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Opinion: Mapmaking and warmongering in Africa
addisstandard / June 30, 2016 / 4k
Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
Providence/London – Why are some regions plagued by seemingly endless instability? In the Middle East, one widespread argument, which even the Islamic State expounds, puts much of the blame for chronic conflict on the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the secret deal agreed 100 years ago by France and Great Britain to divide between them the soon-to-be-former Ottoman Empire. According to this view, while the “lines in the sand” drawn by the diplomats Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot served the short-term interests of the colonial powers, the arbitrary partition of the region spurred a century of violence, organized and otherwise.
Whether or not the Sykes-Picot Agreement is the main reason for the Middle East’s troubles, one thing is certain: the imposition of capriciously drawn borders by colonial powers has not been a uniquely Middle Eastern phenomenon. African countries have had the same experience – and may have suffered even more as a result.
During the “Scramble for Africa” (which lasted from roughly the late 1860s until 1905), European powers signed hundreds of bilateral and multilateral agreements that partitioned the largely unexplored continent into protectorates, free-trade areas, and colonies. The event that most symbolizes the colonial carve-up is the conference that Otto von Bismarck organized in Berlin from November 1884 until February 1885, where an area twice the size of Germany and France, the Congo Free State, was presented as a gift to Belgium’s King Leopold II.
In drawing these lines, diplomats focused on preventing Europeans from fighting one another on African territory, not on local geographic, cultural, or political conditions. African leaders had no say in any of the negotiations. As then-British Foreign Secretary (and subsequently Prime Minister) Lord Salisbury famously put it, Europeans “engaged in drawing lines upon maps where no white man’s feet have ever trod.”
At first, the colonial arrangements had little impact on Africans, who were allowed to move freely across the new borders. Upon independence in the 1960s, however, the borders became salient. While there were calls to redraw the colonial lines, neither departing Europeans nor local elites were interested in the thorough reshuffling that this would have required. Ultimately, all African countries except Somalia and Morocco accepted the colonial borders.
That decision had far-reaching consequences. As the historian Henk Wesseling has explained, rather than reflecting political, institutional, and economic reality, the map of Africa “helped to create it” in at least three key ways.
First, Africa has the largest share of landlocked countries of any continent. Countries like Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, the Central African Republic, Niger, Rwanda, and Uganda have suffered, as their access to global shipping routes – and thus to world markets – depends on their unstable neighbors.
Second, vast geographic differences across ethnic homelands in many African countries, together with these countries’ sprawling size and inadequate infrastructure left by the colonial powers, has meant that national governments have struggled to govern effectively beyond the metropoles. Even countries with relatively strong institutions find it difficult to project power in remote areas.
Third, the homelands of about one-third of African ethnicities straddle international borders. The Diolas in the Casamance region have been divided among Senegal, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau. The Togo-Ghana border divides the Ewe. The Maasai live in Kenya and Tanzania. And the list goes on, affecting around 400-500 million Africans (roughly 40% of the continent’s total population).
The long-run consequences of colonial ethnic partitioning on contemporary political violence are profound. By comparing anthropological maps of the spatial distribution of African groups during colonization with detailed geo-referenced information on violent events, we have confirmed what has long been suspected: ethnic partitioning has played a key role in spurring conflict and animosity in Africa since independence.
Specifically, we found that homelands of partitioned ethnicities have been disproportionately affected by armed conflict between state forces and rebels with the explicit goal of overthrowing the government. Violence against civilians – including the destruction of villages or churches, conscription of children, kidnapping, and rape – is also linked to ethnic partitioning.
We also learned that partitioned ethnicities are significantly more likely to engage in civil wars that have an explicit ethnic dimension. Since the early 1960s, roughly one-third of such groups have participated in an ethnic-based civil war; only about one-fifth of non-partitioned ethnic groups have engaged in such conflicts.
Partitioned ethnicities are also much more likely than their non-partitioned counterparts to face institutionalized discrimination from the national government (25%, compared to 15%). As econometric evidence and case studies reveal, one reason for this is that neighboring countries often use divided ethnic groups to destabilize one another’s governments, including through proxy wars. Target governments use such activities as a pretext to discriminate against those groups.
Somalia is a poster child for the impact of ethnic partitioning. Immediately after independence, Somalia became embroiled in two devastating wars over the overwhelmingly Somali-populated Ogaden region, which the British and the French ceded to Ethiopia for its support in their war against Somali clans in the late nineteenth century. Then, in the early 1960s, Somalis in northern Kenya, with support from the Somali government in Mogadishu, fought for secession, further eroding regional stability and setting the stage for the failure of the Somali state in the early 1990s.
There is no denying that external powers’ mapmaking has had a powerful influence on Africa’s development. While the evidence does not necessarily carry over to the Middle East, it seems reasonable to assume that the Sykes-Picot Agreement did, indeed, help shape that region’s development – perhaps by spurring conflict. Acknowledging the lingering consequences of the West’s colonial behavior is the first step toward redressing them.
ED’s Note: Stelios Michalopoulos is Associate Professor of Economics at Brown University. Elias Papaioannou is Professor of Economics at the London Business School. Addis Standard received this opinion from Project Syndicate.
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Christ Church in Alexandria Removing Plaque to Washington
Christ Church Episcopal in Alexandria, Virginia is removing two plaques from their sanctuary and apparently relocating them to another location that is to be determined. Leaders at Christ Church defended their “unanimous decision” by explaining that the plaques “make some in our presence feel unsafe or unwelcome.” This decision by one of the most historic churches in the Washington, DC area comes in the context of a nationwide furor over statues and memorials to dead white Americans, primarily Confederate generals or leaders. But the acrimonious debate, as predicted by President Donald Trump, has now encompassed Founding Fathers and even Revolutionary War soldiers. It isn’t just Robert E. Lee who is having his plaque removed; it’s George Washington too.
To continue reading... check out "George Washington's Home Church Caves to Political Correctness"
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Is Western Culture Superior? Dinesh D'Souza and PragerU Say Yes
In this age of Political Correctness, it seems almost blasphemous to suggest that one culture might be superior to another. This is especially so if one asserts that it's the western culture which is superior. Yet that is precisely what PragerU does with this controversial, but thought-provoking, video.
According to Dinesh D'Souza, western culture (which of course forms the backdrop and context of the British Empire and the United States of America) is indeed superior to the other cultures of the world.
What do you think? Sound off in the comments.
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Killing England Debuts
Killing England, the newest edition of the Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, has just been released. And I've downloaded it onto my Audible account. I'll be listening to it as I commute. When I'm done (no promises as to exact timetable), I'll post a review.
The title is jarringly inaccurate. The American revolutionaries of course didn't "kill" England. The British Empire didn't die or collapse during or after the Revolutionary War. The title is contrived to work the American War for Independence into the Killing series.
The Killing series is written as creative nonfiction with a widespread (read: non-academic) audience in mind. If you're looking for heavy scholarship, the Killing series is not for you. But they are enjoyable nonetheless and have inspired a greater interest in history for many people.
Were the Founders Racist and Pro-Slavery?
The momentum to take down (or vandalize) statues to Confederate leaders has now extended to statues and memorials to America's Founding Fathers. The premise driving this is, of course, that the Founders were (by consensus) racist and pro-slavery. Most mainstream academic texts either affirm this premise or ignore it. But David Barton, a controversial speaker and author, counters this narrative.
What follows is the first part of a video presentation titled "American History in Black & White." This first part deals with the founding era.
As always...civil comments are welcome.
Robert E. Lee and George Washington Are Not The Same
Robert E Lee's statue in Charlottesville, Va.
In a combative August 15 press conference, President Donald Trump expressed dismay at the removal of the statue to Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia (that planned removal being the flashpoint of the violent protests which erupted this past weekend) and in doing so, seemed to compare General Lee to George Washington.
"So, this week it's Robert E. Lee," said the President. "I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder is it George Washington next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?"
Let's agree that there are many in this country who would make little to no distinction between Confederate generals and slave-owning Founding Fathers. These activists would like to see statues and memorials to any and all slave owners (Confederate or loyal American) removed, and they would like to see any schools, towns, cities, or states likewise renamed. This includes Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason, and so on. President Trump is correct on this point, but...
I believe it's wrong to encourage such linking or association. It's unnecessary to suggest an all-or-nothing approach to statues and memorials.
There are indeed some similarities between George Washington and Robert E. Lee. Both professed to be Christians. Both were Virginians. Both were generals. Both led (depending on one's point of view) revolutionary or insurrectionist armies. And, yes, both owned and managed slaves. But... there are also several very meaningful differences.
Robert E. Lee emphasized loyalty to state over nation. By contrast, George Washington called for national allegiance. In his Farewell Address, President Washington declared: "Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations." Despite post-Civil War "Lost Cause" mythology and propaganda, the southern states in 1860-61 (particularly in the Deep South), clearly centered their grievances around the issue of slavery. This was made clear in their speeches, editorials, proclamations, formal deliberations, and official resolutions. Their desire to protect the institution of slavery (as well as its expansion and the capture of slaves who escaped to the North) was what drove them to secession. (See Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens' Cornerstone Speech). Lee took up his sword to defend this cause.
In contrast, the Second Continental Congress listed out their grievances (17 of them) against the British in the Declaration of Independence. Not one of those grievances was the desire to guard or expand slavery. (In fact, despite popular misconception today, most of the Founders didn't own slaves and even many who did had deep reservations with the institution). Both Lee and Washington expressed moral disapproval of slavery, and yet one of them (Lee) took up arms to effectively defend (and, had he been successful, to advance) slavery. The other capped off his long career by freeing his slaves in his will and (in so doing) publicly adding his name to the cause of manumission.
On the issue of slavery, it should be noted that Lee may not have been the "benevolent" slave master that his defenders would have us believe. Wesley Norris was a slave owned by the family and estate of George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Martha Washington. It was, as Norris said, the "general impression" of the slaves that when Mr. Custis passed, they would be freed. This understanding was no doubt inspired by the spirit of George Washington's will. Unfortunately, that didn't happen. When Custis died, Norris was informed he would have to remain a slave, under the authority of (at the time) Colonel Lee according to the "conditions of the will." Seventeen months into their 5-year extension, Norris and two or three other slaves escaped to Maryland where they were captured and returned to Lee. Norris' account of what happened next is damning. Though Lee privately denied these allegations, there is some compelling evidence to back up Norris' claims. But even if Lee is technically innocent of some of the specifics of what Norris says, the nature of the controversy speaks to the relations Lee had with the slaves on his and his wife's plantation. It also makes clear that the Custis family and Lee broke with George Washington's trajectory against slavery.
Elizabeth Brown Pryor, author of Reading The Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters, explains how Lee should be seen on the issue of slavery in contrast to George Washington. She writes:
The tragedy for Lee is that he never made the transformational leap that would recognize the fundamental human nature of the slaves. George Washington wrestled with it; Abraham Lincoln did as well. Neither of these men ever considered African-Americans their equal. Ultimately, however, they both grasped the fact that what was wrong with slavery was not an absence of sufficient laws, or a need for more humane treatment within an exploitative system. What was wrong with slavery was that it failed to recognize the brotherhood of the human condition. The entangled lives of the slaves and their masters, the emotional, historical, sexual, and communal connections, could mean only one thing: that these beings were equal as part of mankind; equal in their human instincts, passions, desires, and inclinations, including the desire for self-determination. Equal, as Lincoln said, in the "right to eat the bread without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns. . . ." Capable, as George Washington finally realized, "of a destiny different from that in which they were born." Robert E. Lee would never cross this threshold. He could embrace the need for justice, but it was a justice defined by unjust principles. His racism and his limited imagination meant that he never admitted the humanity of the slaves with whom he lived. In avoiding that truth, he bound himself to slavery's inhumanity.
Finally, though Lee verbally objected to secession (calling it "anarchy"), he ultimately took up arms against the national government when his home state seceded. Washington, on the other hand, responded to rebellion against the national government with a swift and overwhelming display of military force (even leading troops in the field himself while President). See the Whiskey Rebellion. He also reportedly told an English friend, after the American Revolution, that if the southern states (including Virginia) were to secede over the issue of slavery, he would move north and side with the Union.
Bottom line: George Washington and Robert E. Lee are not the same.
There are similarities, but there are also some very important differences -- differences that we should not miss today.
The President is right that some will seek to remove Washington's hero status (by tearing down statues in his honor and removing his name from schools and parks). Some are already doing this (and have been for a few years). Tearing down or removing Confederate statues is undoubtedly fueling momentum for downgrading the hero status of anyone associated with slavery - and that certainly includes men like Washington. But...
It's fallacious to say that we should keep up statues to undeserving historical figures so that we don't lose our statues to deserving ones.
We should not honor the Confederacy as a noble cause. Anyone who reads Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens' infamous "Cornerstone Speech" should agree. For this reason, I understand - and will not oppose - the removal of statues to Confederate leaders from public grounds. Confederate flags and statues belong on cemeteries and museums - not in public squares. Not in 2017.
But we should honor our nation's Founding Fathers. And I will oppose (vigorously so) any attempt to dishonor our nation's Founders.
This is how, I hope, most Americans today feel.
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Bill O'Reilly Primed to Tackle The American Revolution
Bill O'Reilly turns the attention of his mega-bestselling Killing series to the American Revolution. In September 2017, Killing England will go live. According to its preview Amazon listing: "Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain’s King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe."
Of course, the title isn't accurate. The Founding Fathers weren't trying to kill England. Indeed, they didn't even want to separate from England initially. They simply wanted the British Empire to live up to the principles of its own constitutional heritage and to honor the promises of its colonial charters. Even when war came, and the Declaration of Independence was later signed, they still didn't want to destroy the British Empire. They only wanted to be left alone. Many of them, including Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, were actually rather fond of the British and pushed for closer British ties after the war.
O'Reilly and Martin Dugard have, of course, received a great deal of criticism for errors and sensationalism for their Killing series. But I think it's unfair to hold the Killing books to the same level of scrutiny one reserves for true historical texts like the mammoth John Adams biography by David McCullough or the classic The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon Wood. The O'Reilly-Dugard books aren't works of scholarship. They are best understood as being in the genre of "creative nonfiction." If you want deep scholarly analysis, they are not for you. But if you want an enjoyable read that transports you into the era they each profile, they accomplish their task. Some of the Killing books are better than others, but I've nevertheless enjoyed reading most of them.
As a Revolutionary War buff, I can't wait for this new book!
Labels: Bill O'Reilly, Killing England
What Part of 'No Religious Test' Does Senator Bernie Sanders Not Understand?
The U.S. Constitution explicitly forbids any "religious test" when it comes to people holding public office or public trust in the United States. Somehow, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) forgot that part of the Constitution or chose to ignore it when questioning President Trump's nominee to be the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Sanders vociferously objected to the nominee's views on salvation.
Here's an article I wrote over at the American Creation blog on the subject...
Senator Bernie Sanders Disregards US Constitution
Labels: bernie sanders, bernie sanders constitution, bernie sanders founding fathers, bernie sanders religious test
A Reminder from Mount Vernon on Star Wars Day
The fine folks at Mount Vernon have posted this brilliant meme inspired by Star Wars Day. If you don't "get it," you need to watch the original Star Wars trilogy and pay close attention to the end of The Empire Strikes Back. :-)
Posted by Brian Tubbs at 10:44 AM 2 comments: Links to this post
Labels: father of the United States, George Washington, I am your father, Star Wars Day
YORKTOWN, Va. — Artillery salutes and flag-raising ceremonies. Fifes and drums and military dragoons. Brass bands and color guards. Historians, military veterans, re-enactors, entertainers and enthusiasts reveling in the Revolution will come together March 23 to April 4 to present 13 days of festivities showcasing the new American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.
The Grand Opening Celebration of the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown will feature a patriotic salute to America’s 13 original states, a dedication ceremony on April 1, tours of expansive gallery exhibits, and military music and 18th-century interpretive experiences in the newly expanded Continental Army encampment and Revolution-era farm.
The Grand Opening culminates the museum’s 10-year transformation from the Yorktown Victory Center. Through immersive indoor gallery exhibits with nearly 500 period artifacts, experiential films and interpretive living-history experiences, the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown presents a renewed national perspective on the meaning and impact of the Revolution.
Ceremonies honoring the legacy of the first 13 states in the United States of America will take place each day in the order that they ratified the Constitution – Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island. A dedication April 1 will officially launch the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.
Daily programs recognizing each state will begin midday with ceremonial welcoming remarks and presentation of the state flag, followed by an Honor Guard procession along the Grand Corridor to the outdoor re-created Continental Army encampment’s artillery amphitheater for a flag-raising ceremony and artillery salute. Visitors will be able to learn more about each state’s Revolutionary War history through a variety of educational programs, new exhibition galleries, and interpretive programs in the newly expanded Continental Army encampment and Revolution-era farm. Children’s games and family friendly activities will round out the festivities.
For more information, visit http://www.historyisfun.org/grandopening/
Labels: American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, Grand Opening Museum, Grand Opening Yorktown
Was America Founded on Socialism?
This video from Prager University (aka PragerU) explains the socialist - yes, socialist - origins of colonial America...
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wave4 Vietnam
Asian Barometer Survey Wave 4
(VIETNAM)
By Taylor Nelson Sofres Vietnam
The Asian Barometer 2015 Survey covered the entire Viet Nam, and had 6 major study areas: Northern Midlands and Mountains, Red River Delta, North and South Central Coast, Central Highlands, Southeast, Mekong River Delta.
1.2 Population
With an estimated 85.8 million inhabitants (Census 2009), it is the world’s 13th – most – populous country, and the eight-most-populous country in Asia. According to census data, during the last decade the proportion of people living in urban areas increased from 23.7% in 1999 to 29.6% in 2009. This translates into a total of 25.4 million urban residents out of a national population of 85.8 million in 2009. The main increase in urbanization took place in the already large urban areas with 200,000 residents or more. The total number of these urban centres has increased from 9 in 1999 to 15 in 2009.
1.3 Government
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a single-party state. Its current state constitution, which replaced the 1975 constitution in April 1992, asserts the central role of the Communist Party of Vietnam in all organs of government, politics and society. The General Secretary of the Communist Party performs numerous key administrative and executive functions, controlling the party’s national organization and state appointments, as well as setting policy. Only political organizations affiliated with or endorsed by the Communist Party are permitted to contest elections in Vietnam. These include the Vietnamese Fatherland Front and worker and trade unionist parties. Although the state remains officially committed to socialism as its defining creed, its economic policies have grown increasingly capitalist, with The Economist characterizing its leadership as “ardently capitalist communists”.
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Asian ministerial conference pledges greater efforts to empower women in reducing disaster risk
Date: Monday, July 23, 2018
Author: Devikara Devakula
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia — More than 50 countries have pledged to give more women leading roles in efforts to reduce the high risks they face from natural disasters in Asia.
Discussing gender and inclusiveness at the Ulaanbaatar conference are, from left, Dugersuren Sukhjargalmaa of Government of Mongolia; Chandni Joshi of Women Friendly Disaster Management Network Nepal; Nguyen Thi Minh Huong of Vietnam Women’s Union; and Bjorn Andersson of UNFPA. Photo: UNFPA/Tim Jenkins
The 2018 Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Mongolia’s capital on 3-6 July, made this and other key commitments by adopting the Ulaanbaatar Declaration and the Action Plan 2018-2020 of the Asia Regional Plan for Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. They also agreed to promote gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction (DRR) by improving collection of disaggregated data on sex, age and disability, and meeting the specific needs of women and girls in programmes to stem gender-based violence and to ensure sexual and reproductive health.
The Sendai Framework is a global plan adopted by United Nations Member States in 2015. In 2017, disasters in Asia killed more than 6,500 people and affected 66.7 million, says the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Women and girls are disproportionately vulnerable; at the same time, they play critical roles in prevention, response and recovery.
In the Ulaanbaatar Declaration, the countries pledged to “promote full and equal participation of women in leading, designing, and implementing gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction policies, plans and programmes, through joint efforts by public and private sector, supported by appropriate legal frameworks and allocation of necessary resources”.
Leading up to and at the Asian Ministerial Conference, UN Women joined a wide range of civil society and non-governmental organizations and United Nations agencies in the ISDR Asia Partnership Gender Stakeholder Group to advocate for the key outcomes, including at a plenary event on gender and inclusiveness.
“After the 2015 Nepal earthquakes, we saw extraordinary resilience from women, who made commitments not just to rebuild their homes, but to rebuild their communities and their nations,” Chandni Joshi, Chair of the Women Friendly Disaster Management Network in Nepal, said at the conference. “Yet patriarchal mindsets and protectionist views reign large, women continue to lack access to information on disaster risk reduction actions, and women in leadership in DRR remain invisible.”
Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Australian Minister for International Development and the Pacific, chairs the event on gender and inclusiveness at the Ulaanbaatar conference. Photo: UNFPA/Tim Jenkins
Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Australian Minister for International Development and the Pacific, said: “Women, girls, and persons with disabilities have a fundamental right to contribute to the decisions that affect their lives and their communities. They bring vital skills, knowledge, and resilience, but continue to be underrepresented in positions of leadership. We do not need to make decisions on behalf of this group. We need to trust them, we need to respect them, and most of all we need to empower them.”
Smriti Aryal, Acting Head of UN Women Myanmar and Regional Advisor for Humanitarian Action and Disaster Risk Reduction, presents the progress review report of the Gender Stakeholder Group at the Ulaanbaatar meeting. Photo: UNFPA/Tim Jenkins
Smriti Aryal, Acting Head of UN Women Myanmar and Regional Advisor for Humanitarian Action and disaster risk reduction, called for concrete action on women’s leadership while presenting the results of a progress review done by UN Women, Duryog Nivaran and the Asia Disaster Preparedness Centre on behalf of the Gender Stakeholder Group.
“To increase women’s leadership and participation in DRR policy and actions, we must establish or strengthen institutional mchanisms and platforms, ensure a minimum of 30 per cent women in DRR decision-making roles, and invest in developing women’s leadership capabilities and skills as part of strengthening risk governance,” she said. “We cannot afford lip service any more -- we must engage women, be inclusive, and protect rights for all.”
Bjorn Andersson, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said strengthened disaggregated data are needed for taking evidence-based actions, especially in humanitarian and fragile situations where 60 per cent of preventable maternal deaths occur.
In a joint United Nations statement made at the conference, Tiziana Bonapace, Director of ICT and Disaster Risk Reduction at United Nations Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific, said: “We will further strengthen the emphasis on enhancing capacities, strengthening livelihood and resilience of those who are most marginalized -- the poor, women, children and those living with disability -- which is critical to reducing disaster risks, reducing poverty, strengthening health systems and promoting gender and social equality.”
During the Ulaanbaatar meeting, participants at an event organized by the Gender Stakeholder Group discuss the importance of collecting data disaggregated by sex, age and disability. Photo: UN Women/Devikara Devakula
As a key step towards realizing commitments made at the conference, Senator Fierravanti-Wells announced her country’s support for a three-year rollout of Gender Inequality of Risk in the Solomon Islands, a joint flagship programme of UN Women, United Nations Office for Dissaster Risk Reduction, and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Speaking on the importance of building community resilience and reducing the gender inequality of risk, she said: “The more inclusive our approach, the stronger, fairer, and more resilient our communities will be. The challenges of ensuring commitments to gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction are great, but if we can overcome these challenges, we know we can together change and save so many lives.”
Devikara Devakula
Programme Analyst, Humanitarian Action and Disaster Risk Reduction
UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Email: devikara.devakula@unwomen.org
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FAQ#084 ... In a grand overall vision of social and economic reform such as The Venus Project, what about those few who will always exhibit aberrant behavior under any system?
You must remember that Jacque has been at...
You must remember that Jacque has been at this almost all of his life, and so have I for the last 33 years. He encountered these questions early in his youth. That's why he joined the KKK and the White Citizen's Council and worked on ways of turning them around. He was successful at this. If genetics were a fixed part of human nature, then behavior could not be altered. He also worked with "juvenile delinquents" who were called some of the worst kids in NY, and changed them into constructive citizens who still call him today. He also worked with drug addicts and alcoholics who, in turn, worked with other groups to alter their behavior in a positive way using his methods. He had motorcycle gangs and members of the Nazi party come to his lectures and he changed all of these people. There are processes that work with different kinds of people.
Fresco has developed precise incremental steps for altering human behavior. Genetics determines the function and replication of internal organs, the color of the eyes, a propensity toward certain physical disorders, etc., but has nothing whatever to do with values, bigotry, prejudice, or other learned behaviors. Genetics does not make a person mean, selfish, self-centered, or greedy. If genetics endowed humans with preset behaviors, then people would be unalterable.
Animals seem to possess inherited patterns of behavior such as nest building, defending their young, and feeding their offspring, but most of this behavior is based on imprinting and internal body chemistry. Animals with large adrenal glands and a large brain will tend to perpetuate those characteristics in their offspring. Bull dogs of several hundred years ago were very ferocious, which was thought to be inborn. Since then, most of that has been bred out of them by reducing the size of their adrenal glands, which lessened the violence of the animals. It was not the case that the violence was inherited, but rather that the size of the adrenal gland caused the aggressive behavior that characterized the species.
Fresco is interested in ascertaining the precise mechanisms responsible for behavior.
Geneticists can invent a word like genes, and yet still leave out all the details responsible for behavioral variations. Some imply that through the protoplasmic bridge, acquired behavioral patterns are inherited, thus making genes a scapegoat for the real determinants. It is difficult to go into this if you haven't read the books Jacque gave you such as Brain and Mind, Mind in the Making, and books on Semantics. In the absence of a serious familiarity with these books, it is nearly impossible to do justice to this type of information.
In essence, Jacque is concerned with the precise mechanisms that impart values and determine behavior, and he rejects terms like instinct, human nature, and inheritance across a protoplasmic bridge. These do not describe a precise process. If we used only names and neglected processes, we could not make progress in science. We could not build bridges, make telephones, design computers, etc. It would just be an intellectual hobby in linguistics. This inadequate process would not suffice for designing a more positive future.
Linguistic and intellectual engagement has been used by many philosophers and intellectuals who saw that process of evaluation as constituting advanced and deep thinking. From Fresco's point of view, their writings look like the musings of artists who dream that someday people will develop ways of reaching the heavens, but who don't provide any information for attaining those ends. It is the work of people who develop precise methodologies for accomplishing these ends that can translate them into reality. Most people are engaged in a jungle of linguistic abstractions with little or no precise insight into cause and effect or methodology. This, for Fresco, was never an acceptable way of accomplishing anything.
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Sonny Bono Was a Piker
One of the main arguments put forth by the copyright reformist camp is that the term of copyright has gradually been lengthened until now it's as long as life of the author plus 70 years. Incentives all the way to the grave and beyond, if you will; but this doesn't bode well for innovation and is increasingly problematic with more legal wrangling and wasteful rent seeking.
IP advocates like to analogize IP to physical property insofar as they can, while noting obvious differences too. See, for example, Frank Easterbrook's essay "Intellectual Property Is Still Property." (No link available, but it's reprinted in Adam D. Moore, ed., Information Ethics .)
Physical property, as everyone grants, has no term limit, unlike IP. Physical property also never enters the public domain, although it can be abandoned, and then re-homesteaded by a new owner. IP does enter the public domain though, after the expiration of a copyright (or patent).
Lysander Spooner , a 19th-century opponent of slavery and, eventually, of the U.S. Constitution, thought this was bizarre. In his uncompleted 1855 tract The Law of Intellectual Property , he argued for a perpetual right of property in ideas, and stated that it: "is intrinsically the same as, and stands on identically the same grounds with, his right of property in material things; that no distinction, of principle , exists between the two cases" (p. 30). (Spooner's italics.)
So here's my challenge to lawyers such as Frank Easterbrook, Lawrence Lessig, and William Patry: if you really believe that IP is property and that IP holders' rights should be protected just as their rights in their material property are, why not overturn Sonny Bono and extend copyrights (and patents) indefinitely, as long as the underlying IP has not been abandoned by its owner(s)? So why stop a mere 70 years after an author's demise? Presumably this would also put an end to rent seeking and endless lawsuits.
Failure to do so strikes me as prima facie evidence (to quote my old monetary theory prof. in another context) that IP is not property, and in fact is just an old fashioned monopoly. In other words it's the monopoly formerly known as intellectual property. And where there's a monopoly, there's bound to be a gaggle of lawyers chasing from behind.
[Posted at 12/22/2007 08:30 PM by William Stepp on IP History comments(3)]
I think Lessig is well aware that IP is a monopoly. If I understand him correctly, he thinks it a useful one, so long as its term is limited -- but he doesn't argue that it's equivalent to physical property. If I have this wrong, I'd appreciate a link or two to set me straight.
[Comment at 12/23/2007 09:19 AM by bill hooker]
Good point. In Free Culture Lessig notes that it's one thing to say "It's my property, and I should have it forever," but an altogether different thing to say "It's my monopoly, and I should have it forever" (p. 88).
Copyright was a regulated monopoly in 17th century England. The booksellers also had a monopoly, which was broken by the courts.
Lessig should get out of the reformist camp and come on over to the abolitionist side. Of course, his employer might have a problem with this, as he teaches copyright law and so must tow the copyright line, I would think.
Patry, btw, referred to Crosbie Fitch as a nihilist when Crosbie commented at his blog that abolishing copyright would have some salutary effects. Were the abolitionist opponents of slavery nihilists? Of course not and neither are copyright abolitionists.
Easterbrook and Adam D. Moore are probably better exemplars of the point I was making. The latter has a detailed discussion of tangible property rights compared to IP rights in his book Intellectual Property and Information Control .
[Comment at 12/23/2007 11:12 AM by Bill Stepp]
It's difficult to argue common sense nowadays, especially if it's a radical departure from status quo. For an idea to be successful, it essence must be watered down with elements from directly contradictory ideas until what's left makes no sense whatsoever.
Thus we have people who agree that copyright is an incredibly bad idea, and argue that therefore it's term should be halved.
[Comment at 12/23/2007 02:32 PM by Kid]
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Kourtney Kardashian Bares All For GQ! Holy … !!
Just a couple of weeks after teasing thirsty fans with new lingerie pics, Kourtney Kardashian is at it again.
In some of these photos for GQ Mexico‘s December/January issue, Kourt’s wearing even less than lingerie.
She strips naked, and also bares a bit of her soul.
In her interview with GQ Mexico, Kourtney Kardashian makes it abundantly clear that she doesn’t mind being nude.
That’s evident from the photos by famed photographer Michael Schwartz that you’ll see below, but also from her words.
“I am very comfortable in my own skin,” Kourtney says.
And she certainly should be, with skin like that. Damn.
“I like to be naked in my house,” Kourtney reveals.
Good for her. Did you know that some people get fully dressed at home, even when they live alone? That’s so sad.
In any event, it’s great to hear that Kourtney doesn’t need clothing to feel comfortable at home.
“And,” the 39-year-old beauty says, “I think it is important to show positive images of our body.”
Despite how incredibly gorgeous she looks, Kourt’s booty isn’t the most important thing in her life.
She names her three real priorities.
“Being a mother to me is the most important thing,” she says. “Because it’s what’s in my heart.”
“Then I would say exercising,” Kourtney continues. “Not only for my body, but because it does my mind a lot of good, relaxes me.”
Once exercise becomes part of your routine, you start to feel lost without it.
“In third place, my favorite activity is traveling because it feeds my soul,” Kourtney says.
She then shares that these priorities are “followed by nutrition.”
“I used to do very specific diets,” Kourtney shares.
“I learned something from all of them and incorporated them into my lifestyle,” she says. “But I’m not so strict anymore.”
That is a sound approach.
Continuing her list of priorities, Kourt says: “I would put the decoration because it is where I express myself creatively.”
“Then beauty,” she says.
“Not so much from the point of view of makeup, but rather define it as ‘self-care’ — do things to feel better, like a massage, for example.”
It’s easy to prioritize beauty when you are one of the most stunningly beautiful human beings on the planet.
“And in the end, it would be fashion — which is my passion,” Kourt notes.
“But I don’t give it so much time or attention anymore.”
Kourtney also talks about what she looks for in a prospective partner.
“It is very important that my partner has confidence in himself,” she reveals.
It is vital “that he knows who he is, so he does not have to be showing anything to anyone,” Kourtney continues.
(This is all translated from Spanish – she’s clearly saying that she wants a secure guy who doesn’t feel like he has anything to prove.)
“He also has to be understanding, and accept me as I am,” Kourt adds. “If there is not that, it does not work.”
Those are all good qualities for anyone.
Given the men with whom she’s been associated, we suspect that being notably younger and a major hottie don’t hurt a guy’s chances, either.
She also discusses her impact as a role model.
“I think sometimes my sisters and I forget the influence we have on others,” Kourtney admits.
“Of course, it is important to give a positive message and we are aware,” she affirms. “But in the day to day sometimes we do not pay attention.”
“Even being a role model for my daughter, for my children or even for myself, sometimes I forget,” Kourt confesses.
“I do not see it as a pressure or obligation,” Kourt says of being an influencer. “But what I do, I do for me.”
She also takes care to make it clear that she and her sisters love each other, even when they may be very critical of one another.
Yeah, that sounds like family.
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Launching a New IT Career: How to Mix Online and Traditional Job Hunt Techniques with Gary Vaughany
Monday Morning Speaker: Gary Vaughan
Launching a New IT Career: How to Mix Online and Traditional Job Hunt Techniques
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Gary Vaughan will share tips on how he started a second career after government service in the field of Microsoft SharePoint collaboration software. He will relate how he got started in this new area, and how he built on past experience and acquired new skills.
Mr. Vaughan will share specific ideas on how to plan for a second career transition, establish competence in a new field, and market job prospects. His presentation will include how to best use traditional networking and job fairs, and the pros and cons of working for small vs. large firms on government contracts.
Finally, he will address his approach in focusing a resume to the target job market, and using his personal web site, a TypePad blog, and other job search and networking tools such as LinkedIn and Monster.
Gary is a consultant through Worldwide Information Network Systems, Inc. to the State Department, and he helps plan the deployment and adoption of Microsoft SharePoint collaboration software.
Until his retirement in 2006, Gary was a career Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development(USAID). At USAID he worked as a Project, Program and Private Sector Officer, and his overseas posts included Ecuador, Guatemala and Egypt. Prior to USAID, Gary served as a Peace Corps Volunteer advising small businesses in Colombia. He has graduate degrees in computer science, business administration and international relations.
Gary is also active in various SharePoint Users Groups in the Washington D.C. area, as well as the Maryland Leadership Breakast and the Knowledge Management Institute. Gary lives in Clarksburg, MD with his wife, Angela, and stepdaughter, Lina, and he originally hails from Buffalo, NY.
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Everything You've Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong
Attendance: up. Dropout rates: plummeting. College acceptance: through the roof. My mind-blowing year inside a "low-performing" school.
—By Kristina Rizga | Mother Jones
"SPEEK EENGLISH, TACO," THE GIRL with the giant backpack yelled when Maria asked where to find a bathroom. The backpack giggled as it bounced down the hall. It had been hours since Maria began looking for a bathroom. Anger boiled inside her, but she didn't know any English words to yell back. That was the hardest part. Back in El Salvador she'd always had something to say.
The bell rang. A flood of shoulders and sneakers swirled around Maria, and she couldn't see much until the sea of strangers streamed back into classrooms. Then she stood alone in the hallway.
It was Maria's first day at school, her first week in the United States. Her middle school in San Francisco was the biggest building she'd ever seen. It was bigger than the entire Best Buy store she'd walked through in awe on her first day in the city.
Eventually, Maria found her way to class, a special setting for Spanish-speaking newcomers. There she would practice English words for colors and numbers, learn how to introduce herself and how to say thank you. By eighth grade she was moved into mainstream classes, where she struggled. It didn't help that her math teacher started each class by saying, "Okay, my little dummies." He spoke really fast. Maria never raised her hand in his class.
One day Maria stopped by the administrative office, looking for someone to help her with multiplication. She took her spot in line behind a middle-aged woman who chatted with her in Spanish as they waited. Maria said school was really hard for her. The woman told her not to worry. "Latinas usually don't finish high school," she said. "They go to work or raise kids."
The woman was right, statistically speaking, and Maria's middle-school experience all but ensured she'd join the 52 percent of foreign-born Latinos who drop out of high school. She graduated from eighth grade without learning to speak English. She had a hard time writing in Spanish and didn't know how to multiply.
And then everything changed. At Mission High, the struggling school she'd chosen against the advice of her friends and relatives, Maria earned high grades in math and some days caught herself speaking English even with her Spanish-speaking teachers. By 11th grade, she wrote long papers on complex topics like desegregation and the war in Iraq. She became addicted to winning debates in class, despite her shyness and heavy accent. In her junior year, she became the go-to translator and advocate for her mother, her aunts, and for other Latino kids at school. In March, Maria and her teachers were celebrating acceptance letters to five colleges and two prestigious scholarships, including one from Dave Eggers' writing center, 826 Valencia.
But on the big state tests—the days-long multiple-choice exams that students in California take once a year—Maria scored poorly. And these standardized tests, she understood, were how her school was graded. According to the scores, Mission High is among the lowest-performing 5 percent of schools in the country, and it has consistently failed to meet the ever-rising benchmarks set by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The law mandates universal "proficiency" in math and reading by 2014—a deadline that weighs heavily on educators around the nation, since schools that don't meet it face stiff penalties.
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An Alberta investment manager linked to the provincial government has come to the aid of a prominent oilfield service company, buying $280 million worth of debt and equity in Precision Drilling Trust of Calgary.
Precision will use the money, as well as up to $103 million from a planned rights offering, to pay down a $296-million US bridge loan that carries a 17 per cent interest rate. Precision borrowed that money to buy U.S. oilfield services company Grey Wolf Inc. in December, the Calgary company said Monday.
The financing with Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo.) and an unrelated deal in February will save Precision $70 million Cdn a year in interest charges, the company said in a news release.
AIMCo., with $72 billion in assets under management at the end of 2008, is a Crown corporation that manages Alberta public sector pension funds and government investment money. Nine of its 10 directors come from the private sector, and one from the government.
Precision units fell 40 cents to $4.52 in TSX trading. AIMCo. is paying $3 for each unit, while the close on Friday was $4.92. The deal also involves a further issue of units at $3 each.
Precision sees AIMCo. as a long-term partner, and its $280-million investment validates the company's strategy, said Kevin Neveu, president and CEO of Precision Drilling Corp., which administers the trust.
The financing "removes many of the uncertainties associated with the trust's existing credit situation" by reducing debt and the average interest rate the trust is paying, he said.
Precision bought Grey Wolf after upping its bid four times, finally paying nearly $2 billion in cash and stock for the U.S. company.
Investment analyst Mike Mazar with BMO Capital Markets said the deal is good for AIMCo., but not for shareholders in Precision. They would have done better if the company has waited for the unit price to move up.
Precision is issuing units "at about a 39 per cent discount to what the closing price was on Friday," he said.
AIMCo. is buying:
Senior unsecured notes valued at $175 million, paying 10 per cent interest.Thirty-five million units at $3 each for a total of $105 million.
It will also get 15 million warrants entitling it to buy one unit for each warrant at $3.22 each for five years.
The trust also plans a rights offering to raise up to $103 million by allowing all unit holders, including AIMCo., to buy units at $3 each based on their proportionate stake in the trust.
AIMCo. will hold about 15 per cent of the units when the deal closes.
The $3 price was the unit's market price on March 17, when AIMCo. decided to invest.
AIMCo. manages money for Alberta public sector pension plans and provincial endowment funds, and certain specialized government funds.
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Richard Parncutt -...
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It is clear that burning fossil fuels is causing future premature deaths, but the relationship has not been investigated quantitatively, due to the large uncertainties involved. Estimates are nevertheless possible. A valid order-of-magnitude estimate of future death tolls attributable to climate change lies midway between realistic best- and worst-case estimates on a logarithmic scale. The rate at which future people are being killed by current emissions may be comparable with the current global premature death rate due to poverty. If global warming causes this death rate to double for a period of a century, global warming will have killed roughly a billion people or 10% of future global population. This applies even if the global mean surface temperature increase is limited to 2°C, given the multiple and diverse negative consequences of this increase (e.g., relative to 1. 5°C) and their predicted independent and interactive effects on human mortality over long time periods. Since the 2°C limit corresponds to burning roughly a trillion tons of carbon (or equivalent), a future person dies prematurely every time roughly 1000 tons of fossil carbon (equivalent) are burned today. The ethical, psychological, social, medical, economic, legal, and political implications of this preliminary estimate are considered.
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Many people find that they experience increased “brain fog” as they age, some of which could be attributed to early degeneration of synapses and neural pathways. Some drugs have been found to be useful for providing cognitive improvements in these individuals. It’s possible that these supplements could provide value by improving brain plasticity and supporting the regeneration of cells.10
(On a side note, I think I understand now why modafinil doesn’t lead to a Beggars in Spain scenario; BiS includes massive IQ and motivation boosts as part of the Sleepless modification. Just adding 8 hours a day doesn’t do the world-changing trick, no more than some researchers living to 90 and others to 60 has lead to the former taking over. If everyone were suddenly granted the ability to never need sleep, many of them would have no idea what to do with the extra 8 or 9 hours and might well be destroyed by the gift; it takes a lot of motivation to make good use of the time, and if one cannot, then it is a curse akin to the stories of immortals who yearn for death - they yearn because life is not a blessing to them, though that is a fact more about them than life.)
Because these drugs modulate important neurotransmitter systems such as dopamine and noradrenaline, users take significant risks with unregulated use. There has not yet been any definitive research into modafinil's addictive potential, how its effects might change with prolonged sleep deprivation, or what side effects are likely at doses outside the prescribed range.
Adderall is a mix of 4 amphetamine salts (FDA adverse events), and not much better than the others (but perhaps less addictive); as such, like caffeine or methamphetamine, it is not strictly a nootropic but a cognitive enhancer and can be tricky to use right (for how one should use stimulants, see How To Take Ritalin Correctly). I ordered 10x10mg Adderall IR off Silk Road (Wikipedia). On the 4th day after confirmation from seller, the package arrived. It was a harmless looking little padded mailer. Adderall as promised: 10 blue pills with markings, in a double ziplock baggy (reasonable, it’s not cocaine or anything). They matched pretty much exactly the descriptions of the generic I had found online. (Surprisingly, apparently both the brand name and the generic are manufactured by the same pharmacorp.)
The evidence? Although everyone can benefit from dietary sources of essential fatty acids, supplementation is especially recommended for people with heart disease. A small study published in 2013 found that DHA may enhance memory and reaction time in healthy young adults. However, a more recent review suggested that there is not enough evidence of any effect from omega 3 supplementation in the general population.
These days, young, ambitious professionals prefer prescription stimulants—including methylphenidate (usually sold as Ritalin) and Adderall—that are designed to treat people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and are more common and more acceptable than cocaine or nicotine (although there is a black market for these pills). ADHD makes people more likely to lose their focus on tasks and to feel restless and impulsive. Diagnoses of the disorder have been rising dramatically over the past few decades—and not just in kids: In 2012, about 16 million Adderall prescriptions were written for adults between the ages of 20 and 39, according to a report in the New York Times. Both methylphenidate and Adderall can improve sustained attention and concentration, says Barbara Sahakian, professor of clinical neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge and author of the 2013 book Bad Moves: How Decision Making Goes Wrong, and the Ethics of Smart Drugs. But the drugs do have side effects, including insomnia, lack of appetite, mood swings, and—in extreme cases—hallucinations, especially when taken in amounts the exceed standard doses. Take a look at these 10 foods that help you focus.
From its online reputation and product presentation to our own product run, Synagen IQ smacks of mediocre performance. A complete list of ingredients could have been convincing and decent, but the lack of information paired with the potential for side effects are enough for beginners to old-timers in nootropic use to shy away and opt for more trusted and reputable brands. There is plenty that needs to be done to uplift the brand and improve its overall ranking in the widely competitive industry. Learn More...
Stayed up with the purpose of finishing my work for a contest. This time, instead of taking the pill as a single large dose (I feel that after 3 times, I understand what it’s like), I will take 4 doses over the new day. I took the first quarter at 1 AM, when I was starting to feel a little foggy but not majorly impaired. Second dose, 5:30 AM; feeling a little impaired. 8:20 AM, third dose; as usual, I feel physically a bit off and mentally tired - but still mentally sharp when I actually do something. Early on, my heart rate seemed a bit high and my limbs trembling, but it’s pretty clear now that that was the caffeine or piracetam. It may be that the other day, it was the caffeine’s fault as I suspected. The final dose was around noon. The afternoon crash wasn’t so pronounced this time, although motivation remains a problem. I put everything into finishing up the spaced repetition literature review, and didn’t do any n-backing until 11:30 PM: 32/34/31/54/40%.
Before taking any supplement or chemical, people want to know if there will be long term effects or consequences, When Dr. Corneliu Giurgea first authored the term “nootropics” in 1972, he also outlined the characteristics that define nootropics. Besides the ability to benefit memory and support the cognitive processes, Dr. Giurgea believed that nootropics should be safe and non-toxic.
Chocolate or cocoa powder (Examine.com), contains the stimulants caffeine and the caffeine metabolite theobromine, so it’s not necessarily surprising if cocoa powder was a weak stimulant. It’s also a witch’s brew of chemicals such as polyphenols and flavonoids some of which have been fingered as helpful10, which all adds up to an unclear impact on health (once you control for eating a lot of sugar).
Noopept is a nootropic that belongs to the ampakine family. It is known for promoting learning, boosting mood, and improving logical thinking. It has been popular as a study drug for a long time but has recently become a popular supplement for improving vision. Users report seeing colors more brightly and feeling as if their vision is more vivid after taking noopept.
But notice that most of the cost imbalance is coming from the estimate of the benefit of IQ - if it quadrupled to a defensible $8000, that would be close to the experiment cost! So in a way, what this VoI calculation tells us is that what is most valuable right now is not that iodine might possibly increase IQ, but getting a better grip on how much any IQ intervention is worth.
Because smart drugs like modafinil, nicotine, and Adderall come with drawbacks, I developed my own line of nootropics, including Forbose and SmartMode, that’s safe, widely available, and doesn’t require a prescription. Forskolin, found in Forbose, has been a part of Indian Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years. In addition to being fun to say, forskolin increases cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), a molecule essential to learning and memory formation. [8]
Although piracetam has a history of “relatively few side effects,” it has fallen far short of its initial promise for treating any of the illnesses associated with cognitive decline, according to Lon Schneider, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. “We don’t use it at all and never have.”
Taken together, these considerations suggest that the cognitive effects of stimulants for any individual in any task will vary based on dosage and will not easily be predicted on the basis of data from other individuals or other tasks. Optimizing the cognitive effects of a stimulant would therefore require, in effect, a search through a high-dimensional space whose dimensions are dose; individual characteristics such as genetic, personality, and ability levels; and task characteristics. The mixed results in the current literature may be due to the lack of systematic optimization.
An entirely different set of questions concerns cognitive enhancement in younger students, including elementary school and even preschool children. Some children can function adequately in school without stimulants but perform better with them; medicating such children could be considered a form of cognitive enhancement. How often does this occur? What are the roles and motives of parents, teachers, and pediatricians in these cases? These questions have been discussed elsewhere and deserve continued attention (Diller, 1996; Singh & Keller, 2010).
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Board-certified neuropsychologist Brian Lebowitz, PhD and associate clinical professor of neurology at Stony Brook University, explains to MensHealth.com that the term "encompasses so many things," including prescription medications. Brain enhancers fall into two different categories: naturally occurring substances like Ginkgo biloba, creatine and phenibut; and manmade prescription drugs, like Adderall, and over-the-counter supplements such as Noopept.
This is one of the few times we’ve actually seen a nootropic supplement take a complete leverage on the nootropic industry with the name Smart Pill. To be honest, we don’t know why other companies haven’t followed suit yet – it’s an amazing name. Simple, and to the point. Coming from supplement maker, Only Natural, Smart Pill makes some pretty bold claims regarding their pills being completely natural, whilst maintaining good quality. This is their niche – or Only Natural’s niche, for that matter. They create supplements, in this case Smart Pill, with the… Learn More...
The surveys just reviewed indicate that many healthy, normal students use prescription stimulants to enhance their cognitive performance, based in part on the belief that stimulants enhance cognitive abilities such as attention and memorization. Of course, it is possible that these users are mistaken. One possibility is that the perceived cognitive benefits are placebo effects. Another is that the drugs alter students’ perceptions of the amount or quality of work accomplished, rather than affecting the work itself (Hurst, Weidner, & Radlow, 1967). A third possibility is that stimulants enhance energy, wakefulness, or motivation, which improves the quality and quantity of work that students can produce with a given, unchanged, level of cognitive ability. To determine whether these drugs enhance cognition in normal individuals, their effects on cognitive task performance must be assessed in relation to placebo in a masked study design.
Even though smart drugs come with a long list of benefits, their misuse can cause negative side effects. Excess use can cause anxiety, fear, headaches, increased blood pressure, and more. Considering this, it is imperative to study usage instructions: how often can you take the pill, the correct dosage and interaction with other medication/supplements.
A similar pill from HQ Inc. (Palmetto, Fla.) called the CorTemp Ingestible Core Body Temperature Sensor transmits real-time body temperature. Firefighters, football players, soldiers and astronauts use it to ensure that they do not overheat in high temperatures. HQ Inc. is working on a consumer version, to be available in 2018, that would wirelessly communicate to a smartphone app.
You’ll find several supplements that can enhance focus, energy, creativity, and mood. These brain enhancers can work very well, and their benefits often increase over time. Again, nootropics won’t dress you in a suit and carry you to Wall Street. That is a decision you’ll have to make on your own. But, smart drugs can provide the motivation boost you need to make positive life changes.
Smart drugs, formally known as nootropics, are medications, supplements, and other substances that improve some aspect of mental function. In the broadest sense, smart drugs can include common stimulants such as caffeine, herbal supplements like ginseng, and prescription medications for conditions such as ADHD, Alzheimer's disease, and narcolepsy. These substances can enhance concentration, memory, and learning.
The use of cognition-enhancing drugs by healthy individuals in the absence of a medical indication spans numerous controversial issues, including the ethics and fairness of their use, concerns over adverse effects, and the diversion of prescription drugs for nonmedical uses, among others.[1][2] Nonetheless, the international sales of cognition-enhancing supplements exceeded US$1 billion in 2015 when global demand for these compounds grew.[3]
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Shortly after the medical team had been in Mante in 2010, reports became available of drug related gang activity in the Mante area. Boulder Community Hospital began monitoring the situation in Mante in later that spring. In the summer of 2010, David Gehant, Boulder Community Hospital CEO cancelled the 2011 mission. He called Dr. David Rodriguez and explained the need to cancel the mission because there was no way to guarantee the safety of the 100 medical personnel that comprise our team. Subsequently, the medical mission for 2012 was also cancelled.
Over the years, as each medical campaign occurred, new equipment was brought to Mante for use during the campaign and then stored for the subsequent year. Because items in storage were vulnerable to pilferage, David Gehant informed Dr. David Rodriguez that he should begin the process of distributing the equipment to clinics in the area, wherever the need was greatest.
Elfa Rodriguez, sister of the founder of the medical campaign, Dr. David Rodriguez, reports for the citizens of Mante, that the decision to cancel the medical missions has left a huge “gap” in the community and region around Mante. In many cases, it is the only option for medical service that the poor and underserved have. Elfa continues, “that Dr. Rodriguez has reached out to the medical community in Monterrey asking them to visit the city of Mante to pick up some of the slack caused by the void in medical services to the needy in Mante.”
During the period from 2010 to 2014, the people of Mante drastically changed their lifestyle because of the gang related activity in the area. Most businesses closed down when it became dark and folks hunkered down in their homes until the following morning. Conditions have slowly changed in the past three years and conditions have returned to a normal state.
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High court turns down Patriot Act challenger
The Supreme Court is refusing to take up a constitutional challenge to provisions of the Patriot Act from a lawyer who was once wrongly suspected in deadly terrorist bombings in Spain.
The justices on Monday turned down an appeal from Brandon Mayfield, the Oregon lawyer who was arrested by federal agents after they mistakenly matched him to a fingerprint from the train bombings in Madrid in 2004.
It turned out the fingerprint didn't belong to Mayfield, who got an apology and $2 million from the federal government. But a federal appeals court blocked Mayfield's challenge to the Patriot Act, the post-9/11 law that was used to arrest him. The high court left the appeals court ruling in place.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona (2019 Radio)
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Celia de Wolff
Radio adaptation by Sara Davies of the Shakespeare comedy, directed on location in Sussex by Celia de Wolff. The cast features Lyndsey Marshal, Kate Phillips, Blake Ritson, Nikesh Patel, Sam Dale, Ray Fearon...
Two Gentlemen of Verona (2015 Video)
Simon Godwin
Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2014 staging of Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by Simon Godwin.
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (2014 Video)
Jessie Austrian; Ben Steinfeld
Stage recording of Fiasco Theatre/Folger Theatre’s 2014 production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by Jessie Austrian and Ben Steinfeld. Videotaped for WAPAVA by Tony Hoos.
RSC Live from Stratford Upon Avon
P.J. Paparelli
Video recording of The Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by P.J. Paparelli for the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Videotaped for WAPAVA by Geoff Moore.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2010 Video)
Dean Gabourie
Video recording of the 2010 production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by Dean Gabourie for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Dion Johnstone is Valentine and Gareth Potter, Proteus.
Guti Fraga
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of Nos Do Morro’s production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by Guti Fraga with Thiago Dos Santos Martins as Valentine and Renan Monteiro as Proteus.
A musical version of Two Gentlemen of Verona recorded at the Delacorte Theatre, Central Park. The play is directed for stage by Kathleen Marshall and for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Patrick Hoffmann.
Fiona Buffini
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2004 touring production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Directed by Fiona Buffini with Alex Avery as Valentine and...
Aaron Posner
A video recording of the Folger Theatre’s 2004 production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by Aaron Posner and videotaped for WAPAVA by James. J. Taylor. Brian Hamman is Valentine and Ian Merrill...
