provide significant cost savings without sacrificing performance or reliability.
Dropbox said at the time that it expects to have a quarter of its Magic Pocket infrastructure on SMR drive capacity by 2019. In its debut earnings report, Dropbox reported revenue of $316.3M, up 28% from the year-ago period.
Shares of Dropbox are down about 4% to $31.03 in morning trading following the report.
CA Technologies sold for $18.9 billion
Broadcom to acquire CA Technologies for $44.50 per share in cash
CA Technologies sold for $18.9 billion, Stockwinners
Broadcom (AVGO) and CA Technologies (CA) announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Broadcom has agreed to acquire CA to build one of the world’s leading infrastructure technology companies.
Under the terms of the agreement, which has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies, CA’s shareholders will receive $44.50 per share in cash. This represents a premium of approximately 20% to the closing price of CA common stock on July 11, 2018, the last trading day prior to the transaction announcement, and a premium of approximately 23% to CA’s volume-weighted average price for the last 30 trading days.
The all-cash transaction represents an equity value of approximately $18.9B, and an enterprise value of approximately $18.4B.
The transaction is expected to drive Broadcom’s long-term Adjusted EBITDA margins above 55% and be immediately accretive to Broadcom’s non-GAAP EPS.
On a combined basis, Broadcom expects to have last twelve months non-GAAP revenues of approximately $23.9B and last twelve months non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA of approximately $11.6B.
Broadcom intends to fund the transaction with cash on hand and $18B in new, fully-committed debt financing.
Broadcom expects to maintain an investment grade rating, given its strong cash flow generation and intention to rapidly de-leverage.
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the approval of CA shareholders and antitrust approvals in the U.S., the EU and Japan.
Careal Property Group AG and affiliates, who collectively own approximately 25% of the outstanding shares of CA common stock, have entered into a voting agreement to vote in favor of the transaction.
The closing of the transaction is expected to occur in the fourth calendar quarter of 2018.
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VIDEO: London District Catholic School Board gymnastics meet
More than 2,500 students participated in London District Catholic School Board’s educational gymnastics meet over five days.
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Published on: March 6, 2019 | Last Updated: March 6, 2019 7:04 AM EST
PHOTOS: The London Catholic school board's gymnastics meet
The five-day London District Catholic School Board gymastics meet wrapped up on Tuesday having seen more than 2,500 participants from 45 schools.
DD Sym (9) (left) and Randi Cordeiro (9) of St. Joseph's Catholic School in Tillsonburg perform during the London District Catholic school board gymnastics meet at the Carling Heights Optimist Centre in London, Ont. on Tuesday March 5, 2019. The five-day meet wrapped up on Tuesday having seen more than 2,500 participants from 45 schools. Derek Ruttan/The London Free Press/Postmedia Network
Alessandro DaCosta (8) (leaping) and Alexander Murataj (7) of St. Kateri Catholic School in London perform during the London District Catholic school board gymnastics meet at the Carling Heights Optimist Centre in London, Ont. on Tuesday March 5, 2019. The five-day meet wrapped up on Tuesday having seen more than 2,500 participants from 45 schools. Derek Ruttan/The London Free Press/Postmedia Network
Rachael Wiley (7) (bottom) and Danica Silva (7) of St. Anne's Catholic School in St. Thomas perform a cookie roll during the London District Catholic school board gymnastics meet at the Carling Heights Optimist Centre in London, Ont. on Tuesday March 5, 2019. The five-day meet wrapped up on Tuesday having seen more than 2,500 participants from 45 schools. Derek Ruttan/The London Free Press/Postmedia Network
Helen Peternal (left) and Judy Harrigan assess the quality of performances during the London District Catholic school board gymnastics meet at the Carling Heights Optimist Centre in London, Ont. on Tuesday March 5, 2019. The five-day meet wrapped up on Tuesday having seen more than 2,500 participants from 45 schools. Derek Ruttan/The London Free Press/Postmedia Network
Aidan Bryce (9) of St. Paul Catholic School in London performs a front walkover during the London District Catholic school board gymnastics meet at the Carling Heights Optimist Centre in London, Ont. on Tuesday March 5, 2019. The five-day meet wrapped up on Tuesday having seen more than 2,500 participants from 45 schools. Derek Ruttan/The London Free Press/Postmedia Network
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About St. Vincent de Paul, our patron
Parish Patron St. Vincent de Paul St. Vincent de Paul was a peasant who started out in life with an eye to getting ahead in the world and wound up devoting his many talents to the service of the poor, the sick, orphaned children, convicts and slaves. He deliberately discarded his worldly ambitions to serve God. In his lifetime, he moved among the great men and Women of his age-the king and queen, the hierarchy, the illustrious, the wealthy. He was in a position to use political power but didn’t. Undoubtedly, St. Vincent de Paul was one of the greatest organizers who ever lived. However, he was not canonized for his stupendous talents as an organizer but because he was a saint. The story of his life is truly inspirational and has been the subject of many books. Naturally, a number of sentimental legends developed about him. Recent historians have pointed out that these legends, charming as they may be, could not possibly add to the stature of so great a saint. Peasant Background Vincent was the third of six children born to a peasant couple in the village of Pouay in Southern France. His father owned a small farm. Recognizing the exceptional intelligence of the youth, his father arranged for him to attend school. Seminaries supported by the dioceses did not exist at this time. Vincent decided to become a priest and was determined to obtain the best education possible so that he might rise in the church, not an unworthy ambition. He prepared himself by studying at the university in Toulouse. He might easily have been satisfied with the usual requirements of the time- just enough Latin to say Mass and administer the sacraments-if he had not been so ambitious. He was ordained in 1600 at the age of 19. Young “Monsieur Vincent,” as he was called, went to Marseille in 1605 and on his return trip to Paris was taken prisoner by pirates and held in captivity for two years. The pirates sold him as a slave to a fisherman. He was sold again because he was always too seasick to be of much use. His next master was an old magician with whom he was able to ingratiate himself. The magician taught him some bogus alchemy and ventriloquism. He was later to amuse his friends with the latter art and once even entertained the Pope and cardinals in Rome in this manner. He made his escape from captivity and came in contact with a priest who had lost his faith. St. Vincent tried for some time to bring the fallen priest back to the Faith and finally was successful. In connection with this episode he was inspired to make an absolutely sincere surrender of his whole life to the service of the poor. The offering was difficult because, as he himself wrote, by nature he “never had any particular devotion to the poor, nay rather the opposite.” Upon his return to Paris, St. Vincent met Cardinal Berulle, a man of considerable influence. He was given a priory and made this the center of his mission work among the poor. Appalled by the spiritual and material poverty of the peasants of France, he started visiting the villages and giving mission. Several learned priests, impressed by his example, joined him. From this start, under St Vincent’s direction, the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission instituted. Because of the success of the missions among the villagers, St. Vincent started missions or retreats for students about to be ordained. Out of this grew the first seminaries in France. His retreats then extended to the learned laymen of the time. St.. Vincent accepted the post of grand chaplain to the gaI1ey sIaves, a position he held until the end of his life. The famous story that the saint once took the place of a galley slave so that the slave might visit his family has been shown by his most thorough biographers to have been just a legend. Influenced Wealthy One of the most remarkable things about St. Vincent was his tremendous influence with women of high social standing. His portraits testify that he was anything but a glamour-boy type. With his bulbous nose, heavy chin, apparently few teeth, and bright little eyes, he was about as ugly-looking as humans come. His good humor, kindliness, sanctity, unselfishness and good manners dominated. The finest drawing rooms were open to him. The high-born ladies opened their purses for his charities. But he needed more than money. Always practical, he organized the wealthy women into an auxiliary known as the Ladies of Charity. One of these Ladies of Charity, Louise de Marillac, also to become a saint, under St. Vincent’s guidance organized another auxiliary, drawing membership from the sturdy peasant girls. This auxiliary cared for the poor and was the beginning of the Sisters of Charity, correctly called Daughters of Charity. Loved Children St. Vincent had so many irons in the fire it is difficult to determine which might have been his favorite charitable work. He obviously was deeply moved by the plight of abandoned children and with the help of the Ladies of Charity and the Daughters he established homes for foundlings. Touching as the legend is, there seems to be little truth in the story that he went about the alleys of Paris filling his cloak with infants. It was he who revolutionized the hospitals of France and was one of the first to provide humane care for the mentally ill. He also raised large sums of money to ransom Christian captives in North Africa. During the Thirty Years War he established food kitchens in Paris and raised thousands of dollars to distribute in relief. ‘Slave of God’ A humble priest, despite setbacks, disappointments and even slander, he kept serenity and evenness of mind. His one desire was to be a “slave of God.” He did not seek honors for himself. In the last years of his life he was sick a great deal and died Sept. 27, 1660. He was canonized by Pope Clement XII and Pope Leo XIII named him the patron of Catholic charitable societies.
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Comedian Lashonda Lester was Funniest Person in Austin
Joe Gross @joegross
Apr 7, 2017 at 12:01 AM Sep 25, 2018 at 10:17 PM
Austin comedian Lashonda Lester, named the Funniest Person in Austin 2016, died Thursday.
No cause of death has yet been released, but Lester was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in 2015. She was 41.
The Detroit-born comedian opened a high-profile show for Marc Maron at the Paramount Theatre on March 31 and was a few weeks away from recording her first Comedy Central special. She had appeared on the NBC show "Last Comic Standing" in 2015 and can be seen in Katie Pengra’s and Dustin Svehlak’s 2016 film "Funniest," a documentary about the Funniest Person in Austin competition that debuted at last year’s Austin Film Festival.
Lester was a beloved fixture of Austin’s stand-up scene, garnering near-universal respect from her peers in a field where that is extremely hard to come by.
"She was the queen," Cap City Comedy Club co-owner and General Manager Margie Coyle said. "I don’t mean that in a superficial way. There’s a reason Austin comedians are torn up today. She was a dominating talent on the verge of becoming a national name."
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A day with the queen of Austin comedy
Austin comic Matt Bearden was a friend of Lester’s.
"Lashonda was a great Austinite," Bearden said Thursday. "She had that Wild West attitude of Texas loudmouth proud, strong women. She fit in with them, but she never let you forget she was from Detroit. If our scene was a car, she would be the hood ornament."
He recalled seeing Lester many years ago at a Funniest Person in Austin competition.
"When you are in the business a long time and you watch comics every single night, it takes a lot for someone to stick out to you," Bearden said. "The first time I saw Lashonda, she was very, very, very green, but I was sitting next to Margie Coyle and I said to her, ‘Is she going to be a star?’ You just knew. She kept developing and getting better and better.
"The thing that is killing (fellow comics) in town right now is that we work really, really hard at something that, in Austin, isn’t hailed as much as film or music," Bearden continued. "And Lashonda was about to break out. Getting on the small late-night shows is great, but getting a Comedy Central special is a home run. (Because she didn’t get to make the special,) it feels like she got cheated and the audience got cheated."
Fellow comic Brian Gaar noted that her life experience was a crucial part of her comedy. "I think she came to stand-up later in life than many comics, and she had done all these things that were reflected in her comedy," Gaar said. "She was also someone who didn’t come to Austin, get a little famous and leave. She became a part of the scene and gave back to it and invested in it."
Lietza Brass is a producer of the Moontower Comedy Festival and booked Lester into Moontower’s "The Next" showcase last year, which is set up for those in the industry to view the best of the best in Austin comedy. Lester was also scheduled to perform at this year’s festival.
"Her material and her energy that night stood out and apart from everyone," Brass said of Lester’s Funniest Person victory in May 2016. "She was just so ready at that moment to win. She didn’t have to put a character on. She could just walk out and be herself, and sometimes being yourself on stage is the most dangerous and scariest thing you can do because the audience is sometimes taken aback. Not with her."
Many people said that younger comics looked up to Lester. "If something like this had happened to someone else," Bearden said, "other comedians would have gone to her for advice on how to deal with it."
"She was a real person," Gaar said, "and that is my favorite kind of comedian."
Lester is survived by her mother, husband and son.
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Commentary: Equality at work isn't only a 'women's issue'
By Tamara Fields
Nov 8, 2018 at 4:05 PM Nov 8, 2018 at 4:05 PM
The already disappointing number of women CEOs at Fortune 500 companies dropped a stunning 25 percent this year — down from just 32 to 24. This reflects the lack of women in line for the top job, and it points to the need for a more robust pipeline of women leaders at all levels of management.
This observation is hardly new, but it begs the question: Are we focusing our efforts in the right way? Many companies are providing women with programs, policies and practices to advance their career growth. While these are critically important steps, the reality is that this is not just a "women’s issue."
As Austin prepares to host 7,500 people on Friday at the annual Texas Conference for Women, we are reminded of why this matters to our city. We’ve enjoyed the growth and prosperity of being one of the fastest-growing cities in America. But with the growing competition and relentless speed of change in the economy, we simply can’t ignore the issue of diversity.
We need more diverse viewpoints to constantly spark the next brilliant ideas to maintain our economic success as a technology hub. At the same time, it should appeal to Austin natives like me and transplants alike that growing responsibly and sustainably is the right thing to do. That’s why we must create a level playing field for all people. And for this to happen, leaders must go beyond addressing the "women’s issue" and create a culture that supports equality.
To understand what equality in a workplace means in practice, Accenture conducted research, "Getting to Equal," aimed at uncovering how to create a culture where everyone has equal opportunity for advancement and pay. We surveyed more than 22,000 working men and women in 34 countries on factors that contribute to workplace equality and identified 40 factors, grouped into three categories, that help accelerate both women’s and men’s advancement — and even close the gender pay gap.
The first key area, unsurprisingly, starts at the top. Organizations need a diverse leadership team that sets, shares and measures equality targets openly. Those with at least one female senior leader have almost three times as many fast-track women. Holding leaders accountable is also shown to help.
The second group of crucial factors deals with taking action and putting in place workplace policies and practices that are family-friendly, support both genders and are bias-free in attracting and retaining people. Two-thirds of fast-track women participate in a women’s network at their organizations, compared with less than half of all women. We should also note that policies like maternity leave that are targeted at women alone can be counterproductive and likely to hold women back. But when organizations encourage parental leave for both genders, the negative impact on women’s career advancement is eliminated.
To create a workplace culture of equality, the importance of a supportive, empowering work environment cannot be understated. Fostering an atmosphere where people feel trusted and can work flexibly and express creativity goes a long way. Among the factors linked to advancement are not asking employees to conform to a dress code, providing on-demand skills training, and using technology to enable people to work remotely.
Fields is the Austin office managing director with Accenture.
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Percentage of U.S. population without health insurance 1994-2016 by location
Percentage of U.S. population without health insurance coverage from 1984 to 2016, by location of residence*
by Matej Mikulic, last edited Sep 28, 2018
This statistic shows the percentage of the U.S. population under 65 years of age without health insurance coverage from 1984 to 2016, by location of residence. In 2016, 9.9 percent of the U.S. population within metropolitan statistical areas under 65 years of age were without health insurance coverage.
Within MSA**
Outside MSA**
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* Data prior to 1997 are not strictly comparable with data for later years due to the 1997 questionnaire redesign.
Estimates for 2000-2002 were calculated using 2000-based sample weights and may differ from estimates in other reports that used 1990-based sample weights for 2000-2002 estimates.
Beginning in quarter 3 of the 2004 NHIS, persons under 65 years with no reported coverage were asked explicitly about Medicaid coverage. In this statistic, estimates were calculated with the additional information starting with 2005 data.
Includes all other races not shown separately, those with unknown marital status, unknown disability status, and, in 1984 and 1989, persons with unknown poverty level.
Values not included in the pdf version of the report were taken from the Health, United States, trend tables.
** MSA is metropolitan statistical area. Starting with 2006 data, MSA status is determined using 2000 census data and the 2000 standards for defining MSAs.
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Burton hopes to be an inspiration
19 July 2012 / 15:30
Euan Burton has long been the face of British judo - and the Scottish fighter would love nothing more than to inspire the next generation with Olympic gold in London.
The 33-year-old half-middleweight will lead Team GB's 14-strong squad at ExCeL, where hopes are high of delivering a first medal at the Games for the sport in 12 years.
Edinburgh-based Burton was once ranked fourth in the world for the under-81kgs division, claiming bronze from both the 2010 European and World Championships.
The Edinburgh judoka continues to produce consistent performances on the International Judo Federation competition circuit, and is often ribbed by his fellow fighters when they spot him blown up larger-than-life as part of a poster campaign.
"It is strange when people send you a Tweet or message on Facebook with them standing up against a bus shelter with a picture of me on it, but it is nice to be recognised for what you have done in your career so far and to build some hope for what you are going to do in now just a few weeks," Burton told Press Association Sport.
"However, it is important not to get carried away with it all because at the end of the day, you need to win judo matches, not appear on billboards.
"It is not any extra pressure, it is more exposure for me and also more importantly for the sport.
"Anything I can do to make more people interested in judo and take it up, I am happy to do."
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Photonics/Optics
January 1, 2011 | Photonics/Optics
Method for Implementing Optical Phase Adjustment
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
A method has been developed to mechanically implement the optical phase shift by adjusting the polarization of the pump and probe beams in an NMOR (nonlinear magneto-optical rotation) magnetometer as the proper phase shift is necessary to induce self-oscillation. This innovation consists of mounting the pump beam on a ring that surrounds the atomic vapor sample. The propagation of the probe beam is perpendicular to that of the pump beam. The probe beam can be considered as defining the axis of a cylinder, while the pump beam is directed radially. The magnetic field to be measured defines a third vector, but it is also taken to lie along the cylinder axis. Both the pump and probe beams are polarized such that their electric field vectors are substantially perpendicular to the magnet field. By rotation of the ring supporting the pump beam, its direction can be varied relative to the plane defined by the probe electric field and the magnetic field to be measured.
This work was done by David C. Hovde of Southwest Sciences and Eric Corsini of the University of California, Berkeley, for Goddard Space Flight Center. For further information, contact the Goddard Innovative Partnerships Office at (301) 286-5810. GSC-15608-1
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Second Gen Moto E Smartphone Gets LTE, Bigger Screen for $149
by Fox Van Allen on February 25, 2015
in Cell Phones, News, Phones and Mobile, Blog, Money Savers :: 0 comments
Those of us here at Techlicious have always been big fans of the Motorola Moto E smartphone. It’s a capable, entry-level device that’s perfect for those on a tight budget or just those trying out a smartphone for the first time. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of the Samsung Galaxy S6 or iPhone 6, but the price is definitely right – it's about $500 less expensive than those top-of-the-line devices.
Today, Motorola released the successor to that phone, the second generation Moto E. The new-for-2015 version features a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of expandable storage, a 5 MP rear-facing camera as well as a VGA front-facing camera for selfies, and a 2390 mAh battery designed for full-day life. The phone’s Gorilla Glass 3 display is getting an upgrade to 4.5 inches, though it still carries a 540 x 960 resolution. Mobile data speeds are also getting a boost thanks to its new 4G LTE capability (a 3G version of the phone is available at a lower cost). The Moto E runs Android 5.0 Lollipop, the latest version of the mobile operating system.
The new Motorola Moto E is available for sale in the U.S. starting today. It is slated to retail for $149.99 off-contract for the 4G LTE version; the 3G version retails for $119.99. Grip bands for added customization are also available in 6 different colors ($19.99 for a pack of 3); grip shells are available in 5 colors ($19.99 each). To learn more about the phone, visit the Motorola website or watch the short promotional video below.
[Image credit: Motorola]
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NuMedii Receives $3.5M in a Series A Financing
News Jun 27, 2013
NuMedii, Inc. announced that it has received $3.5M in a Series A funding led by Claremont Creek Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation by Life Science Angels and others. NuMedii raised this initial funding to further develop its proprietary technology and prepare its first three internal drug development programs for clinical testing.
“NuMedii’s drug development approach is extremely capital efficient and is designed to be much more successful in bringing new therapeutics to patients. We are excited to have the backing of investors and advisors who have a track record of successfully establishing life science companies and who support our long term vision for our company,” said NuMedii founder and CEO, Gini Deshpande, Ph.D.
By leveraging vast amounts of life sciences “Big Data” correlating disease information with drug data, NuMedii’s technology predicts which drugs will be most effective in treating a particular disease. NuMedii then translates this information into novel therapeutic candidates. NuMedii’s core technology was invented by its co-founder, Dr. Atul Butte at Stanford University and is exclusively licensed to NuMedii.
NuMedii is also expanding its Board of Directors. In addition to Drs. Deshpande and Butte, the Board will include Ted Driscoll, Ph.D., Brad Webb, Ph.D. and Samuel Saks, MD. Ted is a Venture Partner leading the Digital Healthcare team at Claremont Creek Ventures and will serve as Chairman. Brad is a Venture Partner at Claremont Creek Ventures and Sam is a board-certified oncologist and founder of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Sam Saks commented, “I have been an advisor to NuMedii since 2011 and believe NuMedii’s technology is an example of the type of innovation that is required to fundamentally address the constant failure plaguing the drug development industry.”
“NuMedii is pioneering 'digital' pharma development, which perfectly fits Claremont Creek Ventures’ focus on investing in early stage companies that are revolutionizing medicine with genetics, data mining and computation,” added Ted Driscoll.
Ravi Mhatre, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, noted that LSVP “is actively investing in disruptive applications of Big Data. NuMedii has the potential to disrupt the drug development process by utilizing life science Big Data.”
NuMedii today also announced the appointment of Craig Webb, Ph.D. as its Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Webb spent the past thirteen years developing an integrated program in translational medicine as one of the founding scientists at the Van Andel Research Institute in Michigan. His work focused on integrating advances in genomics and computational biology to identify optimal therapies for cancer patients, and identify new uses of existing drugs beyond their approved indication.
“I am delighted to be joining a talented team of dedicated individuals with a collective focus on the efficient discovery and rapid validation of new uses of existing drugs. The NuMedii approach represents the most time and cost effective means through which safe and effective medicines can be developed for patients in need,” said Dr. Webb.
Facial Expression Analysis Tells Us Little About Emotion
Software that purportedly reads emotions in faces is being deployed or tested for a variety of purposes, including surveillance, hiring, clinical diagnosis, and market research. But a new scientific report finds that facial movements are an inexact gauge of a person's feelings, behaviors or intentions.
Increasing the Odds of Synthetic Chemistry Success
Chemists show how analyzing previously published chemical reaction data can predict how hypothetical reactions may proceed, narrowing the range of conditions chemists need to explore. Their algorithmic prediction process, which includes aspects of machine learning, can save valuable time and resources in chemical research.
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Home News India Losing Its Offshoring Advantage
India Losing Its Offshoring Advantage
According to the latest analysis of the Indian labour market by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), out of the 21 centres opened since January 2007 by the 20 largest UK companies, only two were in India, while four were in China, three in Eastern Europe and Morocco, respectively. Nick Mayes, senior consultant at PAC said that in the short term, there was no “serious threat” to India’s outsourcing dominance. However, he added that companies are on the verge of reducing their dependence on “India’s heated labour market”.
China’s emergence as a global sourcing hub has traditionally been slow but the report found that BT Global Services, EDS, IBM and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have all started sourcing facilities in the country over the past 18 months.
The two facilities launched in India were both outside the traditional hotspots of Bangalore and Mumbai-IBM’s new centre is in Noida and TCS’ expansion site in Hyderabad. Among the companies that were analysed were Accenture, BT Global Services, Capgemini, Capita CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and Logica.
As salaries of the Indian workforce increase, it seems obvious for the western companies to look for options that provide reduced costs. With an efficient English speaking workforce, Europe seems to be a hot destination. Similarly, close proximity also enhances their say in the outsourcing industry. In fact, the emergence of increased outsourcing to China will be closely watched by the Indian industry for sure.
India Losing Its Offshoring Advantage Reviewed by Shubham ~NeO~ on November 03, 2009 Rating: 5
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“This Magnificent Cake!” tastes good at Tehran animation festival
TEHRAN – “This Magnificent Cake!”, a joint production of Belgium, France and the Netherlands, was named best film at the 11th Tehran International Animation Festival, the organizers announced on Thursday.
Co-directed by Marc James Roels and Emma De Swaef, the story of the film is set in colonial Africa in the late 19th century. The anthology film tells the stories of five different characters, including a troubled king, a middle-aged Pygmy working in a luxury hotel, a failed businessman on an expedition, a lost porter and a young army deserter.
The closing ceremony of the event was organized at the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA), where “Am I a Wolf?” by Iranian animator Amir-Hushang Moein selected as a runner-up.
The award for third best movie went to “Peripheria” by David Coquard-Dassault from France.
“Patchwork Pals” by German director Angela Steffen won the award for best children’s film, while “My Little Goat” by Tomoki Misato from Japan received the award for the best student animation.
The award for the best TV production went to “One Thousand Myths” co-directed by Asghar Saffar and Abbas Jalali Yekta from Iran, and “9 Ways to Draw a Person” by Sasha Svirsky from Russia won the award for the best experimental animation.
The acclaimed Iranian animation “The Last Fiction” by Ashkan Rahgozar won the award for best feature-length movie, while “Wicked Girl”, a co-production between France and Turkey by Turkish director Ayce Kartal, received the special jury prize.
“The Blissful Accidental Death” by Sergiu Negulici from Romania received the award for best artistic and technical achievement, and the CIFEJ Prize was presented to “Trunky” by Ekaterina Filippova from Russia.
In the national section, “Fox” by Sadeq Javadi was picked as best animation.
The film is about a young fox on the verge of experiencing the first love. Meanwhile, it gets trapped by a hunter. Thus begins the fox’s effort to survive and love, and seek revenge.
“Am I a Wolf?” was selected as second best film and “Maned and Macho” by Shiva Sadeq-Asadi won the award for best third movie.
The special jury award was presented to “Eaten” by Mohsen Rezapur.
Veteran Iranian film scholar Akbar Alami also was honored for his lifetime achievements during the ceremony.
Photo: Iranian film scholar Akbar Alami (R) poses with IIDCYA director Fazel Nazari after being honored for his lifetime achievements during the 11th Tehran International Animation Festival on March 7, 2019. (Fars/Hamid Tavakkoli)
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Precision Optics of Gardner acquires Texas firm Ross Optical for $2 million
Lisa Eckelbecker Telegram & Gazette Staff @LisaEckelbecker
GARDNER – Precision Optics Corp. Inc. has acquired Ross Optical Industries Inc. of El Paso, Texas, for $2 million.
The deal brings together two makers of optical components and technologies.
Precision Optics paid $1.4 million to Ross owners, held back $100,000 to cover purchase price adjustments and could pay the owners another $500,000 if Ross hits certain business targets over the next three years, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Precision Optics also raised $950,000 to help fund the deal through the sale of 760,000 shares of common stock at $1.25 a share to investors, it reported to regulators.
Under the terms of the deal, Precision Optics will operate Ross as a business unit and employ its president, Divaker Mangadu, to oversee the operations.
Precision Optics mostly makes medical devices, although a small part of its business involves designing and making military and industrial products. The company lost $351,390, or 4 cents per basic and diluted share, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018. As of March 31, it possessed about $1.4 million in cash and equivalent securities.
Ross, which dates to 1989, gives Precision Optics additional products and a bigger foothold in the U.S. defense market. Ross Optical posted revenue of $3.9 million and a profit of $410,000 for the 12-month period ended December 31, 2018.
Precision Optics said the sale closed July 1. The company’s stock, which trades over the counter, closed Monday at $1.35 per share, up 20 cents.
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By Felix Sowerbutts
€11.3 million of price reductions at Y.CO
Y.CO has announced several strategic price reductions to enhance its activity at the Monaco Yacht Show…
Y.CO has announced several strategic price reductions during the Monaco Yacht Show to entice activity on its listings.
"It's a good message to go into a boat show with new prices", begins Charlie Birkett, Co-Founder and CEO of Y.CO. "You have to have a plan right from the start with these listings. If there's interest in the vessel, it comes to light in the first three or four months of the listing - after that you must make a calculated decision as to whether you hold your price or reduce it, but you get maximum impact from boat shows if you're active."
Commenting on the apparent pricing warfare between the Feadship's 46.6m Kiss (2015), now €29.5 million, and 42m Lady May (2014), listed with Edmiston at €31 million, Birkett says "they are a similar size but very different boats. Lady May's climate controlled sun deck is truly breathtaking and Kiss has a beautiful interior. All yachts have different selling points but ultimately both yachts are priced to sell and great deals to the right buyers."
The price reductions are as follows:
- €5.45 million reduction on 46.6m Kiss to €29.5 million.
- €3 million reduction on 58.6m Capri to €24.95 million.
- €1.05 million reduction on 41.3m Alejandra to €6.95 million (VAT paid).
- €1.8 million reduction on 39m Cinderella IV to €8.95 million (VAT paid).
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Crowborough sex offender jailed after attempting to meet young girl
Danny Watson, , 37, a builder, of Alderbrook Close, Crowborough, has been jailed for grooming and drugs offences.
Express Reporter
Published: 13:25 Updated: 14:01 Monday 27 February 2017
A convicted sex offender from Crowborough has been jailed after attempting to groom someone he believed to be a 12-year-old girl.
Sussex Police say Danny Watson, 37, a builder, of Alderbrook Close, Crowborough, was sentenced to a total of eight years in prison following a trial at Hove Crown Court on Friday, February 24.
He had been found guilty, police say, of arranging to meet a child aged under 16 following grooming. He was also found guilty of two counts of possession of cannabis and cocaine, and a count of possession with intent to supply cannabis.
Watson was originally arrested after he engaged in indecent on-line contact with someone he believed to be a 12-year-old girl in August last year and arranged to meet her in a Brighton street.
However the person he was in contact with was in fact an adult man, who was filming the meeting. The man also informed the police, who arrived and arrested Watson.
Watson was already serving a suspended sentence, having been convicted in October the previous year to possession of indecent images of children at his address. He had been sentenced to three months imprisonment suspended for 12 months, and was also a registered sex offender for seven years, say police.
Police say Watson is now a registered sex offender for life and has been given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) to last until a further court order, which severely restricts his access to children and computers. He has also been banned for life from any work involving children and young people.
Detective Constable Steve Smith said: “Watson was already a convicted sex offender less than a year previously, but clearly decided to take a chance at further offending.
“The sentence shows that the courts will take repeat offending of this type very seriously.”
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Home Sports Junior Scrappers extend streak to 61 in a row with home win
Junior Scrappers extend streak to 61 in a row with home win
Coach Rick Baker (right) confers with the Junior Scrappers during the second half of their 34-12 victory over Camden Fairview Oct. 5 at Scrapper Stadium. Fairview scored early in the game before Nashville put up 3 touchdowns to take a 20-6 halftime lead. The Scrappers scored twice more in the second half to seal their 61st consecutive victory.
The Nashville Junior Scrappers (5-0) made it 61 wins in a row as they defeated Camden Fairview 34-12 Oct. 5 at Scrapper Stadium.
The Streak began with the last 2 games of the 2010 season.
Fairview took an early lead on an 11-yard touchdown pass with 2:49 left in the first quarter.
From there, it was all Scrappers as Ty Gordon opened the scoring on a 3-yard run with 49 seconds left in the first quarter. Ronald Pineda kicked the first of 4 successful PATS to put the Scrappers ahead 7-6.
Quincey Garland added to the lead midway through the second quarter on an 8-yard run. With less than a minute to go before halftime, Gordon scored his second TD of the night on a 4-yard run, and the Scrappers held a 20-6 lead at halftime.
Stewart caught a 33-yard scoring pass from Gordon with 6:51 left in the third quarter, putting the Scrappers up 27-0.
Fairview’s final score of the night came on a 20-yard run with 3:58 to go in the third.
Tyler Beene (left) and De’Vay Ragland (right) converge on the Fairview Cardinal for a tackle Oct. 5 at Scrapper Stadium.
The Scrappers added another TD with 6:06 left in the game on a 1-yard run by Stewart, making the final score 34-12.
Gordon completed 5 of 10 passes for 107 yards and 1 TD.
Stewart was 1 of 3 passing for 28 yards. He was the games leading rusher with 10 carries for 111 yards and a touchdown. Gordon carried 11 times for 91 yards and 2 TDs. Garland rushed 3 times for 14 yards and a touchdown.
Austin Hanson had 1 carry for 9 yards. Chanler Chapman ran twice for 8 yards. Ethan Gunter had 1 carry for 4 yards.
Stewart was the Scrappers’ leading receiver with 2 catches for 39 yards and a touchdown.
Tyler Beene had 1 reception for 30 yards. Will Pope made 1 catch for 28 yards. Hanson caught the ball twice for 38 yards.
Tyler Beene (4) hauls in a pass from Ty Gordon Oct. 5 during the Junior Scrappers’ 34-12 win over Camden Fairview at Scrapper Stadium. With the win, the Scrappers extended their winning streak to 61 straight games dating back to the last 2 games of the 2010 season.
The Scrappers had 363 total yards, including 231 rushing and 132 passing.
Fairview recorded 78 yards rushing, 189 passing for 267 total yards.
The Scrappers will be on the road to Ashdown Thursday, Oct. 12. Kickoff will be at 7 p.m.
The eighth grade Scrappers are 4-0 on the season after defeating Fairview 30-20 Sept. 5.
Aiden Chapman scored on a 62-yard pass from Gunter to put Nashville ahead 6-0 late in the first quarter.
Gunter and Chapman connected on a 14-yard pass with 14 seconds before halftime for Nashville’s second TD. Gunter ran the ball for the 2-point conversion and a 14-0 lead.
Fairview scored as time expired in the first half, closing the gap to 14-6 Nashville.
Gunter threw a 49-yard scoring strike to Chanler Chapman with 4:13 left in the third quarter. A. Chapman ran for the 2-point conversion.
Nashville’s final score of the night came on a 17-yard pass from Gunter to A. Chapman. Gunter passed to Garrett Willard for the 2-point conversion.
Fairview scored twice in the second half.
Gunter completed 6 of 10 passes for 148 yards and 4 touchdowns. A. Chapman had 3 catches for 93 yards and 3 TDs. C. Chapman had 2 receptions for 52 yards and a touchdown. Matthis Hibberd caught the ball once for 3 yards.
Chapman ran the ball 67 times for 87 yards. C. Chapman had 8 carries for 22 yards. Gunter had 4 rushes for 20 yards.
The Scrappers had 287 yards total offense, with 256 yards for Fairview.
The eighth grade Scrappers will play at Ashdown Thursday, Oct. 12, at 5:30 p.m.
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Torrumbarry Hall
The small, but active, six-member Torrumbarry Hall Committee of Management has embarked upon a strategy to turn the ageing infrastructure of its local Public Hall into a vital and functional facility which is responsive to the needs of its wider community. The new facility will be named the Torrumbarry-Patho Community Centre, a name which better reflects the true makeup of this small rural community.
Stage 1 of the project has been completed with the relocation of the 133 year old Patho State School to Torrumbarry. This building is truly representative of the many small rural schools which were once common in this area. The relocated building has a threefold purpose. It is primarily of heritage value and will house items of historical interest and value. Secondly it will become a much needed meeting room. Its third purpose is to provide a resource room for district secretaries and their organisations. The relocation project was made possible by significant contributions from members of the community. John, Matthew and Craig Bayley have made an inkind contribution of approximately $12,000 to Stage 1. Significant contributions have also come from Marc Clapham of Martra Constructions. Torrumbarry Community Club has contributed $7,000 to the project and Torrumbarry District Planning Group $5,000. Western Ward councillor Greg Toll has been a strong advocate for the project and has facilitated the allocation of Campaspe Shire discretionary funds.