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Республика Беларусь Могилевская область
г.Чаусы, ул.Ивутенко, д.19
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From December 31, 2016, the number and distribution of maple tree, robinia and several other plant species
Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of December 7, 2016 No. 1002 "On Certain Issues Regarding the Distribution and Number of Plant Species" approved a list of plant species whose distribution and number are subject to regulation, and a provision on the conduct of appropriate measures. The Resolution comes into force on December 31, 2016.
The list of plants, the distribution and number of which are subject to regulation (in fact - recognized as undesirable and subject to destruction), includes nine species, mainly capable of rapid uncontrolled spread of exotic species, which are dangerous for natural ecosystems. The list includes two widespread species of trees - maple tree and robinia pseudo-acacia.
The transfer of living organisms from other natural areas or from other continents is associated with significant risks: some species under new conditions are capable of rapid uncontrolled spreading, introduction into natural ecosystems, alteration of their structure, displacement of local species. Sometimes such species are dangerous not only for natural biological diversity, but also for humans - for example, they cause allergies, burns in case of accidental contact, etc. It is usually impossible to predict in advance how this species behaves from afar, it depends - it depends From very many factors; Therefore, such a long-term transfer is always associated with serious risks in one way or another.
This must be taken into account, for example, in amateur forest growing. Many people like the idea of growing exotic plants brought from afar, and even "enriching" these ecosystems with natural ecosystems and landscapes. But sometimes such "enrichment" leads to real trouble - or to the fact that the imported plants themselves become aggressive weeds, or to the fact that dangerous pests are recorded with them.
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J. Lamb’s Little Books for Children
Posted on March 31, 2019 by Special Collections
Between 1820 and 1830, Burlington, Vermont experienced significant growth. The population increased dramatically, from 2111 in 1820 to 3526 in 1830, a 67% increase. Among the new residents who relocated from other Vermont communities were Jonathan Lamb (1795-1851), an educator and University of Vermont student, and Chauncey Goodrich (1798-1858), a bookseller and publisher.
Lamb taught at Burlington Academy, located at the corner of Willard and College Streets, from 1824-1829. He also attended UVM during those years, graduating in 1829. In July 1831, he opened a new school for “the purpose of instructing Young Gentlemen in the various branches of science and literature” and offered lectures on teaching for men who would be working in schools in the winter.
Lamb used his teaching experience to write several schoolbooks. Shortly after Goodrich set up shop in Burlington, an advertisement in the Nov. 7, 1828 Burlington Weekly Free Press announced that Lamb’s book, The Child’s Primer, or First Book for Use in Primary Schools, was in press and soon to be published. Lamb’s second volume, The Child’s Instructer, was published by A. & D. Day in 1829, but Goodrich published Lamb’s Gospel Sonnets, “designed principally for youth” in 1830. At the same time, Lamb wrote twelve small chapbooks that Goodrich offered as a series of Little Books for Children.
Silver Special Collections holds four of Lamb’s little books: The Shipwreck, The Lion and the Snake, A Present for a Good Boy, and A Present for a Little Cousin. The 2.5 x 4-inch books contain 16 pages and are illustrated with woodcuts. Only one retains its original paper wrapper. The printer used different tactics to fill all 16 pages, including double spacing lines and filling the last few pages with unrelated poems and stories.
Lamb’s little books were designed to be entertaining and educational. Lamb frequently addresses his “little readers” directly, offering advice and guidance about reading and behavior in a conversational tone. He describes the characteristics of animals and common objects, and uses the descriptions to teach moral lessons. When describing a chair, the author cautions, “You should not sprawl out your legs and lean your chair back in the company of ladies and gentlemen.” At the end of a story about lions, he warns children not to be unkind or impudent, or people will say “They are worse than beasts, for even lions love those who are kind to them, and feed them.”
Pages from A Present for a little Cousin
Lamb’s little books are similar to small children’s books published elsewhere, and sometimes include borrowed content. The Shipwreck is a poem published in numerous editions by the Religious Tract Society in London beginning in 1795 and by the American Tract Society in 1829. Lamb’s version is missing a number of verses, perhaps to allow it to fit into sixteen pages. In The Lion and the Snake, Lamb included stories about lions borrowed from Peter Parley’s popular Tales of Animals, which he highly recommends to his readers.
Goodrich sold the books at his shop in Burlington, but they were probably available at stores in other Vermont communities. In 1830, Goodrich advertised his new publications, including “12 different kinds of small books for children” by J. Lamb, in the Vermont Chronicle, a statewide newspaper. In a study of reading habits in southwestern Vermont during this period, William Gilmore found that children’s books were one of the most frequently purchased book types. Only three months after publishing the Little Books, Goodrich claimed he had already sold 20,000 copies. Our copy of A Present for a Little Cousin is dated 1841, just over a decade after it was first listed in the series, suggesting that sales continued to be strong enough to warrant reprinting.
Lamb left Burlington in 1833 to serve as the first principal of an academy for young ladies and gentlemen in Keeseville, New York. By the early 1840s, Lamb was settled in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he operated a bookstore and was a strong advocate for public education. Versions of his spelling book and primers were published by a Boston publisher in 1842 and 1843.
Contributed by Prudence Doherty, Public Services Librarian
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August 9, 2008, 8:48 pm
Wells cut to make room for Livan Hernandez
By Troy E. Renck
Rain, San Diego Padres, Spring Training
All’s Wells that didn’t end well.
Kip Wells’ career as a Rockie expired Saturday night, the final chapter in an experiment that never worked for the pitcher or the team.
The Rockies told Wells that he will be the roster casualty to make room for Livan Hernandez, who starts the series finale Sunday against the San Diego Padres. Wells went 1-2 with a 5.27 ERA in 15 games. He missed 74 games with a blood clot in his pitching hand that was corrected through surgery.
“You will find out officially tomorrow,’’ Wells said before receiving hugs and handshakes from several teammates.
The Rockies signed Wells to a one-year, $3.1-million contract over the winter, with the idea that he could serve as either a fifth starter or a seventh-inning reliever. He showed up at spring training with a different delivery, drawing the ire of the organization. By mid March he was eliminated from the rotation competition despite having better numbers than his competitors.
His preference was to start and as a reliever he never settled into a role. The Rockies will have to eat roughly $900,000 on his contract. It’s unclear whether he was designated for assignment – the likely option, which would give the team 10 days to trade or release him – or placed on outright waivers.
When opening day was rained out, Wells started the re-opener at Busch Stadium, helping the Rockies beat the Cardinals 2-1. That performance and the final out of a 22-inning game against the San Diego Padres stood as his Rockies’ highlights.
Wells had been bracing for the move once the Rockies claimed Hernandez earlier in the week. He didn’t view it negatively, hoping that he will land with a team that will give him an opportunity to re-establish himself going into next season.
Categories: General Rockies, Rockies Recap
Hernandez: Too little, too late for Rox?
Nationals suffer scare in batting practice
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Condi Rice for Pac-10 commissioner?
So here’s an intriguing name as a candidate to become the new commissioner of the Pac-10 Conference — former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Two sources said that she is on the list of candidates to replace Tom Hansen, having shown definite interest in the job. Indications are that she may not be the favorite, though it’s unclear who is.
But a hire of Rice would obviously get a lot of attention for the conference.
For those wondering why she’d be interested, Rice has described herself as a lifelong football fan, once saying her ideal job would be to be commissioner of the NFL. Last fall, she was rumored for a possible position with the 49ers. Here’s another story from 2007 detailing her interest in sports in general, and football in particular
Rice was provost at Stanford from 1993-99 — it was under her watch that the school hired Tyrone Willingham as football coach and the two have remained friends — so she knows the conference well, and it’s through some of those contacts that her interest in the Pac-10 commissioner’s job has apparently come about. Rice has said she was planning to return to Stanford to teach.
Hansen is retiring July 1 and there is some push in the conference for a young, fresh face who will be aggressive in making TV and bowl deals. A replacement is likely to be in place before Hansen retires.
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Family Law is feminist law.
A message of warning from a friend in USA .
A personal note as a prelude to the following address.
I was born in Salt Lake City to parents who were both direct descendants of Mormon pioneers who had been harassed, persecuted, tortured, raped, murdered, and driven out of the United States in the early 1800's by policies and laws similar to those we face today.
My forbearers then went west to settle a region the size of Europe between 1847 and 1869 that was as remote as the moon is today. My paternal great-grandfather arrived by wagon in the Valley of the Salt Lake during the summer of 1847 with Brigham Young. All my other great- and great-great grandparents traveled by wagon or pushed handcarts across the plains to settle in Utah Territory before the railroad arrived.
I am proud of this heritage and the extreme fortitude and courage these men and women exhibited during one of the most epic migrations and settlements in human history. And I am indeed proud to find that their courage has not died out in the land of my fathers.
For those who might take umbrage at my endorsement of Mayor Anderson's positions please note that as a Marine I took an oath some 50 years ago to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I still stand by that oath! Further, my eldest son is a disabled veteran of the Marine Corps. We have not stood on the sidelines or shirked our duty to defend this country. And as President of the Equal Justice Foundation I continue to do everything within my power to restore justice and the rule of law. Thus, I wholeheartedly endorse the following address.
Charles E. Corry, Ph.D., F.G.S.A.
Mayor of Salt Lake City to Bush, Congress, and Media: "We Won't take it anymore!"
Address by Mayor Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson, December 3, 2007
Today, as we come together once again in this great city, we raise our voices in unison to say to President Bush, to Vice President Cheney, to other members of the Bush Administration (past and present), to a majority of Congress, including Utah's entire congressional delegation, and to much of the mainstream media: "You have failed us miserably and we won't take it anymore."
While we had every reason to expect far more of you, you have been pompous, greedy, cruel, and incompetent as you have led this great nation to a moral, military, and national security abyss." "You have breached trust with the American people in the most egregious ways. You have utterly failed in the performance of your jobs. You have undermined our Constitution, permitted the violation of the most fundamental treaty obligations, and betrayed the rule of law.
You have engaged in, or permitted, heinous human rights abuses of the sort never before countenanced in our nation's history as a matter of official policy. You have sent American men and women to kill and be killed on the basis of lies, on the basis of shifting justifications, without competent leadership, and without even a coherent plan for this monumental blunder.
We are here to tell you: We won't take it anymore! You have acted in direct contravention of values that we, as Americans who love our country, hold dear. You have deceived us in the most cynical, outrageous ways. You have undermined, or allowed the undermining of, our constitutional system of checks and balances among the three presumed co-equal branches of government. You have helped lead our nation to the brink of fascism, of a dictatorship contemptuous of our nation's treaty obligations, federal statutory law, our Constitution, and the rule of law.
Because of you, and because of your jingoistic false 'patriotism,' our world is far more dangerous, our nation is far more despised, and the threat of terrorism is far greater than ever before. It has been absolutely astounding how you have committed the most horrendous acts, causing such needless tragedy in the lives of millions of people, yet you wear your so-called religion on your sleeves, asserting your God-is-on-my-side nonsense when what you have done flies in the face of any religious or humanitarian tradition. Your hypocrisy is mind-boggling - and disgraceful. What part of "Thou shalt not kill" do you not understand? What part of the "Golden rule" do you not understand? What part of "be honest," "be responsible," and "be accountable" don't you understand? What part of "Blessed are the peacekeepers" do you not understand?
Because of you, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, many thousands of people have suffered horrendous lifetime injuries, and millions have been run off from their homes. For the sake of our nation, for the sake of our children, and for the sake of our brothers and sisters around the world, we are morally compelled to say, as loudly as we can, "We won't take it anymore!" As United States agents kidnap, disappear, and torture human beings around the world, you justify, you deceive, and you cover up. We find what you have done to men, women and children, and to the good name and reputation of the United States, so appalling, so unconscionable, and so outrageous as to compel us to call upon you to step aside and allow other men and women who are competent, true to our nation's values, and with high moral principles to stand in your places for the good of our nation, for the good of our children, and for the good of our world.
In the case of the President and Vice President, this means impeachment and removal from office, without any further delay from a complacent, complicit Congress, the Democratic majority of which cares more about political gain in 2008 than it does about the vindication of our Constitution, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. It means the election of people as President and Vice President who, unlike most of the presidential candidates from both major parties, have not aided and abetted in the perpetration of the illegal, tragic, devastating invasion and occupation of Iraq. And it means the election of people as President and Vice President who will commit to return our nation to the moral and strategic imperative of refraining from torturing human beings. In the case of the majority of Congress, it means electing people who are diligent enough to learn the facts, including reading available National Intelligence Estimates, before voting to go to war. It means electing to Congress men and women who will jealously guard Congress's sole prerogative to declare war. It means electing to Congress men and women who will not submit like vapid lap dogs to presidential requests for blank checks to engage in so-called preemptive wars, for legislation permitting warrant-less wiretapping of communications involving US citizens, and for dangerous, irresponsible, saber-rattling legislation like the recent Kyl- Lieberman amendment.
We must avoid the trap of focusing the blame solely upon President Bush and Vice-President Cheney. This is not just about a few people who have wronged our country - and the world. They were enabled by members of both parties in Congress, they were enabled by the pathetic mainstream news media, and, ultimately, they have been enabled by the American people-40% of whom are so ill-informed they still think Iraq was behind the 9/11 attacks a people who know and care more about baseball statistics and which drunken starlets are not wearing underwear than they know and care about the atrocities being committed every single day in our name by a government for which we need to take responsibility.
As loyal Americans, without regard to political partisanship as veterans, as teachers, as religious leaders, as working men and women, as students, as professionals, as businesspeople, as public servants, as retirees, as people of all ages, races, ethnic origins, sexual orientations, and faiths we are here to say to the Bush administration, to the majority of Congress, and to the mainstream media: "You have violated your solemn responsibilities. You have undermined our democracy, spat upon our Constitution, and engaged in outrageous, despicable acts. You have brought our nation to a point of immorality, inhumanity, and illegality of immense, tragic, unprecedented proportions."
But we will live up to our responsibilities as citizens, as brothers and sisters of those who have suffered as a result of the imperial bullying of the United States government, and as moral actors who must take a stand: And we will, and must, mean it when we say 'We won't take it anymore.' If we want principled, courageous elected officials, we need to be principled, courageous, and tenacious ourselves. History has demonstrated that our elected officials are not the leaders the leadership has to come from us. If we don't insist, if we don't persist, then we are not living up to our responsibilities as citizens in a democracy and our responsibilities as moral human beings. If we remain silent, we signal to Congress and the Bush administration and to candidates running for office and to the world that we support the status quo.
Silence is complicity. Only by standing up for what's right and never letting down can we say we are doing our part. Our government, on the basis of a campaign we now know was entirely fraudulent, attacked and militarily occupied a nation that posed no danger to the United States. Our government, acting in our name, has caused immense, unjustified death and destruction. It all started five years ago, yet where have we, the American people, been? At this point, we are responsible. We get together once in a while at demonstrations and complain about Bush and Cheney, about Congress, and about the pathetic news media. We point fingers and yell a lot. Then most people politely go away until another demonstration a few months later.
How many people can honestly say they have spent as much time learning about and opposing the outrages of the Bush administration as they have spent watching sports or mindless television programs during the past five years? Escapist, time-sapping sports and insipid entertainment have indeed become the opiate of the masses. Why is this country so sound-asleep? Why do we abide what is happening to our nation, to our Constitution, to the cause of peace and international law and order? Why are we not doing all in our power to put an end to this madness? We should be in the streets regularly and students should be raising hell on our campuses. We should be making it clear in every way possible that apologies or convoluted, disingenuous explanations just don't cut it when presidential candidates and so many others voted to authorize George Bush and his neo-con buddies to send American men and women to attack and occupy Iraq.
Let's awaken, and wake up the country by committing here and now to do all each of us can to take our nation back. Let them hear us across the country, as we ask others to join us: "We won't take it anymore!" I implore you: Draw a line. Figure out exactly where your own moral breaking point is. How much will you put up with before you say "No more" and mean it?
I have drawn my line as a matter of simple personal morality: I cannot, and will not, support any candidate who has voted to fund the atrocities in Iraq. I cannot, and will not, support any candidate who will not commit to remove all US troops, as soon as possible, from Iraq. I cannot, and will not, support any candidate who has supported legislation that takes us one step closer to attacking Iran. I cannot, and will not, support any candidate who has not fought to stop the kidnapping, disappearances, and torture being carried on in our name.
If we expect our nation's elected officials to take us seriously, let us send a powerful message they cannot misunderstand. Let them know we really do have our moral breaking point. Let them know we have drawn a bright line. Let them know they cannot take our support for granted that, regardless of their party and regardless of other political considerations, they will not have our support if they cannot provide, and have not provided, principled leadership.
The people of this nation may have been far too quiet for five years, but let us pledge that we won't let it go on one more day that we will do all we can to put an end to the illegalities, the moral degradation, and the disintegration of our nation's reputation in the world.
Let us be unified in drawing the line in declaring that we do have a moral breaking point. Let us insist, together, in supporting our troops and in gratitude for the freedoms for which our veterans gave so much that we bring our troops home from Iraq , that we return our government to a constitutional democracy, and that we commit to honoring the fundamental principles of human rights.
In defense of our country, in defense of our Constitution, in defense of our shared values as Americans and as moral human beings we declare today that we will fight in every way possible to stop the insanity, stop the continued military occupation of Iraq, and stop the moral depravity reflected by the kidnapping, disappearing, and torture of people around the world.
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Swami Chinmayananda
Swami Chinmayananda, Founder of Chinmaya Mission is the inspiration behind CORD. It is his vision that translates into and permeates the very structure of this organization.
Swami Chinmayananda said, "Let us be humble and grateful for the opportunities available to us to serve the society and the world."
In the 42 years of his service to humanity, Swamiji left his footprints in a variety of projects that sprang up, and still continue to mushroom under the banner of the Chinmaya Mission. For him, there was nothing to gain or lose by working in the world. Yet, he wanted to provide his devotees with many an avenue to grow to their fullest stature.
Swami Chinmayananda saw these projects as fields for devotees to perform selfless service. He himself took every opportunity to serve, give and love, leaving behind a rich legacy of works of service, including: a 200-bed hospital, a number of clinics and diagnostic centers, rural upliftment projects, schools, temples, old-age homes and orphanages.
Swami Tejomayananda
When the founder of Chinmaya Mission passed on, the mantle of leadership draped the shoulders of Swami Tejomayananda. He took over where his Guru left off. He followed his own advice to, "fill the heart with love and gratitude. "The phenomenal growth of Chinmaya Mission under his leadership amply proves the success of his philosophy.
The work of CORD is specially dear to Swamiji's heart. His vision and direction is the heart of the program. Though hard pressed for time, its activities and growth receive his personal attention.
In December, 2003 under his stewardship, the service projects of the Mission were brought under the banner of CORD. After this, developmental work in Lathikatta (which had already started) picked up. New branches in Deuldiha, Tamraipakkam, Kaza and Siruvani came into existence.
His philosophy is simple. "We work with inspiration. We trust in God, and Pujya Gurudev's blessings and that trust is our main strength. Abiding in our trust and knowledge, if we start any service, we should just go on doing it. Do your work, for work is worship, and work shows worth."
"INITIATE, WORK SINCERELY, AND SURRENDER" - Swami Tejomayananda
Dr. Kshama Metre
Dr Kshama Metre popularly known as “Doctor Didi” is the national director of CORD, which stands for Chinmaya Organization for Rural Development. Dr Metre has dedicated her life to CORD which is a participatory, comprehensive, integrated and sustainable rural development project. CORD was initiated in Sidhbari in Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh, covering over 550 villages and now has spread its wings in Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
Dr Kshama Metre was born on June 26, 1950 in Nagpur, Maharashtra to Smt Shantabai Metre and Shri Waman Rao Bapuji Metre who was honoured with Padma Vibhusan for his pioneering work in the oil industry. As a child she moved with her family from Assam to Delhi where she graduated with distinction in Senior Cambridge from Frank Anthony Public School and proceeded to get her MBBS and MD in Pediatrics from Maulana Azad Medical College. She completed her Senior Residency in Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital in Delhi. Dr Metre continued on to establish a very successful practice in Pediatrics in Delhi. In spite of her success, Dr Metre was greatly inspired by her father to live a life of simple living, high thinking and service to the nation.
After a chance meeting with world renowned Vedanta Master Swami Chinmayanandaji, near three decades back, Dr Kshama Metre left a flourishing pediatric practice in New Delhi to work as a doctor in rural primary healthcare services. In this new setting, she found the health system marginalized the communities it was meant to serve. Dr Metre refocused her efforts on community development initiatives, and become an early pioneer of India’s highly successful self-help movement. In just two decades, such small decentralized groups – made up of mostly women – have extended access to financial credit to almost 100 million people, and in other ways also empowered the poor.
Her development work began in 1985 in Sidbhari, Himachal Pradesh with mother and child health services through 10 sub-centers and training of 120 nurses in 4 batches. Soon with input and feedback from the community, forward and backward linkages were built based on their needs. As a result, an integrated rural development model emerged which was successful and could be replicated with local modifications. Most important, this participatory development model empowered the community to be self respecting and self reliant. Components of the program include community based organizations such as:
• 563 Women Groups known as Mahila Mandals with 22,000 members
• 220 Youth & Men Groups
• 1490 Self Help Groups
• Adolescent Girls’ Group with 10,300 members
• Bal Vihar with 75 groups for children
• Income generation activities for 13,000 underprivileged men and women in farm and allied sector as well as non farm sector and service sectors
• Provision of informal legal aid to 365 resolved cases
• Community health and sanitation programmes
• Community based rehabilitation programme for inclusion of 448 disabled people in main stream society
• Promotion and implementation of natural resource management
• Strengthening of 222 local self governance units known as Panchayats with focus on women
In all of Dr Metre’s work emphasis is placed on issues such as gender discrimination, HIV/AIDS and alcohol abuse awareness and treatment of alcoholics. Moreover, Dr Metre works very closely with the National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and has been instrumental in establishing Micro Credit through Self Help Groups in four states of India where training has been given to 30,000 bankers, government functionaries and beneficiaries. She is also an active advocate of disability issues.
From Sidhbari since 2005 CORD began expanding its activities in other states of India covering 5 other sites. Now CORD is planning to upscale its training components to increase its outreach through its sites in India & share its work on different components with Govt. and other NGOs.
Dr Kshama Metre has won several awards and recognitions for her contribution to the society
• Won the 2012 Guardian International Development Achievement Award.
• Padma Shri Award given by the President of India in 2008 for Social Services.
• Nina Sibal Award in 2006 for inclusion of persons with different abilities.
• Nominated as a member of the 11th Planning Commission (Primary Health Care), Govt. of India, for the period 2007 to 2012.
• Sadguru Ganananda Award in 2005 for excellence in Social Service
• Featured in “Prophets of India” in 2004
• National Women Commission Award for Women Empowerment in 2002
• Received Ojaswini Award in 2000 for excellence in Service
• Nominated for “Women of the Year” by Week Magazine in 1993
Dr. Meera Krishna
Dr. Meera Krishna fulfils many roles - that of medicine woman, counsellor and mentor.
Her presence makes all the difference to the people in the tiny village of Thennamanallur.
Not everybody in Thennamanallur knows her name or where she's from. But they're sure of one thing — ‘doctor' is someone they can turn to, no matter what. There is only one clinic in the village. There are no crowded waiting rooms. A Ganesha statue stands at the centre.There is a blackboard in one corner with benches facing it. Kids play carrom in an opencourtyard. Meera Krishna sits at a table overlooking the courtyard.
She is the project coordinator for the Siruvani branch of Chinmaya Organisation for Rural Development (CORD). A few years ago, illiteracy, poverty and alcoholism preventeddevelopment of any kind at Thennamanallur. Most houses did not have toilets. Women rarely stepped out of their homes. But things changed once Meera set up a CORD office in the village.“I've always wanted to serve in a rural set-up,” says Meera. “After 16 years of practice in Chennai, we moved to Coimbatore for my daughter's education. She studied at the ChinmayaInternational Residential School in Siruvani.” Meera passed by Thennamanallur whenever she visited her daughter. She thought it was a perfect place for her clinic. “I volunteered here for a year,” she says, till CORD identified her in 2006.
Meera has been on her toes ever since. “At CORD, we empower the rural population by integrated and sustainable development,” she explains. It's all about bringing people together.
At present Siruvani is a thriving CORD project with outreach in 32 villages. It has 79 self help groups with 920 members, 7 farmers club, 920 are involved in livelihood projects, 17 balvihar being conducted, OPD clinic run by Dr.Meera which has about 2600 patients in a year treated by her, 20 toilets have been built, literacy, computer training, sewing, typing classes and many other awareness programs continue through the year.
• She was a resource person in the UNICEF sponsored workshop on Menstrual Hygiene
• won the FICCI Ladies Organization (FLO) Award for Social Service in 2012
• was inducted as an Honorary Member into the All-Ladies Rotary Club “Aakruti” of Coimbatore, 2013
• won the Best Doctor citation among the Women of Impact awards for 2013
• was awarded one of the “Outstanding Woman” awards of 2013 by the National Commission for Women in March 2013
Mrs. Gowrie Mahenthiran
As the Director of Chinmaya Organization for Rural Development, Sri Lanka; Mrs. Gowrie Mahenthiran plays many roles to ensure the success of each and every project by CORD Sri Lanka. Her hands on and practical approach to work makes her stand out from leaders of other Sri Lankan humanitarian organizations. She works in the field working with field officers and beneficiaries; she actively takes part in all activities. Her resilient nature enables her to adapt to any situation. Her humility is one of the key reasons behind the success of CORD Sri Lanka. One of the key areas CORD Sri Lanka works with is in the empowerment and upliftment of women and children affected by the three decade war that took place in the country.
As a charity driven organization, CORD Sri Lanka faced many difficulties and to this date, still face hardships. It is Mrs. Mahenthiran’s determination to never give up in any situation that has driven and helped the organization grow by leaps and bounds.
The Maharagama Cancer Hospital in Sri Lanka did not have a cafeteria, so patients and volunteers at the hospital had to travel far to get even a cup of tea. In 1979 Gowrie took it upon herself to build a canteen within the hospital premises itself, which was visited by over 400 patients daily. As an admirer of mother Teresa since childhood, Gowrie has always tried to help and uplift the lives of children. She has helped build many orphanages in Trincomalee and Batticaloa. She is still working and providing assistance to less fortunate kidney transplant patients with dialysis and chemo therapy at the Cancer hospital.
Due to the dedication and hard work of Gowrie and her team CORD Sri Lanka currently empowers over 700 women in Jaffna, Killinochchi, Batticaloa and Ramboda and provide nutrition, education and medical assistance to over 150 children who were affected by the war.
• 1994-1995 Mrs. Mahenthiran was the president of Inner Wheel Club of Colombo West, Sri Lanka
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Education slowing AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
Published: Sunday, March 22, 2009 - 08:50 in Health & Medicine
Saharan Africa may be lowering new HIV infections among younger adults, according to sociologists, suggesting a shift in a decades-long trend where formal education is considered an AIDS risk factor. While education in general has a positive impact on global public health, when it comes to HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, education has had a completely opposite effect.
During the early stages of the HIV pandemic in the region, the disease passed unnoticed amidst the onslaught of other infections. When scientists took a closer look at the deadly new disease, they found that more often males with a higher than average education were contracting the disease.
"Before the 1990s, in the impoverished regions of sub-Saharan Africa, even modest amounts of education afforded males higher income, more leisure time, and, for some males, greater access to commercial sex workers," explained David Baker, professor of education and sociology at Penn State and lead author of the study. "HIV-infected higher-status males then spread the infection to both educated and uneducated women, which moved the disease into the general population."
Baker and his Penn State colleagues John Collins and Juan Leon, both graduate students, believe that information about AIDS that was already percolating in wealthier countries did not get to sub-Saharan Africa until the mid 1990s. AIDS was seen as a homosexual, urban disease and either neglect or active misinformation campaigns in some African countries ensured that the preventative effects of education never took root. But among younger people in the region, formal education is emerging as a major preventative factor against new infections. They report their findings in the current issue of the UNESCO journal Prospects.
"There needs to be a very clear message, both to the donor community and to governments in sub-Saharan Africa, that expanding quality primary schools has to be a topmost priority," said Collins, co-author of the study. "It will not only have economic benefits, but also health benefits."
To find what has happened recently to the link between formal education and HIV infections, the researchers analyzed data from surveys previously undertaken in 11 countries across the region between 2003 and 2005. They specifically looked at males ages 15 to 24, 25 to 34, and older than 35.
Survey participants were tested for HIV infection and interviewed about their education, social status, and sexual behavior.
The researchers argued that because the youngest members of the oldest group -- the 35 and older -- became sexually mature in the late 1980s, when there was little or no information about AIDS, higher education would show as a risk factor instead of a social vaccine.
Statistical analyses of the data suggest that in all 11 countries formal education had no effect on HIV infections in the oldest group, probably because many older adults, educated and uneducated have already been exposed to the virus and many have died. However, having some schooling did reduce the risk of HIV infections in the youngest group by up to 34 percent in Guinea, Malawi, Senegal, Cameroon, Ghana, and Kenya.
"At 24 years, the oldest member of this young group reached sexual maturity in the mid 1990s, when there was already widespread knowledge that HIV and AIDS could be contracted through unprotected sex and intravenous drug use," explained Baker.
The researchers hypothesize that, reasoning skills gained in school by younger adults play a preventative role against HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
"More educated people have the cognitive tools to make better sense out of facts presented to them," explained Baker. "We have shown that when there is sufficient information, and no misinformation, people with education adopt healthy strategies to avoid infections."
The Penn State researchers caution that while a large number of deaths in the early stages of the HIV pandemic could mask the true effects of education in the oldest group, the findings hold key policy implications for turning education into a social vaccine against HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
According to Baker, AIDS is a complicated disease and it can only be tackled effectively by providing people with an everyday, accurate working theory of how the disease is transmitted. "We are telling the governments that increased literacy is an explicit prevention strategy against HIV because it will help stop pandemics," he said.
The Penn State researcher also asks non-governmental organizations to reevaluate their educational programs.
"The kind of information being supplied by NGOs is scandalous because it is so simplistic and minimalist, particularly for low-educated people, that they are not going to figure this disease out in time to prevent their own infection," Baker added.
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Caterpillars reach impressive sizes. When they have completed their growth, they can measure up to eight and sometimes even 10 cm long. Although a species is associated with a wide variety of host plants, the caterpillar feeds only the species on which it was born.
In Quebec, we see the great saturniids from mid-May to late June. These butterflies live a few days, the time it takes to reproduce.
Photo: Insectarium de Montréal (Suzanne Schanz)
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With a wingspan that can reach 15 cm, some species in this family are among North America’s largest. In Quebec, there are around 10 species.
The wings of Saturniidae often present spots that look like eyes, called eyespots, which can scare away predators. Males are generally smaller than females, with larger antennae that are usually feathery or comb-like. The insect’s small proboscis does not allow it to eat. The insect lives for four to 10 days on the reserve of energy accumulated during the caterpillar stage.
A few hours after leaving the cocoon, the male flies in search of a female. The female generally stays in one spot until the eggs in her abdomen have been fertilized. To attract her mate, the female emits a volatile, scented substance called a pheromone. Using the receptors on his large antennae, the male can detect this “aphrodisiac” substance over a kilometre away.
Mating generally begins at night and can last for several hours. Once fertilization is complete, the male dies shortly afterwards and the female flies off in search of host plants. Depending on the species, she may lay between 100 and 500 eggs. Only a few eggs are laid on each food plant. When conditions are favourable, the eggs generally hatch 10 to 12 days after being laid.
Once it finishes growing, the caterpillar leaves the host plant and begins building a cocoon, inside which it will become a chrysalis. In Quebec, depending on the species, the cocoon is attached to a branch of the host plant or placed on the ground among dead leaves. The insect will overwinter in this form and the adult will emerge the following spring.
The cecropia moth is the largest moth in Quebec. It can be recognized easily by its size, its body and legs that are covered with red hairs and its black and white striped abdomen.
The luna moth is one of the most beautiful moths. This magnificent insect, with its feathery antennae, is characterized by its emerald green colour and the extension of its back wings.
The polyphemus moth can be distinguished from other Saturniidae by its colouring that varies from pale to dark brown and is sometimes reddish or greyish.
These are large moths with a wingspan of 7.5 to 10 cm. There are marked differences between the males and females.
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Josephine's Suburban Paradise - Le Beau Chêne
For the Journées Européennes du Patrimoine last weekend, the grounds of Josephine Baker's idyllic villa - Le Beau Chêne - were opened to the public for the first time!
Journée du Patrimoine flier
After standing empty for several years, the property was finally purchased by Philippe Baudry, architect and CEO of the environmental ecosystem development company ARTEA.
Philippe Baudry and Monique Y. Wells
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Le Beau Chêne (rear)
M. Baudry graciously opened the gates to the 3.7-acre estate and allowed scores of visitors to walk around the grounds and gaze upon Josephine's former mansion and its "Temple of Love," stable, garage, and hothouses. So much has fallen into disrepair that restoring the property will be a big challenge.
Temple of Love
Stable and garage
This may well be the last time that the public will see the grounds as they existed during Josephine's time. Permission has been granted to divide the property into three lots, to build two new houses and carports on it, and to alter access to the property.
Construction permit
The mansion itself was not open to the public, but Mr. Baudry invited me inside to wait for him while he searched for a business card. Renovations are in progress – I could see that some of the rooms have been completely gutted and several of the rooms on the ground floor are currently being used as offices. Still, it was easy to imagine the splendor that Josephine once enjoyed!
Because of this visit, I now have new photos of the villa and additional anecdotes about Josephine to share with those who participate in the Josephine's Suburban Paradise excursion with Discover Paris! We are launching a DELUXE version of this private, guided tour for individuals and groups of up to 6 persons, which includes private transportation to and from Paris and an exclusive lunch in a private Le Vésinet bed & breakfast. Le Beau Chêne is the highlight of the tour but participants will also visit several additional sites in this town where Josephine enjoyed the most successful and carefree years of her life. For more information, contact us at .
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57th Anniversary of the 1st International Congress of Negro Writers and Artists
The First International Congress of Negro Writers and Artists convened at the Sorbonne on September 19, 1956 - 57 years ago today. I was reminded of the date because I recently purchased the complete proceedings of the event from Présence Africaine, the bookstore and publishing house that was responsible for organizing the conference.
Proceedings of the 1st International Congress of Negro Writers and Artists
I frequently refer to James Baldwin's report of the proceedings when I take clients to the Sorbonne on my Black Paris after World War II walking tour. He wrote about the congress in his essay "Princes and Powers" and I have always wanted to read an independent source of information about the event. During a recent tour, I noted with delight that there was a book in the window at Présence Africaine (which is also a stop on the Black Paris after WWII tour) containing the proceedings and returned to purchase it at a later time.
Présence Africaine - current façade
Roughly a third of the entries in the book are in English. Topics range from the tonal structure of Yoruba poetry to a philosophical discussion of segregation and desegregation in the United States. Final resolutions of the congress are presented in French and English. There are also messages at the back of the book in French and English from persons who were unable to attend, including one from Josephine Baker (in French, signed with her married name "Bouillon"). But the presentation that interested me the most was that of Richard Wright. I had long been intrigued by Baldwin's sardonic commentary on it and was looking forward to reading it for myself.
Wright was the last person to give a formal presentation at the Congress and he felt awkward about what he had prepared because things that he learned during the course of the conference inspired a desire to modify his discourse. Because there was no time to do so, he decided to "correct" his paper as he presented it at the conference. Baldwin refers to this as Wright "exposing, in short, his conscience to the conference and asking help of them in his confusion."
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Wright did just that, saying "...midway in my text, when I start criticizing my own formulations, I hope you would understand what I am trying to do." He proceeds to question several of his own statements, such as thanking "Mr. White Man" for freeing the black, brown, and yellow peoples of the world from the "rot" of their irrational traditions and customs.
Prior to broaching the subject of his discomfort, Wright talked about the absence of women as organizers and presenters at the Congress. He said the following:
— I don't know how many of you have noticed it there have been no women functioning vitally and responsibly upon this platform helping to mold and mobilize our thoughts . . . When and if we hold another conference—and I hope we will—I hope there shall be an effective utilization of Negro womanhood in the world to help us mobilize and pool our forces . . . we cannot afford to ignore one half of our manpower, that is, the force of women and their active collaboration. Black men will not be free until their women are free.
Indeed, among the messages at the back of the book is one addressed to the Congress by "Un Groupe de Femmes Noires" (a group of black women) that emphasizes the vital role that women play in the construction of black nations.
The "Euro-African" dialogue that occurred after the presentation of the final resolutions of the Congress and just before the closing of the conference is also presented in the book. Wright was the only Anglophone invited to comment during this exchange. He expressed his feelings about the event as follows:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I want to congratulate the Conference upon the successful termination of its work. I feel that this is a moment in history, a moment that is terminating a five-hundred-year domination of European culture over African culture. There is something that one feels when one is caught up in a historical situation: you are gripped by it, claimed by it and you know that history is in the making. It seems as though at such times an impersonal tide sweeps men up, irrespective of their will, and pushes them on in their direction whether they want it or not. It is irresistible and irreversible and I say "So be it."
*Image of James Baldwin taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1955; image of Richard Wright from the Michel Fabre Collection
Labels: 1st International Congress of Negro Writers and Artists, James Baldwin, Présence Africaine, Richard Wright, Sorbonne
Toli Nameless and the Paris Girls Rock Adventure
I first saw Toli Nameless at the Brothers Spring Gala in May 2013. As the party after the award ceremony was heating up, Toli took up her trombone and hit the stage as part of the jam session that began just after midnight. Months later, I was delighted to receive her e-mail informing Entrée to Black Paris about a music camp that she runs for young girls each summer as part of a larger initiative called Girls Rock Camp Alliance (GRCA). I was fortunate to be able to attend the graduation concert for Paris Girls Rock Camp 11ème at the end of August and decided that the story of the camp merited further investigation. Here's the scoop!
************ETBP: What inspired you to create this music camp?
TN: There were several factors involved. It was mostly a culmination of the evolution of my career in music, education, and women's development, and the opportunity to provide this type of service in my community.
Toli Nameless and 2013 Paris Girls Rock Camp participants
ETBP: How long did it take from conception to the first camp?
TN: We had 6 weeks.
ETBP: How did you find out about Girls Rock Camp Alliance?
TN: My first introduction to the GRCA was through the Willie Mae Rock-n-Roll Camp for Girls in Brooklyn, NY. A female musical force by the name of Tamar Kali asked that I perform on a benefit concert for the camp.
ETBP: How many girls have participated in the Paris camp over the years?
TN: Our participants over the past years include 30 girls and 5 women. We've logged 222 hours of public service.
Scenes from the 2013 Paris Girls Rock concert
ETBP: How much interaction do you have with the parents in enrolling the girls?
TN: We know that parents are busy so we make every effort to answer every question. This can happen at a community event where we have a table, contact by email, or even meeting in a café. This is a combined effort between myself, our volunteers, and presentation partners like Le 6b*. We communicate with parents "by any means necessary."
ETBP: Who are your partners and what do they contribute to the camp?
TN: Our main year-round partners include Le 6b and the GRCA of which we are actual members. We also have project-based partners. This year our lead project partners include Bertie Ernault at the Maison de la Jeunesse in St. Denis and Jean-Christophe Arcos at the Cultural Department in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
ETBP: Where does the camp take place?
TN:Our mission is to deliver our service throughout the Paris region. So far we have been able to present the camp in the northern Paris suburb of St. Denis and in the 11ème. PARIS GIRLS ROCK CAMP coming to a neighborhood near you!
ETBP: Is it in the same place every year?
TN: We have been able to work in St. Denis consistently, and that has been a huge accomplishment of which we are very proud. This year we expanded to give our first camp in central Paris and we have a long-term plan for expansion. Each time we give a camp in a different place, we hope to add it to our yearly plan. It take so much care and attention to foster the relationship with that particular community that it only makes sense to continue our presence in that location.
ETBP: Who does the teaching?
TN: Our teachers are the "TOP" of Paris and the world. The teaching staff are professional musicians and educators that come from Paris and beyond. Some receive a stipend salary and others give freely of their time. This is a huge part of why we are able to offer the camp at reasonable rates with large results.
Monique and Toli at the concert
ETBP: What is the cost for participating?
TN: The camp costs 10 euros per hour @ 35 hours = 350 euros. Together with our partners, volunteers, and sponsors, we are able to offer reduced rates and bourses d'études (scholarships) to our public. This way ALL girls from ALL backgrounds can attend the camp.
ETBP: Why is the Mairie of the 11th arrondissement involved?
TN: The Cultural Department of the Mairie decided that this program would greatly benefit the residents of the 11éme, and enhance their notoriety for their arondisement as a leading provider of cutting edge public services.
ETBP: You include exposure to Josephine Baker during the camp. You took this year's participants to the Josephine Baker pool and they performed one of her songs during the graduation concert. Why this focus on Josephine.?
TN: Back in 2011, like many of the other camps in the GRCA, we wanted to choose an inspirational person to name our camp after. Josephine Baker is an historical and inspirational figure of epic proportions and we chose her as a means of honoring the first female international superstar and activist of France. Because she lived her life conquering all boundaries and accepting no limitations, she is exemplary of what we hope to instill in our participants. Although we were unable to support the estate of Josephine Baker with the contribution for the licensing of her name, they were very supportive of our efforts nonetheless.
*Le 6b is a new cultural center in Saint-Denis. It houses over 150 artists, musicians, craftsmen, and other creative professionals.
Labels: 11th arrondissement, Black Paris, Girls Rock Camp Alliance, music, Toli Nameless
Crêpes on a Summer Day
A crêperie is a restaurant that specializes in the ultra-thin pancake that has become a gastronomic cliché for France. Americans commonly mispronounce the word "crêpe" - the true pronunciation rhymes with the word "step."
As Tom and I were enjoying one of the last glorious days before the rentrée (the return of all French citizens to their homes and jobs after summer vacation), we happened by a crêpe stand across the street from the Jardin des Plantes. Lo and behold, a young black woman was behind the counter producing these lovely confections!
Our server
Crêpes can be sweet (sucrée) or savory (salée) and they are one of France's most popular forms of fast food. The crêperie that we spotted was on the corner of rue Buffon and rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, right next to an Italian restaurant.
Adjoining Italian restaurant and crêpe stand
Crêpe menu
I ordered a beurre/sucre (butter and sugar) crêpe and Tom ordered one filled with crème de marron (chestnut paste).
Our server uses two griddles to produce a single crêpe. She butters the first griddle and ladles the batter onto it. As it begins to cook, she butters the second griddle.
Buttering the griddle
Ladling the batter
Once the crêpe is set, she moves it to the other griddle to continue the cooking process. She can begin cooking an additional crêpe on the first griddle if there are a large number of customers waiting, thereby reducing the wait time. On this particular day, we were the only people there so we were able to watch the process and photograph it at our leisure.
Moving crêpe from one griddle to the other
Our server "dressed" the crêpes with the fillings that we ordered, wrapped them, and handed them over to us. We both preferred Tom's crème de marron crêpe - it was sweeter and more consistent!
Handing over the goods!
Next time we come to this neighborhood, we'll order the Nutella crêpe as a comparison. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!
One of the stops on the Discover Paris! Ile Saint-Louis gourmet walking tour is a crêperie. Click HERE to view the Love2Eat video where I tell Lové Anthony all about crêpes during this walk. Then contact me if you'd like to book your own gourmet walk with us!
Labels: Black Paris, crêpes, gourmet Paris, gourmet walk
57th Anniversary of the 1st International Congress...
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Grant Awarded for Claremont District Heating Plan
CRDC receives funds through Forest Service program
By NHBR Staff
Published: 10.29.14
Elizabeth Sweeney of the Capital Regional Development Council
The U.S. Forest Service has awarded a $250,000 grant to support the development of a wood-fired district heating system in Claremont that will connect downtown buildings with an efficient hot water heating system.
The Forest Service awarded the grant to the Capital Regional Development Council under a program designed to support the use of wood energy which will promote sound forest management, expand regional economics and create new rural jobs.
The Claremont district heating project is being developed by New Hampshire-based HotZero, which says that participating building owners could realize significant savings in heating costs without the need to use scarce capital and building space to install separate biomass systems.
CRDC Loan Officer Elizabeth Sweeney said,
“This grant award is an important economic development resource for the Claremont area,” said Elizabeth Sweeney, a loan officer with the CRDC. “While many parts of the northeast are seeing energy cost reductions related to low natural gas prices, communities like Claremont that do not have access to natural gas run the risk of being left behind. Projects like this hot water district heating system helps level the playing field. The fact that the fuel procurement will mean more jobs in the local forest products industry strengthens the economics of the project.”
The grant will be used to complete engineering for the project. It is expected that the first phases of the system will be operational in late 2015.
Initially, the project will focus on the Opera Square section of downtown, but is designed to scale up over time to connect other sections of the city, HotZero’s founding director Dick Henry said.
http://www.nhbr.com/November-14-2014/Grant-awarded-for-Claremont-district-heating-plan/?utm_source=MailingList&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=OCT3014+Browser
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Dve Mogili Municipality
Power and Duties of the Municipal Council
The Municipal Council of Dve Mogili Municipality is a body of local self-government, which comprises 17 Municipal Councillors elected by the residents in the municipality under the terms and procedures provided by law.
The Municipal Council shall formulate the policy of the municipality’s growth and development in connection with the following activities:
1. Municipal property, municipal enterprises, municipal finances, taxes and fees, municipal administration.
2. The organization and development of the municipal territory and its component inhabited places.
3. Education, health care, culture, extra-curricular activities.
4. Public works and utilities.
5. Social assistance.
6. Protection of the natural environment and rational use of the natural resources of local importance.
7. Conservation of cultural, historic and architectural monuments of local importance.
8. Sports, recreation and tourism of local importance.
The Municipal Council carries out functions related to Article 21 (concerning Article 27(4&5)) of the Local Self-Government and Local Administration Act, as well as other activities of local significance which lie beyond the competence of other authorities and have no executive functions.
Article 21 of the Local Self-Government and Local Administration Act
(1) The Municipal Council shall:
1. set up standing and select committees, and elect their members;
2. establish the structure of the municipal administration and allocate funds from the municipal budget for staff wages;
3. elect and remove its Chairman;
4. elect and remove Vice Mayors on the advice of the Mayor;
5. determine the remuneration of Mayors within the existing regulations;
6. adopt the budget of the municipality, exercise control over its implementation and approve the relevant report;
7. set the size of local taxes and charges within the statutory limits;
8. make decisions on the acquisition, management, and disposal of municipal property, and define the Mayor's powers, and those of the District Councils, District Mayors and other Mayors;
9. make decisions on the formation, reorganisation, and termination of municipal companies, and designate its representatives in such companies;
10. make decisions on bank borrowing, interest-free lending, and municipal bond issues under terms and procedure provided by law;
11. make decisions on the design and approval of general and detailed territorial development plans for the municipality or parts thereof;
12. adopt municipal development strategies, projections, programmes and plans;
13. define such requirements governing the activities of natural and legal persons within municipal boundaries as arise from the environmental, historical, social, etc., characteristics of the inhabited places, and from the condition of the existing technical and social infrastructure;
14. make decisions on the establishment and termination of municipal foundations, and on the management of donated property;
15. make decisions on the municipality’s participation in local authority associations in this country and abroad, and designate its delegates to such associations;
16. create districts and mayoralties under terms and procedure provided by law;
17. make proposals respecting changes in the administrative and territorial division, such as affect the territory and the boundaries of the municipality;
18. make decisions to name or rename streets, squares, parks, engineering facilities, zones, recreation areas, etc., of local importance;
19. consider and adopt decisions on the advice of District Councils and Mayors within its terms of reference;
20. make decisions on the holding of referendums and general meetings on issues within its terms of reference;
21. approve the municipality’s coat of arms and seal;
22. confer honourary citizenship on Bulgarian and foreign individuals.
(2) The Municipal Council shall resolve, also, other issues of local importance, provided that such issues do not fall within the exclusive terms of reference of any other authority.
(3) The Municipal Council shall adopt Rules of Organisation and Activity for the Council and the administration whereby such matters shall be regulated as relate to the Council’s and its Committees’ organisation and conduct of business, and those of the District Councils and the municipal administration, the municipality’s participation in associations, and all other matters expressly provided by this Act.
(1) The Municipal Council shall be convened at least six times per year.
(2) The Municipal Council’s sittings shall be valid, if more than half of all the Councillors are present.
(3) The Municipal Council’s decisions shall be made by a majority of more than half of the Councillors present, in an open ballot. The Council may opt for a secret ballot.
(4) The Council’s resolutions in pursuance of Article 21(1.1-4, 1.6-10, 1.16. 1.17 & 1.20) shall be made by a majority of more than half of all the Councillors.
(5) The Council’s resolutions shall be announced to the public.
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Home Sports Champs Champs School Profile – Wolmer’s Boys & Girls
Champs School Profile – Wolmer’s Boys & Girls
Wolmer’s Boys School has a strong Champs history, having won the first official Champs in 1910 and bookended the century celebration of the event by winning the 100th staging in 2010. Here are some more facts about the maroon and gold team.
Wolmer’s Boys have won 12 Boys’ Champs titles. The girls have yet to claim a title.
World and Olympic gold medallists Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Michael Frater are the schools’ most successful alumni in athletics. Fraser-Pryce came from obscurity to claim the 100m gold at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China and has not slowed down. Frater has been a staple of Jamaica’s relay teams since he helped the Under 17s win the silver medal at the 1998 CARIFTA Games in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.
The MVP Track Club, which has produced many of the nation’s top Olympians and World Champions in recent years, was started at Wolmer’s in 1999 by four alums – president Bruce James, technical director Stephen Francis, treasurer and assistant head coach Paul Francis and secretary David Noel.
Wolmer’s also nurtured a number of the current crop of hopefuls for Jamaica’s continued athletic excellence, including Jaheel Hyde, who has won the 400m hurdles at the 2014 world junior championships and the 110m hurdles at both the 2014 Youth Olympics and the 2013 world youth championships; high jump prince Christoph Bryan, who won bronze at the 2013 youth champs and has his sights set on the national junior record; and sprinters Julian Forte, Shauna Helps and Dwayne Extol.
Source: Champs 100: A Century of Jamaican High School Athletics 1910-2010 by Hubert Lawrence
Bruce James
Carifta Games
Champs 100: A Century of Jamaican High School Athletics 1910-2010
Christoph Bryan
Dwayne Extol
Hubert Lawrence
Jaheel Hyde
Julian Forte
Michael Frater
MVP Track Club
Shauna Helps
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Stephen Francis
Wolmer's Boys School
Wolmer's Girls School
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Martin Armstong – Forced to Move to a High Security Prison to Silence Him?
UPDATE: VICTORY HAS BEEN ACHIEVED FOR NOW! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP! The Prison has agreed to back down, please see Martin Armstrong – WE WON!
Frankly, I cannot believe that I have to write the words that follow. I just learned that Martin Armstrong is being moved, possibly as early as Monday, from his current holding facility to a much higher security facility, MDC Brooklyn, which is similar to the facility he was in when he was in solitary confinement and where he was beaten nearly to death! This goes against the prison’s own rules and is against the law as he has two Habeas cases open in the Supreme Court.
Why would this be happening now with a little more than a year before he is eligible for parole? I and others contend that it is because of his recent writing activity and because of his recent interview with the New Yorker Magazine (The New Yorker - "The Secret Cycle…"), and also because there are now several media outlets requesting to do interviews with him – the prison simply does not want, for whatever reason, the access that we have been enjoying lately to continue. I spoke directly to Martin’s younger sister, Nancy, and this is her opinion as well. She is very upset over this move as she, “fears that he may not make it out.” She claims that Martin is very much afraid of this move and for good reason…
First let’s review the facts… whatever you believe about his innocence or guilt or innocence of any crime, the facts are that he was never put on trial for any crime. He was held in contempt of court for not producing what the judge ordered him to produce, something which he claims he didn’t have. He was placed in MDC Manhattan and was basically TORTURED. According to Nancy, he was locked in solitary confinement for almost the entire duration, suffering days on end and at times was intentionally awaken every hour or so all night long, night after night, in an attempt to get him to sign a confession. He was repeatedly told that he would not get the chance to see his 91 year old mother alive again if he did not sign the confession. This took place off and on for SEVEN YEARS. Then one day a huge convict, “a known homicidal maniac” named George, was locked in his cell with him where he proceeded to beat and strangle him until he thought he was dead. Later, according to Armstrong, a fellow inmate stated that the guards watched the beating and refused to open the door to stop it. He lost most of his teeth, and now, over two years later is still missing them because the prison system only has one dentist for over 5,000 inmates. He suffered a detached retina, broken ribs and other internal injuries that left him in intensive care.
They offered him a plea agreement to TIME SERVED if he would plea guilty and after 7 years, he could take no more and agreed, obviously under heavy duress. However, after pleading guilty, the judge instead of living up to the plea agreement sentenced him to the maximum amount allowable and he is now not scheduled for release until September of 2011, first eligible for parole in March 2011. His current location is at Ft. Dix, New Jersey where he is only 20 minutes from his mother and sister, a relatively safe facility. His sister takes his infirmed mother to visit him once a week, but she will not be able to make the journey into Manhattan. He is now under great stress as he believes he may not survive while inside the new location.
Inside this facility, I am told, he will be basically strip searched with nearly every movement, and he is not granted some of the “privileges” that he currently has access to, thus producing his work will be impaired, if not eliminated all together.
The question is WHY would they break their own rules and the law to move him now?
For a refresher, Habeas Corpus is defined as follows: “Habeas corpus (pronounced /ˌheɪbiːəs ˈkɔrpəs/) (Latin: You (shall) have the body) is a legal action, or writ, through which a person can seek relief from their unlawful detention or that of another person. It protects individuals from harming themselves or from being harmed by the judicial system.”
Below is Federal Bureau of Prisons document number p5100.08 that spells out exactly what must be considered before moving an inmate. Preceding the document is the pertinent paragraph for those who have active Habeas cases. This paragraph recites the LAW as it applies here as Armstrong has not one, but TWO Habeas cases at the Supreme Court in his current jurisdiction:
Below is the actual law (Frap 23) regarding Habeus and the proceedures to be followed when transferring prisoners who have pending Habeus cases:
Additionally, below you will find the Rules of the Supreme Court. Rule 36 on page 47 states the following:
How nice of a facility is MDC Brooklyn, the facility they are planning on moving him to? Well, here are three separate articles alleging various forms of abuse:
Documented cases abuse of detainees at MDC Brooklyn
Eleven federal jail guards, including a captain and three lieutenants, were charged yesterday with beating two inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, one so badly, officials said, that a pool of his blood and bits of his hair lay on the floor of his cell when it was over.
The guards were also charged with covering up the beatings by filing false reports that blamed the inmates for having instigated the attacks. Eight of them pleaded not guilty yesterday at arraignments in Federal District Court in Brooklyn and were released on bail. The three others are expected to be arraigned in federal court within days.
Federal Prison Guards Facing Civil Rights Violations
Prosecutors say in November 2002, Lopresti, Rosebery, Tassio, Peterson and Santana participated in a planned attack on a former MDC inmate, identified in the indictment as John Doe #1, in his cell, and the subsequent cover-up. The attack, led by Lopresti, was carried out in retaliation for the inmate having "disrespected" Lopresti earlier that day by failing to heed Lopresti's request to remove a t-shirt that was wrapped around the inmate's head.
During the attack, the officers repeatedly struck, kicked and beat the inmate, leaving a pool of blood and clumps of the inmate's dreadlocks on the floor of the cell. The officers allegedly sought to disguise the retaliatory attack by tying the inmate's bedsheet into a noose and wrapping it around the bars of the cell's window in order to make it appear that the inmate had tried to hang himself. In written reports about the incident, the officers falsely claimed that the inmate had become combative as they attempted to prevent the inmate from committing suicide, thereby prompting the officers' use of force against him.
During the subsequent investigation conducted by the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General, Tassio initially admitted that her written report was false and that the inmate had not tried to kill himself, but later recanted and re-asserted the charged false claim about the attempted suicide.
America’s internal “gulag”
…While in jail, he was denied dental care and was unable to eat his food properly [Sound like what is happening to Armstrong?]. He was also diabetic, but was deprived of his medication for as long as three months. His blood sugar was high and he complained that his feet were numb. When he went on a seven-day hunger strike, vowing to continue until he died, he was thrown into solitary confinement and had his glasses taken away so he could not see.
The Brooklyn MDC is known to be particularly brutal. The New York Times and the Daily News carried reports earlier this year that detainees were slammed against the wall and had their arms, wrists, and fingers twisted and bent. Another common practice was to step on the detainees’ leg restraints. At the same time, the detainees were threatened and verbally abused. A report by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice wrote, “According to detainees, the verbal abuse included taunts such as ‘Bin Laden Junior’ or threats such as ‘you’re going to die here.’ ” Some Muslim detainees were denied any visitation rights for up to 90 days for praying.
Some of the abuses were caught on the jail’s surveillance tapes. The Daily News reported, “Inspector General Glenn Fine, whose staff reviewed 380 MDC videotapes, reported in 2003 that ‘These tapes substantiated many of the detainees’ allegations.’ Furthermore, the officers were not just a few bad apples but ‘a significant percentage of those who had regular contact with the detainees,’ Fine wrote last March.”
Think Armstrong will be able to produce those papers in that environment? His thoughts will not be on our economy, the rule of law, what’s happening to gold, or any such thinking… instead he will be focusing on SURVIVAL.
Did you know this type of thing was happening in America TODAY? Or, do we ignore it, blowing it off as the guilty getting their “just rewards?” I ask you, is this Armstrong’s “just rewards?”
- Last paragraph of "Looking Behind the Curtain - The Real Conspiracy…" April 9, 2009 Paper by Martin Armstong
Keep in mind that at no time in the history of mankind has a country held in prison a larger percentage of the population than we do now (not even South Africa during Apartheid), nor has their been a higher rate of conviction among those put on trial by our government, one of the very statistics that typically elevates the closer to the end of the current “empire” a nation is (this is because it shows that balance has been lost and that the government is exercising greater control):
There are people who are seeking new legal help for Martin on this issue as the law is clearly not being followed. Below is a plea for help from supporters of Armstrong and his family:
They are requesting that everyone please PHONE, EMAIL, AND FAX the following people to remind them of their responsibility to uphold the law and to protect Armstrong. The two primary people to contact here is his current Warden, Donna Zikefoose, who has, without consulting the judge as required by law, signed the order to move him. The other important contact is Traci Billingsley as she is the Public Information Officer of the entire Bureau of Prisons. This is the type of publicity I am sure they do not like.
We have now included contact information for the Judges as well. We appreciate taking the time to work on BOTH angles to increase the odds that we stop their planned movement.
Please do what you can. Send faxes, send emails, and call their phones on Monday and ask to talk to them! Ask them why the rule of law is not being followed in Martin’s case! Also please provide a link to this post on other blogs you follow, thank you.
ATTENTION: An update on Armstrong's situation with new contact information and strategy are included. I really appreciate everyone who puts in a few minutes to do this, it's very important for Martin! LINK: Armstrong Update!
Please consider the following poem:
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
- Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
Video - The Dollar Bubble...
I do not agree with all the facts and conclusions of this video, but am playing it to simply show what others are thinking. Note that no one in this video correctly identifies the source of the inflation they are claiming to see. You must look to how our monetary system works before you can begin to correctly identify the problem (interest bearing debt backed money whose quantity is not in control), and to find solutions that work to keep the quantity of money under control for the long haul yet is flexible enough to allow for REAL economic growth while keeping PRICE inflation steady over time. Such a system IS possible.
The Dollar Bubble (30 minutes):
Here is Max Keiser's latest on the Dubai debt crisis along with his take on the dollar.
Max Keiser (8 minutes):
Good Morning Wal-Mart Shoppers!
Welcome to Black Friday… But you have to wonder, is it Black Friday due to after Thanksgiving shopping or is it due to the stock market? Hmmm...
Well, from their close on Wednesday, the DOW plunged more than 300 points yesterday and since midnight have been climbing back out of the hole, now down about 190 points. Here’s a chart showing DOW futures on the left, and S&P futures on the right:
The dollar initially fell Wednesday evening to a new low and just when it appeared to be collapsing, magically the Dubai story broke and up the dollar jumped, back over the key 75 level and right into the upper downtrend line where it ran into resistance and turned down. The following chart is the daily dollar futures on the left and 30 minute chart on the right:
Bonds moved around some, but are basically back where they closed on Wednesday. Oil PLUMMETED, going from $78 to a little over $72 in very short order. It is now approximately $74. That move did cause it to break below the bottom trend line of its down channel… it tried to regain, but has failed to so far. Gold collapsed and fell all the way to the bottom of its rising expanding wedge, then bounced. It is currently at about $1,162, $32 below Wednesday’s close.
The news has now pegged this to the Dubai default story. However, there is much more going on besides that. There’s bank problems in Greece, there are debt and confidence problems in Japan, and there are derivative and counterparty issues involved with Dubai too.
I’m not sure how this will play out. There are going to be HUGE gaps in the charts on the open. Markets abhor gaps, they get filled eventually. If I were a member of the Pollyanna club, I would think that the selling was an overreaction and a buying opportunity. If I had an ounce of common sense, I would be long gone knowing that those who panic first, panic best. Or, I could be calm, cool, and collected, completely out of the fray. A spectator laughing at the spectacle of desperate clowns and market manipulators, knowing full well that with a debt saturated world that Black Swan events such as this would eventually appear. Gee, who could have known?
So today the overworked and overstressed “gatherers” will be out gathering in a marketing induced frenzy, while the “hunters” sit on the sofa drinking beer and watching their favorite Roman gladiator do battle in a taxpayer funded Coliseum, blissfully unaware that their modern day Rome is crumbling down around them. Oh yeah, there’s an uneasy feeling in the air, they just can’t put their finger on it.
Technically, we fell 50% of the gain of the last wave, erasing the past two weeks of market gains, just like that, while the markets were closed and the sheeple could not respond. I don’t know, but I’m thinking the sheeple who have yet to learn their lessons about our modern state of the markets are about to be taught another lesson. I have been warning that the background to the markets was not right. We had the very short end of the curve go negative and we had a backdrop of a declining dollar, a very dangerous situation. The market always knows, the stress leaks out in various places. This stress is caused by debt! Our masters are attempting to defy gravity, but the rule of debt is a natural law that cannot be defied. The rule is that all debts get repaid with interest in one way or the other. This stress would be the other.
All the criminals will be back to work on Monday, much will depend on how they plan to take your money. Profiting from the market at this point is going to be very tricky. I still believe that the selling will overwhelm them at some point and it could be ugly when it happens. That would argue for having some short exposure, and you can see that unless you are in front of it, you are likely to miss the beginning. But just how dangerous has front running been? VERY! This is why I’m still being patient waiting for the trendlines to break and for the E.W. count to be in a favorable position. This market has a long way to fall to get to reality, so there’s no need to get caught in the game too early.
And how about that Fibonacci spiral info? It’s now 3 for 4 dates this year from my perspective. The 4th date is December 10th. Pretty sure I’m going to have a position going in front of that timeframe. But in the mean time, it’s Black Friday, one way or the other – enjoy the show, the markets close early at 1:00 Eastern:
Steely Dan – Black Friday:
Central Bankers Taking Over the Globe with Debt…
This is exactly how the central bankers are now ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN THEIR PLAN. No, they are not going to get on the world stage and make the following announcement, “Ah hem…. We, the Central Bankers of the planet Earth, are hereby enacting our plan to control the people, nations, and natural resources of the planet, so that WE can CONTROL the globe and PROFIT from every transaction!”
No, no, that press conference won’t be held until AFTER it is complete. It’s now in progress, here’s how it works… start by infesting the globe with money that can only come into being when it’s backed by debt. Then add in a massive heaping of skanky derivatives and shaky debts, stir up the pot and begin creating one crisis after the other. Then step in like this:
IMF Gets $600 Billion Credit Line to Help in Financial Crises
By Sandrine Rastello
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The International Monetary Fund said it will have access to a credit line of up to $600 billion to make loans during financial crises after contributing countries agreed to fold commitments into one pool.
The agreement, yet to be approved by the IMF board, adds as many as 13 members from the current 26 to the so-called New Arrangements to Borrow, including emerging nations China, Russia, Brazil and India, the IMF said in an e-mailed statement.
The decision “marks an important moment for multilateralism and the fund, which will help the IMF’s effectiveness in its response to crises,” Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in yesterday’s statement.
The deal goes beyond a pledge by leaders of the Group of 20 nations to contribute up to $500 billion to a credit arrangement that’s currently worth $54 billion, the IMF said. The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression prompted more nations to seek aid from the fund, created after World War II to help ensure the stability of the global monetary system.
The agreement, which merges existing commitments into one facility, makes it easier for the IMF to tap into its supplemental resources. The credit line will be “an effective tool of crisis management as a backstop for the international monetary system,” the IMF statement said.
While a general agreement on the NAB was reached at the G- 20 meeting in Pittsburgh in September, talks on the specifics stalled over divisions between some emerging and developed nations over voting rights relating to the credit facility.
Borrowed From Members
The IMF has estimated that its current credit line was insufficient when the financial crisis boosted demand for loans. It then started to borrow from individual members, such as Japan, to continue lending to countries in difficulty.
To ensure the institution would continue shoring up economies around the world, G-20 leaders in April pledged to add $500 billion to the IMF’s resources.
Some of these contributions were bilateral loans, while China agreed to participate by buying the first IMF notes. Some countries, like the U.S., made theirs directly to the NAB.
When the new credit-line agreement is activated, all the bilateral loans will fall into it, Andrew Tweedie, who heads the IMF Finance Department, said in a Nov. 20 interview. It won’t come into effect before next year, he said.
So, the IMF who comprise the world’s central bankers go the individual central bankers and get money… of course this is just for show and to confuse the world… they could just as easily just create their own IMF money, and I’m sure will, but instead they pretend that they are “borrowing” money from countries around the world. Well, were did that money come from? The same central bankers!
Then, they take the money at the IMF level and do this with it…
Serbia Gets 3 Billion Euros From IMF to Counter Global Crisis
By Aleksandra Nenadovic
March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Serbia and the International Monetary Fund agreed on a 3 billion-euro ($4.1 billion) bailout to help the country repair the damage to its economy by the global financial crisis, Economy Minister Mladjan Dinkic said.
The accord will last two years, he told reporters in Belgrade today.
Last year, Serbia opened a $516 million credit line with the IMF, joining countries including Hungary, Ukraine and Latvia in seeking outside help to cope with the effects of the crisis. Like other emerging markets, Serbia is grappling with a lack of credit and a plunging currency as the economy contracts for the first time in a decade.
Serbia is also hoping for additional commercial loans from the World Bank and the European Union that will be negotiated on March 27 in Vienna. Serbia already has received a $600 million aid package from the World Bank.
On March 24 central bank Governor Radovan Jelasic said Serbia’s economy may contract 2 percent this year. There is a “downside risk” to this forecast because the government doesn’t have enough funds to spur the economy through spending, he added.
Finance Ministry spokeswoman Kristina Radovic said on March 17 that Serbia didn’t draw any funds from the original credit signed in November.
BINGO! Ding, Ding… Johnny, we have a sucker on the line! And in this way Serbia now must conform to the conditions of the loan or they will be cut off. What did the central bankers do to “earn” this money? What and who gave them the right to mint money on the global stage and to indebt entire nations? I think you know the answer to that… they gave themselves the power to do so, no one would stop them as the politicians and the judges are bought off along the way.
And because all their “money” is debt, this is the end result…
Dubai Debt Delay Rattles Confidence in Gulf Borrowers
By Laura Cochrane and Tal Barak Harif
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai shook investor confidence across the Persian Gulf after its proposal to delay debt payments risked triggering the biggest sovereign default since Argentina in 2001.
The cost of protecting government notes from Abu Dhabi to Bahrain rose, extending the steepest increase since February as Dubai World, with $59 billion of liabilities, sought a “standstill” agreement from creditors. Its debt includes $3.52 billion of bonds due Dec. 14 from property unit Nakheel PJSC. Dubai credit-default swaps climbed 90 basis points to 530 after yesterday increasing the most since they began trading in January, CMA Datavision prices showed.
“There is nothing investors dislike more than this kind of event,” said Norval Loftus, the head of convertible bonds and Islamic debt at Matrix Group Ltd. in London, which manages $2.5 billion of assets including Dubai credits. “The worst-case scenario will, of course, be involuntary restructuring on the Nakheel security that brings into question the entire nature of the sovereign support for various borrowers in the region.”
Dubai World’s assets range from stakes in Las Vegas casino company MGM Mirage to London-traded bank Standard Chartered Plc and luxury retailer Barneys New York through asset-management firm Istithmar PJSC. The Dubai government’s attempt to reschedule debt triggered declines in stocks worldwide that had been rebounding from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
‘Debt Burden’
“We understand the concerns of the market and the creditors in particular,” said Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al- Maktoum, who chairs the Supreme Fiscal Committee in charge of apportioning financial support to ailing companies, in the first statement to come out of the Dubai government since the announcement about debt rescheduling. “However, we have had to intervene because of the need to take decisive action to address its particular debt burden.”
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index of stocks had the biggest decline in four weeks, falling 2.2 percent, led by Russia and China. Europe’s Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index lost 3.3 percent in London, the biggest decline since April 20. South Africa’s rand and the Turkish lira weakened 2.1 percent against the dollar. Hungary’s forint lost 1.7 percent per euro. Credit-default swaps on Russia increased to 205 basis points from 192.
The MSCI World Index of 23 developed markets has risen 26 percent this year after banks worldwide recorded more than $1.7 trillion in writedowns and losses and governments committed about $12 trillion to shore up economies.
‘Shock’ Announcement
“The announcement was a shock,” said Beat Siegenthaler, chief emerging-market strategist at TD Securities Ltd. in London. “It is strongly affecting European markets.”
Dubai, ruled by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, borrowed $80 billion in a four-year construction boom to transform the economy into a regional tourism and financial hub. The emirate suffered the world’s steepest property slump in the global recession, with home prices dropping 50 percent from their 2008 peak, according to Deutsche Bank AG.
Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s cut the ratings on Dubai state companies yesterday, saying they may consider Dubai World’s plan to delay debt payments a default.
Gulf region default swaps jumped, with contracts linked to Bahrain adding 29 basis points today to 223.5, the biggest increase since Feb. 18. Contracts linked to Abu Dhabi added the most since February yesterday, climbing 36 basis points to 136.5 and were another 23 basis points higher at 159.5 today, according to London-based CMA. Qatar default swaps rose 13 basis points to 117, adding to yesterday’s 11 basis-point increase.
‘Further Defaults’
“Dubai is the most indicative of the huge global liquidity boom and now in the aftermath there will be further defaults to come in emerging markets and globally,” said Nick Chamie, head of emerging-market research at Toronto-based RBC Capital Markets.
Saudi Arabia default swaps climbed the most since February, adding 18 basis points to 108. The British Bankers’ Association asked the U.K. government to intervene with Saudi authorities over debts of at least $20 billion owed to as many as 100 banks by Saad Group and Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Brothers Co., two family holding companies based in the oil city of Al-Khobar, according to a letter dated Nov. 20.
Default swaps on Dubai World unit DP World Ltd., the Middle East’s biggest port operator, jumped by a record 181 basis points to 540.5 yesterday and were priced another 72 basis points higher today at 612, according to CMA data.
Manmade islands and gleaming new cities in the middle of the desert all devoid of people and real commerce. Of course the people who provided the financing deserve to lose their money and this will ripple around the globe, just one of several problems interrupting our markets (DOW futures are down more than 200 points this Thanksgiving even though the markets are closed). Amazing how news like this occurs when the U.S. markets are closed.
The people of the world need to wake up. Their futures and their natural resources are being robbed. There is a much, much better way, details coming soon. Meanwhile the Central bankers are already enacting their plan as they sing to Serbia, “Got you where I want you…”
The Fly's - Got you where I want you:
Outstanding artwork done by AZRainman
Happy Thanksgiving America!
While I’m sincere in my warm wishes, I want everyone to keep in mind what the world faces and how we are all being played.
Beginning about the time the markets closed yesterday and into the evening and now morning, the currency markets have been going haywire. Large moves, first down in the dollar, and now up are occurring. The Japanese Yen is strengthening rapidly and broke through key support. In the Middle East, Dubai in the U.A.E. (one of the world’s richest oil nations), is looking like they are defaulting on some of the debt behind their bright and new people-less cities. Greece has banks that are in trouble, while at the same time Japan is finally having a confidence crisis over their debt.
And here in the good ol’ U.S.A., our politicians blow smoke up our skirts about the economy while the banksters rob us blind and take over control of what used to be our free markets. While the markets are open, they gun their positions and when the markets are closed to normal people like you, this is the type of action that occurs in the futures:
Yes, we have a lot to be thankful for. We also have a lot of cleaning up to do. Enjoy the holiday, but keep focused on what’s coming and what we are going to do about it. Everyone has a role to play, your help and support is going to be needed. In concert with others I have developed a plan that I think is going to work and is going to get traction as it will get the people behind us, it will get the states behind us, and it should even get most of the banks behind us (okay, maybe not the central banks, lol).
IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT MORE RISKLESS (or maybe NOT!)
PS - By the looks of the poll results on gold backing, I have quite a bit of education still to do. Please buy the film and learn about the history of the gold standard. Wanting control over the QUANTITY of money is indeed nobel, but gold is not the way to do it:
The Secret of Oz
Equity futures are up this morning while the dollar is breaking below support and making new lows for the year. DOW and S&P overnight action is below:
Bonds are down slightly while the Dollar, which has been flirting with Disaster, has broken beneath recent support and hit an overnight low of 74.40.
Gold, of course is going ballistic and is now pushing the $1,200 mark with an overnight high of $1,184 an ounce. Oil is up only slightly after breaking below support and triggering a new bearish Point & Figure target of $71 a barrel:
The MBA purchase applications “data” was first out this morning showing a whopping 9.6% advance over the week prior! This is amazing, especially in light of the recent many large negative prints in the past 6 weeks or so. Here’s what Econoday has to say about it:
Two prior weeks of big declines in the purchase index raised talk that however good October may have been good for home sales, November was likely to mark a reversal. But not so fast! The purchase index surged 9.6 percent in the Nov. 20 week, biting into mid single digit and low double digit declines in the prior two weeks (note MBA said the prior week was revised slightly lower but offered no further details). The sequence suggests that let down with the end of first-time buyer credits was limited to the beginning of November. Refinancing applications fell 9.5 percent in the week but still make up more than 70 percent of all applications, a reflection of extremely low mortgage rates including an average 4.82 percent for 30-year fixed loans.
So, the MBA revised the prior week DOWN, thus making this week look like a larger increase than had the revision not happened. But we can’t see the raw data, much less how it’s compiled, so we really don’t know ANYTHING about what’s happening besides the fact that there is no transparency and that we are being manipulated right along with the presentation of the data. Other sites, by the way, that attempt to track this data will be thrown off by revisions… it is completely IMPOSSIBLE to track when all that is reported are percentage changes and revisions are made without telling how large they are. This is the type of stuff that will bring down confidence in the entire system.
Next up is Durable Goods orders. It was expected to produce a month over month POSITIVE .5% change, instead it was a NEGATIVE .6% change. The year over year figures are coming up on easier comparables. Overall, this report is worse than expected:
The outlook for manufacturing cooled a bit in October. New orders for durable goods in October fell 0.6 percent, after a revised 2.0 percent rebound in September. The drop in October was well below the market forecast for a 0.5 percent boost. Excluding the transportation component, new durables orders fell 1.3 percent, following a 1.8 percent jump in September.
The drop in new orders was led by machinery which fell a monthly 8.0 percent, followed by a 2.1 percent decrease in computers & electronics. Also declining were communications equipment and "other" durables. Partially offsetting were gains in primary metals, fabricated metals, electrical equipment, and transportation.
New orders for capital equipment continued to rebound from a drop in August. New orders for nondefense capital goods rose 1.2 percent in October after an increase of 3.2 percent the month before. These orders had dropped 7.8 percent in August.
Year-on-year, overall new orders for durable goods improved to minus 11.9 percent in October from minus 18.8 percent in September. Excluding transportation, new durables orders rose to minus 11.3 percent from down 16.3 percent the previous month.
Today's durables orders report indicate that recovery in manufacturing is not a smooth one. Of course, new durables orders are one of the most volatile market moving indicators published by the government and no one month makes a trend. But at face value, the recovery in manufacturing cooled just a little in October. Equities will not like the orders numbers but jobless claims dropped more than expected and some see the personal income report as healthy (though the details suggest not so much).
Keep in mind that just because the yearly line is pointing up does NOT mean that it is actually rising, just that yoy comparisons are getting better… this yoy number is still significantly negative which means that the economy is still getting worse than it at this time last year, at least in this regard.
Next up is Personal Income and Outlays… This came in almost exactly as expected with wages basically flat but core inflation readings firming slightly:
Personal income was mildly positive in October and spending was up as auto sales rebounded. Personal income in October edged up 0.2 percent, following a revised 0.2 percent rise in September. October's gain matched the consensus forecast. The important wages and salaries component, however, was flat after a 0.1 percent dip in September, indicating that consumer spending power is not improving.
We are seeing probably the final impact of cash-for-clunkers on personal spending in October. Motor vehicle sales fell sharply in September with the ending of incentives in August. In October, auto sales rebounded and returned to normal-at least for the recovery trend. Personal consumption expenditures jumped 0.7 percent after a 0.6 percent drop in September. The market had forecast a 0.5 percent boost in PCEs. The boost in October was led by durables, which rebounded 2.0 percent after an 8.8 percent plunge in September. In the latest month, nondurables rose 0.2 percent while services advanced 0.3 percent.
Inflation firmed in October. Headline PCE price inflation rose to 0.3 percent from a 0.1 percent rise in September. Core PCE inflation edged up to 0.2 percent in October from 0.1 percent the month before. The consensus had expected a 0.2 percent core gain for the latest month.
Year on year, personal income growth for October came in at minus 1.0 percent, improved from minus 1.6 percent in September. Year-ago headline PCE inflation rose to plus 0.2 percent from minus 0.6 percent in September. Year-ago core PCE inflation firmed to up 1.4 percent in October from up 1.3 percent the month before.
On initial blush, the October personal income report looks moderately good. But after taking into account weakness in wages and salaries and that the spending gain was a partial rebound from clunkers, it is indicative of a soft consumer sector. Markets have much to sort through this morning. Some will focus on headline numbers for personal income and see good news. A nice drop in jobless claims this morning may add to that temptation. On the other hand, durables orders were weak. Most likely, the good news on jobless claims will likely tip the balance, boosting equities and firming interest rates.
Weekly jobless claims fell below the 500,000 mark for the first time in a year, with a headline number of “only” 466,000 which was below the 495k consensus. This produced a euphoric spike in the futures:
Improvement in initial claims is picking up steam in what points to lower payroll losses for November's employment report. First time claims fell 35,000 in the Nov. 21 week to 466,000 (prior week revised 4,000 lower). The four-week average also broke below 500,000, down 16,5000 to 496,500. Continuing claims are also falling, down 190,000 to 5.423 million in data for the Nov. 14 week, but here the change also reflects the expiration of benefits. Those receiving extended benefits fell 34,600 to 539,500. Continuing claims may be clouded but initial claims offer perhaps more reason for optimism than any other piece of economic data.
What’s there to say? The economy needs to produce 150,000 jobs a month to break even and we’re still stacking on newly unemployed workers while others simply run out of benefits. Meanwhile the politicians are clueless that the more debt they inject into the system, the higher unemployment goes. Debt leads to unemployment, they are tied together once debt saturation occurs, and it’s here. Having a money system backed by debt, then only worsens the situation when one attempts to spend their way out. It is quite literally impossible to do so.
The spike up may be just the thing to top off the current up move. The VIX diverged bearishly yesterday, again showing signs of severe complacency to me. This is setting up a very dangerous situation with the dollar falling in the background. This trend is simply not sustainable and it’s going to end in tears. Funny, and as I type those words, the entire spike caused by this report melted away.
Consumer Sentiment and New Home sales come out at 10 Eastern, the petroleum report at 10:30.
McHugh believes we are making a small rising wedge which is a terminal pattern. If so, this may be the pattern that ends the final wave up of B up. This pattern could have another zig-zag or two left in it.
The move below support in the dollar is the real news of the day. The next support area is down around 71/72. Breaking support was largely caused by the British GDP report coming in stronger than expected with a -.3% reading in their 3rd quarter. Those who think that the U.S. can artificially keep rates at zero forever while monetizing just don’t realize how international capital flows work. We will be punished, and the government’s attempts to keep everything under control will fail in time.
So, we are now right on the 1,107 SPX pivot point. 1,111/ 1,113 is rejecting advances so far. A run up to the 1,121 area would be the next stop, then comes the 1,133 pivot. If we break below 1,107, support will be 1,101, then the 1,091 pivot.
We are putting in a top, that much I know. A break below support in the dollar might be exactly what’s needed to suck in the last of the dollar short people to make a reversal possible. If the dollar continues down, I am going to get REALLY nervous, as in that’s the stuff where crashes are eventually born. Those thinking the dollar rising will make a crash haven’t seen anything compared to the dollar going down hard in the background. The best outcome from here is that the dollar goes up, equities descend. The worst possible outcome will be found by further devaluing the dollar. That, my friends, is what is called, “Flirtin’ with Disaster!”
Molly Hatchet - "Flirtin' With Disaster"
Equity futures are roughly flat to up a little this morning after being lower, then higher:
The dollar swung higher and then fell back to flat overnight, collapsing back down quickly, showing its propensity to return to the 75 level. There’s a battle going on here, and my saying is that the longer something keeps knocking on the door, the more likely it is to break through… but it cannot and will not sit at this level forever, the break will be interesting. Break up, equities will go down. Break down, most people believe equities will moonshot, and that may be true initially, but the dollar breaking down WILL eventually tank equities, there is no fooling mother nature, no way to get around paying our debts, they must be cleared. Bonds are higher, and if you’re looking for a clue as to equity direction for the day, that is probably it. Oil is down slightly, gold is up a little more, $1,169.
Yesterday was the 10th Monday ramp job out of the past 12 weeks. I must have read four different people talking about that, look for future ramp jobs to come on, oh, Friday. No, wait, most of the Goldman boys are gone that day spending their bonuses, so we better schedule that for Wednesdays.
Both Robert Prechter and McHugh pointed out the time and price relationships in play at this juncture; the B wave rally has now taken exactly half the time of the A wave descent, and it has retraced half the plunge, a very important confluence of price/time. Thus Prechter said, once again, that he believes the top was just put in. McHugh is saying it’s important, but there is still the EW possibility of higher.
The short term stochastics are obviously overbought, there are new short term bearish divergences on top of the historic much larger ones.
The absolutely unreliable ICSC showed store sales were flat week over week but rose 3.3% yoy on much easier comparisons. That’s interesting because sales tax collections are down roughly 8%. Which is correct? Well, the sales tax collections, of course as they are not manipulated. The ICSC suffers the same flaws as the indices with substitution bias among other inaccuracies. The Redbook likewise showed a 2.8% yoy increase against easier comparisons, again, a flawed report, as sales tax data is also yoy, but even it is now measured against this time last year making for a very easy comparison.
The first revision of Q3 GDP lowered the annualized growth rate down from the much ballyhooed 3.5% down to 2.8%, a mere drop in growth rate over that advertised of only20%! Business as usual here during the Great Deception. But of course that was expected… Look, they can, and do, make this number come out any way they want. Did the economy actually grow in the 3rd quarter? NO. It is still shrinking when measured in real money, as it has been ever since the year 2000. At any rate, here’s the propaganda for public consumption:
The recovery is not as strong as hoped, based on the latest Commerce Department revision to third quarter GDP. Economic growth was revised downward to an annualized 2.8 percent from the initial estimate of 3.5 percent. The market consensus had expected a 2.8 percent figure for the new estimate. Nonetheless, the third quarter boost is still the first positive number for GDP since a 1.5 percent gain in the second quarter of 2008. The third quarter increase, however, appears to have ended the recession which faded with a 0.7 percent dip in the second quarter.
The downward revisions were broad based, lowering estimates for PCEs, nonresidential structures, residential investment, business inventories, and net exports. Upward revisions were seen in business equipment & software and in government purchases.
But compared to the second quarter, the improvement in real GDP in the third quarter still reflected upturns in personal consumption, exports, and residential fixed investment and a smaller decrease in nonresidential fixed investment and inventory investment. These were partly offset by rise in imports, a downturn in state and local government spending, and a deceleration in federal government spending.
Motor vehicle output added 1.45 percentage points to the latest quarter's growth, compared to the initial estimate of 1.66 percentage points.
Year-on-year, real GDP stood at minus 2.4 percent compared to minus 3.8 percent in the second quarter.
Turning to inflation, the GDPI price index was nudged down to a 0.5 percent annualized pace and compares to the initial estimate of 0.8 percent and the median forecast of 0.8 percent.
Two items stand out in the report. Final sales were revised down to an annualized 1.9 percent from the initial estimate of 2.5 percent. Demand is not as strong as earlier believed. Second, the downward revision to the price index also indicates softness in demand. These two issues could weigh on equities at open and soften Treasury yields. But there is much more economic news ahead today.
And talk about more fantasy, marked to fantasy corporate “profits” on quarter over quarter comparisons were up and annualized (key word), 71.9%... huh? PLEEEZZZE. How 'bout we annualize the weekly Treasury auctions, shall we? Try $9 trillion a year, so that all the businesses in this country can generate $1 trillion a year in phony profits! Nice try, Econoday, let’s just stick to the year over year percent change that shows a 7.2% drop which is better than the 19.2% plunge in the second quarter. Yes, reported profits were up slightly, but the yoy number is against a much easier comparison, and that time last year the financial industry was still marking somewhat to market, unlike this year where all bets are off and they are back to marking all their assets to whatever gives them the biggest bonuses. Again, no basis in reality, look at tax receipts instead for reality:
Corporate profits in the third quarter posted a sharp gain to $1.181 trillion annualized-up from $1.031 trillion the prior quarter. Profits in the third quarter were up an annualized 71.9 percent, following a 24.5 percent boost the prior quarter. Profits are after tax but without inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments. Corporate profits are still down 7.2 percent on a year-on-year basis, compared to down 19.2 percent in the second quarter.
The Case-Schiller data showed a very slight improvement, the 20 city index rose from 146 to 146.51 in September. Here’s Econoday:
Home prices continue to improve according to Case-Shiller data. The report's index for the top 10 cities rose 0.4 percent in September, on the low side of what is a long strong string of improvement. Year-on-year rates continue to improve, now down to single digit contraction at minus 8.5 percent for the 10 index. A look at the quarter-to-quarter rate shows steady improvement, at plus 3.1 percent for both the third and second quarters. Improvement is especially evident in the West and Florida, high flying areas hit hardest by the housing downturn. This report, noted for its vigorous methodology, continues to contrast with price data in the existing home sales report where contraction, though slowing a bit, is still underway. New home sales data for October will be posted tomorrow. Prices in this report did show improvement in September.
Pretty much a yawner. Another report came out and said that 1 in 4 mortgages are now underwater…
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In a sign that more foreclosures could be on the horizon, 23% of people with mortgages owe more than their home is worth, according to a report released Tuesday.
Almost 10.7 million U.S. mortgages were "underwater" as of September, said research firm First American CoreLogic.
Another 2.3 million homeowners are within 5% of negative territory, the report said. The two figures combined comprise almost 28% of all residential properties with mortgages.
Negative equity, also called an "underwater" or "upside down" mortgage, has become more common as home values plummet. The report is closely watched because borrowers who are underwater are more likely to be foreclosed.
Of course we know that the option-ARM reset debacle is just now picking up where sub-prime left off. Amazing how many people ignore it.
Consumer Confidence comes out at 10AM...
I’m just waiting for the nut to crack and not getting too worked up about anything at this juncture. Soon the dollar and equities will pick a trend, it’ll probably be real obvious when they do. The E.W. counts say that trend will be up in the dollar and down in equities. If the dollar rolls down further as those in the administration are trying to force, I think the outcome will not be what they expect. They think they can devalue debt away. The problem nature has with that is that when they do, people’s purchasing power goes down, thus they must work more to get the same amount of goods. It all boils down to productive effort. The law of nature states that all debts get repaid with interest in one way or the other… you can fight that law, but guess who wins?
The Clash – I Fought the Law:
Jim Bullard Comments…
St. Louis Fed President, Jim Bullard, was the replacement for Mr. Poole to head the St. Louis Fed. If you’ve ever wondered why the Fed doesn’t seem to know what’s going on with much of anything, look no further. I can conclusively say that I disagree with almost every utterance from his lips – as in the exact opposite. Someone who obviously hasn’t learned the real lessons of the crisis, he believes that it’s his job to “get credit flowing again.” He has no idea why a “jobless recovery might just be the new standard” because he has not figured out the decelerating effects that debt has on the economy, on the velocity of money, and on unemployment. Despite having a Ph.D in economics, and being a Fed research writer (have you read many of those reports?), I think it’s safe to say that he’s never put together a chart of debt levels on the same page as a chart with unemployment or anything else. It’s almost as if being submersed in the myth and misinformation kills off one’s common sense… sigh. Not a bright future to look forward to - he becomes a voting FOMC member soon.
Equities are up sharply overnight in reaction to a sharp decline in the dollar. Below is the overnight action in the DOW and on the right side is the S&P futures that I left in a 30 minute chart:
On the 30 minute chart, you can see that the S&P ran right back up to the 1,101 resistance area which if it isn’t exceeded will form a perfect right shoulder of a H&S topping pattern. If the top of the head is exceeded then the pattern is invalidated.
The dollar took a tremendous .75% plunge overnight and over the weekend. Moves of that size are a sign of severe stress and instability, bordering on getting out of hand. Bonds are down, oil is up, and gold rocketed to another new high, this time peaking at $1,167 an ounce, a stone’s throw from the $1,200 mark. Remember how high it sounded when gold was at $600 an ounce? Well, this move looks like it’s a little bit parabolic now, it’s very overbought and likely to take a rest soon, but it has been crawling along the upper boundary of an expanding wedge and still is.
Three busy days for data prior to the holiday, of course markets will be closed on Thursday and Friday. Today is the slowest of the three, with existing home sales coming out at 10 Eastern. Tomorrow is revised GDP for the 3rd quarter, consumer confidence and a myriad of others. Wednesday is durable goods, jobless claims, consumer sentiment and new home sales.
On Friday we had a very small movement on the McClelland Oscillator which meant that there’s a large move coming, and it looks like we got that in the form of this run up. SPX 1,101 is an area of resistance, then there’s a pivot at 1,107, the prior high at 1,113, and then another pivot at 1,133. The support pivot is at 1,090, the H&S neckline at 1,086.
Also on Friday, there was a spike downward in the VIX. I don’t ignore these spikes as the odds of it following down the tail of the spike seem to be very high, and it looks like this time may be no exception with prices rising again here, chart below:
I really don’t have a lot to add technically otherwise as not a lot has changed… we’re still either in the final wave up, or we’ve topped and this is the start of wave 1 down, those are the two scenarios in play right now and we won’t really know which until we either make a new high or exceed the prior low. Of course the technicals are still screaming TOP is either in or at hand.
Going out into the realm of Fibonacci spirals, a world that will seem “moonbattish” to most, some may remember a post from a person who is running spiral time series and came up with some turn dates for the remainder of the year. He said that his time series showed the following: “The 25th (“F25”) Fibonacci Spiral Calendar sequence gives you the four dates explained in the above Excel chart in 2009; July 11, 2009 (significant low), October 16, 2009 (final highest high in the crash year), November 23, 2009 (secondary high before a crash) and December 10, 2009 (crash).”
His first date was direct hit, his second date is what I am calling an “internal high” and is the still within a day of the actual high in the RUT and XLF, and here we are today to what he calls a “secondary high before a crash” which would imply that we begin a descent and then accelerate downward the second week of December, counter to the usual positive bias in December (btw, the week of Thanksgiving has a strong historical bullish bias). No, I don’t know much about his background or his track record, I’m just bringing it up because I do believe there’s basis in Fibonacci time sequences, I brought it up before, and it seems to be tracking pretty accurately so far.
I found a very interesting chart over the weekend in which it shows the diminishing effects of each new dollar of debt. This is really another way of showing how velocity comes to a stand still as you force more and more debt into the system (dollars in our system are debt). This study concluded that at trend by the year 2015, only five years away, that each new dollar of debt will have ZERO effect on raising GDP and that it already is so bad that $1 of debt only adds about 18 cents onto the output of goods and services in this country!
That’s a pretty amazing thing, and it shows graphically exactly what I’ve been talking about. Debt saturation leads to a stand still in velocity as new money can only service prior debts, thus infusing more debt onto debt eventually has NO positive effect whatsoever on the economy. You see that in the parabolic charts of debt. Well, all parabolic curves collapse, the curve of debt will be no exception. Keep in mind what that means! Our money is debt! When that curve rolls over, it will signal a crash in our money as well… and in fact, the debt and money supply charts are already beginning to roll. This is a system that was flawed via its design, the feature of our money that is causing it is NOT the “fiat” feature (fiat means by decree, thus all money used by governments would be fiat, or by decree), it is the interest bearing debt backed feature that guarantees its eventual demise and the math is saying that for this dollar, it is in the end phase.
In fact, AZRainman did a great picture this weekend showing what’s coming to Wall Street in the second wave:
LOL, AZ does great artwork, and he knows what’s coming (link to his site in blog favorites)!
And my favorite chart from the weekend is someone’s diagram showing the inner workings of the 64% B wave rally:
Now that looks about right to me, might be a little too high a cut for “reality” though, lol. Hey, all this debt, it’s got the dollar under pressure!
Billy Joel – Pressure:
Once again it's time, boys & girls, for Uncle Jay to explain the news of the past week...
Yesterday a person on another forum kept hounding me to accept his beliefs about the way money works. He is backing a person who is running for President(!) because he thinks he has all the answers as to how money works. According to him, government rules are different than other people’s rules when it comes to money and he explains how the Treasury moves deficits around in various accounts and that the net effect is that deficits don’t matter and that we can simply print our way to prosperity, and that the people who are harping about the deficits are the ones who do not understand how money works. This is very reminiscent of the video where Jan questions the politician about interest and deficits and the Haaarvard trained politician tells Jan that he’s full of it and then threatens to throw him out the window! Remember that?
Okay, here is the paper that backs this latest person’s assertions. Just see how many fallacies you can find in the assumptions that are made in it:
This entire paper and way of thinking is just plain old flawed and does NOT represent how the real world works. This is my response to the poster and my attempt to explain how the real world of money works. I hope that it helps to clear up some misunderstandings…
Reply to the poster:
Sorry, not meant as anything personal because MYTHS about money abound. You are incorrect in saying that the government pays you (or anyone) with real money. In fact almost NO REAL MONEY is issued today America or in the entire world.
The government takes in revenue from taxes, that's called income. Then they spend money, that's called outflow. When the outflow exceeds the income, that's called a deficit. When the deficit portion is paid out, the money has to come from somewhere, or alternatively it could just be paid and the deficit not increased, THAT is called printing. In fact, printing in that method would be a REAL dollar, one that came into existence without debt. But that's NOT how our system works and there's a reason for that. To cover the deficit, the Treasury issues bonds, i.e. DEBT. Who generally buys the debt? The BANKS. Thus, the deficits are borrowed from the BANKS, the money is NOT simply printed, or I should say that under the current system, is not supposed to be.
This is not altruistic! The banks charge and receive interest. The interest payments must come from somewhere, and if the money is not there in the form of income, then it is added to the national debt. Thus, all money is supposed to be debt under the current system. And actually the debt COULD work as a money quantity limiting device, but it doesn't work that way... why? Because, debt backs all money, the interest quickly erodes it over time. To cover the interest, more debt must be issued. This is why never ending growth is a must under a debt backed system. More money equals more debt. That's why you are seeing politicians and bankers clamor for ever increasing amount of "CREDIT" i.e. DEBT. Without more and more, the system will deflate and that, in their delusional minds, is bad. This is WHY you see the delusional game of fighting a DEBT PROBLEM WITH MORE DEBT. So, the debts grow and grow and grow until they go parabolic. All exponential growth curves eventually fail, our debts are no exception. Why?
Because our system is OPEN, capital and manufacturing is free to leave... and leave it has. This is terrific at arbitraging wages and keeping inflation temporarily at bay. The problem with that theory is that without wages rising at the same rate as DEBT, the debt can no longer be serviced once saturation occurs. That is where we are today.
And that leads us back to printing without debt. That is essentially what quantitative easing is. Outright printing YES is possible and yes, you could call those dollars REAL, not credit dollars. The problem is then, that you no longer have any method of CONTROL over the quantity of money.
As the quantity of money goes out of control - and it has - some bad things begin to happen. People begin to expect that more printing will occur. The people who hold our debts begin to realize that they are being paid back with diluted money that is worth less. The value of our currency begins to sink in relation to other currencies as we begin to be PUNISHED by free market forces. That may not seem like it's happening, but it is and it's gathering momentum.
The politicians and the economic mass psychosis crowd who believe that deficits on the national level just don't matter are delusional, and they will be proven so in the fullness of time. ALL DEBTS GET REPAID WITH INTEREST IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. I would go so far as to call that a law of nature. There are two ways to pay back debt, default or pay it back. When a nation that has debts prints money, it is in fact defaulting to those it owes. Any nation that does too much of this will begin to be squeezed off by the rest of the world. Is there any truth to what I'm saying here? Can you see it?
Another part of the delusion is the fact that the U.S. is "the reserve currency." BULL. There is no law anointing us as such, that status is a PRIVILEGE, one that can and is being lost because of bad stewardship.
If you work for the government and think that your paycheck is just printed out of thin air, you are most certainly incorrect. If everything were that easy, then the markets would not have collapsed last year. Imports would not have crashed more than 20%, etc. MONEY IS AN INTERNATIONAL GAME OF CONFIDENCE.
And we haven't even addressed debt saturation on the individual level, the state and local government level, and the debt saturation that now has the world's banks hobbled. HOW DO YOU GET FROM DEBT SATURATION BACK TO SOUND MONEY WITHOUT LOSING THE CONFIDENCE OF THE REST OF THE WORLD AND WITHOUT CRASHING THE ENTIRE PLANET'S ECONOMY?
There are four major markets and all four markets are intertwined. EQUITIES, BONDS (DEBT), CURRENCIES, AND COMMODITIES. You will see stress seep out from one and bleed into the other. When I say that all debts get repaid with interest in one way or the other... The LEAST painful way to pay back debt is to work and to receive money from your PRODUCTIVE EFFORTS and to pay it back per contract and the rule of law. Another way to pay back debt is to monetize it (this is currently outside of the rule of law). But then when we do monetize, what effect does that have on currencies and commodities? That's where you get to really pay it back, see? The currency goes down, commodities go up and THINGS cost you more. The cost you more is actually you, once again, having to go to work and use your PRODUCTIVE EFFORTS to pay back the debt. THIS IS A LAW, LIKE GRAVITY, YOU CANNOT GET AROUND IT. Oh, you may think you can for awhile, but that is not real, that is delusion.
You can default on your national debt, but again, what effect does that have on your currency? Thus, again, you eventually wind up paying it back, with interest as your money will no longer be taken overseas when you do so, or if they even believe you are going to do so. That’s a loss of confidence, that IS occurring right now.
Thus, our system has set us up for never ending growth, it must happen because of the way the system works. The bankers are the ones who profit from such a system and as the debts build, the people are the ones who pay it back. It's a perfect system for the ones who started it.
Let me ask you a few questions to get you thinking... Why do you think the Primary Dealers MUST buy the Treasury's debts if no one else will? Who made that rule?
How did the IMF become the world's third largest holder of gold?
PEOPLE, please take the time to understand how money works and do not be fooled by politicians or central bankers – they have become ONE IN THE SAME.
So, to get back to the poster’s comments and his backing of the candidate who says it's all a game that can simply be bypassed, I say again, that's NOT the way the real world works.
Now, I know that people are going to attack me and say that it is I who does not understand how money works. I say that over time the markets are going to dispel all such bull____. Thus a window of opportunity is opening. The central bankers think that it is their window of opportunity and they are going to fiercely attack and spread more of their psychopathic and controlling myths in order to get their objective... What's their objective? World wide never ending debt backed growth. Believe it or don't believe it, I don't care, but that's where it's all headed.
You need only look at what happened in Iceland. Debt and derivative saturation to the MAX. The IMF (the world’s central bankers) came in and offered loans (DEBT) under condition. Those conditions would effectively turn over CONTROL of the nation and how it’s money system work to the IMF (central bankers). Where does the IMF get the money to lend in the first place? Where are their productive efforts to create the money they lend?
The President of Iceland said NO, pound sand! The next day the people were rioting in the streets protesting the fact that the President would not take the loans! The IMF (central bankers) has the world by the balls. If you don’t play their debt backed games, they will isolate your country and cut you off from the rest of the world. But the truth is that Iceland deserved to be cut off from the rest of the world and they were rightly being punished because they allowed themselves to run up an impossible level of debt, thus they gave up control of their own destiny a long time ago. That’s what we are doing today as well… we are doing it as a nation, in our states, in our local governments, and as individuals.
FREEDOM only comes when one is free from debt! Like all things in life, there is a balance. We have gotten very obviously out of balance, something that was UNAVOIDABLE because of the interest bearing debt backed feature of our current money system that is only 38 years old. On the national level, it is possible to have a non debt backed money system whereby money is spent into being in the form of real money, not credit money. The problem then, is one of quantity and control.
Thus, I look at coming events (and EVENTS ARE COMING) not with fearful eyes, but with OPTIMISTIC eyes, as I view coming events as a window of OPPORTUNITY to change the way our monetary systems work... WE DO NOT NEED CENTRAL BANKERS IN ORDER TO HAVE A MONETARY SYSTEM THAT WORKS! Indeed, our money does NOT have to be backed by debt, but for that to happen, you MUST control the quantity or the forces of nature will eventually control it for you. That is, trade is a game of CONFIDENCE. The way that capital forms is by having confidence. The way that confidence is held over time is by having and following the rule of law and by controlling the QUANTITY OF MONEY.
“It’s not WHAT backs your money, it’s WHO controls its QUANTITY.”
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Pose Star Angelica Ross on Filming Candy Abundance’s Tragic Final Scenes
Warning: Contains spoilers for Pose season 2, episode 4.
“Why me?” That’s the question Angelica Ross, who plays Candy from the House of Abundance on the hit FX show Pose, asked herself after her character met an untimely death on tonight’s episode. It’s a question that also points to the realities for trans women of color in the 1980s—and today. “It’s usually the dark-skinned, black, trans women that are being murdered,” Ross says, “and out of that group, that would be me. That would be Candy.”
This year, ten trans women have been killed; 72 per cent of trans homicide victims between 2010 and 2016 were black trans women and femmes, according to Mic. But Ross insists that these women not be reduced to a statistic, because there are many trans women of color that need our help right now. In a final scene, Candy sums it up by urging her ballroom family to not “waste your time missing me and ‘use that energy on a Candy girl out there.’”
Ross opened up to ELLE.com about shooting her devastating final scenes, how her own story is reflected in Pose, and what we can do to support trans women of color.
How did you find out about Candy’s passing? Were you shocked when you got the script?
It was a complete shock to me, and I knew before I read it in the script. [Pose co-creator] Ryan Murphy called me personally, and wanted to give me the news firsthand and explain to me the reasoning behind it all, but there wasn’t too much explaining that he had to do. I understood why.
I also felt up to the challenge—because I knew it was going to be very challenging to film the episode, emotionally—and making sure we got everything right. But it was bittersweet because I knew that saying goodbye to Candy was also me saying goodbye to the family that I had built while filming Pose.
The final funeral scene includes wonderful conversations between Candy and each character. Were you part of the writing process?
With Candy, throughout the seasons, even though I have not been in the writing room, they have given me a lot of free range to change and write my own lines. But the writing for the conversation with Candy’s parents during the funeral scene, I didn’t even touch. I didn’t even rehearse it. I barely memorized the lines, meaning I had to memorize the lines on the day of, because they were just too raw. It was too real. Ryan came up to us and asked us if we needed to rehearse it, and we were like, “No, let’s just film it.”
You auditioned for Blanca and Elektra. What about Candy felt like the perfect fit for you?
They met me, and then wrote Candy for me, so I didn’t see a script. Initially they just knew that they wanted me as a part of the children, but my role expanded because when Ryan Murphy’s light bulb goes off, he starts writing more and more. He started writing based on my abilities—on set, he would say, “Angelica, you say something. Make up something catty,” or “Say something funny.” So from the first episode, I was ad-libbing.
Is she similar to you?
Candy is to Angelica Ross as Sasha Fierce is to Beyoncé. She’s become my alter ego in a sense. Playing Candy allowed me to unleash. It allowed me to play, and be the girl who was impulsive and who said all the things that people are thinking but nobody feels like it’s appropriate to say. She’s there within me somewhere, and I know that girl. I’ve grown up with those girls on the streets, when I was coming up as a black trans woman. So all of that is there, within myself.
Candy fought for equality, but also struggles with her own body image, and she decided to get unregulated injections and fillers. That feels so relevant to what women deal with, even today. How did you want to bring that balance and perspective to the character?
There’s that saying that when you focus on the very specific, you can reach the universal. I knew by addressing body issues in such a way, where this was about survival for us and for trans women, and now today we have women who are not trans also pumping their bodies and getting sick from these things—we are all risking our lives. And for what? This is all to either be safe from a man, or to be chosen by a man, or to be seen by a man.
And it gets us, as women, to look at each other and say, “What are we doing here?” We all have this same want and need to be loved and to be seen, but it shouldn’t have to cost our lives. That is a message I hope will resonate with the storyline, and with what’s going on today with black trans women.
“We all have this same want and need to be loved and to be seen, but it shouldn’t have to cost our lives in order for us to be loved.”
Candy’s death explores the danger trans women faced in the 1980s, 1990s, and still face today. What was it like to portray such an intense scene?
One of the questions that came up for me, and that’s going to come up for a lot of people is why. I was thinking, “Why me?” That question really crystallized why this was going to be so important. I think that America is not moving as fast as it should be moving on a lot of issues, from immigration, to abortion, to trans issues, because they’re not questioning: Why not me?
In a situation where black trans women are being killed, who am I to think that I’m so special, that I would make it out alive? It’s usually the dark-skinned, black, trans women that are being murdered, and out of that group, that would be me. That would be Candy.
I knew that so many people relate to Candy as this girl in the ball that has to be tough with a hammer in her purse. I knew that it would be important for me to tell the storyline. It broke my heart. I cried more than I’ve ever cried, probably, in my life. I was crying the entire time, filming it. I had to pretty much quarantine myself most of the time from people while doing it because I was so sensitive; anything you did or said to me, I could start crying.
For all the fans who have turned Candy into their chosen family, for all the folks who are going to care, I want that line to hit, where she says, “Don’t waste your time missing me. Use that energy on a Candy girl out there.”
That’s what I really want the fans to do—not waste their energy missing Candy, although I love the love, and Candy would love the love, I’m sure. But to also think about how they can use that energy on black trans women that are struggling right now, today.
Courtesy of FX
Layleen Polanco Xtravaganza died recently at Rikers. Trans women of color are dying at an alarming rate. What can we do?
What I would say is to protect black trans women like you would protect your own child, because the reality is that we are someone’s child, and we have to learn to love one another and protect one another, as if we had some sort of responsibility to one another. Which, in the grand scheme of things, we do.
At the very least, it comes down to creating safe space for trans people, and that’s 24/7. What ways can you help to create safe space? Is this a safe shelter? Can I walk in and breathe for five minutes, or get an education, or get something to eat, or just even a safe space?
To be innovative about it, it comes down to technology to help keep trans people and sex workers safe, and to decriminalize that, and to create technology [to ensure] they don’t have to be on the street, vulnerable to violence, and to drug abuse. They can be behind a computer screen.