The next, and major stage of the project will make structural repairs to the existing Halls and include important additions and alterations such as heating and cooling, a kitchen upgrade and internal and external painting. In addition site works to improve drainage, fencing and landscaping will be undertaken. The project includes provision for grid-connected solar and waste water treatment systems.
The Committee of Management has sought to consult widely with the community through regular mail-outs and an appeal for pledges towards the project. To this stage in excess of $5,000 has been pledged by community households and we are confident of reaching our target of $6,000. This amount combined with a significant contribution of reserve Hall funds and in-kind labour contributions will form our local contribution towards a $200,000 submission for Government funding. We have every reason to be confident that Campaspe Shire will continue to be a strong supporter and sponsor of this community project.
Torrumbarry Hall Committee – President
Irene Baldwin
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Brokerage sales decline in July
John Burnham, YachtWorld.com
July brokerage transactions in the United States were fewer in number, but much pricier than a year earlier.
A total of 2,871 boats were sold — 12 percent fewer than 3,257 in July of 2016 — but the transactions produced $380 million, an increase of $50 million, or 15 percent. These contrasting data were compiled based on YachtWorld member brokers’ reports in SoldBoats, the brokers’ proprietary database.
Powerboat and sailboat sales volumes were both lower by double-digit percentages for the month, as 2,407 powerboats and 464 sailboats changed hands. In July last year 2,735 powerboats and 522 sailboats were sold. The decline was 12 percent for powerboats and 11 percent for sailboats.
A slowdown in sales in the smaller-boat segments of the market was responsible for the volume disparity from one year to the next. Sales were off among boats from 36 to 45 feet, 26 to 35 feet, and under 26 feet by 12, 13 and 14 percent, respectively.
The volume of sales was higher across larger-boat segments, and notably, sales increased from 14 to 19 boats for boats 80 feet and larger; the total sales value in that category increased, as well, from $47 million to $98 million.
Despite the decline in sales volume through much of the brokerage market, average final prices increased in every category except boats from 56 to 79 feet.
As an example, among boats from 26 to 35 feet, a category in which sales fell 13 percent, from 1,255 boats to 1,090, the total value of sales declined 3 percent, from $73.6 million to $71.3 million, and the average price increased from $59,000 to $65,000.
Through the first seven months of the year U.S. sales volume was down 3 percent, with 18,011 boats sold, and the total value was up 11 percent, with $2.55 billion in sales.
A more detailed report summarizing recent U.S. brokerage sales will appear in the September issue of Soundings Trade Only.
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Kurtzman: Magnetic Cumberbatch & Crushing Star Trek
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Star Trek 2‘s Alex Kurtzman is full of praise for J.J. Abrams, Star Trek 2 and newcomer Benedict Cumberbatch.
Set to play a “mysterious villain,” Cumberbatch is receiving high marks for his work thus far in Star Trek 2. “He’s incredible,” said Kurtzman. “What he does with language is incredible. His training is amazing and he’s so magnetic. He holds the screen in any size frame. He really is a joy to watch.”
Praise also went to J.J. Abrams. “The movie is going unbelievably well,” said Kurtzman. “J.J. as usual is crushing it; he’s doing an amazing, amazing job. I think as much as we put all of our love and effort into the first one, there’s even more in this one and he is really, he’s such an exacting and beautiful director. What I watch him do, it’s so amazing, he inspires everybody around him and he’s been so utterly true to everything that we all have honored and loved about Trek so that’s kind of where we’re at right now. The finish line is in sight.”
Kurtzman spoke about Star Trek 2 in general, hinting that one should not assume that the Enterprise crew are all best buddies after the events of Star Trek XI. “Without spoiling anything, the challenge is that you don’t want to jump too far ahead and assume that just because they got together they’re all comfortable with each other,” he said. “They’re still all working out their kinks and still becoming the bridge crew that we remember from the series. That’s still very much alive, and look, any good sequel is about the challenge that the group faces in order to become the unified team and I think that that challenge in this movie is going to be hopefully amazing.”
Star Trek 2 opens May 17, 2013.
Source: MovieWeb
Topics: Abrams, Cumberbatch, Kurtzman
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Father Michael Cloney will be celebrating his 50th ordination anniversary May 20. – Tina’s Photography
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PUBLISHED: May 4, 2018 at 6:28 pm | UPDATED: July 30, 2018 at 6:13 am
By Meri Scolari and Cathy Maher
For the Times-Standard
From the age of 10, Father Michael Cloney, “Father Mike” as he is affectionately called by those who know him, knew he wanted to be a priest.
“My vocation was fostered by my parents who took us to Mass every Sunday at St. Patrick’s Church in Loleta,” Cloney said. “Our family sheep ranch was on Table Bluff, and I learned to be a sheepherder because I drove the sheep into the barn with the help of Laddie, our Australian collie. Little did I know that I would become a shepherd leading my flock of people.”
Rarely does a child predict his calling at such a young age, and seldom is that profession so selfless.
Born the eldest of four siblings in 1941, Cloney learned the value of hard work at a young age. He began working on ranches, at a grocery store and at a saw mill to pay his room and board to attend St. Pius X Seminary in Metropolitan, then to pay his tuition to complete his high school education at St. Bernard’s in Eureka (where he would later become a beloved teacher). By the time he enrolled at Mt. Angel Seminary in Saint Benedict, Oregon, he was spending his summer months working at Fuhrer’s Big Loaf Bakery to earn money for college tuition.
Cloney was ordained at St. Bernard Church, Eureka, on May 11, 1968. His ordination card has another prediction in a quote: “Today I am given unto you by God that I might serve you in the Redwood Empire; and that together we might serve him.”
Indeed, he has dedicated his life to selflessly serving the Catholic ministry and the people of Northern California. More than a priest, Cloney has made a significant impact on local communities since he was ordained in 1968. From teaching classes at St. Bernard’s High School in Eureka, to opening a camp, to working as a carpenter to help restore aging churches, he has lived out his values through his talents.
When asked about serving the church and communities for the last 50 years, he said, “You need to be available, diverse, adaptable and resourceful. You need to be available to help serve and do whatever you can to help with anything that comes your way.”
In December 1971, he received a call from the bishop to go teach at St. Bernard’s High School.
“I tried to teach six classes of religion the second semester without text books,” Cloney said. “Thank goodness the Sisters of St. Joseph wrote my class outlines to get me through the semester. How well I remember teaching some of my family cousins and my classmates’ children. It was like coming home.”
He taught at St. Bernard’s High from 1972 to 1979. During those years, he taught religion to all four grades, but he wanted to find another way to connect to the students outside of the religious studies, so he developed classes in photography and yearbook. He was also a stage prop and scenery moderator for drama. He was also the school chaplain, and in charge of the liturgy and worship ministry, class retreats and a class moderator. He even found time to be an afternoon school bus driver and assistant coach for the track team.
Not only does Cloney make himself available, he stays connected to his previous students, and reaches out to them when he needs help. It’s doubtful that any one of them would say no.
Tina Moranda of Tina’a Photography, credits Cloney with helping her get her first job.
“I transferred from McKinleyville High to St. Bernard’s the end of my sophomore year. I took yearbook and photography,” she said. “He took me under his wing and helped me get my first job at Spectrum Photography and Sound System.”
Rex Bohn, 1st District supervisor, said, “I remember Father Mike from when I was a student. I remember him before he became a priest and I remember when he was ordained. Father Mike is a man who never forgot his roots.”
Cloney’s local roots run deep. The Cloney family traveled to California from the East Coast during the Gold Rush and then came to Humboldt County. They made the journey with the Tyson family, another local family name. Mike Tyson, a lifelong friend of Cloney’s, said, “He’s always been here for the community. He is consistent and followed his family heritage. Father Mike is a very talented woodworker, which was very handy since he always seemed to be put in a parish that needed a lot of fixing. His dedication has a way of putting people together.”
After the 1964 flood, he rebuilt the Hoopa and Klamath churches. He spent 19 months helping with construction with the aid of the Mennonites in the Eel River Valley after the 1992 earthquakes. In 1983, he was declared “Man of the Year” in Crescent City. The list of accolades for serving his communities and the church goes on and on.
By the time he retired in 2015 at the age of 73, Cloney had put himself to work for the good of all communities he served. He had worked as an associate pastor, a high school chaplain and religion teacher; chaplain and developer of a summer camp program; and pastor of five parishes and four elementary schools. He served in Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte counties.
When asked about his legacy of service, Cloney said, “My life’s attitude and value was to serve where I was called by the bishop. I was free to enter into a new ministry with openness and adventure. My challenge was to serve the spiritual, physical, emotional and intellectual needs of the people of all ages. I have been gifted by God to shepherd my people for 50 years.”
Even in his retirement, Cloney continues to help by serving daily at the St. Vincent de Paul dining facility. He also offered yearly extreme weather housing in McKinleyville and was a member of the McKinleyville Organizing Committee. He also continues to support local parishes by celebrating Mass on an as-needed basis.
Cloney will be celebrating his 50th ordination anniversary May 20 at St. Bernard’s Church in Eureka, with a 10:30 a.m. Mass, followed by an open invitation reception from 1 to 4 p.m. at St. Bernard’s Academy Gymnasium at C and Dollison streets.
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Court orders Nazi-looted Pissarro painting returned to Jewish family heirs
Lawyer hails ruling that ‘gives victims of the savagery committed by the Vichy government the right to recover their looted possessions, without a time limit’
By Juliette MONTESSE 2 October 2018, 8:05 pm 2 Edit
'La cueillette des pois' ('Picking Peas') by Camille Pissarro, painted in 1887. (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)
PARIS, France (AFP) — An American couple on Tuesday lost their bid to win back a painting by Impressionist master Camille Pissarro, as a French court confirmed it must be handed to the family of the Jewish collector it was looted from during World War II.
Wealthy art collectors Bruce and Robbi Toll had launched an appeal after a court ruled in November that the painting belonged by rights to the descendants of Simon Bauer, a Jewish businessman disappropriated by the Nazis in 1943.
The Tolls insisted they had no idea the painting, “La Cueillette” (“Picking Peas”), had been looted when they bought it at Christie’s in New York in 1995 for $800,000.
But the Paris appeals court ruled Tuesday that the original court decision stood, in a move hailed by the Bauer family.
The ruling “gives victims of the savagery committed by the Vichy government the right to recover their looted possessions, without a time limit,” their lawyer Cedric Fischer said in a statement.
Jean Jacques Bauer, who recovered a valuable Pissarro painting, reads the court decision prior to an interview with Associated Press, in Paris, November 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
The Vichy regime, France’s anti-Semitic wartime government which collaborated with the Nazis, seized 93 paintings from Bauer.
The wealthy businessman narrowly escaped death when a train drivers’ strike stopped him from being sent to a concentration camp.
Bauer recovered a few of his paintings after the war, but never La Cueillette, which Pissarro had painted in gouache in 1887.
‘Bought in good faith’
The verdict paves the way for the Bauer family to retrieve the painting, which during the court case has been kept locked up by the Musee d’Orsay and Orangerie museums.
The ruling mirrors other legal disputes over art and property looted from Jewish owners by the Nazis which were subsequently sold on to often unsuspecting new owners.
Out of 650,000 pieces of art stolen by the Nazis, about 100,000 had not been returned by 2009, according to figures released at the Holocaust Era Assets Conference held in the Czech Republic that year.
Bauer died in 1947, two years after the end of World War II.
His family spotted an opportunity to get the Pissarro painting back when it went on display at the Marmottan museum in Paris last year during a retrospective of the artist’s work.
A combination of photos released by prosecutors in Augsburg, Germany on November 12, 2013, show five of the more than 1,500 paintings believed looted by the Nazis, seized from a Munich flat of Cornelius Gurlitt. (Lostart.de/Augsburg prosecutors/AFP/File)
They argued in court that the Tolls, experienced collectors who made their fortune in real estate, must have known the painting was on a list of looted artworks.
But the court accepted the argument that the Tolls, who are patrons of the Washington and Tel Aviv Holocaust museums, bought it in good faith.
“It is not Mr Toll, who bought this painting at public auction in 1995, who should pay for the crimes of Vichy,” their lawyer Ron Soffer had told AFP in November.
A government decree announced Tuesday that France would boost the powers of the commission which awards compensation to victims of Nazi looting.
The move, promised by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe over the summer, means the Commission for Compensating Looting Victims (CIVS) will now be able to launch an investigation on an individual’s request and recommend appropriate compensation.
The home of Cornelius Gurlitt in Salzburg, Austria, November 18, 2013. (photo credit: AFP Wildbild)
This includes artworks that have made their way into public collections or national museums, according to the decree published in the national gazette.
In 2011 a raid on a rubbish-strewn flat in Munich uncovered hundreds of priceless paintings, including works by Picasso and Matisse, that had been stolen by the Nazis.
The flat belonged to Cornelius Gurlitt, an octogenarian whose father was one of four art dealers tasked by the Nazis with selling the art.
An additional 239 works were found at a house he owned in Salzburg, Austria.
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The Cold Case Factory
Forensic genealogists at Parabon NanoLabs are using DNA databases to solve cold cases faster than anyone could have imagined. But how will their techniques hold up in court?
Words by Sarah Weinman
Illustrated by Matthieu Bourel
Issue No. 21, Crime
April Tinsley’s murder should have been easy to solve. Three days after her April 1, 1988, disappearance, when the eight-year-old girl’s body was discovered in a ditch in Fort Wayne, Indiana, police were able to collect plenty of clues that could help identify the culprit. They found one of April’s shoes lying near her body, as well as a shopping bag containing a dildo. DNA could be extracted from this physical evidence, which made the absence of any leads to the murderer’s identity incredibly frustrating for the police. As long as the perpetrator’s DNA had no corresponding match among the information cataloged in CODIS, the FBI’s flagship DNA database, or in similar databases at the state level, the prospect of an arrest dimmed.
Early optimism gave way to anguish, frustration, and fury, exacerbated when notes started to appear a few years after April’s murder. One turned up in 1990, scrawled on a barn door: I kill 8 year old April M Tinsley. Then nothing until 2004, when four handwritten notes appeared in mailboxes across Fort Wayne, and plastic bags containing used condoms and obscene photos of a man’s penis were found on girls’ bicycles. The notes mocked April’s family and taunted the police, while also threatening to kidnap and kill more victims.
Forensic DNA testing wasn’t common when April Tinsley was murdered in 1988. It was cumbersome, time-consuming, expensive, and the tests required much more physical evidence—semen, blood, and saliva—than is common today. DNA tests would only become de rigueur in the mid-1990s, when the protocol changed and investigators could now amplify small amounts of DNA taken not just from bodily fluids, but from objects like guns, clothes, and tools.
The trouble was, even as Fort Wayne police kept up with advances in testing, the DNA they had from the scene where April’s body was found simply wasn’t enough to produce a conclusive result. By 2015, even though the sensitivity of DNA testing had improved enough to detect DNA at the level of a single nanogram—a grain of salt is about 58,000 nanograms—the evidence still didn’t match anyone in the FBI database.
In June 2015, Fort Wayne police learned that Parabon NanoLabs, a biotech company headquartered in Reston, Virginia, was offering a service called Snapshot, in which a working sketch of a criminal suspect could be generated directly from minuscule amounts of DNA. Parabon’s roots were in bioinformatics, and their techniques, including Snapshot, which was invented and trademarked by the company in 2012, were originally designed for use in medical research.
Snapshot uses a process known as DNA phenotyping to determine several distinct physical traits—eye color, hair color, nose shape—to produce computer-generated sketches of a suspect. The sketches of April Tinsley’s killer, generated in May 2016, showed what the suspect looked like in 1988 and what he might look like 30 years later: dark hair, hazel eyes, prominent nose, with gray flecks within his sideburns in the age progression. Despite the lifelike quality of the sketches, which appeared throughout Allen County on the local news and were distributed via the police department’s social media channels, they did not lead to an identification, or an arrest.
Two years later, in 2018, detectives in Fort Wayne learned that Parabon had expanded Snapshot to incorporate a promising new technique: forensic genealogy. Now, the same DNA sample used to produce the composite sketch of April’s killer could be uploaded to an open-source genealogy database called GEDmatch—founded in 2010 as a free service to help people look for and identify prospective relatives. The hope was that after comparing the uploaded sample to the more than one million users who had uploaded their DNA to GEDmatch, the database would spit out a list of potential relatives of the suspect.
Within months of the sample upload, Parabon’s lead genealogist, CeCe Moore, had narrowed down the DNA as belonging to two brothers: one only ever identified in court records as JPM, and his elder brother, John D. Miller, a 59-year-old third-shift Walmart worker living alone in a trailer in Grabill, Indiana, about 15 miles north of Fort Wayne. Neighbors had done their best to steer clear of Miller for years. He was strange and often angry, never marrying and keeping to himself.
Fort Wayne police were nearly certain that Miller was their killer, but they could not legally make an arrest based only on the analysis of a distant genealogist. They had to get Miller’s DNA, which they extracted from used condoms left in the trash outside his house. (Per Indiana state law, abandoned DNA does not require a warrant.) When they tested the DNA found in the condoms, it matched that of April Tinsley’s murderer.
Police went to Miller’s house on July 15, 2018, and he agreed to come to the police station to talk to detectives. At the station, they asked Miller if he knew why he was there. “April Tinsley,” he replied, and confessed to the child’s rape and murder. Miller’s criminal record had been mostly clean; he had never left the Fort Wayne area, and he had never committed other major crimes that the police knew of. “Nothing else would have drawn him to our attention,” Allen County prosecutor Karen Richards tells me. “You always hear the phrase ‘hiding in plain view.’ That’s what this guy was doing.”
April Tinsley’s murder was one of the dozens of cold cases solved with the aid of forensic genealogy in 2018. The technology had exploded into public awareness in April of that year, when Joseph DeAngelo was arrested for the crimes associated with the Golden State Killer case, which involved a dozen murders and more than 50 rapes committed in California between 1976 and 1986. Headlines proclaimed, “A Popular Genealogy Website Just Helped Solve a Serial Killer Cold Case,” and “The Future of Crime Fighting Is Family Tree Forensics.” Relatives of victims breathed sighs of relief that the perpetrator had finally been identified and caught. Law enforcement professionals and dedicated internet sleuths were also excited—not just because long-dormant criminal cases were being solved, but also because of how they were being solved. And by whom.
Forensic genealogy can best be described as a still-nascent technique of forensic science that combines DNA analysis and family-tree building. (The TV pitch would be a cross between the documentary series Forensic Files and Who Do You Think You Are?, in which celebrities explore their family trees.) Its specific alchemy results when the field of genetic genealogy—which uses DNA testing to help people discover and identify their ancestors—is applied to legal and investigative issues, like the tracking down of missing heirs, adoptive parents, and siblings, the assigning of names to the unidentified remains of soldiers, and now the cracking of cold cases.
“You always hear the phrase ‘hiding in plain view.’ That’s what this guy was doing.”
It is also a specialty of Parabon NanoLabs, which has successfully identified more than 30 suspects in cold cases since May 2018, establishing itself as the go-to service for forensic genealogy. The company was originally founded in 2008 by computational scientist Steven Armentrout and chemist Michael Norton to develop products for analyzing the tiniest amounts of DNA and applying them in cancer research, developing new vaccines, and creating novel synthetic drugs. The Department of Defense had funded the initial research that became Snapshot; law enforcement requests came later, with the Fort Wayne police becoming one of Parabon’s earliest clients in 2015.
When I studied forensic science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the early 2000s, I toiled—with mixed results, at best—on DNA research that convinced me I was better off far away from the laboratory, writing about crimes rather than solving them. As DNA testing became more sophisticated, gleaning results from microscopic samples that were once thought untestable, I got excited at the possible ramifications with respect to cold cases both famous (Zodiac Killer, anyone?) and unknown.
What also stands out about the rapid rise of forensic genealogy is that the work was, for years, the domain of amateur genealogists. These genealogists toil in archives and databases first for themselves, then for others who enlist their help to solve mysteries and unknowns in their family trees.
Only a handful of these genealogists, however, have the requisite expertise and background needed to resolve cold cases like those that Parabon takes on. Colleen Fitzpatrick, a 63-year-old physicist who coined the term “forensic genealogy” in the mid-2000s, is one of these experts. Fitzpatrick concentrates almost exclusively on unidentified remains, and she most recently cofounded the DNA Doe Project with amateur genealogist Margaret Press. So, too, is Barbara Rae-Venter, 70, the California-based genetic genealogist who worked with the FBI and with various divisions of state law enforcement to pinpoint the identity of the Golden State Killer. (Neither genealogist has worked with Parabon.)
Both Fitzpatrick’s and Rae-Venter’s expertise in forensic genealogy is entirely self-taught, independent of formal schooling or training, retirement hobbies turned into new careers. It’s a trajectory that CeCe Moore, Parabon’s lead genealogist, knows well. Though she became interested in genetics as a high school student, none of the universities she applied to offered an undergraduate genetics major, so she decided to study voice and later took up acting, performing leading roles in local musical theater productions like West Side Story, as well as in numerous TV commercials. But in 2008, as she was about to crest 40—Hollywood’s dreaded inflection point, where parts for women begin to disappear—Moore began to indulge her earlier enthusiasm for population genetics by tracing her own family history.
As it turned out, Moore wasn’t just interested in genealogy: she was very, very good at it. After tracing her own family history back to the 1400s, she decided she wanted to help other people solve their own ancestral mysteries. Though genetic-testing companies such as 23andMe, Ancestry.com, and FamilyTreeDNA had been around since the early 2000s, more complicated efforts—such as identifying unknown parentage, for example—required time-intensive approaches.
In 2010, Moore started a blog about genetic genealogy called Your Genetic Genealogist, which attracted the attention of other genealogists, academics, and law enforcement types for demonstrating how genealogy research could be combined with DNA testing. She soon began consulting for television programs such as PBS’s Finding Your Roots, hosted by historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. She taught classes in genetic genealogy all over the country. In 2015, Moore created DNA Detectives, a Facebook group devoted to helping people find unknown biological relatives using their own DNA. The group ended up attracting 100,000-plus members, reflecting Moore’s stature and the way in which other genealogists regard her as a leader in her field.
Ellen McRae Greytak doesn’t recall the exact moment when she realized that Moore’s expertise might prove useful for Parabon NanoLabs. Dr. Greytak, who has a PhD from Harvard University in evolutionary biology, had joined Parabon as director of bioinformatics in 2012 without giving crime-solving much thought. She had spent her academic life looking into the genetic sequences of centenarians to figure out why they, and not just anyone, lived such long lives. After finishing her postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Genome Sciences, Greytak was hired by Parabon to apply that work to new drug development and other research.
Greytak devoted her energy to Snapshot, which was already a couple of years into its existence when she joined Parabon, and found herself drawn to its uses for forensic science. What sometimes frustrated her about Snapshot was that its predictions couldn’t be made with close to 99 percent confidence—it was more like 80 percent, or even less. That’s because Snapshot had been designed to be used with perfect samples with lots of available DNA, while crime-scene samples are often degraded or unpredictable. But her company’s law enforcement clients kept returning with the same refrain: what can you tell us with 95 percent confidence?
The only thing the existing technology could tell law enforcement with any certainty was how to rule people out: We can tell you he doesn’t have brown eyes. But Parabon had designed its Snapshot techniques to rule people in, to identify one specific person; Greytak realized that Parabon’s technology could be used alongside existing methods to produce more specific results. “We’ve got a suspect list. We have no description. We have no way to prioritize among those people,” says Greytak. “And now you’re telling us that we can take all those brown-eyed people and put them at the bottom? That is extremely important.”
What stands out about the rapid rise of forensic genealogy is that the work was, for years, the domain of amateur genealogists—toiling in archives and databases first for themselves, then for others who enlisted their help.
Once there is a genetic profile to analyze, Snapshot’s next step is to show how that genetic profile is translated into observable characteristics, like eye and hair color. “We had to understand how people are related,” Greytak tells me, “to be able to say, ‘Okay, this isn’t our guy, but maybe his second cousin is.’”
That particular thought experiment led Parabon to expand Snapshot to include kinship analysis, which helps the researchers better predict that an individual (or suspect) is, in fact, related to the person submitting the original DNA sample. New challenges emerged for the company, especially when Parabon got a contract in 2016 from the US Army Research Office to work on unidentified remains of American soldiers; many of the DNA samples of the soldiers’ remains had degraded to the point where the noise far outweighed the signal.
Greytak needed better data to make Snapshot that much more useful a service. She needed known examples of families where the relationships were established to the level of third or fourth or even fifth cousin, where the amounts of shared DNA dropped off, but never to zero. “Where do we find large families where people know their relationships to one another? And ideally, some of them have already DNA tested so we don’t have to pay lab fees?” she says. “That’s when we thought of the genealogy community.”
Greytak started researching genealogy conferences and reading up on the names and types of experts who might attend them. She scoured message boards and blogs for places to post about Parabon’s need for multiple generations of family-history data (and the DNA sequences necessary) for the new project she had in mind. She posted requests for volunteers, some of whom might already have submitted saliva samples to private databases and received DNA results. She also looked into public databases, like GEDmatch, which allows people to find possible matches to relatives as far back as the third-cousin level.
One person immediately posted about Parabon’s project to her Facebook page: CeCe Moore. As Moore tells me, “Clearly, I need to contact these people, because I just keep hearing this Parabon name. I knew about their Snapshot technology because I’d been teaching in my classes in the future of genetic genealogy that we’d be able to use DNA to reconstruct ancestral genomes and then predict what our ancestors looked like. Here they were doing that with crime-scene DNA … something is up here.” The general response, not just from Moore but from the entire genealogy community, was enthusiastic. It made Greytak wonder: how else might Parabon and genealogists like Moore work together? CeCe Moore needed Parabon NanoLabs in order to do her work more professionally, and to solve cases from those clamoring for her help. But Parabon needed Moore just as much, if not more, to break those cases wide open.
Moore began her discussions with Parabon in earnest in the following year, detailing her interest in identifying John and Jane Does. Greytak, in turn, told her about Parabon’s existing work with the US Army and with law enforcement. In late 2017, the two women joined forces to create a separate pilot project, in which crime-scene DNA could be uploaded to GEDmatch in the hopes of identifying John and Jane Does. Identifying perpetrators, however, presented fraught ethical issues that Moore wasn’t certain how to grapple with.
“I thought it was for the greater good, and I certainly wanted to stop these criminals and save lives if possible,” Moore says. “I knew I could do it with my skills and experience, but I didn’t want to betray my community and individuals that trusted me. The people [using] GEDmatch didn’t know their DNA could be used for these purposes.”
Moore felt—as did many other genetic genealogists—that identifying potential perpetrators using GEDmatch was a no-go zone. Users had signed up for the service in order to trace their family history, not to serve as conduits for solving crimes. The ethics of using the DNA for an entirely different purpose were murky at best, queasy-making at worst. “We have to be very sure we’re not misidentifying suspects … because that’s even more devastating for a family,” she says. “Having that level of accuracy, the experience in dealing with sensitive situations, that's the most important thing.”
Then, in April 2018, came the announcement of the arrest of a suspect in the Golden State Killer case. Only weeks before, the unknown killer’s DNA sample had been uploaded to GEDmatch by detectives, and the identification of third and fourth cousins pointed law enforcement in the direction of Joseph DeAngelo. Days after the announcement, and the resulting media coverage, GEDmatch changed its terms of service to make it plain to users that their uploaded DNA could, in fact, be accessed and used by law enforcement as part of investigations into homicides and sexual assaults, and that they were free to opt out of this access if they wished.
Ethical issues assuaged, Moore officially joined Parabon in 2018 and set out to create and lead their genealogy division. The company sent out a press release about Moore’s hire. Right away, requests from dozens of law enforcement agencies across the country rolled in. Moore assembled a small team of genetic genealogists and got to work on trying to solve cold cases—first by building family trees back in time, generation by generation, and then creating lists of possible descendants in hopes of pinpointing the identity of a possible killer or serial rapist. Sometimes the work took weeks. Sometimes it took a single weekend. But Moore was stunned by how well Parabon’s genetic genealogy program helped investigators make identifications.
In a statement issued in January 2019, which announced that Parabon had solved 32 cold cases the previous year, Moore said: “We have come to expect a successful identification nearly every week.” Two weeks later, Moore and Parabon’s work led to the solving of a four-decades-old cold case, the 1979 murder of 20-year-old Anna Hlavka in Portland, Oregon. Using DNA evidence, Parabon was able to identify Hlavka’s killer as Jerry McFadden, executed in 1999 for the 1986 rape and murder of a teenage girl in Texas.
Because all of the suspects in cold cases fully resolved by Parabon have either pled guilty or were deceased by the time they were identified, forensic genealogy has yet to be tested in a courtroom. (This past December, John D. Miller pleaded guilty to April Tinsley’s murder and was sentenced to 80 years in prison.) Once it is, the question becomes whether or not the technology will be deemed robust enough to withstand the Daubert standard, a key test for scientific techniques named for a 1993 Supreme Court ruling, which is supposed to determine whether a branch of forensic science is “generally accepted” in the scientific community. (DNA testing met the Daubert standard right away, in large part because it was a new-enough technique to have its merits and flaws scrupulously examined by prosecutors and defense attorneys alike.)
When forensic genealogy is subjected to interrogation in a courtroom, perhaps as early as this year, how will Parabon handle it when defense attorneys put its scientific approach under the microscope, perhaps aggressively? The answer, Greytak tells me, is to to focus on the limitations of the technology, to stress that genetic genealogy is, for all intents and purposes, a presumptive test, not a confirmatory one. “Even though, sometimes, our information results in a name that we’re giving to the police, it’s still [just] an investigative lead,” she says. “That’s the way we always couch it. We are recommending that you look at this person, but we can’t say so with 100 percent certainty.”
Once law enforcement receives that lead—one that Parabon cofounder Steven Armentrout tells me is “no different from an anonymous tip or from a composite sketch artist”—they still have to do the work to investigate and obtain DNA from that person of interest, as was the case with April Tinsley’s killer. “Our information helped [law enforcement] locate that person, but it’s the DNA match that’s actually used in the prosecution,” says Greytak. “We do recognize that, since our information was helping them to get there, that could be part of the court case. But the end result is to say that the DNA matched.”
Although Parabon NanoLabs is the only private company in the world to employ forensic genealogists, that’s about to change. This past February, forensic-science-services company Bode Technology, based in Lorton, Virginia, announced the formation of its own proprietary forensic-genealogy service, and more private companies may follow suit, meaning that the the field of forensic genealogy may look completely different a year or even a few months from now. Other genealogy databases may join GEDmatch as a wholly public offering, where anyone can upload their DNA and discover the answers to their ancestral mysteries, one generation at a time, by building family trees, up and down the centuries. Parabon and other labs may also begin to prioritize cases still in the active stages of investigation, rather than those that are ice-cold, which would make genetic genealogy more of a first line of defense, rather than a last resort.
As with the initial use of DNA testing in a forensic science capacity three decades ago, more practical concerns will appear as forensic genealogy becomes better understood and more widely accepted. The technology as done by Parabon is expensive, each analysis costing upwards of $5,000. Multiply that by the number of open cases, cold or hot, and the math doesn’t work in investigators’ favor.
Parabon’s researchers focus on the limitations of the technology, to stress that genetic genealogy is a presumptive test, not a confirmatory one.
Some agencies, like the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, are working around the expense by creating their own forensic genealogy units. But most law enforcement agencies simply can’t afford to use genetic genealogy on every cold case, let alone newer ones. “Maybe someday this technology can be done by state forensic labs, but right now we’re still struggling to get analysts to do the basic DNA testing,” Karen Richards, the Allen County prosecutor who oversaw the April Tinsley case, reminds me. “Results take months and months to come in. So until we get a handle on more adequate and timely basic testing, I can’t imagine trying to add another layer of complexity.”
In the meantime, there will only be more questions about the validity of forensic genealogists working with law enforcement, about ethics and privacy concerns, and about who is qualified to make those calls. In January 2019, BuzzFeed broke the news that FamilyTreeDNA, one of the oldest private at-home genetic-testing companies—and the one that first attracted CeCe Moore’s attention as a budding amateur genealogist—has been allowing FBI agents to search its genealogy database in an effort to solve violent crimes, a shift that is currently both legal and welcomed by the company.
FamilyTree, established in 1999, had changed its terms of service in December 2018 to assert that law enforcement could make use of its data for homicide and rape cases, but for the more than a million people whose DNA samples became part of FamilyTree’s database in its 18 years of existence, finding out the FBI had access to their data without their permission was not what they had signed up for. As Alan Butler, senior counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit research center focusing on privacy issues, told the New York Times in February: “The company needs to either roll back the change or else delete all stored DNA data it has collected from individuals under the previous agreement.” Already, one bill to limit the use of forensic genealogy in cold cases, or ban it outright, is being considered in Maryland. More states may follow suit if public outcry grows.
Forensic genealogy may still be in uncharted, unregulated territory, but as applied to crime-solving, it looks to be as paradigm-changing as DNA testing was to forensic science—like a light switch flipped on what was previously thought of as of as permanent darkness. But the technique is new enough that the serious concerns already lodged about ethics and privacy should not be ignored. We want crimes to be solved, but at what cost? Is the excitement of resolving a long-unsolved murder worth the price of ever-increasing police surveillance, or falling into entrenched racial biases, or prioritizing arrests over community, prison over rehabilitation?
Thinking about these questions tempers my own excitement about genealogy’s present and future role in law enforcement. The quest to understand our ancestral roots is filled with the landmines of unintended consequences. Because, as genealogists well know, DNA is a shared experience. One DNA upload by one person curious about their ancestry leads to the arrest of a killer in a decades-old case. That DNA upload comes from a specific individual, yes, but each generational remove creates a community. It’s not just your DNA, or mine. It’s all of ours, flying out of that Pandora’s box, and we have no real idea where it may lead next.
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HomeNewsWU alumni come to visit Vaduz
WU alumni come to visit Vaduz
On 21 March, the University of Liechtenstein welcomed alumni of the Vienna University of Economics and Business to the Vaduz campus: the visitors comprised the Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein hubs of the WU Alumni Club.
The group of visitors ranged from alumni who had received their degrees nearly 50 years ago – at what was then the Universität für Welthandel (University for Global Commerce), the precursor to what is today the Vienna University of Economics and Business – to alumni who completed their studies just a few years ago.
Interregional networking where three countries meet
The organizers of the networking event were Dr. Friederike Hehle, hub representative for the WU Alumni Vorarlberg, and Mag. Monika Stur, hub representative for the WU Alumni Liechtenstein. The two regional WU Alumni Clubs comprise WU alumni who live and/or work in the respective locality. They have been working together for approximately one year now in order to provide their joint members with a varied, cross-border programme of events, with Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein alternating as the host location.
The guests were welcomed to the University of Liechtenstein by the architect and academic researcher Mag. Cornelia Faisst and by Dr. Stephan Berchtold, Academic Director of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Business Administration. Along with an introduction to the University of Liechtenstein and its history, they presented the programmes and activities offered by the Faculty of Architecture and Planning as well as the Faculty of Business Economics.
An exchange between different universities
In a presentation, the WU alumni received insights into current challenges, such as the international accreditation of the University of Liechtenstein and the skills-based orientation in redesigning the curricula and regarding the implementation in the courses. The programme also included topics such as studying before and after the Bologna Process, followed by a discussion round.