You founded TransTech to help trans individuals get into the tech field. What was the inspiration behind that program?
Many folks in our cast and crew have spoken—Janet Mock in particular, in her book—about the fact that for many of us trans women, on our path to womanhood is sex work. It just is what it is, and for many of us, we had to learn how to release the shame around that.
For me, part of releasing that shame was learning to not shame myself, but to empower myself by saying, Let me start by not allowing someone else to exploit me, and if I’m going to be exploited, let me control the rate, and how much that costs.
Before I could even get it started, the woman who owned the adult website noticed that I was savvy on the computer. She asked me to become her webmaster, instead of posing on the website. So I started learning how to become a webmaster, and then I became self-taught, learning from videos online. That was my organic pathway out, and it was through that, that I created a blueprint for TransTech. It doesn’t even have to be this computer program. It can be graphic design. It can be data entry. It can be anything from very low-level skills to very high-level skills that gives folks an opportunity to set their own value and the pace of their own growth.
Candy’s family attends her funeral and her mom is reluctant but finally finds peace. How important is it for you to tell stories of both abandonment and reconciliation?
It’s very important. My mom, who is not an actress, and she’s not really even a public speaker, but yet, she accompanied me on the red carpet for the season 2 Pose premiere. I’m trying to help my mom become an advocate in the space and to learn the responsibility of her own truth and story. There was a moment, which is on my Instagram, where we were talking about the reconciliation that we had, personally, and how that’s being reflected on the show.
I’ve been telling my mom for years, “Mom, there are so many mothers out there who are Christian like you, who are still holding onto their faith, who need to understand how you reconciled your faith with your love for your child. How did you get from point A to point B?” We do need to create space for shows like Pose to be able to send out the messages that we haven’t been hearing and that we need to hear.
Below, a number of organizations that aim to stop the violence against trans individuals.
GLAAD: Advocates for transgender people to be represented fairly, accurately, and authentically in all forms of media.
National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE): Advocates for the need for policy change in order to advance transgender equality.
Transgender Law Center (TLC): Largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. With a commitment to racial justice, TLC employs community-driven strategies to keep transgender and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation.
National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) Transgender Law Project: Releases annual reports documenting their legal work in advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families.
Transgender Law & Policy Institute: Brings experts and advocates together to work on law and policy initiatives designed to advance transgender equality. Responds by email to questions about how the law in your jurisdiction affects you.
Sylvia Rivera Law Project: Works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. Offers legal help with name changes, IDs, immigration, and more.
Trans Youth Family Allies (TYFA): Empowers children and families by partnering with educators, service providers, and communities to develop supportive environments in which gender may be expressed and respected.
Lambda Legal Transgender Parents Program: Resource that outlines the rights of transgender parents and offers a toll-free Help Desk for those who feel that they have experienced discrimination.
COLAGE: Kids of Trans Resource Guide: Resource guide aimed at helping children of transgender parents through the process of understanding and acceptance.
Resources courtesy of GLAAD.
Pose airs Tuesdays at 10 P.M. on FX.
Chloe Hall
Chloe Hall is an editor, producer, and Instagrammer who covers beauty, fashion, culture and Rihanna at ELLE.com.
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Journalists themselves admit there is no self-censorship
Well, I guess that settles that. There is no self-censorship in the Fiji news media, according to CFL. At least that’s the conclusion they have come to after interviewing several of their fellow journalists. This is great news. A lot of needless concern will now be alleviated. Personally, I am greatly relieved that this is settled because, frankly, I was getting worried.
I don't know how I could have been so wrong. And not just me, of course, but others. Like Permanent Secretary for Information Sharon Smith-Johns. Why else would she have urged Fiji journalists to “report fully and without fear or favour” and to not use the Media Decree “as an excuse not to do their jobs.” And apparently other folks have also had their facts backwards, too. Like Matilda Bogner, the United Nations Human Rights representative for the Pacific. She actually DID do a study on this subject for World Press Freedom Day in May. Here's what she said.
It appears that a culture of self-censorship continues to exist for journalists in Fiji. A preliminary media content analysis conducted recently by my office, comparing Fiji’s two main daily newspapers, the Fiji Times and the Fiji Sun, before and after the lifting of the PER, suggests that there has been no distinguishable change in the level of criticism of the Fiji Government observed in either newspaper.
Then there are the women's rights groups in Fiji that say they had newspaper advertisements rejected that highlighted issues concerning the ongoing constitutional review process. Shamima Ali of the Fiji's Women's Crisis Centre said two weeks ago that both daily newspapers in Fiji told them to tone down the language in the ads.
"One of them wanted to have a meeting to tone down the ad, which we refused to do, and a spokesperson from there said 'I hope you understand'," she said. "The other said 'sorry we can't', after deliberating on it for nearly two and a half days."
Talk about a climate of fear. They're even reportedly turning down advertising, which newspapers rarely do. And just yesterday, the Fiji Labour Party demonstrated that it, too, was labouring under an illusion in its submission to the Contitutional Commission hearings. "The media in Fiji continues to operate as though it is still under strict censorship," it said. "Indeed, the environment is still quite substantially coercive and threatening." It cited the Television (Amendment) Decree 52, under which the licence of any television station that contravenes the 2010 Media Decree can be revoked by the minister responsible without appeal, as an example of press intimidation. "We do not have an independent, free, liberated media in Fiji. The fines for incurring the wrath of the regime are so excessive that no media organization would dare fall foul of it."
The repercussions of such a cowed media are fatal for the success of a “free and open” consultation process. Articles, opinions or comments that question the regime or oppose its views are rarely, if ever, run. For instance, not a single mention was made in the news pages of the Fiji Times of the Constitution Commission’s media conference held on 19 July 2012. The Fiji Times ran a feature article two days later buried in the inside pages of its publication. How many people would have read the strong criticism voiced by Commission Chair Professor Yash Ghai, particularly of Decrees 57 and 58?
At our symposium last week, the topic of self-censorship became a bit of a sore point. CFL news director Vijay Narayan, who never responded to my attempts to recruit him to sit on a panel on this topic at our symposium, appeared anyway in his role as a journalist and made a speech from the front row. "Everyone who is commenting on claims that there is widespread self-censorship in the country are making comments without any proper surveys conducted with journalists and media outlets,” he said. To which Fiji Times lawyer Richard Naidu deliciously retorted: “To suggest that the media is not operating under a set of self-censorship rules means that one of us is on the wrong planet.” Watch the video here. In reporting on this controversy today, Alex Perrottet interviewed Fiji TV's legal manager, Tanya Waqanika, who said that Fiji journalists are still afraid to ask tough questions because of the penalties contained in the Media Decree. “The journalists, they see the penalties,” she told Perrottet. "If you were in that situation, and there’s a court case currently against the Fiji Times, for any person, it freaks them out. No one wants to be fined.” Perrottet, who is researching his Master's thesis on this topic at Auckland University of Technology, even gave us a preview of his research on AUT's website Pacific Media Centre.
There is extensive evidence that due to censorship, the print media in Fiji is suffering from self-censorship, as they are not sure where the line will be drawn by the government.
So I don't know why CFL is shooting at me every day. I'm not even the messenger. I'm only an educator. And I obviously have a lot of work to do.
Posted by Marc Edge at 4:28 PM
Clarence Dass October 2, 2012 at 7:39 PM
I think if local journalists actually investigated stories, and wrote with hard evidence to back their issues then they should have nothing to worry about.
The majority of "Journalists" in Fiji who write in regards to Govt and politics, do so with an agenda, and that's what stirs up the trouble.
I always thought that good journalists, particularly those who write for the so called "Free Press" need to be very subject and neutral.
But half the Journos here are just reporters who bring nothing interesting to anything they write and the others are borderline Gonzo journalists who cough up bloated/ often unfounded opinion pieces that go no where constructive or insightful.
A complaint to the Media Authority
Grubby blogger opens up a can of worms on himself
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Elton John - Farewell Yellow Brick Road: SOLD OUT
Sorry this event has sold out
Sun 16 Feb ’20, 6:00pm
Mt Smart Stadium, Beasley Ave, Penrose
Buy Tickets – 0800 111 999
Due to a scheduling conflict, three of Elton’s sold out New Zealand concerts have been delayed by one week. For details on how to manage your tickets if this date change affects you, see here: http://chu.gg/EltonNZFAQ
In response to the overwhelming demand of Elton's solid fans, a third and final Auckland show has been added to his five already announced New Zealand dates for Thursday 20th Feb. New show on sale 22nd May.
Please note: Start time not confirmed at this stage.
“The most elaborate, high-tech arena show Elton has ever attempted...A parade of mega-hits and one hell of a way to say goodbye.” – Rolling Stone USA
“Each song felt so important. Each moment seemed so significant. And the crowd hung on every word, spoken or sung. It wasn’t just a concert, but rather a chance for these fans to express their thanks to a performer whose music has played such a huge part in the soundtracks of their lives.”
– Mercury News, California
Sir Elton John, recently crowned by Billboard as the most successful performing male solo artist of all time, today reveals details of the New Zealand leg of his global Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour.
Elton will deliver his famed songbook to spellbound audiences on his very last tour, playing across a mammoth run across Australasia.
Beginning in Pennsylvania, USA in September 2018, Elton John’s three-year Farewell Yellow Brick Road global tour has already been hailed as one of his most “energetic, dazzlingly-original and joyful celebrations”. Elton’s legendary catalogue, including beloved songs ‘Bennie and the Jets’, ‘Rocket Man’, ‘Tiny Dancer’, ‘Crocodile Rock’, ‘Philadelphia Freedom’ and more, are showcased in a musical masterpiece that is a “reflective and stunning tribute to a great artist’s career” (NME), also celebrating his 50-plus year collaboration with lyricist Bernie Taupin - one of the great song-writing partnerships of all time.
The milestone itinerary comprises more than 300 shows across five continents, spanning three years, with stops in Europe, North America, Asia, South America, Australia and New Zealand, and marks the last tour of its kind by the celebrated songwriter and iconic showman.
Audiences will experience a rare glimpse into Elton’s life, and the deeply personal meaning behind some of his greatest hits, via mesmerising, never-before-seen images and videos displayed throughout the show from his incredible 50-year career. Complete with brand new stage production, and tour wardrobe designed by Italian fashion house Gucci, Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road global tour is intimate and personal, while also spectacular and daring.
He will be joined by longstanding band members Nigel Olsson on drums (part of Elton’s original three-piece band in 1970), esteemed musical director Davey Johnstone (who first recorded with Elton in 1971 and joined the band a year later) on guitar, virtuoso Ray Cooper on percussion, Matt Bissonette on bass, John Mahon on percussion, and Kim Bullard on keyboards.
The performer said that after the tour finishes he looks forward to “coming off the road and dedicating more time to raising my children”.
“I’m ecstatic and humbled to continue to play for audiences across the globe. I plan to bring to my final tour the passion and creativity that has entertained my fans for decades...It’s the most produced and fantastic show I’ve ever done. I want to go out with a bang...” – Elton John
Garnering rave reviews at sell-out shows across North America, Elton John’s curtain call will be the last chance to catch this legendary performer touring in New Zealand.
More than a concert; an unforgettable memory!
Tickets will go fast, don’t miss out on your spot at Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour.
Mt Smart Stadium, Penrose, Auckland
Mission Concert ft. Elton John: SOLD OUT
Mission Estate Winery, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Thu 6 Feb 2020 – more dates
10cc + Jan Hellriegel: Platinum Sounds 2020
SKYCITY Theatre, CBD, Auckland
Tue 10 Mar 2020 – more dates
Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin, Otago
Tue 4 Feb 2020
Opening of New Rainbow Playlab At Rainbow’s End
Rainbow's End, Manukau City, Auckland
Midge Ure + The Mockers: Platinum Sounds 2020
Powerstation, Eden Terrace, Auckland
Fri 6 Mar 2020
Grayson Hugh & Polly Messer
Woodside Bar, Manukau City, Auckland
Mon 28 Oct
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Crossworlds: The Flying City
Crossworlds: The Flying City is one of the lately released titles in the hidden object/adventure genre. The game is new, but it doesn't bring lots of newness to the genre.
You are to join the main characters in their journey through different dimentions and the worlds in them.
The game has many hidden object levels, but it's not the majority of the tasks for you there.
You become a witness of the two people inventing a maching that can travel through different dimentions. Those two are Monica and her father. They both are professors.
But how can you ever know if a thing like that really works unless you actually try it. And that is exactly what the father did. Monica joined him when she found out what he did. And you are now going to see all of the worlds wich they visit and meet all those that live in those worlds.
The game has many hidden object levels, but it's not the majority of the tasks for you there. You will have to do a lot of walking around trying to get further in the game.
The hidden object scenes are not over clattered with every item possible. And usually you can find most of the items on the list yourself. But there is a hint system for the cases when you are stuck with something.
The interactive part of the game is clear about what to do most of the time. Sometimes you don't understand what to do with or how to use what you see just because you didn't go somewhere else where you need that something.
There are also different mini-games in the game where you have to solve different little puzzles. All of those are familiar, but they are good for a change in the game.
Those mini-games are skipable after a while. That function can be very useful with the ones like the very first one, where you had to connect the colored items according to the colors, but how in the world you can see where those cables go I don't know.
As to the gaphics of the game, they are not extremely gorgeous. I would say that they are rather simple, but they do their job. They look better when you get to those fantastic worlds, but it is personal of course, and may not be an issue for some.
I would recommend to get the trial version of Crossworlds: The Flying City first if you are considering buying it.
See related tags: Games for Windows, Hidden object, Hide and seek
This is Crossworlds: The Flying City review. Download this game here.
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2018 NBA playoffs: Heat’s Tyler Johnson struggles through thumb injury
April 24, 2018 2017-18 season, Dwyane Wade, Erik Spoelstra, Goran Dragic, Jason Lieser, Philadelphia 76ers.
Tyler Johnson’s had a tough series. (Getty Images)
PHILADELPHIA — There is zero chance of Heat guard Tyler Johnson missing tonight’s Game 5 against the 76ers.
“He’s ready to go,” coach Erik Spoelstra said at shootaround. “He would probably punch me in the face if I said anything otherwise.”
Johnson has been gutting out an injured thumb on his shooting hand since Philadelphia center Joel Embiid knocked him to the floor on a screen in Game 3. He’s been practicing and playing with tape holding it in place, and it’s definitely hampered him.
He feels it every time he handles the ball, even in something as mundane as dribbling, and it’s made an already tough series even more frustrating for him. Johnson, who spends every bit of energy he has trying to defend 76ers guard J.J. Redick as he runs around screens all night, has averaged six points and shot 7 of 15.
In Game 4, a loss that put the Heat down 3-1 and has them facing elimination tonight at Wells Fargo Center, he went 0 for 1 and had two fouls in just 13 minutes of action.
Those aren’t viable numbers for a starting shooting guard, and they’re a big dropoff from what Johnson did in the regular season while averaging 11.7 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game. Spoelstra spoke with him over the last few days about how get rolling again, but that’s going to be a challenge.
“I want to be as involved as I can, but it’s because I know I can help,” he said. “It’s not because I feel like I need X amount of shots. It’s coming from a place of I feel like I can contribute to the team. We were talking about it and trying to figure out ways in which I can be effective, not just for myself but for the team.”
It’s particularly bad timing for Miami as it manages a shoulder injury to fellow starter Josh Richardson. He sprained the A/C joint in his left shoulder (he’s a right-handed shooter) in the last game, and his status is uncertain for tonight.
While Richardson will probably end up playing, he won’t be at full strength. That could mean more minutes for Rodney McGruder and other reserves.
Johnson has been a factor defensively, but not enough to get him on the floor when the game’s on the line. Spoelstra played him for three minutes in the fourth quarter of Game 1, and he has not appeared since.
The Heat still trust him, though, and Johnson’s teammates have been impressed by how he’s fought through the issue.
“When he’s healthy, he gives us a lot,” point guard Goran Dragic said. “He gives us good defense and attacks the paint really well.
“But you can see why we love Tyler. Some players, with that kind of injury, they would already be done for the season, but he’s still here with us. He’s out there competing, giving us everything he’s got. That’s why I appreciate him so much.”
Dwyane Wade is optimistic that playing hurt will force Johnson to be sharper and more attentive, especially when he’s guarding Redick.
That would be big for the Heat considering he’s averaging 18.3 points per game and shooting 45.3 percent from the field in the series. He hit them with 28 points in the opener and 24 on Saturday.
“When you have some form of injury, it makes you focus in on your job a little bit more,” Wade said. “He can’t be late on a screen because if he’s late, they’re gonna screen him and hit him hard, and it may hurt him. He needs to be there early, be ahead of things.”
[In a series that Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid have thrived, Heat pleased with progress from their own young duo]
[Heat must finish vs. Sixers, or season will be finished]
[Was Heat’s Game 4 loss Dwyane Wade’s final game in Miami? Wade: ‘I don’t want to answer that right now’]
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The Maelstrom 10:14 PM -- Tue February 10, 2015
The past few years have been a whirlwind. I have really had no time to sit back and relax for at least 2 years. I mean, I've taken vacations (and maybe spent upwards of 8 hours in a row playing games at times...), and that kind of thing, but if you've ever been the person in charge of setting up a vacation yourself, you know that's far from relaxing, it's just more work! And every vacation I've been on, I spent time each day checking in on every aspect of my business, so I was never really free to just relax.
That's been half the reason why I never blog anything anymore - I'm just overwhelmed with things that need to get done. The other half is that I don't feel like I have anything much to say about what I'm doing. Well, and the third quarter on top of those halves is that I'm embarrassed to discuss some of the things, not to mention most of it has nothing to do with Hamumu. The Hamumu story is simple (another 1/17 of why there's not much to blog about): I make updates for Growtopia. It's all I do, day after day. And they're secret, so I can't tell people about them until they're out, and even then, we don't spoil things about the game, we leave them for players to find. So if you want to know what I've been doing work-wise, that's it: updating Growtopia for 2 years. I've created some amazing stuff including entirely new games inside the game, things that I'm proud of and didn't even think could've been done, but there's still not much I can say about it. Except one hint: another 'in-game game' is coming soon!
So, this maelstrom churns around faster and faster the closer you get to the center, and I think I'm right on the tipping point of being sucked down - hopefully to Atlantis and not into a giant squid. In the past month, craziness has built up to a speed I don't think most people ever see in their lives. We went shopping for houses this past weekend in Texas (not for the first time, this has been a year-long process), found one, and put in an offer. By the end of the weekend, our offer had been accepted and the closing date was set... for two weeks from now. So in the next two weeks, I will be cleaning out my house, packing up, most likely buying a new car, selling two cars, handling the specifics of selling our current house, making another update for Growtopia (gotta keep em coming every 2 weeks!), working with the guys doing the website redesign, and working with the guys working on NPC Quest 2. And a few other things. I'm a lazy, laid-back guy. This is all so much more than I have ever dealt with. This is more than I usually have to deal with in a year!
But the dream and the hope is that once this 2-week span is up, it's all smooth sailing. I'll be in my new house relaxing by the pool. Ahhhh. I don't think that's the reality, but it's certainly going to be a lot calmer than it is right now. So back to packing up our game room. I'm gonna be one of those Austin indies you always hear about!
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Cooperative Board Games of 2014 08:04 PM -- Wed January 7, 2015
So, in the year 2014, I played a lot of board games. And most of those were cooperative games! Cooperative games are truly a different experience from normal board games. As the name implies (or just plain says), in a cooperative game, the players work together to try to beat the game. You either all win or all lose. Mostly, you all lose. This creates a very different dynamic from a competitive game, which involves a lot of back and forth discussion. This is just us, and probably it would be better to play differently, but when my family and I play these games, it almost doesn't even matter which character you're playing. All that affects is who moves the pawn around the board physically. The actions that pawn is going to take are actually decided by committee through a thorough discussion. I think these games would be more fun if people kind of took their own actions a bit and kept the discussion more high-level strategy... they'd certainly be faster! But they are very fun this way as well. So let's dive in to all the cooperative board games I played in 2014:
Forbidden Island
This was the first cooperative game I played (started in 2013, actually). Maybe the first one I ever played. It also happens to be - spoiler alert - my favorite of the ones I played! Well, maybe. There's another contender to come. This is notably the easiest of the games I'll be listing, and that's its biggest selling point. You can fire it up and have some fun, rather than twisting your brain in knots trying to barely hang on to your life. The board is made of a set of tiles, which over the course of time end up getting flipped over to display that they are flooded, and if they get flipped again, they sink beneath the waves, never to be traversed again. So you have to balance your choice of actions on your turn between 'placing sandbags' (flipping tiles back upright), moving, picking up treasure if you have the right cards (collect all four and get them to the helicopter to win), and trading items with other players. Each player has unique abilities, and you will need to employ those to stay alive as the island gradually sinks around you.
Forbidden Desert
As the name suggests, this is closely related to Forbidden Island. In fact, it's almost the same game. What it is, is much much harder. This time, your board made of tiles is a sandy desert, and you flip the tiles over on purpose, in order to excavate what's underneath and find the things you need to win. Over time, sand is blown on top of the tiles (by placing cardboard pieces on the tiles), and once 2 sand pieces are on a tile, that tile is no longer usable until you remove the sand. So unlike Forbidden Island, no tile ever permanently goes away here, but when there are 5 or 6 sand on a tile, you pretty much consider it a lost cause, though there is a Dune Blaster item you can get to clear all the sand from a tile in one shot. So you balance your limited actions each turn between removing sand, flipping up tiles to find things, picking up artifacts (the goal is to get all four and bring them to the launch pad, just like Forbidden Island), moving, and trading items. What's so brutal about this game is the water. There's very limited water supply you gradually run out of and must replenish at two oases which can only be used once each. I've played this game more than any of the others, and it took us about 6 games before we ever won on the easiest difficulty. Once you get water management taken care of, you start dying by getting buried in sand (if you run out of sand tiles, the game is over), or if you're really good but not good enough to win, you die because the storm reaches epic proportions and instantly kills you. All the games I'm discussing offer difficulty options, where you add or remove cards or draw more cards each turn in order to ramp up the challenge, and I believe this is the only one of the games where I ever tried higher than the easiest difficulty, since we played it enough times. But we did not win at higher difficulty.
Just like the previous two games, this is the work of designer Matt Leacock. And it does bear similarities to those games, though this is the most different of the three. You can tell that as he made these games, he was working through his ideas on different cooperative gaming concepts, as each one plays on the ideas a little differently. In this case, you're team of scientists, trying to cure four different diseases which are ravaging the globe. Like before, you have to balance your limited actions per turn between moving from city to city, treating people (removing disease cubes from the board), working on an actual cure for the disease by spending cards, and building treatment centers which you can later use to get around the map more easily (for some reason they have teleporters built into them, I guess). This is a fun game, harder than Forbidden Island but easier than Forbidden Desert, and it really presents you with a lot of conundrums when you have to think about what disease cards you know are coming soon (because each time an epidemic card is drawn, the discard pile is shuffled and placed on TOP of the deck, so those same cities are going to get hit again right away), choose to prevent an outbreak by reducing the disease in a city, or let it go to actually work towards a cure. All three of these games also feature different characters you play as, each with a unique ability, and the combination of what abilities your team has in each game drastically changes how you play it. This game is the one I mentioned above that might also be my favorite of the list. Best of all, it has little plastic disease cubes, and everybody loves those.
This is a game about rescuing people (and cats) from a burning building before it collapses. We've only played this game about 3 times. I would say it's on the easier side, though unlike the other games, instead of a series of difficulty levels, this one offers two completely different modes - the one we played is very simple, but the other one is pretty mind-boggling, with all kinds of complex fire-spreading rules and hazardous materials that can combust. Just like the previous games, this one has you taking a limited number of actions each turn, and having to balance that between moving, hacking holes in walls, extinguishing fires, and picking up people (sometimes to find they're just a ghost and you wasted a lot of time getting to them...). It has a fair amount of similarity to the concepts of the other games, but instead of a finite deck of dangers, this one just has you roll dice each turn to see where new fires spark up. That makes it very unpredictable. Sometimes things go great, other times half the building explodes as fires chain-react. It's not bad, but it just doesn't feel up to par with the previous 3 games.
Now we get to something really different! This is a Chinese-themed game where the players are a bunch of monks who are ghostbusting a village. You win by beating the evil Wu-Feng who lurks at the bottom of the deck of cards, you lose in several ways which amount to the village being overrun by ghosts. This plays nothing like the other games, although it does have a board made of tiles, which flip over as ghosts haunt them. This game is super confusing, in large part due to the terrible instructions which don't even take you through a turn in order. There are game elements that are thrown in as an aside halfway through, and others that aren't even mentioned, you just have to extrapolate them from the reference card. We only played one time, and it was a very slow process of checking the manual over and over again to gradually piece together what the actual rules are. By the end (when we lost, of course, but we did manage to reach Wu-Feng! Well, he was the card at the top of the deck when we lost...), we had it mostly figured out and it was pretty fun. I think it's actually a good game, it's just so confusing to learn, and I have trouble imagining how we're going to teach someone else to play with us (we played with 2 players only). A tip for other people who try two players: there are special rules for 2 players, and I suspect that it will work much better to just play a 4-player game with each player manning 2 monks. More ghosts get summoned that way, but you have a lot more power at hand to deal with them, plus the rules aren't as wonky. Still hard to decipher though!
So those are the cooperative games I played in 2014! Here's to lots of other games in 2015! And hoo boy, I've been playing some awesome PC games in the end of 2014... just quick: you should be playing Borderlands (any version, I just happened to get The Pre-Sequel finally, and the moon-jumping in that really adds a lot to it, though Borderlands 2 is surely a better all-around game), and Shadow of Mordor (it's Batman, only better! So amazing!).
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Mechanics train for Red Seal certification
The first batch of skilled automotive workers for 2010 left the island in mid-January to take up employment opportunities in Canada through a work-study programme offered by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS).
The group of 13 auto-service technicians will be participants in the programme at the Red River College in Manitoba, Canada, over a period of eight months.
The on-the-job training will facilitate Red Seal certification (Canada's highest trade credential) which will allow them to live and work in Canada.
According to ministry representative, public relations manager Ann-Marie Dobson, there is an increasing demand for skilled workers in Canada in the automotive and transportation sectors.
She states, "As often as these opportunities unfold, the ministry will respond and dispatch workers."
Skilled mechanics are in demand in Canada. Cost for the training programmes range between CDN$5,500 and CDN$6,000 for the auto-service technician and heavy-duty mechanic courses.
The courses are contracted ones between the colleges in Canada and the ministry. Applicants will need to pass the initial exams set by the college to become eligible and demonstrate the ability to pay for the course. There is need for a minimum of 15-16 persons to make the training viable to fill market needs.
Technicians job
Automotive service technicians inspect, maintain, and repair automobiles and light trucks that run on gasolene, electricity, or alternative fuels, such as ethanol.
They perform basic care maintenance, such as oil changes and tire rotations, diagnose more complex problems, plan and execute vehicle repairs and provide full servicing of vehicles.
The selected trainees had previous experience in this field in Jamaica.
Another group of 14 heavy-duty mechanics were set to leave on Saturday, January 23, for training at the College of North Atlantic in Newfoundland.
According to Dobson, communications consultant with the MLSS, the work-study programme is not a new component to the Overseas Work Programme.
"The skilled work-study programme has been offered for the last three years, subject to the ministry's ability to send persons at required time and applicants' ability to pay for the cost of training."
"Usually the ministry attempts to recruit more than the required numbers and in case some persons drop out," Dobson notes.
Courses in Canada last for eight months and involve two months in the classroom (theory), four months, work experience (learn and earn) and the final two months in classroom (theory). The trainee is then set examinations for Red Seal certification.
On completion of the eight-month programme, qualified trainees are eligible for a work permit for an additional eight months. However, they cannot stay permanently in Canada and have to return home at the end of any employment in this additional eight months.
However, trainees can apply for Canadian residency through their employers.
Pearnel Charles, minister of labour and social security, asked the workers to demonstrate professionalism on the job so that the programme could be expanded to accommodate others and open up opportunities for unemployed and underemployed Jamaicans.
The ministry is currently recruiting another batch of culinary workers (chefs) to begin another course in May, following the successful training of the first batch of 18 workers at the Red River College in Manitoba. These workers had departed in July 2009.
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Email: cmstultz@mit.edu
Website: Computational Biophysics Group
Lab Phone: (617) 324-3644
Lab Fax: (617) 258-7864
room: 36-796
MIT address: 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
Administrative Assistant: Megumi Masuda-Loos
assistant phone: (617) 324-3542
assistant email: megumima@mit.edu
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
Professor Collin M. Stultz is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his AB from Harvard College in 1988, and his MD from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in Biophysics from Harvard University in 1997. He is a board certified internist and cardiologist. An alumnus of the Harvard-MIT program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Professor Stultz is on the faculty of both HST and MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Among his honors are being a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in Biomedical Sciences and the James Tolbert Shipley Prize.
PhD in Biophysics, Harvard University, 1997
MD, Harvard Medical School, 1997
AB, Harvard College, 1988
selected awards/societies
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in Biomedical Sciences
James Tolbert Shipley Prize
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Research in Professor Stultz’ group revolves around two general themes. Firstly, a major thrust of the group is to use computational methods to understand conformational changes in macromolecules and the effect of structural transitions on common human diseases. Secondly, his group draws upon concepts in signal processing and machine learning to develop computational biomarkers that identify patients at high risk of adverse cardiovascular events. His research group employs an interdisciplinary approach that utilizes techniques drawn from computational chemistry, signal processing, and basic biochemistry.
C. Zhong, T. Gurry, A. Cheng, J. Downey, Z. Deng, C. M. Stultz, and T. K. Lu. “Biologically Inspired Engineering of Strong, Self-Assembling, and Multi-Functional Underwater Adhesives.” Nature Nanotechnology 9 (2014): 858-66.
T. Gurry and C. M. Stultz. The Mechanism of Amyloid-Beta Fibril Elongation.” Biochemistry 53 (2014): 6981−91.
L. Yun, Z. Syed, B. M. Scirica, D. A. Morrow, J. V. Guttag, and
C. M. Stultz. “ECG Morphological Variability in Beat-space for Risk Stratification after Acute Coronary Syndrome.” Journal of the American Heart Association (2014): 3:e000981 doi:10.1161/JAHA.114.000981
C. K. Fisher and C. M. Stultz. “Protein Structure along the order-disorder continuum.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 133.26 (2011): 10022–25.
C. K. Fisher and C. M. Stultz. “Constructing Ensembles for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.” Current Opinion in Structural Biology 21 (2011): 426-31.
A full list of Dr. Stultz’s publications can be found on his website.
6.03 – FA 2013 – Introduction to EECS II from a Medical Technology Perspective
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2018 Suburban Handicap and Dwyer Stakes
Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard Diversify after winning the 2018 Suburban Handicap
Belmont Derby, Oaks, and Sprint - also on the card
The $700,000 Suburban Stakes (G2) features the top older handicap horses of the east going 1 1/4 miles on the Belmont Park main track, in an early prep for the Whitney Handicap (G1), Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1), and ultimately the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1). Last year's Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Tapwrit was sent off as the lukewarm 3-1 favorite in the field of 10 off a 3rd place finish in allowance company. In to challenge him included 7-2 second choice Hoppertunity, winner of the Brooklyn (G2), and 15-4 third choice War Story, 2nd in both the Brooklyn (G2) and Charles Town Classic (G2).
Down the stretch with Diversify leading in the center
Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. sent 6-1 fourth choice Diversify to the lead through fractions of 23.47, 46.18, 1:09.65, and 1:34.00 while stalked by 53-1 Zanotti and War Story. Entering the stretch, Diversify left the field behind, opening up a 6 1/2 length lead midstretch through 9f in 1:46.66. Kept to task by Ortiz, Diversify cruised to win by 6 1/2 lengths over late-running 34-1 The Lieutenant in 1:59.84. It was another 2 lengths back to 41-1 Discreet Lover third, while Tapwrit checked in 5th.
Pgm Horse Jockey Win Place Show
10 Diversify Ortiz Jr. 14.00 8.00 6.40
11 The Lieutenant Castellano 24.00 11.00
6 Discreet Lover Velazquez 16.40
$1 Exacta 10-11 164.50
$1 Trifecta 10-11-6 1,911.00
$1 Superfecta 10-11-6-8 12,754.50
Left: Diversify in the winner's circle. Winning trainer Rick Violette said, "I was surprised that we were pressed by horses other than Dr. Door. We were meant to be aggressive and Irad told me when he realized it was Zanotti and War Story he kind of just stepped on the gas. He did it pretty comfortably. I think this is his best race ever. He beat some nice horses, withstood some serious pressure, fast fractions and he obviously loves Belmont. We have five weeks to the Whitney off his lifetime best I think. There's also the Woodward four weeks later in the meet. We'll think about the fall as well. We would love to do the Whitney, but we'll see how he comes back from this effort."
Right: Diversify in the paddock before the race. Winning jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. said, "My plan was to break and go. I broke good, I sent him, and he took me the whole way. He was traveling perfect. I just went from there and started moving and he responded very well. He went fast, and he gave me another gear at the quarter pole."
Left: Second place finisher The Lieutenant in the paddock before the race. The Mike McCarthy trainee improved his record to 4 wins, 2 seconds, and 1 third in 13 starts, earning $339,537 for owners Mr. and Mrs. William K. Warren Jr.
Right: Third place finisher Discreet Lover returns after the race. He improved his record to 6 wins, 7 seconds, and 6 thirds in 41 starts, earning $821,560 for owner-trainer Uriah St. Lewis.
Fifth place finisher and beaten favorite Tapwrit in the paddock before the race. The Todd Pletcher trainee has a record of 4 wins, 1 second, and 1 thirds in 11 starts, earning $1,267,402 for owners Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Robert LaPenta, Bridlewood Farm, Gainesway Stable, and Whisper Hill Farm.
Firenze Fire wins the Dwyer
Kicking off the stakes quintet on Saturday, the $300,000 Dwyer Stakes (G3) featured a field of 7 three-year-olds going 1 mile around one turn of the main track. UAE Derby (G2) winner Mendelssohn was sent off as the 3-2 favorite in his first start since finishing last of 20 in the Kentucky Derby (G1). In to challenge him included 11-4 second choice Firenze Fire, 11th in the Kentucky Derby (G1) after finishing 4th in the Wood Memorial (G2), and 7-2 third choice Noble Indy, 10th in the Belmont (G1) after finishing 17th in the Kentucky Derby.
Jockey John Velazquez sent Noble Indy to the front through fractions of 23.53 and 45.98 while pressed by Mendelssohn and stalked by 9-2 fourth choice Rugbyman. Entering the lane, Mendelssohn gained a short lead through 3/4 in 1:09.82. However, Firenze Fire, 5th early under Jose Ortiz, came out 4 wide for room and easily took over at the 3/16 pole through 7f in 1:21.75. Kept to task by Ortiz, Firenze Fire powered away through the stretch to win by 9 lengths over late-running 10-1 Seven Trumpets in 1:33.74. It was another 1/2 length back to Mendelssohn third.
Left: Firenze Fire in the winner's circle. Winning trainer Jason Servis said, "That was great. I've been dying to cut him back, just dying. We thought he'd run good. We got on the Derby trail like you're supposed to do. Do we think he's a 1 1/4 horse? Probably not. But, now we're getting him where he needs to be, a mile, 7/8, where he might even be a tad sharper. I mean, it all worked out. We're all real happy. The Allen Jerkens, which used to be the King's Bishop, at 7/8, is something we'll keep an eye on." Owner Ron Lombardi added, "Irad's been breezing him all week and I asked him if he was worried about anybody he said, 'I'm not worried about anybody.' He showed it; it was unbelievable. When he was sitting right off the pace there, and he made a move at the top of the turn, it was so easy. It's just amazing. There's a lot of thinking to do now. I haven't been thinking about the Haskell, I think the horse needs a little more time than three weeks. Most likely he'll be up in Saratoga for the Jim Dandy."
Right: Firenze Fire heads back to the barn after the race. Winning jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. said, "I got a perfect trip. We got a good post and he broke sharp. He was ready today, it was a big performance. Coming in, I just wanted to ride my race. Let him settle at first and then let him finish. In preparation for the race, we worked with him to gallop out and finish strong. To relax early and finish strong and it worked out good. I expected him to run a big race, but I didn't think he would gallop out like that. I'm so happy to see the way he did it."
Left: Second place finisher Seven Trumpets in the paddock before the race. The Dale Romans trainee improved his record to 3 wins, 2 seconds, and 0 thirds in 6 starts, earning $257,600 for owner West Point Thoroughbreds.
Right: Third place finisher and beaten favorite Mendelssohn returns after the race. T.J. Comerford, assistant to trainer Aidan O'Brien said, "Aidan thinks it was a great start since Kentucky and he thinks we can build on it. I'm sure the Pennsylvania Derby is in the pipeline. I'm not sure what Aidan has decided. He traveled lovely there. He jumped well from the gate. There's a lot of positive to take out. I thought it was a good run on the dirt. We can't keep swapping and changing [surfaces]. It was a good stepping stone for the next step." Jockey Ryan Moore added, "He ran a nice race for his first run in two months. I expect him to come forward from this today. He was comfortable, he jumped well and he just felt like he'd improve off how he ran today."
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France remains an important key market for tourists to South Africa and investment in maintaining and growing arrivals from France will continue. So said the National Tourism Minister, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, when he addressed a gala dinner at the annual Top Resa French travel show and exhibition in Paris on 22 September 2011.
Last year, 115 401 French nationals visited South Africa either as leisure or business tourists, 11% more French visitors to South Africa than was the case in 2009.
Van Schalkwyk says: “Of course last year’s Fifa World Cup was a significant driver of tourist arrivals to South Africa… not only from France, but from the whole of Europe and the rest of the world too. The Fifa World Cup precipitated significant investment in infrastructure; up-skilled the South African tourism industry to deliver even higher levels of service excellence to visitors; and raised the profile of destination South Africa to unprecedented levels all over the world. It also catapulted South Africa into a new era… the era in which South Africa arrived as global host of choice of big event tourism.
“More than 100 international associations have their headquarters in France. We want to win more of the business of these associations for their meetings, conferences, events and exhibitions for our destination,” the minister adds.
South Africa is set to host more than 200 international events over the next five years. These events are expected to attract over 300 000 delegates from all over the world. The minister adds that the imminent launch of the Conventions Bureau will lead development efforts that will position South Africa as Africa’s leading centre for regional and international conventions, exhibitions and incentives.
Speaking of the 1.5% decline in French arrivals to South Africa from May 2010 to May 2011, van Schalkwyk says that as the global economy is still recovering from the recession, the slight drop is understandable. However, he believes that South Africa’s continued investment in France will ensure that that country remains the strong tourism market it had always been.
Air France is due to open a new Paris-Cape Town route in November with three flights a week. This is seen as evidence of the confidence the aviation sector has in both the South African destination and in the French market’s imminent full recovery, says the minister.
South Africa’s theme at Top Resa this year was Responsible and Sustainable Tourism and a record number of 12 South African exhibiting companies were in attendance.
“Responsible and sustainable tourism embraces a number of imperatives. They include everything from procuring fresh produce locally to support the businesses of local communities; to recycling water; planting trees to offset the carbon footprint of the industry; to what we like to call in South Africa ‘treading lightly’ to preserve our magnificent wild and wilderness areas.
“South Africans jealously protect their cultural authenticity and unspoiled natural beauty. Not only because they draw tourists to South Africa, but also because they are precious and valuable to the South African people,” Minister van Schalkwyk concludes.
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Ph.D., Univeristy of Florida
Political communication, media influence on political attitudes and behavior, journalism practices, media and democracy in Latin America
Mariana De Maio is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Communication at Lehigh University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2015. Her teaching and research interests lie in agenda-setting, political communication, media influence on political attitudes and behavior, online and multimedia journalism, new communication technologies, health communication, and media use in immigrant communities.
Originally from Argentina, Dr. De Maio has been in the United States for several years and has worked as a reporter and editor in radio, television, print, and online news outlets.Before pursuing her Ph.D., Dr. De Maio worked for Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore and the American Red Cross in Philadelphia, where she used social media to enhance their outreach efforts and to promote their work to potential donors. Previously, she started a weekly Spanish publication for Gannet in the heart of South Jersey to service the regional Hispanic community.
Dr. De Maio’s work also extends to her time at the University of Missouri’s Journalism program where she was the assistant editor to a bilingual publication, produced bilingual radio programs to cover important news in Central Missouri, and worked for the local NPR affiliate and the local NBC station. Her experience also goes as far back as her years while being an undergraduate at the Universidad de Buenos Aires when she produced radio programs and taught a multimedia class.
Her undergraduate degree is from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina with a degree in Communications and she also has a master’s degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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Klimchuk reflects on career-changing draft
Written by Colton Hordichuk
Morgan Klimchuk (left) was drafted 28th overall by his hometown Calgary Flames in 2013. The Regina Pats forward sat down with Ink to talk about his experience. Photo by Colton Hordichuk.
Morgan Klimchuk’s journey to the pros has been filled with many accomplishments. The Regina Pats forward, who was drafted by his hometown Calgary Flames, competed in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament, and the IIHF World U18 Championship where he won a pair of gold medals with Team Canada. As well as being named the Denny’s Western Hockey League’s Player of the Week for the week ending Feb. 23.
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Jackson set on bringing obstacle course race to Saskatchewan
Mud Hero, Canada’s largest obstacle running series, is held in almost every province except Saskatchewan. Regina local Dale Jackson is looking to change that.
Jackson attended his first Mud Hero race last August in Red Deer, Alberta. The race involves long distance running combined with challenging obstacles.
Jackson explained that the registration fee for the six-kilometre race cost just $25, but he had to spend “over $700 for gas and hotel accommodations.” So, when he returned home from Red Deer, he emailed the event organizers requesting that the race be held somewhere in Saskatchewan.
Jackson said the organizers responded, asking him for location ideas. The runner explained that he thinks the Mission Ridge Winter Park located in Qu’Appelle Valley would be an ideal location for the race.
Ted McLeod, co-founder of Crazy Canuck Events, the organization that oversees Mud Hero, said there are many factors that go into finding a new venue for the event.
Read more: Jackson set on bringing obstacle course race to Saskatchewan
Kammerer gains valuable experience at World Juniors
For Regina Pats forward Maximilian Kammerer, a trip to Malmö, Sweden not only meant a chance to participate in the 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship, but also an opportunity to return home.
Kammerer, who’s from Düsseldorf, Germany, received the invite to try out for his home country’s junior team in early December. He left for Malmö on Dec.12.
The German-born player practiced twice a day at the tryout camp before officially being named to the team just before Christmas. After making his country’s squad, Kammerer said many of his teammates texted him to congratulate his accomplishment.
“I just said congrats. You’re a good player, you deserve it, and all that hard work is paying off for you,” fellow Pats teammate Austin Wagner said.
Kammerer already knew the majority of his German teammates. He said he played with several of them last year while representing Germany in the 2013 IIHF World U18 Championship.
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R 1/13 – The Premise
This is a petition for review of decision T 808/11 of Board of Appeal (BoA) 3.5.03, which had dismissed the patent proprietor’s appeal against the decision of the Opposition Division (OD) to maintain the patent in amended form.
During the oral proceedings (OPs), the Board had raised a clarity objection, in response to which the patent proprietor filed new auxiliary requests. There was a discussion in respect of the new requests at the end of which the chairman stated that amended claim 1 appeared to be clear. After a deliberation, the Board announced that the new requests were not admitted due to a prima facie lack of clarity, dismissed the appeal and terminated the proceedings.
The patent proprietor filed a petition for review. It argued that its right to be heard had been violated, for the following reasons:
The amendments corresponded to a late objection and should have been admitted.
The right to be heard under A 113 enshrines the possibility of a full reaction to overcome any late raised objection. This right can be safeguarded only by allowing a full discussion on the merits of new requests. Such a thorough discussion can in turn only be achieved by admitting new requests filed in response to the late objection. A prima facie assessment based on a cursory review made to establish whether a new request is likely to overcome an objection, such as that carried out in this case, is not adequate.
A 113 overrules Article 13(1) RPBA. The fundamental right to a thorough discussion of new requests filed in response to late objections cannot be overruled by an assessment as to the likelihood of a new request overcoming the late objection, nor can the submission of such requests be considered to be late.
According to consolidated EPO jurisprudence, prima facie examination is a legal assessment made available to Divisions and Boards for excluding those late filed submissions, e.g. new claims or fresh prior art, which may represent an abuse of the procedure. Responding to a late objection by filing new requests cannot represent a procedural abuse but rather follows from the legitimate right to respond to new issues.
Assuming that the Board did have a discretion under Article 13(1) RPBA not to admit new requests in response to new objections, it exercised that discretion in an unduly restrictive manner. Considering the belatedness of the objection, neither the complexity of the subject-matter, nor the state of the proceedings, nor procedural economy could justify the adverse exercise of discretion.
The Enlarged Board (EBA) was not impressed:
[8] A 113(1) provides:
“(1) The decisions of the EPO may only be based on grounds or evidence on which the parties concerned have had an opportunity to present their comments.”
[9] The only violation of that provision alleged by the petitioner is the decision of the BoA not to admit the new requests into the appeal proceedings. However the EBA cannot find any suggestion in the petition of a denial of the petitioner’s opportunity to present its comments on the admissibility of those requests. Indeed, the petitioner refers to and relies on the discussion of the admissibility of those requests which took place during the OPs. Further, the petition itself, all of the five declarations filed therewith, the petitioner’s request to amend the minutes, the respondent’s observations on that request, and the Board’s communication responding to that request all refer to such a discussion. Further still, while the minutes of the OPs do not actually mention the discussion on that subject they do, by reference to the filing of the new requests with annexed copies and by reciting the formal requests of the petitioner, provide further confirmation that a discussion of the new requests took place. The same is true of the BoA’s written decision which refers to the filing of the new requests and the appellant’s view thereon.
[10] The EBA’s case law makes clear that it is sufficient for the purposes of A 113(1) that a reason for a decision under review corresponds to an argument which has been put forward by another party so that the petitioner was aware of it and thus was not taken by surprise. In such circumstances and in the absence of any contention or indication that a BoA has refused to hear the petitioner, it cannot be established that the petitioner had no opportunity to comment within the meaning of A 113(1) (see R 4/08 [3.3]).
[11] In decision R 4/08, the petitioner was the opponent and the decision related to that opponent’s alleged lack of opportunity to comment on the admissibility of the patent proprietor’s new requests. The principle in that decision must apply with at least as much – if not more – force when, as in this case, the petitioner is the patent proprietor and the issue is the admissibility of the petitioner’s own requests.
It is not merely undisputed fact but also part of the case advanced by the petitioner that it knew the objection (lack of clarity) to its previous request, that it filed its new requests to overcome that objection, that it argued its case for admissibility of those requests, and that the Board decided not to admit the requests because they were prima facie not clear and thus did not overcome the objection. Far from showing a denial of an opportunity to comment, the petition confirms that the opportunity occurred.
[12] The petitioner’s view of A 113(1) […] appears to be at variance with the case law (see point [10] above) and the EBA does not agree with the petitioner’s various arguments based on its view of the law. The petitioner refers to A 113 but quite clearly intends only A 113(1). Its arguments, four in number, are to the effect that the BoA did not consider the new requests sufficiently or was obliged to admit the new requests or exercised its discretion incorrectly and each argument is said to demonstrate a violation of A 113. That is inconsistent with the petitioner’s statement in the petition […]:
“The present petition is filed under A 112a(2)(c) on the grounds that a fundamental violation of A 113 occurred in the appeal proceedings of case T 808/11. The negatively affecting decision, hereinafter also “the decision”, violates A 113 in having not admitted the new third and fourth auxiliary requests (also “the new requests”) into the proceedings and in having dismissed the appeal immediately after announcing the non-admittance.”
It is evident that the decision of the BoA is the only alleged violation of A 113 and that the petitioner’s arguments do not each demonstrate a separate violation but are intended to provide reasons why the decision is said to be a violation. The EBA considers each of the four arguments in points [13] to [17] below.
[13.1] The petitioner’s first argument is that A 113 enshrines the possibility of a full reaction to overcome any late-raised objection, a right that can only be safeguarded by allowing a full discussion on the merits of new requests filed in response to a late objection which in turn can only be achieved by admitting such new requests. A prima facie assessment to establish whether a new request is likely to overcome an objection is not adequate to satisfy this supposed right to a thorough discussion under A 113 of all the points at issue. As support for this proposition, the petitioner cited a passage from decision R 3/10 [2.10].
[13.2] This argument is based on the false premise that “A 113 enshrines the possibility of a full reaction to overcome any late raised objection”. In fact A 113(1) does no such thing. It simply provides that decisions shall not be based on matters on which parties have not been heard or, to be precise, on which parties concerned have not had an opportunity to comment.
The decision in question here was whether or not to admit the petitioner’s new requests and, as already explained (see point [9] above), the petitioner had and used the opportunity to comment on that issue.
[13.3] The petitioner’s suggestion that the right to be heard carries with it, in the case of requests filed in response to late objections, a right to a full discussion which transcends the requirement of admissibility is simply incorrect. A late objection may lead to more latitude in the filing of requests in response but there is no certainty of admissibility, let alone of a more thorough discussion if admissibility is achieved. If the petitioner was correct, any request filed in response to a late objection would be admissible even if it clearly had no prospect of overcoming the objection. The requirement of admissibility for late-filed requests serves several purposes – inter alia to ensure the requests offer a prospect of success – and the requirement is not suspended for latecomers, however understandable the lateness of filing their requests may be. If that were not the case, Article 13 RPBA would have little or no purpose (as the petitioner’s second argument tacitly recognizes - see point [14.2] below).
[13.4] In decision R 9/11 [3.2.2] the EBA held that Article 13(2) RPBA, which gives parties a right to comment on new submissions filed by others, does not give those parties automatic admissibility of their new requests; it follows that there can be no such right of automatic admissibility for those making the new submissions. The petitioner submitted […] that R 9/11 was distinguishable from the present case and, in as much as the facts are different, that is correct but that does not mean that the legal significance of the earlier case is to be ignored (see R 11/08 [11]). The procedure for new requests is in fact well summarized in the warning to the appellant in the BoA’s communication […]:
“If amended claims are filed by the appellant, it will be necessary at the OPs to discuss their admissibility and, if these claims are held admissible, to discuss the question of whether or not the amendments, the claims and their subject-matter comply with the requirements of the EPC...”
The EBA also notes that, in the opposition proceedings, the petitioner filed an amended first auxiliary request during the OPs which was held inadmissible for several reasons, apparently after the OD had conducted the usual admissibility appraisal without (so far as the OD’s decision and the minutes of the OPs show) any objection on the part of the petitioner.
[13.5] The petitioner’s only support for its argument was a one-sentence passage it cited from the EBA’s decision R 3/10 which, with an insertion added by the petitioner, reads:
“This right [the right to be heard] would be undermined if it were made dependent on an evaluation as to whether the party’s standpoint is likely to be justified”.
The complete passage from which that sentence is taken reads as follows:
“It is the very essence of the right to be heard that the party is given a full opportunity to defend its case and to persuade the deciding body that its position is the correct one. This right would be undermined if it were made dependent on an evaluation as to whether the party’s standpoint is likely to be justified”.
Thus, in the case of the admissibility of its new requests, the petitioner had to be given a full opportunity to defend its case for admissibility and to persuade the BoA that its position was correct. As already observed (see point [9] above), that is what happened in the present case. In its proper context, the second sentence means no more than that a party should not be denied an opportunity to be heard because he may ultimately succeed or fail. That also happened in the present case in which the petitioner was heard on the admissibility of the new requests even though it ultimately lost (although it would appear from the petitioner’s own view of the chairman’s remark that the Board’s evaluation while hearing the petitioner was that it was likely to succeed). The passage from R 3/10 is entirely consistent with the EBA’s other jurisprudence on the right to be heard (see points [10] to [11] above).
[14.1] The petitioner’s second argument is that A 113 overrules Article 13(1) RPBA since the fundamental right to a thorough discussion of new requests filed in response to late-raised objections can neither be overruled by an assessment as to the likelihood of a new request overcoming that objection nor be considered late-filed, so the Board has no discretion in respect of the admissibility of such requests.
[14.2] This argument is no more than a necessary corollary of the previous argument which, as already observed (see point [13.3] above) would mean that Article 13 RPBA has little or no purpose. It is therefore an argument which the petitioner had to make to be consistent. However, the reasons for rejecting the argument are also consistent with those for rejecting the previous argument – it starts from the same false premise of a “right to a thorough discussion” and, once that false premise is dispelled, the argument cannot take matters any further.
[15] The petitioner’s third argument is that, according to consolidated EPO jurisprudence (an expression the petition does not explain), prima facie examination is a legal assessment for excluding those late filed submissions which represent an abuse of the procedure. Since in the present case, the petitioner was responding with new requests to a late objection, the new requests were not an abuse of procedure so a prima facie assessment resulting in non-admissibility was also a fundamental violation of the right to respond fully to new issues and represents a fundamental violation of A 113. Again, this argument supposes that the petitioner’s fallacious view that A 113 provides a “right of full response” which would avoid any requirement of admissibility is correct. The argument is also circuitous and self-serving – it pre-supposes that an admissibility assessment is only required for submissions which represent (undefined) abuses of procedure, then asserts that the petitioner’s new requests were not an abuse of procedure, and thus absolves those requests from the need for an admissibility assessment.
[16.1] The petitioner’s fourth and final argument was that, despite the previous arguments and assuming that the Board did have a discretion under Article 13(1) RPBA not to admit new requests in response to late objections, the Board exercised that discretion in an unduly restrictive manner. Thus, by reference to the provisions of that Article, the new requests could not be considered late and did not introduce any complexity as they attempted to overcome the objection; the state of the proceedings could not apply since the petitioner was responding to a new objection to terms which had been on file since the beginning of the appeal procedure; and procedural economy could not justify the adverse exercise of discretion since that would outweigh the right of the petitioner to defend its case. Thus the Board’s exercise of its discretion under Article 13(1) RPBA offended the more fundamental rights enshrined in A 113.
[16.2] Yet again this argument supposes “more fundamental rights enshrined in A 113” than can be read into that Article and, additionally, that those rights alleged to flow from A 113 override Article 13 RPBA. It is a combination of the three earlier arguments presented as an assessment by reference to the three criteria – complexity of new subject-matter, the state of the proceedings, and procedural economy – mentioned in Article 13(1) RPBA. The petitioner however overlooks that Article 13(1) RPBA states that the Board’s discretion shall be exercised in view of inter alia those criteria. Thus other considerations relevant to the admissibility issue in question can, and in practice are, taken into account. In the case of a new request with amended claims, one well-established criterion is whether the claims are likely to overcome the objection or objections in response to which the request has been filed.
[16.3] While the exercise of its discretion by the Board in this particular case is a substantive issue with which the EBA cannot interfere in petition proceedings (see for example R 9/11 [3.2.1]), it seems highly probable that in arriving at the decision under review the BoA did use the criterion of whether the claims were likely to overcome the objection in question. That is not only suggested by the reference in the respondent’s letter of 12 November 2012 to a detailed discussion on admissibility which ranged across clarity, support, added matter, novelty and inventive step […], but is endorsed by the petitioner itself which referred to that reference as an acknowledgment that a substantial amount of the argument at the OPs was about the admissibility of the new requests […], and is also confirmed by the decision under review which states in terms […] that the new requests were inadmissible because they were not clear within the meaning of A 84.
[17] For the reasons in points 9 to 16 above, and apart from the fact that the petition itself shows that the petitioner had an opportunity to comment on the admissibility of the new requests, the EBA cannot accept that the petitioner’s arguments demonstrate any violation of A 113. In further support of that conclusion the EBA notes, as it did in its preliminary opinion, that the petition offers no explanation as to why, when the petitioner had the opportunity to discuss admissibility of the new requests before the BoA, it made no reference to the arguments on which it now relies to show a violation of A 113. If, when it filed the new requests, the petitioner believed that the requests were automatically admissible and that the Board had no alternative but to proceed directly to a consideration of their allowability, it is to say the least strange that it did not make that submission to the BoA. The petitioner’s only answer to this is that it did not do so because of the chairman’s comment, or more precisely the interpretation the petitioner placed upon that comment. However, the petitioner and its representative were responsible for the conduct of their case and it was for them to submit the necessary arguments to support their case on their own initiative and at the appropriate time (see R 2/08 [8.5, 9.10] and R 13/11 [18]). That they did not say to the BoA when, as the case they now make in the petition proceedings makes clear, they had the opportunity to do so, that the Board was obliged to admit the new requests can only mean either that they did not at the time believe in (or perhaps even think of) those arguments and/or that they chose not to make the submission.
[18] All its previous arguments being wholly unconvincing, the only remaining argument deployed by the petitioner to support a denial of opportunity to comment is that the petitioner was surprised by the decision not to admit its new requests because of the remark by the chairman of the Board that the requests appeared to be clear. The petitioner submitted, though not in the petition, that it took that remark as a ruling on admissibility and that the legal basis for that is Article 15(4) RPBA […]. The EBA also finds this argument unconvincing for three reasons – the very nature of the remark, the purported legal basis of the argument, and its own jurisprudence on “surprise” arguments.
[19.1] As regards the nature of the chairman’s remark, the EBA notes that it was no more than a remark by one member of the BoA during the discussion on the admissibility of the petitioner’s new requests. Prior to the petition – in the petitioner’s request to amend the minutes of the OPs – and in the declarations filed with the petition, it is only referred to as an “indication” or “expression” by just the chairman. In the petition however it is elevated to the status of an indication or opinion of the whole Board, for example: “the positive indication given by the Board” […], “the Board acknowledges that the positive opinion was given” […] and “the Board gave an indication” […], and this is used to suggest there was a “sudden change of opinion of the Board” […].
The petitioner then proceeds to suggest that it was mislead by alleging that “correctly relying on this positive indication given by the Board, [it] had no doubts that at least admissibility of the new requests was accepted” […] and that it “could reasonably assume that any further submissions or requests were superfluous and thus refrained, in order to behave according to indications of the Board and to avoid an unnecessary lengthening of the OPs, from presenting further arguments” […].
At the OPs before the EBA, the petitioner went still further […] and called the remark a “ruling” on the admissibility of the requests which meant that the clarity objection had been overcome. It also submitted that it was “made to rely” on the chairman’s indication […] as if it was compelled to accept it without question.
[19.2] The EBA sees no merit in such re-interpretation of a remark made by one member of the Board into first an opinion of the whole Board and subsequently into a ruling of the Board. The petitioner and its representatives must have known at the time that the remark was that of one member only and any additional significance they gave it had nothing to do with the proceedings. To seek subsequently to elevate the remark into something more in order to support a petition for review is not merely unconvincing but implausible. The submission that the chairman’s remark prompted the petitioner’s representative to take instructions from the petitioner on a possible remittal of the case to the OD carries no weight - the fact that the petitioner or its representative chose to take any steps on the basis of their inherently implausible interpretation of the remark cannot make that interpretation any less implausible.
[19.3] The very wording of the petitioner’s argument reveals its weakness. It claims that the positive indication of the chairman’s remark meant there was no expectation that the Board would conclude that the new requests would not be admitted so no objection could have been raised by the petitioner […]. Such an argument is logically flawed: the expectation of one (desired) result does not preclude arguing against another (undesired) result.
The petitioner’s various submissions on this theme all suffer from this “would/could” weakness, for example:
“Based on the Board’s positive indication, the petitioner could reasonably assume that any further submissions or requests were superfluous and thus it refrained from presenting further arguments” […];
“the chairman had given an indication that the new requests were clear so the petitioner had no reason to make and was not induced to make further submissions” […]; and
“No objection was raised under R 106 because, on the basis of that positive indication, there was no reason to expect that a procedural violation would occur” […].
It is apparent that the petitioner conducted its case in reliance on its own assumptions. It was of course entitled to do that – as already observed (see point [17] above), the petitioner and its representative were responsible for the conduct of their case and it was for them to submit the necessary arguments to support their case on their own initiative and at the appropriate time (see R 2/08 [8.5, 9.10]). It follows that only the petitioner and its representative can be responsible if such assumptions prove incorrect and the petition for review procedure is not a remedy for the consequences.
[20] As regards the legal basis for the argument, the EBA observes first that the petitioner did ultimately acknowledge the weakness of the argument when, in reply to a question asked during the OPs, it agreed that the chairman of the Board had not actually said that the new requests were admissible. It thus became plain beyond doubt that the petitioner’s argument was based only on the interpretation it had chosen to give to the remark.
The EBA also has no hesitation in dismissing the petitioner’s argument that Article 15(4) RPBA has the effect that, if a chairman gives an indication, a party has to rely on it. Article 15(4) RPBA reads:
“The Chairman presides over the OPs and ensures their fair, orderly and efficient conduct.”
Those words simply cannot be interpreted to mean that a remark or indication by the chairman has to be relied on by a party without question, let alone that it has the status of a ruling or the removal of a previous objection. If the chairman could make remarks with any such effect during OPs and before the parties have concluded their submissions, that would in itself amount to a violation of A 113(1). It would also contradict Articles 15(5), 15(6) and 19(1) RPBA.
[21] Lastly the EBA observes that this line of argument is contrary to its established case law which has consistently held that, while surprise may be an understandable subjective reaction of a party which expects to but does not succeed, it cannot affect an objective review of the decision - so if the petitioner knew the issues which might be raised and had an opportunity to comment thereon, its subsequent surprise is of no relevance (see R 12/09 [13]; R 15/10 [11] ; R 13/11 [18]; and in particular R 6/11 [5.3], in which as in the present case the petitioner’s belief that the Board would decide in its favour was held to be immaterial to the fulfillment of requirements pursuant to A 113(1)).
[22] The petition does not show that any denial of opportunity to comment occurred and thus no violation of A 113 has been established. Therefore it is not necessary to consider the petitioner’s arguments that the alleged violation was fundamental. It follows from the absence of any violation of A 113 that the petition is clearly unallowable.
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KDI: MPs assure citizens of Mitrovica that there will be no agreement between Kosovo and Serbia without recogniton
Kosova Democratic Institute (KDI) has organized today a round table discussion in the Mitrovica region, between the deputies of the Kosovo Assembly: Blerta Deliu-Kodra, Glauk Konjufca, Dukagjin Gorani, Ahmet Isufi, Bilall Sherifi and Albert Kinolli, civil society and citizens.
Jeta Krasniqi from KDI, at the opening of this meeting showed about the importance and symbolism of holding this meeting precisely in Kostovo, as, according to her, the agreements reached so far within the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue have affected mostly residents of this area. She added that KDI has consistently organized such meetings between citizens and MPs, aiming at inclusiveness, transparency and accountability of this process.
During the introductory addresses, MP Blerta Deliu-Kodra assessed that the adoption of the resolution regarding the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue process reflects the achievement of a party consensus on the position and opposition for a topic of high state importance. She added that “This resolution has codified the central role of the Assembly in this process, as the final body for overseeing this process, as well as the ratification of the eventual agreement.” MP Kodra-Deliu invited opposition parties to assume institutional responsibilities by becoming part of the dialogue, since, according to her, leaving the responsibility does not honor neither the citizens nor the political class.
The head of the parliamentary group of Vetevendosje Movement, Glauk Konjufca, stated that the need for consensus has degraded into a universal cliché. According to him, the content and quality of the process is more important than achieving consensus. Konjufca said that they disagreed with the position of the government regarding this process, and that Kosovo, since June 2008, has been lost continuously by the processes that have challenged Kosovo’s statehood. He has currently stated that the President and the Prime Minister are competing with two projects, the border correction – supported by the President, and the establishment of the Association of Serb Majority Municipalities without executive powers being postponed by the Government. As for the negotiating team, he estimated that the state delegation would only support President Thaçi.
Dukagjin Gorani, from the Social Democratic Party’s parliamentary group, responded to the question of what the new phase of dialogue warns, saying that from this stage is expected to conclude a troublesome process of a frozen conflict between Kosovo and Serbia. According to him, “Today there is a great time and calendar pressure exercised by the international community, that the final agreement between Kosovo and Serbia be reached by the first half of next year.” He stated that there will be discussions about 12 topics, but there will be no agreement on any of these topics without the formal recognition of Kosovo by Serbia. Whereas, in the event of failure to reach such an agreement, Mr. Gorani said the losers would be the societies of the two countries. In this process, according to him, discussions should take place in the spirit of what is acceptable to us, and not just what we are opposed.
Ahmet Isufi of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo also reaffirmed the stance that the lengthy process of dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia should be completed. He announced that the draft agreement submitted by Prime Minister Haradinaj has a total of 16 chapters, which will be discussed as topics during the talks. Mr. Isufi did not rule out the possibility of any constitutional changes that may come as
a result of this phase of the dialogue. Regarding the possibility of exchange of territories, he ruled out this option, saying that the only epilogue of this process is recognition of Kosovo at the present borders. He warned other sanctions against Serbia if the latter does not improve its behavior toward the state of Kosovo.
Parliamentary Group leader of the Social Democratic Initiative, Bilall Sherifi, found that all political parties in Kosovo are opposed to the split option. He added that it would be desirable for LDK and LVV take the same role, as the dialogue process is inevitable. Concerning the adopted resolution, Sherifi stated that designing the representation in dialogue is a kind of triumvirate between the position, the opposition and the president of the country, disabling the dominant role of any party.
The meeting was attended by the 6th parliamentary group leader, Albert Kinolli, who offered full support to other non-majority communities for the ongoing process of dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia. He expressed confidence in the negotiation team for reaching a legally binding treaty that will pave the way for Kosovo to join international mechanisms, adding that the only outcome of the talks should be mutual recognition between the two countries.
On the other hand, citizens raised their concerns regarding the issue of Albanians returning to their properties in the north, representing the interests of the northern Albanians in dialogue and the best living conditions. They asked for more information about the composition and functioning of the negotiating team, especially in relation to the role of the President of Kosovo. Whereas, regarding the two options that were said to be in dispute, the border correction and the creation of the Association with executive powers, citizens asked to know if there are intermediate options that will be proposed by the Kosovar side.
Members of the Assembly of Kosovo stated at the end that the platform for dialogue will be conducted in consultation with local and international experts as well as with the citizens of the country.
The meeting was held in the framework of the project “European Perspective – Building a National Consensus on the Normalization of Relations with Serbia” supported by the Swiss Embassy in Pristina and the Memorandum of Understanding with the Kosovo Assembly
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The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (translated by Stephen Snyder)
During the long flight from London to Tokyo, I was grateful to have a novel that was fairly simply written but emotionally engaging. ‘The Housekeeper and the Professor’ has an easily digestible style of writing and structure. However, it has a meaning which subtly builds over the course of the story. Narrated from the point of view of a single mother and professional cleaner, the Housekeeper tells her story of working for a man she only refers to as the Professor. She and her son (who the Professor dubs Root because his head is shaped like the square root symbol) develop a close bond with the Professor. He is an ingenious mathematician but suffers from an illness where he loses all recent memory every eighty minutes. This developed after he received a head injury in a car accident at the age of forty seven. As such he wears a suit every day which is covered in notes to remind him about his condition and who the Housekeeper and her son are. He gives this mother and son an appreciation for the beauty of mathematics. In turn, the Housekeeper develops a deeper engagement/relationship with other people and the world around her.
I really appreciate fiction which sensitively depicts working class life. The Housekeeper has worked diligently her whole life because she needs to make ends meet. She’s a single mother who gets no assistance from the boy’s father or her mother who rejected her. The fact that she doesn’t use her own name and lets herself only be referred to as the Housekeeper is a clue to what little importance she attributes to herself. Nevertheless, she takes pride in what she does and through engaging with mathematics finds a value in how she fits into the equation of the world. Where most people of humble origin might find connection with a higher existence through religion, she uses the guidance of the Professor to see how mathematics connects her with something greater: “I felt no fear, certain in the knowledge that the Professor would guide me toward eternal, unchangeable truths.”
The order and structure to the world which mathematics gives is a lifeline for the Professor whose immediate world is so insubstantial because he can’t remember and hold onto it. The personal truth of his daily existence must be maddeningly tragic as he can form no connection with what he’s experienced day to day since he was forty seven. Rather than taking faith in anything transitory he places it in what he refers to as the eternal as he says to the Housekeeper here: “Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won’t find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions. Mathematics, however, can illuminate them, can give them expression – in fact, nothing can prevent it from doing so.” There is a power found in numerical equations which is fixed in a way our own fleeting existence is not. The Professor’s condition highlights how everyone’s experience of reality is subjective, but there is an underlying structure which is comfortingly constant.
Baseball card for a player that has a deep significance for the Professor
What really struck me was the meaningful way Ogawa presents how we relate to memories. The Professor is kept by his Sister-in-law who wants virtually nothing to do with him. She lives in another part of the property and hires an endless stream of housekeepers to see to the professor’s daily needs. The Housekeeper finds it difficult to emotionally deal with the fact that the close bond she feels for the Professor can’t be reciprocated because she must be reintroduced to him every eighty minutes. But conversely the Sister-in-law is suspended in the Professor’s immediate memory. She states: “You see, my brother-in-law can never remember you, but he can never forget me.” Both women are complexly trapped in their relationship with the Professor because of their place or lack of place in his memories.
This is a very sophisticated and beautifully executed story which made me care about mathematical equations more than I ever thought I could. I didn’t find it completely satisfying as there were some strands of the narrative and mysteries about the Professor’s behaviour which weren’t resolved. But perhaps it is better that my questions about his back story and relationship with the Sister-in-law go unanswered so I can imaginatively fill it in. It’s a novel of subtle power and a touching tribute to kinds of beauty which aren't immediately apparent.
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CBC's Predatory Behaviour
by Marsbar » Tue Nov 22, 2016 9:43 pm
On this week's PodCast I chat a little about the current actions of CBC. My points are slightly different from the following but there is something happening at CBC - someone in Ottawa is hopefully paying attention....
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has a looming public-relations problem.
That's because in the eyes of other media, the public broadcaster is seen as an uber predator in an age of diminishing ad revenues.
In fact, iPolitics publisher James Baxter even used this term, "uber predator", in a recent presentation to the Commons Heritage committee.
The controversy has arisen over CBC's insistence on competing with other media companies for digital advertising. And it comes after the Trudeau government announced $675 million in new funding for CBC over the next five years.
Torstar chairman John Honderich pointed out that in the United Kingdom, the publicly owned British Broadcasting Corporation is "not allowed to take advertising". It generates money through licensing fees.
Yet in Canada, the CBC is an aggressive digital-advertising competitor to Torstar and other newspaper companies. And the Crown-owned broadcaster plans to launch an online opinion section, which is designed to harvest more page views.
So far, the prime minister and the minister of Canadian heritage, Mélanie Joly, have not publicly expressed any concerns about this.
It might not be such of a concern if CBC programming was radically different from what's available from private media outlets. But in the 21st century, those lines have become increasingly blurred.
It started in earnest in the 1990s when local CBC Radio programs decided to broadcast snappier, shorter interviews while ramping up traffic, weather, and stock-market coverage to appeal to wider audiences. The local TV newscasts, some of which had terrible ratings, focused more on crime to draw in the masses.
Local TV newscasts were increasingly targeted at suburban viewers, who watch more television than people who live in the downtown cores. And radio became the junior partner to TV, losing some of its distinct edge as cultural coverage was diminished to appeal to suburban concerns.
From 2004 to 2010 when Richard Stursberg headed English-language programming at CBC, walls were broken down between radio, television, and digital divisions. It resulted in harmonized radio and TV newscasts, with one often serving as a promotional tool for the other. TV shows that would normally appear on private channels, like Battle of the Blades and Republic of Doyle, became primetime fare on the public broadcaster.
Over the past two decades, CBC has also hired high-profile hosts from the entertainment world, such as Jian Ghomeshi, George Stroumboulopoulos, and Sook-Yin Lee, further blurring the lines between public and private broadcasting. And a popular radio program that was truly in the public-broadcasting realm, the foreign-affairs show Dispatches, was killed in 2012.
Dispatches featured documentaries and analysis of what was happening far beyond Canada's borders, presenting compelling tales from Africa, China, the Middle East, and South Asia. It was an ideal antidote to the Trumpism and Farageism that's contaminating modern political discourse.
Now that the federal Liberals are pumping up the CBC treasury with hundreds of millions of dollars from the taxpayers, there's no good reason why a show like Dispatches can't be revived to provide a public service. It was distinct, educational, and fell well within the CBC's traditional mandate.
Consider this: local CBC Radio One morning and afternoon programs in Vancouver each have critics who review Hollywood movies every week. But there's no critic invited on these local programs on a regular basis to discuss local artists in dance, theatre, or classical music.
Similarly, the so-called national radio arts and culture program, q, seems far more interested in talking to international celebrities and reviewing the recent U.S. presidential election than what's happening in performing-arts venues in Vancouver or Calgary.
CBC still has some exceptional and distinct programming, such as The Sunday Edition, which is hosted by Michael Enright. The Current, hosted by Anna Maria Tremonti, is another example. But with hundreds of millions of new dollars coming into its treasury, the network as a whole should be aiming higher than aping the private media in pursuit of more and more money, particularly online. For goodness sakes, the Harper era is over.
iPolitics publisher James Baxter made a good point: CBC has become an uber predator. And it's starting to look like corporate platform owners—such as Amazon, Facebook, and Apple—that have devoured competitors in their industries. It's time for MPs and other Canadians to wake up to this fact and start asking questions about what that means for everyone else.
Re: CBC's Predatory Behaviour
by Marsbar » Thu Nov 24, 2016 2:12 pm
Seems I'm not the only one concerned about the CBC dipping into 2 barrels of cash....
Ottawa -- A group of former producers and executives at the CBC, calling themselves Public Broadcasting in Canada for the 21st Century, have submitted a proposal to the Heritage Ministry, calling for an ad-free CBC.
The signees include Bernie Lucht, the former Executive Producer of the CBC Radio show Ideas, and Jeffrey Dvorkin, former Managing Editor and Chief Journalist for CBC Radio, and former ombudsman of NPR Radio. Dvorkin currently runs the University of Toronto’s Journalism department. They write:
"It has become obvious to many that requiring our public broadcaster to apply the practices of the private sector to its civic and cultural mission has not resulted in the creation of a large body of distinctive, informative and inspiring social and cultural capital for Canadians. While French services and English Radio have fared better, it has turned CBC English television into what its own executives have described as a “publicly subsidized commercial network.”
by MoodyBlue » Mon Dec 05, 2016 1:28 am
Hi David
I am in favour of an advertising free CBC. When I am in my car I listen to many different stations, but there are times when I just want a radio service with no advertising. Same goes for TV.
Besides, services like NYtheSpirit is where it is at anyway I think that they are the future.
We need to have at least one media voice that is not influenced by advertisers.
I do not think that it is too much to ask for, but I know that it is a complicated issue.
by Marsbar » Mon Dec 05, 2016 2:37 am
Thanks John - not too complicated. For a few more dollars a year from us, the CBC could be free of advertisers.
I support that idea. I chatted about that in an early PodCast. I was delighted several weeks later to learn they were indeed moving forward with the concept.
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The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is an Island country located in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. The Philippines comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, sharing maritime borders with Indonesia, Malaysia, Palau, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Vietnam. The Philippines is the world`s 12th most populous country with a population of over 90 million people. Its national economy is the 46th largest in the world with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of over US$154 billion. There are more than 11 million overseas Filipinos worldwide, about 11% of the total population of the Philippines. It is a multi-ethnic country. Ecologically, The Philippines is considered to be among 17 of the most megadiverse countries in the world.
Prior to the arrival of Europeans in 1521, the Philippines was already settled by Austronesian (Malayo Polynesian) peoples. The Philippines became a Spanish colony in the 16th century, and a territory of the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1896, rebellion led the Philippine Revolution that won independence from Spain. American occupation of the Philippines during the Spanish-American War led to the outbreak of the Philippine-American War. A Commonwealth government was established in 1935, which allowed self-governance. The country gained its independence from the United States on July 4, 1946 after World War II. Martial law was declared in 1972 which led to the insurgencies of the New People`s Army and the Moro National Liberation Front. Liberal parties then led People Power Revolution of 1986, which would bring the country back to democracy.
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On March 11, 2018, members of Iran’s Basij militia reportedly clashed violently with Amir Kabir University (AKU) students demonstrating against the prosecutions and arrests of student protesters in Iran.
Starting in late December, a growing number of Iranians began holding demonstrations across the country to protest economic conditions and government corruption. At least 22 people have been killed during the protests, which have frequently been the sites of intense clashes between riot police and demonstrators. According to the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), more than 40 Iranian university students were arrested between December 30, 2017 and January 4, 2018.
Students at AKU gathered on March 11, 2018 to demonstrate against measures taken by state authorities against students who had protested in early 2018. The demonstrators reportedly chanted “free all political prisoners” and specifically demanded that detained students Parisa Refiei, Marzieh Amiri and Zahra Ahmadi be released, and that convictions and sentences of other students, including Leila Hosseinzadeh, Sina Rabiei, and Mohsen Hagshenas, be reversed.
Reports indicate that, during the protest, student members of Iran’s Basij militia, wielding clubs, attacked and beat the student protesters. The Basij militia is a paramilitary volunteer force supportive of Iran’s ruling government.
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In Memoriam: Robert J. Mason
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Robert J. Mason, a professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University, died on November 15, 2017.
Rob was known for his work on environmental policymaking and land use management. He believed in international educational opportunities for students and was passionate about teaching the next generation of environmental leaders. A prolific author, Rob published Collaborative Land Use Management: The Quieter Revolution in Place-Based Planning (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), Contested Lands: Conflict and Compromise in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens (Temple University Press, 1992) and the Atlas of United States Environmental Issues (Macmillan, 1990, with Mark Mattson).
In addition to teaching at Temple University, Rob has taught at Ohio State University, Temple University Japan in Tokyo, and Kobe College in Nishinomiya, Japan. In 2016, Rob taught at Temple Rome. He was serving a three-year term as Regional Councillor of the American Association of Geographers and had previously served as President of the Middle States Division of the AAG. He also served for many years on the Board of Directors of the Kobe College Corporation/Japan Education Exchange including as Co-President.
Rob earned his doctorate in Geography from Rutgers University in 1986, received a master’s in Geography and Environmental Studies from the University of Toronto, and held a bachelor’s in Geography and Environment Studies from the University of Buffalo.
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A rounded cancer cell (top left) sends out nanotubes connecting with endothelial cells. Genetic material can be injected via these nanotubes, transforming the endothelial cells and making them more hospitable to additional cancer cells.
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Scientists at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have discovered how cancer cells latch onto blood vessels and invade tissues to form new tumors — a finding that could help them develop drugs that inhibit this process and prevent cancers from metastasizing.
Cancer cells circulating in the bloodstream can stick to blood vessel walls and construct tiny “bridges” through which they inject genetic material that transforms the endothelial cells lining the blood vessels, making them much more hospitable to additional cancer cells, according to the new study.
The researchers also found that they could greatly reduce metastasis in mice by inhibiting the formation of these nanobridges.
“Endothelial cells line every blood vessel and are the first cells in contact with any blood-borne element. They serve as the gateway into and out of tumors and have been the focus of intense research in vascular and cancer biology. These findings bring these two fields together to add greater insight into control of cancer and metastases,” says Elazer Edelman, the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, a member of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and one of the leaders of the research team.
The lead author of the paper, which appears in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature Communications, is Yamicia Connor, a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). The paper’s senior author is Shiladitya Sengupta, an assistant professor at HST and at Harvard Medical School.
Metastasis is a multistep process that allows cancer to spread from its original site and form new tumors elsewhere in the body. Certain cancers tend to metastasize to specific locations; for example, lung tumors tend to spread to the brain, and breast tumors to the liver and bone.
To metastasize, tumor cells must first become mobile so they can detach from the initial tumor. Then they break into nearby blood vessels so they can flow through the body, where they become circulating tumor cells (CTCs). These CTCs must then find a spot where they can latch onto the blood vessel walls and penetrate into adjacent tissue to form a new tumor.
Blood vessels are lined with endothelial cells, which are typically resistant to intruders.
“Normal endothelial cells should not enable a cancer cell to invade, but if a cancer cell can connect with an endothelial cell, and inject signals that enable this endothelial cell to be controlled and completely transformed, then it facilitates metastasis,” Sengupta says.
The researchers first spotted tiny bridges between cancer cells and endothelial cells while using electron microscopy to study the interactions between those cell types. They speculated that the cancer cells might be sending some kind of signal to the endothelial cells.
“Once we saw that these structures allowed for a ubiquitous transfer of a lot of different materials, microRNAs were an obvious interesting molecule because they’re able to very broadly control the genome of a cell in ways that we don’t really understand,” Connor says. “That became our focus.”
MicroRNA, discovered in the early 1990s, helps a cell to fine-tune its gene expression. These strands of RNA, about 22 base pairs long, can interfere with messenger RNA, preventing it from being translated into proteins.
In this case, the researchers found, the injected microRNA makes the endothelial cells “sticky.” That is, the cells begin to express proteins on their surfaces that attract other cells to adhere to them. This allows additional CTCs to bind to the same site and penetrate through the vessels into the adjacent tissue, forming a new tumor.
“It’s almost like the cancer cells are cooperating with each other to facilitate migration,” Sengupta says. “You just need maybe 1 percent of the endothelial cells to become sticky, and that’s good enough to facilitate metastasis.”
Non-metastatic cancer cells did not produce these invasive nanobridges when grown on endothelial cells.
Erkki Ruoslahti, a professor of cell, molecular, and developmental biology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, says that the discovery is an important advance in understanding tumor metastasis.
“I found it particularly interesting that the transfer of regulatory macromolecules from tumor cells to endothelial cells via intercellular nanotubes appears to be more effective (at least over relatively short distances) than exosome-mediated transfer, which has received a lot of attention lately,” says Ruoslahti, who was not part of the research team.
Shutting down metastasis
The nanobridges are made from the proteins actin and tubulin, which also form the cytoskeleton that gives cells their structure. The researchers found that they could inhibit the formation of these nanobridges, which are about 300 microns long, by giving low doses of drugs that interfere with actin.
When the researchers gave these drugs to mice with tumors that normally metastasize, the tumors did not spread.
Sengupta’s lab is now trying to figure out the mechanism of nanobridge formation in more detail, with an eye toward developing drugs that act more specifically to inhibit the process.
“If we can first understand how these structures are formed, then we can try to design targeted therapies to inhibit their formation, which could be a promising new area for developing drugs that specifically target metastasis,” Connor says.
Topics: Research, Cancer, Health sciences and technology, IMES, Nanoscience and nanotechnology, School of Engineering
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Sengupta Lab
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
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Super-sizing a cancer drug minimizes side effects
How tumors escape
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Dr. Lynette Gibson Receives Susan Eison Spirit Award
Dr. Lynette Gibson, director of research in the Mary Black School of Nursing, received the Susan Eison Spirit Award on Saturday, November 8 at the American Cancer Society Black & White Ball in Greenville.
This award was created as a tribute to the memory of Susan Eison, a long-time volunteer with the American Cancer Society, and recognizes individuals that have demonstrated a deep, long-term commitment to the fight against cancer.
The annual presentation of the Susan Eison Spirit Award, recognizing individuals who have demonstrated a long-term commitment to the fight against cancer, will be made to Dr. Lynette Gibson, associate professor and director of research in Nursing, USC Upstate.
Taking a journey with cancer is rarely a positive thing, but for Dr. Gibson and the thousands of lives she has touched through her work and volunteerism, it has been extraordinary. Gibson has a self-described “love of battling cancer” which began several decades ago. As a nursing student at the Medical University of South Carolina, she began teaching people ways to live healthy lives, including the importance of early detection of cancer. During her time as a nursing student, she worked on the surgical oncology unit at the Clinical Research Center at the National Institute of Health. As a master’s and doctoral student at Clemson University, Gibson conducted research on social support of African-American cancer patients. Then, at the University of South Carolina, she continued conducting psychosocial research and eventually developed the Gibson Model of Inner Resources©, which determined that a sense of coherence or endurance, hope, and spirituality influence the ability of African-American breast cancer survivors to cope psychologically.
Over the past five years, Gibson has continued psychosocial research on early detection of breast cancer in African-American women, developing the Save Our Breasts program to determine whether it changes women’s beliefs about mammography screening and leads them to have regular mammograms.
Gibson has been an active American Cancer Society volunteer, serving in various capacities. These include serving as a division board member, legislative ambassador, Leadership Summit presenter, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer committee member, Relay for Life advisor and Upstate Leadership Council member. Most recently, she recruited volunteers for the Cancer Prevention Study-3 and currently serves on the Upstate Executive Council. Throughout the years, she has continuously provided community education using American Cancer Society materials and research findings.
“I owe a debt of gratitude to the American Cancer Society for making such a vital impact on my life,” said Gibson. “I continue to do what I love best – to promote cancer control activities so that we can celebrate more birthdays.”
The Susan Eison Spirit Award was created as a tribute to the memory of Susan Eison, a long-time American Cancer Society volunteer. Past recipients of the award are: Jo Weathers, Jan Rollins, Pat Tate, Peggy Baxter, Sybil Davis, Margaret Edwards, Barkley Rickman & Anne Elsey, Marsha Stron and Diane Gluck.
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4/1/18 O&A NYC OUT AND ABOUT- WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK: Spring Break!!!!
By OutandAboutnycmag April 1, 2018 April 1, 2018 ...and More, Art, Automobile, Ballet, Choreography, Comedy, Concert, Dance, Documentary, Event, film, Hip Hop, Jazz, Latin Music, Lifestyle, Music, Musical Theatre, Out and About NYC Magazine, Photography, Theatre, Video
Spring Break is here! And the city is abounding with activity “24- 7- 365”. We have art celebrating popular culture in Harlem. Ballet, modern and more throughout the city. Blockbuster and Indie film share the silver screen, jazz to Motown grooves Midtown and the world’s most exotic cars hit the westside. Here are a few of the many events happening in the city that never sleeps guaranteed to keep you Out and About. Continue reading
Tagged A Decade Of Soul: Classic Soul & Motown Revue, Alysha Deslorieux, Amateur Night At The Apollo, Amedeo Modigliani, Amra- Faye Wright, Andre Wagner., Art, B.B. King Blues and Club & Grill, Bianca Marroquin, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, Broadway, Bruce "Big Daddy" Wayne, Camille Brown, Chaz Lamar Shepard, CHICAGO, Chick Corea, Christopher Wheeldon, Circle in the Square Theatre, Collage Dance Collective, Constantin Brancusi, Dada Masilo/The Dance Factory, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Darrell Grand Moultrie, David Jennings, Diane Kruger, Diedra Harris Kelley, Dougla, Everything Is Imaginable, Fernand Léger, Geoffrey Holder, George Balanchine, Giselle, Gordon Parks, Guggenheim Museum, Hailey Kilgore, Harlem on My Mind, Harlem Postcards, Hedy Lamarr, Henri Rousseau, Isaac Powell, Jack Ferver, Jacob Javits Convention Center, James Whiteside, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Joyce Theater, Kevin Thomas, Lara Croft, Lea Salonga, Lloyd Knight, Marcel Duchamp, Marilyn Nance, Martha Graham, Matron "Mama" Morton, Michael Arden, musical, New York Botanical Garden, New York Live Arts, Once On This Island, One Planet One Future, Out and About NYC Magazine, Phillip Boykin, Prentiss McNeil, Quentin Earl Darrington, Roxie Hart, Studio Museum in Harlem, Susan Sarandon, The Drifters, The Jacob Burns Film Center, The Kooples, The New York International Auto Show, The Orchid Show, This Bitter Earth, Tomb Raider, Tyler Perry's Acrimony, Valerie Simpson, Valse-Fantaisie, Velma Kelly
O&A NYC What Time Is It?
1Alicja Kwade, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art all day
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything: The Jewish Museum all day
Drag Brunch & the Queen from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm
NUREYEV from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm
Jennie Livingston’s Paris Is Burning (1991) from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
Pavarotti from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm
Mary T. Smith- I We Our at the Shrine from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Implicit Tensions: Robert Mapplethorpe Now from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
The KGB Espionage Museum from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Soto: Vibrations, 1950–1960 At Hauser & Wirth from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Savion Glover at the Joyce from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Jazzmobile, Inc- Residency at Minton's Playhouse from 12:00 am to 8:30 pm
Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest 2019 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
International African Arts Festival from 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Stardust VII : Vado Mori from 4:00 pm to 4:00 am
July 4th NYC Boat Macy's Fireworks Cruise Independence Day from 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm
The 5th Annual Freedom Fest at Pier 15 East River Esplanade from 6:45 pm to 11:00 pm
Burlesque Night Out’s Big July 4th Celebration from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Macy's 4th of July Fireworks from 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Jazzmobile, Inc to Launch Residency at Minton's Playhouse from 9:30 pm to 10:30 pm
5Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything: The Jewish Museum all day
Alicja Kwade, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art all day
Coney Island Friday Night Fireworks from 12:00 am to 10:00 pm
Anna Jays Seafood Boil Festival, from 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Chris Kaz: The Parlor Session at the Langston Hughes House from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Savion Glover at the Joyce Theater from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Brownstone Jazz Festival and Fish Fry Concert Series from 9:00 pm to 12:30 am
FrankieFridays at The Happiness Lounge from 10:00 pm to 4:00 am
Big Bronx Festival, Saturday from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm
10 Hairy Legs at New York Live Arts from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Brooklyn Museum First Saturday- Visualizing Independence from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Bollywood Beats @ Stage48 NYC from 10:00 pm to 4:00 am
Minton's Sunday Jazz Brunch from 12:00 am to 3:00 pm
Everybody Loves The 90's Brunch and Day Party at MIST Harle from 12:00 am to 7:00 pm
SUMMER THUNDER! with JOE BATAAN from 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Mister Sunday at Nowaday, at 3:00 pm
Summerstage 2019- Abou Combo/ Lakou Mizik/ DJ Sabine Blaizin from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Summerstage 2019- Mr Eazi/ Efya/ Blinky Bill/ DJ Mohgany from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
10Alicja Kwade, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art all day
28Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything: The Jewish Museum all day
Alicja Kwade, at The Metropolitan Museum of ArtAlicja Kwade, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Alicja Kwade, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through October 27, a Polish artist who lives and works in Berlin is this year’s recipient of The Met’s annual commission to create an installation for the museum’s roof garden. These projects are perennial crowd-pleasers, as they add a touch of artistic enhancement to the rooftop’s spectacular views of Central Park and the Midtown skyline. Kwade’s approach seems tailor-made for the site, as it usually entails minimalist sculptural ensembles made of glass, stone and metal—materials that give her efforts a luxurious gloss. Kwade often plays perceptual tricks on the viewer as part of her overall interest in deconstructing the philosophical and scientific teachings we rely on to make sense of the world. At The Met, she reaches for the cosmos with a pair of pieces that evoke the Solar System.
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything: The Jewish MuseumLeonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything: The Jewish Museum Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything: The Jewish Museum (1109 5th Ave at 92nd St New York) April 12 - September 8, 2019. A world-renowned novelist, poet, and singer/songwriter who inspired generations of writers, musicians, and artists, Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) was an extraordinary poet of the imperfection of the human condition, giving voice to what it means to be fully alert to the complexities and desires of both body and soul. Featuring 12 artists and 18 musicians from 10 countries, this exhibition offers a deep and rich exploration of the beloved global icon through the lens of contemporary art.
Mary T. Smith- I We Our at the Shrine Mary T. Smith- I We Our at the Shrine Time: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Mary T. Smith- I We Our at the Shrine 179 E Broadway, New York City through Sunday July 28. Vibrant paintings are on offer in this exhibit devoted to the work of Mary T. Smith (1904–1995), a self-taught artist from Mississippi who first made her work during the 1970s after she retired from her job as a domestic servant and cook. Painting on plywood and corrugated metal, Smith created portraits and Biblical scenes, installing them outdoors in “yard shows” typical of African-American outsider artists in the Deep South. Smith favored bold colors, limning animals and figurative subjects with broad brushstrokes that she also used to spell out religious messages and other texts. The result was a kind of vernacular Expressionism that appears strikingly contemporary.
Soto: Vibrations, 1950–1960 At Hauser & Wirth Soto: Vibrations, 1950–1960 At Hauser & Wirth Time: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Soto: Vibrations, 1950–1960 At Hauser & Wirth 32 E 69th St New York through July 26 Known simply as Soto, Jesús Rafael Soto (1923–2005) was a Venezuela sculptor and painter who settled in Paris in 1951 and became a leading figure in the postwar revival of geometric abstraction on the Continent. He also played a seminal role in the subsequent development of Op and Kinetic art. Soto’s early work built upon the style of Mondrian, but he eventually became interested in artistic experiments with transparent materials—such as Marcel Duchamp’s motorized sculpture, Rotary Glass Plates—and began to paint stripes and other shapes on stacked sections of Plexiglas for varying optical effects. Examples of both approaches—as well as others are included in the pocket survey spanning Soto’s first decade in Europe.
Implicit Tensions: Robert Mapplethorpe NowImplicit Tensions: Robert Mapplethorpe NowTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
“Implicit Tensions: Robert Mapplethorpe Now”, Guggenheim Museum, Fifth Ave. at 89th St. The photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who died in 1989, at the age of forty-two, cast a classicizing eye on subjects both conventional (calla lilies) and controversial (the underground S & M scene). As his muse and friend Patti Smith has written, “He will be condemned and adored. His excesses damned or romanticized. In the end, truth will be found in his work, the corporeal body of the artist.” On Jan. 25, the Guggenheim opens its yearlong two-part exhibition “Implicit Tensions: Robert Mapplethorpe Now.”
In the Dugout with Jackie RobinsonIn the Dugout with Jackie RobinsonTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait of a Baseball Legend -at the Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103 Street open daily 10am-6pm. In 1947 Jackie Robinson made history when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first African American in Major League Baseball. In honor of the centennial of Robinson’s birth, In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson features some 30 images of Robinson and the Dodgers taken for Look magazine. Along with these stunning black-and-white images from the Museum's collection, many never before seen, the exhibition features memorabilia and rare footage of the Robinson family, as well as the published magazines, which provide a window into the media's portrayal of this groundbreaking figure through the lens of the day’s popular picture press.
The KGB Espionage MuseumThe KGB Espionage MuseumTime: 10:00 am - 8:00 pm
The KGB Espionage Museum, located at 245 West 14th Street, is a modern, unique museum, where games and stories are just as important as educational experiences. Touching and trying the exhibits helps people learn and remember. At the KGB Espionage Museum, you can explore the life of a KGB espionage agent through interacting with the artifacts on display
Brownstone Jazz Festival and Fish Fry Concert SeriesBrownstone Jazz Festival and Fish Fry Concert SeriesTime: 9:00 pm - 12:30 am
Brownstone Jazz Festival and Fish Fry Concert Series 107 Macon St, Brooklyn. Step back in time to the golden age of Bed-Stuy jazz with an intimate 4-hour concert and fish fry at a restored 19th-century brownstone in a historic neighborhood. Enjoy jazz without amplifiers and noisy clubs, and experience the unmediated music up-close and personal. Watch a remarkable performance, tuck into a generous buffet of southern-style fried fish, then sing, play or just listen during a fun open mic session. Take New York jazz back to its roots and experience an unforgettable evening in the city.
FrankieFridays at The Happiness LoungeFrankieFridays at The Happiness LoungeTime: 10:00 pm - 4:00 am
FrankieFridays at The Happiness Lounge, 1458 St. Johns Place (bet. Utica Avenue and Rochester Avenue, Brooklyn), presents legendary DJ Frankie Paradise spinning House Soulful Classic every Friday.
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While You Were Eating Donuts, You Hoser – 2016 Game 102 (SD at TOR)
Tagged Adam Rosales, Alex Dickerson, Brad Hand, Brett Wallace, Christian Bethancourt, Coffee Time, Darwin Barney, Devon Travis, donuts, Edwin Encarnacion, Ezequiel Carrera, hoser, Josh Donaldson, Josh Thole, Kevin Pillar, Luis Perdomo, Matt Kemp, Melvin Upton Jr., R.A. Dickey, Recaps, Rogers Centre, Ryan Schimpf, San Diego Padres, Toronto Blue Jays, While You Were Drinking
Sometimes things get a little fuzzy during a morning at Coffee Time, eh? Here’s a friendly reminder of what you may have missed while you were eating donuts, hosers.
The Padres (44-58) scored more runs than the Toronto Blue Jays (57-45) at the Rogers Centre yesterday, 8-4.
Luis Perdomo (5-4, 6.89) allowed four runs on six hits and two walks while striking out four in five and two-thirds innings pitched. Devon Travis scored on a sacrifice fly by Darwin Barney in the fifth inning. In the sixth inning, Kevin Pillar‘s RBI double scored Edwin Encarnacion and Ezequiel Carrera hit a single to plate Pillar.
R.A. Dickey (7-12, 4.66) pitched five and two-thirds innings, giving up seven runs (six earned) on four hits and four walks with five strikeouts. Adam Rosales hit a two-run home run with Brett Wallace on base in the third inning. In the fourth inning, Christian Bethancourt hit a double that scored Ryan Schimpf, advanced to third base on a fielding error by Pillar, and scored on a throwing error to third base by Travis. Wallace hit a solo home run in the fifth inning. Bethancourt hit another double in the sixth inning, scoring Matt Kemp, and Bethancourt scored on a single by Wallace. Finally, Alex Dickerson hit a solo home run in the eighth inning.
The Padres return to Petco Park for a nine-game homestand, beginning with three games against the Cincinnati Reds starting tomorrow night at 7:40pm PDT. Edwin Jackson (1-1, 4.30) takes the mound against Brandon Finnegan (5-8, 4.93).
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New Stuff Coming Our Way
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Re: New Stuff Coming Our Way
Remember, this is coming out today.
Check out the Real History of Rush video.
Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland - RUSH
Not sure I'll get this. Dayum, I already have 3 previous live DVD's and they are fantastic
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Rush Unveil "TIME MACHINE 2011: LIVE IN CLEVELAND"; 2-CD Set Recorded During Legendary Trio's Recent World Tour; Band Simultaneously Release Live Version of Landmark Album "MOVING PICTURES" on Vinyl;
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Sep 20, 2011) - Legendary rock band Rush have announced details for the first offerings through their recently announced partnership with Roadrunner Records. On November 8, Anthem/Roadrunner will simultaneously release a two-disc live album entitled "TIME MACHINE 2011: LIVE IN CLEVELAND" as well as "MOVING PICTURES: LIVE 2011" on vinyl and digital formats.
Captured in April at Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena during the renowned trio's extensive Time Machine World Tour, "TIME MACHINE 2011: LIVE IN CLEVELAND" marks the band's first live album recorded at a U.S. show, a deliberate nod of gratitude to the first city to support Rush on its radio airwaves. The wildly popular tour featured a set filled with classic hits, fan favorites, and a glimpse into Rush's forthcoming 20th studio album "CLOCKWORK ANGELS." As a centerpiece for the concerts, the band performed their landmark album "MOVING PICTURES" in its entirety -- a first in the band's long and illustrious career. Rave reviews of the tour included The Hollywood Reporter's declaration that "the current Time Machine jaunt is nothing less than a must see... for nearly three hours, with intermission, Rush proved why it remains among rock's elite live acts." Full track listing for "TIME MACHINE 2011: LIVE IN CLEVELAND" attached below.
"MOVING PICTURES: LIVE 2011" marks the first live recording of the band's most successful album to date. Originally released in 1981, this year marks the 30th anniversary of "MOVING PICTURES," which features some of Rush's most well-known songs like "Tom Sawyer," "Limelight," and "YYZ."
In related news, Rush is also releasing "Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland" on BluRay and DVD formats on November 8 via Rounder Records in the U.S. and Eagle Rock Entertainment abroad. VH1 will be airing a 2-hour concert culled from the footage as part of their annual "Rushashana" program on September 29. This fall, Rush will be returning to the studio to resume work on their highly anticipated 20th studio album, "CLOCKWORK ANGELS" due out in 2012.
With more than 40 million records sold worldwide and countless sold-out tours, Rush -- Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart -- is not only one of the most inventive and compelling groups in rock history, but remains one of the most popular. The RIAA has certified Rush for the third most consecutive gold/platinum studio albums by a rock band, topped only by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Rush's vast catalog includes such classics as 1974's self-titled debut, 1976's "2112," 1981's "MOVING PICTURES," 1996's "TEST FOR ECHO," and 2002's "VAPOR TRAILS." Rush's most recent studio album, 2007's "SNAKES & ARROWS," debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200, marking the band's highest chart debut since 1993, as well as their eleventh top 10 album in the U.S. In addition to their commercial success, Rush has also been recognized with a number of Juno Awards and multiple Grammy nominations, including one for the acclaimed documentary "Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage" at this year's gala event. Enjoying a recent pop culture renaissance, Rush made a rare television appearance -- their first in over 30 years -- on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" and a memorable cameo in the film "I Love You, Man." A career-chronicling Rolling Stone feature summed up the renowned rock trio's continuing artistic vitality by observing, "It's true that Rush doesn't mean today what it did in '76 or even '96. It may mean more."
(TRACK LISTING BELOW)
"TIME MACHINE 2011: LIVE IN CLEVELAND"
(ANTHEM/ROADRUNNER)
Available November 8th
1. The Spirit Of Radio
2. Time Stand Still
4. Stick It Out
5. Workin' Them Angels
6. Leave That Thing Alone
7. Faithless
8. BU2B
9. Free Will
10. Marathon
11. Subdivisions
12. Tom Sawyer
13. Red Barchetta
14. YYZ
15. Limelight
1. The Camera Eye
2. Witch Hunt
3. Vital Signs
4. Caravan
5. Moto Perpetuo (featuring Love For Sale)
6. O'Malley's Break
7. Closer To The Heart
8. 2112 Overture/The Temples of Syrinx
9. Far Cry
10. La Villa Strangiato
11. Working Man
Rush puts out more long form videos than anyone else I know and they are usually of the highest caliber and not some quick cash grab either.
Shout! Factory announced that they will be releasing selected Concert Sets from the US Festival. The first two releases were on November 15 for Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, neither of which I am interested in. My focus is on Metal Day for sure and some other artists on the other days. For those unfamiliar with the US Festival, go here to get up-to-date.
KISS ‘KissologyVol. 4′ Contents Revealed
Hmmmmm. I gotta give Gene and Paul credit where credit is due. I think even they knew that a Volume 4 set featuring just stuff with Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer would not sell as well. So, what they have done is gone back to the vault from all incarnations of the band to give it a good variety of material to satisfy those long time KISS fans. Ahem. Still remains to be seen what the bonus disk will be at Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart. Not sure about Target getting one yet. To be released late November, just in time for Xmas.
Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures Dec 6
2011 posthumous release, a collection of previously unreleased tracks, alternate versions of existing classics, as well as a couple of brand new Amy compositions. Following her tragic passing, some of the producers and musicians who worked closely with Amy Winehouse, among them Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, spent time listening over the many recordings that Amy had made, before, during, and after the release of Frank and Back To Black. It was said by all who worked with Amy that she never sang or played a song the same way twice. It quickly became apparent to Salaam and Mark that they had a collection of songs that deserved to be heard, a collection of songs that were a fitting treatment to Amy the artist and, as importantly, Amy the friend.
Paul McCartney - Kisses on the Bottom
Paul McCartney lost me many moons ago. Besides his Wings and very early solo releases, I don’t think he’s done anything relevant worth listening too. I at times check in to see what he’s been up too but they always fall flat… even stuff like his classic rockers Run Devil Run.
While many a musician is often asked about the tunes that have influenced their songwriting, it is not a question Paul McCartney ordinarily gets to answer - until now. Paul is about to offer a glimpse into "the songs which inspired the songs" with the upcoming release of a brand new album of those standards he grew up listening to in his childhood-plus two brand new McCartney compositions. With the help of Grammyr Award-winning producer Tommy LiPuma and Diana Krall and her band-as well as guest appearances from Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder, McCartney's new album is a deeply personal journey through classic American compositions that, in some cases, a young Paul first heard his father perform on piano at home. As authentic and daring a musical statement as he could make, this is the album Paul has been thinking about making for more than 20 years - and probably the last thing his fans are expecting. "In the end it was 'Look, if I don't do it now, I'll never do it'," he says. In short, Paul believes it is about time "the songs me and John based quite a few of our things on" received the recognition they deserve. Moreover, the record also features a couple of new original McCartney compositions in the spirit of those classics. "When I kind of got into songwriting, I realized how well structured these songs were and I think I took a lot of my lessons from them," Paul explains. "I always thought artists like Fred Astaire were very cool. Writers like Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, all of those guys - I just thought the songs were magical. And then, as I got to be a songwriter I thought it's beautiful, the way they made those songs." Determined to approach the record in a new and unique manner, Paul enlisted the help of LiPuma and Krall and her band-who delivered ultra-high quality musicianship and were completely in tune with Paul's restraint and feel for the music. In the studio, the recording of this album was also a new challenge for Paul who, for the first time ever, performed exclusively in the vocal booth without an instrument - no guitar, no bass, no piano - which led to a vocal performance like no other in his career. He adds, "It was very spontaneous, kind of organic, which then reminded me of the way we'd work with The Beatles. We'd bring a song in, kick it around, when we found a way to do it we'd say 'Okay, let's do a take now' and by the time everyone kind of had an idea of what they were doing, we'd learnt the song. So that's what we did, we did the take live in the studio." "It was important for me to keep away from the more obvious song choices so, many of the classic standards will be unfamiliar to some people. I hope they are in for a pleasant surprise." The album was recorded at the legendary Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, New York and London throughout 2011. It also features guest musicians Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder, respectively, on the original compositions "My Valentine" and "Only Our Hearts."
Quote from: Mac on January 06, 2012, 07:33:10 am
Why not go with Kiss My Ass?
Eagle members seem to taking a break...
Analog Man - Joe Walsh (June 5, 2012)
After Hours - Glenn Fry May 8, 2012.
I really can appreciate Frey's solo stuff. It's just so well written and produced. Saying that, I'm not sure about him doing a standards set like Rod Stewart. I'm hopeful and it will blow me away.
I will definitely wait to hear what you think about Glenn's new one before I move forward on it.
Shape Shifter - Santana May 15th, 2012
Shape Shifter is Carlos Santana's 36th album, and the first for his new label, Starfaith Records. Set for release May 15, the 13-song set is an instrumental tour de force featuring tracks spanning from the late 1990's to the present. It's powered throughout by Carlos' instantly recognizable virtuoso lead guitar and the Santana Band's world-class musicianship (only one song features vocals from Santana's lead vocalists Andy Vargas and Tony Lindsay).
Shape Shifter Tracklisting:
1. Shape Shifter
2. Dom
3. Nomad
4. Metatron
5. Angelica Faith
6. Never The Same Again
7. In The Light of a New Day
8. Spark of the Divine
9. Macumba In Budapest
10. Mr. Szabo
11. Erez La Luz
12. Canula
13. Ah, Sweet Dancer
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Sade: Bring Me Home - Live 2011 May 22, 2012
Live Blu-ray tracklisting:
1. Soldier Of Love
2. Your Love Is King
3. Skin
4. Kiss Of Life
5. Love Is Found
6. In Another Time
7. Smooth Operator
8. Jezebel
9. Bring Me Home
10. Is It A Crime
11. Love Is Stronger Than Pride
12. All About Our Love
13. Paradise
14. Nothing Can Come Between Us
15. Morning Bird
16. King Of Sorrow
17. The Sweetest Taboo
18. The Moon And The Sky
19. Pearls
20. No Ordinary Love
21. By Your Side
22. Cherish the Day
I've already got Sade - Live Concert Home Video which is a fantastic looking, sounding DVD. I would only imagine Sade would put out outstanding material. So this is on my maybe list.
That's Why God Made the Radio - Beach Boys June 5, 2012
To celebrate 50 years. 50 freakin' years people. My gawd.