The difference in the dimensions of the two institutions was a particularly impressive experience for the WU alumni. As one of the largest business schools in German-speaking Europe, the Vienna University of Economics and Business is at the other end of the scale compared to the intimate nature of campus life at the University of Liechtenstein, as far as the size of the auditoria, seminar groups and ratio of lecturers to students are concerned.
On a tour of the university buildings, the guests received first-hand impressions of student life, viewed exhibits on the campus, and experienced the intimate and practice-orientated design studios in the architecture studio in particular.
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Clearwater, FL (View All Cities)
Eastern (12:46pm)
27.98, -82.78
ZIP (~2 mile radius)
ZIP code 33755 is located in central Florida and covers a slightly less than average land area compared to other ZIP codes in the United States. It also has a large population density.
The people living in ZIP code 33755 are primarily white. The number of people in their late 20s to early 40s is extremely large while the number of middle aged adults is large. There are also an extremely small number of families and an extremely large number of single parents. The percentage of children under 18 living in the 33755 ZIP code is slightly higher than average compared to other areas of the country.
4,870 people per sq mi
Male 933 895 791 898 836 978 795 870 944 1,016 977 809 775 421 314 233 170 134
Female 943 783 776 852 976 987 881 989 916 1,019 992 888 680 488 355 316 266 250
Total 1,876 1,678 1,567 1,750 1,812 1,965 1,676 1,859 1,860 2,035 1,969 1,697 1,455 909 669 549 436 384
Under 5 933 943 1,876
5-9 895 783 1,678
10-14 791 776 1,567
45-49 1,016 1,019 2,035
65-69 421 488 909
85 Plus 134 250 384
12,789 49%
17,044 65.2%
6,329 24.2%
154 0.6%
1,388 5.3%
Owner 55 429 869 1,318 1,309 777 491 201
Renter 403 1,057 1,052 904 619 269 188 44
Total 458 1,486 1,921 2,222 1,928 1,046 679 245
15-24 55 403 458
25-34 429 1,057 1,486
45-54 1,318 904 2,222
85 Plus 201 44 245
3,356 34%
Male 225 199 162 163 168 209 177 163 178 159 174 166 148 144 175 173 178 172 200 177
Female 159 172 190 204 147 171 155 171 139 166 157 124 153 176 162 150 169 195 176 206
Total 384 371 352 367 315 380 332 334 317 325 331 290 301 320 337 323 347 367 376 383
The majority of household are owned or have a mortgage. Homes in ZIP code 33755 were primarily built in the 1960s or the 1970s. Looking at 33755 real estate data, the median home value of $133,500 is slightly less than average compared to the rest of the country. It is also slightly less than average compared to nearby ZIP codes. 33755 could be an area to look for cheap housing compared to surrounding areas. Rentals in 33755 are most commonly 2 bedrooms. The rent for 2 bedrooms is normally $750-$999/month including utilities. Prices for rental property include ZIP code 33755 apartments, townhouses, and homes that are primary residences.
For more information, see Clearwater, FL house prices.
1,445 6%
261 7%
The median household income of $35,971 is compared to the rest of the country. It is also compared to nearby ZIP codes. While money isn't everything, ZIP code 33755 may not be as nice as other parts of town.
As with most parts of the country, vehicles are the most common form of transportation to places of employment. Residents in ZIP code 33755 use public transportation to travel to work more than most areas of the nation. In most parts of the country, the majority of commuters get to work in under half an hour. A slightly higher than average number of commuters in 33755 can expect to fall in that range. There are a slightly smaller percentage of employees that have to travel over 45 minutes to reach their place of employment.
The percentage of people that did not graduate high school is among the highest in the nation. Despite the lower high school graduation rates, the area has some of the highest percentages of people who attended college of any ZIP.
ZIP Code 33755 is in the following school districts: Pinellas School District and Private. There are 6 different elementary schools and high schools with mailing addresses in ZIP code 33755.
Clearwater Intermediate
1220 Palmetto St
Grade Level: Middle/Combined or Ungraded
District: Pinellas School District
Calvin A. Hunsinger School
1863 N Betty Ln
Grade Level: Other/Combined or Ungraded
Sandy Lane Elementary School
1360 Sandy Ln
Clearwater Fundamental Middle School
Grade Level: Middle/Elementary
Kings Highway Elementary Magnet School
1715 Kings Highway
Clearwater Academy International
801 Drew St
District: Private
Clearwater Beach, FL
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Topic: Lorde
Lorde News
TV // 1 month ago
Millie Bobby Brown tells Jimmy Fallon she is the 'Mother of Tortoises'
Millie Bobby Brown appeared on "The Tonight Show" where she discussed meeting Robert and Bindi Irwin in Australia.
Petition seeks to name part of NYC's Fifth Ave. for Barack Obama
Thousands of people have signed a new petition to rename part of New York City's Fifth Avenue after former President Barack Obama.
Entertainment News // 7 months ago
Lena Dunham hasn't spoken to Lorde since Jack Antonoff split
Lena Dunham said it was "awful" to hear dating rumors about Lorde and Jack Antonoff following her breakup with the musician.
Music // 8 months ago
Lorde slams Kanye West for stealing glass box stage used in concerts
Lorde has accused Kanye West and his "Kids See Ghosts" partner Kid Cudi of stealing her glass box stage design that is used during her concerts.
Voices // 1 year ago
Israel is prioritizing PR over peace-building
Israel's PR success with the U.S. Embassy move to Jerusalem and an Israeli singer's win at Eurovision are overshadowed by the violence on the border with Gaza.
Music // 1 year ago
Bruno Mars, The Weeknd, Jack White to headline Lollapalooza 2018
Bruno Mars, The Weeknd, Jack White and Arctic Monkeys have been announced as the headliners for Lollapalooza 2018.
Bruno Mars wins best album, song at 2018 Grammy Awards
Bruno Mars picked up several of the biggest prizes at the 2018 Grammy Awards, including best album, record and song.
Eminem, Jack White, Yeah Yeah Yeahs to headline 2018 Governors Ball
Eminem, Jack White, Travis Scott and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are set to headline the 2018 Governors Ball Music Festival in June.
Beyonce, Eminem and The Weeknd to headline Coachella 2018
Beyonce is set to headline the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival along with Eminem and The Weeknd after missing last year's event.
Lorde cancels Israel tour date after activists urge her to join boycott
Lorde announced she will cancel a concert date in Israel after activists urged her to join a boycott against Israel.
Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Bruno Mars lead 2018 Grammy nominations
The Recording Academy announced Tuesday the nominees for the 60th annual Grammy Awards with Jay-Z leading the pack.
Lorde celebrates 21st birthday with concert, leaves surprise package for fans
Lorde celebrated her 21st birthday Tuesday with a concert inside her home country of New Zealand.
Lorde adds Run the Jewels, Mitski to North American half of Melodrama tour
Lorde is adding rap group Run the Jewels and singers Mitski and Tove Styrke to the North American half of her "Melodrama" world tour.
Lorde teases new music on social media
Lorde gave fans a small taste of new music on Twitter Monday with the release of a 19-second clip.
Lady Gaga says her documentary shows fame is 'isolating'
Lady Gaga penned an emotional letter to fans ahead of the release of her Netflix documentary, "Gaga: Five Foot Two."
On the red carpet at the MTV VMAs
Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (born 7 November 1996), known by her stage name Lorde, is a New Zealand singer and songwriter. Born in Takapuna and raised in Devonport, Auckland, she became interested in performing as a child. In her early teens, she signed with Universal Music Group and was later paired with the songwriter and record producer Joel Little, who co-wrote and produced most of Lorde's works. Her first major release, The Love Club EP, was commercially released in March 2013. The EP reached number two on the national record charts of Australia and New Zealand.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Lorde."
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Bad Luck for Bad Luckett; Charged with Armed Robbery – Attempted Murder Charges Loom
December 12, 2014 - Breaking News, Court News, Murder USA, Police Beat - Tagged: 000 to $10, 000., armed robbery, Assault 1st Degree and Theft $1, attempted murder, Bad Luck for Bad Luckett, black male armed with a handgun, Burglary 1st Degree, Great Mills man, gun misfired, Point Lookout Road, Torian Taylor Luckett - no comments
Ridge, Maryland – According to St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron an arrest has been made of a Great Mills man who allegedly shot at and robbed a man in Ridge, Md.
On December 1, 2014, the Sheriff reports that deputies responded to a residence in the 13000 block of Point Lookout Road for a reported armed robbery. Deputies determined the victim had been robbed of cash at gunpoint by a black male as he exited his residence. Detectives and Crime lab Technicians from the Criminal Investigations Division responded and assumed the investigation.
Detectives learned the victim had recently received a substantial amount of money and that several people knew the victim would have the money on him or at his residence. When the victim returned home on the night of December 1st, he discovered his residence had been burglarized. He exited the residence at which time he was confronted by a black male armed with a handgun. The suspect indicated he knew the victim had money and ordered him to empty his pockets.
The suspect then shot at the victim; however the gun misfired and the victim fled on foot. As the victim ran the suspect continued to shoot at him; one bullet struck a vehicle while a woman and a small child were sitting inside. The victim was able to hide in the woods and the suspect fled the area on foot.
On December 11, 2014, detectives identified a suspect in the case. Detectives located and arrested Torian Taylor Luckett, age 19, of Great Mill. Luckett was charged with Armed Robbery, Burglary 1st Degree, Assault 1st Degree and Theft $1,000 to $10,000. Luckett was transported to the St. Mary’s County Detention Center and incarcerated under No Bond.
A charge of attempted murder may be added to the list.
The suspect then shot at the victim; however the gun misfired and the victim fled on foot. As the victim ran the suspect continued to shoot at him; one bullet struck a vehicle while a woman and a small child were sitting inside. The victim was able to hide in the woods and the suspect fled the area on foot. On December 11, 2014, detectives identified a suspect in the case. Detectives located and arrested Torian Taylor Luckett, age 19, of Great Mill. Luckett was charged with Armed Robbery, Burglary 1st Degree, Assault 1st Degree and Theft $1,000 to $10,000. Luckett was transported to the St. Mary’s County Detention Center and incarcerated under No Bond.
Armed Bike-Jackers charged with attempted murder by Baltimore police
Gregory Boyd and Carlos Briddell Jr. charged with attempted murder and robbery of two victims in Princess Anne
Breaking Bad: Drug Dealer Terrance Proctor charged in murder of business associate; ex-con did 10 years for attempted murder & robbery
Annapolis Police Beat: Bryan Ira Summers charged with armed robbery of eldery couple in home invasion
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The Very First Forecast
Robert FitzRoy published his first weather report in 1861. It was largely accurate.
Sarah Laskow
Robert FitzRoy was the captain of The Beagle—yes, that Beagle—and, as a captain, he was particularly concerned about the weather. Who wouldn't be? Judge a barometer reading inaccurately, and your ship might nearly overturn in a storm. Predict the storm's coming, and by preparing properly, you can increase the chances the ship will make it.
In 1854, years after he and Charles Darwin sailed around the world, he was appointed head of what would become Britain's Met Office. His job was supposed to be analyzing years of data about wind, collected by Britain's naval fleet, but he added "weatherman" to his job description. Weather watchers had been making predictions about which way the wind would blow for centuries, but FitzRoy was one of the first people to try to make it into something of a science. "With a barometer, two or three thermometers, some instructions, and an attentive observation, not of instruments only, but the sky and atmosphere, Meteorology may be utilized," he'd write a few years later.
But his most important tool didn't collect data at all. As a weatherman, FitzRoy had one huge advantage over his predecessors: the telegraph.
To create a weather forecast, FitzRoy first had barometers placed at ports dotting Britain's coast, and every morning, he'd have barometer readings, along with information about wind and temperature, telegraphed to his office. These data points, so quickly collated in one place, allowed him to predict with some lead time, when storms would hit and where.
Even with his data, though, FitzRoy was depending more on rules of thumb that had highly specific predictions. (It wasn't until almost a century later that computers were able to model the movements of the atmosphere quickly and accurately enough to make consistently dependable forecasts a few days in advance.) The barometers he installed along the coast came with instructions such as:
When rising: In winter the rise of the barometer presages frost. In wet weather if the mercury rises high and remains so, expect continued fine weather in a day or two. In wet weather if the mercury rises suddenly very high, fine weather will not last long.
And over the course of his weather-predicting career, critics attacked his predictions for their variability. But he started off well. In 1861, he published his first newspaper weather forecast:
North—Moderate westerly wind ; fine.
West—Moderate south-westerly ; fine.
South—Fresh westerly ; fine.
This forecast, it happened, was largely accurate.
Sarah Laskow is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Science section.
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Music and the Spoken Word: In harmony with others
Wyoming Valley Barbershop Quartet singers, from the left; Steve Mansour, Ralph Gillespie. Ted Rebennack and Phil Brown, sing Valentines Day songs for residents at Village At Greenbriar Assisted living facility, in Dallas, Pa., Wednesday Feb.14, 2018. (Mark Moran/The Citizens' Voice via AP) Photo: Mark Moran
Editor's note: “The Spoken Word” is shared by Lloyd Newell each Sunday during the weekly Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square broadcast. This will be given July 7, 2019.
There are many things in life that can be done alone. You can play a piano alone — or a violin or guitar or any other musical instrument. You can sing a solo, give a speech, or recite a poem alone. But then there are other things — some of the most beautiful — that simply can’t be done alone. For example, you can’t sing barbershop alone. Barbershop singing, by definition, involves joining with others in vocal harmony. It’s about music, but it’s also about community, about working together to create a thing of beauty.
Many historians trace the history of barbershop singing to the 1880s and ’90s, when African American musicians started adding multipart harmonies to popular contemporary songs. Over several generations, a unique style emerged, and the unmistakable sound we know as barbershop began to take shape.
How do you describe that sound? It isn’t easy. Some would say you have to experience it. As one barbershop singer said: “When you’re singing, the sound around you is incredible. You feel like you’re being carried away with it. It’s absolutely inspiring. … The chords ring and you feel like you’re being swallowed up by the music itself.”
For many, the music is only part of the experience. Relationships, to them, are inseparable from the sound. It’s friendship, as much as music, that keeps them singing. One expert has written in "The Barbershop Singer" that “barbershoppers feel a strong fellowship — a wave of warmth and friendliness — when they sing together. An important facet of the fun and personal enrichment gained from barbershop singing … is its camaraderie.”
Something magical happens anytime people come together with a shared passion. Whenever they have sincere interest in doing something meaningful and a heartfelt willingness to cooperate rather than compete, they accomplish things that would not be possible working alone.
No, you can’t do barbershop alone, and you can’t do life alone either. We need each other. We need friendship and fellowship. We all do better, we all live happier and more peaceful lives, when we are in harmony with others.
Tuning in …
The “Music and the Spoken Word” broadcast is available on KSL-TV, KSL Radio 1160 AM/102.7 FM, ksl.com, KSL X-stream, BYU-TV, BYU Radio, CBS Radio Network, Dish Network, DirecTV, SiriusXM Radio (Channel 143) and on the Tabernacle Choir's website and YouTube channel. The program is aired live on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. on many of these outlets. Look up broadcast information by state and city at musicandthespokenword.org.
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Wired For Story. Using Brain Science To Hook Readers With Lisa Cron
August 14, 2012 by Joanna Penn 30 Comments
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Why has 50 Shades of Grey sold millions of copies when it is not ‘great' writing?
Why is a great story more important than beautiful language? In today's interview with Lisa Cron, we get into what makes a great story and how we can write more effectively.
Lisa Cron is the author of Wired for Story, The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence. She has also worked as a story consultant, a publishing professional, a writing coach and literary agent.
Lisa has always been drawn to the power of story. She mentions ‘A Wrinkle In Time' as a book that changed her life. Stories fascinated her, even in advertising. She has always worked with story – in publishing and television. The interesting thing is why some books don't work, and the mistakes are similar. This ties into neuroscience, which is how the brain works and how we process information. Writers are the most powerful people in the world.
What is story anyway? They aren't primarily for entertainment. They were designed to teach us how to live. We think in story and evaluate everything based on story. We can envision the future and plan for it. It tells us what to hold on to. So we make sense of the world through story and learn through it effectively. This helps us with what are the keys to how people respond to a strong story.
Why we are wired for story?
The neurotransmitter dopamine, for pleasure, is triggered through curiosity. We feel pleasure via the brain's reward system that pulls us forward through the story because we have to find out what happens. Because we could learn lessons that can help us in our own lives.
Beautiful language or amazing story? Why 50 Shades of Grey is so popular and literary fiction doesn't sell so well. People can't put 50 Shades down, but it is not well-written. Great language is fantastic but it's not what pulls us into a story. Writing is taught as if the goal is to write ‘well' but it should be about how to tell a great story. Language should be there to stimulate curiosity and dopamine in the brain. EL James gets some things right – she lets us know what Ana thinks is going to happen, so when it doesn't happen that way, we know how she feels. This draws us into the story more because we want to know how it feels.
With literary fiction, the danger is that you end up with a beautifully written ‘who cares'.
Why would we slog through something that doesn't give us a dopamine rush? I mention Umberto Eco as a literary writer. I bought The Prague Cemetery but I couldn't get past the first chapter.
What do writers get wrong in story? The big one is that writers don't know what the book is about. A story is virtual reality. I'm going to step into a problem and I'm going to solve it. So you need to know who the protagonist is and what they want. The story has to follow that path – solve the plot question and what's inside holding them back.
Everything in the story gets its meaning based on how it is affecting the protagonist. So dramatic events mean nothing without the personal impact. We evaluate everything in the story based on how its affecting the protagonist. It gets emotional weight from this. You can also go into the reactions and how it changes the character.
What show, don't tell really means
People think it means ‘show' me people being upset e.g. Joe threw the cup against the wall (to show anger). It should be show me WHY he's angry, not the emotion of anger. e.g. he had a bad day at work, but more than that – why. So the scene would be more about what happened at work, not just jumping to show Joe throwing a cup. Or when a character changes their mind, you have to explain why, not that Joe stroked his chin and looked out the window. Don't show thinking, show how the decision is made. This brings us to story, the things we can't say. It can be physical, e.g. body language, but use that to show us something we don't already know.
How is the story question going to resolve? Keep in mind the “and so” test. Ask yourself – what is the point? Why does the reader need to know this? What insight does it give the reader into the situation or the character. You have to leave out what doesn't matter. Only tell things that pertain to the story question, otherwise you lose the curiosity. The vicarious thrill of ‘experiencing' something through a book – why I write about murder and violence – is so we don't have to experience it ourselves but we still want to know what makes people tick.
You can find Wired for Story on Amazon and at all other book sites.
You can find Lisa at WiredForStory.com and on twitter @lisacron
Transcript of Interview with Lisa Cron
Hi, everyone. I'm Joanna Penn from thecreativepenn.com, and today I'm talking to Lisa Cron.
Lisa is the author of “Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence.” She has also worked as a story consultant, a publishing professional, a writing coach, and a literary agent. So, welcome, Lisa.
Lisa: Thank you, Joanna. It's a pleasure to be here.
Joanna: Well, you've got some amazing credentials, and the book is brilliant.
Let's start off by you just telling us a bit more about yourself, and your writing background, and your neuroscience background. Why the hell write this, anyway?
Lisa: Great question. I think, like all of us, I've been drawn to stories since I was a child. It's what made me who I am. And I noticed the power of story as opposed to writing very early. My entire life changed when I read a book at the age of nine called, “A Wrinkle in Time.” I think a lot of us read that book, and I felt my whole world change. In fact, when I look back now, I wonder who I would be had I not read that book.
I read veraciously. I watched every movie that ever came out. I was even drawn to story in advertising. I remember writing a paper in college called, “How Advertising Affects the Roles of Men and Women,” because I figured, even if you're not going to buy the cleanser, or the shirt or whatever, the stories were changing how we saw the world and ourselves.
Stories always fascinated me, which was why I think I went into publishing, and then I worked as an agent. I worked in television, I analyzed books and scripts. It's primarily the basis of what I did. And what that really comes down to is figuring out why they don't work. You know, most of what you're reading isn't going to work.
What I discovered really pretty early on, was that while writers tended to make mistakes in their own individual, spectacular, interesting way, the mistakes they were making were very similar, and they all kind of went to certain very specific things that I was looking for. And it resonated, and that was what made a story or a novel or a screenplay work and what didn't.
The interesting thing was those things were very different from what writers had been taught, from what I'd ever heard. It had nothing to do with language or great characters, wonderful metaphors. It had to do with really wanting to know what happened next and how things were affecting the characters.
I've also always kind of been a neuroscience geek. I didn't study it at school, which wouldn't have mattered at this point anyway, because so much of the research is really new and exciting, and happening as we speak. I began to notice that every article I was reading about neuroscience — which we were hearing about everywhere…you turn on the radio, you pick up a newspaper, and there's something that they're discovering — had to do with how we process information, and how story affects us and what we're looking for.
I turned to neuroscience for the same reason that we all turn to story, which is I wanted to know what made people tick. That's why we turn to story. What makes people tick? What does that really feel like? What it looks like on the surface, but what does it really feel like? What are people really thinking?
What happened was, I realized…and it was the biggest “aha” moment of my life. I realized that everything I was reading in the neuroscience was confirming everything I thought about story, which I'd already been writing about. So I incorporated the two, and ended up writing the book.
Because my feeling has always been that if writers really knew what we were looking for in story, if they really knew how stories affect us, they would not only be able to write better, but they would realize that they're the most powerful people in the world, because we are the most powerful people in the world.
Joanna: That's awesome. I've read the book. I think it's brilliant. I know you want us to come back to the things that people get wrong, but let's start with this:
In what way are humans wired for story? What do you actually mean by that phrase?
Lisa: That's kind of a two-part question, so first let's talk about what story actually is and where it came from. And a misconception, a very easy misconception that people have, which is that stories are for entertainment, and we love them, we feel great. There's not a culture or a society in the world that doesn't have storytelling. It brings us together, but the stories are not really about the business of life. They're about enjoying life, and it couldn't be less true.
Story is literally how we got here. Story is what makes us human. We think in story. We evaluate everything that happens to us in story. Story is what allows us to envision the future, and so hopefully, plan for it. It was back in the day, it was like, “Look at those shiny, red berries. They look delicious. I'm starving, and I heard a story about the Neanderthal next door who gobbled them down and died a horrible, grisly death.” Opposable thumbs let us hold on, story told us what to hold onto.
Our brains are literally wired to respond to story, and to take in information in story form. Story is how we make sense of the world.
Now, why that's important for writers is because it tells us what we're really responding to in every story that we hear, and it's not the beautiful writing. There's nothing wrong with beautiful writing, it's wonderful, but that's not what we're responding to.
That feeling that we get when we can't put a book down…and I think we've all had those days, you know, where you're exhausted at work because you stayed up until four in the morning, because you were reading a book and you kept thinking, “Okay, I'll just get to the end of the page and I'll stop.” And you can't stop. And what's pulling you forward, and the reason you can't stop, and we all know the feeling, isn't just some random emotion. It's not just enjoyment.
Where that's really coming from is the neurotransmitter, dopamine. Pleasure. The brain's pleasure neurotransmitter. And that's being triggered by curiosity, because Mother Nature figured that since we needed this information to survive, to figure out the future, to figure out what makes people tick, it's curiosity to find out what happens next that's pulling us forward.
The pleasure we feel comes from our brain's reward system, saying, “Yeah, keep reading. Don't go to sleep,” because you might find out something that's gonna help you better understand how people tick. The one thing that doesn't pull us forward will not.
And think about it, when we keep reading forward we're never going, “I wonder what beautiful word the writer's gonna use next. I wonder what gorgeous sentence is gonna come next.” What we wonder is, “I wonder what's gonna happen next. Will this event affect the protagonist, and how can I use that information in my own life?”
Joanna: Let's tackle that. We're going to come back to a lot of things but, you know, the Fifty Shades question. “Fifty Shades of Grey,” I'm sure everybody knows this multi-multi-million of these books…
Lisa: Twenty million.
Joanna: Yeah. I mean these books just keep selling. They're everywhere. You know, you see people reading them everywhere. And I hear a lot of writers complaining, and saying, “It's so awful that this terrible book is selling, whereas this literary fiction, wonderful book with amazing writing that won the Pulitzer, or whatever, has only sold 5,000 copies.”
I always say, “Well, actually, I read all three of the Fifty Shades books because somehow you are pulled in.” But I know you've written, not specifically in the book but you've blogged about it.
Maybe you can expand on the great literature vs. what sells kind of thing.
Lisa: I would actually take exception to the term “great literature,” you know, on one level. Just to first talk about that and then to go to “Fifty Shades of Grey,” I think that the biggest problem comes from the way that writing is taught, and the way that we naturally look at it.
It's understandable because writing is taught as if the goal is to learn to write well. And who would argue with that? But it's taught as if, if you learn to write well, which means, you know, you have a love of language or language is beautiful, you've written great characters, you're great with metaphors, you'd read a lot of really, very vivid sensory details, and if you do all that, somehow by magic you'll have written a story. And it couldn't be further from the truth.
Words, and all of that beautiful writing, is the handmaiden of story. It's story that gives those words meaning, and that stimulates the curiosity and the dopamine that makes us wanna know what happens next.
A book like “Fifty Shades of Grey” grabs us immediately in that I want to know what happens next. It tells a really good story, because the two things that we hear about “Fifty Shades of Grey” all the time…you know, two things. One, people can't put it down, and two, it's not well written. Well, if being well written is what grabbed people, would it have sold 20 million copies, and selling? Of course not. What grabs people is, “I want to know what happens next.”
And I actually think that E.L. James is a better writer than she's being given credit for. I mean, yeah, she makes a lot of mistakes. I mean she says, “Holy crap,” like 44 times. And we should never say that ever, even in our real lives, let alone in our books.
But she gets a lot of stuff right. For instance, she does something that writers often forget to do, which is she always lets us know what Anastasia Steele expects to have happen. So when it doesn't, we're in her skin, feeling her reaction to what actually does happen, and that pulls us through.
Because, really, what brings us the story is: what's the emotional cost? What's that person really feeling, as opposed to what they're doing on the surface?
We got the surface covered. We don't need to know that. What we want to know in story is, what does it really feel like? Like that old song, “Never Let 'em See You Sweat.” Stories about what it feels like to sweat.
There's a lot of sweating in Fifty Shades of Grey. Fantasy. We all have, I think, big fantasies like that, and my guess actually is, Joanna, that a lot of those people who swear they only read literary fiction are at night under the covers reading Fifty Shades of Grey. They're just not admitting it to anybody.
With literary fiction, though, I think a lot of it is that even if you do all of that good writing well, you end up writing what's known in the trade as “a beautifully written who cares?” because it's not affecting anyone.
And that's why people, even when they buy those books, I think, often don't read them, because we don't have that curiosity and so we've got other things to do. Our own lives are so demanding and interesting to us that why would we slog through something that doesn't give us that sense of, “I want to be there,” that wonderful dopamine rush. We're addicted to it, we love it.
Joanna: It's true, and you know, I'm going to put it out there. I'm going to admit this. Since “The Name of the Rose” I've loved Umberto Eco; brilliant literary writer. I bought his “Prague Cemetery” without even reading a sample. I was like, “I have to read it.”
Could I get past chapter one? No, I couldn't. Because, like you say, life's too short.
Lisa: Yeah, and it's so funny you'd bring that up because talking about “The Name of the Rose,” I remember I was in publishing in New York when that book came out and it made the bestseller list, and it had the reputation of being the book everyone bought and no one read.
Joanna: It is. I tried to read it again, it's quite dry. But anyway, let's talk about…we don't want people to think that they can't love language and can't do that. We just want them to actually think about some other things.
What are the other things that authors get wrong, and how can they fix them? Let's try and come up with three specifics.
Lisa: Just before we get there, just to say, in no way am I saying that great writing, and great metaphors, and great characters isn't important. It's really important. But you can write a great book without that. The only thing that really matters, and the one non-negotiable, is wanting to know what happens next.
The biggest mistake that writers make, and you would be shocked how many writers make this mistake because it seems it's like, “How could this be?” but they don't know what their story is about.
I can't tell you how many manuscripts I've read where, if you ask me what it's about, I'd say, “It's about 300 pages.” I have absolutely no idea. And that's because what writers don't tend to realize is that a story is virtual reality.
It's, “I'm going to step into a problem, and I want to know how to solve it.” That story begins on page one with, “Here is what the problem is. Here is the protagonist who's going to be solving that problem.” They want something very badly. There's something usually, not just external but internal, that's holding them back. And everything in the story goes toward that.
The story makes the point of, “How are they going to solve that?” not just in terms of solving the plot question, but solving that internal issue that's keeping them back.
What do they have to realize by the end? Writers don't realize that you need to go into a story having a pretty good idea of what that's going to be.
It can change. Certainly, you can change your mind and go back. But if you don't know that, what you end up is a collection of just random events that happen. So there's no dopamine because there's no curiosity because we can't anticipate what's going to happen next.
That's really, honestly the biggest mistake that writers make. They don't realize that a story makes a point from page one. Advertisers know that really well. Televangelists, politicians know that really well, but writers don't tend to want to go there because they think it's about the beautiful writing.
The other mistake that writers make is that they don't realize that everything in their story is going to get its meaning based on how it's affecting the protagonist who's trying to solve this problem. That they have big things happen, but it's not affecting the protagonist. And if it's not, it doesn't matter how big.
It could be the most dramatic event in the world — birth, death, fall of the Roman Empire — and it's neutral because we're going to evaluate everything in the story based on how it's affecting the protagonist in pursuit of their quest, which means that it's going to get its emotional weight and meaning based on that. And that means that the protagonist needs to react to all of those things.
And that's another big mistake that writers make. They'll have something very dramatic happen to the protagonist, and then they don't tell us how he or she is reacting to it. It goes back to the, “Well, what are they really thinking? How is that changing their worldview? How is that helping them overcome whatever they have to overcome to get their goal, to succeed?”
Whether the goal is even…it might even be something to stay exactly as they are, sort of like Bilbo Baggins in “The Hobbit.” That certainly can be a goal, but then everything needs to put weight on that goal. Is it gonna get them closer? Is it gonna get them further away?
Joanna: I know you talk about the “Show, Don't Tell” rule, that people get that wrong.
Lisa: Yes. “Show, Don't Tell”…and actually, if we could talk about that for a second because there are three ways that people really get that wrong. And this also does go to where specifics go missing in story, and goes back to what we were just talking about, which is not allowing us to see the characters' internal, how they're making sense of the world. I'll just jump into one great example of “Show, Don't Tell.”
What people think “Show, Don't Tell” means, often, is, don't tell me that someone's upset, show me that they're upset. I had a writer once that I was working with, and he had a guy who was eating his dinner, and all of a sudden he threw his coffee cup against the wall, like out of the blue.
I called him up and I said, “What's going on there?” And he said, “Oh, well, I had a writing teacher who told me, ‘Don't just tell me he's angry, show him doing something.'” And I said, “Okay, no. That's not really what he meant.
What he meant was, ‘Show me why he's angry. Show me what's causing him to be angry.'” Because one of the things that writers tend to do is they'll sum up the things that have happened, in general, and then draw a conclusion from it without showing us what really happened.
It turned out that that guy had a bad day at work, and they might say, “Well, Joe had a bad day at work, and he was angry, and he threw it.” That is not enough. A bad day at work? A bad day at work could be Joe went to work, Joe's a total slacker, and he fell asleep at his desk, and he got caught, and he got yelled at. That would be a bad day at work.
Also it could be that Joe worked his fingers to the bone, his nemesis came in, and took all the credit for it. And Joe was dying over that, and Joe had a bad day at work.
Now, both of those things are specific. You've showed us what happened, and they give as much more insight into how Joe's feeling, and they allow us to anticipate what he might do next. If that's just, “He had a bad day at work,” we have no idea how that's affecting him or what he might do as a result.
Another really good example of this — and this is a funny one — I had a writer who had a habit of writing characters who would swear that they would never do something. Like, “I would never, ever, ever do this.” And then someone would come up and they'd go, “Hey, you wanna go do it?” and they'd go, “Okay, fine,” and off they'd go. And I said, “Okay, if you're gonna have a character change their mind, you have to show them changing their mind. They can't just go make a 180-degree turn for no reason.”
She went, “Okay, great. I get it, I'll do it,” and I got the manuscript back, and I'd read three or four versions of this before I realized what she'd done. And it was a scene where, you know, the wife comes in and says, “Joe, I know you said that we could never, ever get a dog again after what happened with Rover, but I saw the cutest Cockapoo at the pound. Please can we go get him?”
And it was, “Joe sat on the couch. He stroked his chin. He looked pensively out the window. Seconds ticked by. ‘Okay, honey. Let's go get the dog,'” and I realized that she was indeed showing Joe make the decision.
And of course, that's not what it meant at all. It meant show us how he changes his mind, because that's where we came to story; the difference between, as I said, what we see on the outside and what we're really thinking.
Story is often about the things that we can't say. How do we process information? What does that mean to us, really? We want to see the steps between, “No, I would absolutely never do that,” and what does it costs us to go, “Okay, yeah, I will.” That's what we want to know. What did that really feel like?
Sometimes “Show, Don't Tell” is physical, is seeing something physical, especially with body language, which is the only language that no matter how hard we try we cannot lie in. But when you do “Show, Don't Tell” and you're going to use body language, you want it to tell us something we don't already know.
In other words, if Sally's boyfriend broke up with her and we already know she's really sad, we don't need three pages of watching her cry a beautiful river. Where you do want to use it would be if Sally's boyfriend broke up with her and she said to him, “You know what? Not only was I gonna break up with you, but I never liked you anyway,” and then we see her shoulders slump and we go, “Oh, Sally's lying.” Now, we know what that's really feeling like.
So, “Show, Don't Tell” is often, when it's physical, used to show us something that is giving us insight into how the character feels, separate from what every other character is seeing.
Joanna: Fantastic. You've talked a bit about the kind of curiosity and the dopamine effect of wanting to know what's happening.
Does that literally mean we should just be opening questions and keeping the curiosity going throughout the book? How can writers specifically kind of get that feeling?
Lisa: It really does always come back to realizing that what's going to be in the reader's mind is, “How is the story question going to resolve?” How is the main character, the protagonist in whose skin we are…the protagonist is our avatar, our surrogate in the story, and so we're watching that character try to solve that problem.
What that means is that, within your story, every single thing that happens has to, in some way, answer that question. Everything they try to solve the problem usually, as in real life, only makes it worse, and now they've got to reconsider and move forward.
One thing to think about, and watch this when you're reading or watching everything: we're really wired to believe, and we tacitly assume that in a story every single thing the writer tells us is there on a need-to-know basis. If we don't need to know it, the writer is not going to waste our time telling us.
If you do tell us things that we don't need to know, we're going to make up a reason for it, and that reason is going to inherently be wrong because there is no right reason. And what happens is, at that point, the story stops making sense, and then we can't anticipate what happens next because we're not really sure what's happening in the moment.
The real thing to keep in mind, I think, all the way through is that yard stick. There's something that I like to call the “and so” test. For everything that you've written, even a sentence, a paragraph, a scene, a chapter, ask yourself, “And so?”
The question you're asking is, “What's the point?” Why does the reader need to know this? What insight does this give the reader? And not just in terms of literally, physically, what's going to happen next, but what insight does it give the reader into how the protagonist, or whatever character it is, is seeing the situation and what they may or may not do as a result. How is it really affecting them?