1. Think About The Days
2. That's Why God Made The Radio
3. Isn't It Time
4. Spring Vacation
5. The Private Life Of Bill And Sue
6. Shelter
7. Daybreak Over The Ocean
8. Beaches In Mind
9. Strange World
10. From There To Back Again
11. Pacific Coast Highway
12. Summer's Gone
Living Like a Runaway - Lita Ford June 19, 2012
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When is this coming out? I intend to pick this one up....sight unseen. Or is it sound unheard?
Diamond in the Mind - Duran Duran July 10, 2012
Elation - Great White May 22, 2012
Lita!!!!!!!
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FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF PRESS
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, says that "Congress shall make no law....abridging (limiting) the freedom of speech, or of the press..." Freedom of speech is the liberty to speak openly without fear of government restraint. It is closely linked to freedom of the press because this freedom includes both the right to speak and the right to be heard. In the United States, both the freedom of speech and freedom of press are commonly called freedom of expression.
Why is freedom of speech so solidly entrenched in our constitutional law, and why is it so widely embraced by the general public? Over the years many philosophers, historians, legal scholars and judges have offered theoretical justifications for strong protection of freedom of speech, and in these justifications we may also find explanatory clues.
The First Amendment's protection of speech and expression is central to the concept of American political system. There is a direct link between freedom of speech and vibrant democracy. Free speech is an indispensable tool of self-governance in a democratic society. Itenables people to obtain information from a diversity of sources, make decisions, and communicate those decisions to the government. Beyond the political purpose of free speech, the First Amendment provides American people with a "marketplace of ideas." Rather than having the government establish and dictate the truth, freedom of speech enables the truth to emerge from diverse opinions. Concurring in Whitney v. California (1927), Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that "freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth."
On a communal level, free speech facilitates majority rule. It is through talking that we encourage consensus, that we form a collective will. Whether the answers we reach are wise or foolish, free speech helps us ensure that the answers usually conform to what most people think. Americans who are optimists (and optimism is a quintessentially American characteristic) additionally believe that, over the long run, free speech actually improves our political decision-making. Just as Americans generally believe in free markets in economic matters, they generally believe in free markets when it comes to ideas, and this includes politics. In the long run the best test of intelligent political policy is its power to gain acceptance at the ballot box.
On an individual level, speech is a means of participation, the vehicle through which individuals debate the issues of the day, cast their votes, and actively join in the processes of decision-making that shape the polity. Free speech serves the individual’s right to join the political fray, to stand up and be counted, to be an active player in the democracy, not a passive spectator.
Freedom of speech is also an essential contributor to the American belief in government confined by a system of checks and balances, operating as a restraint on tyranny, corruption and ineptitude. For much of the world’s history, governments, following the impulse described by Justice Holmes, have presumed to play the role of benevolent but firm censor, on the theory that the wise governance of men proceeds from the wise governance of their opinions. But the United States was founded on the more cantankerous revolutionary principles of John Locke, who taught that under the social compact sovereignty always rests with the people, who never surrender their natural right to protest, or even revolt, when the state exceeds the limits of legitimate authority. Speech is thus a means of "people-power," through which the people may ferret out corruption and discourage tyrannical excesses.
Counter-intuitively, influential American voices have also often argued that robust protection of freedom of speech, including speech advocating crime and revolution, actually works to make the country more stable, increasing rather than decreasing our ability to maintain law and order. Again the words of Justice Brandeis in Whitney v. California are especially resonant, with his admonition that the framers of the Constitution "knew that order cannot be secured merely through fear of punishment for its infraction; that it is hazardous to discourage thought, hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones." If a society as wide-open and pluralistic as America is not to explode from festering tensions and conflicts, there must be valves through which citizens with discontent may blow off steam. In America we have come to accept the wisdom that openness fosters resiliency, that peaceful protest displaces more violence than it triggers, and that free debate dissipates more hate than it stirs.
The link between speech and democracy certainly provides some explanation for the American veneration of free speech, but not an entirely satisfying or complete one. For there are many flourishing democracies in the world, but few of them have adopted either the constitutional law or the cultural traditions that support free speech as expansively as America does. Moreover, much of the vast protection we provide to expression in America seems to bear no obvious connection to politics or the democratic process at all. Additional explanation is required.
Probably the most celebrated attempt at explanation is the "marketplace of ideas" metaphor, a notion that is most famously associated with Holmes' great dissent in Abrams, in which he argued that "the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market." The marketplace of ideas metaphor does not posit that truth will emerge from the free trade in ideas, at least not instantly. That would be asking too much. It merely posits that free trade in ideas is the best test of truth, in much the same way that those who believe in laissez-faire economic theory argue that over the long haul free economic markets are superior to command-and-control economies. The American love of the marketplace of ideas metaphor stems in no small part from our irrepressible national optimism, the American "constitutional faith" that, given long enough, good will conquer evil. As long as this optimism is not blind naiveté, but is rather a motive force that encourages us to keep the faith in the long view of history, it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just as we often have nothing to fear but fear, hope is often our best hope. Humanity may be fallible, and truth illusive, but the hope of humanity lies in its faith in progress. The marketplace metaphor reminds us to take the long view. Americans like to believe, and largely do believe, that truth has a stubborn and incorrigible persistence. Cut down again and again, truth will still not be extinguished. Truth will out, it will be rediscovered and rejuvenated. It will prevail.
The connection of freedom of speech to self-governance and the appeal of the marketplace of ideas metaphor still, however, do not tell it all. Freedom of speech is linked not merely to such grandiose ends as the service of the democracy or the search for truth. Freedom of speech has value on a more personal and individual level. Freedom of speech is part of the human personality itself, a value intimately intertwined with human autonomy and dignity. In the words of Justice Thurgood Marshall in the 1974 case Procunier v. Martinez, "The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit — a spirit that demands self-expression."
Many Americans embrace freedom of speech for the same reasons they embrace other aspects of individualism. Freedom of speech is the right to defiantly, robustly and irreverently speak one’s mind just because it is one’s mind. Freedom of speech is thus bonded in special and unique ways to the human capacity to think, imagine and create. Conscience and consciousness are the sacred precincts of mind and soul. Freedom of speech is intimately linked to freedom of thought, to that central capacity to reason and wonder, hope and believe, that largely defines our humanity.
If these various elements of our culture do in combination provide some insight into why freedom of speech exerts such a dominating presence on the American legal and cultural landscape, they do not by any means come close to explaining the intense and seemingly never-ending legal and cultural debates over the limits on freedom of speech.
While the language of the First Amendment appears absolute, freedom of speech is not an absolute right. Certain limitations and restrictions apply. Conflicts involving freedom of expression are among the most difficult ones that courts are asked to resolve. This ongoing process is often contentious and no one simple legal formula or philosophical principle has yet been discovered that is up to the trick of making the job easy. Americans thus continue to debate in political forums and litigate in courts such issues as the power of society to censor offensive speech to protect children, the permissibility of banning speech that defeats protection of intellectual property, the propriety of curbing speech to shelter personal reputation and privacy, the right to restrict political contributions and expenditures to reduce the influence of money on the political process, and countless other free-speech conflicts.Free speech cases frequently involve a clash of fundamental values. For example, how should the law respond to a speaker who makes unpopular statement to which the listeners react violently? Should police arrest the speaker or try to control the crowd? Courts must balance the need for peace and order against the fundamental right to express ones point of view.
According to the current state of law, freedom of speech does not protect the following: Speech that contains "fighting words" (insulting or abusive language that is likely to cause "an immediate violent response"); Obscenities; Language or communication directed to inciting, producing or urging the commission of a crime; Defamation - words or communication that are false and untrue and are intended to injure the character and reputation of another person; Abusive, obscene or harassing telephone calls; Loud speech and loud noise meant by volume to disturb others or to create a clear and present danger of violence.
Yet while the country continues to struggle mightily to define the limits and continues to debate vigorously the details, there is surprisingly little struggle and debate over the core of the faith. Americans truly do embrace the central belief that freedom of speech is of utmost value, linked to our defining characteristics as human beings. While limits must exist, American culture and law approach such limits with abiding caution and skepticism, embracing freedom of speech as a value of transcendent constitutional importance.
Freedom of the press protects the right to obtain and publish information or opinions without government censorship or fear of punishment. Censorship occurs when the government examines publications and productions and prohibits the use of material it finds offensive. Freedom of press applies to all types of printed and broadcast material, including books, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, films and radio and television programs.
The Constitution's framers provided the press with broad freedom. This freedom was considered necessary to the establishment of a strong, independent press sometimes called "the fourth branch" of the government. An independent press can provide citizens with a variety of information and opinions on matters of public importance. However, freedom of press sometimes collides with other rights, such as a defendant's right to a fair trial or a citizen's right to privacy. In recent years, there has been increasing concern about extremely aggressive journalism, including stories about people's sexual lives and photographs of people when they were in a private setting.
In the United States, the government may not prevent the publication of a newspaper, even when there is reason to believe that it is about to reveal information that will endanger our national security. By the same token, the government cannot:
Pass a law that requires newspapers to publish information against their will.
Impose criminal penalties, or civil damages, on the publication of truthful information about a matter of public concern or even on the dissemination of false and damaging information about a public person except in rare instances.
Impose taxes on the press that it does not levy on other businesses.
Compel journalists to reveal, in most circumstances, the identities of their sources.
Prohibit the press from attending judicial proceedings and thereafter informing the public about them.
Collectively, this bundle of rights, largely developed by U.S. Supreme Court decisions, defines the “freedom of the press” guaranteed by the First Amendment. What we mean by the freedom of the press is, in fact, an evolving concept. It is a concept that is informed by the perceptions of those who crafted the press clause in an era of pamphlets, political tracts and periodical newspapers, and by the views of Supreme Court justices who have interpreted that clause over the past two centuries in a world of daily newspapers, books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and television broadcasts, and now Web sites and Internet postings.
The framers' conception of freedom of the press has been the subject of intense historical debate, both among scholars and in the pages of judicial opinions. At the very least, those who drafted and ratified the Bill of Rights purported to embrace the notion, derived from William Blackstone, that a free press may not be licensed by the sovereign, or otherwise restrained in advance of publication (see New York Times Co. v. United States, 1971.) And, although the subject remains a lively topic of academic debate, the Supreme Court itself reviewed the historical record in 1964 in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and concluded that the “central meaning of the First Amendment” embraces as well a rejection of the law of seditious libel — i.e., the power of the sovereign to impose subsequent punishments, from imprisonment to criminal fines to civil damages, on those who criticize the state and its officials.
To a great extent, however, what we mean by freedom of the press today was shaped in an extraordinary era of Supreme Court decision-making that began with Sullivan and concluded in 1991 with Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. During that remarkable period, the Court ruled in at least 40 cases involving the press and fleshed out the skeleton of freedoms addressed only rarely in prior cases. In contrast, although the Court in the early part of the last century had considered the First Amendment claims of political dissidents with some frequency, it took nearly 150 years after the adoption of the Bill of Rights, and the First Amendment along with it, for the Court to issue its first decision based squarely on the freedom of the press.
That 1931 case, Near v. Minnesota, ratified the Blackstonian proposition that a prior restraint — a legal prohibition on the press’s ability to publish information in its possession — will almost always violate the First Amendment. Near is a landmark, not just because it was the Court’s first decision to invoke the press clause, but because it established a fundamental precept of constitutional law — that once the press has gotten its hands on information that it deems to be newsworthy, the government can seldom, if ever, prevent that information from being published.
Over the course of the quarter-century following Sullivan, the Court made it its business to explore the ramifications of the case on a virtually annual basis. During that period, the Supreme Court’s elaboration of what we mean by a free press focused on the nature of the official restraint alleged to compromise that freedom as well as the extent to which the First Amendment protects the press from a given species of governmental action or inaction. Thus, in cases such as Near and the “Pentagon Papers” case (1971's New York Times Co. v. United States, the Court established that freedom of the press from previous restraints on publication is nearly absolute, encompassing the right to publish information that a president concluded would harm the national security, if not the movements of troopships at sea in time of war. In 1974's Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, the Court embraced the analogous proposition that the government has virtually no power to compel the press to publish that which it would prefer to leave on the proverbial “cutting room floor.”
In that regard, however, it must be noted that not all media are “created equal” when it comes to entitlement to the full protections of the First Amendment’s press clause. Most significantly, because of a perceived “scarcity” of the electromagnetic spectrum, the Court has held that Congress and the Federal Communications Commission may regulate the activities of broadcasters operating over “public” airwaves in a manner that would surely violate the First Amendment if applied to newspapers. (Compare Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC (1969) with Tornillo.) The Court’s reasoning in Red Lion, in which it upheld the Commission’s “Fairness Doctrine” and “personal attack” rule — i.e., the right of a person criticized on a broadcast station to respond to such criticism over the same airwaves licensed to that station — has never been disavowed, although the justices have expressly declined to extend it to other, later-developed communications media, including cable television (1994's Turner Broadcasting v. FCC) and the Internet (1997's Reno v. ACLU), to which the “scarcity” rationale for regulation is plainly inapplicable.
Even in the broadcast context, however, Sullivan and the cases that followed it stand for the proposition that the First Amendment protects the publication of truthful information about matters of public concern, not just from prior restraint, but also from subsequent punishment, at least in the absence of a demonstrated need to vindicate a competing government interest of the “highest order.” This formulation has come to be known as “the Daily Mail principle,” after the Supreme Court’s 1979 decision in Smith v. Daily Mail Publishing Co., in which the Court held that a newspaper could not be liable for publishing the name of a juvenile offender in violation of a West Virginia law declaring such information to be private. The protections against subsequent punishments for reporting the truth afforded by the Daily Mail principle are not absolute, but the barriers to such government regulation of the press are set extremely high.
Sullivan and cases that followed also hold that the First Amendment protects the publication of false information about matters of public concern in a variety of contexts, although with considerably less vigor than it does dissemination of the truth. Even so, public officials and public figures may not recover civil damages for injury to their reputations unless they were the victims of a reckless disregard for truth in the dissemination of a “calculated falsehood.” Indeed, private persons may not collect civil damages for reputational harm caused by falsehoods relating to a matter of public concern unless the publisher’s conduct violates a fault-based standard of care. And although expressions of “opinion” are not always immune from legal sanction, in its 1990 decision in Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., the Court held that statements not capable of being proven false, or which reasonable people would not construe as statements of fact at all, but rather as mere “rhetorical hyperbole,” are absolutely protected by the First Amendment.
By the same token, the Supreme Court has been considerably less definitive in articulating the degree of First Amendment protection to be afforded against restraints on the freedom of the press that are indirect and more subtle than the issuance of a prior restraint or the imposition of criminal or civil sanctions subsequent to publication. Thus, for example, in its 1978 decision Zurcher v. Stanford Daily, the Court held that the First Amendment does not protect the press and its newsrooms from the issuance of otherwise valid search warrants. Similarly, in 1979 in Herbert v. Lando, the Court concluded that the press clause does not encompass a privilege that would empower a journalist to decline to testify about the “editorial process” in civil discovery. Most significantly, in 1972 in Branzburg v. Hayes, a sharply divided Court was skeptical of the contention that the First Amendment protects journalists from the compelled disclosure of the identities of their confidential sources, at least in the context of a grand-jury proceeding. The Court, however, has not addressed that issue in the 30 years since Branzburg, and has effectively permitted the lower courts to fashion an impressive body of law grounding just such a “reporter’s privilege” firmly in the press clause itself. That privilege, however, is by no means absolute and may be forfeited in a variety of circumstances, especially when no confidential source is thereby placed in jeopardy or when disclosure is sought in the context of a grand-jury or other criminal proceeding.
And, finally, the Court has held that the First Amendment affords the press and public affirmative rights of access to at least some government proceedings. In a series of decisions beginning with 1980's Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia, the Court established that the First Amendment not only protects the press from prior restraints and other government-imposed penalties, but also invests the press and public with a right to attend criminal trials and other judicial proceedings. This right, however, is not absolute and is routinely balanced against other competing interests articulated by the proponents of secret proceedings. Nevertheless, in such cases, and others like 1975's Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn, the Court has expressly recognized the structural role that the press plays as a “surrogate” for the larger public in gathering and disseminating information on its behalf and for its benefit. Significantly, however, the Court has taken great pains not to anoint the press with First Amendment-based rights and immunities beyond those enjoyed by any speaker, “lonely pamphleteer” (see Branzburg v. Hayes, 1972), or Internet chat-room participant.
Indeed, the Court has rejected arguments advanced by the institutional press that, because of its structural role in ensuring the free flow of information in a democratic society, it ought to enjoy unique protections from otherwise generally applicable laws that inhibit its ability to gather and report the news. Thus, in 1991 in Cohen v. Cowles Media Co., the Court effectively concluded the treatise on the freedom of the press it began in Sullivan; it did so when it emphasized that the press is properly subject to liability under the “generally applicable” law of contracts when it breaks a promise to keep a source’s identity confidential, even when it does so in order to report truthful information about the source’s involvement in a matter of public concern.
In the decade following Cohen, the Court again fell largely silent when it came to the First Amendment’s application to the institutional press. As the 21st century dawned, however, the Court interrupted that silence, at least briefly, to revisit the extent to which a “generally applicable” law such as the federal wiretap statute can constitutionally impose criminal penalties and civil liability on the dissemination by the press of the contents of unlawfully recorded telephone conversations, at least when the information so disseminated is the truth about a matter of public concern.
In 2001 in Bartnicki v. Vopper, the Court held that, even when a statute is directed at deterring unlawful conduct (e.g., the interception of telephone conversations) and not at penalizing the content of press reports, it nevertheless constitutes a “naked prohibition” on the dissemination of information by the press that is “fairly characterized as a regulation of pure speech” in violation of the First Amendment. In so holding, the Court ushered in a new century of First Amendment jurisprudence by reaffirming both the Daily Mail principle — the fundamental right of a free press to disseminate truthful information about public matters — and the “central meaning of the First Amendment” on which it is based — Sullivan’s recognition that the “‘freedom of expression upon public questions is secured by the First Amendment’” so that “‘debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open.’”
While it is undeniable fact that freedom of press is essential ingredient of democracy, it does not mean it will advance the goals of democracy.
Namely, once in this country that now seems far away, radio and television broadcasters had an obligation to operate in the public interest. That generally accepted principle was reflected in a rule known as the Fairness Doctrine. The rule, formally adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in 1949, required all broadcasters to devote a reasonable amount of time to the discussion of controversial matters of public interest. It further required broadcasters to air contrasting points of view regarding those matters. The Fairness Doctrine arose from the idea imbedded in the First Amendment that the wide dissemination of information from diverse and even antagonistic sources is essential to the public welfare and to a healthy democracy.
In August 1987 the FCC repealed the Doctrine, claiming that it was unconstitutional, although the Supreme Court had ruled unanimously in 1969 that the Fairness Doctrine was not only constitutional but essential to democracy. As a result, general public is very rarely served with fair and balanced information. The public airwaves serve today no other purpose but to express the opinions of those who can pay for air time. Some authors argue that mainstream media journalism today is a shameful joke because of president Reagan's decision to abolish Fairness Doctrine. Once upon a time, the Fairness Doctrine ensured that the information we receive - information vital to the ability of the people to govern in the manner intended - came from a wide variety of sources and perspectives. Reagan's policies annihilated the Fairness Doctrine, opening the door for a few mega-corporations to gather journalism unto themselves. Today, Reagan's old bosses at General Electric own three of the most-watched news channels. This company profits from every war Americans fight, but somehow is trusted to tell the truths of war. Thus, the myths and lies are sold to us.
Learn more about freedom of speech and freedom of press by visiting the following Web sites:
American Communication Association Free Speech Page
First Amendment Cyber Tribune
Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press
Freedom of Speech on Public College Campuses
Internet and the First Amendment
Historic Supreme Court Decisions - Freedom of Speech
Historic Supreme Court Decisions - Freedom of Press
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Professor Chris Frost, the former head of journalism at Liverpool John Moores University, told Index of the importance of allowing every individual view to be heard, and that those who fear taking on opposing ideas and seek to silence or no-platform should consider that it is their ideas that may be wrong. He said: “If someone’s views or policies are that appalling then they need to be challenged in public for fear they will, as a prejudice, capture support for lack of challenge. If we are unable to defeat our opponent’s arguments then perhaps it is us that is wrong.
“I would also be concerned at the fascism of a majority (or often a minority) preventing views from being spoken in public merely because they don’t like them and find them difficult to counter. Whether it is through violence or the abuse of power such as no-platform we should always fear those who seek to close down debate and impose their view, right or wrong. They are the tyrants. We need to hear many truths and live many experiences in order to gain the wisdom to make the right and justified decisions.”
Free speech has been the topic of many debates in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. The terrorist attack on the satirical magazine’s Paris office, in January 2015, has led to many questioning whether free speech is used as an excuse to be offensive.
Many world leaders spoke out in support of Charlie Hebdo and the hashtag #Jesuischarlie was used worldwide as an act of solidarity. However, the hashtag also faced some criticism as those who denounced the attacks but also found the magazine’s use of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed offensive instead spoke out on Twitter with the hashtag #Jenesuispascharlie.
After the city was the victim of another terrorist attack at the hands of ISIS at the Bataclan Theatre in November 2015, President François Hollande released a statement in which he said: “Freedom will always be stronger than barbarity.” This statement showed solidarity across the country and gave a message that no amount of violence or attacks could take away a person’s freedom.
French cartoonist t0ad told Index about the importance of free speech in allowing him to do his job as a cartoonist, and the effect the attacks have had on free speech in France: “Mundanely and along the same tracks, it means I can draw and post (social media has changed a hell of a lot of notions there) a drawing without expecting the police or secret services knocking at my door and sending me to jail, or risking being lynched. Cartoonists in some other countries do not have that chance, as we are brutally reminded. Free speech makes cartooning a relatively risk-free activity; however…
“Well, you know the howevers: Charlie Hebdo attacks, country law while globalisation of images and ideas, rise of intolerances, complex realities and ever shorter time and thought, etc.
“As we all see, and it concerns the other attacks, the other countries. From where I stand (behind a screen, as many of us), speech seems to have gone freer … where it consists of hate – though this should not be defined as freedom.”
In the spring 2015 issue of Index on Censorship, following the Charlie Hebdo attacks, Richard Sambrook, professor of Journalism and director of the Centre for Journalism at Cardiff University, took the opportunity to highlight the number journalists that a murdered around the world every day for doing their job, yet go unnoticed.
Sambrook told Index why everyone should have the right to free speech: “Firstly, it’s a basic liberty. Intellectual restriction is as serious as physical incarceration. Freedom to think and to speak is a basic human right. Anyone seeking to restrict it only does so in the name of seeking further power over individuals against their will. So free speech is an indicator of other freedoms.
“Secondly, it is important for a healthy society. Free speech and the free exchange of ideas is essential to a healthy democracy and – as the UN and the World Bank have researched and indicated – it is crucial for social and economic development. So free speech is not just ‘nice to have’, it is essential to the well-being, prosperity and development of societies.”
Ian Morse, a member of the Index on Censorship youth advisory board told Index how he believes free speech is important for a society to have access to information and know what options are available to them.
He said: “One thing I am beginning to realise is immensely important for a society is for individuals to know what other ideas are out there. Turkey is a baffling case study that I have been looking at for a while, but still evades my understanding. The vast majority of educated and young populations (indeed some older generations as well) realise how detrimental the AKP government has been to the country, internationally and socially. Yet the party still won a large portion of the vote in recent elections.
“I think what’s critical in each of these elections is that right before, the government has blocked Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook – so they’ve simultaneously controlled which information is released and produced a damaging image of the news media. The media crackdown perpetuates the idea that the news and social media, except the ones controlled by the AKP, are bad for the country.”
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Fears held for boy, 12, missing in storms on French island
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9638986/Porquerolles-fears-held-for-boy-12-missing-in-storms-on-French-island.html
The boy, named locally as Pierre Barnes, had been on a half-term break with his family on the island of Porquerolles, south of the French Riveria, in the Mediterranean.
Authorities today held grave fears for the safety of the boy, who is believed to be from the Midlands, after he went missing during a storm described as one of the worst in the past decade.
Extreme weather conditions including gale forced winds and torrential have rain battered the area in recent days, causing widespread destruction and left at least two people dead.
The boy, believed to be the youngest of four children, was reported missing by his worried parents last night after he failed to return from a bike ride alone.
His damaged bicycle was found near a coastal path close to the sea on the island, which is situated within sight off the French mainland.
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EU Soviet Agenda and Comrade Cameron
http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/world/3591-eu-soviet-agenda-and-comrade-cameron.html
The new poster is a clear signal that the EU is a Soviet Fascist bloc and is a direct threat to freedom, democracy and humanity as a whole.
A warning from history
"Not only are we laughing in the face of all citizens within the European Union, we are also revealing ourselves to be truly a Soviet system where we amalgamate and assimilate all within our borders. We destroy all individuality, all nationality, and dictate all economic policy. This is the EU, and when we get our stormtroopers goose stepping on the streets, you will see what you have got yourselves into. Remember that evil is allowed to happen when good men stand by and do nothing. The EU was allowed to happen, as was Stalin's Soviet bloc, and Hitler's Reich. No one did anything, nations stood by until it was too late, banks financed them until it was too late. The same is up with the EU, no one did anything, and unelected EU bureaucrats now rule over you. You pay for my unlimited expense account and my diamond encrusted pension plan, my unlimited global travel perks and my laughter at you pleb citizens, the scum that you are, I laugh at you," an unelected EU bureaucrat said from the EU parliament yesterday.
British premier, David Cameron, who knows very well what the EU is and how it will finally reveal itself to be a totalitarian Soviet Fascist state, was all too eager to proffer his congratulations to the EU for its recent Nobel Peace Prize.
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Nobel bailout? European Union wins 2012 Peace Prize
Snake: Srsly? They might as well give Hitler a peace prize too
https://rt.com/news/eu-nobel-peace-prize-2012-250/
The European Union was announced the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2012. A heated debate emerged over the validity of the award amidst the backdrop of Europe’s as-yet-unsolved economic crisis.
The 27-nation organization was awarded the prize for its role in “uniting the continent,” and its contributions “to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.”
The unanimous decision was made by a five-person panel chaired by Thorbjoern Jagland, the Council of Europe’s Secretary-General and a strong advocate of the EU in Norway. “The EU helped transform Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace,” Jagland said.
The EU will receive a $1.2 million award on December 10 by the Nobel Committee.
The news came 60 years after the creation of the EU’s predecessor organization, the European Coal and Steel Community, which helped rebuild a continent decimated by two World Wars.
"The European Union is in the middle of one of its worst crises, but perhaps it is precisely now the peace and stabilization project deserves a hand from the 'no' country Norway?" Norwegian public broadcaster NRK said.
Norway, the Nobel Peace Prize’s host nation, refused membership in the EU in 1972 and again in 1994.
French bees make green and blue honey after M&M’s feast
https://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/green-honey-mms-france-744/
Beekeepers in north eastern France have been scratching their heads after the hives began to produce a weird colored substance instead of regular honey. They think candy M&Ms are to blame.
The bees around the town of Ribeauville in the Alsace region have been carrying an unidentified colored substance back to their hives since August. The keepers have done a bit of sleuthing and think the Agrivolar biogas plant around 4 kilometers away is to blame.
The enterprise has been processing waste from a Mars factory producing the colored M&M's. The waste products have been stored in open containers and the bees could easily access the contents.
"We discovered the problem at the same time they did. We quickly put in place a procedure to stop it," Reuters quotes Agrivalor manager Philippe Meinrad as saying. The plant said they would now store waste indoors and in tightly closed containers.
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Afghanistan bans all Pakistani newspapers
Made by My In The Corner who had technical troubles posting his last comic.
Unfortunately, he lacks the time to create any more. Thanks for contributing to the blog mate!
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/09/2012922143456468763.html
Afghanistan has issued a nationwide ban against Pakistani newspapers to stop what security officials consider anti-government propaganda aimed at Kabul.
Ihsanuddin Taheri, a government spokesman, told the Reuters news agency on Saturday that Pakistani newspapers are often misleading in their reporting of the Afghan administration and wrongly accuse NATO-led forces of "occupying" the country, rather than offering security support.
He added that some papers have also published speeches by Taliban leaders, hampering the government's effort to bring the Taliban into peace talks aimed at ending the country's 11-year conflict.
"We totally reject these statements and the ban is to show them this," Taheri said.
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Family values for sale: Unwanted wife removed from auction after media reports
https://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/unwanted-wife-sale-auction-404/
A Finnish man has put his “insufferable and unwanted” wife up for sale. An online auction had to remove the announcement after the starting price for the spouse of 5 euros, reached the maximum 100,000.
Local Iltalehti newspaper reported that the resident of Vantaa in Southern Finland who put his wife up for sale described her as ill-tempered, quarrelsome and hard to cheat on.
Burnt food was also mentioned among the woman’s worst sins. The man noted that she could cook an excellent pasta pie, though.
Her age wasn’t clear from the advert, and the Finnish husband praised her ‘strong points’ as a woman.
The man reportedly didn’t choose his words when he suggested that all those interested in the lot should pick up his wife “right from home, as soon as possible”, Itar-Tass agency reported.
The auction management cut short the sale after local press reported it, without waiting for an explanation from the vendor.
‘A Hero in Our Time’: Germany’s Gunter Grass hails Vanunu in anti-Israeli poem
http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/gunter-grass-vanunu-nuclear-370/
Nobel prize-winning German author Gunter Grass has given Israel another tongue lashing. His new poem "A Hero in Our Time" praises Mordechai Vanunu, the man who blew the whistle on Israel’s nuclear program to a British newspaper.
In a newly released book of 87 poems, entitled Eintagsfliegen, Grass describes the former worker at the Dimona nuclear facility as a “hero” and a “model”, admiring his decision to pass Israeli nuke secrets to the UK’s Sunday Times in 1986.
Grass writes about Vanunu’s upbringing in Beersheba as the son of a rabbi, who “pursued the study of the Torah’s rules and then decided to convert to Christianity.” He depicts his “hero” as being in the same predicament as the biblical Joseph and how his brothers tossed him into a cistern, The Jerusalem Post reported.
An Israeli court convicted the whistle-blower of espionage and sentenced him to 18 years in jail.
Restrictions were placed on Vanunu after he was released from prison in 2004. He was banned from traveling and denied contact with foreigners without prior permission. However, he has since been reportedly penalised more than 20 times for breaking the rules.
Grass, meanwhile, has been barred from entering Israel because of his anti-Israel writings and his former membership in the Nazi Waffen SS.
Earlier this year, the 84-year-old German writer provoked a wave of outrage in Israel after publishing the poem entitled "What Must Be Said" in which he expressed fears that a nuclear-armed Israel "could wipe out the Iranian people" with a "first strike," blaming the Jewish state of endangering world peace.
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The #MeToo movement set women back 10 years
#MeToo women wanted men to be afraid. But they didn't quite realize how this might play out.
by Audra Luke
in America Under Attack, Propaganda
It’s hard enough for women to compete in male-dominated industries, such as technology and finance, and now it is about to get even worse. The #MeToo revolution was an online movement led by alleged sexually assaulted women who exposed men for everything from looking at them too sensually to touching them in all the wrong places. Men were getting fired, ostracized, and jailed as a direct result of being fingered by women who used the movement to call men out publicly.
This created a wonderful sense of comradery and empowerment among women; but unfortunately, the cheers didn’t last too long. As men grew fearful of the #MeToo movement, they began to wonder exactly how far is too far with women. Men no longer knew if they could have a one-on-one lunch with a female co-worker without it somehow being misconstrued. So here we go…a new era that will soon embrace the #NotMe movement by men who refuse to get caught up in the vicious web that the #MeToo movement created.
Women didn’t intend for the #MeToo movement to get out of hand
Good intentions don’t mean much to a guy who lost his job and is now sitting in jail, all because he was accused of something that there is literally no proof that he did. If five women decided they did not like a guy, all they had to do was claim he touched them in ways that made them feel uncomfy. The courts would not ask for visual proof because it couldn’t be produced, given it may have happened 12 years ago or more, so all the court could rely on were the voices of the women.
As of late, there are actually some women who have come forward to admit that they lied about someone in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Maybe the women got too caught up in sticking it to the man! Who knows? One thing for sure is that none of the women expected the movement to blow up in their faces…pardon the expression.
Just take away my shoes and throw me in a kitchen, why don’t you!?
Bloomberg recently reported in their business section that Wall Street has a new rule: to avoid women at all cost! Men on Wall Street fear that the #MeToo movement has forever placed them in a precarious situation. In order to have a private meeting with a woman to discuss business, the men feel they must do so with the door wide open to ensure she doesn’t accuse him of rape. If the boss has a dinner for his team, he has to do so with trepidation for fear that one of his male employees will somehow fall victim of the #MeToo accusations from a female coworker.
Men are running scared and the women are being snubbed left and right. Women are losing their ability to have a male mentor, be respected by their male colleagues, or even be included in company outings that contribute to the professional growth of its participants. Too bad, so sad. Women have ultimately used the #MeToo movement to screw themselves in the end. Who can women sue for that? What hashtag can be used to protect other women who fall victim of this aftereffect of the #MeToo movement? What can be done to turn this around so that men…good men…are not afraid to work side-by-side with women again without fear? Great questions. No answers, yet.
A new movement on the rise
It may seem hard to believe that there could be anything that could contribute to the war of the sexes more than the #MeToo movement. Corporate women, and the men who fear them, are now facing another hashtag that just might put the nail in the corporate ladder coffin: #Sexism. Thanks to the #MeToo movement, women can rest assured that they will face discrimination more than ever. No longer will men want to include women on the company outings, or lunches, or have them attend company parties, or have one-on-one meetings with other male co-workers.
Women have isolated themselves and they have made the task a much harder one for the young women who are coming up after them. True, if men are being bad boys then they should be reported, fired, or convicted. However, when women created a movement that placed a spotlight on all men, even those who fell outside of the sexual assault spectrum, then women created a monster that set them back an entire decade. We can only hope that somehow this madness is resolved in a way that will bridge a new gap in communication between the sexes, rather than create a further divide. A resolution that includes mutual respect, effective communication, and mutual trust. It’s time to eliminate the hashtag movement, and instead, go back to the human movement that consists of compassion, understanding, and honesty. Even if only in our dreams.
Audra Luke
miles e drake says:
This was one of the long-term goals of the American left, particularly its sodomite and sapphist constituency, in unleashing this Salem Witch Trial sexual hysteria. Normal professional and social interactions between men and women are now impossinly dangerous, fraught with the danger that a career-ending or life-destroying accusation may be made at any time by a member of a protected class, and that the accusation can by definition not be refuted or even defended against. The only safe course will be for males and females to avoid each other, which will lead to socially-sanctioned and state-protected same-sex relationships, and eventually to the replacement of existing social and spousal contracts with universal homosexuality. The plan is to turn heterosexuality into a despised perversion, practiced in the shadows by a benighted minority, and to maintain the population at the low levels required by the gaian paganism that is about to become our new state religion through the insemination of lesbians from gay donors, the “theybies” thereby created being raised and indoctrinated in public institutions until they come out or become wards of the collective, like “Julia” in The Mongrel’s 2012 re-election campaign. We have at most one more presidential term in which to take a stand against perversion, mongrelization and degeneracy.
Philip Simon says:
Women you already fought your causes for education, jobs, better money economics, marriage and family life. Do not listen to#Me too movement.
Lawman says:
Another sad, unintended consequence, is men have become hesitant to hire attractive women because of the assumption of coworkers that the hiring decision was based solely on the physical, rather than the professional qualities of the woman. In the American workplace of the 21st century, attractive women are the victims of discrimination.
Steve J says:
Funny I thought we dodged a bullet with Hillary and her sexism. It is happening anyway. The Lefts Metoo movement is what Obama did for racism, set it back 50 years. All the Left can do is divide and conquer. They are a forest fire of death and destruction. Look at our society now, you won’t recognize it in 5-10 years.
Cindy Frazier says:
I agree…makes me ashamed to be a woman at times…..this coming from a female who has been everything from a brand inspector to a taxidermist. I am fearless in a mans world, but in a women’s world i shudder,,,,
Rick Sr Wrona says:
The Governor of New Jersey and NJ Senator Spartacus Booker have done more irritable harm to Women and the Me Too Movement than anyone or Thing with their double standards! The Democrats believe all women should be believed except if its a woman accusing a Democrat or their Governors Senators, Legislators, Congressman or any other Democrat Politician! As the current Rape case going on in New Jersey who’s Governor and Senator Booker are supporting the alleged Rapist! And Booker who himself was alleged to Sexually assault a man! Hypocrites All
Bowman Joseph says:
The problem is interacting in the workplace How can a male boss give any type of criticism or negative response to any female colleagues without fear of reprisals the can end their careers and even see them jailed for no more than because the person in question took exception to their actions or complaints A male cannot even express their concerns about the actions of a female employee without fearing retaliation
Samuel Hinojosa Jr says:
How true that I s now! Seperation of the sexes is now is now in place, men have to go look for sex in whore houses.
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Nelson mandela centenary coin value
Africa 50R The utilization of this report as a tool for assessing the population and value of certified numismatic coins in Depicted on the South African 50 rand note from the Madiba series is the site in Howick where Nelson Mandela was captured after 17 months in hiding. The first installation being the 2017 OR Tambo Centenary range. Nelson Mandela Centenary 2018 R50 Coin. South Africa Coins, Notes and Mandela Coins Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday coin 2008 bi-metal Nelson Mandela collectable special edition R5. The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) released the designs ahead of its official release on July 18, after images leaked online. 1918 5 Contained in this set, is the 2008 Nelson Mandela Birthday Celebration Set with the Bi Metal (gold and silver) medallion and the uncirculated R 5 coin in its own engraved wooden box.
The new commemorative banknotes are known as the South Africa Madiba series, so called from Mandela’s clan name. 1994 5 Banknotes of the South African rand (2018 Seventh Issue "Mandela Centenary") Image Value Obverse Reverse Colour Language Size (mm) 10 rand Nelson Mandela: Young Mandela and his birthplace of Mvezo: Green English, Afrikaans, Swati 128×70 20 rand Young Mandela and his home in Soweto: Brown English, Southern Ndebele, Tswana 134×70 50 rand Coin collectors are looking for Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Celebration Coins. The SARB expects the commemorative banknotes and coins to be introduced into circulation from 18 July, what would have been Mandela’s 100th birthday. 626 grams diameter: 38. Nelson Mandela Centenary “Be The Legacy” Memorabilia.
168 results for nelson mandela coin NELSON MANDELA 100th Birthday Genuine $2 US Bill w/FREE 23KT Gold Card $40 Value. 725 mm quality: proof issue limit of coin: 500 year of issue: 201 8 : r 50 uncirculated Will try to post information about official, legal tender coins only World Coin News: South Africa 5 rand 2018 - Centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela World Coin News Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918 and passed away on December 5, 2013. The Foundation’s commemoration of Mandela’s centenary is focused on three themes that ask South Africans to “find the Madiba in you”, “be the legacy” and “build a values-based society”. According to Eyewitness News (SA), some of the new notes have already been dispensed nelson mandela centenary celebrating south africa 3 coin silver set : specifications: 3 coin silver set 100 year centenary nelson rolihlahla mandela issue limit of set: 500: r 50 proof 1oz sterling silver metal: ag 925 cu75 weight: 33. NGC AU 58 South Africa Year 2000 5R Nelson Mandela R5 Coin AU58 Tata Madiba.
mandela coin for sale, still in good condition. The commemorative banknotes and the R5 circulation coin will be in circulation from Friday, 13 July, just five days ahead of the national commemoration of Madiba’s 100th year. Search all major South African classifieds sites from one place. Nelson Mandela Centenary R5 coin. Colnect collectors club revolutionizes your collecting experience! The 2018 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Centenary Coins (1918 – 2018): This range of coins was created in 2018, as this was the year that marked 100 years since Nelson Mandela was born.
APA-Johannesburg (South Africa) As events marking the 28th anniversary of the release from prison of former President Nelson Mandela kicked off on Sunday, the country’s reserve bank has announced that it would issue a set of commemorative banknotes to honour the late statesman’s centenary. ADVERTISEMENT The South African Reserve Bank said on Friday that the notes portray Mandela’s life and his upbringing in rural […] CAPE TOWN- The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will make commemorative banknotes to honour Nelson Mandela’s centenary, it said in a statement on Sunday. The coin features a smiling portrait of former President Nelson Mandela. On the reverse is a portrait of Mandela alongside a latent image featuring the years 1918 and 2018. Many of these coins are silver coins and a few are gold coins.
The central bank said the new and old currencies will continue circulating together. “Nelson Mandela represented the best version of ourselves as South Africans. 45 2018 5 Rand Nelson Mandela Centenary (2) PR. More details about this programme will be announced closer to the event. The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is honouring Nelson Mandela’s centenary with a series of banknotes featuring historic moments that defined who he was… The commemorative banknotes and the R5 circulation coin take South Africans on a historical journey with former president Mandela #MandelaDay New coin and banknotes for Mandela's 100th birthday 12 February 2018 - 07:00 By Nico Gous The South African Reserve Bank says the R5 coin and banknotes of all denominations are expected to be 2018 Nelson Mandela Centenary 2018 S.
The event will be addressed by the United Democratic Movement’s Bantu Holomisa and Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe, who is the chairperson of government’s Inter-Ministerial Committee on Nelson Mandela’s Centenary. ” Many of his personal letters, notes and tape recordings that form the basis of the book are stored in a small, nondescript room in the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg. The coin forms part of the ‘Celebrating South Africa’ series, which was introduced in 2017. As part of the Nelson Mandela centenary series, the mint will also produce a R50 denominated bronze- aluminium coin, which will retail for R127, of which R27, symbolising the 27 years he The coins are aimed at honouring the life of the former president of the republic who would have celebrated his centenary on 18 July 2018. 5 million.
South Africa coin 5 Rand - Centenary of the Birth of Nelson Mandela (2018) full numismatic specifications with clear reverse and observe photos. Reserve Bank governor, Lesetja Kganyago said further details about the introduction of the notes and coins will be communicated to the public closer to the time. GOLD PLATED President Nelson Mandela coin The weight of one coin is 31. The first lot of notes has been distributed to certain ATMs nationwide. The reverse of the medallion depicts the bust of President Nelson Mandela and features the years he served as President of the ANC, "1991-1997".
Catalans receive coveted Mandela Centenary Coins The FC Barcelona team was in South Africa for a day on 16 May 2018, and played against Mamelodi Sundowns as part of the Nelson Mandela Centenary Celebrations at the FNB Stadium. Buy, sell, trade and exchange collectibles easily with Colnect collectors community. New coin and banknotes for Mandela's 100th birthday By Nico Gous - 12 February 2018 - 07:15 ANC supporters at the start of the Madiba centenary celebrations at the parade in Cape Town on February The Reserve Bank will next week put into circulation banknotes to mark Nelson Mandela’s centenary. If you want this label for another Nelson Mandela coin (for an additional fee of $5 per coin), write "Mandela Centenary Label #1029" on your submission form: The coin is aimed at celebrating the life of Nelson Mandela who would have celebrated his centenary on 18 July 2018. South Africa is marking the centenary of late President Nelson Mandela’s birth, including the South African Reserve Bank who have released a commemorative banknotes series and R5 coin.
The commemorative banknotes and the R5 circulation coin will be in circulation 82 R5 Mandela coin Listings in South Africa on Value Forest. 1 gram Each coin comes with dust proof collectors case There is a Nelson mandela on the front These words are on the back of the coin : President Mandela dedicated his life to the victory of the A new five rand coin will go into circulation on 18 July 2008, Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday. The coin goes into circulation in July 2018, the month in which Mandela was born. The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will launch commemorative banknotes to honour Nelson Mandela’s centenary, it said in a statement on Sunday. Detailed information about the coin 5 Rand (Nelson Mandela Centenary), South Africa, with pictures and collection and swap management : mintage, descriptions, metal, weight, size, value and other numismatic data South Africa celebrates the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela throughout 2018; the commemoration begins this month with the announcement of a new design for the R5 coin that celebrates the The Foundation’s commemoration of Mandela’s centenary is focused on three themes that ask South Africans to “find the Madiba in you”, “be the legacy” and “build a values-based society”.
Morningside, Durban Central and Cbd < 19 hours ago. The bimetallic R5 circulation coin is central to this range, enabling the South African public and coin collectors to celebrate the centenary year of Mandela’s birth. Nelson Mandela Foundation Chief Executive Sello Hatang said he hopes Mandela’s life story will always be one that fosters social inclusiveness. The limited edition R5 coin was minted to commemorate Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday in 2008 and has become known worldwide as the "Madiba coin". Cape Town – The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will launch commemorative banknotes to honour Nelson Mandela’s centenary, it said in a statement on Sunday.
On 18 July 2018 Artform Factory is proud to announce the launch of the Nelson Mandela Centenary “Be The Legacy” Memorabilia Frame. Coins Banknotes Euro Medals and tokens Banknote South Africa 100 Rand Nelson Mandela - Centenary 1918-2018 Ref. This R200 bill was issued for the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth. This guide will teach you how to sell your Mandela coins for once and all. Some coins came from the coin mint, some came from coin dealers, some came from coin auction.
The bimetallic R5 circulation coin is central to this range, enabling the South African public and coin collectors to celebrate the centenary year of Mandela’s birth. As the commemoration to mark the 28th anniversary of the release from prison of Former President Nelson Mandela continued on Sunday, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has announced that it will issue a set of commemorative banknotes to honour the former statesman’s centenary. Buy: $28. The design of the new R5 coin, commemorating the centenary of Nelson Mandela. For this Mandela Centenary edition, only 25 will be minted, and as the only authorised Nobel Peace Prize Mandela medallion available, it is an exceptionally rare numismatic piece.
There will also be a stage play and a TV series, among others. This coin was sold for R2. The Mandelacoin is a South African R5 coin, which features the face of Nelson Mandela. Commemorative notes will be made for all existing banknotes, in addition to a new R5 coin which will be circulated by the South African Mint. Grade: NGC AU58 .
South Africa has launched bank notes and gold coins to mark the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mendala’s birth. This is a rare coin marking Nelson Mandelas birthday. Today, this coin is considered to be the most valuable Mandela coin of all. But don’t worry about keeping it as a collector’s item – it’s still only worth R5. Notably, the two coins are also the second installation in the “Celebrating South Africa” theme.
Whatsapp me if you interested in mandela money i have a lot of it. These prices start at R1,000 cash or more for mint condition. The obverse features the "Unity in Diversity" logo. Only a limited 1) 1994 MANDELA INAUGURATION COIN [Proofs Valued at R74,950. According to Eyewitness News (SA), some of the new notes have already been dispensed Will try to post information about official, legal tender coins only World Coin News: South Africa 5 rand 2018 - Centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela World Coin News Mandela coins at cointrader co za r5 up to r50 000 celebrating freedom with new r5 coin fin24 celebrating freedom with new r5 coin fin24 the carwash find that led to world greatest collection of sa nelson mandela madiba birthday coin from south african mint reserve bank clarifies commemorative coins value northglen news.
Add this historic Proof Silver coin to your cart today! In 1993, Nelson Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize with President FW de Klerk before making history as South Africa’s first democratically-elected president, in 1994. Nelson Mandela is appearing on a new circulating commemorative 5-rand coin from South Africa. Click here and complete the form if you have this coin. The limited edition of these notes and coins will be used for the commemoration on July 18. nelson mandela centenary celebrating south africa 3 coin silver set : specifications: 3 coin silver set 100 year centenary nelson rolihlahla mandela issue limit of set: 500: r 50 proof 1oz sterling silver metal: ag 925 cu75 weight: 33.
Get Results from 8 Search Engines! Searches related to value of mandela r5 coin. Several years ago, three of these coins sold for R100,000 or $10,000 each. 2xR5 2018 Nelson Mandela centenary coins. The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) announced (14th June) they will be launching their first commemorative banknote series, in celebration of the birth centenary of the country’s first post-apartheid president, Nelson Mandela. The commemorative banknotes will be made with existing bank notes and including the R5 coin, circulated by the South African Mint.
Join the hundreds of South Africans that are selling Mandela Coins and are getting cash in their pockets overnight. The coin for sale has been graded by NGC as MS64 making it the 3rd highest Mint State grade found by NGC. NELSON MANDELA MEMORABILIA . Today, the coins may be worth even more. As mentioned above, the Mandela R5 Coin’s value soared to new heights after the President’s death.
(Image: South African Mint) Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba authorised the new coin for national circulation on 19 January 2018. : Face value 100 Rand Personality Nelson International Nelson Mandela Day – on 18 July 2018, government will hold a national event at NASREC, Gauteng, in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation to celebrate International Nelson Mandela Day and the centenary of the birth of this international icon. Since the launch of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate series in 1995, the mint of Norway has issued several busts of Mandela. 1994 5 Coin collectors are looking for Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Celebration Coins. The banknotes from the Madiba series feature the life of former President Nelson Mandela: They were issued to commemorate the centenary of his birth.
List of Areas Where You Can Sell Mandela Coins for Extra Cash in South Africa Here is a history of how Mandela coins have been sold for R275 000. 141 mandela coin Listings in South Africa on Value Forest. The Nelson Mandela Centenary Label #1029 (shown below) will be included by default for no additional fee for the 2018 South Africa Nelson Mandela Centenary 5 Rand. to celebrate the centenary 168 results for nelson mandela coin NELSON MANDELA 100th Birthday Genuine $2 US Bill w/FREE 23KT Gold Card $40 Value. 9) and 1 oz Silver (Ag 999) centenary set features one of the most well known ANC presidents, Nelson Mandela.
The coin was issued as legal tender in South Africa in January 2018. The Reserve Bank will next week put into circulation banknotes to mark Nelson Mandela’s centenary. The Nelson Mandela Foundation, in collaboration with publishers, will release several books and publications in honour of Nelson Mandela during his centenary year. The coin was issued as legal tender in South Africa in 2018 Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba authorised the new coin for national circulation on 2018. Only Colnect automatically matches collectibles you want with collectables collectors offer for sale or swap.
(CNN) — The extraordinary life experiences of former South African President Nelson Mandela have been chronicled in a new book entitled “Conversations with Myself. There are several issues of South African R5 coins related to or featuring the face of Nelson Mandela, South African President from 1994 to 1999. Worth 0 Buy for ONLY With the sale of an uncirculated specimen of the rare R5 Mandela 90th birthday coin, in the grade of MS-69, for R2. Some are stored in coin folders, others are stored using other coin supplies. The special coin features South Africa’s coat of arms on the obverse, replacing the Black Wildebeest (or Gnu).
R The commemorative R5 circulation coin celebrates the birth centenary of Nelson Mandela, who was born on the 18 th of July 1918. Lettering: 2018 South Africa Aforika Borwa NELSON MANDELA CENTENARY 5 RAND. The coin features a portrait of Mandela, with the years 1918 and 2018 engraved alongside new decorative security features. “Pricing the coin was a conscious tribute to Nelson Mandela’s legacy and our way of paying it forward. 2018 nelson mandela centenary r5 coins,collectors Enter your email address to receive alerts when we have new listings available for nelson mandela coins value.
The first coin in the series was dedicated to the birth centenary of Oliver Reginald Tambo. After the release of the new R5 Mandela Coin, the value of the older mandela We are looking for some Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Celebration Coins The design of the new R5 coin, commemorating the centenary of Nelson Mandela. On 7 July 2008, the South African Reserve Bank together with the South African Mint Company, the Ministry of Finance and the Nelson Mandela Foundation launched a R5 bi metal circulation coin to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday. This information is useful for coin collecting software and cataloging coin types and coin values in U. value of r5 mandela coin year 2000; value of the nelson mandela r5 coin International Nelson Mandela Day – on 18 July 2018, government will hold a national event at NASREC, Gauteng, in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation to celebrate International Nelson Mandela Day and the centenary of the birth of this international icon.
The South African Mint, a subsidiary of the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) announced the launch of two new limited edition coins which pay tribute to struggle icon and former president, Nelson Mandela. The new banknotes and coins will be released on July 18, 2018. DESTINY Magazine - The Reserve Bank (Sarb) will issue new commemorative notes to mark former President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela's centenary, it said on Monday Mandela Centenary 5oz Gold Medallion. A small investment in a 2008 minted Nelson Mandela R5 coin today can show a substantial return in a few short years as they have a proven history of rapid increase in value. 725 mm quality: proof issue limit of coin: 500 year of issue: 201 8 : r 50 uncirculated Face value: 5 R - South African rand Portrait of Nelson Mandela along with a latent image composed by the years 1918 – 2018; NELSON MANDELA CENTENARY.
Available is Nelson Mandela R5 coin. According to the South African Reserve (SARB), the country’s Central Bank, the commemorative banknotes will be launched this year in denominations of R10, R20, R50, R100 and R200. Beautiful mandela coin collection for sale. Top items include a Mandela centenary 1kg gold medallion that sold As the commemoration to mark the 28th anniversary of the release from prison of Former President Nelson Mandela, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has announced that it will issue a set of commemorative banknotes to honour the former statesman's centenary. Nelson Mandela’s arrival in Johannesburg is the third theme to be portrayed in this series.
A new South African five rand (R5) coin is to be released on 18 July 2008 to celebrate the 90th birthday of former president and Nobel Peace laureate Nelson Mandela. New bank notes to be launched to mark Madiba’s centenary in honour of what would have been Nelson Mandela’s centenary will be launched by the the value of money is our main mandate . 11 Feb 2018, Cape Town: As the commemoration to mark the 28th anniversary of the release from prison of Former President Nelson Mandela continued on Sunday, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has announced that it will issue a set of commemorative banknotes to honour the former statesman’s centenary. Dozens of South Africans are selling their Mandela Coins and making big money. 2018 marks a century since the birth of Nelson Mandela and the Mint has produced a coin range to commemorate The South African Mint, a subsidiary of the SARB, will also issue a new five rand coin celebrating Mandela's centenary.
Depicted on the South African 50 rand note from the Madiba series is the site in Howick where Nelson Mandela was captured after 17 months in hiding. They have become a global billion rand market that is expanding more rapidly than any rare coin issue in history ever. As the commemoration to mark the 28th anniversary of the release from prison of Former President Nelson Mandela, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has announced that it will issue a set of commemorative banknotes to honour the former statesman's centenary. These notes will include all currently circulating denominations R10, R20, R50, R100, and R200. The late South African President Nelson Mandela was born in July 18, 1918.
The South African Mint, a subsidiary of the SARB, will also issue a new five rand coin celebrating Mandela's centenary. South Africa’s famous leader Nelson Mandela is 2xR5 2018 Nelson Mandela centenary coins. It is expected that the commemorative banknotes and coin will be introduced into circulation from 18 July. The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will launch commemorative banknotes to honour Nelson Mandela's centenary, Fin24 reported. 00*] 1994 was a year of great change, and marks the year of Nelson Mandela’s inauguration as President of South Africa.
2018 Nelson Mandela Centenary R5 Coins Our most recent search on their website found coins selling for up to R250,000 [27 May 2019 – BidorBuy search for “Mandela Coin”] After the release of the new R5 Mandela Coin, the value of the older Mandela coins are going to be increasing in value. A unique timepiece, a pocket watch featuring in the design, the official 2008 uncirculated Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Celebration To commemorate late Statesman Nelson Mandela’s centenary, the South African Reserve Bank has launched commemorative banknotes and a R5 coin into circulation, depicting the most significant The 1 oz Gold (Au 999. The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will this year launch a set of commemorative South African banknotes in honour of what would have been Nelson Mandela’s centenary. The coin will feature South Africa’s coat of Cape Town – The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will launch commemorative banknotes to honour Nelson Mandela’s centenary, it said in a statement on Sunday. The coin will help celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela who would have celebrated his 100 th birthday on 18 July 2018.
Sashnee Moodley: To commemorate late Statesman Nelson Mandela’s centenary, the South African Reserve Bank has launched commemorative banknotes and a R5 coin into circulation, depicting the most significant occasions in Mandela’s life. Worth 0 Buy for ONLY The central bank advised that these notes will cover all denominations – R10, R20, R50, R100 and R200 while, at the same time, the South African Mint, a Sarb subsidiary, will issue a new R5 circulation coin celebrating Mandela’s birth centenary. Images courtesy of the Reserve Bank of South Africa. The commemorative banknotes and the R5 circulation coin will be in circulation South Africa will soon be celebrating Nelson Mandela’s birth centenary with the launch of a commemorative set of banknotes and a new five rand circulation coin. What makes this Mandela coin wanted? This event is a once in a lifetime even that completely changed the path of South Africans forever.
The MS69 Nelson Mandela 2008 90th Birthday coin is the finest known uncirculated coin. South Africa Banknotes. South African Mint issues a glittering tribute to Mandela with gold coin Centurion, South Africa – 13 July 2018: The South African Mint Company (RF) Proprietary Limited (South African Mint), a subsidiary of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will pay a glittering tribute to the formidable legacy of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first democratically […] The South African Mint, a subsidiary of the SARB, will also issue a new five rand coin celebrating Mandela’s centenary. Buy or sell Mandela coins on auctions or at fixed prices. Each coin represents a different stage of Mandela’s life: The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has issued the release of limited edition banknotes and coins in honour of Nelson Mandela’s legacy, celebrating the liberation icon’s centenary in July 2018.
Nelson Mandela coins and medallions lead the surge in Mandela memorabilia purchases on South African auction website bidorbuy. Our most recent search on their website found coins selling for up to R250,000 [27 May 2019 – BidorBuy search for “Mandela Coin”] After the release of the new R5 Mandela Coin, the value of the older Mandela coins are going to be increasing in value. Each of the three coins listed below was designed to illustrate different ages/ seasons in his life. Nelson Mandela Gold & Silver Coin South Africa Wor . With every coin purchased, R27 (VAT-free) will be donated to the Nelson Mandela Foundation”.
The central bank on Wednesday issued a statement indicating that test packs of the commemorative notes were made available South Africa: commemorative banknotes and coins for centenary of MANDELA's birth - 2018 mandela coin value - 2018 nelson mandela r5 coin value - mandela r5 coin value 2018 - mandela coins selling price 2018 R10, R20, R50, R100 and R200 banknotes, and R5 coins, will soon carry Nelson Mandela's face in honour of his 100th birthday. South Africa : Banknotes [Series: 2018 "Nelson Mandela Centenary" Commemorative Issue]. You can find areas to buy and sell vintage coins including Mandela graded un-circulated coins. The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will be launching its first commemorative banknote series, in celebration of the first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela’s birth centenary New circulating bimetallic design to be released on july, for Nelson Mandela’s birthday: “Centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela” South Africa celebrates the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela throughout 2018; the commemoration begins this month with the announcement of a new design for the R5 coin that celebrates the life and work… R5 NELSON MANDELA CENTENARY COIN - 2018UNCIRCULATED 20 coins in a sealed bank plastic bag (Uncirculated) PLEASE NOTE THESE ARE GENERIC PICTURESThese are uncirculated R5 bi-metal coins - the image above is enlarged. Do you have a 200 South African Rand banknote (Madiba 100th birthday)? Here's how to exchange it for cash: The South African Reserve Bank will next week put into circulation banknotes to mark Nelson Mandela’s centenary.
Detailed information about the coin 50 Rand (Nelson Mandela, The Statesman), South Africa, with pictures and collection and swap management : mintage, descriptions, metal, weight, size, value and other numismatic data New Mandela Centenary Birthday Commemorative Coin. The existing Mandela series of banknotes as well as the existing R5 coin in circulation will remain legal tender and will continue to be issued. R10, R20, R50, R100 and R200 banknotes, and R5 coins, will soon carry Nelson Mandela's face in honour of his 100th birthday. Reserve Bank commemorates Mandela's centenary with new banknotes Sunday 11 February 2018 - 4:31pm A street money changer counts South African Rands in Harare, Zimbabwe, May 5, 2016. The South African Reserve Bank will next week put into circulation banknotes to mark Nelson Mandela’s centenary.
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has issued the release of limited edition banknotes and coins in honour of Nelson Mandela’s legacy, celebrating the liberation icon’s centenary in July 2018. Only a limited i have a nelson mandela centery coin 2018 then i have some 20 years of freedom r5 coins the i have1994 and 1995 r5 coins they are silver with the wildebeest on them then i have gold and silver r5 coins with the wildebeest on them dated 2004-2016 please call me or whatsapp me i selling them all on 081 395 4091 The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has released the designs of its commemorative banknotes and coins for Nelson Mandela’s birth centenary, ahead of the launch on July 13. As you should already know, Mandela was the South African President from 1994 to 1999. Here you will find foreign coin photos, coin values and other information useful for coin collecting. Nelson Mandela commemorative notes and coins were issued by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) in mid-July.
A collectable R5 coin will be included in the 3-coin and 4-coin Mandela Centenary sets. A collectable R5 coin will be included in the 3-coin and 4-coin Mandela Centenary sets. South Africa’s famous leader Nelson Mandela is CAPE TOWN - The South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) will be launching its first commemorative banknote series, in celebration of the first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela’s centenary. The foundation is set to unveil the first Nelson Mandela Centenary project – the Unthreading Mandela Exhibition. View Coin : SOUTH AFRICA S1R 2017 Krugerrand 50th Anniv.
(Image: Paul Saad) Janine Erasmus. . DESTINY Magazine - The Reserve Bank (Sarb) will issue new commemorative notes to mark former President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela's centenary, it said on Monday The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will this year launch a set of commemorative South African banknotes, which will cover all denominations - R10, R20, R50, R100 and R200 - in honour of what would have been Nelson Mandela's centenary. Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba has approved the release of the Nelson Mandela R5 coin, to commemorate what would have been his centenary year on July 18, 2018. Nelson Mandela onstage during the 46664 Concert In Celebration Of Nelson Mandela's Life held at Hyde Park on June 27, 2008 in London, England.
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The Reserve Bank launched notes and R5 circulation coins in honour of Mandela’s centenary year in Pretoria on Friday. Depending on the specific Mandela coin that you have, it could be worth as much as a million rand. South africa old coin exchange 3 best forex brokers in nelson mandela madiba birthday coin from south african mint 2 cents south africa suid afrika numista 1 cent coin south africa exchange yours for cash today coin from south africa 1961 1964 1 cent 2 cents south africa suid afrika numista. From Creamer Media in Johannesburg, this is the Real Economy Report. dollars.
At the same time, the South African Mint, a subsidiary of the SARB, will issue a new ZAR5 circulation coin celebrating Mandela’s birth centenary. Kganyago said Nelson Mandela had touched “South Africans from all walks of life – rural and urban. According to the SA Mint, the series serves to educate individuals on SA’s struggle International Nelson Mandela Day – on 18 July 2018, government will hold a national event at NASREC, Gauteng, in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation to celebrate International Nelson Mandela Day and the centenary of the birth of this international icon. To celebrate 100 years since the birth of Mandela, and in remembrance of the 27 long and lonely years he spent in prison, the entry level bronze alloy coin is priced at R127. Old coins remain legal tender.
In commemoration of Madiba’s 100th Birthday and to elevate the legacy and memory of our nations founding Father. 5 million and the sale of a proof 70 at R275 000, proof Mandela birthday coins CAPE TOWN- The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will make commemorative banknotes to honour Nelson Mandela’s centenary, it said in a statement on Sunday. The new series of banknotes and R5 coin designed to celebrate milestones of former president Nelson Mandela’s life will go into circulation next week Friday. Unique Nelson Mandela NGC Coin and Original Berlin Wall Set - DEMOCRACY SYMBOLS South Africa has launched bank notes and gold coins to mark the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mendala’s birth. R5 NELSON MANDELA CENTENARY COIN - 2018UNCIRCULATED coin will be delivered in bank bag PLEASE NOTE THESE ARE GENERIC PICTURESThese are uncirculated R5 bi-metal coins - the image above is enlarged.
Dubbed the 'Smiley', the R5 has the lowest mintage figures of all the Mandela series R5 coins thus making it the scarcest. To date, the Nelson Mandela coins are the fastest growing coins in the world when it comes to value and interest. Extremely rare. These notes will cover Nelson Mandela is appearing on a new circulating commemorative 5-rand coin from South Africa. Value Of Mandela R5 Coin After His Death.
In addition, the South African Mint, a subsidiary of the SARB, will issue a new R5 circulation coin celebrating Mandela’s birth centenary. It features South Africa’s coat of arms on the obverse, replacing the Black Wildebeest (or Gnu). The notes will be made for all existing banknotes as well as a new (CNN) — The extraordinary life experiences of former South African President Nelson Mandela have been chronicled in a new book entitled “Conversations with Myself. The South African Mint proudly honours “The Life of a Legend: Nelson Mandela” with the legal tender Protea coin series. S.
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Anne Neville, 16th Countess of Warwick
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Anne Beauchamp
16th Countess of Warwick (suo jure)
Countess of Salisbury
Lady Anne Beauchamp
20 September 1492(1492-09-20) (aged 66)
Noble family
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence
Anne Neville, Queen of England
Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick
Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick
Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick (13 July 1426 - 20 September 1492) was the daughter of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, and his second wife Isabel le Despenser, a daughter of Thomas le Despenser (22 September 1373 - 13 January 1399/1400) and Constance of York. Anne Beauchamp was the mother of Anne Neville, Queen consort of England as the spouse of King Richard III.[1]
Anne de Beauchamp was born at Caversham Castle in Oxfordshire (now Berkshire). She married Richard Neville 'the Kingmaker' - and her brother Henry Beauchamp married Richard's sister Cecily - in 1436.[2] Following the death of Anne's father in 1439, and subsequently that of her brother Henry in 1446, and his infant daughter Lady Anne in 1449, Neville inherited the title and the considerable estates of the Earldom of Warwick through his wife.
However, this was contested by Anne's three older half-sisters, children of her father's first marriage to Elizabeth, heir of Berkeley. One of these, Lady Eleanor, was married to Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (killed at the First Battle of St Albans in 1455). The litigation over the Warwick inheritance only fuelled the enmity between this branch of the Nevilles and the Beauforts who were closely related. Anne Beauchamp's husband, Richard, was the grandson of Lady Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, sister of the Duke's late father. Law considered that Anne Beauchamp being a full-blooded aunt of the last countess was more eligible to inherit than her older half-sisters, who were thus not coheirs with her, including the eldest - Lady Margaret, Countess of Shrewsbury (d. 1468). Richard Neville succeeded in keeping the Warwick and Despencer estates intact.[3]
Children's marriages
Her older daughter, Lady Isabel, married George, Duke of Clarence, the younger brother of King Edward IV of England. Her younger daughter, Lady Anne Neville, was married to Edward of Westminster, the only son of King Henry VI. When Edward of Westminster was killed in the Battle of Tewkesbury, Anne Neville was married to Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard III of England. Although their mother was still living, the husbands of the two Neville sisters fought over their inheritance, while Anne was declared legally dead by Parliament.[4] To win his brother George's final consent to the marriage with Anne, Richard renounced most of Warwick's land and property including the earldoms of Warwick (which the Kingmaker had held in his wife's right) and Salisbury and surrendered to Clarence the office of Great Chamberlain of England.[5] After George was executed for treason in 1478, his son Edward inherited the title of Earl of Warwick, while Richard's son was styled Earl of Salisbury.[6]
Anne died in obscurity, having survived her husband, her daughters and the sons-in-law who had effectively disinherited her. She was in sanctuary at Beaulieu Abbey in 1486 when she petitioned Henry VII for the return of her estate. She recovered a small portion, but only on condition that she broke the entail and remit the bulk of them to Henry VII.[3] "The 'Warwick and Spencer lands', her own patrimony became part of the crown estate."[7]
Fictional portrayals
Anne, Countess of Warwick appears prominently in the Philippa Gregory novels The White Queen (2009), The Red Queen (2010), and The Kingmaker's Daughter (2012),[8] and is played by Juliet Aubrey in the 2013 television adaptation of all three novels, The White Queen.[9] She is depicted as a coldly ambitious mother to Isabel and Anne Neville, and her husband's staunchest supporter.
A more sympathetic portrayal of the Countess of Warwick is in the novel The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman, and a maternal view of her is observed in The Reluctant Queen by Jean Plaidy.[] Novelist Sandra Worth represents the Countess as her husband's conscience in her five novels about the Wars of the Roses. The Countess is depicted as being especially close to her grandson Edward of Middleham.[] Another sympathetic portrayal of Anne Beauchamp is Wife to the Kingmaker, a 1974 title by Sandra Wilson.[10]
Ancestors of Anne Neville, 16th Countess of Warwick
16. Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick
8. Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick
17. Alice de Toeni
18. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
9. Katherine Mortimer
19. Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville
2. Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick
20. Henry Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby
10. William Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Groby
21. Isabel Verdon
5. Margaret Ferrers
22. Robert d'Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk
11. Margaret Ufford
23. Margaret Norwich
1. Anne Neville, 16th Countess of Warwick
24. Edward le Despenser
12. Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despencer
25. Anne Ferrers
6. Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester
26. Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh
13. Elizabeth de Burghersh
27. Cecily de Weyland
3. Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick
28. Edward III of England
14. Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
29. Philippa of Hainault
7. Constance of York
30. Peter of Castile
15. Infanta Isabella of Castile
31. María de Padilla
^ Hicks, Michael (26 August 2011). Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III. History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-6887-7.
^ Hicks, Michael (1998). Warwick the Kingmaker, p.24. Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 0-631-16259-3.
^ a b Hicks, M. A. (1979). "Descent, Partition and Extinction: the 'Warwick Inheritance'1". Historical Research. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 52 (126): 116-128. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.1979.tb02217.x.
^ Lewis, Matthew (2013) The Wars Of The Roses In 100 Facts, no.80, Amberley Publishing, Stroud. ISBN 9781445647463.
^ Kendall P.M., Richard III, 1955. Reprinted: Kendall, Paul Murray (2002). Richard the Third. W. W. Norton. p. 608. ISBN 978-0-393-00785-5.
^ Ashdown-Hill, John (3 March 2014). Third Plantagenet: George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother. History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-5539-3.
^ Wolffe, B.P. Crown Lands, 1461-1536: An Aspect of Yorkist and Early Tudor Government. Allen & Unwin. p. 216. ISBN 978-0049420816.
^ Dennison, Matthew (17 August 2012). "Review: The Kingmaker's Daughter by Philippa Gregory". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2018.
^ Genzlinger, Neil (9 August 2013). "'The White Queen' Has Its Premiere on Starz". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018.
^ Holland, Cecelia (27 April 1975). "Timeless core in historical fiction". Los Angeles Times. p. 559. Retrieved 2018.
Peerage of England
Anne Beauchamp Countess of Warwick
1449-1492 Succeeded by
Edward Plantagenet
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EUROPE | Blu-Ray release 16th October 2013
"EUROPE LIVE AT SWEDEN ROCK - 30th ANNIVERSARY SHOW"
Produced & Directed by Patric Ullaeus | www.revolver
This concert which was captured at Sweden Rock Festival 7th of June 2013 is not only a massive greatest hits show in front of 30,000 people, it also marks the 30th anniversary of the bands existence. They celebrate this by playing 28 songs spanning their whole career including songs never before performed.
Between the heavy rock songs they also sit down for an emotional acoustic set which brings a unique intimate feel to this otherwise massive arena show.
To pay tribute to their own heroes they invite legendary guests artists Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy) and Michael Schenker (UFO, MSG) to join them on stage.
The DVD Includes songs like:
Seven doors hotel, Open Tour heart, Rock The Night, Carrie, Superstitious, Prisoners in Paradise. Always the pretenders, Last look at Eden, New love in town, Not supposed to sing the blues, Firebox, Lights out (with Michael Schenker), Jailbreak (with Scott Gorham) and many more.
Over two hours and forty minutes of concert footage, behind the scenes material and an exclusive interview with the band, makes this the definitive Europe Live DVD. Also released as Blu-Ray.
Tags: europe, 30th anniversary show, joey tempest, john norum, john leven, ian haugland, mic michaeli, director, patric ullaeus, revolver film company, revolver.se, scott gorham, michael schenker, sweden rock festival, blu-ray, dvd, live concert, production company, behind the scenes material, editing, art work, cover design
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Austria Games played: 10 Ends played: 87 Score: 53 - 77 0: 4 - 7 1: 22 - 19 2: 11 - 11 3: 3 - 5 4: 0 - 4 5: 0 - 1 6: 0 - 0 7: 0 - 0 8: 0 - 0 For: 5 - 6 Against: 8 - 15 Hammer: 30.2% Force: 34.1% Steals: 11.4% Against: 18.6%
Denmark Games played: 9 Ends played: 79 Score: 38 - 58 0: 8 - 9 1: 16 - 18 2: 8 - 14 3: 2 - 4 4: 0 - 0 5: 0 - 0 6: 0 - 0 7: 0 - 0 8: 0 - 0 For: 5 - 7 Against: 14 - 17 Hammer: 18.6% Force: 19.4% Steals: 13.9% Against: 32.6%
Finland Games played: 10 Ends played: 92 Score: 46 - 72 0: 7 - 8 1: 22 - 24 2: 9 - 15 3: 2 - 3 4: 0 - 1 5: 0 - 1 6: 0 - 0 7: 0 - 0 8: 0 - 0 For: 5 - 5 Against: 12 - 21 Hammer: 23.4% Force: 35.6% Steals: 11.1% Against: 25.5%
Germany Games played: 9 Ends played: 83 Score: 53 - 49 0: 12 - 7 1: 20 - 16 2: 7 - 12 3: 5 - 3 4: 1 - 0 5: 0 - 0 6: 0 - 0 7: 0 - 0 8: 0 - 0 For: 7 - 9 Against: 7 - 9 Hammer: 24.4% Force: 26.3% Steals: 18.4% Against: 15.6%
Italy Games played: 9 Ends played: 85 Score: 51 - 58 0: 9 - 4 1: 21 - 21 2: 12 - 12 3: 2 - 3 4: 0 - 1 5: 0 - 0 6: 0 - 0 7: 0 - 0 8: 0 - 0 For: 6 - 8 Against: 7 - 8 Hammer: 28.9% Force: 37.5% Steals: 15.0% Against: 15.6%
Norway Games played: 9 Ends played: 82 Score: 64 - 43 0: 4 - 10 1: 18 - 21 2: 15 - 8 3: 2 - 2 4: 0 - 0 5: 2 - 0 6: 0 - 0 7: 0 - 0 8: 0 - 0 For: 10 - 17 Against: 4 - 4 Hammer: 42.9% Force: 36.2% Steals: 21.3% Against: 11.4%
Russia Games played: 9 Ends played: 83 Score: 59 - 49 0: 2 - 8 1: 24 - 19 2: 14 - 12 3: 1 - 2 4: 1 - 0 5: 0 - 0 6: 0 - 0 7: 0 - 0 8: 0 - 0 For: 13 - 20 Against: 7 - 8 Hammer: 30.6% Force: 27.7% Steals: 27.7% Against: 19.4%
Scotland Games played: 9 Ends played: 90 Score: 50 - 53 0: 10 - 10 1: 22 - 22 2: 8 - 11 3: 4 - 3 4: 0 - 0 5: 0 - 0 6: 0 - 0 7: 0 - 0 8: 0 - 0 For: 8 - 10 Against: 8 - 10 Hammer: 25.0% Force: 34.8% Steals: 17.4% Against: 18.2%
Sweden Games played: 9 Ends played: 73 Score: 65 - 30 0: 7 - 7 1: 16 - 18 2: 13 - 3 3: 5 - 2 4: 2 - 0 5: 0 - 0 6: 0 - 0 7: 0 - 0 8: 0 - 0 For: 11 - 16 Against: 3 - 5 Hammer: 48.6% Force: 42.1% Steals: 28.9% Against: 8.6%
Switzerland Games played: 9 Ends played: 80 Score: 50 - 40 0: 12 - 5 1: 20 - 23 2: 8 - 7 3: 2 - 1 4: 2 - 0 5: 0 - 0 6: 0 - 0 7: 0 - 0 8: 0 - 0 For: 7 - 10 Against: 7 - 11 Hammer: 25.0% Force: 52.8% Steals: 19.4% Against: 15.9%
Norway Games played: 2 Ends played: 20 Score: 12 - 10 0: 0 - 5 1: 3 - 6 2: 3 - 2 3: 1 - 0 4: 0 - 0 5: 0 - 0 6: 0 - 0 7: 0 - 0 8: 0 - 0 For: 1 - 1 Against: 1 - 1 Hammer: 57.1% Force: 38.5% Steals: 7.7% Against: 14.3%
Russia Games played: 2 Ends played: 20 Score: 11 - 16 0: 1 - 1 1: 5 - 4 2: 3 - 6 3: 0 - 0 4: 0 - 0 5: 0 - 0 6: 0 - 0 7: 0 - 0 8: 0 - 0 For: 1 - 1 Against: 1 - 2 Hammer: 33.3% Force: 36.4% Steals: 9.1% Against: 11.1%
Sweden Games played: 2 Ends played: 21 Score: 14 - 10 0: 4 - 0 1: 6 - 4 2: 4 - 3 3: 0 - 0 4: 0 - 0 5: 0 - 0 6: 0 - 0 7: 0 - 0 8: 0 - 0 For: 2 - 3 Against: 1 - 1 Hammer: 23.1% Force: 37.5% Steals: 25.0% Against: 7.7%
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: The Last Civil Rights Struggle
Sluts of America, Arise!
“A sitting United States president took sides in what many people consider the last civil rights movement,” Adam Nagourney of The New York Times wrote in reaction to Barack Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage.
The last civil rights movement?
Sadly, even as he belatedly championed equality for some, the president’s statement expressed a pernicious, widely accepted form of prejudice.
Look for the caveat as you read: “I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors, when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together…at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”
In Obama’s worldview, in other words, it’s okay to be gay. But only if you behave like straight people—straight as in hetero, and straight as in conventional.
Obama is exposed as a monogamist: one who discriminates against people who have sex with multiple partners. Monogamism is commonplace. And it is bigotry. Monogamism is no more justifiable than racism or sexism or homophobia and, one day, it will be as reviled.
Mia McKenzie of the blog Black Girl Dangerous responds to Obama: “So, basically, what the President is saying is that same-sex couples who are in relationships that look a certain way (monogamous, for example) should be able to have all the rights of straight people. Hmm. What about those of us, queer and straight, who aren’t into monogamy but are into committed relationships? (And, for the record, you can be poly and be committed to multiple people).”
To which I’ll add: What about people, straight and gay, who sleep with multiple partners? What about those who don’t want committed relationships? Shouldn’t they get tax breaks and insurance benefits too?
And what about the open, tricky, ever-so-dirty secret—that many people in “incredibly committed monogamous relationships” cheat, that they’re de facto polygamists or just garden-variety sluts? (“A full 99 percent of Americans say they expect their spouse to be faithful,” according to U.S. News & World Report in 2008 but, The New York Times reported the same year, “University of Washington researchers have found that the lifetime rate of infidelity for men over 60 increased to 28 percent in 2006.” Hmm. Not to mention, obviously, that not all cheaters confess their sluttery to pollsters.)
Like all oppressed people, sluts have their work cut out for them.
“The Ethical Slut” (1997) by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt unleashed a landmark broadside against monogamy with a simple argument: anything that two consenting adults do is okay as long as they approach one another, and their other partners, with honesty and openness. Casual hook-ups, open relationships, swinging, group sex, and other alternative forms of sexual expression, wrote Mmes. Easton and Liszt, are not immoral so don’t feel guilty about them. “We believe it’s okay to have sex with anybody you love, and we believe in loving everybody,” they wrote.
Fifteen years later, however, tens of millions of sluts live underground, compelled to sneak around. Unlike straights and Obama-approved monogamous gays, America’s secret sluts have to hide their sex lives from their friends, families and coworkers. (Ethical sluts tell their partners the truth.) “My FWB and I had an awesome foursome with this couple we met online” isn’t the smartest Monday-morning conversation starter for the wannabe upwardly mobile.
Monogamy may be a myth, to paraphrase the title of the 1989 book that found that roughly half of all married Americans cheat, but as Obama’s statement suggests, it’s harder to kill than herpes.
Now here comes “The Monogamy Gap: Men, Love and the Reality of Cheating” by Eric Anderson (Oxford University Press, 256 pages, $49.99), a devastating critique of monogamy that has been ignored by book reviewers and buried by the mainstream media.
“The Ethical Slut” says it’s OKAY to be slutty. “The Monogamy Gap” goes further. It states loudly, brashly—and mostly convincingly—that while monogamy is right for some people, it’s wrong for most. Which makes monogamism a form of bigotry not only based on a lie, but like other forms of discrimination, downright bad for society.
Not so deep down, we know he’s right. When there’s a public sex scandal—John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, etc.—you don’t hear a lot of expressions of anger or disgust, just harrumphs and how-about-thats from people, most of whom can easily imagine themselves “guilty” of the same “crime”: hard-wired horniness.
“I suggest that we need multiple forms of culturally acceptable sexual relationship types—including sexually open relationships—that exist without hierarchy or hegemony,” Anderson writes.
Men, Anderson asserts, are trapped in a state of “dyadic dissonance” in which they are painfully torn between monogamist social programming and their sexual desires to sleep with multiple partners. “If [men] entertain with their partners the possibility that sex and love are separate and that they could maintain the love with their partner while seeking thrilling sex with outsiders (an open sexual relationship), they risk losing their partners. Even mentioning this is thought to be an affront to love. Love, they falsely believe, is enhanced through sex, and sex with outsiders is falsely believed to detract from the love of a couple. We all too often believe that if our partner ceases to desire us sexually, he or she ceases to love us.”
What is a [stymied] manslut to do?
“In desiring but not wanting to cheat,” Anderson continues, “men set out to rectify their dissonance through pornography, visualizing themselves having sex with someone else while having sex with their partner, and/or flirting with others online. Eventually, however, these imagined/cyber forms of extradyadic sex are not enough. Men strongly desire to have sex with someone else, and they often begin to feel anger or aggression at their partner because (at one level) it is their partner that is preventing them from having the type of sex that every cell in their body demands.”
So they screw around.
But cheaters aren’t bad people. They’re just sluts. They’re wired that way. Many—most of us—are sluts. Don’t be shocked. After all, contemporary marriage—based on love rather than property, monogamous rather than polygamous—is still in its experimental stage, less than a century old. And the rate of divorce suggests that the experiment isn’t going well.
Anderson says monogamism forces us to choose between guilt and frustration: “Although cheating remains almost universally taboo in modern societies, my research suggests that cheating might actually save relationships [because] cheating permits men to have the sex with others they somatically desire…with cheating they do not have to deal with the threat of losing their partners by mentioning their sexual desires for others.”
I have some issues with “The Monogamy Gap.” Anderson concludes that “it is only in open relationships where long-term sexual and romantic satisfaction can be found for people who somatically desire sex with others,” yet he hardly considers the needs and desires of heterosexual women. Do they want open relationships? Maybe. Maybe not. Also, Anderson’s preferred model—one or several core committed, longer-term relationships plus à la carte “hit it and quit it” assignations—leaves out other formats, such as swinging (which is barely discussed).
Overall, however, I strongly recommend “The Monogamy Gap” for anyone who wonders why a society that elevates monogamy can’t seem to follow its rules. America needs to begin this discussion.
(Ted Rall’s next book is “The Book of Obama: How We Went From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt,” out May 29. His website is tedrall.com.)
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged Adam Nagourney, Black Girl Dangerous, Catherine A. Liszt, Cheating, civil rights, Dossie Easton, Eliot Spitzer, Eric Anderson, Ethical Slut, fidelity, gay marriage, gay rights, infidelity, John Edwards, Mia McKenzie, monogamism, monogamy, open relationships, Polygamy, Sex, sexual freedom, sexual promiscuity, sluts, swinging, The Monogamy Gap, University of Washington on May 15, 2012 by Ted Rall.
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Q&A: DuPont Sorona and the Evolution, and Revolution, of Biomaterials
Mike Saltzberg, sat down with Sustainable Brands to discuss the evolution of biomaterials and products like Sorona®. Read a preview of the interview below and check out the full story on Sustainable Brands here!
Over his more than 30 years in the business, Mike Saltzberg has seen firsthand how sustainability has grown to be of equal consideration with technical performance and cost in the development of new biomaterials. Saltzberg is the Global Business Director for Biomaterials at DuPont Industrial Biosciences, the team that ideates and develops products derived from bio-based materials. Among their innovations is DuPont™ Sorona®, a partially plant-based fiber increasingly used in apparel and carpet. We spoke with Saltzberg to learn more about the evolution of biomaterials and products such as Sorona®.
Throughout your 30+-year career at DuPont, with the last 12 being involved with Biomaterials, how has your work evolved as sustainability gained more traction as a global priority? What do you see as the biggest levers to create change in the materials science space?
Mike Saltzberg: It used to be that people would always talk about technical performance and cost whenever they were thinking about a new material, and sustainability was sort of a nice-to-have or compliance mandatory because of regulations. It's come to the point now where the sustainability of a material - where it comes from, how it's made, what its end-of-life scenarios are - has become at least of equal importance to technical performance and cost.
For us, dialling in sustainability has become much more important as time's gone on. As materials suppliers, we can affect broad ranges in multiple industries. We can have a big impact because our customers, who are making the products that consumers or industry want to buy, are counting on us to bring them more sustainable materials that will still work in their processes. We have a role to play in bringing out more sustainable materials that also have high performance that can meet the customer's needs.
This project that we're known for, DuPont Sorona - we started working on that more than 20 years ago. So, this thought process has been around at DuPont for quite some time. If you're starting with something really innovative, to research the idea and get it through to the market takes time.
DuPont™ Sorona® is made up of 37 percent annually renewable plant-based ingredients - can you walk us through the process of how it is made?
MS: Like many polymers, Sorona is made of two different chemicals that are reacted together to form the material itself. One of those is a monomer - a traditional chemical that's used in making lots of other kinds of plastic. For example, the PET that's in polyester fabrics or water and soda bottles - one of the chemicals is essentially identical to that. But the other one is called bio-PDO - a chemical we make through a fermentation process. To make beer, you feed live yeast some sugar and it turns that sugar into alcohol; our process uses a different microorganism and we feed it corn sugar. Then we take that bio-PDO, purify it and react it together with another chemical to form a polymer called DuPont Sorona.
The beginning of the bio-PDO process was commercialized in October of 2006, and the Sorona business kicked off in January of 2007. So, we've been around now for about 11-and-a-half years. It's a fantastic polymer that has some really nice properties. For example, Sorona makes a carpet that's super soft and resilient and has built-in stain resistance that doesn't require any chemicals on the surface. In apparel, it gives some of the garments stretch, similar to what you can do with spandex but a little bit different; a lot of softness, a lot of comfort. It was a difficult and expensive process to make both of the chemicals that are required to make it from petroleum. So, using this natural process from a renewable intermediate is not only more environmentally friendly, it's also more effective and lower cost.
How do you see sustainability, product performance and innovation interacting when it comes to materials development?
MS: A lot of times in the biomaterials space, customers are asked to compromise. They're told, "Here's a product that doesn't work quite as well as the one made from petroleum, but it's natural or it's made from renewable resources. It doesn't have the same technical performance, but you should use it anyway because the process is better." Or, "Here's a material that can do what you want it to do and has a better sustainability profile, but it's substantially more expensive." Our belief is that's not going to work.
We're trying to have significant impact. We don't just want to have niche, little products for those with higher income. We try to come up with solutions that first and foremost, have fantastic technical performance that will sell based on that. There's a knock on biomaterials that they're worse-performing, but ours are not; Sorona is a better polymer [than its petroleum-based alternative]. There also has to be a cost point that if it is a little bit more, the value has to be there so that the product sells itself.
For us, sustainability is now table stakes. We're not ever going to bring out a new material that doesn't, for example, have a better life cycle analysis (LCA) and a responsible end-of-life story. All of the materials that we bring out at DuPont Biomaterials have a substantially better LCA than the materials they replace and are either recyclable or biodegradable. That's how we approach it: Performance first and sustainability integrated, too. Otherwise, why are we spending the innovation to introduce a new material? If it's not better in all the dimensions, we shouldn't be bringing it to market.
It's been a great story for Sorona. It's been embraced by the market - and the business has grown. We'll be over $300 million this year in sales.
...To read the full article, please check it out on Sustainable Brands here.
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Bitten by the Music Bug w/ Brittin Lane
Brittin Lane
Let’s get to know more about up and comer Brittin Lane who was bitten by the music bug at and early age and hasn’t stopped since.
SB (StarBeat): From the Starting Line: How did you get your start in the music world?
BL (Brittin Lane): Music has been a big part of my life from the start. When I was three years old, my grandma bought a small $15 keyboard at a yard sale and gave it to my sister and I. Soon after that, I started sounding out TV show theme songs on the keyboard.
Since then, I’ve played piano by ear and can’t read a bit of sheet music. I picked up the guitar around six years old, wrote my first song when I was ten, and started singing a couple of years after that.
SB: Life’s Path: How has your musical journey been like so far?
BL: It’s been crazy at times, and I’ve enjoyed every single moment of it. I uploaded my first cover to YouTube around three years ago of “Struggling Man” by Jimmy Cliff. After it got a few thousand views, I began uploading a new cover every week. In May of 2016, I wrote, recorded, and released my first EP called “The Letter” and a few months after that, I signed a record deal with Triple Double Records. Since then, we’ve reached around seven million plays on Spotify, which is insane! It’s been very exciting because I never know what’s around the corner, or what opportunities God has in store.
It feels like each new door that opens continues to top the last one, and when I think it can’t get better, it does somehow.
SB: Stand Out: How you do you aim to set yourself apart from other artists?
BL: As far as my original music goes, I try to keep it as organic and as vulnerable as I can. I want my lyrics to mean something, and I want to create music that anyone can relate to regardless of their age. It’s important to me that each song has a message worth sharing, or a story worth telling; one that every listener can connect to. For instance, after I released one of my first songs called “Goodbye,” I received a ton of messages from friends and strangers who shared their stories with me, and said the song helped them remember a time they had to say goodbye to someone they loved.
I love it when people share their stories with me, and tell me that something I wrote made them feel a certain way. Its the ultimate compliment in my opinion.
SB: What’s Inside: Where do you get inspiration for your own music?
BL: Sometimes, inspiration is very easy to find, and a song will almost write itself in a matter of minutes. Other times, it’s much harder to find and it can take a few days, or even a few weeks for me to finish writing a song. I typically focus on a certain experiences from my life, or I think about a message that I want to share with others, and I’ll use that as a starting point.
SB: Pageant Questions: What superpower would you like to have?
BL: Probably either the ability to turn invisible, or telekinesis. It would be very useful to be able to control things with your mind!
Brittin on Social:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/brittinlane
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittinlane5
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/brittinlane
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brittinlanemusic/
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St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School is located in Thoreau, NM, a rural area on the southeastern edge of the Navajo Nation. Thoreau sits at an altitude of about 7,200 feet, five miles east of the continental divide and about 110 miles west of Albuquerque between Grants and Gallup. More than 80 percent of Thoreau's population of nearly 4,500 is Native American.
The Navajo Nation covers an area of 27,000 square miles in three southwestern states (New Mexico, Arizona and Utah) and is three times larger than the state of Vermont. The eastern portion of the Navajo Nation is located in the vast, arid, high desert region of northwestern New Mexico.
The high altitudes make for hot, waterless summers and cold, harsh winters. In this dry and almost barren environment one of the greatest needs is water which is very scarce and therefore very precious. Wood used for heat and cooking is also limited.
Over 275,000 people make up the Navajo Nation. The large areas of land needed to support the traditional economy of sheep and cattle herding led people to settle far apart from each other. Now, in modern times, their remote geographical location often puts them far from economic opportunity.
Unemployment hovers around 67 percent and poverty is pervasive. Residents of the Eastern Navajo Nation served by the Mission are at the bottom of the economic ladder and St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School works cooperatively with more than 10 local Navajo agencies to serve those most in need.
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St. Bonaventure Indian School is a private, Catholic school located at the southeastern edge of the Navajo Nation in Thoreau, NM. The school is one of the ministries of St. Bonaventure Indian Mission which serves the Diné of the area.
St. Bonaventure Indian Mission & School is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization registered in the U.S. under 85-0326009.
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Creative Report Card: Anything’s possible at Leo Burnett
The top agency spent its "Year of What's Possible" blowing minds and racking up awards.
Clockwise from left: Judy John (#1 CD), Lisa Greenberg (#3 CD), Anthony Chelvanathan (#1 AD/ #12 CD) and Steve Persico (#1 CW/#12 CD).
This story appears in the February/March 2016 issue of strategy.
#1 Agency
Walk the hallowed halls of Leo Burnett Toronto, and you’ll notice the agency’s mantra on the wall. “We are on a mission to show the world a level of creativity, design excellence, digital innovation and teamwork that will blow people’s minds,” reads part of the sign.
“‘Blow people’s minds’ — what a beautiful turn of phrase,” Leo Burnett’s global CCO Mark Tutssel said as he rhapsodized about the Canadian arm during Toronto’s FFWD Ad Week. “To blow people’s minds, you’ve got to do something that fucking registers on the Richter scale, and that’s what [Toronto Leo Burnetters] do on their best days.”
Work that registers on the Richter scale. That’s a pretty accurate description of the monumental impact the shop had on the awards circuit in 2015. Not only did it top the agency, CD, AD, and CW lists, it did so in record-breaking style. The shop managed to rack up the highest total score in CRC history, doubling this year’s #2 agency’s points, and then some.
Judy John started 2015 by calling it “The Year of What’s Possible.” The CCO and CEO very quickly discovered that pretty much meant anything. The masterstroke year saw Leo step away with grand prizes from CASSIES to Cannes, and even picking up Canada’s first-ever Emmy for Outstanding Commercial. Much, but not all, of the shop’s success can be attributed to the “#LikeAGirl” work it created for P&G’s Always brand.
“A client recently asked someone at the agency, ‘You’ve had a few great years. Now what? Are you going to be one of those agencies that’s hot for a few years and that’s it?’” John says. Her answer to that question is simply no: “We have our foot on the gas all the time.”
Yes — the shop is being challenged with “big agency growing pains” more than ever before, as it rides the wave of recent global success, says EVP and COO David Kennedy. But that’s not to say the momentum can’t be maintained. He believes its secret weapon lies in the work processes his team, specifically pointing to Brent Nelsen (who was promoted to EVP, chief strategy officer, alongside Kennedy, when then-CEO Dom Caruso left a year ago), have developed over the years.
While strategy isn’t the only thing that can lead to great creative, Kennedy says the exec team has purposely created a working system that encourages teams not to give it the short shrift. Leo Burnetters spend equal time on strategy as creative.
“Our creative people would rather spend less time working on a brief if they know they’re being delivered a business problem or brand purpose that’s clear…And that’s rare. I think sometimes there’s a tendency [for agencies] to say, ‘Well, let’s get the brief to the creative department as fast as we can — we’ve only got so many weeks.’”
Some might argue that taking time away from creative is folly, especially in today’s “Walmart-ification of the world” (as Kennedy likes to call it). But Leo has experience perfecting how it manages time, assigns teams and classifies projects, ever since it was thrown in the deep-end in 2008. That was the year it picked up its first retail client.
“Before then we were primarily a CPG agency, but then we were fortunate to pick up the Bell business,” he says. “It was a fast-moving piece of business, with tight timelines and high volume. And that, to me, was a really big moment for us in changing our culture and the way we work.”
The agency not only came out unscathed, it succeeded, and has picked up just as many retail clients as CPG over the years, from Ikea to TD to Earls Kitchen + Bar.
“I don’t believe people look at Leo Burnett and think to themselves, ‘Oh, that’s a creative-driven agency, or a client-service agency, or even a strategic-driven agency.’ I like to think all three are equally represented,” says Kennedy.
That cohesiveness doesn’t go unnoticed, with Tutssel remarking how, every time he visits the Toronto office, he has no idea who does what, rather meeting a “body of people” who all “walk in-sync with each other…Everybody adds something, they operate as a circle as opposed to a triangle, and I think they’ve done a great job.”
TSN gives tennis the royal treatment
#3 brand
Campaign: “Kings and Queens of the Court”
Some of the wins: D&AD Wood, One Show Gold
Good things take time. For Leo Burnett, it took almost two years before its idea to squeeze 15,000 tennis balls into a fence on a local Toronto court came to fruition.
Before “Kings and Queens of the Court” was a trio of murals for Bell’s TSN channel (with thousands of yellow balls sketching the faces of pro tennis players, such as Serena Williams), it was an idea submitted to the National Advertising Challenge. It was originally planned for another brand, which was not a client of Leo and which decided not to execute the idea in the end. But the team didn’t give up. After a long search, they realized that TSN would be a perfect match (pun not intended). “They wanted to promote coverage of the U.S. Open. We had a love of tennis balls,” says copywriter Steve Persico.
Everyone on the team pitched in to design the grids, lug bags and climb ladders to place the balls in the fences. The idea was to inspire people to play tennis during the U.S. tournament and, of course, to watch the games on TSN, which many did, with the channel reporting a viewership jump of 24% (an increase of more than two million) compared to the previous year.
Ikea pulls consumers in
Campaigns: “Quick & Easy Room Makeover” and “#HouseRules”
Some of the wins: CMA Gold, AToMiC Silver, Shopper Innovation Awards Gold
It wasn’t just one Ikea campaign that hit it out of the awards park last year. The brand managed to pick up a plethora of trophies for creative from “Quick & Easy Room Makeover” and “#HouseRules.” These two campaigns did particularly well on the circuit, and they were both meant to create a dialogue between the brand and consumers.
The room makeover campaign saw Ikea recreating a home renovation show. But instead of showing makeovers that tend to be “expensive and full of nightmares,” says creative director Morgan Kurchak (#19 on the CD list), the team decided to do the complete opposite and showcase “inexpensive, fast and easy” renos, which meant they could create multiple two-minute spots rather than the typical 30-minute home reno show. The campaign, which featured real couples getting tips from a designer to transform their rooms with Ikea products, led to an 11% sales increase in textiles and a 10% increase in store visitors compared to the same period a year ago.
The “HouseRules” campaign also saw Canadians interacting with the Ikea brand, but on a much larger scale. The idea was to illustrate that Ikea understands how Canadians live at home, says Kurchak. The brand asked people what their own house rules were on social media, and then featured their suggestions in TV spots, while showcasing how its products bring their rules to life. “#HouseRules” led to a 12% same-store sales increase from the previous year.
Raising the Roof humanizes homelessness
#19 brand (tie)
Campaign: “Humans for Humans”
Some of the wins: Communication Arts, CASSIES Bronze, Epica Silver
If the team at Leo Burnett hadn’t taken the time to meet the people who Raising the Roof help on a daily basis, they might not have come up with the idea for “Humans for Humans.”
“We’ve had the opportunity to meet people living with homelessness in a way that most don’t,” notes Steve Persico. “Sitting with them on the edge of their bed in shelters, grabbing a coffee between shots, giving them rides.” He says that by hearing their life stories, they were able to see them as individuals (which people tend to forget they are).
The campaign encouraged “people to act as humans and help other humans in need,” creating 50 videos that showed homeless people reading and reacting to mean tweets (a social trend initiated by Jimmy Kimmel). The videos each received thousands of views, while the main campaign video, featuring snippets of homeless people reading the tweets, tracked nearly
1.4 million views.
TD shows its appreciation
Campaign: “#TDThanksYou”
Some of the wins: CMA Best of the Best, AToMiC Bronze
The financial category has its own awards season, which tends to leave magazines filled with ads of award-winning banks congratulating themselves for a job well done. But TD wanted to go beyond the “standard, self-congratulatory” print ad and instead focus on showing its appreciation for customers, says creative director Josh Budd.
The idea to create an “Automated Thanking Machine,” where the brand gave away surprise gifts to long-standing customers, came after the agency team looked at “banking conventions,” says Budd, eventually landing at the ubiquitous bank machine that tends to have a very static role in the banking experience.
“The turnaround was fast and expectations were high, bringing multiple agency partners [including Diamond Marketing] together to pull off something special,” he adds. “Sourcing the stories, setting up the ruse, building the executions — it all came together in just over a month.” The video tracked nearly 23 million views.
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Newman D., Levine E., and Kishore S.P. (2019). PLoS One, 14(2):e0211965. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211965. eCollection 2019.
Fixed-Dose Combination Pharmacologic Therapy to Improve Hypertension Control Worldwide: Clinical Perspective and Policy Implications (PDF)
DiPette D.J., Skeete J., Ridley E., Campbell N.R.C., Lopez-Jaramillo P., Kishore S.P., Jaffe M.G., Coca A., Townsend R.R., and Ordunez P. (2019). The Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich), 21(1): 4-15. doi: 10.1111/jch.13426.
Fixed-Dose Combinations for Hypertension
Kishore S.P., Salam A., Rodgers A., Jaffe M.G., and Frieden T. (2018). The Lancet, 392(10150): 819-820.
NCD Countdown 2030: Worldwide Trends in Non-Communicable Disease Mortality and Progress Towards Sustainable Development Goal Target 3.4
NCD Countdown 2030 Collaborators: Bennett J.E., Stevens G.A., Mathers C.D., Bonita R., Rehm J., Kruk M.E., Riley L.M., Dain K., Kengne A.P., Chalkidou K., Beagley J., Kishore S.P., Chen W., Saxena S., Bettcher D.W., Grove J.T., Beaglehole R., and Ezzati M. (2018). The Lancet, 392(10152): 1072-1088.
The Case for a Global Focus on Multiple Chronic Condition
Hajat C. and Kishore S.P. (2018). BMJ Global Health, 3(3):e000874.
Disparities in Availability of Essential Medicines to Treat Non-Communicable Diseases in Uganda: A Poisson Analysis Using the Service Availability and Readiness Assessment
Armstrong-Hough M., Kishore S.P., Byakika S., Mutungi G., Nunez-Smith M., Schwartz J.I. (2018). PLOS ONE, 13(2):e0192332.
Beyond Hypertension: Integrated Cardiovascular Care as a Path to Comprehensive Primary Care (PDF)
Kishore S.P., Heller D.J., and Vasan A. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Online first.
Modernizing the World Health Organization List of Essential Medicines for Preventing and Controlling Cardiovascular Diseases (PDF)
Kishore S.P., Blank E., Patel A., Peters A., Price M., Vidula M., Fuster V., Onuma O, Huffman M.D., and Vedanthan R. (2018). Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 71(5): 564-574. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.11.056.
Closing the Blood Pressure Gap: An Affordable Proposal to Save Lives Worldwide (PDF)
Heller D.J. and Kishore S.P. (2017). BMJ Global Health, 2(3) e000429. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000429.
On Essentiality and the World Health Organization's Model List of Essential Medicines
Marks V.A., Latham S.R., and Kishore S.P. (2017). Annals of Global Health, 83(3-4): 637-640.
Armstrong-Hough M., Kishore S.P., Byakika S., Mutungi G., Nunez-Smith M., and Schwartz J.. PeerJ Preprints.
Breaking a Culture of Silence: The Role of State Medical Boards
Hengerer A. and Kishore S.P. (August 28, 2017). National Academy of Medicine Perspectives.
Breaking Silence, Breaking Stigma
Salwan J. and Kishore S.P. (July 5, 2017). National Academy of Medicine Perspectives.
Mind the Gap: How Can We Bridge the Divide Between Essential and Affordable Medicines?
Kishore S.P., Kiddell-Monroe R., and Lopert R. Manuscript in preparation.
A Multifaceted Systems Approach to Addressing Stress Within Health Professions Education and Beyond (PDF)
Coffey D.S., Eliot K., Goldblatt E., Grus C., Kishore S.P., Mancini M.E., Valachovic R., and Walker P.H. (January 30, 2017). National Academy of Medicine Perspectives.
A Platform to Accelerate Global Reductions in Chronic Diseases: Toward Action (PDF)
Ruchman S.G., Kishore S.P., and Singh P. (2016). Global Heart, 11(4): 421-423.
A Global Social Network to Catalyze Solutions for Chronic NCD: A Case Study on the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network (PDF)
Jarvis J.D., Obscherning E., Siegel K., and Kishore S.P. (2016). Global Heart, 11(4): 463-465.
I Felt Alone but I Wasn't: Depression is Rampant Among Doctors in Training (PDF)
Poorman E. and Kishore S.P. (October 4, 2016). National Academy of Medicine Perspectives.
Breaking the Culture of Silence on Physician Suicide (PDF)
Kishore S.P., Dandurand D.E., Mathew A., and Rothenberger D. (June 3, 2016). National Academy of Medicine Perspectives.
Overcoming Obstacles To Enable Access to Medicines for Noncommunicable Diseases In Poor Countries (PDF)
Kishore S.P., Kolappa K., Jarvis J.D., Park P., Belt R., Balasubramaniam T., and Kiddell-Monroe R. (2015). Health Affairs, 34(9): 1569-1577.
Noncommunicable Diseases In East Africa: Assessing The Gaps In Care And Identifying Opportunities For Improvement (PDF)
Siddharthan T., Ramaiya K., Yonga G., Mutungi G., Rabin T., List J.M., Kishore S.P., and Schwartz J.I. (2015). Health Affairs, 34(9): 1506-1513.
Global Noncommunicable Disease Research: Opportunities and Challenges (PDF)
Jaacks L.M., Ali M.K., Bartlett J., Bloomfield G.S., Kishore S.P., Lipska K., Ngaruiya C., Peck R., Penna M.B., Siegel K.R., Narayan K.M., and US Global NCD Research Network (2015). Annals of Internal Medicine, 163(9): 712-714. doi: 10.7326/M15-1068
Building the Case for Clopidogrel as a World Health Organization Essential Medicine (PDF)
Patel A., Vidula M., Kishore S.P., Vedanthan R., and Huffman M.D. (2015). Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes Online, 8(4): 447-451. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.115.001866
Envisioning a Transdisciplinary University (PDF)
Carroll L., Ali M.K., Cuff P., Huffman M.D., Kelly B.B., Kishore S.P., Narayan K.M., Siegel K.R., and Vedanthan R. (2014). The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 42: suppl: 2: 17-25. doi: 10.1111/jlme.12183
NCD Countdown 2025: Accountability for the 25 × 25 NCD Mortality Reduction Target (PDF)
Beaglehole R., Bonita R., Ezzati M., Alleyne G., Dain K., Kishore S.P., and Horton R. (2014). The Lancet, 384(9938): 105-107. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61091-6
A Unified Code of Ethics for Health Professionals: Insights From an IOM Workshop (PDF)
Wynia M.K., Kishore S.P., and Belar C.D. (2014). JAMA, 311(8): 799-800. doi: 10.1001/jama.2014.504
Recruitment of PfSET2 by RNA Polymerase II to Variant Antigen Encoding Loci Contributes to Antigenic Variation in P. falciparum (PDF)
Ukaegbu, U.*, Kishore S.P.*, Kwiatkowski D.L., Pandarinath C., Dahan-Pasternak N., Dzikowski R., and Deitsch K.W. (2014). PLoS Pathogens, 10(1):e1003854
*authors contributed equally
Non-Communicable Diseases: Equity, Action and Targets (PDF)
Kishore S.P. and Reddy K.S. (2014). Manson's Tropical Diseases, 23rd Edition, edited by Jeremy Farrar, Peter Hotez, Thomas Junghanss, Gagandeep Kang, David Lalloo and Nicholas J. White. Publisher: Elsevier.
Young Professionals for Health Development: The Kenyan Experience in Combating Non-Communicable Diseases (PDF)
Matheka D.M., Nderitu J., Vedanthan R., Demaio A.R., Murgor M., Kajana K., Loyal P., Alkizim F.O., and Kishore S.P. (2013). Global Health Action, 6:22461. doi: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.22461.