Story is about that internal stuff that we don't talk about. That's what we come to it for. The stuff our friends don't tell us, the stuff that everybody is keeping secret, we want to know that. That's what brings us to Fifty Shades of Grey, all that stuff. We can think of in a story is like, “Oh, yeah. Me, too. I feel that, too. I'm not the only one.” But the more that everything goes to that story question, the better.
Joanna: And it's good that you say that. I like the chapter in your book about that. There's actually a lot of things in your book, I think, we know as writers, but actually you can see how, perhaps, we've got some of it wrong. And I've had a number of people who I've done consulting with, and their books are so much in the protagonist's point of view where they might say, “Then they brushed their teeth and then they had this for breakfast, and then they did that and the other.” That's not what you mean, is it?
We're in someone's point of view but it's not everything, it's only what matters.
Lisa: Exactly. There's so many different layers we could talk about that on, but absolutely, you're only telling us things that pertain to the story question and whether or not this moves them further away or closer to. And usually, it's again how they're interpreting what's happening and it's driving them to make a decision that pertains to the story question.
That's where the “and so” test comes in. And one way to look at it is…this is a really interesting brain thing, and it's kind of shocking. Every second of every day there are 11 million pieces of information that are bombarding your 5 senses.
Now, if we had to deal with all of those 11 million pieces of information at one time, we couldn't move. So what our brain does is it very, very quickly, at warp speed, sifts through it, and I think they say there are about 40 things we can kind of be aware of. And what we can actually concentrate on is somewhere between, like, five and nine; seven being the optimal number.
And what does our brain filter out? It filters out all the stuff that we don't need to know in terms of the task at hand, the stuff that has no consequence to what we're doing now.
That's what writers need to do. They need to filter out every piece of information in the protagonist's life that doesn't pertain to, “Are they or aren't they going to achieve whatever it is that the story is forcing them to achieve?” Because the story needs to force them. Stories are about problems that we can't avoid.
Stories are about conflict that can't be avoided, because in real life we're wired to avoid conflict. We don't want it at all. But yet, we're kind of drawn to it because we think, “I wonder what that risk would feel like.” That's what we come to story for.
Story takes characters, and we're in their shoes, and now it's forcing them to deal with things that in real life we can avoid because we want to know, “Well, maybe that risk is worth it.” Everything in the story goes to, “What would it be like to take that risk?” And unless the risk is trying a toothpaste that might kill you, we don't need to know.
Joanna: No, I agree. I like that idea that you want to be getting the dopamine. And I feel that, as a writer, the reason I write about killing and murder, and do fight scenes, is because I don't want to go through that but there is a sort of vicarious thrill.
Lisa: Right. We all wonder what makes people tick. Every time someone does especially something on that level…I mean there's this horrible thing that I'm sure you're aware of that just happened here in Colorado, and the burning question everywhere, and I've seen it referred to in the New York Times as “The Burning Question,” is why did he do that? Why would a person go in and do something as utterly horrendous as what he did? And it comes down to what we wanna know. What makes people tick?
The wonderful movie, “Citizen Kane,” opens with the producer of the newsroom going, “There's nothing more interesting than finding out what makes people tick.” And especially people who do things that we would never do, like murder people, hopefully. We'd never do that.
Joanna: Yeah, it's terrible. Okay, so we've covered a lot in our time, and I highly recommend the book. So where can people find you and the book online?
Lisa: They can find me online at www.wiredforstory.com, and the book can really be found just about everywhere, all the usual suspects — bookstores and everywhere online where you look for books.
Joanna: Fantastic. Thanks ever so much for your time, Lisa. That was great.
Lisa: Thank you, Joanna. It was really fun.
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Wow!! Very powerful stuff to dig into!! I was listening to this back issue this morning while driving to work and I kept nodding and grinning and saying “oh, yeah!” The other drivers must have taken me for a lunatic, but, no matter. I’m hooked to your podcasts, and now I know why : it’s the dopamine addiction kicking in…. Thanks a million for sharing such crucial insight on storytelling.
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How brands can capitalise on the addressable TV revolution
By Jakob Nielsen-18 May 2017 12:51pm
How targeted TV ads will change the way brands advertise on TV
Change is coming to TV. In the next five years TV advertising will change more than it has in the last 50. This transformation will not be the death of TV, but its rebirth in a range of new and wondrous forms, bringing with it new opportunities for advertisers outside of live TV programming.
This global change is being driven by trends such as cord-cutting and time-shifted viewing and the UK is leading the transformation.
The UK is the principal adopter of time-shifted viewing in Europe. More than 8.3m households subscribe to at least one SVOD service, with Netflix – the largest such service – reaching an estimated 6.5m households, according to BARB. IHG estimates that we spent £451m on online TV subscriptions in 2015, representing an annual growth of 42%.
More than three-quarters (78%) of GB adults have watched recorded TV or video on demand at least once in the past 12 months, and 30% have watched live TV online. Ofcom’s Digital Day research reveals that among 16-24 year olds, time spent watching live television has declined to 36% of total viewing time, whilst recorded, on-demand, and live TV now make up 59% of this age group’s viewing.
But while the way consumers watch TV has changed, what they like to watch hasn’t. The most popular on-demand video sources in the UK include BBC iPlayer (37%), ITV Player (20%), All4 (18%) and My5 (10%) – suggesting that quality TV content is critical. Never has there been more invested in content than in 2016; with £6.5bn spent on network TV programmes, according to the Ofcom Communications Market Report 2016.
The battle ground for viewers is based on compelling original TV content – shows like The Night Manager and The Walking Dead are now attracting significant audiences on-demand. Newer on demand players such as Amazon and Netflix understand this and are investing $4.5bn and $6.0bn in content, respectively, in 2017.
If TV in all its forms is strong then advertisers benefit by having access to the most effective and engaged environments – via quality long-form content, delivered on the big screen. This is arguably the most powerful platform on which to build a brand.
In addition, these new forms of viewing – as well as changes to existing delivery systems such as satellite – also bring other benefits, the addition of data and technology. This allows broadcasters, brands and agencies to work together to create more targeted and more relevant advertising.
Data and technology facilitate targeted TV ads, reaching only those households that satisfy a specific range of consumer attributes such as postcode or income. Ads can be replaced in a live TV break, where everyone would ordinarily have seen the same message. Targeted advertising also allows specific commercials to be inserted into on-demand content.
Together data and technology can deliver both precision targeting on TV and better understanding of media effectiveness – which in turn helps brands spend smarter and optimise their TV campaigns, just as they do with online ads.
Of course, not all TV advertising will become targeted. The current panel-based live TV buying model and broad reach will continue to be a key pillar of brand building for major advertisers.
However, we do think that for some brands, between 30% and 50% of TV advertising could be shifted to targeted ad spend. It might be in the form of more segmented messaging based on refined target audiences or a specific geographical focus, for example.
The demand for broad-based brand awareness should not be underestimated. We believe when targeting TV becomes more mainstream, we will see a substantial movement from direct and trade marketing activities.
The advantage for brands is that it will be more cost efficient. The advantage for broadcasters is that it will enable them to secure incremental revenue – from both existing and new-to-TV advertisers – without diluting current revenue streams.
Our tests show that the targeted approach can be hugely effective. We recently worked with the GroupM agency MEC to develop a customised audience of urban men passionate about fashion, technology and sports on behalf of a shampoo brand. This targeted solution enabled the company to reach an audience on the main TV screen, at a much lower cost of entry, and the messages were watched to completion by 98% of those who saw them via on-demand and connected TV.
We have also worked with a family travel/leisure provider, to run performance-led activity designed to build awareness of its family break offers, drive site visits and increase the number of holiday quotes. By optimising the direct-response video on the basis of arrivals to the client’s website, quotes, time of day, day of week and content, we were able to exceed our targets by more than 300%.
Targeted TV has the potential to make the world’s greatest medium even better, but no one company can create it alone. It’s time for distributors, broadcasters and demand sources to work together to develop an ecosystem that creates value for everyone who loves brilliant TV.
Jakob Nielsen, GroupM Addressable TV Lead, will be joining the Royal Television Society ‘Is targeted advertising the future of TV?’ panel on 24 May alongside Sky, YouView, Channel 4 and Nationwide.
This article is about: UK, Future Of TV, Addressable TV, GroupM, Advertising, Digital, Media
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Trump unleashes a new foreign policy peril in Syria
Secretary of Defense Jame Mattis, in his resignation letter to Trump, made clear the reason was his categorical opposition to the troop withdrawal.
Trump unleashes a new foreign policy peril in Syria Secretary of Defense Jame Mattis, in his resignation letter to Trump, made clear the reason was his categorical opposition to the troop withdrawal. Check out this story on thenewsstar.com: https://www.thetowntalk.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/12/27/jules-witcover-column-trump-unleashes-new-foreign-policy-peril-syria/2415243002/
By Jules Witcover, Tribune Content Agency Published 11:00 p.m. CT Dec. 26, 2018
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is stepping down from his post, President Donald Trump announced Thursday, after the retired Marine general clashed with the president over a troop drawdown in Syria and Trump’s go-it-alone stance in world affairs. Time
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WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump's sudden announcement that he will withdraw 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria -- triggering the resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis -- augurs greater concern than ever about American foreign policy under an impulsive and inexperienced president driven above all else by political self-preservation.
Mattis, in his resignation letter to Trump, made clear the reason was his categorical opposition to the troop withdrawal. He diplomatically described it as the president's right to have a Pentagon chief "whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other matters."
But Mattis, after 44 years in the Marine Corps ending with four stars on his collar, never left any doubt that his first loyalty was always to his troops in the field and those of allies they were aiding. Trump, adding insult to injury, rejected Mattis' intent to stay on for two months to oversee the transition to his deputy, a man with no military experience in the field.
In Syria, the departing Americans were aiding Kurdish soldiers who form the primary component of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) striving to liberate Syrian territory from the grip of remnants of the Islamic State in Syria (ISIS). Trump had said earlier that ISIS was largely defeated, and now he tweeted: "Time to focus in our Country & bring our youth back home where they belong!"
But in a statement the SDF bitterly rejoined that the war with ISIS was just reaching a "decisive" stage, adding in no uncertain terms: "The war against terrorism has not ended and (ISIS) has not been defeated," it said.
According to the Associated Press, Trump decided to withdraw the U.S. troops from Syria after a phone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, much to the dismay of Mattis, who feared that the Kurdish forces would then be easy marks for hostile Turkish troops sent to finish them off.
Afterward, Trump defended his decision, tweeting: "Getting out of Syria was no surprise. I've been campaigning on it for years." He added at one point: "Does the USA want to be the Policeman of the Middle East, getting NOTHING but spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who, in almost all cases, do not appreciate what we are doing? Do we want to be there forever?"
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Trump supporter, said Mattis afterward told him he was now worried about the fate of the Kurds, fearing that "the day we leave it's going to be open season on every Kurd who's supported us."
Graham himself said of the American troop withdrawal: "I'm not going to suggest motivations that are anything other than a frustrated president. But I can promise this: that if you follow through with this everything that happened in Iraq is going to happen in Syria."
The Syria pullout is only the latest Trump decision that has unnerved Pentagon veterans. His earlier expressions of contempt for NATO and the European Union, which created collective security and a reliable Western alliance growing out the World War II and the Cold War, displayed a pathetic disregard of that history.
Trump's naive courtship of Russian President Vladmir Putin at Helsinki, whom he failed to confront on the meddling in the 2016 American election confirmed by the U.S. intelligence community, was a vivid national humiliation.
On the Korean peninsula, the president's buy-in to North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un's assurances that he would de-escalate his nuclear-weapon arsenal compounded the concern of military minds throughout the West, Japan and South Korea that Trump again was blindly crippling the collective security.
Now for perhaps the first time in the Trump era, some strong-willed congressional defenders of the military like Graham are beginning to express reservations about the whims and failures of the man in the Oval Office to inform himself, through experts and papers he seems too lazy to read.
This presidency by tweets, derision and division has taken on the dimensions of a national disaster as frightening as any recent natural climate or weather crisis, with slumbering or uncomprehending members of the Grand Old Party collaborating or just helplessly looking away.
Jules Witcover invites readers to respond to this column at juleswitcovercomcast.net.
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BALCA found that 20 CFR §656.17(e)(1)(ii)(G) requires documentation of the employee referral program’s incentives as well as the dates the program was advertised, despite the use of the words “can” and “or” in the regulation.
Issue Date: 02 March 2011
In the Matter of: DELOITTE SERVICES LP,
Employer on behalf of RADEEPKUMAR RATILAL SINGAPURI, Alien.
Atlanta National Processing Center
Appearances: Jonathan C. Adams, Esquire
Jonathan R. Hammer, Attorney
Before: Romero, Price, and Rosenow
DECISION AND ORDER AFFIRMING DENIAL OF CERTIFICATION
This matter arises under Section 212(a)(5)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(5)(A), and the “PERM” regulations found at Title 20, Part 656 of the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.).
On September 28, 2007, the Certifying Officer (CO) accepted for processing Employer’s Application for Permanent Employment Certification (ETA Form 9089) for the position of “Senior SAP Basis Technology Analyst.” (AF 191-206).1 Within its application, Employer attested that one of the three additional recruitment steps it took to promote this professional position was advertising with its employee referral program from June 25 to July 10, 2007. (AF 195). On November 15, 2007, Employer was notified that its ETA Form 9089 was selected for audit. (AF 187-190). The Audit Notification directed Employer to submit, among other records, “[r]ecruitment documentation as outlined in 656.17(e).” (AF 188). Employer responded on December 13, 2007, and attached a screenshot of its internal job-posting website, “Staffing WebTop,” showing the dates the posting opened and expired. (AF 134-186).
On May 22, 2009, the CO denied certification of Employer’s application for three reasons, the second of which was that Employer failed to provide adequate documentation of its additional recruitment steps, in violation of 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e)(1)(ii)(G). (AF 131-133). The CO found that Employer failed to provide dated copies of employer notices or memoranda advertising the program and specifying the incentives offered, as required by Section 656.17(e)(1)(ii)(G). On June 18, 2009, Employer requested reconsideration and argued that its submission of the screenshot was sufficient to fulfill the regulation’s requirement of dated copies of employer notices. (AF 3-130). Additionally, Employer provided website printouts describing its talent referral program, “Refer Potential Movers and Shakers.” (AF 27-43).
The CO determined that Employer’s request did not overcome all deficiencies noted in the determination letter thus forwarded the case to BALCA on February 12, 2010. On March 11, 2010, BALCA issued a Notice of Docketing. Employer filed a Statement of Intent to Proceed on March 25, 2010, and attached the brief it previously submitted with its request for reconsideration. On April 26, 2010, the CO filed a Statement of Position asserting that Employer’s failure to submit timely the appropriate documentation, as required by 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e)(1)(ii)(G), was a fatal defect under 20 C.F.R. § 656.24(g)(2).
An employer who files an Application for Permanent Employment Certification under the basic labor certification process must attest to having placed a SWA job order and two print advertisements in newspaper or professional journals prior to filing the application. 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e)(1)(i). Employers filing an application for professional occupations must conduct three additional recruitment steps. 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e)(1)(ii). One of the additional recruitment steps an employer can utilize is an employee referral program with incentives. This recruitment step “can be documented by providing dated copies of employer notices or memoranda advertising the program and specifying the incentives offered.” 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e)(1)(ii)(G). A substantial failure by the employer to provide required documentation will result in that application being denied. 20 C.F.R. § 656.20(b).
An employer is permitted to request reconsideration of a denied certification, but such request may include only:
(i) Documentation that the Department actually received from the employer in response to a request from the Certifying Officer to the employer; or
(ii) Documentation that the employer did not have an opportunity to present previously to the Certifying Officer, but that existed at the time the Application for Permanent Labor Certification was filed, and was maintained by the employer to support the application for permanent labor certification in compliance with the requirements of § 656.10(f).
20 C.F.R. §§ 656.24(g)(2)(i), (ii). This regulation provides that the CO will consider additional documentation submitted with an employer’s request for reconsideration only if the employer did not have the opportunity to submit it previously and if it was maintained to support the application for labor certification. See Denzil Gunnels d/b/a/ Gunnels Arabians, 2010-PER-628 (Nov. 16, 2010).
The record clearly demonstrates that Employer failed to meet the regulatory requirements of Section 656.17(e)(1)(ii)(G). Employer indicated in its application that one of the three additional recruitment steps it took to advertise the position of Senior SAP Basis Technology Analyst was to use its employee referral program with incentives. Within its audit response, however, Employer failed to include “dated copies of employer notices or memoranda advertising the program and specifying the incentives offered.” See 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e)(1)(ii)(G) (emphasis added). Employer submitted only a screenshot of its internal job-posting website showing the dates the posting opened and closed. Employer did not submit any documentation advertising the program or its specific incentives; yet, Employer had the opportunity to present such documentation to the CO previously and should have done so in response to the Audit Notification. The additional documentation Employer submitted with its request for reconsideration is evidence not previously submitted, within the meaning of Section 656.24(g)(2), and therefore cannot be used in support of a motion for reconsideration (or review). See Shogun at Bey Lea, 2006-PER-00059 (Oct. 10, 2006). As such, we find that Employer’s failure mandates denial of the certification.
Still, Employer maintains that it satisfied the documentation requirement because the regulations state that documentation of the employee referral program “can” (as opposed to “shall”) be provided by dated copies of employer notices “or” memoranda
advertising the program and specifying the incentives offered. Given the “or” contained in the regulatory language, Employer argues that it reasonably believed it had adequately demonstrated its reliance upon its employee referral program as one of the three additional professional recruitment steps. Nevertheless, the regulation certainly notifies employers that the specifics of the program’s incentives as well as the dates the program was advertised are elements of adequate documentation. Ove Arup & Partners Consulting Engineers, PC, 2010-PER-00013 (July 20, 2010).
Based on the foregoing, we affirm the CO’s denial of labor certification.
Larry W. Price
NOTICE OF OPPORTUNITY TO PETITION FOR REVIEW: This Decision and Order will become the final decision of the Secretary unless within twenty days from the date of service a party petitions for review by the full Board. Such review is not favored and ordinarily will not be granted except (1) when full Board consideration is necessary to secure or maintain uniformity of
its decisions, or (2) when the proceeding involves a question of exceptional importance. Petitions must be filed with:
Copies of the petition must also be served on other parties and should be accompanied by a written statement setting forth the date and manner of service. The petition shall specify the basis for requesting full Board review with supporting authority, if any, and shall not exceed five double-spaced pages. Responses, if any, shall be filed within ten days of service of the petition, and shall not exceed five double-spaced pages. Upon the granting of a petition the Board may order briefs.
1 In this decision, AF is an abbreviation for Appeal File.
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One of the most enjoyable tales at Christmas time is the story of George Bailey, depicted in the Frank Capra film “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The Sherburne Music Theater Society invites you to return to the days of live radio broadcasts at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at the Earlville Opera House (EOH). The cast will recreate the one-hour Lux Radio Theater version of the movie, complete with commercials.
On Christmas Eve 1945, prayers are heard in heaven for George Bailey of Bedford Falls. To help George, Clarence Oddbody, an angel who has not yet earned his wings, is sent to earth to stop him from committing suicide. As the radio play unfolds, we are transported back in time to understand what has led George to the edge of the bridge.
George Bailey will be played by Keven Simmons and Kathy Hilgenberg will create the role of Clarence Oddbody. Others in the cast include Kerry Linden as Mary Hatch, Maggie Fitzpatrick as the superintendent of Angels, and Bruce Mosely as Mr. Potter. As with any radio show, many cast members are called upon to play multiple parts – from grouchy old men to sweet young children. These versatile cast members include Colleen Law-Tefft, Owen Tallman, John Grossmann, James Moren, Melanie Simmons, Craig Natoli, Letta Palmer, and Michael Zahn. Ginny Lash will provide the musical accompaniment and live sound effects will be created by Donna Moren. Rick Thormahlen has undertaken the role of director.
This production is free and open to the public as part of the Earlville Christmas Festival. Everyone is invited to take a step back in time, before TV and personal electronic devices, and spend an hour enjoying the radio production of “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
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What happens with EU driving licences post-Brexit?
According to recent guidance from the Department of Transport, visitors with an EU or EEA driving licence will not need an international driving permit (IDP) to drive in the UK. As of the 29th March 2019, and in the event of a no-deal Brexit, current rules for EU and European Economic Area (EEA) licence holders who are visiting or living in Britain will not dramatically change.
Car and Motorcycle Licence
Those who are or become a UK resident while using an EU or EEA car or motorcycle licence can drive in the UK until they reach the age of 70, or for three years after becoming a resident here, whichever is the longer period. After that, an application must be made to exchange the European licence for a UK licence.
Bus Licence
Different restrictions apply to EU and EEA lorry or bus licences holders who are or become UK residents. EU lorry and bus licence holders can drive in the UK:
• If they are younger than 45, or for five years after becoming resident, whichever date is later.
• If they are over 45, but under 65, lorry and bus licence holders can drive in the UK until their 66th birthday or have lived in the UK for five years, whichever happens soon.
• If they are aged 65 or over, or until they have lived in the UK for 12 months.
Where did you take your driving test?
For those who passed their test in the EU or EEA and obtained an EU/EEA driving licence, the UK will continue to exchange their licence. However, EU and EEA licence holders who passed their test outside of the EU or EEA will have restrictions on licence exchange. As such, they may need to take a test in order to obtain a UK licence.
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Hey Actresses, Want a TV Job? Find a Lady Boss, New Study Says
Number of female TV characters plummets on shows with no women creators, San Diego State University report finds
Ryan O'Connell | September 16, 2014 @ 10:18 AM Last Updated: September 16, 2014 @ 10:56 AM
A word of advice to actresses: try to get hired on a series created by, written by or executive produced by a woman.
The 17th annual “Boxed In” study, conducted by San Diego State’s Center for the Study of Women, shows that the number of women on-screen correlates to the number of women off-screen. When a network series employs at least one woman creator, females accounted for 47 percent of all characters. On shows with no women creators, females accounted for only 39 percent of characters.
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Otherwise, the report showed little improvement for women working in primetime, as the number of women in writing and executive producing roles has decreased from last year. TV shows created by women is also in a decline with 20 percent of all creators being women, a 4 percent decrease from last year.
“For many years, women have experienced slow but incremental growth both as characters on screen and working in key positions behind the scenes,” said Martha Lauzen, executive director of the center. “However, that progress, small though it was, now appears to have stalled.”
There are, however, more women producers on television this year than last: 43 percent of all producers on network series are female, up 5 percent. Women also made up 13 percent of all TV directors, which is an increase of 1 percent from the previous year and a 5 percent increase from the 1997-1998 season, the first year San Diego State coordinated this study.
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While figures above only represent network TV gigs, “Boxed In” also examined the number of women working in cable as well as Netflix-produced shows. Combine the network, cable and the streaming site and women still make up 40 percent of producers, 26 percent of writers, 21 percent of executive producers, 19 percent of creators and 13 percent of directors.
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Strengthening the Nigeria-Nordic Relationship
The 2019 edition of Nordic Nigeria Connect themed, ‘Innovating for Change’ saw the coming together of five independent countries – Nigeria, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark – for the purpose of strengthening the rapport between the Nordic countries and Nigeria. Mary Nnah and Peace Obi report
Change they say is constant! And that can best describe the phases of the business relationship between Nigeria and the Nordic countries – Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Demark- even as they continue to evolve. Over the years, this bilateral relationship which has existed over 100 years has seen a single item export of Norwegian stock fish to Nigeria grown to accommodate several other goods and services.
Now, as the Nordic states take cognisance of the gradual emergence of Nigeria as a hotbed of innovations cutting across the financial services, agriculture, hospitality and entertainment, the need for collaboration amongst these countries for more mutually beneficial partnership has become necessary more than ever before. A step in that direction saw the hosting of the 2019 edition of Nordic-Nigeria Connect: “Innovating for Change” which sought to combine the ideas and solutions from the Nordic countries and Nigeria companies, investors, government representatives and other stakeholders for a better impactful trade relationship.
Coming at the backdrop of the need for the countries to collaborate for mutual benefits, government officials, industries leaders, experts and stakeholders in different sectors defied the horrendous traffic that made movement in and out of the Island between May 22 and 23 to converge on the Radisson Blu, Victoria Island to connect and reconnect for a better future.
Declaring the two-day event open, the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, who was represented by the Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim commended the organisers for the initiative and said that it would enable participating countries – Nigeria Sweden, Norway, Finland and Demark to connect, reconnect and see how they can be beneficial and useful to one another.
According to Osinbajo, the event would enable stakeholders to deliberate on issues and come with up with recommendations, adding that the FG will look into the recommendations the stakeholders will come up with after the event.
Stating that the Nordic countries excel in innovation, the vice president said the FG has deliberately put some policies in place to support innovation in different sectors of the Nigerian economy. He said, “I believe that we can leverage on their development and learn a lot. First, Nigeria has many policies that support innovation like Executive Order 003 and Presidential Order 005. These policies are purposely designed to support our indigenous technology and innovation”.
Speaking further, Osinbajo said the FG through the National Information Technology Development Agency has established about eight world-class IT hubs in different parts of the country. “In addition to the IT hubs, the government has been providing specialist training for startups and sometimes provides seed funds for them. This is to make sure that they develop their own idea of innovation. I believe we are on track but we need to double our efforts to catch up with other nations, particularly the developed ones,” he added.
Finland’s Prowess
The Ambassador of Finland to Nigeria, HE, Dr. Jyrki Pulkkinen on his part, reiterated his country’s prowess in innovation, technology and education, adding that huge potentials in terms of human and materials resources abound in Nigeria.
According to him, it is a fact the Nordic countries have taken cognisance of and therefore considers Nigeria strategic for trade and investment. “I think in Finland and other Nordic countries, the politicians are already realising what Nigeria actually is. It is the biggest economy, the biggest country in West Africa and the whole of Africa and it has huge business potential for all of the Europeans. Finland has been a very innovative society for a long time now, especially in education and technology. We are here to learn together and to create new innovation. There are huge potentials in this country – great people, great resources”, Pulkkinen said.
Speaking further, he said, “Nigeria is a very strategic country. I think in Finland and other Nordic countries, the politicians are already realising what Nigeria actually is. It is the biggest economy, the biggest country in West Africa and the whole of Africa and it has huge business potential for all of the Europeans.”
Describing education to be the bedrock of Finland’s transformation from an agrarian society into being globally recognised as having the best education system, a leading force in technology and innovation, Pulkkinen said infrastructure and education are critical to the development of any nation.
“I think education is the key for all the countries to be developed. That is why you see everybody harps on education”, he added.
Tracing Nigeria-Finland relationship to the 1960s, the ambassador said, “We have been here for a long time. We have been here since the 60s. Finland has been very keen on introducing ideas like gender equality, education, innovation, mobile phone technology like Nokia, etc. Of course, we are not necessarily happy yet at the level of the development we have achieved because there is much more to do, we are really working so that we can lift it to the next level not only in Nigeria but also in other Africa nations. That is really what should be happening in the future.”
Norway’s Expansion
Speaking also, the Defence Secretary for the Embassy of Norway, Aida Ghebreselasie, remarked that though Nigeria and Norway enjoy a long existing business relationship, investors are seeking to expand their investments in oil and gas, seafood and shipping, and maritime, adding that the shift in focus on renewable energy in Africa and Nigeria in particular.
“We have about 15 Norwegian companies that are focused on oil and gas out of the major 17 companies we have in Nigeria. So, the biggest sector here is the oil and gas but we are also dabbling into renewable energy. There are a lot of renewable energy actors in East Africa at the moment and they have done a lot of feasibility studies and an interesting market to push the engagement over to is West Africa, especially Nigeria.
Sweden’s Innovation
The Swedish Ambassador in Nigeria, H.E. Mr. Staffen Tillander, in his remarks, said it’s necessary that countries collaborate to achieve economic and social development. Adding that some of the things the platform was created to achieve were to strengthen existing relationships, to inspire each other and build new partnerships for the future.
Stressing that innovation is strong in all the Nordic countries Tillander said that as home to billion-dollar tech companies, Sweden has its business model built around infrastructure, gender equality, cooperation and dialogue and that it has made Swedish industries so innovative and dynamic. According to him, business and innovation turn threats to hope as it deploys possibilities to utilise potentials that are discovered through education and learning.
He however warned that without the creation of well-functioning infrastructure, no development will be possible. He said, “Cooperation and dialogue, infrastructure and gender equality form the basis of the Swedish model and it has made Swedish industries so innovative and dynamic. No economy will prosper if half of all her geniuses, entrepreneurs and others are held bound for no other reason than gender,” he said.
Denmark’s Leverage
The Minister Counsellor, Consulate General of Denmark, Lagos, H.E. Mr. Poul Jacob Erikstrup in his remarks said that innovation, connections, partnerships, knowledge, technology exchange are keywords for development of all countries. Stressing that though societies are different in many ways, Erikstrup said there are a number of ways to inspire each other to new innovations and better future.
According to him, countries are unique and strong in different areas, just as Denmark is renowned to be at the forefront with innovations in the food, agriculture and processing sector, yet common goals can be achieved by innovatively leveraging each other’s strength. “You get inspired by good neighbours and good friends when you develop your own country. Our societies are different in many ways but there are a number of ways to inspire each other to new innovations and better future. And a common goal can be achieved through innovative use of goods, services and raw materials,” he said.
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Waco High School freshman Abigail Zimmerman was featured as part of The New York Times’ “900 Voices from Gen Z, America’s Most Diverse Generation” piece this month. She responded to the question “What makes you different from your friends?” on Instagram.
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Waco High freshman included in New York Times feature on Generation Z
By BROOKE CRUM bcrum@wacotrib.com
Brooke Crum
When Waco High School freshman Abigail Zimmerman found out she had been featured in The New York Times, she uttered a slight scream in the middle of her third period class.
Abigail, 14, responded to a query from the Times on the publication’s Instagram story that asked members of Generation Z, generally defined as people born after 1995, to swipe up and fill out an application with basic information about themselves, a photo and an answer to the question “What makes you different from your friends?”
A month later, Abigail received an email that said she might be in The New York Times. She started obsessively checking the Times every day to see if she had been selected. When she saw her response included, she was in class.
“It was surreal,” she said. “I was so excited. I couldn’t believe it. I had to turn my phone off and back on.”
Out of more than 3,500 applicants, 992 were selected for the print and online feature, “900 Voices from Gen Z, America’s Most Diverse Generation,” which was printed in the March 31 edition of the newspaper.
The online interactive feature includes this description:”What is it like to be part of the group that has been called the most diverse generation in U.S. history? We asked members of Generation Z to tell us what makes them different from their friends, and to describe their identity.”
Abigail’s response reads: “b. 2004, Hispanic, female, Waco, Texas; ‘I read the news daily and keep up with political issues such as gun violence, climate change, and nutritional and agriculture policy.’”
At first, she did not know how to respond to the question. She had wanted to be in The New York Times since she was old enough to appreciate the news organization, and she knew this was her chance.
“Most of the people I know who are my age don’t read the news. They might think it’s important, but it’s too much or it’s hard for them to read the news in our current day and age. But I do,” she said, expounding on her answer to the Times. “I love politics, and I love keeping up with government and what’s going on in our world because I think it’s incredibly important.”
Lisa Saxenian, dean of academies and instruction at Waco High School, said she has never had a student in The New York Times before.
“I’m just so proud of her,” Saxenian said. “This is something she’s always wanted to do. Who takes the time to apply? That’s what I was so impressed with.”
Abigail said it was interesting to see how different the other people included in the feature are and their various responses. Some of the responses were simple, such as “I like to read,” but it still rang true.
“I think it can be easy to say ‘Oh, I’m only 13, 14, 15. I can’t vote.’ But this is the world we’re inheriting,” she said. “It’s important just to know what’s going on in your country, in your world. Just because you can’t vote doesn’t mean you can’t be involved in the process.”
After the Parkland school shooting in Florida last year that killed 17, Abigail helped organize a walkout at Tennyson Middle School. She also spoke at the local March for Our Lives protest and canvassed for Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke last year. Those experiences and her parents led her to realize she could make a change even at a young age.
“My parents have always stressed the importance to me of being involved and how important our government is,” she said.
At Waco High School, Abigail is involved in choir, junior varsity tennis, student council and mock trial. She also sits on the Waco Youth Council.
Until high school, Abigail did not own a cellphone or use social media — a decision by her parents that gave her perspective on what it is like to go without certain privileges her friends had. Now, she pays her own cellphone bill and values social media as an “amazing tool.”
“When you’re that young, you’re so impressionable and somewhat innocent, and there are things in the world and on social media you don’t need to see,” she said. “When you go home from school and you have social media, you’re taking it with you. You’re taking the drama and you’re taking the stress from school, the grades and everything. It’s with you. But when you don’t have it, you can just be with your family and not worry. As a young child, it was better for me to able to experience my childhood and grow up, even though if you talked with my parents they would probably say I wasn’t as excited about it.”
Abigail uses social media to stay updated on current events and issues, including climate change and gun violence, some of the most important challenges her generation will face, she said.
“We’re growing up with a lot, but I hope it’ll make us stronger,” she said.
Brooke Crum joined the Tribune-Herald as the education reporter in January 2019. She has worked for the Springfield News-Leader in Missouri, Abilene Reporter-News, Beaumont Enterprise and the Port Arthur News. Crum graduated from TCU in Fort Worth.
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Nordic Agreement Concerning the Collection and Transfer of Tax
Key terms:
International tax situations
Liability to tax; tax residence
Taxation procedure
Veron maksaminen ja palauttaminen
Kansainvälinen tietojenvaihto
Income taxation of individuals
Official Instructions
1/1/2019 - Until further notice
This is an unofficial translation. The official instruction is drafted in Finnish and Swedish languages.
This guide discusses the Nordic Agreement Concerning the Collection and Transfer of Tax, also known as the TREKK Treaty. The guide explains the prerequisites for transferring tax between two Nordic countries and outlines situations in which an individual’s tax may be transferred. Additionally, it contains guidance on how employment within the Nordic countries must be reported to the authorities in various circumstances.
1 Foreword
The Nordic Agreement Concerning the Collection and Transfer of Tax is based on Article 20 of the Nordic Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters (Treaty No 37/1991). The agreement is also known as the TREKK‑Treaty after the Danish word ‘trække’ (‘withhold’). The current TREKK Treaty (Treaty No 97/1997) entered into force on 1 January 1998. The treaty is applied in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and the Faroe Islands (autonomous region of Denmark). Greenland is not party to the agreement.
TREKK governs the transfer of tax between the Nordic countries and determines the country where tax must be withheld or prepayments collected. Transfer operations of tax can under TREKK provisions be conducted when tax has been paid on the taxpayer’s income in one of the countries but the rights of taxation belong to another country. The transferred tax counts as a payment of a tax levied in the receiving country. The objectives of tax transfers are first, to ensure that the final tax on income is paid to the right country, and second, to avoid double taxation. Amounts can be transferred in connection with prepayments, tax assessment or corrective assessment. The TREKK Treaty is designed to prevent situations in which a taxpayer is given a tax refund on the basis of income that is taxable in another country.
For example, the TREKK Treaty is applicable to situations where a Nordic employer pays wages for work performed in another Nordic country. The objective is to prevent taxpayers from having to make prepayments, for tax due on such income, to more than one Nordic country. The agreement also aims to ensure that such wages do not escape prepayments altogether, but that prepayments are always collected either in the worker’s home country or in the country in which they work. ‘Home country’ refers to a taxpayer’s country of residence as defined in the Nordic Income Tax Treaty.
In this guide, “prepayments” refer to both tax withheld by the payer and prepayments made by workers themselves. Taxpayers may need to make prepayments if, for example, their employer is not liable to withhold tax on the wages it pays out in another Nordic country.
2 Overview of the TREKK Treaty
2.1 Scope of application
The TREKK Treaty applies to income tax governed by the Nordic Income Tax Treaty (Treaty No 26/1997). However, TREKK can only be applied to tax levied on specific types of income. It does not apply, for example, to tax at source charged on interest income or to employees’ and employers’ social insurance contributions.
The TREKK Treaty primarily applies to wages. It also applies to pensions and other social welfare benefits, such as sickness allowance. The treaty is applied to pensions regardless of whether they are earned income or capital income. Whether the pension is statutory or voluntary is also irrelevant. In addition to the above, the treaty covers business and trade income as well as remuneration for small-scale work that is taxed as the recipient’s personal income.
2.2 Competent authority
Tax transfers and correspondence relating to TREKK is regarded as a form of multilateral administrative assistance between Nordic tax authorities. The parties responsible for providing administrative assistance are the competent authorities in each country.
The competent authority under the TREKK Treaty for Finland is the Helsinki Area Tax Office. It is responsible for the correspondence relating to tax transfers, for reporting to foreign authorities, and for taxation. The competent authority is also responsible for sending requests, or making offers, relating to tax transfers to the competent authorities of other countries and for processing notifications arriving from other countries, regardless of the domicile of the taxpayer in question.
The Finnish Tax Administration’s unit called Payment and Collection (Maksu- ja perintäkeskus = Betalnings- och indrivningscentret) is in charge of any international recovery operations. This unit is also in charge of transferring tax funds under the TREKK Treaty in practice.
2.3 Exchange of information between the countries and reporting NT information
In order to implement the Treaty, the competent authorities of the Nordic countries must exchange information with one another from the prepayment stage onwards. The provisions of § 39, act on tax prepayment, set out an obligation for employers to provide information in case they have employees who work in another Nordic country. You must submit this information via the Income Register.
This is done by submitting the “earnings payment report” to the Incomes Register complete with the section for “NT information”. When filling in the spaces of the earnings payment report, the employer must select either the NT1 form type or the NT2 form type depending on whether prepayments will be paid in Finland as previously, or in another country. For detailed guidance on how to file reports to the Incomes Register, click on Reporting data to the Incomes Register: international situations. The Finnish Tax Administration sends the submitted NT information on to the competent authority of the Nordic country in question. The authorities also have their own forms for information exchange, for offering tax transfers to other countries, or for requesting transfers from them.
No prepayments of tax need to be deducted from workers’ wages in the country in which they work if the tax authorities of that country have been given a certificate issued by the Finnish Tax Administration, guaranteeing that tax is being withheld in Finland (the NT1 information). The Tax Administration issues a certificate in order to inform both the employer and the worker on the fact that NT1 information has been submitted to the Incomes Register. The NT2 information, on the other hand, is used by the employer to notify the Tax Administration that no tax is being withheld in Finland apart from a minimum amount for covering the worker’s health insurance contribution, where applicable. Employers do not have to withhold tax if the so-called six-month rule applies, or if a worker’s tax card is amended and their wages are exempted from Finnish tax, pursuant to tax-treaty provisions.
The employers’ obligations to report information, and the exchange of information between the authorities, do not remove the taxpayers’ personal responsibility for filing tax returns as they earn income in the country in which they work or live. Any income from abroad, in addition to income from domestic sources, must be reported on tax returns filed in the country of residence.
2.4 Tax transfers and Finland’s internal laws
Finland’s internal laws include provisions that factor in the transfer of taxes pursuant to the provisions of the TREKK Treaty. Pursuant to § 34, act on assessment procedure, prepayments transferred from another country to Finland are used towards tax levied during the tax year in question, and prepayments transferred from Finland to another country are not. In addition, any tax transferred from another country to Finland pursuant to § 60 of the act is deducted from the amount of tax levied in Finland in connection with corrective assessment or re-assessment following an appellate authority’s decision, if the transfer took place before the adjustment. § 59 of the act on tax collection lists the categories of tax revenue that can be transferred from Finland to other countries.
These provisions on tax transfers contained in Finland’s internal tax laws and the TREKK Treaty make tax paid in another Nordic country partially comparable to tax paid in Finland. Taxpayers can be given credit for tax transferred from another Nordic country when tax is levied on them in Finland. That is why, according to the agreement, the country that receives a tax transfer cannot charge interest on the transferred amount. This prevents taxpayers from having to pay interest on back taxes for tax payments made initially in another Nordic country. In the same way, the Nordic country that sends tax funds to a receiving Nordic country is not expected to add any credit interest to the amounts.
3 Prepayments based on wages and employers’ forms
3.1 When can the country in which a taxpayer works demand prepayments?
Pursuant to the TREKK Treaty, a country where a taxpayer from another Nordic country works can demand that the taxpayer make prepayments, if the country of work also has the right to tax the worker’s wages in final assessment. The right to tax income is determined on the basis of the Nordic Income Tax Treaty. In other words, the country of work can demand prepayments if one or more of the following conditions are satisfied:
The worker spends more than 183 days during a consecutive period of 12 months in the country in which they work in one or more stretches.
The worker’s wages are paid by the employer’s permanent establishment in the country in which the work is performed.
The worker is a leased employee.
The work relates to a hydrocarbon deposit as referred to in Article 21(7) of the Nordic Income Tax Treaty and lasts for more than 30 days.
If an employer posts workers to another country so that the country of work has the right to tax the workers’ wages, the tax authorities of that country are not always able to obtain information about the work solely on the basis of their own taxation and registration system. The TREKK Treaty stipulates that a worker’s country of residence must inform the Nordic country in which they work of the beginning of such work, in order to ensure communication between the two countries and in order to safeguard the mutual coordination of prepayments.
If prepayments need to be made in the country in which a taxpayer works, their country of residence cannot demand prepayments.
3.2 The NT1 information: tax withheld in the country of residence
If a Nordic employer posts its employees to another Nordic country so that the country in which the work is performed does not have the right to tax the workers’ wages, tax on the wages is withheld in the workers’ country of residence. The TREKK Treaty stipulates that proof of tax having been withheld in a worker’s country of residence must be presented to the country in which the work is performed, if necessary. Consequently, employers must inform the tax authorities in their workers’ country of residence of such work, by sending them the NT1 information.
The procedure for NT1 information in Finland is to fill in the “earnings payment reports” of the Incomes Register. The employer must give the information as soon as the worker begins his or her work in the other Nordic country. The Finnish Tax Administration sends the submitted NT information on to the competent authority of the Nordic country. The Tax Administration will additionally send the employer and the worker a notice stating that prepayments must continue to be made in Finland. When they receive the notice, the employer and the worker are not expected to respond to it. The Nordic countries have not given a commonly used name to the certificate that proves the NT1 information has been given.
If necessary, the worker presents the certificate to the tax authorities of the country of work. The country of work cannot demand prepayments after seeing the certificate. In practice, the certificate does not usually need to be presented in that country because its tax authorities receive the information from the tax authorities of the worker’s country of residence, or are able to verify otherwise that they do not have the right to tax the worker’s wages.
Example 1: A Finnish company posts a worker who resides in Finland to Sweden for a one-month job. When the job is finished, the worker returns to Finland. The company does not have a permanent establishment in Sweden and the worker is not a leased employee. Sweden does not have the right to tax the worker’s wages.
The employer fills in their earnings payment report, complete with NT1 information, to notify the Finnish Tax Administration that tax on the worker’s wages is being withheld in Finland. The Tax Administration send this information on to the Swedish Tax Agency. The Tax Administration sends a notice to the employer’s MyTax, and to the worker’s MyTax, stating that the Finnish employer continues to have the obligation to withhold tax in Finland.
However, the country where work is being performed can override the protection afforded by an NT1 certificate, by claiming that a worker is a leased employee. Pursuant to the TREKK Treaty, the country must in this case notify the worker’s country of residence if prepayments of tax need to be made in the country of work because the worker is actually a leased employee. The worker’s country of residence cannot demand prepayments if they receive such a notification. However, such situations often only come to light when the taxpayer contacts the tax authorities, or the authorities of the country of work request a tax transfer.
3.3 The NT2 information: no tax withheld in the country of residence
3.3.1 Working in another Nordic country
If a resident of Finland works for a Finnish employer in another Nordic country, so that their wages are subject to the six-month rule laid down in § 77 of the Finnish Income Tax Act, no tax is payable on their wages in Finland. Because no tax is withheld on tax-free earnings, the employer can choose to apply the six-month rule and forgo withholding tax on the worker’s wages, without any amendments to the worker’s tax card. However, the employer has an obligation to withhold health insurance contributions from the worker’s wages even if the wages are exempt from tax on the basis of the six-month rule. The relevant provisions can be found in Chapter 18, § 29.2 of the Finnish Health Insurance Act (1224/2004). The amount withheld is a “minimum withholding”.
If the six-month rule does not apply but the country of work has the right to tax the worker’s wages, the employer cannot choose not to withhold tax in Finland. The worker must request a new tax card to prevent the withholding of tax, or to lower the amount.
The employer can therefore lower the amount of tax withheld on the worker’s wages either on the basis of the six-month rule or the worker’s tax card, which eliminates double taxation. In both scenarios, the employer must fill in the earnings payment report and submit it to the Incomes Register in order to give the NT2 information to the Finnish Tax Administration, i.e. stating that no tax is withheld.
The report with the NT2 information must be filed within five days of the first occasion on which tax is not withheld on the worker’s pay relating to working in a foreign country. If work goes on after the end of the current calendar year, the employer must give the NT2 information again regarding this worker. The deadline for taking care of this is end of January. After the employer gave the NT2 information to the Incomes Register, the competent authority in Finland sends it on to the competent authority in the Nordic country concerned. The authorities of the Nordic country where the work is done can then take steps to request prepayments on the basis of the NT2. The Finnish Tax Administration’s guide on the tax treatment of income earned abroad describes the employers’ responsibilities in greater detail in situations where workers are posted abroad.
3.3.2 Working in Finland
An employer based in another Nordic country can post a worker to Finland so that prepayments on their wages are made to Finland. In such cases, the employer draws up a notification of work being performed in Finland by submitting the NT2 information in the worker’s country of residence, and the competent authority of the worker’s country of residence forwards it to the Helsinki Area Tax Office in Finland. If the employer does not have a permanent place of business in Finland or an agent who takes care of payroll, the employer has no obligation to withhold tax in Finland. The worker therefore needs to set up prepayments themselves. If the employer has a permanent place of business in Finland, they also have an obligation to withhold tax in Finland. In such cases, the worker usually needs to request a tax card for their wages.
Even if Finland had the right to tax the wages of a worker performing work in Finland on the basis of the Nordic Income Tax Treaty, the wages of a nonresident worker are tax-exempt unless they count as income received from Finland as referred to in § 10, Income Tax Act. For this reason, foreign workers should give as comprehensive an account of their circumstances as possible to the authorities so that the authorities can prepare their decisions on prepayments.
An employer based in another Nordic country may continue to withhold tax on wages paid to workers posted to Finland and pay it to the worker’s country of residence. In these situations, the competent authority of the worker’s country of residence sends the NT1 form received from the employer to the Helsinki Area Tax Office in Finland. The correctness of taxation is checked in Finland. If the TREKK Treaty gives Finland the right to demand prepayments because Finland is the country of work, the Helsinki Area Tax Office notifies the authorities of the worker’s country of the new circumstances, and the fact that tax needs to be paid to Finland.
3.4 Changes to the right of the country of work to tax the wages
If an employer originally gave NT1 information stating that tax will be withheld in a worker’s country of residence, but the withholding of tax is subsequently discontinued in that country, the employer must give the NT2 information to the tax authorities of the employer’s country of residence. In this case, the new notice from the employer will overrule the information provided previously (the NT1 information). In such situations, the employer must not refund the worker for any tax already withheld.
Example 2: A Finnish company posts a worker who resides in Finland to Denmark on a contract intended to last four months. The employer has initially informed the Finnish Tax Administration that tax on the worker’s wages will be withheld in Finland (giving the NT1 information). However, the employer subsequently decides to extend the contract to nine months. This means that the worker will end up staying in Denmark for more than 183 days, and Denmark therefore has the right to tax the worker’s wages pursuant to the Nordic Tax Treaty. At the same time, it is discovered that the six-month rule applies to the worker’s wages in Finland. In connection with the next payday, the employer only withholds the minimum amount. The employer submits the earnings payment report to the Incomes Register in order to notify the Finnish Tax Administration that tax is no longer withheld in Finland. The Helsinki Area Tax Office sends the message on to Denmark.
3.5 Mutual agreement if two countries demand prepayments
If prepayments have been charged on the same income in two Nordic countries, the country that was not entitled to demand prepayments must return any prepayments made there. The competent authority of the other country must be notified before the refund is paid, and it can demand that tax be transferred to that country, if necessary.
A worker’s country of residence and the country in which they work can both interpret their national tax laws and the Nordic Tax Treaty to mean that they have the right to tax the worker’s wages. In such an event, the TREKK Treaty determines which one of the two Nordic countries gets the right to demand prepayments. If the tax authorities of a country that must, pursuant to the provisions of TREKK, forego demanding prepayments, refuse to accept a decision made by the tax authorities of another Nordic country, the dispute is resolved by means of a mutual agreement between the competent authorities.
If the country of work has demanded prepayments on the basis of one of the criteria listed in Section 3.1 above, the worker’s country of residence cannot demand prepayments until the dispute has been resolved. The country of work, on the other hand, cannot demand prepayments until the dispute has been resolved if the worker’s country of residence has sent the NT1 information, the contract is for no more than 183 days of work during a 12-month period, and the employer is based in the worker’s country of residence.
3.6 Cross-border commuters
The tax collection provisions of TREKK that determine which Nordic country can demand prepayments (Articles 3–6) do not apply to cross-border commuters as referred to in the Nordic Income Tax Treaty. However, cross-border commuters are governed by the TREKK provisions on tax transfers, which means that tax levied on cross-border commuters can also be transferred at various stages of taxation. For more information, see the Finnish Tax Administration’s guide on the tax treatment of cross-border commuters.
4 Business income from another Nordic country
As a rule, the Nordic Income Tax Treaty gives the right to tax business income to the country in which the company is domiciled, if the company does not have a permanent place of business in another Nordic country in which it is doing business. The country in which a self-employed person performs work can also tax the worker if they spend more than 183 days of any 12-month period in that country. Unlike the case of wages, the TREKK Treaty never prevents a worker’s country of residence from demanding prepayments on business income. In addition, prepayments are not transferred between countries; instead, the agreement only covers final income tax in the context of business.
Income tax paid on earnings or capital income from a natural person’s business can be transferred under the TREKK Treaty. The agreement also applies to corporate income tax and tax at source on remuneration for work.
If a company conducts business in another Nordic country without making prepayments there, and the company is later found to have had a permanent establishment in that country, the country can request that tax be transferred there. When transferring final tax, the country of residence of such a company can restrict the size of the transferred amount to not exceed the amount of the refund given to the company (see Section 5.4). If the fact that a permanent establishment had been formed is discovered afterwards, the tax paid to another Nordic country is only taken into account in the final assessment or in a corrective assessment. Transferable tax refunds are likely to materialise in such circumstances.
The earnings of foreign businesses operating in Finland are usually considered to constitute “trade income”, paid to a nonresident. As a rule, Finnish payers need to withhold 13% of such remuneration or, in the case of self-employed persons, tax at source at a rate of 35%, unless the foreign business has been entered into the Finnish prepayment register. If Finland does not have the right to tax the business income of a company domiciled in another Nordic country, the company can request a tax card in advance to release payers from responsibility to withhold tax. Companies can also request a refund of any tax at source paid from the Finnish Tax Administration retrospectively. In such cases, Finland has an obligation to initiate a transfer procedure under TREKK.
5 Tax transfers
5.1 Transferring tax from Finland to another Nordic country
The procedure for transferring tax from Finland to another Nordic country can be initiated either by Finland, or the other Nordic country. If the other country has the right to tax a worker’s income and prepayments have been made in Finland, the tax can be transferred. If a tax treaty gives Finland the right to tax the worker’s income, or if there is no transferable tax, no transfer takes place. Tax can be transferred in connection with prepayments, tax assessment or corrective assessment. If prepayments are transferred to another Nordic country, the taxpayer does not get credit for them in Finland. In these circumstances, an official decision is made to transfer the prepayments to the other country.
If the other country refuses Finland’s offer to transfer the tax, the taxpayer is given credit for the prepayments in Finland or paid a refund. If the other country decides that no tax is due there, the Finnish Tax Administration checks the grounds for the refusal and the correctness of the Finnish tax assessment. Pursuant to Article 26 of the Nordic Income Tax Treaty, Finland can, in some circumstances, tax income that is tax-free in another country.
5.2 Transferring tax from another Nordic country to Finland
If it transpires, in connection with tax assessment or otherwise, that tax has been withheld in another Nordic country but Finland has the right to tax the income in question, a tax transfer procedure is initiated. It can be initiated either by the Finnish tax authorities or the tax authorities of the other Nordic country. If tax is transferred to Finland, the taxpayer is given credit for the transferred amount as if the tax withheld or prepayments had been paid on to the tax authority in Finland. No interest is added in Finland to amounts of tax transferred to Finland. Any tax or prepayments transferred to Finland from a Nordic country that are not used towards a taxpayer’s tax liability are refunded to the taxpayer.
Only the amount of tax required in Finland is requested to be transferred. If Finland only requests the transfer of some of the tax paid in another country or if there are no grounds for requesting a transfer, the taxpayer must apply to the authorities of the other country for a refund of any excess or mistakenly paid amounts.
5.3 Tax transfers at various stages of taxation in Finland
5.3.1 Transferring prepayments
There are practical reasons why prepayments cannot always be made in the country that is ultimately found to have the right to tax a worker’s income. Employers who post workers to another Nordic country often initially withhold tax in the workers’ country of residence, as they cannot know for sure whether a worker will end up staying in the country in which they work for more than 183 days. When work begins, it is often impossible to know whether the employer will end up having a permanent establishment in the country of the work, or whether the authorities of that country will consider the workers to be leased employees. Another possibility is that prepayments are made in the country of work but it later transpires that only the worker’s country of residence has the right to tax their income if, for example, the worker ends up spending less time in the country in which they work than originally intended.
If prepayments have been collected from a worker in another Nordic country but a tax treaty gives Finland the right to tax the worker’s income, an assessment can be made, even at the prepayment stage, as to whether the prepayments to be transferred from the other country will be enough to cover the worker’s tax liability in Finland. However, Finland cannot demand prepayments on the basis of the same income for which a worker has already made prepayments in another Nordic country. For this reason, making any missing prepayments in order to avoid back taxes is the taxpayer’s responsibility. A taxpayer can, for example, ask the person who pays their wages to withhold more than what is indicated on their tax card.
Tax withheld from a worker’s wages pursuant to the Finnish Prepayment Act, or prepayments made by them otherwise in Finland, can be transferred to another Nordic country on the basis of the TREKK Treaty before the Tax Administration has completed the worker’s assessment for the year. The amount transferred to the other country is deducted from the prepayments for which the taxpayer is given credit.
Prepayments can be transferred from Finland to another Nordic country as long as the taxpayer could be given credit for them in Finland on the basis of the Finnish Tax Assessment Procedure Act. In other words, prepayments can also be transferred if a worker’s employer has withheld tax on their wages but failed to file reports to the Incomes Register on this, or failed to pay the amount to the tax authorities. In such circumstances, the amount can only be transferred if there is reliable proof that tax has been withheld.
Pursuant to § 22, Prepayment Act, tax withheld from a worker’s wages can be refunded to them if it was withheld from income that is considered tax-free in Finland. A refund can be paid, for example, if a worker’s wages are tax-free on the basis of the six-month rule. However, tax cannot be refunded on the basis of a taxpayer having worked in another Nordic country until that country has been made a tax transfer offer.
5.3.2 Transferring tax refunds
After tax assessment is finalised, refunds, as referred to in § 50, Act on Assessment Procedure, can be transferred from Finland to another Nordic country if, for example, the exemption method or the six-month rule has been applied to a taxpayer’s wages but prepayments have not been transferred. This may be the case if a tax transfer request from the other Nordic country only arrives in Finland after the Tax Administration has completed the worker’s tax assessment for the year. The tax assessment end date has been changed as of the tax year 2018: every taxpayer has a specific end date. If the taxpayer has already been paid a refund, no transfer can be made.
Example 3: A Finnish resident worked at a building site in Sweden for one month and then returned to Finland. His Finnish employer had given the Finnish Tax Administration NT1 information when the work began, and has also withheld tax from what the worker had earned in Sweden.
During the tax assessment for the year, it transpires that the building site actually constituted a permanent establishment for the employer, and for this reason, Sweden receives the taxing rights over the worker’s wages for one month. The exemption method is applied to this amount in Finnish taxation. The taxpayer will be receiving a refund. Finland offers to transfer tax to Sweden. After this, the Swedish Tax Agency is expected to respond by making a transfer request. However, Finland does not receive Sweden’s request until after the worker’s tax assessment has been completed. The Finnish Tax Administration deducts the amount to be transferred from the worker’s tax refund before paying it to him or her. The Finnish Tax Administration notifies the worker of the transfer.
If the exemption method or the six-month rule is only applied to the taxation of wages in a reassessment, any refund arising from assessing the taxpayer’s taxes again as referred to in § 76, Act on Assessment Procedure, can be transferred to another Nordic country.
Example 4: A taxpayer who has moved from Finland to Denmark has had a second job in their new country of residence working for a Finnish employer, and has made prepayments to Finland in the same way as his colleagues do in Finland. He has forgotten to file an income tax return in Denmark. The oversight is discovered two years later, and Denmark wants back taxes with interest. The taxpayer attempts to clear up the situation in Finland and it turns out that under the tax treaty, only Denmark had the right to tax the wages. Denmark asks Finland to transfer the tax paid in Finland to Denmark.
When the request arrives, the Finnish Tax Administration investigates the case and makes decisions on how his income is taxed in Finland and performs a reassessment as necessary. Any tax refund that materialises is transferred to Denmark.
5.3.3 Transfers of taxes withheld at source
Finland can also offer to refund tax at source, as referred to in § 11, Act on the Taxation of Nonresident's Income, for transfer to another Nordic country. Refunds may need to be paid if, for example, a higher amount of tax at source had been collected than was allowed under the Nordic Income Tax Treaty. If tax at source was collected on a nonresident’s wages but all of the work was done in another Nordic country, internal laws alone will prevent Finland from taxing the wages. Tax at source can be refunded either on the basis of a request, or on the initiative of the tax authorities. Pursuant to § 11.3 of the Act, tax at source that is transferred to another country is not refunded to the taxpayer.
5.3.4 Mutual agreement procedure
In the same way as many other international agreements, the Nordic Income Tax Treaty contains provisions on a mutual agreement procedure (MAP). The tax treaty gives taxpayers the right to challenge the double taxation of their income through the competent authorities of the countries in question. The MAP procedure is usually the last resort for eliminating double taxation, after the appeals procedure has first been exhausted.
If a taxpayer has paid tax in Finland but the right to tax their income is found to belong to another Nordic country during the course of a MAP, a tax transfer procedure is initiated on the basis of § 59, line 4, Act on Tax Collection.
5.4 Limitations and deadlines for tax transfers
At the prepayment stage, the amount of tax to be transferred must not exceed the prepayments that should have been made on the income in the country requesting the transfer. In addition, the amount transferred cannot exceed the amount of prepayments made in the country receiving the transfer request.
At the prepayment stage, transfer requests to the authorities of other Nordic countries must arrive by
1 February of the year following the year during which the income was earned in the case of Denmark and the Faeroe Islands,
1 April of the year following the year during which the income was earned in the case of Norway, and
31 May of the year following the year during which the income was earned in the case of Iceland, Sweden and Finland.
After these deadlines, the transferring country has the right to spend any prepayments accumulated there to cover its own income tax from the tax year in question first. In other words, countries can limit the amount transferred according to the refund received by the taxpayer in question.
If a tax transfer proposal is only made three years after the end of the year during which the income in question was earned, the transferring country can also spend the tax revenue to cover other tax claims before the transfer. At this stage, all domestic taxes and charges have priority over the transfer regardless of the tax year.
5.4.1 Refunds
If a taxpayer is due a refund on the tax paid for a certain income in one of the Nordic countries and another Nordic country makes a claim for the tax, such as imposing back taxes on the same income, the refund must be postponed. The postponement continues until the other country requests a transfer according to the deadlines given in Section 5.4.
If excess tax paid on income earned in one Nordic country needs to be refunded in another Nordic country and the country in question has not requested a transfer, that country must be notified of the refund before it is paid. If the notifying country does not receive a transfer request within 30 days of sending the notice, the refund can be paid. The same applies to situations where a taxpayer requests a tax refund.
The 30-day deadline can be extended if necessary, as it is not always possible for the other country to process the notice that quickly. The tax authorities can agree on the postponement of the refund payment with the taxpayer in question. This helps to avoid a situation where the taxpayer would need to pay the tax to the other country themselves. This would also allow the other country to charge interest on the late tax. Moreover, tax remaining unpaid in another country might need to be collected from a taxpayer in Finland if the other country requested official assistance for collection from Finland on the basis of the Nordic Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters.
5.5 Tax transfers and exchange rates
Transfers of tax revenue from Finland to other Nordic countries are made on the basis of the latest euro reference rates determined by the European Central Bank. Tax transferred by foreign authorities to Finland is entered into the Finnish Tax Administration’s account in euros. The taxpayer in question is given credit for the transferred amount according to the euro amount recorded in the Finnish Tax Administration’s account. The conversion of sums paid to Finland is performed by the bank that conveys the payment.
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The WA Primary Health Alliance Board (the Board) is skills based comprised of prominent, highly experienced individuals who bring a unique perspective on primary care provision across Western Australia.
Collectively, the Board represents an unprecedented body of experience and willingness to steward innovation and reform in the delivery of primary care within the Western Australian community.
Dr Richard Choong
MB Bch BAO (NUI), LRCSI & PI, FRACGP, FAMA
Dr Richard Choong is a full time principal general practitioner of an outer metropolitan general practice in Perth. Richard is the Chair of Australian General Practice Accreditation Limited (AGPAL) Board and maintains a strong focus on not-for-profit organisations, health promotion charities and medical research foundations. He is a past president of the Australian Medical Association (WA).
Board responsibilities: Chair of the Board
Tony Ahern
ASM, BBus, MBIS, MAICD
Tony Ahern is a part-time consultant to St John Ambulance for a year (until November 2019). Tony was previously chief executive officer of St John Ambulance, and was also the WA Representative on the Council of Ambulance Authorities (CAA). He is the Chair of the WA Emergency Services Volunteers Hardship Assistance Scheme.
Board responsibilities: Chair of the Finance, Audit and Risk Management Committee
Rod Astbury
GAICD, MBA, MA Public Policy, BSW, BA
Rod Astbury is a consultant and independent director. He is a member of the WA Mental Health Advisory Council and the Community Co-Lead of the WA Mental Health Network. Previously, he was chief executive officer of Western Australian Association for Mental Health (WAAMH) and an executive director of Community Mental Health Australia. Prior to that, he was general manager (Western Australian and Northern Territory) of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, held executive management positions with commonwealth and the WA public service and was a director of the Perth Central and East Metropolitan Medicare Local.
Board responsibilities: Member of the Finance, Audit and Risk Management Committee
Professor Rhonda Marriott
Dip Psych Nsg, BSc Nsg, PGDip Mid, MSC Nsg, PhD
Professor Rhonda Marriott was born in Derby, WA, Rhonda is a descendent of Kimberley Nyikina Aboriginal people and has devoted her adult life to nursing and midwifery in both clinical and academic roles.
She leads the Ngangk Yira Research Centre at Murdoch University and is a chief investigator for several National Health and Medical Research Council projects.
Rhonda has been a registered nurse for 44 years and a midwife for 26. She was the first Indigenous head of a university school of nursing in Australia. She is passionate about improving the social and emotional wellbeing outcomes of Aboriginal people and has expertise in Aboriginal health research combining community participatory action research methods with Aboriginal “yarning” and ‘dadirri’ techniques.
Board responsibilities: Board Representative Liaison for Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia, and Board Sponsor for the Reconciliation Action Plan and statewide Aboriginal health planning committees and forums
Anne Russell-Brown
Dip. Teach; GAICD; Grad Dip LCC
Anne Russell-Brown is an experienced community services executive and independent director. Before her retirement in 2015, she held the position of group director social outreach at St John of God Health Care. Anne was the 2004 WA Telstra Business Woman of the Year.
Anne is a former member of the Social Enterprise Fund Advisory Group; and has previously been a board member of Fremantle Medicare Local, WACOSS, WANADA and Protective Behaviours WA. She was an inaugural member of the Centre for Social Impact Advisory Council (UWA) and is a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow.
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Stephen Wragg
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Stephen Wragg is a community pharmacist, and he was previously the president of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia (WA Branch) and managing director of the Professional Pharmacy Services Group.
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Dr Damien Zilm
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R & A Bailey & Co. v. WYSIWYG
The Complainant
R & A Bailey & Co., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Republic of Ireland, with its principal place of business located at:
Nangor House
Nangor Road
Western Estate, Dublin 12
R & A Bailey & Co. is a subsidiary of the United Distillers & Vintners Group of companies.
Ms. Serena Tierney
United Distillers & Vintners
Kingsley House
1A Wimpole Street
London W1M 8DB
The Respondent
According to paragraph 6 of the Complaint, the WHOIS database of the Registrar indicates that the registrant of the disputed domain name is "WYSIWYG" located at 5067 Auburn Drive, San Diego, California. Paragraph 6 notes further that the administrative contact for the domain name is Mr. Ciaran MacNeill of the PocketIT.com, Inc. located at 1770 Grand Avenue, Suite E, San Diego, California.
Frank A. Bottini, Esq.
Symphony Towers
750 B Street, Suite 2770
The domain name at issue is:
baileysirishcream.com
It is registered with:
Network Solutions Inc. (NSI)
505 Huntmar Park Drive
Herndon, Virginia 20170
· On May 4, 2000, the Complaint was filed with the Center by R & A Bailey & Company by e-mail with a hard copy following.
· On May 7, 2000, the Center acknowledged receipt of the Complaint.
· On May 7, 2000, the Center requested Registrar (NSI) verification, and received on May 11, 2000, the Registrar�s answer to that request.
· On May 12, 2000, a formal requirements compliance review was completed pursuant to Paragraph 4(a) of the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution and Paragraph 5 of the Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. The Center verified that the Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Policy, Rules and Supplemental Rules.
· On May 12, 2000, the Center confirmed by printing off a hard-copy that the website <www.baileysirishcream.com> was blank. It stated that it was "coming soon".
· On May 12, 2000, Notification of Complaint and Commencement of Administrative Proceeding was made.
· On May 15, 2000, the Center received an e-mail from the Complainant.
· On May 24, 2000, the Center received a request for a 45-day extension from the Respondent.
· On May 25, 2000, the Center granted the Respondent an extension until June 11, 2000 in order to file a response to the Complaint.
· On June 14, 2000, the Center received the Response to Complaint dated 6 June 2000 which showed, inter alia, that the Respondent was represented by counsel.
· On June 19, 2000, the Center notified the parties that the Administrative Panel had been appointed. The Panelist initially accepted the appointment by e-mail and formally documented his acceptance by Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence dated June 26, 2000.
4. Jurisdictional Basis for the Mandatory Administrative Proceeding
Paragraph 4 of the ICANN Policy requires that a registrant must submit to a mandatory administrative proceeding in the event that a third party asserts to the applicable Provider, in compliance with the Rules of Procedure, that the registered domain name is disputed under the grounds stipulated in that paragraph. The grounds are:
(1) The domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trade mark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights; and
(2) The Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name; and
(3) The domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith.
In accordance with certain findings made below, the Panel finds that the Complainant has complied with the applicable rules and this dispute is properly within the scope of the ICANN Policy and, further, that the Panel has jurisdiction to decide the dispute.
At paragraph 12 of the Complaint, the Complainant lists four U.S. trademarks which have been registered by it. It includes an Annexure F, a further list of registered trademarks of BAILEYS and/or BAILEYS IRISH CREAM in many other countries.
The domain name at issue was registered by the Respondent on April 2, 1999.
As the Respondent is not an authorized licensee of the Complainant nor authorized to use the Complainant�s trade marks, the Complainant caused a cease and desist letter dated February 11, 2000, to be sent to Mr. MacNeill of WYSIWYG objecting to WYSIWYG�s registration of the domain name. It alleged that the registration violated U.S. laws.
By letter dated February 29, 2000, Mr. MacNeill responded to the Complainant�s counsel that he was familiar with "Baileys Original Irish Cream", was unaware of any U.S. trademarks at the time of registration and that he was, inter alia, "currently in development of a baileysirishcream.com and the site is still in the parking stage and has not been made available as of yet." He stated further that "much time and money" had been spent in the development of this and other related sites and expressed his willingness "to discuss a more favorable resolution that make take (sic) into account the loss PocketIT.com, Inc. would incur, the time and money spent and the value your client would receive."
6. Parties� Contentions
A. The Complainant contends that:
The domain name at issue is confusingly similar to its U.S. Trade Mark No. 1,185,890, which incorporates the words "Baileys", "Irish" and "Cream". It contends further that it is confusingly similar to three other U.S. registered trade marks for Baileys.
It asserts further that a trader would not register the domain name in question unless it sought to create an impression of association with the Complainant or its product and/or to attract business away from the Complainant and/or misleadingly divert members of the public. [See paragraph 20 of the Complaint.]
The Complainant notes further [at paragraph 22] that it has not licensed or otherwise permitted the Respondent to use the trade mark for Baileys Irish Cream or any other trade mark incorporating Baileys.
In the circumstances, it is contended that the Respondent�s primary purpose in registering the domain name was to:
sell, rent, or otherwise transfer the domain name registration to the Complainant, the owner of the trade mark or service mark or to a competitor of that Complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of the domain name registrant�s out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name.
B. The Respondent contends that:
WYSIWYG is not a legal entity and although it is the name under which the domain name was registered, the true owner is PocketIT.com, a company incorporated subsequent to the name�s registration and owned by Mr. MacNeill. The Respondent contends, therefore, that the Complainant "has sued the wrong entity, which is, in fact, not a legal entity at all". [See Response at paragraph 2.]
It contends further that even if the actual name of the legal owner of the domain name was identified in a refiled Complaint, the Complainant has not shown bad faith such as to justify the transfer of the disputed domain name to it. It is asserted in particular:
4. Second, even if Complainant subsequently files a Complaint that actually names the legal owner of the disputed domain name as the Respondent, Complainant has made no showing of bad faith to justify the transfer of the disputed domain name to Complainant. Significantly, Complainant has the burden of proof in this proceeding to demonstrate the Respondent�s bad faith. Complainant lists only two factors which allegedly demonstrate bad faith: (1) the assertion that Respondent has not yet actively developed a web site for the disputed domain name; and (2) the fact that, when contacted by Complainant regarding the domain name, and told that Complainant was interested in obtaining the domain name, Respondent indicated that any transfer of the domain name would have to take into consideration the out-of-pocket expenses incurred by Respondent.
5. Neither of these two allegations support any inference of bad faith. Respondent was contacted by Complainant a mere nine months after the domain name was registered. Respondent is a start-up company, and other WIPO decisions have held that the non-use of a domain name for this short period of time by a start-up company does not indicate bad faith. See, e.g., Meredith Corp. v. City Home, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2000-0223 (May 18, 2000) (Creel, T., Panelist) ("the non-use of the name for eight months is not an unduly long time for a new business in the planning stage of expansion")�
6. Second, the fact that Respondent, when contacted by Complainant, offered to discuss an amicable resolution to the dispute, including consideration of the out-of-pocket costs which Respondent has incurred in registering the domain name and commencing efforts to develop the web site, does not support a finding of bad faith. Bad faith is only demonstrated by a domain name holder requesting compensation far in excess of its out-of-pocket costs. The documents submitted by Complainant unequivocally demonstrate that: (1) Complainant contacted Respondent, not vice versa; and (2) Respondent never demanded any sum of money from Complainant and in fact never mentioned any remuneration other than compensation for Respondent�s out-of-pocket expenses actually incurred.
The Respondent also raises certain jurisdictional objections.
The Jurisdictional Objections
The Respondent has registered what the Panel views as two objections to jurisdiction.
The first is based on constitutional grounds. The Respondent observes that the disputed domain name was registered on April 2, 1999, but the ICANN Policy not "enacted" until October 24, 1999. It argues that the Panel has no jurisdiction due to questions pertaining to the "constitutionality of the retroactive application" of the ICANN Policy on the grounds that it was not established until October 24, 1999, some five months after the domain name was registered. It asserts that there has been a retroactive application of the ICANN Policy to the Respondent�s "property interests" and that this violates the United States Constitution, including the right to due process of law and the takings clause.
Having given due consideration to this submission, the Panel concludes as follows:
First, the Panel is comprised of a single panelist who is of non-United States nationality and is not a United States judge. It does not have the jurisdiction to pass upon issues of U.S. constitutional law and will not speculate as to what a U.S. court of competent jurisdiction might hold were the argument to be advanced before it.
Secondly, the Respondent has expressly preserved "any and all objections" to the jurisdiction of this Panel and has reserved the right to challenge the constitutionality of the Policy in any court of law, including any state or federal court in the State of California [see paragraph 7 of the Response]. The Panel takes note of this express reservation and observes that paragraph 4(k) of the ICANN Policy preserves the availability of court proceedings to the disputing parties. Moreover, paragraph 5 expressly excludes from the jurisdiction of an administrative panel "[a]ll other disputes" between the parties other than the registrant "regarding �[the] domain name registration�".
Accordingly, the Panel dismisses the first jurisdictional objection. Appropriate avenues exist for the review of the constitutionality of the ICANN Policy by a court with the requisite jurisdiction to do so, should the Respondent be inclined to pursue them.
The Respondent raises another objection that the Panel, upon reflection, considers can also be characterized as jurisdictional in nature. It asserts that WYSIWYG, the name under which the domain name was registered, is not a legal entity. It is noted further that the actual owner of the name at issue is PocketIT.com, a company incorporated subsequent to the registration of the disputed name, which itself is owned by Mr. Ciaran MacNeill. Accordingly, it is contended [at paragraph 3 of the Response] that "the Complainant has sued the wrong entity".
In the Panel�s view, this argument also cannot succeed. This proceeding is not a law suit per se. It is instead a mandatory administrative proceeding of very limited and specific jurisdiction which is designed to resolve disputed domain names for interested parties and, indirectly, for registrars. As noted above, the ICANN Policy does not purport to oust the jurisdiction of the courts.
Under the ICANN Policy, the registrar in the instant case, Network Solutions Inc., has agreed to comply with the mandatory administrative process, specifically, with any decision that may result therefrom [See paragraph 4(k) of the Policy]. Accordingly, the Panel is of the view that it does have the power, should it choose to exercise it in this proceeding, to effectuate the cancellation or transfer of the disputed domain name.
Quite aside from the question of its powers, given the fact that the registrant of the domain name at issue is WYSIWYG yet the name is apparently owned by another person, the Panel is, of course, concerned to ensure that notice of this proceeding has been effective. It is of fundamental importance to the administration of a proceeding such as this that the interested Respondent, de jure or de facto, be given notice of the Complaint. Here, a question might have arisen had notice been given to WYSIWYG but neither Mr. Ciaran MacNeill nor PocketIT.com had become aware of the proceeding. Mr. MacNeill evidently indirectly owns the name through his ownership of PocketIT.com. [See Response at paragraph 2.]
However, it is clear that Mr. MacNeill and PocketIT.com were given notice of the Complainant�s position. First, the record shows that WYSIWYG and Mr. MacNeill share the same address (see the invoices filed as Exhibit A to the Response; the address listed in them is the same as the WHOIS database address for WYSIWYG). Second, it was Mr. MacNeill who responded to counsel�s cease and desist letter dated February 11, 2000. Third, WYSIWYG (whatever its legal status may be) has retained legal counsel to make submissions both on its behalf and to the benefit of Mr. MacNeill and PocketIT.com. The common interest of WYSIWYG, Mr. MacNeill and PocketIT.com is underscored by: (i) the contact person for the Respondent identified in the Response (Mr. MacNeill), (ii) certain factual allegations in the body of the Response [see, for example, paragraphs 15-21] and (iii) the Exhibit A invoices.
For these reasons, the Panel considers that, notwithstanding the status of WYSIWYG and PocketIT.com�s apparent ownership of the domain name, the Panel has jurisdiction over this dispute and the Respondent and the other two affected parties who have an interest in the matter from the Respondent�s perspective have been duly and effectively notified.
The Merits
The Panel is constituted in order to determine whether the Respondent�s registration of <baileysirishcream.com> complies with the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (as approved by ICANN on October 24, 1999). As noted above, the Policy provides for a mandatory administrative proceeding on the grounds set out in paragraph 4. They are:
Applicable Disputes. You are required to submit to a mandatory administrative proceeding in the event that a third party (a "Complainant") asserts to the applicable Provider, in compliance with the Rules of Procedure, that:
(i) your domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights; and
(ii) you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name; and
(iii) your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
In order to succeed, a Complainant must prove each of the three elements set out above.
The Complainant contends that the domain name at issue is "identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights."
The Panel finds that the Complainant has proved this element. In its view, the domain name <baileysirishcream.com> is confusingly similar to the Complainant�s product and trade name and the registered trade marks in relation thereto.
Secondly, the Complainant contends that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name.
The Panel agrees that Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name. The Complainant�s rights and legitimate interests in the name Baileys Irish Cream are well founded and settled. They are manifested not only in the registration of Baileys and Baileys Irish Cream trademarks, but also by the well-known nature of the product in question. The Panel accepts the pleading in paragraph 17 of the Complaint that the evidence of world-wide sales and marketing expenditure demonstrates that the trademark is exclusively associated with the Baileys Irish Cream liqueur product and the Complainant.
Thirdly, the Complainant contends that the domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
Paragraph 4 of the ICANN Policy sets out in illustrative terms the circumstances which shall be evidence of the registration and use of a domain name in bad faith. Before proceeding further it is appropriate to set out the subparagraph in full:
b. Evidence of Registration and Use in Bad Faith. For the purposes of Paragraph 4(a)(iii), the following circumstances, in particular but without limitation, if found by the Panel to be present, shall be evidence of the registration and use of a domain name in bad faith:
(i) circumstances indicating that you have registered or you have acquired the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the Complainant who is the owner of the trademark or service mark or to a competitor of that Complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of your documented out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name; or
(ii) you have registered the domain name in order to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, provided that you have engaged in a pattern of such conduct; or
(iii) you have registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or
(iv) by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the Complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your web site or location or of a product or service on your web site or location.
The Respondent�s main argument on the merits is that the Complainant has not made a showing of bad faith such as to justify the transfer of the domain name to it. The Respondent correctly asserts that the burden of proof is on the Complainant to demonstrate bad faith. This is made clear by paragraph 4(a) of the ICANN Policy which states that: "In the administrative proceeding, the Complainant must prove that each of these three elements [relating to the domain name at issue and certain intellectual property rights] are present."
With respect to the contention that there is no evidence of bad faith, the Panel notes that the Response contends [at paragraph 15 of the Response], without citing any evidence in support, that the domain name was registered "in a good faith attempt to establish a non-commercial fan web site for Bailey�s Irish Cream" [emphasis added]. No affidavit or other evidence in support of this claim (or others made in the balance of the response) was filed. Accordingly, the Panel is left with the documentary evidence on the record.
The Panel is unable to accept this factual pleading. It notes that Mr. MacNeill�s response to Bailey�s cease and desist letter did not disclose the intention to create a "fan web site". In fact, far from lauding the product or expressing interest in establishing a "fan web site" for it, Mr. MacNeill�s letter of February 29, 2000, stated:
Being from Ireland, I am familiar with Baileys Original Irish Cream. I � dispute your claim that "Baileys Original Irish Cream is famous"�
I am currently in development of a baileysirishcream.com and the site is still in the parking stage and has not been made available as of yet.
�I have spent much time energy and money in the development of this and other related sites. Pocketit.com Inc. [the company of which Mr. MacNeil identified himself as CEO] was set up to use the Internet to promote products and services and not for any illegal activities.
�If your client believes that this site would be of value to them, I would be willing to discuss a more favorable resolution that make take (sic) into account the loss Pocketit.com Inc. would incur, the time and money spent and the value your client would receive.
In the Panel�s view, this letter is evidence that Mr. MacNeill�s intention was not to create a non-commercial fan web-site but rather to seek the payment of moneys from Baileys in exchange for the transfer of the domain name. There is no statement of fan-like sentiment (which in the normal understanding would connote support and approval of the product, service or person in question), there is a reference to having spent "much time energy and money" (sic) in development of the site, and there is a less than veiled reference to the prospect of being paid for the site. It is noted further that the "more favorable resolution" to which Mr. MacNeill referred, covered not only his "documented out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name" but to an alleged unspecified loss that PocketIT.com would incur and "the value �[Baileys] would incur".
The Panel does not agree with the claim at paragraph 33 of the Response that this statement "mentioned only a desire to receive compensation for out-of-pocket expenses actually incurred" [emphasis in original]. The Panel views the reference to the value that Baileys would incur as one of the components of an as-yet unspecified sum that Mr. MacNeill expressed interest in discussing. Read in the context of the full sentence, it is clear that he was referring to the payment of more money than the documented out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name. This, according to paragraph 4.b(i) of the ICANN Policy, is evidence of the registration and use of a domain name in bad faith.
The Panel is fortified in this conclusion by the evidence adduced by the Complainant showing that Mr. MacNeill has registered other domain names of other established companies of well-known reputation. The Complaint refers to two such examples, <callawayballs.com>, which could be expected to be of interest to the Callaway Golf Company, and <thedailyracingform.com>, which could be expected to be of interest to The Daily Racing Form. These registered names, drawn from Annexure J of the Complaint, are both examples of other established businesses that would ordinarily be assumed to be associated with the true owner of trademarks, business names or company names incorporating the whole or part of those domain names.
The fact that the Respondent claimed not to be aware of the Complainant�s trademarks at the time that he registered the name, does not assist him. First, it strains credulity to accept that Mr. MacNeill, a person of Irish nationality, did not understand that Bailey�s, an Irish company with an internationally recognized product, would not have intellectual property rights associated with its name and product in the United States. Secondly, even if that statement was accepted, it does not assist the Respondent. The Panel accepts the assertion that ignorance of the existence of a registered trademark does not constitute a defence to allegations of its infringement. [See Complaint at paragraph 22.]
In the circumstances, the Panel has no doubt in concluding that the domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith. In the Panel�s view the Respondent�s actions are, at a minimum, evidence of bad faith within paragraph 4.b(i) of the Policy.
At paragraph 32 of the Complaint, the Complainant requested that the Panel issue a decision that the contested domain name be transferred to it. In light of the findings made above and having regard to the remedies stipulated in paragraph 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the domain name <baileysirishcream.com> be transferred to the Complainant, R&A Bailey & Co.
J.C. Thomas
Panelist
Dated: July 4, 2000
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Capturing the Gulf Coast's Culture as It Slips Into the Sea
Author: Laura MalloneeLaura Mallonee
Shell Beach, LA. A cross standing next to pier pilings in Shell Beach, a tiny fishing village in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans.
Eunice, LA. A participant of the Faquetigue Mardi Gras run at the edge of a muddy country road in unseasonably cold temperatures and freezing rain. The Courir de Mardi Gras is a traditional Mardi Gras event held in many Cajun communities across south Louisiana on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. The rural Mardi Gras celebration is based on begging rituals and customs of Catholic Medieval Europe, specifically the fête de la quémande ("feast of begging") of Medeival France. During the fête, when begging from house to house was socially, disguised revelers would go through the countryside visiting households and performing for offerings.
Avery Island, LA. A controlled marsh burn near the Tabasco company headquarters. First produced in 1868, the legendary Tabasco hot sauce recipe has been passed down through several generations of the McIlhenny family, and is still produced using traditional methods nearly 150 years later.
New Orleans, LA. Preparation for Hurricane Isaac in Southern Louisiana. Locals gathered to play in the flooded waters of Lake Pontchartrain as it began to spill over its floodwalls. In the days prior to Hurricane Isaac's arrival in Southern Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency and ordered mandatory evacuations for several parishes that lay outside the federal levee protection system. But many residents chose to stay in their homes while the Category I hurricane made landfall on August 28th, 2012. While the city of New Orleans weathered the storm with minimal damage as compared to Hurricane Katrina, towns outside its new multi-billion dollar levee system were devastated.
New Olreans, LA. Residents parading in homage to 'Uncle' Lionel Batiste, a longstanding member of the Treme Brass Band and a symbol of the city who passed away on Sunday, July 8, 2012.
Isle de Jean Charles, LA. Deyonte Simmons, age six, stands on the bridge leading to a modest house across the bayou from the only road that runs down the island.
Chauvin, LA. On the morning of the boat blessing ceremony, St. Joseph's catholic church held a special Mass complete with miniature shrimp boat decorated on the altar. The Blessing of the Fleet is celebrated in several Catholic fishing communities in Southern Louisiana each year to mark the beginning of the main shrimping season.
Chauvin, LA. Friends pass by P.J. Domaingue's boat the 'Maycie Brooke' during the boat blessing parade. The ceremony includes a processional on the water where one or more priests float down the bayou and pray for each of the shrimping vessels as they pass by. Blessed boats them fall into place at the end of the growing parade line, and the entire community heads out the Lake Boudreaux for an afternoon on the water. Domaingue had the honor of hosting the priests at the front of the parade in this year's ceremony.
Venice, LA. Bob Powell climbs out onto one of the trawling booms to loosen a net that has become snagged. The shrimping industry along the Gulf Coast has been Increasingly threatened by environmental change and rising fuel prices.
Houma, LA. Mike Voisin, President of Motivatit Seafoods, Inc. gestures toward a map that illustrates the projected loss of land in coastal Louisiana by 2050. The map reads 'Coastal Louisiana has lost an average of 34 square miles of land, primarily marsh, per year for the last 50 years. From 1932 to 2000, coastal Louisiana lost 1,900 square miles of land, roughly an area the size of the state of Delaware. If nothing more is done to stop this land loss, Louisiana could potentially lost approximately 700 additional square miles of land.
Lafitte, LA. Sunrise over Cochiara Marina in the middle of what many Southern Louisianans called the worst white shrimp season in their collective memory. In 2011, Gulf Coast shrimpers reported record-low yields. One year after the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry spread into the Gulf Coast ecosystem, some local shrimpers struggled to even afford the fuel required to run their trawlers, and most say that BP was to blame. When they do make the trip, the stakes are high and many return with empty nets. The shrimp just aren’t there.
Marks, MS. Rev. Ezra Towner sits behind the counter at the Towner Dining Room, a traditional soul food restaurant owned by his son Val. Towner is pastor at Silent Grove Baptist church, and has not adopted the healthy eating campaign that that Rev. Terry Cousin champions across town at his own church.
New Orleans, LA. A resident takes down her laundry from the front of her walkway along the Mississippi River. This home is one of about a dozen structures that exist on the river-side of the New Orleans levee system. The structure is almost 40 feet offshore during winter months when the river is low, but during the summer when snow melt and spring storms across the Midwest cause it to swell on its way to the Gulf of Mexico, the water runs right underneath their floorboards.
New Orleans, LA,. Terry takes a break from making streamers and fans in Ed Buckner's back yard to dance to brass band music in the back yard. The Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure club started preparations early for their annual Mother’s Day second line parade, one of the biggest in the city.
Isle de Jean Charles, LA, 2014. A view of Island Road at sunset. This two-lane road connects the island to the rest of Terrebonne Parish and sometimes is nearly covered by the waters of high tide.
A decade after New Orleans all but washed away in the flood that followed Hurricane Katrina, the official line is the city is back, stronger than ever. William Widmer offers a more nuanced assessment in My Mississippi, revealing a region struggling to preserve its heritage and way of life in the face of rapid cultural and environmental change.
"You can say New Orleans is 'back and vibrant and exciting,' but you have to qualify that and say that it’s also different," Widmer says. "It’s a different city than it was before Hurricane Katrina."
The photographer moved to New Orleans from Chicago five years ago, drawn by the relaxed vibe of a city where people aren't defined by their jobs, but by the neighborhood they grew up in, the Mardi Gras crew they run with, and the Second Line Parade party they revel in. NOLA also is running headlong into the effects of global warming, which dovetailed nicely with his ongoing work documenting humanity's relationship to the environment.
Even as the Gulf Coast continues its recovery, the region faces an ongoing and radical transformation.
People in New Orleans are notoriously friendly, so introductions came easy. Widmer's innate curiosity helped too. Driving through the city, and the small towns beyond it, he'd simply park his car, walk around, and ask questions. "Eighty-five percent of the work I do—whether it’s in town, down in the bayou, or up in the delta—is talking to people with a camera over my shoulder," he says. "If you don’t pull over and talk to that person, you’re not going to walk away with any image or know their story."
Slowly, Widmer began seeing how New Orleans has grown increasingly unequal since Katrina. The hurricane and resulting flood killed more than 1,800 people and damaged or destroyed more than 1 million homes and businesses. Recovery has meant different things to different people; a study released Monday by the Pubic Policy Research Lab found whites overwhelmingly believe the city has recovered, while African-Americans overwhelming do not. That sentiment has been repeated in other surveys. Though affluent newcomers have moved into the city—drawn by a burgeoning tech and film industry—not all have seen their fortunes improve. For that reason, a mix of excitement, optimism, resentment, and anger permeates the city.
It varies dramatically from neighborhood to neighborhood, block to block, and house to house. “I once asked a guy what he thought about the anniversary celebrations for Katrina,” Widmer says. “He said, ‘Is that something you’re supposed to celebrate? Because I don’t want to think about it. It’s like a death in the family.’”
Yet even as the Gulf Coast continues its recovery, the region faces an ongoing and radical transformation brought on by climate change, the extensive engineering of the Mississippi River by the Army Corps of Engineers, and the environmental impact of the oil and gas industry. The Gulf of Mexico reclaims a football field-sized chunk of coastline every 48 minutes; that's 16 square miles a year. Another 818 square miles could be lost in the next 50 years without aggressive action to reverse the trend. "A lot of people think of New Orleans as a coastal city," Widmer says. "It’s not. But it will be at the rate we’re headed.”
The problem has created a sense of foreboding in southern Louisiana. Widmer rarely visited the bayou without meeting someone who worked in the oil and gas industry, or didn't have a relative who did. Longtime residents were well aware of the impact our reliance on fossil fuels is having on their state, but saw no alternatives. "It’s this crazy catch-22, where people know their way of life is going to be gone within a generation, but everybody is desperate and needs to make a living today," he says. "You get a shrug from people and they’re like, 'Well, that’s just the hand we were dealt.'"
My Mississippi is a beautiful celebration of cultural resilience and community.
Widmer has been shooting along the Gulf Coast for outlets like The New York Times, but always keeps an eye out for scenes he might capture for their own sake. His unexpected and often eclectic images are both journalistic and intensely personal, and almost lyrical in their storytelling. The images in My Mississippi feel as much like visual poems as they do photojournalism.
The photographs reveal the unyielding determination and spirit of New Orleans, a city where people like Ed Buckner fiercely preserve tradition1. Buckner leads the Mardis Gras Indians, a group of black teenagers who meet in his living room to sew elaborate beaded costumes. "He wants to give these young kids a sense of pride in each other and their neighborhood," Widmer says. "He really is everything beautiful about grassroots community activism and cultural preservation in New Orleans that I’ve come to love."
Buckner spends the rest of his free time preparing for his neighborhood’s Second Line parades. The jazzy brass band processions are an integral part of the city's culture, held most Sundays in neighborhoods throughout the city. They're raucous, joyous affairs, full of singing and dancing and, of course, eating and drinking. "For a non-native photographer to talk about Second Lines is kind of cliché, but it is one of the most magical and beautiful celebrations of cultural resilience and communities that I’ve ever seen anywhere," Widmer says.
And that is an apt description of My Mississippi: a beautiful celebration of cultural resilience and community.
UPDATE: 2:15 EST 08/28/15: This post was updated to correctly name Ed Buckner.
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(AP) – One person in Connecticut has been infected with salmonella, leading to a tuna recall.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the tuna from Louisiana-based Jensen Tuna has sickened 13 people in seven states since early January. Two people have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.
The company has recalled the tuna that was imported from Vietnam. It had been sold to distributors in Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota and Washington.
The tuna was sold for use in finished food dishes sold by restaurants and food retailers and was unlikely to be sold directly to consumers in grocery stores.
Most people infected with salmonella develop diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps. The illness can last up to a week.
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Brown says Shaheen, Obama haven't done enough against ISIS
Shaheen says she has been working to fight terrorist group
Updated: 6:29 PM EDT Sep 24, 2014
Kristen Carosa
News Reporter
The candidates for New Hampshire's U.S. Senate seat are talking about their strategies to address the threat posed by ISIS.Click to watch News 9's coverage.The discussion started Wednesday with Republican Scott Brown as he delivered a foreign policy speech in Manchester. Brown came down hard on President Barack Obama and Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.Shaheen said Brown's speech had a lot of political grandstanding and fear-mongering, things she said aren't needed at a time where the country needs to work together.Six weeks before the November election, Brown delivered his speech at St. Anselm College."We have to get serious about securing our borders, and we have to do it yesterday," Brown said.During his speech, Brown criticized the Obama Administration's foreign policy and ability to stay ahead of national security threats. He said devoid of ideas."If we have seen some bad calls from the White House, it's a very safe bet that our senior senator has been right in line with that failed program," he said.Brown accused Shaheen of backing the president's approach."Scott Brown is confused about that just as he is confused on the approach we should take to address this critical threat from ISIS," Shaheen said.Shaheen defended her work against ISIS, saying she continues to support air strikes in Syria and has voted for military action."We need to build an international coalition -- and that is exactly what we are doing -- which includes Muslim states and Arab countries, and we need to go after their financing and recruitment efforts," Shaheen said.Brown said Shaheen's efforts are too late. He said Shaheen, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, had not spoken publicly about the threat of ISIS until a month ago."When the committee was having a hearing on the threat of ISIS a year and a half ago, she missed the meeting," Brown said.But Shaheen said she has been on top of the issue."I have been talking about this and the threat of a civil war in Syria and what is happening in the Middle East for years now and have voted that way," she said.Shaheen said she will continue to fight ISIS and believes that the Obama Administration will be successful in defeating the terrorist group.Brown said if the administration and Congress had stayed ahead of threats, then the global security picture would look a lot better than it does right now.
The candidates for New Hampshire's U.S. Senate seat are talking about their strategies to address the threat posed by ISIS.
Click to watch News 9's coverage.
The discussion started Wednesday with Republican Scott Brown as he delivered a foreign policy speech in Manchester. Brown came down hard on President Barack Obama and Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
Shaheen said Brown's speech had a lot of political grandstanding and fear-mongering, things she said aren't needed at a time where the country needs to work together.
Six weeks before the November election, Brown delivered his speech at St. Anselm College.
"We have to get serious about securing our borders, and we have to do it yesterday," Brown said.
During his speech, Brown criticized the Obama Administration's foreign policy and ability to stay ahead of national security threats. He said devoid of ideas.
"If we have seen some bad calls from the White House, it's a very safe bet that our senior senator has been right in line with that failed program," he said.
Brown accused Shaheen of backing the president's approach.
"Scott Brown is confused about that just as he is confused on the approach we should take to address this critical threat from ISIS," Shaheen said.
Shaheen defended her work against ISIS, saying she continues to support air strikes in Syria and has voted for military action.
"We need to build an international coalition -- and that is exactly what we are doing -- which includes Muslim states and Arab countries, and we need to go after their financing and recruitment efforts," Shaheen said.
Brown said Shaheen's efforts are too late. He said Shaheen, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, had not spoken publicly about the threat of ISIS until a month ago.
"When the committee was having a hearing on the threat of ISIS a year and a half ago, she missed the meeting," Brown said.
But Shaheen said she has been on top of the issue.
"I have been talking about this and the threat of a civil war in Syria and what is happening in the Middle East for years now and have voted that way," she said.
Shaheen said she will continue to fight ISIS and believes that the Obama Administration will be successful in defeating the terrorist group.
Brown said if the administration and Congress had stayed ahead of threats, then the global security picture would look a lot better than it does right now.
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Red Sox to retire Wade Boggs' No. 26
Hall-of-Fame third baseman was an 11-time all-star
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Wade Boggs' number 26 will be retired by the Boston Red Sox.Boston said Monday it will retire the number of the Hall of Fame third baseman during a ceremony at Fenway Park on May 26, when the number will be added to the ballpark's right-field facade.Boggs played with Boston from 1982-92 and was an 11-time all-star, including eight times while with the Red Sox.Now 57, Boggs had a .328 career average during 18 big league seasons, which included stints with the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay.Boggs' number will be the 10th retired by the Red Sox.
BOSTON —
Wade Boggs' number 26 will be retired by the Boston Red Sox.
Boston said Monday it will retire the number of the Hall of Fame third baseman during a ceremony at Fenway Park on May 26, when the number will be added to the ballpark's right-field facade.
Boggs played with Boston from 1982-92 and was an 11-time all-star, including eight times while with the Red Sox.
Now 57, Boggs had a .328 career average during 18 big league seasons, which included stints with the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay.
Boggs' number will be the 10th retired by the Red Sox.
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NY Man Sentenced for Nearly $10k in Workers’ Comp Fraud
February 27, 2018 by WorkCompWire
Buffalo, NY – New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott recently announced the sentencing of a City of Buffalo man who defrauded the Workers’ Compensation system of nearly $10,000 in benefits to which he was not entitled because he had returned to work but continued collecting benefits as if he was not employed.
Arnold Fassbinder, 55, of Royal Avenue, Buffalo, was sentenced in Erie County Court to a three-year conditional discharge, including the condition he repay the entire amount he stole, for his guilty plea to one count of Grand Larceny in the 4th Degree, a felony.
An investigation by Inspector General Leahy Scott found that Fassbinder began receiving Workers’ Compensation benefits in July 2015 when he suffered multiple injuries after falling off a ladder while attempting to repair a roof.
By November, 2015, Fassbinder represented that he was medically cleared to resume work and he returned to his employment doing home improvements for Walden Holding Inc. in Cheektowaga, New York. After returning to his job, however, he repeatedly submitted paperwork to the New York State Insurance Fund asserting he was not working in any capacity. These falsifications enabled him to continue to receive Workers’ Compensation benefits while simultaneously earning pay at his employment. In total, he received $9,436.24 in Workers’ Compensation benefits to which he was not entitled, and which he must now pay back under the court’s restitution order.
“This defendant’s greed and hubris led to a scheme of subterfuge enabling him to supplement his income with benefit payments to which he was not entitled,” said Inspector General Leahy Scott. “I will continue dedicating the resources of my office to protect the benefits meant to assist honest, hard-working New Yorkers.”
Under State law, employers are required to maintain Workers’ Compensation coverage for their employees, and employees are expected to provide truthful information regarding their work activity to insurance carriers and the Workers’ Compensation Board during the time they are receiving benefits.
Inspector General Leahy Scott thanked the New York State Insurance Fund for their assistance with the investigation, and Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn and his office for prosecuting this matter.
Source: NY Inspector General
Filed Under: Industry News, Top Stories, Work Force & Human Resource News, Workers' Compensation
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Attorney General Sessions Announces Uttam Dhillon as New Acting DEA Administrator
July 11, 2018 by WorkCompWire
Washington, DC – Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently announced the appointment of Uttam Dhillon as Acting Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Dhillon will replace Robert Patterson, who has retired after 30 years of service.
“With one American dying of a drug overdose every nine minutes, there can be no doubt that we are facing the deadliest drug epidemic in our history,” Attorney General Sessions said. “The work of the Drug Enforcement Administration is critical to fighting this crisis, and President Trump and I are committed to continuing to give it the strong leadership it deserves. That is why I am pleased to appoint Uttam Dhillon as Acting Administrator. Uttam is a dedicated public servant who has served with distinction in the White House, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, Congress, and as a career federal prosecutor taking on drug traffickers at the highest levels. I would also like to thank my good friend Robert Patterson for his exemplary service throughout his 30 years with the Drug Enforcement Administration, most recently as Acting Administrator.”
Dhillon began serving in the role of Acting Administrator on July 2nd.
Dhillon has had a long career battling drug traffickers and violent crime. In 2006, Dhillon was confirmed by the Senate as the first Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security. In that role, Dhillon served as the primary policy advisor on counternarcotics issues, focused on combating the connections between illegal drug trafficking and terrorism and developed regional counternarcotics strategies for DHS.
Prior to DHS, Dhillon served as an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice, where he chaired the Attorney General’s Anti-Gang Coordination Committee, and led efforts to formulate and implement Department of Justice policies and programs to combat violent crime and criminal gangs. Earlier in his career, Dhillon worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District of California for 6 ½ years. During that period, Dhillon was appointed to the Department of Justice’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, and worked with federal and local law enforcement agencies to direct complex investigations of violent gangs and major narcotics trafficking organizations.
More recently, Dhillon has served as Deputy Counsel and Deputy Assistant to the President. Dhillon also has significant experience in the Legislative Branch, holding several senior roles including Chief Oversight Counsel for the House Financial Services Committee, Chief Counsel and Deputy Staff Director for the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, and Senior Investigative Counsel for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Both prior to and subsequent to his public service, Dhillon worked for several large law firms.
Dhillon received his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. from the University of California, San Diego, and a B.A. from California State University, Sacramento.
Source: DEA
Filed Under: Industry News, People On The Move, Top Stories, Workers' Compensation
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We are an independent political organization based in Chicago's 33rd Ward, which includes the neighborhoods of Albany Park, Avondale, Irving Park, and Ravenswood Manor.
Our mission is to build a political alternative in the ward to promote the needs of working families. We aim to develop and run home-grown candidates for public office and build political power through advocacy and education around daily issues that affect the material well-being and political interests of ward residents.
33rd Working Families formed in 2015 following the independent aldermanic campaign of Roosevelt High School social studies teacher Tim Meegan. The Meegan campaign pushed the incumbent, part of a decades-long Machine dynasty, to the brink of the first runoff in the ward in 80 years.
Following the election, the campaign reformed as an independent political organization (IPO) to continue to push for the progressive values that earned the campaign thousands of ward votes.
Since then, the IPO has become a local leader in progressive causes, leading campaigns to lift the ban on rent control, protect our ward's immigrant population, and support labor and public services in Chicago.
In 2018, the IPO nominated one of its members, Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez, to run again for the aldermanic seat. Rodriguez won the seat in April 2019.
33rd Ward Working Families
Paid for by Chicago Working Families. A copy of our report filed with the State Board of Elections is available on the Board’s official website (www.elections.il.gov) or for purchase from the State Board of Elections, Springfield, Illinois.
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Federal Programs - TITLE III
English to Speakers of Other languages (ESOL) is a state-funded instructional program for eligible English Learners (ELs) in grades K-12 (Georgia School Law Code 1981, 20-2-156, enacted in 1985). The ESOL program is a standards-based curriculum emphasizing academic and social language development . ESOL coursework is based upon the WIDA Consortium English Language Development (ELD) standards. Classroom teachers integrate these ELD standards with the Georgia Performance Standards to enable ELs to both communicate in English and demonstrate their academic, social, and cultural proficiency. Instructional approaches, both in ESOL and general education classes, ensure that the needs of Georgia's ELs are accommodated. To the extent practicable, it is appropriate to use the EL's home language as a means of facilitating instruction and providing parents with school-related information.
Title III is a federally-funded program that provides eligible Local Education Agencies with funding to supplement those ESOL services already in place. School districts with large EL populations receive direct Title III allocations, while school districts with lower incidence populations are grouped into the "Georgia Title III Consortium." The Title III Consortium allows these "low-incidence" districts to access Title III funds typically available only to districts with greater numbers of ELs. Both ESOL and Title III hold students accountable for progress in, and attainment of, English language proficiency. Upon attainment of English language proficiency, students exit from supplemental language services.
Georgia Title III Consortium
The Georgia Title III Consortium is comprised of those districts whose EL student numbers do not meet the threshold above which a district may receive an individual ($10,000 minimum)Title III sub-grant. As federal Title III funding varies year-to-year, so does the minimum "threshold" number of ELs. In 2013, districts with fewer than 62 ELs will be offered participation in the Statewide Title III Consortium. In 2012, this number was 60 and in 2011, districts with fewer than 57 ELs were considered "Consortium" districts.
Worth County Schools participates in the Georgia Title III Consortium.
WIDA Consortium
Since 2006 Georgia has been part of the WIDA Consortium, a group now consisting of 29 member states. Together with our colleague-states, we work in close collaboration with the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research (WCER), the Center for Applied Linguistics and MetriTech to ensure that our English Language Proficiency assessment (ACCESS for ELs) and our ESOL teaching standards remain reliable and valid across administration years. Click on WIDA for an overview and to learn more about our consortium's K-12 English Language Development (ELD) Standards and the assessments used with ELs (W-APT screener and ACCESS for ELLs).
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The San Diego chapter of Young Catholic Professionals (YCP) will gather Tuesday, December 11th, at 7 p.m. for our next monthly Executive Speaker Series. The event is FREE and open to all young professionals in their 20s and 30s and is usually attended by people from all industries!
YCP is one of the nation's fastest-growing Catholic organizations with chapters in cities across the country and now finally in San Diego! Join other vibrant, Catholic young professionals at this free monthly event.
**About Dr. Margaret McCahill, M.D., MTS**
Dr. McCahill received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland, and her Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She completed Residency training in Family Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and Residency training in Psychiatry at UCSD School of Medicine. Dr. McCahill is Medical Specialty Board Certified in both Family Medicine and Psychiatry, and she has practiced both specialties simultaneously over the years.
Dr. McCahill was a full time Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry at UCSD School of Medicine for over 15 years, and currently holds a volunteer faculty appointment at UCSD in both specialties, where she continues teaching physicians and other health care professionals. She is an adjunct clinical professor at the USD Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, and (in 2016 and 2019) an adjunct professor at the Franciscan School of Theology. Until April 2009, Dr. McCahill served as the Medical Director at St. Vincent de Paul Village in San Diego for over 10 years, where she founded and directed one of the first Combined Family Medicine-Psychiatry Residency Training Programs in the country. At St. Vincent’s, she developed multi-disciplinary team training, including trainees in medicine, nursing, social work, clinical psychology, substance abuse treatment counselors, and student chaplains, working together in team training and practice.
Dr. McCahill completed a "Graduate Certificate Program in Spirituality and Health Care" from George Washington University School of Medicine, and taught health care professionals at UCSD and USD in courses about the interface between spirituality and health. In 2016, Dr. McCahill was awarded a Master of Theological Studies (MTS) degree from the Franciscan School of Theology, which is affiliated with the University of San Diego. Dr. McCahill has received many awards (including statewide and national recognition) for teaching and community service. For her work at St. Vincent de Paul Village, she received the "Medical Board of California's Physician Humanitarian Award" in 2008.
St. Luke's, El Cajon
WHY ATTEND:
- Free wine, beer and appetizers
- Learn from an experienced medical professional
- Meet young Catholics committed to professional growth
- Be part of this challenging and inspiring community
7:00 p.m. - Networking with free wine, beer, and appetizers
7:35 p.m. - Keynote Presentation
8:30 p.m. - Stick around afterward to meet our speaker & continue networking!
Dress for this event is business professional. We hope to see you there!
***VOLUNTEERS***
We are currently looking for volunteers to help us out the day of! Volunteer positions include greeters, check-in, and beverage servers! Interested in helping out? If so, sign up below or email info@ycpsandiego.org
St. Luke, El Cajon
1980 Hillsdale Rd
Candice Kelchner
Emily Escobar
Timothy Reese
Mark Neilson
Lance Attiq
Ginna Rodriguez
Would you be willing to volunteer at this event? Please indicate the times you are available and we'll be in touch. Thanks!
Tue, Dec 11: 6:30pm-8pm (2) 8pm-9:30pm (2)
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Lawrence Wendel attended. 2018-12-12 19:25:17 -0800
Candice Kelchner rsvped 2018-12-11 08:04:12 -0800
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York County residents reflect on a Hillary Clinton campaign
Hillary Clinton officially announced her candidacy for the president of the United States for the second time on Sunday.
York County residents reflect on a Hillary Clinton campaign Hillary Clinton officially announced her candidacy for the president of the United States for the second time on Sunday. Check out this story on ydr.com: https://www.ydr.com/story/mobile/2015/04/12/york-county-residents-review-attributes-hillary-clinton-campaign/72210360/
Flint McColgan, YorkDailyRecord Published 10:20 p.m. ET April 12, 2015
In this March 10, 2015 file photo, Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to the reporters at United Nations headquarters. Rodham Clinton s presidential campaign will center on boosting economic security for the middle class and broadening opportunities for working families, while casting the former senator and secretary of state as a tenacious fighter able to get results in a tough political climate, two senior Clinton advisers said Saturday.(Photo: Associated Press)
Hillary Clinton officially announced her candidacy for the president of the United States for the second time on Sunday. She joins two U.S. Senate Republicans, Ted Cruz, of Texas, and Rand Paul, of Kentucky, in the race so far.
Local reaction to her announcement Sunday was decidedly mixed, though most respondents said it was too early to tell how they felt about her or her candidacy. Here are some pros and cons of the candidacy.
Pro/Con: York County performance
The former first lady and secretary of state outperformed eventual President Barack Obama in the York County Democratic primary in 2008 by more than 10 percentage points — more than 5,000 votes — nearly mirroring the statewide results.
Despite those results, some voters might be tired of hearing about the two-time candidate.
"I was around for, basically, what was her presidency, too, with Bill Clinton and she's just always been kind of steadfast," said Cecelia Sumrall, 34, of York. "I don't think many women my age, the voting age population, are all that interested in her."
Online, several commenters expressed similar concern.
"I just cannot do another presidential race with Hillary Clinton," wrote Melissa Meinke. "Now I'm apathetic and just weary! Same ol' same ol' here we go!"
Pro: Name recognition
The flip side to voter fatigue is the benefit of name recognition.
Moving to Spring Garden Township from Texas only two years ago, Lalo Moreno, 33, said Clinton's going to be a competitive force because of her name recognition and her clout.
Patrick Connor, 24, of York, said he thinks a lot of people will like her already because of her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Con: Controversy
Clinton has been involved in more than her share of controversy.
As secretary of state at the time, she has taken a lot of flak for what some think has been a lack of response to or preparation for the terrorist attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.
Clinton was since found to have used a private email address to conduct official business during that time, something the media and other politicians have criticized her for.
Connor said that while these controversies might become obstacles to her, they're probably overblown.
"It is truly disturbing to me how people simply ignore all the problems she's been involved in," wrote Facebook commenter Sam Shaffer.
Pro/Con: She's a woman
While almost all respondents said they want to find out more about each candidate before making their final decisions, a couple of them said the fact that she's a woman could have a major effect on her candidacy.
Katie Kinnan, 24, of York, said that "a lot of Americans are ready for a woman" and that many of those might vote for Clinton based on this fact alone. She compared the issue to some outpouring of support for Obama based on his race in addition to policy views.
"It's time for a woman to be president and I can't think of a better candidate," wrote Jill Reiter on Facebook. "I have been waiting for her to announce. This time we shatter that glass ceiling."
Online commenter Tim Basehore also considered the issue: "People were in a rush for an African American president, hoping the same doesn't happen with a female! Don't call me a racist or chauvinistic pig either! I would take Ben Carson as president any day!"
Con: Inability to relate
William Basham, 32, of York, said that if the election were held today he would "most definitely" vote for Clinton, but said she really needs to improve her ability to adapt and listen over her candidacy in 2008.
He said her chance to be the Democratic candidate are stronger now than they were when she was running against Obama because he was "more outgoing" and flexible in his views as a candidate while she was more set in her ways.
To counteract this, he said, she should focus more on reaching out to independent and Democratic voters in traditional Republican states and host smaller gatherings of possible supporters so she can have a better dialog with them.
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Abraham Lincoln's coffin, plus 4 things to know about his death
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Dr. Terrence Roberts tells students 'we cannot color code the universe'
York County experts offer their advice on getting the most from your crops
Sponsor says it will keep young in state, but some aren't buying
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Question Period
Question re: Dawson City recreation centre - April 17, 2013
Posted by Jason Cunning 362pc on April 17, 2013
Mr. Silver: Before the spring sitting began, I attended a Business After Hours meeting in Dawson, where the Premier announced a new capital construction project. He began by saying it was a project that was championed by the former MLA for the Klondike. At that point, people’s ears perked up because the building that the former MLA championed was the new recreation centre. He even held a sod-turning ceremony with the former Yukon Party Minister of Community Services, but alas, the Premier’s announcement was actually about the McDonald Lodge being replaced.
The long-standing Yukon Party commitment to build a new recreation centre in Dawson seems to have fallen off the table since the last election. This year’s budget contains no funding and nothing is mentioned in the long-term plan either.
Will the minister admit that plans for a new recreation centre in Dawson are off the table?
Hon. Ms. Taylor: I’d like to thank the MLA for Klondike for raising this important question. Actually, I had a number of discussions with the City of Dawson — the newly elected mayor and council — on this very issue. In fact, during a recent visit back in the month of January, early in the new year, during my community visits in the territory, I again had the opportunity to discuss this issue and had the opportunity to certainly take a look first-hand and review what work has proceeded at the recreation centre, the issues that carry with the recreation centre, and to talk about options with the mayor and council and the community on a go-forward basis.
So there are dollars included within this year’s budget, as there were the last number of years. In fact, we have extended our agreement with the City of Dawson, which will continue with the $4.5 million, I believe it was, in ongoing work in structural upgrades and repairs to the current facility.
In the meantime, we look forward to hearing from the community of Dawson in terms of their priorities for recreation on a go-forward basis.
Mr. Silver: I appreciate the minister’s answers. I’m very well aware of the meetings that they’ve had and the funding that is allocated for the existing building; however, the minister didn’t answer my question, which is about a new facility.
The Yukon Party candidate in the Klondike during the 2011 election campaign told voters a newly elected Yukon Party government would build a new rec centre. People expected the government to live up to that commitment, and it looks increasingly like this is not going to happen. There is no money in the budget for it to happen this year and nothing in the long-term plan either.
The Yukon Party has broken its promise for a new facility and instead wants the municipality to try to fix the old one. The City of Dawson recently submitted its phase 2 report to the minister, as the two parties try to determine if the building can, in fact, be saved.
Why has the Yukon Party backed away from its promise to build a new facility in our community?
Hon. Ms. Taylor: Again, just to correct the record for the member opposite, we are carrying on with our commitment of a $4-million contribution agreement with the City of Dawson. In fact, that agreement did expire at the end of this fiscal year, but we have honoured our agreement at the request of the City of Dawson to extend that agreement for a number of years to carry on with structural upgrades and/or repairs of that particular facility. So there are dollars contained within this year’s budget, as there have been in the last number of years.
There is an oversight committee comprised of representatives from the Department of Community Services, as well as representatives from the City of Dawson. In fact, they are putting together their annual plan to determine the expenditures on a go-forward basis with respect to this facility. As I understand it, there is an engineering assessment, and that will help us find and determine ways to make the best use of the facility and to identify ways to improve recreation infrastructure in the community of Dawson.
So again, we are working with the City of Dawson; we are working with the community, and we certainly look forward to doing that in the year to come.
Mr. Silver: Mr. Speaker, before the last election the Yukon Party held two sod-turning ceremonies for two capital projects. One was the F.H.CollinsSecondary School, which has undergone extensive changes since the announcement but appears to still be on the agenda for this government. There will be a new F.H.CollinsSecondary School.
In Dawson the sod-turning orchestrated by the former MLA and the former Minister of Community Services was as far as the new recreation centre has gone, and it seems like that’s as far as it’s going to go. It’s clear that a new facility has been taken off the table and that the government has broken a major commitment it made to voters during the 2011 election campaign.
Let’s turn the page. What is the cost for that stabilization mentioned in the engineering reports for the current facility in order to make it fully functional and also able to have an ice plant installed?
Hon. Mr. Pasloski: Indeed, to start off where the member opposite began his question, I would like to acknowledge the former MLA for Klondike, Mr. Steve Nordick, for the work that he did in ensuring that something so important to the community is erected, because what we had — McDonald Lodge — is timing out. We will go forward with a new seniors nursing home for that community, which will also be larger. We will be able to facilitate a broader scope of health services. I would like to acknowledge and thank the former member for the work that he has done.
But talking about investment in DawsonCity recently — if I just do the quick math — this government has invested over $75 million in DawsonCity in the last few years: a new health centre that is almost completed right now; the new waste-water treatment plant; the district heating system; KIAC, the Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture. This government looked for and found specialized asphalt to put on Front Street to minimize the erosion from permafrost. To find a solution that works in Yukon, we had to have that asphalt brought in from Europe. This government continues to support the Klondike in spite of what this member has to say.
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56 Counties
First Monday of the Month at 6:30pm
Local Host Russell Rowland
Russell Rowland
courtesy Russell Rowland
Fifty-Six Counties is a radio program hosted by Russell Rowland, author of the book Fifty-Six Counties: A Montana Journey. For the book, Rowland traveled to every county in Montana and interviewed the people there about what’s going on around the state, while also researching the history to find the parallels and patterns.
The radio program is an extension of this conversation, with Rowland interviewing people from all over Montana to find out how Montana has shaped them, and what they’re doing to shape Montana.
56 Counties: Reno Charette, John Robinson
By Russell Rowland • Jul 1, 2019
Fifty Six Counties is a radio program hosted by Russell Rowland, author of the book Fifty-Six Counties: A Montana Journey. For the book, Rowland traveled to every county in Montana and interviewed the people there about what’s going on around the state, while also researching the history to find the parallels and patterns.
The radio program is an extension of this conversation, with Rowland interviewing people from all over Montana to find out how Montana has shaped them, and what they’re doing to shape Montana. For the preimere episode, Russell chose two people from Rosebud County: Reno Charette, Director of the Native American Achievement Center at MSU Billings, and John Robinson, who recently retired as the Northern Cheyenne tribal judge.
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Some bacteria eat antibiotics — and this might actually be a good thing
Last updated on May 1st, 2018 at 6:11 pm by Tibi Puiu
Researchers have figured out how some soil bacteria turn antibiotic drugs into food. Credit: Michael Worful.
You might have heard all about how many bacterial strains are becoming resistant to even our strongest antibiotics. The most immediate (and frightening) consequence is that humanity risks reverting to a dark age of medicine where unstoppable infectious diseases spread like wildfire. What’s truly mindboggling is that not only have some strains become resistant to antibiotics, they’ve learned to embrace them, consuming them for food.
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have investigated what freaky biology allows bacteria to ingest as food what would normally be poison for them. Writing in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, the authors say that three distinct set of genes become active in trials when the bacteria ate penicillin but stayed inactive while the bacteria ate sugar.
The researchers worked with four distinct species of soil bacteria. These species likely gained antibiotic resistance due to the unregulated dumping of antibiotic-laden waste into local waterways, which also ends up in the soil. Because bacteria easily share genetic material, the antibiotic-resistant genes quickly spread through the community.
Each of the three genes identified by the researchers corresponds to one of three steps the bacteria take in order to consume antibiotics as food. First, the bacteria neutralize the dangerous part of the antibiotic which is toxic to them. With the toxin disarmed, the bacteria are then free to consume the matter which is essentially just like any other carbon-based food at this point.
“Ten years ago we stumbled onto the fact that bacteria can eat antibiotics, and everyone was shocked by it,” said senior author Gautam Dantas in a statement. “But now it’s beginning to make sense. It’s just carbon, and wherever there’s carbon, somebody will figure out how to eat it. Now that we understand how these bacteria do it, we can start thinking of ways to use this ability to get rid of antibiotics where they are causing harm.”
Antibiotic resistance is no joke. Whenever bacteria survive an antibiotic onslaught, it can acquire resistant through mutation of the genetic material or by ‘borrowing’ pieces of DNA that code for the resistance to antibiotics from other bacteria, like those from livestock. Moreover, the DNA that codes the resistance is grouped in an easily transferable package which enables the germs to become resistant to many antimicrobial agents.
In a previous long-form article, I wrote:
“Before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, there was no effective treatment for infections such as pneumonia, gonorrhea or rheumatic fever. Fleming’s discovery kicked off a golden age of antimicrobial research with many pharmaceutical companies developing new drugs that would save countless lives. Some doctors in the 1940s would famously prophesize that antibiotics would finally eradicate the infectious diseases that had plagued humankind throughout history. Almost a hundred years later since Fleming made his milestone discovery not only are bacterial infections still common, the misuse and overuse of antibiotics are threatening to undo all of this medical progress.”
According to the CDC, the following bacterial strains have developed the most resistance such that they’ve been listed as urgent hazards:
Clostridium difficile. Causes severe diarrhea, especially in older people and those who have serious illnesses.
Enterobacteriaceae. These normally live in the digestive tract but can invade other parts of the body, like the urinary tract, and cause infections.
Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Causes gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection. In 2016, the WHO said gonorrhea might soon become untreatable.
However, although antibiotic-munching bacteria sound terrifying, the authors of the new study say their adapted abilities could be exploited in our favor. One of the reasons so many bacteria develop resistance in the first place is due to poor waste management. In China and India — the world’s most important producers of pharmaceuticals — it’s common practice for waste leftover from the antibiotic manufacturing process to end up in waterways. So, why not use the antibiotic-resistant bacteria to clean up such dumps? That would be one primary application of the recent findings.
“Of course, the benefits of any such bioremediation program would need to be weighed against the risk of releasing a genetically modified bacterium into the environment and the potential spread of antibiotic resistance/degradation genes to other organisms,” the authors wrote.
“Before starting this project, we already knew that a lot of bacteria in the soil could eat antibiotics, and we all would have been very surprised if it had turned out they were somehow doing this without using antibiotic resistance genes in some way. So I think that it is mostly good news that, while resistance is part of this pathway, we now have the blueprints for how bacteria eat an antibiotic. We actually used this knowledge to design a benign strain of laboratory E. coli to do an even better job eating penicillin,” Terence Crofts, first author of the new paper and a researcher at the University of Washington, told ZME Science.
One major challenge is that the soil bacteria capable of eating antibiotics are difficult to work with and the rate at which they consume the drugs is far too slow to make an impact. The researchers, however, are confident that they can engineer E. coli, which is a well-studied bacteria and a far more tractable species, for this purpose. In experiments, the Washington University researchers showed that they could give E. coli antibiotic-eating abilities, allowing it to thrive on penicillin. The bacteria usually requires sugar to survive, but due to genetic modifications and the presence of a key protein, the E. coli survived on a sugar-free diet of penicillin.
“I think an important take-away from this paper is how we look at antibiotics. We (humans) see antibiotics just as a medicine we get from the clinic, but most of our antibiotics are actually chemicals that are made by or based on compounds that soil bacteria and fungi use to compete against their neighbors. So from the point of view of soil microbes, antibiotics are just another type of carbon-based molecule that while sometimes toxic are fair game for eating if they can be detoxified. When we consider antibiotics as being by and for bacteria, it makes sense that antibiotic resistance and antibiotic degradation/eating are widespread in the soil,” Crofts concluded.
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European Union Launches Case Against China’s Unfair Technology Trade Practices
The European Union is China’s biggest trading partner in the world. Despite the negotiations between EU and China for an Investment Agreement in 2013 and China’s agreement to reform and liberalize its economy in 2001 when it joined WTO, China’s policies still discriminate against foreign companies. The EU will launch legal proceedings against China over unfair technology transfers in the World Trade Organization.
The EU’s case came after Brussels threatened to retaliate against Donald Trump’s decision on imposing “illegal” trade tariffs on steel and aluminum exports into the U.S, raising prospects of a global trade war.
The US President had announced his plans that angered the country’s principal allies. However, later on, Trump offered the EU, Mexico, and Canada an exemption. In response, Brussels had already gone to the WTO to seek consultation on Trump’s decision that they deemed “illegal.”
The EU struck back in the US a day after Trump announced his intention. The EU brought a similar request to the WTO when it also targeted China by launching legal proceedings that undermines the intellectual property rights of European companies. The case aims specific provisions under Chinese regulations, TIER and JV Regulation.
In a press release, the European Commission reported that European companies importing in China are forced to grant ownership or usage rights of their technology to domestic entities. Moreover, the EU industries are stripped of their rights to negotiate market-based terms in technology transfer agreements freely.
China’s actions are against WTO rules and disciplines, in particular under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement).
“This is against international rules that we have all agreed upon in the WTO. If the main players don’t stick to the rulebook, the whole system might collapse,” EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said in a statement. “We are expecting everyone to play by the rules. We are challenging the US and China, and we are not choosing any sides.”
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Outpouring Support For KyoAni After Arson Attack
Fans call for support and help via the hashtag #HelpKyoAniHeal.
Lorey de Guzman
A photo of Kyoto Animation Co., Ltd.'s building entrance. Photo: Thibaut120094 | Flickr.com | CC BY 2.0
A fire broke out in Kyoto Animation Co., Ltd.’s headquarters in Fushimi-ku district, Kyoto at 8:35 PM (CT), which resulted in at least 33 people dead and dozens injured.
The fire was successfully put out after five hours. Since the company’s studios are located in a residential area, neighboring establishments and private spaces were the ones who called the firefighters after hearing a loud explosion, followed by smoke rising from the building shortly. Local authorities investigated and concluded that the fire was brought upon by arson.
A 41-year-old man, who was identified by multiple witnesses as the suspect, is being treated at the hospital. The police apprehended him before being rushed to the hospital.
The motive of the crime is not yet determined since the police cannot interrogate the suspect due to his extensive injuries. Based on the suspect’s records, there is no direct connection between him and the animation studios. A witness informed authorities that the man shouted “Die!” repeatedly as he carried out his attack.
Reports have shared that the man brought 40 liters of petrol in two containers into the building. He proceeded to douse the lobby of the 1st Studio building using the gasoline he purchased at a nearby gas station.
Aside from petrol, the suspect carried several knives, which were found in the backpack discarded in the aftermath.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent via Twitter his condolences to all casualties and wished those that were injured a speedy recovery. He also stated that the crime has rendered him speechless.
The studio’s president and co-founder Hatta Hideaki spoke to reporters later in the day, in front of the studios’ burned building. He has expressed his disappointment and frustration over the incident. He said, “This has just broken our hearts.”
Kyoto Animation Co., Ltd., also known as KyoAni, estimates that there were 70 people already in the building when the suspect launched his attack. Several members are still in the hospital in critical condition.
Worldwide Response
Fans worldwide mourn with grief upon hearing the news of the incident.
Fans posted on Twitter with #PrayForKyoAni, expressing their grief and support to the affected. Most of the Twitter users posted artworks from KyoAni’s anime series and movies and shared how much the company’s art has touched them.
Others called for support by asking fans to purchase merchandise from the company’s site to help KyoAni financially. Another hashtag, #HelpKyoAniHeal, is trending on Twitter.
Sentai Filmworks, an American licensing company that brings Japanese animation and film into the American Market, has set up a GoFundMe account, titled as Help KyoAni Heal, as a response to the incident. GoFundMe’s target goal is $750,000. Within 10 hours, the fundraiser has already raised $724,000.
The President of Sentai Filmworks, John Ledford, shared his thoughts about the incident in the GoFundMe page’s website. He wrote, “Although the situation is still developing, it is clear that our friends at Kyoto Animation (KyoAni) have suffered greatly. In addition to the loss of life, many lives will be forever changed. Like all of you, we wanted to take action to help; however, we can.”
Ledford goes on, stating that many of KyoAni’s works have “inspired, influenced, and entertained us over the years.” Sentai Filmworks is already coordinating with their counterparts in the Japanese anime industry to ensure that the funds they have collected will reach KyoAni and its employees.
KyoAni was founded by couple Yoko and Hideaki Hatta in 1981. Instead of establishing a studio in Tokyo, as most animation studios do, the couple made Kyoto their business’ home.
The company is considered one of the highly-competitive and employee-friendly animation studios. Unlike others, the studio does not pay its animators per frame, but rather as an employee with a monthly salary. KyoAni has indeed embodied its philosophy, such as “Keep our corporation a humanitarian one” and “Do our best.”
Fans have known KyoAni for their high-quality animation pieces. The studio has brought life to A Silent Voice: The Movie and Violet Evergarden. The latter can be streamed on Netflix. Other works, such as K-On!, Sound! Euphonium, and Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu gained popularity and have reached worldwide success.
Fans also noted that KyoAni’s films and TV series often spread the message of love, helpfulness, and hope. In KyoAni’s time of need, many have responded to give back to the beloved animation studio.
President Trump VS ‘the Squad’: Here’s What Both Sides Are Saying
Both sides have aired their responses on Twitter and press conferences.
Photo: Michael Vadon | CC BY 2.0
Political figures and celebrities are weighing on President Donald Trump’s tweets over the weekend.
President Trump tweeted a comment about “Democrat Progressive Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe.” He goes on, suggesting that these Congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.”
So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly……
….it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!
The tweet, which was posted last Sunday, drew both positive and negative criticisms.
Though no names were included in President Trump’s post, the public has identified that his statements were directed to Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York), Ilhan Omar (Minneapolis), Rashida Tlaib (Michigan), and Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts).
The following Congresswomen have responded to the President’s tweets on their Twitter accounts as well.
Mr. President,
As Members of Congress, the only country we swear an oath to is the United States.
Which is why we are fighting to protect it from the worst, most corrupt and inept president we have ever seen. https://t.co/FBygHa2QTt
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 14, 2019
THIS is what racism looks like. WE are what democracy looks like. And we’re not going anywhere. Except back to DC to fight for the families you marginalize and vilify everyday. pic.twitter.com/vYzoxCgN0X
— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) July 14, 2019
Yo @realDonaldTrump, I am fighting corruption in OUR country. I do it every day when I hold your admin accountable as a U.S. Congresswoman. Detroit taught me how to fight for the communities you continue to degrade & attack. Keep talking, you’ll be out of the WH soon. #TickTock
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) July 14, 2019
Mr. President, the country I “come from,” & the country we all swear to, is the United States.
But given how you’ve destroyed our border with inhumane camps, all at a benefit to you & the corps who profit off them, you are absolutely right about the corruption laid at your feet. https://t.co/HLKQCotR8T
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 14, 2019
The Congresswomen were united in calling out the President’s tweet as “racist.” Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and Pressley were born in America; while Rep. Omar had gained citizenship when she came to America during her childhood.
Officially, the women responded to the President via a press conference yesterday.
Rep. Pressley asked the public to “not take the bait” to steer the conversation away from the current issues at hand. “This is a disruptive distraction from the issues of care, concern, and consequence to the American people that we were sent here with a decisive mandate from our constituents to work on,” Rep. Pressley said.
Rep. Omar stated that the President is dividing the country. “He would love nothing more than to divide our country based on race, religion, gender, orientation or immigration status because this is the only way he knows he can prevent the solidarity of us working together,” she continues.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s message was directed for children of the US. She shared an anecdote from her childhood memory when her father reminded her that this is her country. The representative goes on to highlight the agenda of Congress to bringing service to the public, especially the children. She reiterates, “No matter what the president says, this country belongs to you.”
Rep. Tlaib echoed the sentiments shared by the others. “We cannot allow this hateful actions, by the President, to distract us from the critical work to hold this Administration accountable to the inhumane conditions at the border,” she emphasized.
All Congresswomen reminded the public about the issues on immigration needs additional focus, more than ever.
President Trump Clarified his Tweets
President Trump addresses the issue in a Made in America showcase on Monday. Reporters asked the President about his statements during the events’ Q&A portion.
The President pointed out that if the Congresswomen are not happy with the country, the lawmakers can leave. “If you’re not happy in the U.S., if you’re complaining all the time, very simply, you can leave. You can leave right now. Come back if you want, don’t come back, it’s OK too. But if you’re not happy, you can leave,” President Trump clarifies.
From the President’s perspective, the lawmakers do not love their country based on the statements the women released. “I’m sure that they’ll be many people that won’t miss them, but they have to love our country. They’re Congresspeople,” the President further adds.
The President also reiterated that he didn’t use any names in his tweets.
Positive and Negative Reaction to the Tweet
Political figures such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and some Republicans spoke against the President’s Tweets.
Schwarzenegger, the former California governor, issued a statement urging the President to rise above his personal attacks to do his job as America’s leader. “At some point, you have to dial down Donald and dial-up President Trump,” Schwarzenegger wrote. “I know it isn’t easy, but the job you hold is bigger than you. It is bigger than any man or woman. The American people put great trust in you to serve, and it is time to rise to their trust instead of dragging them down and tearing them apart.”
House Speaker Pelosi shared her opinions via a Dear Colleague letter to House Democrats. The Speaker urged his fellow lawmakers to join in “condemning the President’s xenophobic Tweets.
Republicans also shared their disappointment regarding President Trump’s tweets. Senator Lisa Murkowski shared that the comments were “spiteful.” Senator Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania) commented that “We should defeat their ideas on the merits, not on the basis of their ancestry.”
Celebrities like Susan Sarandon, Chris Evans, Janelle Monáe, and Stephen King also tweeted support for the Congresswomen.
Meanwhile, other politicians also came out to defend President Trump’s tweets. Marc Short, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, reiterated to reporters that the President is “not racist.” He further cited that the President appointed an Asian woman of color in his cabinet, referring to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
Representative Andy Harris (Maryland) emphasized that the President’s message were not racist. “They’re obviously not racist. When anyone disagrees with anyone now the default is to call them a racist and this is no exception,” Harris repeats.
[Breaking] Democrats Move To Ban Big Techs From Issuing Digital Money
The bill is bluntly named as “Keep Big Tech Out Of Finance Act”
Photo: Christoph Scholz | Flickr | CC BY 2.0
Facebook’s announcement of its biggest financial venture called Libra has prompted multisectoral discussion among tech companies, banking, and financial ecosystem, as well as government and regulatory official regarding the effect of cryptocurrency and digital money on the global economy.
The polarized discussion has seen lawmakers and executives on the opposite side of the poles arguing the harms of allowing tech giants like Facebook to issue currencies that have the potential of disrupting banking systems around the world.
Some say that it is on its way to a full-blown legal and social battle between regulators and the tech stratosphere. Some even suggest that this war has already begun.
A new draft proposal for the bill, bluntly named as “Keep Big Tech Out Of Finance Act,” that circulates among Democrats majority that leads the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, proves that the US government is not joking about its position against Libra and other similar ventures in the future.
Furthermore, while the bill does not specify any company, it clearly refers to Facebook, and it’s planned blockchain-based currency, Libra. The “large platform utility” is defined as a technology company with “an annual global revenue of $25,000,000,000 or more” and one that is “predominately engaged in the business of offering to the public an online marketplace, an exchange, or a platform for connecting third parties.” This definition seems to be crafted to include Facebook rather than exclude other companies.
Libra is actually not owned by Facebook. Instead, it is governed by a group of companies that are based in Switzerland called the Libra Association with Facebook as one of its founding members.
Nonetheless, the bill is still on its earliest phase yet, and many could happen to move forward. For it to become a law, it still has to withstand the possible opposition by Republicans in both the House and the Senate.
But it seems like the bill has an unlikely ally in the person of Donald Trump as the new proposal came out after Trump criticized cryptocurrencies.
In a series of tweets on Thursday, the POTUS said that he is not a “fan” of cryptocurrencies, asserted that America has only one currency, criticized bitcoin, as well as told Facebook that they need a banking charter if they want to launch their newly announced crypto-based money called Libra.
Trump’s sentiments echoed similar apprehensions from cryptocurrency critics who have been advocating against the growth of the “volatile” blockchain technology and crypto money. Many argue that those attributes count against the wider adoption of digital currencies.
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The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1 (Robert Lacey)
When you pick up The Crown: The Official Companion Volume 1, rest assured that you are in the hands of a true expert. The hit Netflix show trusted author Robert Lacey to be its historical consultant, and the companion book brims with his authoritative knowledge.
But if you're not watching the show (and why not???), you'll still appreciate this engrossing look into the life of the fascinating Queen Elizabeth II. Volume I covers such topics as her childhood, her unexpected succession after the abdication of her uncle and death of her father, her coronation in all its glory, and her sometimes volatile relationship with her sister Princess Margaret. In addition, The Crown dives into the queen's real connection with her first prime minister, Winston Churchill.
Lacey doesn't skimp on details, and his knowledge and research are definitely impressive. There are biography pages thrown in, too, which makes the book slightly confusing to read. One is not quite sure where one section ends and another begins. But all in all, I would recommend The Crown to any fan of the show or anglophile.
MY RATING - 3.5
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John Feinstein’s The Last Amateurs is a timeless look at small-time college basketball as it plays for its one shot at big-time glory. The Patriot League may not be well known to many outside of college basketball circles, but at the time of the book's release, it was one of the few leagues in the top division of college basketball where some of the teams did not have athletic scholarships and played for the love of the game.
Feinstein’s recap of the 2000 Patriot League season and conference tournament weaves through each of the seven colleges and service academies as they play for one invitation to the NCAA tournament, also profiling the coaches and players as they struggled to balance life, basketball, and school (in the case of the players). The culmination of the book is the conference tournament, where each of the schools tries to win up to three games in order to get into the NCAA tournament, and where one loss means the end of their basketball season.
The Patriot League certainly doesn’t feature the huge schools that grab your attention, but it does have kids and coaches who love the sport. The Last Amateurs is a gripping, entertaining, fun read that will remind you about the best of college sports in an era where many times its uglier side can be brought to light elsewhere.
Labels: John Feinstein, The Last Amateurs
Gillian Flynn, otherwise known as the Gone Girl priestess, wrote a blurb for Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty. In it, she stated that the novel was disturbing but that she loved every minute of it. It seems every dark and twisted thriller nowadays is judged on how it compares to GG, but I will put myself out there to say that this outranks it in the need to "feel like you must take a shower afterwards."
That's not to say it's not a great read -- I couldn't put it down! Our narrator is Mike Hayes, who is totally, completely, and blissfully in love with Verity Metcalf. Mike and Verity do a sick and twisted role play game called the Crave. While they were once together as a couple, Verity breaks it off over Mike's one night stand and rebounds quickly into a happy marriage with Angus. But Mike sees Verity's new stage of life as just a part of their "game," and eventually goes deep into stalking her, with things taking a very dangerous turn.
You won't find the twists in Our Kind of Cruelty that you found in GG, but the suspense is the real "killer" here. From the very first page, the reader knows that Mike and Verity's story will not end well. It's getting to that point that keeps you turning the pages fast.
Labels: Araminta Hal, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Our Kind of Cruelty
I picked up Bryan Reardon's moving Finding Jake after a recommendation from a trusted colleague. I'm so glad I did because this is one novel that keeps you guessing -- you're never quite sure what to expect, which is a trait that the best books present to their readers.
Reardon makes us guess ourselves by asking us to confront a simple question -- as parents, do we really know everything about our children? The main character Simon Connolly loves his family -- wife Rachel, son Jake, and daughter Laney. One ordinary day, he receives the devastating news that there has been a shooting at his children's school. One by one, each parent is reunited with their child until Simon is one of the few left waiting for news. What really happened to Jake? Did he ever really know his own son?
Finding Jake is simply heart wrenching, and Reardon wisely alternates time periods so we learn about the family's past as well. The post climax goes on a little long so as to take me out of the zone a bit, but that doesn't take away from the fact that Finding Jake really packs a punch.
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Super Bowl LIII 2019
Super Bowl 2019 Live Coverage
Reason to be concerned: Aaron Donald. The Rams’ defensive tackle is the best in the NFL at the position, and he could make life difficult for Brady. The Patriots are strong on the interior of their offensive line with left guard Joe Thuney, center David Andrews and right guard Shaq Mason, so it will be interesting to see how much attention the Patriots devote to Donald, who led the league with 20.5 sacks. And then there’s Ndamukong Suh to deal with as well.
Patriots will win if …: they have a player rush for more than 100 yards. Since the Belichick-Brady era began in 2000, they are 11-0 in the postseason when a player rushes for 100 yards, and 51-1 in the regular season. The revived running game led by Sony Michel and James White has helped settle things for the offense down the stretch, making life easier for Brady.
X factor: White, who is going to get carries in the Super Bowl out of the Patriots’ one- and two-back personnel groupings. His impact as a receiver changes the game for defenses. White caught 87 passes during the regular season, added a whopping 15 receptions in the divisional playoff win over the Chargers, then tacked on another four grabs in the AFC Championship Game win. His ability to work the flat, produce in the screen game and create matchups underneath against linebackers is crucial to the Patriots’ passing attack, especially on third downs. — Matt Bowen
Stat to know: The Patriots ran man coverage 59.8 percent of the time in the regular season, the highest rate in NFL, according to ESPN’s coverage classifier powered by NFL Next Gen Stats. Their corners will have to deal with the speed and talent of Brandin Cooks and Robert Woods on the outside of the Rams’ high-octane offense in Atlanta. — ESPN Stats & Information
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Patriots vs Rams : 2019 Live Stream Predictions, big questions and more
Super Bowl LIII guide: Predictions, big questions, more for Patriots-Rams
The Los Angeles Rams needed overtime to get by the New Orleans Saints, but they are headed to the Super Bowl. They will meet the New England Patriots in Atlanta in two weeks. The Pats also needed overtime in a shootout against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in the AFC title game.
Here’s an early look at their matchup, complete with team breakdowns, X factors and big questions for the final game of the season. Plus, we have early predictions from our experts and
Super Bowl LIII will bring together the NFL’s oldest of the old, and the newest of the new. The New England Patriots are led by the NFL’s most-tenured coach (Bill Belichick) and oldest starting quarterback (Tom Brady). When Belichick and Brady won the first Super Bowl together at the end of the 2001 season, Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay was 16 years old. Their quarterback, Jared Goff, was 7. McVay has sparked a revolution in the way NFL teams think about offense and team building. But no one has done it better than Belichick and Brady. — Kevin Seifer
Reason to be excited: Simply put, the Patriots have Brady and Belichick leading the way. This is their ninth appearance in the Super Bowl together, so they know the drill more than any quarterback-coach combination in NFL history. That alone makes the Patriots a dangerous team in the highest-stakes game. — Mike Reiss
NFL championship round predictions
NFL championship round predictions: Saints slay the Rams, Chiefs trump the Pats
The four best teams in the NFL play each other on Sunday. And both games are likely to be decided by the finest of margins
NFC Championship Game
What the Rams need to do: The Rams need to keep relying on their running game. Everyone was expecting Todd Gurley to have a big game against the Dallas Cowboys last weekend but nobody was expecting CJ Anderson to outdo him, or for both running backs to pick up more than 100 yards each. Now the Saints defense will have to game plan for both men.
What the Saints need to do: Get in front early. The Saints had to crawl out of a 14-0 hole against the Philadelphia Eagles last week. That’s not going to work against a much tougher opponent in the Rams, who dominated in the first half against Dallas, going up 20-3 on their way to a 30-22 victory.
Key player for the Rams: Aaron Donald, DT. Donald led the league in sacks during the regular season with 20.5, and is favorite to be named defensive player of the year. He’s going to have his work cut out against Drew Brees, however. Donald managed a few tackles on the future hall of famer in their last meeting, but no sacks.
Michael Thomas led the league in receptions during the regular season.
Key player for the Saints: Michael Thomas, WR. Last time these two teams faced each other, Thomas accumulated 211 yards and scored a key touchdown late on. Last weekend, Thomas went off for 171 yards and yet another touchdown against the Eagles. He will be a factor again.
Unheralded players to watch: The kickers. It doesn’t get much more unheralded than being a kicker, but we’ve already seen how important they can be in a winner-takes-all scenario. Just ask poor Cody Parkey, whose blocked field-goal ended the Chicago Bears’ season. So, watch Rams kicker Greg Zuerlein and Saints kicker Wil Lutz. If casual football fans know one of their names after the game ends, that probably means something bad has happened. The usually reliable Lutz, in fact, nearly found himself the Saints’ fall guy with his fourth-quarter miss against the Eagles, but the Saints were able to hold on to win 20-14.
Prediction: Rams 24-28 Saints
Julian Edelman is likely to be Tom Brady’s top target on Sunday
Julian Edelman is likely to be Tom Brady’s top target on Sunday.
What the Patriots need to do: Make Patrick Mahomes look like a playoff rookie. Mahomes had a successful postseason debut against the Indianapolis Colts, but he didn’t have a passing touchdown (although he did rush for one). That didn’t really matter in a comfortable 31-13 win, but that’s not going to cut it against Tom Brady and the Patriots. Every drive in which the Patriots defense can limit the Chiefs to a field goal (or less) will be crucial if this becomes a shootout similar to the teams’ previous meeting.
What the Chiefs need to do: Watch the clock. The Chiefs’ Andy Reid is one of the best head coaches in the league, but he’s also notorious for his poor clock management in big games. If Sunday’s meeting ends up being close down the stretch, both teams must use their timeouts wisely and have perfect awareness of how much time is left (or at least glance at the clock on occasion).
The MVP v the GOAT: even Tom Brady may struggle to master Patrick Mahomes
Key player for the Patriots: Julian Edelman, WR. There are plenty of benefits to being Tom Brady’s favorite target and that includes climbing up the Most Postseason Receptions list. With his 94th postseason reception last Sunday, Edelman moved up to second on the list, passing Reggie Wayne, and he ended the 41-28 blowout with 98. It’s safe to bet that he won’t beat Jerry Rice’s record of 151 but he’s probably a good bet to break the 100 mark this Sunday.
Key player for the Chiefs: Damien Williams, RB. You think the Patriots regret not signing Williams? Kansas City’s running game could have taken a stumble when they cut Kareem Hunt. Instead they inserted Williams who has thrived in their system. He is coming off a 129-yard performance against the Colts.
Unheralded player to watch: Cordarrelle Patterson, KR, New England Patriots. Patterson is technically a wide receiver, but the Patriots used him as a running back during the regular season when Sony Michel was unavailable. Now that Michel is healthy, as his mammoth game against the Chargers established, Patterson’s biggest impact will be as a kick returner. In fact, Los Angeles brought in a second kicker, Nick Rose, to handle kickoffs and limit Patterson’s chances (he would end up returning just one kick, for 23 yards). In a game that may well come down to the wire, one huge return could end up being key.
Prediction: Patriots 31-34 Chiefs
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Filed Under: 3rd February 2019, super Bowl LIII Tagged With: http://2019superbowlliii.com/, NFC Championship
A good number of musician showing their interest
A good number of musician showing their interest to perform in Super BowlLIII Atlanta at the opening ceremony of the event and than at the half time.
We are still 45 days out from Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, but from now in the air that who will perform at the Halftime of the glorious event.
From different report indicates that maroon 5 will be the showstopper.show inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium, although it’s not officially announced till now.
We collect that information through the different of magazine claims the band has reached out to more than a 6 stars to appear as featured guests, but almost all of them have passed on it. Several of the acts Maroon 5 reportedly approached are already booked to be a part of the Super Bowl week festivals..
Rapper Cardi B is reportedly considering the offer, as is Andre 3000, from iconic Atlanta rap group Outkast.
When it was first reported Maroon 5 would be the showstopper of the halftime show with critics upset,organizers didn’t choose from the ripe field of Atlanta artists. The NFL Host Committee, however, has since announced a long list of music events in the days leading up to the Big Game featuring several local acts — from the Migos to the Ying Yang Twins to Ludacris. Founder of music label So So Def Jermaine Dupri will also be producing a concert series at Centennial Olympic Park.
Dupri said,”My goal is to give the people a ‘Warm Welcome to Atlanta’ experience like no other”.
NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal said that he is also bringing a carnival-style party called “Shaq’s Fun House” to The Battery from 1st-2nd Feb., while rock band Foo Fighters are headlining a concert inside a custom-built, 3-tiered, 72,000 square-foot venue at Atlantic Station on 2nd Feb.
This is not the first time, however, that the Super Bowl has reportedly had issues with booking acts for the Halftime show. Singer Rihanna reportedly turned down the gig out of solidarity to ex-NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick who became a lightning rod of controversy over his decision to kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality. The football player claims the NFL black balled him in response.
Filed Under: 3rd February 2019, super Bowl LIII Tagged With: 2019superbowlliii, BowlLIII, musician, NFL
Bonus payout distribution for Eagles vs Patriots
52 Prize money of super Bowl : Bonus payout distribution for Eagles vs Patriots.
The New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles will vie for the Vince Lombardi Trophy when Super Bowl LII kicks off Feb. 4 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, and there will be significant financial ramifications at play.
According to CBS sports.com’s Will Brinson, Players of the winning team will take $102,000 bonus. On the other hand the players of the losing team will take $56,000 at home.
In final we can see that, players on both the Eagles and Patriots have already earned $79,000 stemming from bonuses they received after the divisional round $28,000 and their respective conference championship games $51,000.
For the Super Bowl winners, that amounts to a total bonus of $181,000 per player over three games. The losers, then, will settle for a cumulative paycheck of $135,000.
Filed Under: 3rd February 2019, super Bowl LIII Tagged With: Eagles vs Patriot, Super Bowl winners
They held a two-point lead over the Cleveland Browns
The Baltimore Ravens were holding on by the skin of their teeth. They held a two-point lead over the Cleveland Browns, and rookie quarterback Baker May-field was attempting to lead the Browns to a game-winning drive that would have wrecked Baltimore’s season.
May-field guided the Browns to two first downs, but just when he had his team on the edge of a possible field-goal attempt, the Ravens stiffened and stopped them in their track. Superb linebacker C.J. Mosley came up with the interception that gave the ball back to the Ravens and clinched the 26-24 victory.
That win was the most dramatic moment of the Week 17 games.
Filed Under: 3rd February 2019, super Bowl LIII Tagged With: 2019superbowlliii, Baltimore Ravens
Longtime Atlanta star Gladys Knight will sing the national anthem
2019 Super Bowl: Longtime Atlanta star Gladys Knight will sing the national anthem
When Atlanta hosts Super Bowl LIII on Feb. 3, it will have a hometown star taking center stage prior to the biggest game of the NFL season.
As CBS and the NFL announced Thursday, seven-time Grammy Award-winning singer Gladys Knight will sing the national anthem before kickoff at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, marking a Super Sunday homecoming for the Atlanta-born Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
The Super Bowl will be broadcast on CBS and you can stream it here.
2019 NFL Playoff Bracket Projection: Chiefs top Saints in Super Bowl, Andy Reid wins first Super Bowl title
With No. 1 hits in pop, Gospel, R&B and adult contemporary, Knight has been a music legend since her rise to stardom between the 1960s and 1980s, when she dropped classics like “Midnight Train to Georgia” and “That’s What Friends Are For.” Recognized as one of Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, she and The Pips entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Knight is also particularly celebrated in Atlanta, where, in 2015, she was honored with the renaming of Atlanta’s State Route 9 from Peachtree Street to 14th Street as Gladys Knight Highway.
Following in the footsteps of Cher, Neil Diamond, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Billy Joel and countless other celebrity anthem guests, Knight says she is “proud” to represent the NFL in singing before Super Bowl LIII.
“I am proud to use my voice to unite and represent our country in my hometown of Atlanta,” she said. “The NFL recently announced their new social justice platform Inspire Change, and I am honored to be a part of its inaugural year.”
In addition to Knight’s performance, performance and deaf activist Aarron Loggins will sign both the anthem and “America The Beautiful” on behalf of the National Association of the Deaf (NAD).
Filed Under: 3rd February 2019, super Bowl LIII Tagged With: 2019 Super Bowl, NFL, Super Bowl
Everyone be present there In Super Bowl
Fun house Event of Super Bowl 2019.
Everyone be present there In Super Bowl Sunday (3rd February 2019) you are sited at living room with your near and dear ones.You toss beer with your uncle and having different kind of delicious food and taste difrent kind of sweets and so many things to enjoy the moment with fun and happiness.Or you can head to Atlanta Georgia. And having party with Shaq and his friends T-pain,Lil-jon,Diplo,Tiesto and Migos.
How to throw a party, Shaq’s know well.And he proves it Shaq’s fun house. the part music festival, part carnival, part circus get-down he premiered as an invite-only experience at Miami Music Week last March. This Super Bowl LIII celebration is open to the public, and 2,000 tickets are available to regular football fans like me and you.
Shaq said that i am the emperor of Atlanta. This time the Super Bowl LIII will be held in Atlanta.I have been to the last 10,15 Super bowls ,Shaq Tells “Billboard Dance” I have been all the parties and it was boring.
Shaq knows that how to make all things grand . so he contacted his music managers Joe Silberzweig and Adam Richman, who rented out The Battery! Atlanta at Suntrust Park, then he called up his musical friends and said “I need you.” No one says “no” to Big Shaq Diesel.
“This is not an EDM festival, a dubstep or hip hop event,” Shaq says. “It’s all of those combined. Migos; they’re the hottest, they’re from Atlanta. I couldn’t have a party without them. Tiesto is a legend. Diplo does everything. Lil Jon helped create the Atlanta scene, and T-Pain has always been my favorite artist. I’m gonna get on the wheels of steel, plus, when you’re at the Super Bowl, everyone is gonna be there. It’s not one major audience, so we’re gonna hit all of them.
Shaq’s Fun House will also feature food from STK and Waffle House two of Shaq’s personal favorites. Tickets include open bar, and if you wanna pay extra, Hakkasan will provide the VIP tables. Of course there will be carnival goodies, and Shaq hired Cirque Du Soleil to present a special performance of its MYSTÉRE show, and Shaq may or may not be involved.
I’m not going to talk too much about it,” he says, “just going to bust it out with the stage and the lights and the flame throwers. Yes, I’m going to perform. That’s all you need to know.
Life is all about just party and have a good time,” Shaq add “We’re not trying to fight. We all have views on certain issues, but let’s just jam for an hour and a half, hug the guys next to you, shake his hand, and just have a great tim0e.
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he flavour of super bowl LIII has come
With new year The flavour of super bowl LIII has come .
It will be held on 3rd February ,2019.It will be held in Mercedes-Benz stadium in Atlanta.Countdown already only 63 days and few hours left to start a great event in Atlanta.Around 12 millions people watch that event That day.It’s not only a day of joy but also a day of great celebration.European people waiting for that day deliberately. A new Era in Atlanta sports.Super Bowl LIII It’s 53 super bowl championship or 49 Modern Era Football championship Game will be held in 3rd February,2019 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta at Georgia.This game will decide the league champion of the National Football champion 2018 season.This is the third time of Super Bowl Championship will be held in Atlanta.Super Bowl XXVIII was held in 1994 and Super Bowl XXXIV was held in 2000 in Atlanta.
On may 19,2015 The league will declared the four finalist that will complete the host Super Bowl LIII in 2019,Super Bowl LIV and Super bowl LV.National FootBall League Voted in on the cities on 24th May ,2015 The first round of voting fixing that
Super Bowl LIII .Second round of voting fixing the Super Bowl LIV and third time of voting fixing the Super bowl LV.The four finalist of Super Bowl LIII were all in the Southeastern America.
Mercedes-Benz Stadium Georgia -This will be the first Super Bowl LIII .
Mercedes-Benz Stadium Atlanta Georgia -This will be the first Super Bowl played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium after it opened in 2017.The city has previously hosted two Super Bowls at the Georgia Dome, with the last being Super Bowl XXXVI.
Hard Rock Stadium Miami Garden Florida-South Florida has previously hosted 10 Super Bowls, with the last being Super Bowl XLIV in 2010.
Mercedes -Superdome orleans, Louisiana-New Orleans has previously hosted 10 Super Bowls, with the last being Super Bowl XLVII in 2013.
Raymond James Stadium ,Tampa,Florida-Tampa has hosted four Super Bowls, with the last being Super Bowl XLIII in 2019.
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That I know how to throw a party
Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal said there’s one thing he’d like to be known for now that his NBA career is long over.
That I know how to throw a party,” O’Neal told USA TODAY Sports by phone on Monday. “I realized a long time ago there are two things that bring people together: Music and sports.
Enter Shaq’s “Fun House,” a carnival-themed Super Bowl party O’Neal’s bringing to Atlanta on Feb. 1. It will include a Ferris wheel, juggling flame-throwers, a Cirque Du Soleil performance and festival music acts from Migos, DJ Tiesto, Lil Jon, T-Pain and Diplo.
“I’ve been to a lot of Super Bowl parties and they’re all the same. We wanted to make it fun and be different — bigger than ever,” O’Neal said. “This is going to be talked about for years to come. It’s part festival, part carnival, part circus. It’ll be the best Super Bowl party ever seen.”
O’Neal, a four-time NBA champion who retired after the 2010-11 season, even expects to pick up a mic and DJ himself during the party, slated to take place the Friday before the Super Bowl.
The event, sponsored by JBL, will be showcased at SunTrust Park Live at the Battery!” area and also feature local cuisine and a Las Vegas nightclub-inspired open bar.
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Abnormal Interviews: Michael Sardo, Producer of USA’s "Fairly Legal," Talks Mediation
Believe it or not, we here at Abnormal Use scored an interview with Hollywood writer and producer Michael Sardo (pictured above), whose new show “Fairly Legal,” debuts Thursday night on the USA Network at 10/9 Central. The show stars Sarah Shahi (pictured below) as Kate Reed, a lawyer turned mediator, whose spirited idealism pits her against the staid conventions of life at her late father’s San Francisco law firm. So weary of the legal profession is she that she actually resigned from the bar. However, she has decided to remain a mediator at the firm and work alongside Lauren Reed (Virginia Williams) who, in addition to being the firm’s by-the-book managing partner, is also Kate’s father’s young widow. Further complicating Kate’s life is her relationship with her ex-husband, Justin Patrick (Michael Trucco), an assistant district attorney who somehow finds himself embroiled in many of Kate’s many mediation antics.
Sardo was kind enough to grant us an interview earlier this month about the show and his philosophy on alternative dispute resolution in general.
DEDMAN: You’ve referred to “Fairly Legal” as “our little anti-law law show,” and I wanted to ask you first, how is it different from other legal shows?
SARDO: Well, it’s different in several ways. It doesn’t take place in the courts. One of the most important scenes in the pilot is Kate being thrown out of a court. She’s the thing that doesn’t belong. Kate Reed, the lead character, is a former lawyer who was frustrated with the law and who resigned from the bar and becomes a mediator. She tries to find a more direct way to solve conflict. Kate’s point of view is that the artifice of the law is this sort of standardization that’s needed to create laws that fit all levels of society [that] actually leaves out some of the most important parts, and she wanted to get to those most important parts. At the same time, in the pilot, she realizes that you often need lawyers and the law because if everyone was a mediator, that way lies anarchy. But as the balance has shifted to us being such a litigious, law-filled society, she is someone who moves towards the opening up of another way for some conflicts to be resolved.
DEDMAN: Now, if I were a client of the Reed & Reed law firm, why would I want Kate Reed to mediate my dispute?
SARDO: Because she would understand the cost, both physical and mental, of going to court, what you could possibly win, but also what it would cost you, and what you could possibly lose, and so she would first propose a more direct streamlined solution which involves hearing what you think, and what the injured party or the complaining party thinks, would be the solution. . . . [N]owhere does the show say we don’t need laws or lawyers. . . . [S]ay you go into a courtroom, [and] I have a disagreement with Jim Dedman, who’s my neighbor – so instead of talking to him, I go to court. . . . . I don’t talk to anyone. My lawyer talks for me. His lawyer talks for him. And then, a judge, who’s sort of dad or grandpa, tells us what’s going to happen. He doesn’t tell you what’s right or wrong but what the law says is right or wrong. So we kind of give up our rights and our adulthood and sublimate it to these laws, some of which may work, and some of which may not. It’s a system that functions well in some cases and really poorly in others. Kate is someone who takes a more direct approach and . . . puts [people] in a mediation where they get to talk for themselves and propose their own solution.
DEDMAN: You mentioned at the beginning that she is a former lawyer, and at some point in the events prior to the pilot, she surrenders her law license as an attorney to become a mediator. Why does she take that approach?
SARDO: A lot of lawyers who are also mediators . . . [they’re] still a lawyer. [They] can still then also hold what’s happened in a mediation confidential, and then be engaged as the person’s lawyer, and Kate wanted to make a clean break from being a lawyer. But she was still interested in the pursuit of justice and truth. . . . Kate is someone who would cut things off if she didn’t like the way they were going. This is the beginning of her becoming an adult in the sense of saying, “I don’t like some of that, but I do like some of it, and I’m going to stay, I’m going to work at my father’s law firm, but I’m not going to do it the way he does it, and the people around me do it. I’m going to make it my own.” For me, as a writer, what appealed to me about that character was the idea of you taking two people in conflict, you put them in a room, you close the door and you send in someone like Kate – to me that’s inherently interesting drama without any of the other artifice surrounding it I think you’ve got to peel away to get through the drama.
DEDMAN: Some of the promotional materials describe Kate as a “recovering attorney,” and in the pilot, she says that she has “more than a small amount of self-hatred,” and I wanted to ask you if those are connected in any way.
SARDO: [Laughs.] Well, like any of us you know, our work life and personal life are connected. Kate is really well aware of her flaws, and she is someone who can act impulsively, and often will do something that makes whatever she’s dealing with, whether it’s personal or professional, worse, because she acts in the moment, and that’s where the “no small amount of self hatred” comes from. “Recovering attorney” is a line I actually heard from more than one mediator who I talked to who said that’s how they referred to themselves as “recovering attorneys,” and I just thought it was great and was always looking for a way to work it in.
DEDMAN: You once gave an interview a while back in which you said that “the writer’s job is to have a point of view,” and I wanted to ask you, what is the point of view you’re expressing in telling stories about mediation, which is something that is not often depicted on television?
SARDO: My point of view is that anything that’s important to you, you should be as personally involved as possible, and you should let your point of view be known, and you should have part of the solution. Whether you caused the problem, or you’re affected by the problem. And that the less you turn it over to someone else, the better. And in my own experience, just in life, the further things get removed from having some kind of personal contact, [the worse they become.] . . . [Y]ou used to go and get your mortgage from your local banker, and he sized you up, and said, “Can this guy pay this for 30 years?” So what happens when they would bundle this part of 10,000 mortgages? There’s no accountability on either end to what happens in court. They sort of give themselves over to a system, and you hire someone with a knowledge of that system to work it to your advantage. . . . [T]he more that people can get involved themselves and take charge of [and] make their own statement about what they want and need and let that be known and try to work it out, [the better.] It’s still not a perfect system, but [it’s] a better system.
DEDMAN: Now, Kate is an idealist and appears unappreciative of the day-to-day operations of her law firm. Why does she still work for that firm?
SARDO: She gives a speech at the end of the pilot where she acknowledges for the first time out loud what is the advantage of the law and the law firm that you do need both things. To go back to your earlier question, what bothered Kate about the law was that every lawyer that I know has had cases that bothered them. But they had to accept that that’s how the law works. [They] knew that somewhere down the line someone was going to change that or that [there] was a wrongful conviction but the person will eventually get out. It’s that kind of ancillary damage that you have to accept to be a good lawyer, I think. It’s a thing that Kate couldn’t accept. But she knows that you need laws in a society. It’s the situational part of it that she couldn’t look away from – the way laws apply differently to different economic classes and different people have different degrees of lawyers. She couldn’t participate in that system any more, but she wanted to be part of the figuring out of truth and justice part of the system.
DEDMAN: One character that was particularly interesting to me as a lawyer was Lauren, who’s played by Virginia Williams, who is the managing partner of the firm and the foil to Kate. How do you think viewers, or lawyer viewers in particular, will respond to that character?
SARDO: . . . [W]hat I hope, and what Virginia and I have both worked really hard on, is to create a character who is – in the hands of a less gifted actress – would be easily parodied. She seems on the surface to be a trophy wife and kind of a bitch, and I think Virginia has found a way to play Lauren the way it was intended: to be neither of those. She actually had a true love with Kate’s dad, and that’s what bothers Kate, even on the surface. Yes, she’s thirty years younger, and she’s beautiful, but she’s quite a good lawyer, and she’s quite smart, and Lauren and Kate both want similar things. But they’re looking at the world through different facets on the prism. Lauren believes the world works best when the trains run on time, and she’s the person to run them. And she looks at the firm and says, “You know what, Kate, I’m watching out for the clients who are paying us, that’s why you have a job and your assistant has a desk and health benefits, and the lights are on. There is good in what I do, not just that it keeps the building running, but that I’m enforcing the law.” She believes in it, and she believes in the rightness of it, and doesn’t believe that it’s her job to change that. Kate questions everything, and between those two poles, I think they represent the two poles of how you can feel about the law, and I don’t think that it’s a healthy system that functions with just one or the other. I think you need both.
DEDMAN: One interesting thing is that both Kate and Lauren have roles that have traditionally been held by men in the past, both in the legal profession and in television depictions of the legal profession. Will the series explore the challenges that are unique to female mediators and female managing partners in the law?
SARDO: Yes, very much so. You see it in one scene in the pilot in what Lauren faces. . . . [Y]ou see how she has to deal with a very important client of the firm and make a decision as to which way she’s going to take that. Kate will deal with some of those issues, also, because, it’s funny, when you have a lead as attractive as Sarah Shahi, and you want to portray her as very serious about her work, but at the same time, you can’t be oblivious to the fact that she’s gorgeous. So, we made a conscious decision to have characters react to that and react to her as a beautiful woman because she is one. If she was a handsome man, people would react in a certain way, so she will have people react to how she looks. . . . Lauren particularly will have to confront those things in her position because of her visibility as managing partner and the fact that she often has to play hardball within the firm and with other people who are interested in the firm.
DEDMAN: One thing that Kate does in the pilot is show up at the front door of a client’s home and encourage him to do “the right thing.” What happens when her definition of “the right thing” conflicts with her firm’s duty to represent that client who might not want to do “the right thing”?
SARDO: That is the conflict that exists between Lauren and Kate, and I was very interested in that because I think that’s the conflict all of us face in all of our jobs. I think if you’re working at an auto repair place [then] you know that you’re being pushed to find everything that can be fixed because you want a higher bill. Every time I go into Starbucks they say, “Would you like something to eat with that?” [Laughs.] Everyone is trying to increase their billings, and they’ll say it to you whether you’re on a diet or 100 pounds overweight or not interested in a snack. So Kate and Lauren, I think that’s something that in all our professional lives we have to grapple with. . . . Kate had to acknowledge the reality that you have to be conscious of the client, and Lauren is not someone who’s without morals. She will also have to deal with the moral complications of making decisions that are better for the business but worse for overall justice in the world.
DEDMAN: Have you gotten any feedback from practicing mediators about the show?
SARDO: Not yet, but it’s starting to come. I’m going to be talking with some soon. I talked to mediators as I was developing the show about their motivations to become a mediator. A lot of them had been lawyers. And about what are the boundaries of what a mediator can do, and what interested me was how much they all repeated the same thing, which was it’s completely about the personality of the mediator. . . . We’ve tried very hard to stay with some degree of realism of what a mediator could do. Of course, the most colorful, interesting, fun mediator. I think people are starting to see the pilot so I will be hearing from our mediator friends.
DEDMAN: You’ve gotten some good supporting cast members and some guests. I noticed you have Gerald McRaney and Esai Morales and John Ashton and Chris Ellis in the two episodes that I saw. Is there anyone else that we can expect to see in the first couple of episodes?
SARDO: Richard Dean Anderson comes back a couple of times. Gerald McRaney will be on a few. and he’s wonderful. Wonderful to have. Ken Howard is in the pilot. We have – I’m trying to think of anyone else that you would really know. Paul Shultze from “Nurse Jackie” does a great turn for us. He plays Eddie the pharmacist on “Nurse Jackie.” I think those are the ones you would know, I’m sure I’m leaving someone else out and hoping they don’t read Abnormal Use.
DEDMAN: I do have to ask you about the “Battlestar Galactica” connection. Michael Trucco plays the assistant district attorney, Justin Patrick, and Esai Morales plays his boss, the district attorney. Trucco was on “Battlestar Galactica” and Morales was recently on [the “Battlestar Galactica” prequel] “Caprica.” Is that a coincidence in the DA’s office on the show there?
SARDO: [Laughs.] I like that you’re looking deeper than we had time to think when we were casting. We were just looking for the best actors we could find, and the good actors work a lot, and they just happen to be in close proximity to each other, but it was not by design. Some of “Battlestar Caprica” people may want to believe it is.
DEDMAN: . . . [M]y last question to you would be is generally, what do you believe is the chief advantage of mediation as opposed to litigation?
SARDO: Quicker. Cheaper. More satisfying. And more in control of your own destiny.
Incidentally, the quotation we reference in our fifth question to Sardo comes from a 1991 interview he gave to Media Week as a 31-year old writer and recent Emmy nominee. The relevant portion of that interview is as follows:
“One of the biggest problems of TV is that show creators write what they can sell and not what they want to watch. I just write what interests me,” says Michael Sardo, 31, who earned an Emmy nomination for his writing for the “The Tracy Ullman Show” before landing a development deal at Lorimar Television to create half-hour comedies for the networks.
“Most of my ideas don’t sell, because they are not recognizable television,” he says. “In my work, the characters have problems that actual people may have. People keep trying to write things that are already on. Why? You’ve already got one. The writer’s job to me is to have a point of view.”
The same obligation should extend to the networks. “There’s a tendency to homogenize – – to appeal to every kind of audience. Always go for the most intelligent way. Executives seem to talk about this fictional audience that’s moronic. Networks should try to come up with what they see are good shows and not what they think people want to watch.”
Sardo came to Hollywood in 1982 via a blue-collar Bronx childhood and Ivy League education to pay his writing dues. At one point, he even lived out of his car. A spec comedy sketch finally landed on NBC followed by two specials for MTV and the Disney Channel before Sardo wound up on the Tracy Ullman staff.
While he credits shows like Northern Exposure, L.A. Law, and Murphy Brown as exceptions, more often, he says, writers and networks try to go for the quick buck by succumbing to safe story structures, then get to used to the money or typecast as formula writers.
“That’s why you also see such unlikely pairings in sitcoms,” says Sardo. “‘She’s a Jew, he’s a Nazi.’ Come on, would they really be together?”
Karlin, Sue. “The New Producers,” Media Week, October 14, 1991.
Tags: Abnormal Interviews, Pop Culture
Lynn P says:
Sounds like a show we'd like. Thanks so much for the 'insider info!'
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Page 20, 11 October 1975 — Riot acts
11 OCTOBER 1975, Page 20
Riot acts
John Brewer
Whigs and Hunters. The Origins of the Black Act E. P. Thompson (Allen Lane £6.50)
E. P. Thompson has turned to crime; or, more accurately, to authority, the law and crime. Neither a panoramic synthesis like his first book, The Making of the English Working Class, nor an exposition of the more lurid aspects of eighteenth-century crime, personified by that Grand Guignol of the period, Jonathan Wilde, Whigs and Hunters is a case study of the notorious 'Black Act' of 1723 which, as the author remarks, created fifty new capital offences "at a stroke". At one level, therefore, the book is a detailed, scrupulous and scholarly monograph; but at another it is a highlY provocative general discussion of the political and social ramifications of a legal process designed to sanctify property. Who were the Blacks (so-called because of the way they disguised their faces), and why did they provoke such a barbaric piece of legislation? Traditionally they have been portrayed as bands of criminals and deerstealers who attacked game and park officials' in the forests of Windsor and Hampshire. These bandits, it is said, created a "climate of fear" le their localities; retribution was deemed necessary to re-establish order, and the Black Act, making 'blacking', the killing and maiming of game and many other offences punishable by death, was passed as an appropriate punitive measure.
This is a view that Thompson meticulously dissects. His Blacks are not swaggering aggressors but aggrieved 'victims'. He shows that local inhabitants who held customarY forest or commons rights — the cutting of turf or timber, the grazing of livestock and the gathering of fuel — were under attack from Hanoverian officialdom, forest officers and arrivistei who were using their positions as protectors of royal game to further their own personal interests. Hence, Thompson argues, the counter-attack by small farmers and tenants who killed deer and destroyed fishponds not for commercial profit, but to reassert their right to ancient privileges and to punish parish newcomers who failed to observe local custom or respect neighbourhood opinion. The Blacks were not hardened recidivists but local men acting as the repository of local conscience. 'King John', the leader of the Hampshire Blacks, concerned himself not only with deer, but with the administration of popular justice: he enforced the payment of tradesmen's bills by the gentry and mediated in local disputes. So much for the banditti.
But what of the new legislation? It was passed, Thompson argues, not because of the poaching, but because the widespread activities of the Blacks involved "the repeated humiliation of the authorities." To compound the offence, many of those attacked were prominent members of the whig oligarchy. The government could not afford to look on idly while its leading flunkies were losing face — hence the retributive legislation. But — and here comes the crunch — nearly all the Blacks could have been punished without the passage
of the Black Act; its purpose was not, therefore, Just legally instrumental, but to inspire terror, to exercise control through the threat of law.
Now we begin to see why Thompson has chosen the whigs and the hunters. The Black Act and a large, and ever-increasing number of kindred capital statutes were used as a method of political and social control. Like the Septennial Act that reduced political participation, capital legislation to protect property was one of the props of the whig political edifice, designed to ensure its continued stability. This, says Thompson, marks a shift in the means of control. The ecclesiastical courts, the catechism and the tight community discipline of an earlier age gave way to lay courts, the ideology of property, and the threat of capital punishment.
But Hanoverian law was not merely a means of control, it was also an agency of social Change. The tussle between the whigs and the hunters made explicit a conflict between two ideologies or systems of belief. The whigs, with their capitalist view of absolute property ownership in which all things had a specified monetary value, attacked and eroded the Pre-capitalist 'moral economy' that legitimised non-monetary, co-incident use-rights to catch game, graze livestock and cut wood or turf. The hunters struck back with their own kind of terrorism, but the stakes were high and the Whigs held the trump card, the ultimate terror of the law.
This epitome cannot do justice to the subtlety, skill and scholarship of Thompson's highly original account. He never falls into the trap of seeing the law as merely a tool of the ruling class. Indeed, the final sections of Whigs and Hunters are devoted to an impassioned and, at times, slightly unfair denunciation of structuralist Marxists who fail to see that the law is a value in itself as well as a means of Clobbering the plebs.
Yet the study is not without its difficulties. Is It really true that the hunters' defence of use-rights demonstrates allegiance to a different belief-system from that of the whigs? The Blacks could be seen as good capitalists; they were, after all, maximising their wealth and, in some cases, their profits, by obtaining timber, turf and grazing. Equally there does not seem necessarily to have been a clear corporate sense amongst those who claimed use-rights. Tenants and farmers quarrelled over these as did members of one village with another. So, although in some cases the Blacks did defend 'Popular justice' — this is obvious in the actions of 'King John' — in others it might prove that they represented one of several competing interest groups trying to sustain their claim to exclusive use on the basis of custom or even by recourse to the law.
Thompson's discussion of the whigs is Perhaps the least satisfactory part-of the book. He omits any mention of the standard contemPorary whig apologetic for the spoils system, a the end justifies the means' argument which would reinforce his point about the connection between whiggery and capitalism. And his account of the whigs themselves tends to the theatrical: whigs and hunters too obviously resemble the %addles' and 'goodies' of the Hollywood B-movie. Doubtless many whigs were as malevolently .intended as Thompson portrays them, and they certainly used the law for their own ends, but even a not-so-wicked whig like Sir Michael Foster was the instrument of a law that clearly favoured the propertied.
Again, though few would deny that the notion of law as the defender of property (whether against plebs or the power of the Crown) was an axiom of whig ideology, and that they were the men who transformed it into a system, we should not forget that such a view was prevalent by the mid-seventeenth century, and had been used to override the claims of multiple use. Some early seventeenth-century commentators like Sir Roger Owen, whose views were received in parliament with demur, distinguished continental law with its recognition of multiple use-rights from British common law with its recognition of sole property ownership. Perhaps there is a whigs and hunters saga to be written for an earlier age.
If so, few historians will manage to match Thompson's analysis of the Blacks and the Black Act. Detailed and wide-ranging by turns, Whigs and Hunters discusses the vital issues of law and criminality in that passionate yet humane way which we have come to expect of its author. This is an important and provocative book that will doubtless irritate some, but provoke many more into a reassessment of the old cliché about the paternalism, political equanimity and consensus of Hanoverian :England.
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