Global Cancer Disparity Highlighted
Scott J. and Kishore S.P. (2013). Journal of Neuroscience in Rural Practice, 4(Suppl 1):S1-2. doi: 10.4103/0976-3147.116418
Access to Cancer Medicines in India (PDF)
Kishore S.P., Basu S., and Selvaraj S. (2013). The Lancet Oncology, 14(4):e136. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(13)70075-5
Horizontal Gene Transfer of Epigenetic Machinery and Evolution of Parasitism in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum and Other Apicomplexans (PDF)
Kishore S.P., Stiller J.W., and Deitsch K.W. (2013). BMC Evolutionary Microbiology, 13(1):37. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-37
Promotion of Access to Essential Medicines for Non-Communicable Diseases: Practical Implications of the UN Political Declaration (PDF)
Hogerzeil H.V., Liberman J., Wirtz V.J., Kishore S.P., Selvaraj S., Kiddell-Monroe R., Mwangi-Powell F.N., von Schoen-Angerer T., and The Lancet NCD Action Group (2013). The Lancet, 381(9867): 680-9. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62128-X
No Physical Health Without Mental Health: Lessons Unlearned? (PDF)
Kolappa K., Henderson D.C., and Kishore S.P. (2013). Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 91: 3-3A. doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.115063
The Global Health Curriculum of Weill Cornell Medical College: How One School Developed a Global Health Program (PDF)
Francis E.R., Goodsmith N., Michelow M., Kulkarni A., Mckenney A.S., Kishore S.P., et al (2012). Academic Medicine, 87(9): 1296-302. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182628edb
Comparative Performance of Private and Public Healthcare Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review (PDF)
Basu S., Andrews J., Kishore S.P., Panjabi R., and Stuckler D. (2012). PLoS Medicine, 9(6):e1001244. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001244
Regarding the Prevention of Global Chronic Disease: Academic Public Health's New Frontier (PDF)
Huffman M.D., Siegel K.R., Kishore S.P., and Bitton A. (2011). American Journal of Public Health, 78(3):373-81. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300400
Engineering and the Prevention of Global Chronic Disease: Forging Partnerships Between Engineers and Public Health Leaders (PDF)
Bhatia S.K. and Kishore S.P. (2011). Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine: An International Journal, 2(4): 347-352. doi: 10.1615/EthicsBiologyEngMed.2012005510
Youth Manifesto on Non-Communicable Diseases (PDF)
Kishore S.P., Siegel K., et al (2011). Global Heart, 6(4): 201-210. doi: 10.1016/j.gheart.2011.07.005
Trans-Disciplinary Education and Training for NCD Prevention and Control (PDF)
Siegel K., Kishore S.P., Huffman M.D., Aitsi-Selmi A., Baker P., Bitton A., Mwatsama M., Ding E.L., Feigl A.B., Khandelwal S., Rapkin N., Seligman B., and Vedanthan R. (2011). Global Heart. 6(4): 191- 193. doi: 10.1016/j.gheart.2011.07.008
Preparing the University Community to Respond to 21st Century Global Public Health Needs (PDF)
Kishore S.P., Siegel K., Kelly B., Vedanthan R., Ali M.K., Koplan J., Narayan V.K.M., and Fuster V. (2011). Global Heart, 6(4): 183-190. doi: 10.1016/j.gheart.2011.07.002
Non-Communicable, Chronic Disease Training and Education Needs in India (PDF)
Khandelwal S., Huffman M., Shah S., Kishore S.P., and Siegel K. (2011). Global Heart, 6(4): 195-199. doi: 10.1016/j.gheart.2011.07.009
The Global Burden of Disease (PDF)
Kishore S.P. and Michelow M.D. (2011). Perspectives in Public Health: Challenges for the 21st Century, edited by Madelon L Finkel, Cornell University. Publisher: Praeger Press, Santa Barbara, CA.
Role of Students in Global Health Delivery (PDF)
Finch T., Chae S., Shafaee M.N., Siegel K.R., Ali M.K., Tomei R., Panjabi R., and Kishore S.P. (2011). Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, 78 (3): 373-381. doi: 10.1002/msj.20254
* Featured at the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative University Meeting (Global Health)
Promoting Global Cardiovascular Health: Ensuring Access to Essential Cardiovascular Medicine in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (PDF)
Kishore S.P., Vedanthan R., and Fuster V. (2011). Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 57 (20): 1980-7. doi: doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.12.029. WHO: General Access to NCD medicines documents.
Misalignment Between Perceptions and Actual Global Burden of Disease: Evidence From the US Population (PDF)
Siegel K.R., Feigl A.B., Kishore S.P., and Stuckler D. (2011). Global Health Action, 4:6339. doi: 10.3402/gha.v4i0.6339
Comprehensive Strategies to Reduce the Burden of Chronic Diseases (PDF)
Stuckler D., Siegel K.R., Kishore S.P., O’Connor K., Stevens D., and Basu S. (2011). Global Chronic Disease: Causes, Consequences and Prevention, edited by David Stuckler and Karen
Siegel. Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Enabling Access to New WHO Essential Medicines: The Case for Nicotine Replacement Therapies (PDF)
Kishore S.P., Bitton A., Cravioto A., and Yach D. (2010). Globalization and Health, 6:22. doi: 10.1186/1744-8603-6-22
Generic Drugs for Developing Nations (PDF)
Maciag, K. and Kishore S.P. (2010). Nature Reviews Microbiology, 8(7): 530. doi:10.1038/nrmicro2345-c1
The Global Health Crisis and Our Nation's Research Universities (PDF)
Kishore S.P., Tavera G., and Hotez P.J. (2010). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 4 (2), e635. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000635
The Silent Epidemic of Exclusive University Licensing Policies on Compounds for Neglected Diseases and Beyond (PDF)
Chen C.E., Gilliland C.T., Purcell J., and Kishore S.P. (2010). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 4(3): e570. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000570
* “Must Read” by Faculty of 1000
An Unusual Recent Expansion of the C-Terminal Domain of RNA Polymerase II in Primate Malaria Parasites Features a Motif Otherwise Found Only in Mammalian Polymerases (PDF)
Kishore S.P., Perkins S.L., Templeton T.J., and Deitsch K.W. (2009). Journal of Molecular Evolution, 68(6): 706-714. doi: 10.1007/s00239-009-9245-2
Adding a Medicine to the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (PDF)
Kishore S.P. and Herbstman B.J. (2009). Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 85 (3): 237-9. doi: 10.1038/clpt.2008.258.
Seeding a Global Movement on Neglected Diseases (PDF)
Kishore, S.P. and Mulamira P. (2008). Global Forum Update on Research for Health Volume 5.
Mobilizing Students for Change
Kishore, S.P. (2008). The Scientist, 22 (7).
A Student-Led Campaign to Help Tackle Neglected Tropical Diseases (PDF)
Kishore S.P. and Dhadialla P.S. (2007). PLoS Medicine, 4 (7), e241. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040241.
Selective Suppression of Toll-like Receptor 4 Activation by Chemokine Receptor 4 (PDF)
Kishore S.P., Bungum M.K., Platt J.L., and Brunn G.L. (2005). FEBS Letters, 579(3): 699-704. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2004.12.047
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‘The View’ Co-Host Jenny McCarthy Shows Off Yellow Sapphire Engagement Ring During Wednesday’s Telecast
Jenny McCarthy, the high-energy co-host of “The View,” thrilled her studio audience and three million viewers at home yesterday when she showed off a huge yellow sapphire-and-diamond ring and announced she was engaged to New Kids On The Block singer Donnie Wahlberg.
"I just got engaged," she screamed as she flashed her ring, jumped up and down and hugged co-hosts Sherri Shepherd and Barbara Walters. “It’s a yellow sapphire!”
The 41-year-old actress and TV personality said that Wahlberg, 44, had proposed to her over the weekend with the beautiful ring that features a square-cut yellow sapphire surrounded by a halo of white diamonds set on a white-metal band. On Monday, the Sun-Times reported the couple had been shopping for engagement rings in New York City.
McCarthy had hinted to her 1.15 million Twitter followers early Wednesday morning that something special was going to happen on the show.
At about 8 a.m. she tweeted, "Good morning my friends... Between us... I would watch #theview today. Just Sayn. Xxoo." Then, right before the live show was about to air, she tweeted again, “Turn on #theview It's gonna be a goooood one. : )”
McCarthy described how Wahlberg’s romantic marriage proposal included a big assist from McCarthy’s 11-year-old son, Evan.
“I was sitting with Donnie… and he went into the other room and out came Evan with a card that said “Will” and he handed it to me,” she recounted.
Then Evan walked back into the other room and returned with a second card that read, “You.”
At that point, McCarthy knew what was coming next and she started to cry.
Evan returned a third time with a card that was supposed to say “Marry” but it was spelled “Mary.”
"The last time, Donnie came out with Evan, and Donnie's shirt said, 'Me' with a question mark... and he got down on his knee," she told the panel as she attempted to hold back happy tears.
"Of course, I said 'Yes,'" she related. "In that moment Evan yelled, 'I have another dad!' and it made all of us cry."
Finally, Walhberg, who was hiding offstage, came onto the set to sneak up on McCarthy from behind and give her bear hug and then a sweet kiss.
Wahlberg, who is a singer, actor and film producer, is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of New Kids On The Block in Las Vegas in July.
The couple is considering a wedding date some time in August 2015. This will be the second marriage for Walhberg and McCarthy.
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Home – La Scala – Who we are –
CEO and Artistic Director
Alexander Pereira has been CEO and Artistic Director of Teatro alla Scala since September 1, 2014.
Born in 1947 in Vienna, he worked initially in tourism management and then for Olivetti for twelve years. In his free time, he studied vocal performance.
From 1979 to 1983, he was a board member for the Frankfurt Bach Concerts. In 1984 he was appointed Secretary General of the Vienna Konzerthaus, where he managed to modernize the concert scene and attract a new and younger audience.
From the 1991/92 season till 2012, Alexander Pereira was Director of Zurich Opera House, where he began his tenure with an acclaimed Robert Wilson production of Lohengrin. From the start, Alexander Pereira realized that the continuous development of the ensemble was his most important task.
He also attached great importance to encouraging promising young singers, staging productions in accessible form and involving audiences, as well as to co-operating with great artists.
The central goal of Alexander Pereira’s Zurich programming is to present the great repertoire of opera, from Mozart to Verdi, although the house has also won acclaim for its contemporary productions. Schlafes Bruder by Herbert Willi, based on the novel by Robert Schneider, was commissioned by the Opera House and premiered in 1996, and in 1998, Heinz Holliger’s opera Schneewittchen, based on a story by Robert Walser, saw its first performance. These were followed by Beat Furrer’s Invocation and Heinz Karl Gruber’s opera Der Herr Nordwind in 2005.
In addition, less well-known works in the repertoire are regularly included in the program, such as Rameau’s Les Boréades, Haydn’s L’anima del filosofo, the operetta Simplicius by Johann Strauss, Giordano’s La cena delle beffe, Wolf-Ferrari’s Sly, Schubert’s Fierrabras, Zemlinsky’s Der Kreidekreis, Chabrier’s L’Etoile and Halévy’s Clari.
Since the autumn of 1996, he also held the post of Artistic Director and was a member of the Artistic Committee of the Zurich Festival, in whose creation he played a leading role and which took place for the first time in the summer of 1997. Lately, Alexander Pereira focused much of his attention on shaping an active and diverse education program for the Zurich Opera House, and on creating an increased presence for the Zurich Opera productions on the international DVD market.
From October 1, 2011 till August 31, 2014 Alexander Pereira was Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival.
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Will President Obama Take the Next Step to Reverse Bush’s Policy on Torture?
Habib Siddiqui
Posted May 14, 2009 •Permalink • Printer-Friendly Version
by Habib Siddiqui
If there is one way to measure how a person might fare in a new job, a sure thing is to check him or her out after a few days. For the President of the USA it is 100 days. Why 100 and not 30 or 60? No one really can answer satisfactorily. But that is how it is with the topmost job in the USA – that of the President. Well, so how did President Obama fare in the first 100 days of his presidency? Is he the right man for the job or did the voters pick the wrong guy?
Experts tell us that by most measures Obama has done a great job. Of course, the economy is still far from recovery. However, if you look at what he inherited from Bush and Cheney – an avalanche in Dow Jones industrial average trading at 14,269 from its peak in October, 2007 to almost half its value when Bush left the White House in January of 2009 you ought to feel a little bit encouraged with how Obama is handling the crisis. But probably the most important thing he has done is reversing Bush’s torture policy declaring that it was wrong. He has decided to release more memos and photos on torture.
As expected, not everyone welcomes such a decision. Last month, when asked about the Obama administration’s plan to release more photos of terrorist detainee interrogations, Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, said, “I think that is a sick, anti-American behavior.” He ought to feel ashamed and not just sick because it was his Republican party that had run the government when the torture of detainees took place, in violation of international laws. By releasing those photos what Obama is doing is nothing short of being a true American that craves for transparency and honesty in government.
As Jacob Weisburg of the Newsweek has so bluntly and aptly put, “The use of torture on suspected terrorists after 9/11 has already earned a place in American history’s hall of shame, alongside the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment during WWII and the excesses of the McCarthy era.” It was five years ago that most Americans came to learn what was going on inside the Abu Ghraib prison. The New Yorker magazine and the CBS TV showed hooded prisoners standing on a box with wires attached to their hands and genitals; frightened prisoners attacked by mean dogs; soldiers punching restrained prisoners; piles of naked prisoners stacked into a pyramid; prisoners forced to simulate sexual acts, often with grinning GIs on hand to point and offer a jaunty thumbs up.
For many simpleton and naïve Americans, those pictures were simply unbelievable. They sounded as if they suffer from amnesia – a selective one in that – or cognitive dissonance. They had assumed the best from their government that was led by a Church-going ‘born-again’ Christian. To them, their great nation had been setting standards for higher moral grounds everywhere, for everyone. They simply could not accept the fact that their best-trained soldiers had failed them by committing those horrendous crimes.
Those who knew better were embarrassed. They had been caught off-guard red-handed, almost like a thief caught with a hand in the cookie-jar. They had to be hypocritical. Within days, President George W. Bush offered a public apology for “the terrible and horrible acts.” Even his unabashed secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, took “full responsibility” for the scandal and promised that the offenders would be brought to justice because the victims “are human beings. They were in U.S. custody. Our country had an obligation to treat them right. We didn’t do that.” [As Americans later found out such words did not mean anything.]
And then there were guys like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter who justified such crimes. Limbaugh said “what went on over there is not torture.” According to him, the abuse was “no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation” and that the American soldiers were “having a good time” as part of their “emotional release.” If you think that his was a lone sick, demented voice, you’re mistaken. Senator James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, claimed to be “more outraged by the outrage than … by the treatment.” In CNN’s Larry King Live show Ann Coulter claimed that all normal people who have ever had a sibling, been through a fraternity hazing, or been on a sports team or misbehaved with small children have experienced water-boarding.
Fortunately, most Americans do not fall into any of the above three categories. They were genuinely repulsed by what they saw and what they read over the next few years, thanks to investigative reporters like Seymour Hersh. They learned that more harsher and demeaning torture methods were employed by American soldiers and interrogators, not just in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay but in all detention camps and centers. Torture methods included water-boarding, raping, urinating on detainees, throwing phosphoric acid, continuously hitting with metal batons on injured limb, sodomizing with batons, tying ropes around genitals and dragging the detainees on the floor, and even killing detainees. Truly, there was hardly a torture method—considered illegal by the Geneva Convention and scores of international laws—that was not committed by those guards and interrogators, disgracing America’s image abroad.
Americans found out that the Bush Administration had lied to them, not just with the rationale for the war itself, but also with torture. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and Gonzales had actually authorized harsh torture methods. They knew what was going on in those prisons and detention camps. And then there were many top advisers like Wolfowitz, Feith, Cambone and Tenet who knew all along what their guys were doing to those prisoners. Americans also found out that Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, who had authored the torture memo that provided the basis for violating international laws, was rewarded in 2003 by President Bush with a judgeship at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
It was this public revulsion with Bush’s torture policy that made sure that today guys like Inhofe are a small minority in the Congress. Americans are demanding that those who authorized torture be punished. However, much to the embarrassment of most Americans, none of the top guys has yet been convicted or tried. In what appeared to be a mockery of justice, only the foot soldiers - seventeen in total - were convicted in courts martial in 2004-2005. Of these, most were sentenced to low term prison terms, and dishonorably discharged from service. Two soldiers, Specialists Charles Graner and Lynndie England, were sentenced in 2005 to ten years and three years in prison, respectively. Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who denied knowledge of the torture, was demoted to the rank of Colonel in 2005. She maintained that her superior Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez had authorized the use of military dogs, temperature extremes, reversed sleep patterns and sensory deprivation as interrogation methods in Abu Ghraib. The ACLU claims that General Sanchez had authorized interrogation techniques that were in clear violation of the Geneva Conventions and the Army’s own standards.
As stated earlier, President Obama has taken the first step in dealing with this disturbing episode of torture by reversing Bush’s policy. He must now order congressional hearings and perhaps an independent commission to probe the matter further so that never again this country is misused by government officials soiling its image. Pursuing criminal charges against all those who authorized torture would be a moral victory for America and help her to be taken seriously by the international community who had only seen hypocrisy from the most powerful nation on earth. Is President Obama ready for taking the next step?
[About the author: Dr. Siddiqui writes from Pennsylvania, USA. He has authored seven books and co-edited one, three of which are now available from the Amazon.com.]
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Coping with anxiety and depression
Date: Friday 5 July 2019
Speakers: Iman Ben Ahmed and Shaykh Haytham Tamim
Anxiety and depression are more common than you think. One in four people in the UK experience a mental health problem each year. This means you probably know somebody affected by either depression or anxiety, two of the most common mental health conditions.
You may have heard these terms a lot, possibly used alongside each other. But how well do you understand them? And do you know the key differences between anxiety and depression?
In this talk, our two speakers will explain the terms, their symptoms, and most crucially, give practical tips on how to deal with anxiety and depression.
Iman Ben Ahmed, Counsellor and psychotherapist
Iman is a qualified psychotherapist with a special interest in community mental health work. She is very passionate about providing mental training and advocacy. She has delivered mental health training on multiple UK university campuses, to promote wellbeing as well as peer support and signposting.
She has worked with multiple charities and organizations to provide counselling and mental health support such as Place2Be, Nafsiyat, Inspirited Minds, Hestia, St. Mungo’s, Family Action, and the NHS.
Iman is currently dedicated to those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire, where she works as a Counsellor and Family Support Worker to ensure that the wellbeing of those affected is taken as a priority, and to promote individual and community healing after the tragedy.
Shaykh Haytham Tamim, Founder of the Utrujj Foundation
Shaykh Haytham Tamim is the founder and main teacher of the Utrujj Foundation. At Utrujj he has provided a leading vision for Islamic learning in the UK, which has influenced the way Islamic knowledge is disseminated.
His extensive expertise spans over 30 years across the main Islamic jurisprudence schools of thought. He has studied with some of the foremost scholars in their expertise; he holds some of the highest certificates in Quran, Hadith and Fiqh. He gave his first sermon to a large audience at the age of 17 and went on to serve as a senior lecturer of Islamic transactions and comparative jurisprudence at the Islamic University of Beirut (Shariah College).
Shaykh Tamim has continued to teach; travelling around the UK, Europe and further afield, and won the 2015 BISCA award (British Imams & Scholars Contributions & Achievements Awards) for Outstanding Contribution to Education and Teaching. He serves on numerous boards and panels.
If you have a question which you would like to put to our speakers, you can contact us confidentially by email: sameera@thecitycircle.com. Please remember to tell us if you don’t want your name mentioned in the discussion.
Free entrance. All welcome. Prayer space available. Street parking free from 18:30. Doors open at 18:45 and the talk begins at 19:00. If you have any questions, please contact the event organiser sameera@thecitycircle.com.
Image credit: Tam Anna
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Ali Meeke - World Cup Final 2018
August 5, 2018 and by some outlandish miracle the Ireland Women's hockey team were lined-up next to their Dutch counterparts in the tunnel, about to run on the pitch to play in the final of the World Cup. I'll never forget that feeling, absolutely fan girling over every single one. I looked at each player from the front line to the back, with the biggest smile on my face, relishing this moment, this opportunity, this experience - one that was about to change my life forever. I visulaised certain situations, thought about how I promised myself I would not stop working as hard as I could out there because we knew that the Dutch play the best give and go game. The adrenaline was pumping, and then we were running out of the tunnel.
We were assailed by a sea of green support, with surging cries and cheers that took my breath away. We ran by flames leaping high into the air, but nothing could compare to the warmth of support that came washing over us from the crowd. An then the anthem - reverberating around the stadium - an experience that neither hockey, nor any sport had ever had before... Our anthem being played at a World Cup Final. Similar large events happen for rugby, for football, but this time it was our turn, the turn of women's hockey, it was our turn, our day. Overwhelmed by emotion, no tears fell, for we had done it - this was the final and we would savour it forever.
Ali Meeke
Memories of the Greatest Day
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Waiting For Godot - Drama
On Wednesday 3 May, Forms 4 and 5 pupils from the cast and crew of the 2017 HSD One Act Drama Festival Entry, 'Last Class on a Monday', had the pleasure of attending the Abbey Theatre to see the Druid Theatre Company’s production of Samuel Beckett’s 'Waiting for Godot'. A number of Form 5 pupils had been introduced to Beckett in our Transition Year Drama module, but we didn’t quite know what to expect before watching the play. The experience, as it turned out, was unexpected! 'Waiting for Godot' proved to be a philosophical journey through an existential crisis from a humorous perspective. The piece was a thought-provoking experience and a great example of how empty Samuel Beckett felt his time was when he served with the Red Cross in Normandy. The staging was magnificent and the performance was expertly acted with subtlety and class. Overall, the visit to the Abbey Theatre was an extremely enjoyable experience that enhanced our knowledge of drama.
Avery Angle
Timetable for Summer Exams 2017
A Fine End To The Season
The weather forecast for Saturday 11 March 2017 was showery with a brighter day to come. In some ways this forecast reflected the fortunes of The High School U14 rugby team as they participated in the annual Central League tournament. The team was already at a slight disadvantage as the tournament clashed with a Scout's trip so some players, who would have been in contention for a starting place were absent. Nonetheless, the 18 players who represented The High School put in a solid performance.
The matches lasted only 18 minutes and first up High School faced Wesley College on home ground. Wesley are a skillful side and despite a strong performance from The High School Wesley won the match 14-7. Next came The King's Hospital. Being battle-ready from their encounter with Wesley The High School put in a strong performance to secure a convincing victory. Again, in their third match The High School were victorious which saw them progress to the semi-finals. Here they faced St Andrew's College. This was a tough contest worthy of a semi-final. It finished at 5-5, but as the rules of the competition stated that in the event of a draw the first team to score progressed, The High School were through to the final.
We were pitted against Gonzaga College who had won the competition four times in the last eight years. As the 'first to score' rule still applied The High School players knew an early score was vital. They pressed Gonzaga hard and were rewarded with a try in the first two minutes. The remainder of the match saw advantage swing from one team to the other but even the Gonzaga coach commented on the our team's stellar defence. In the dying seconds of the match Gonzaga broke The High School's line and scored. At 5-5, The High School were still in pole position, but crucially The High School had missed their conversion kick. Gonzaga had the opportunity to steal victory with the final kick of the match. The Gonzaga out-half pulled his kick wide and the day belonged to The High School.
Congratulations to all those players who took part in a well-deserved victory (including those who could not attend on the day) and to the coaches for their commitment throughout the year.
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Federal Poverty Level Guidelines and Chart
Glossary Fiscal Policy
Are You Eligible for Federal Benefits in 2019?
••• Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images
By Kimberly Amadeo
The federal poverty level is a measure of income used by the U.S. government to determine who is eligible for subsidies, programs, and benefits.
The Department of Health and Human Services updates the poverty guidelines each January. It raises them to account for inflation.
2019 Federal Poverty Guidelines Chart
HHS issues poverty guidelines for each household size. For example, the poverty level for a household of four is an annual income of $25,750. To get the poverty level for larger families, add $4,420 for each additional person in the household. For smaller families, subtract $4,420 per person. Guidelines for Alaska and Hawaii are higher since it's more expensive to live there. The chart below calculates it for you.
Number of People in Household
48 States & DC
$12,490 $15,600 $14,380
For nine or more, add this amount for each additional person
Agencies help families who earn more than the federal poverty level. For example, some programs offer subsidies to families that are 150% of the federal poverty level. For a household of four, that would be 1.5 x $25,750 = $38,625.
Programs That Use the Poverty Guidelines
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is available to those who earn 130% of the federal poverty level. Households must also have less than $3,500 in assets with an elderly or disabled person, or $2,250 or less in households without an elderly or disabled member.
Medicaid is available to families whose income is 138% of the poverty level. The Affordable Care Act provides insurance subsidies for households between 138% and 400% of the poverty level.
Other programs include Head Start, the National School Lunch Program, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Federal programs that hand out cash don't use the poverty guidelines. These programs include Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Supplemental Security Income.
The Poverty Level and Obamacare
In October 2013, the poverty level became relevant to millions more Americans. That's when the health insurance exchanges for Obamacare opened for enrollment. Those making 400% or less of the poverty level became eligible for tax credits to help pay insurance costs. As there are varying levels for different household sizes, see whether you qualify to save on monthly premiums.
Those making 138% or less of the poverty level became eligible for Medicaid. Specific eligibility depends on each particular state. Applicants find out if they are eligible when they apply on the exchanges. Articles such as the “Obamacare Summary” and “How Will Obamacare Affect Me?” provide more information.
How the Poverty Guidelines Measure Eligibility
The poverty level measures a family's annual cash income. Each agency administering an assistance program determines whether to use the family's before-tax or after-tax income in computing eligibility.
Other poverty indicators measure total wealth, annual consumption, or a subjective assessment of well-being. These indicators point to one’s standard of living, which takes into account only the amount of material goods and services available to the individual or family.
The Difference Between Poverty Level, Guidelines, and Threshold
People use the term poverty level to describe both the poverty guidelines and the federal poverty threshold. The U.S. Census Bureau provides statistics on the poverty threshold. It tells you how many Americans live in poverty. The government uses the poverty threshold to calculate the poverty guidelines.
As a result, HHS prefers the term "poverty guidelines" instead of "poverty level." It is more precise. The ASPE further describes the differences between the poverty threshold and the poverty guidelines.
The poverty guidelines are the same across the nation, except for Hawaii and Alaska. They ignore the wide difference in the cost of living between states. There is also a big difference between urban areas and rural areas. As a result, benefits buy more in rural areas, but the opportunities to find a good job and escape poverty are in urban areas.
On the other hand, if poverty levels were adjusted for these variations, even more people would flock to urban areas to take advantage of the higher benefits.
The federal poverty level originated during President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty. It was one of the tools developed to measure and eradicate poverty.
In his Inaugural address, Johnson called for "the richest nation on earth" to win the war. He wanted to assist "...American families with incomes too small to even meet their basic needs." This War on Poverty created many of today's welfare programs.
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Neil Joshi
Mr. Joshi’s professional investing career spans more than two decades and encompasses a variety of asset classes, strategies and senior roles. Prior to founding Tuscan Ridge, Mr. Joshi was at PEAK6 Advisors from 2008-2014, where he was hired as the firm’s first non-volatility portfolio manager and tasked to develop strategies outside the firm’s traditional focus on volatility arbitrage. He managed the firm’s Opportunistic Trading Strategy and in 2012 was named Co-Chief Investment Officer of the PEAK6 Performance Fund. From 2007-2008, Mr. Joshi was Portfolio Manager of a Capital Structure Arbitrage and a Convertible Bond Strategy for UBS O’Connor. Before this, he worked at Deephaven Capital from 2002-2007 as Co-Head of the Convertible Bond Strategy, Head of the Volatility Arbitrage Strategy and Head of the Opportunistic Credit & Credit Derivatives Strategy. From 1996-1998, he was Portfolio Manager of a Fundamental Long/Short Equity Strategy at CS Investments. Mr. Joshi began his career in 1993 as a volatility trader for Apollo Trading, where he launched and built out the European division that was later bought by Bear Stearns and subsequently became the core of its European Equity Derivatives Trading Business. Mr. Joshi currently resides in Chicago with his wife and two children. He is a member of the YPO Organization.
Mr. Joshi earned an MBA in Finance, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship from The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business in 2000, and a BA in Biology and Economics from The University of Chicago in 1993.
The materials posted on this site are intended for informational purposes only. These materials are not an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to purchase interests or make an investment in Tuscan Ridge or any of its affiliates. Any representation to the contrary is not permitted.
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Trust Fellows
Wellness and Self-Care
Beth Kanter is a well-established international nonprofit thought leader. Her first book “The Networked Nonprofit,” introduced the sector to a new way of thinking and operating in a connected world. Her second book, “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit,” is a practical guide for using measurement and learning to achieve social impact. She published her third book “Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout” in 2016. She also co-authored the “Emerging Nonprofit Leader’s Playbook,” funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. She is the author of Beth’s Blog where she writes about networks, data, learning, training, facilitation techniques, nonprofit organizational culture and self-care for nonprofit professionals.
Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, and capacity building and has facilitated trainings for nonprofits on every continent in the world (except Antarctica). She is experienced in participatory facilitation techniques such as design thinking, open space, peer learning, and more. She has over twenty years of experience facilitating online and virtual meetings. She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop leader. Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of the BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013.
Her past and current clients include Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kauffman Foundation, Gates Foundation, Brainerd Foundation, Knight Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Knight Digital Media Center, Edutopia, HHS, and others. She currently serves as adjunct professor at Middlebury where she prepares graduate students for their internships at international nonprofits and how to use online networking tools to advance their careers. She is on the board of NTEN and Leadership Learning Community.
Darwin Davis
Cross-Sector Alliances, Navigating Organizational Change
Darwin Davis has taught as an Adjunct Professor at The New School University, Bernard Baruch’s Executive Management and National Urban Fellows Programs, Columbia University’s Institute for Nonprofit Management and The City University of New York’s inaugural Certificate Program in Non Profit Management. Mr. Davis has worked in the nonprofit sector for over 37 years; and has served as either the Executive Director or the President and CEO of Black Agency Executives, The Human Services Council, The New York Urban League and Black Equity Alliance.
Don Waisanen
Don Waisanen is an associate professor in the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, where he teaches courses and workshops in public communication including executive speech training, campaign and advocacy strategies, media analysis, and seminars on leadership and humor. All his research projects seek to understand how communication works to promote or hinder the force of citizens voices. In particular, his recent publications have focused on the functions of political language, the increasing role of comedy in public culture, and the factors that can best sustain a deliberative democracy.
Before entering academia, Don was a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs, and worked in broadcast journalism, as a speechwriter, and on political campaigns. He has conducted communication strategy for various domestic and transnational projects, and serves on the board of the Resilience Advocacy Project, a nonprofit helping youth transition out of poverty. He writes for The Huffington Post, and has long enjoyed and been informed in his professional work by involvement in the performing arts, particularly improvisational comedy. He received a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Southern California.
Edith Asibey
Edith Asibey is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Service of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She is also the Senior Advisor at the Education Commission. Until December 2016, Edith led advocacy, partnerships and communication for UNICEF in Brazil, where she launched some of the most innovative digital work UNICEF has done to date, partnering with Google, Facebook and others.
Previously, Edith held roles with the Global Business Coalition for Education, The Atlantic Philanthropies, the AVINA Foundation and NetAid (one of the first digital-only organizations in the world). Starting her career in the countryside of Paraguay, she led environmental education campaigns and directed the environment program for USAID in the country.
She holds a Master of Arts in Media Studies from Stanford with focus on digital media; a specialization in leadership from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; and undergraduate degrees in Biology and Education from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. She is fluent in English, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Erika Bernabei
Erika Bernabei is a leader in the strategic design and implementation of whole organization and collaborative work to achieve equitable results in low-income communities and communities of color. Through Equity and Results, she works with small and large non-profit, philanthropic and public organizations nationally and internationally to use a racial equity results driven process to build the capacity of leaders and communities.
Erika uses an antiracist lens, developed by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, and Results Based Accountability (RBA) developed by Mark Friedman to look at how organizations and collaboratives can work differently to do systems change work and strategically disrupt ‘business as usual’. Erika’s deep knowledge of community-based participatory processes encourages accountability with formal, informal and community leaders so that there is buy-in at all points in the work.
Fred Lane
Frederick S. Lane is an independent management consultant based in Sandwich, Massachusetts. His practice is limited to nonprofit organizations, government agencies and institutions of higher education, and focuses on strategic planning, organizational change, board development, and executive leadership. He is also a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management at Bernard M. Baruch College of The City University of New York (CUNY).
Lane is Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs at Baruch College, CUNY, where he taught for over thirty years. He also has been Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, Visiting Professor of Public Administration at the University of Vermont as well as Professor of Political Science at CUNY’s Graduate Center. At Baruch College, Lane served as founder and Director of the Executive Master of Public Administration Program and Chairperson of the Department of Public Administration. He is also the recipient of Baruch College’s Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Service.
A pioneer in nonprofit management education, Lane was the first in the nation to teach a graduate course specifically in the management of nonprofit organizations in an accredited school of business or public administration. Regarding nonprofit management, Lane’s publications include: “Managing Fiscal Stress” in Wise Decision-Making in Uncertain Times: Using Nonprofit Resources Effectively (Foundation Center); “Organizational Analysis and Management Improvement” in The Nonprofit Organization Handbook, 2nd edition (McGraw-Hill), and “Managing Not-for-Profit Organizations,” for which he won the Laverne Burchfield Award for the best book review essay in Public Administration Review in 1980. Lane also was a member of the Board of Directors (and Board Vice-Chair, Chair of the Long Range Planning Committee, Chair of the Standards Committee, and Chair of the Presidential Search Committee) of the National Charities Information Bureau (now merged into the BBB Wise Giving Alliance) for 12 years, an Associate Editor of the journal, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, for four years, and the first Chair of the Section on Nonprofit Management of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). Lane is frequently cited on nonprofit management topics in the media, including U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Smart Money, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Newark Star-Ledger, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Nonprofit Times, Chamber Music Magazine, GothamGazette.com, the Internet Nonprofit Center, and Bloomberg Business News.
Lane also has a special interest in public policy, finance, and administration in higher education. He served as Staff Director of the Governor’s Task Force on Higher Education in New York in the mid-1970s. For his 1983 article, “Higher Education and Public Policy in New York,” he received the Golden Apple Award for excellence in writing about education from the New York State United Teachers. He is the author or co-author of: the chapter on “Higher Education” in the Productivity Improvement Handbook for State and Local Government; “Governors and Higher Education: Politics, Budgeting and Policy Leadership” in State Government; and “University Financial Analysis Using Interinstitutional Data” in New Directions in Institutional Research. Lane is often called on to comment on higher education practices in publications ranging from The New York Times to the Denver Post, from Community College Week to Empire State Report.
Lane holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. He is the editor of Current Issues in Public Administration, 6th edition (Wadsworth, 1999) and Managing State and Local Government: Cases and Readings (St. Martin’s Press, 1980). In 1984, he was named Outstanding Academic in Public Administration by the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration.
Ivy Fairchild
Ever since she can remember, Ivy has wanted to change the world. She found a way to do so when she began working with nonprofits. Armed with a degree in organizational development, she founded Landmark Consultants, a boutique consulting firm that works to strengthen communities across the country by enabling nonprofits to build and sustain their infrastructure, raise funds, develop the leaders of tomorrow, and affect change. Together, Ivy and the nonprofits she works with are impacting millions of individuals and families.
Before she founded Landmark, Ivy was the Vice President for Resource Development and Integrated Marketing & Events at UNIDOSUS (formerly NCLR), the largest civil rights and advocacy organization for Latinos in the United States. While there, she built the Resource Development Department from the ground up, increased the organization’s individual donor base, diversified its funding sources, and coordinated its annual conference attended by more than 4000 individuals. Ivy was recruited by UNIDOSUS from her job as Chief Development and Communications Officer at Urban Health Plan (UHP), a network of community health centers in New York. At UHP, Ivy developed the organization’s first employee giving program, began its individual donor program, and diversified the Network’s funding streams. She also developed a comprehensive communications strategy that resulted in coverage in major print, television, and digital media.
A consummate relationship manager, Ivy understands that having transparent and authentic relationships is important to working in communities. Her ability to build strong collaborations, her keen sense of community, her analytical approach, and her commitment to accountability make her an astute and effective partner. Passionate and authentic about strengthening nonprofits, Ivy is not afraid to ask the tough questions, help organizations take calculated risks, and develop strategies tailored to their needs.
Ivy is the proud mother of James, Tyler, Brandon and Bianca, as well as Gracie, her Shih Tzu. She loves to read and travel. Her superpower is finding the good in everyone she meets.
Jamie Lonie
Jamie Lonie has several years of experience in traditional and digital communications within the global education sector. As the Education Commission’s Digital Media Specialist, he develops and manages the digital content across the organization’s website, blog, email campaigns, and social media channels. Jamie is also the founder of Amplifi Digital where he supports digital communications for education nonprofits and mission-driven companies. Previously, he was Director of Social Media Community on Teach For America’s national marketing team, developing social media strategy and managing daily digital content.
Jamie graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville with a Bachelor of Science in Public Relations. Today, he serves as president of the university’s New York City alumni chapter. He also holds a Master of Education degree from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, which he earned while teaching elementary science.
Joyce Sullivan
Joyce Sullivan is founder and CEO of SocMediaFin, a boutique social media consulting firm specializing in social media leadership training for nonprofit organizations, creative arts, specialty firms and regulated industries. She currently teaches social media communications at the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College. Ms. Sullivan recently joined the advisory board of the Yonkers Film Festival leading their digital media strategic expansion efforts. She created the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) role at the Financial Women’s Association, and held that position for three years while co-chairing their Strategic Marketing committee.
Kim Klein
Kim Klein is an internationally known trainer, speaker and author, well known for her ability to deliver information in a practical, down-to-earth and humorous way. She has a wide range of nonprofit experience, having worked as staff and as a volunteer and a board member.
Kim is the author of five books, including Reliable Fundraising in Unreliable Times, which won the McAdam Book Award. Her classic text, Fundraising for Social Change, now in its seventh edition, is widely used in the field and in university degree programs. Her other books include Fundraising for the Long Haul, Ask and You Shall Receive, and Fundraising in Times of Crisis. She is the series editor of the Kim Klein Fundraising Series at Jossey Bass Publishers. She was a member of the Building Movement Project where she worked on a project called Nonprofits Talking Taxes. Kim is a Fellow with On the Commons and blogs at kimkleinandthecommons.blogspot.com.
She has provided training and consultation in all 50 United States, five Canadian provinces and 21 other countries. She is a lecturer at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, and has served as guest faculty at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and Concordia University in Montreal. Kim co-founded the Grassroots Fundraising Journal in 1981 and was its publisher for 25 years.
Kwayera Archer
Wellness Culture
For the past 35 years, Kwayera has dedicated her life to working with African diaspora communities in the US, Caribbean, Africa, and Latin America.
Her longstanding career has focused on performance arts and decolonial education for children and families. Through her endeavors as a teaching artist, activist, founder and organizational chief executive in New York City, her pedagogy has reached thousands of students, their caregivers and community members.
Kwayera’s unique institutional and leadership development strategy is culturally informed and participatory. It continues to serve as a national model for diverse business structures.
Most recently she has turned her attention to working in partnership with professionals and their families toward their desired goals through a variety of restorative, dialogical and traditional diasporic practices that she has cultivated throughout her career.
Kwayera curates a distinctive blend of excellent leadership & management practices, practical mindfulness and movement immersion to facilitate the organic flourishing of spaces for joyful living and communal well- being.
Participants commit to engagement in collective visioning and inspiration as they work toward greater wholism for their families, communities and vocational desires.
Lisette Nieves
Leadership and Planning
Lisette Nieves is a Partner at Lingo Ventures, providing consulting services to the nonprofit and public sector on growth, talent recruitment/retention, professional coaching and change management. For the last three years, she has also served as the Commissioner for the White House Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, and currently co-chairs the Subcommittee on Higher Education. Prior to her tenure as Commissioner, Ms. Nieves was a Belle Zeller Distinguished Visiting Professor in Public Policy at the City University of New York at Brooklyn College and a Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Blue Ridge Foundation.
Previously, she served as the founding Executive Director for Year Up NY, a workforce and education program for young adults. From 2002 to 2004, Ms. Nieves served as Chief of Staff at the Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) for the City of New York. Earlier in her career, she held several positions in the New York City educational sector. Ms. Nieves has been both a Rhodes Scholar and a Truman Scholar. Her awards include the Robin Hood Hero Award (John F. Kennedy Jr. Hero Award) from the Robin Hood Foundation and El Diario’s Mujeres Destacadas Award from La Opinion.
Ms. Nieves received a B.A. from Brooklyn College and an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
Lori Roth Gale
Organizational Culture and Organizational Change
Lori Roth Gale is the founder of Strategic Learning Associates, a consulting group that provides intensive professional development for mission-driven organizations, working with management, staff, and boards. Services include organization development, professional education program assessment and design, executive coaching, and research.
Lori is a part-time Assistant Professor at the New School for Public Engagement’s Milano School. She teaches Master’s-level seminars on Management and Organizational Behavior, Leadership Development, and capstone project research. Lori served on the Executive Education Faculty at Columbia Business School from 2004-2010 and as the executive director of the Institute for Not-for-Profit Management from 1996-2004.
Lori earned her doctorate in Adult Learning and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Management and Brandeis University.
Martha Stark
Martha Stark served as the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance. Prior to her appointment, she also served as a White House Fellow in the Clinton Administration. She teaches courses in budget and financial analysis, public nonprofit sector management, urban service delivery, leadership and strategy, and program evaluation.
Marti Fischer
Marti Fischer is a NYC based consultant and executive coach specializing in strategic positioning, communications and business development for individuals, young companies and nonprofit organizations.
The first decades of her career were spent as a professional negotiator in the television industry. In 2006 Marti turned her business development, relationship building and negotiating experience to help individuals with career and professional advancement, nonprofits tell their story, raise money and become sustainable and first stage companies articulate their value proposition and strategic point of view.
In addition to her work with Marti Fischer Group, Marti is a co-author of The Nonprofit Consulting Playbook, adjunct professor at Baruch College, instructor at NYU and frequent trainer for umbrella organizations and foundations in the areas of communication skills, professional development and nonprofit fundraising. Marti serves as a strategic advisor to YASI (Young Advocacy Service Corps) and Necessities INC. Marti is an active member of Women in Development New York, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, American Marketing Association and The Communication Network.
Marti received a B.A. in Art History and Economics from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently working on a book to help young adults position their skills for meaningful employment.
Michael Seltzer
Navigating Organizational Change, Resource Mobilization
Michael Seltzer is a Distinguished Lecturer at the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College. Prior to joining Baruch, Michael Seltzer served as president of Philanthropy New York and as a program officer at the Ford Foundation where he was responsible for its work in strengthening the nonprofit sector and promoting organized philanthropy worldwide. He also founded and led a sustainability in business initiative at The Conference Board.
Seltzer chaired the master’s degree program in Nonprofit Management at the Milano School of the New School University. At Baruch, Professor Seltzer redesigned the core master’s degree course in fund raising and resource mobilization for nonprofit organizations, and teaches Advanced Public and Nonprofit Management in the Executive MPA program, as well as a variety of different topics in the executive certificate programs. He holds a B.A. from Syracuse University in International Relations and African Studies.
Michael Steven Williams
Emotional and Social Intelligence
Michael Steven Williams is on the faculty of the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, City University of New York. His research broadly explores equity and diversity, the social psychological development of students, and institutional diversity in American postsecondary education. Specifically, he centers his inquiry on two aspects of higher education: (a) the student, particularly student socialization and mentoring and (b) the institution, with focus on specialized institutions such as historically Black colleges and universities. To date he has authored over 15 scholarly publications including peer-reviewed journal articles and other academic publications. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Villanova University, his master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.
Odell Mays
Odell Mays has managed and served on the board of nonprofits for over 27 years, and held the position of Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer. As a consultant, Mr. Mays has provided intensive financial management for several executive directors and CEO’s, including senior level consultations for organizations such as Amnesty International USA, The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), The Gay Mens Health Crisis (GMHC), National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) and FilmAid International (an international film agency working with refugee communities in Kenya). He has also served as Treasurer and Chair of the board of Gay Mens Health Crisis in NYC.
Mr. Mays has a BA in psychology from Stanford University and an MBA in finance and taxation from New York University’s Stern School of Business. He also currently serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at Baruch College (CUNY) in the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs where he teaches a graduate course in finance and budgeting. In addition he teaches in the Masters’ program at New York University’s Heyman Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising.
Richard Rivera
Tools In the Midst of Change to Use
Richard Rivera is President of Renew & Redesign Consulting an organizational consulting firm, specializing in organizational change/transformation, leadership/executive development, strategic planning and human resource training for nonprofit, government, and healthcare organizations. Richard’s expertise includes specialized services around executive coaching, leadership development, strategic conversations, board development, employee engagement, resource development, and organizational assessments.
Richard has served as lead consultant/facilitator for several Executive Programs at the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College. He is a global steward of the Art of Hosting (AOH) Conversations That Matter and has facilitated AOH trainings at the Riverside Church, The Center for Social Innovation and numerous child welfare and school programs. At the Adelphi University School of Social Work, Center For Nonprofit Leadership, Richard serves as an organizational change consultant and executive coach. He also served as coach/facilitator for Columbia University’s Management Development Program. As a member of the Drucker Foundation’s “Organizational Assessment Tool” team, Richard has conducted presentations to board and executive leaders across the nation.
Richard received his M.S.W. degree from Columbia University, School of Social Work.
Rodney Christopher
Financial Management and Planning
Rodney Christopher is a director on the capital deployment team at the F.B. Heron Foundation. Previously, he spent 15 years developing the consulting practice at Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), a national organization that unlocks the potential of mission-driven nonprofits through tailored investments, strategic advice and accessible insights. At NFF, Rodney has served as a trainer and consultant to more than 400 nonprofits and 80 grant making foundations—in the areas of human services, arts & culture, education and community development.
Rodney holds an M.S. in urban policy analysis and management from The New School and a B.A. in social sciences from Bard College at Simon’s Rock, which established a scholarship fund in his name in 2006 to help its students afford study abroad. He has served as board treasurer for a handful of organizations, most recently Fractured Atlas, a technology-driven national service organization for artists and arts organizations.
Sabrina Kizzie
Sabrina Kizzie is a nationally recognized coach, author and speaker in New York City. Sabrina’s wrote a book entitled “Fearless Women in Real Estate and their Winning Strategies. She is an Adjunct Lecturer in Baruch College’s Continuing and Professional Studies division and the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute Zicklin School of Business. She teaches Social Media Marketing, Interactive Marketing and Marketing Communication and Media Plan Development.
Sabrina is a marketing expert and motivational speaker to inspiring women entrepreneurs. With over 15 years of marketing experience, she has been able to successfully partner with many well-known organizations to create powerful events to educate her audience including Susan G Komen for the Cure and Habitat for Humanity.
Sabrina has been featured in many publications such as Crain’s New York Business, The Mann Report, Black Enterprise Magazine and Real Estate Executive Magazine. Sabrina is involved in numerous community activities. For eight years, she was involved as a mentor and Big Sister to a young girl through the Big Brother/Big Sister Program of New York City. She served as an elected member to the Board of Directors for the American Red Cross- Bronx Chapter from 2001 to 2009. Sabrina currently serves on the Harriman Advisory Board for The Red Cross in New York City. Ms. Kizzie is an active member, volunteer and an elected member of the Nominating Committee for the Riverside Church in New York City.
Sabrina received her AS degree in Marketing from Farmingdale State College. In addition, Sabrina has received both her Bachelor of Science in Marketing and her Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Long Island University- C.W. Post Campus
Sonia Jarvis
Diversity in the Nonprofit Sector
Prof. Sonia R. Jarvis, J.D., a graduate of Stanford University and Yale University Law School, has extensive work experience in both the private and nonprofit sectors as well as academia. Her law practice focuses on matters of civil rights, discrimination, diversity, nonprofit governance and equal access to technology, privacy and voting. She clerked for the late Judge Frank Johnson, a Federal Appellate Court Judge in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, managed a law clinic at the Catholic University Columbus School of Law and the Center on Equality, Pluralism and Policy at a Baruch College/CUNY, served as Executive Director for the National Coalition on Black Voter Participation, a national nonprofit civic engagement organization, and has consulted for major foundations and the White House on issues of equality, civic engagement, tolerance, and affirmative action policy. During the Clinton Administration, Prof. Jarvis was responsible for drafting the final report of the Advisory Board for the President’s Initiative on Race.
More recently, Prof. Jarvis conducted a study entitled “Leadership, Diversity and Legal Aid: Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of Legal Aid Management in New York and in America’s Most Diverse City” for the New York Leadership Project and the IOLA Fund (September 2009). She has engaged in training sessions for faculty members and administrators on diversity issues in academia. Prof. Jarvis also conducted a 3-hour Workshop during the 2015 National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education Conference entitled “Making Ferguson Matter: How Our Nation Can Achieve Greater Diversity and Social Justice By Dismantling Structural Discrimination Based on Race, Gender, Class, Identity and National Origin– An Examination of Public Policies that Perpetuate Power and Privilege.” She recently stepped down as Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Edward W. Hazen Foundation, a private foundation that funds education reform, youth leadership development and social justice projects. She is currently Board Chair for the Center for Responsive Politics, a national nonprofit that promotes transparency for the role of money in our political process.
Prof. Jarvis has taught at leading institutions of higher education including Harvard University’s Kennedy School, George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs, and Rutgers, State University of New Jersey’s Eagleton Institute along with teaching positions at Catholic University Law School and Georgetown University Law Center’s Foundations of American Law courses. Her graduate and undergraduate courses have focused on law and public policy; race, media and politics; media, politics and culture; diversity and higher education; non-profit management; voting rights; and immigration. She has engaged in public advocacy on a number of social justice and racial equity issues in public seminars, on television and other media outlets, including minority civil rights, women’s rights, electoral politics and voter registration reform, access to technology, the right to privacy and civil liberties, poverty and inequality issues, equity in secondary and higher education, employment discrimination, diversity training, and nonprofit management and board governance.
Toby Thompkins
Toby Thompkins has over 30 years of experience working across corporate, for-profit, nonprofit, government and international development sectors as a senior level executive and organizational development consultant. As a leadership coach, Mr. Thompkins has worked in the USA and internationally with a broad range of leaders including CEOs, philanthropists, country managers and grassroots activists, advocates, artists and musicians. Mr. Thompkins is a speaker, blogger, author, and executive coach. In his blog, How I See It… Toby shares his thoughts about culture, personal and community transformation, the future, social justice, and transformative leadership. He is the author of The Real Lives of Strong Black Women (Agate 2004), which chronicles the wisdom and true stories of black women who moved from “giving until it hurts” to lives of self-care and personal power.
The New York Community Trust Leadership Fellows is a partnership between The New York Community Trust, the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, and the Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management.
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Of Ashes & Sin by Ariana Hawkes & K. N. Knight Blitz and #Giveaway
Of Ashes & Sin
Ariana Hawkes & K. N. Knight
(Fire Trails, #1)
Publication date: July 13th 2018
A world without fire. Three sizzling shifters. One flame-haired hustler. An elemental bond that could bring light back to the world, or be the end of them…
The last Phoenix has perished in a huge blaze of flames, extinguishing fire from the earth. Ranger Mason is a nineteen-year-old shifter whose spirit animal has not yet been fixed. An orphan, hustler and part-time exorcist, she scrapes a living in a dangerous, burned-out world, with no idea of the unique power she holds. That is, until a sexy tiger, bear and eagle shifter trio bursts into her life, convinced she’s the key to recreating fire.
What none of them realizes is that she’s no fire elemental, but something even more rare and special…something that will create the strongest possible bond between them, but also threaten to destroy her. Ranger is the only one capable of uniting a dragon with the three water, earth and air elementals, but as the love bond between the four of them ignites, the guys are unwilling to risk her safety—even if it means restoring balance to the world.
But Rael, Zain and Oran are not the only ones who have discovered Ranger’s gifts, and suddenly the decision is taken out of their hands. Will she be able to create peace between her three mates, who have vowed to do anything to protect her, and a dragon intent on keeping her in his cave as his personal, flame-haired treasure?
The guys went into the pool again after breakfast, their bronzed bodies glistening in the sunlight, but I kept my clothes on and took a walk around the perimeter of the area instead. I was edgy in a way I couldn’t explain. Yes, I was restless, but it wasn’t just that.
I looked over at the three of them. Oran was swimming, his muscular back and tight buns showing on the surface of the water, while Zain and Rael were stretched out naked, two perfect specimens of manhood. I laughed hollowly. This would be any woman’s ultimate fantasy. Am I crazy not to just relax and enjoy it while I can? But something kept tugging at the edges of my mind. Zain called to me and tried to get me to join them, but I waved at him and kept walking, completing one circuit after another.
“Ranger! Are you okay? You’re making me dizzy with all that pacing,” Rael called as I passed close by him.
I came to a stop. “What if—what if something goes wrong?” I said. To my dismay, I was close to tears.
“Come and sit down,” Zain said.
With a sigh, I went over to a rock that was close to all of them and sat down on it, cross-legged. “What if this big plan ends in disaster and ruins everything?”
“Ranger, listen to me,” Zain continued. “We’ll never let anything bad happen to you. Each of us would fight to the death before we’d let anyone or anything hurt you. You’ve got to understand that.”
“I’m sure we could fight one off. But what if there are lots of them?” My mind spiraled out of control as it tended to when I was anxious. What if someone was injured or killed? The thought of losing any one of them was like a punch in the guts. They were my mates. Mine. And then I started to breathe fast. I knew what the problem was, but I’d been trying not to admit it to myself: I was falling for the guys, all three of them. I had been since the beginning, and it scared the hell out of me. Accepting they were my mates, that we’d all look out for each other, and they’d all have sex with me was one thing. But realizing I had feelings for them was another. It made me vulnerable, and I didn’t like that one bit.
“Ranger? What is it?” The unaccustomed softness in Oran’s voice jolted me back to the present, and I realized he’d been calling my name for a while.
“I like you,” I blurted out. “I mean, I more than like you. I’m falling for you, all three of you.” And then I covered my face with both hands because I was so embarrassed.
Slowly, gently, my hands were tugged away from my face, and I opened my eyes to see all three of them had gathered in front of me and were looking at me intently.
About K.N. Knight
K. N. Knight has been writing fantasy novels for the last twenty years and collecting katana swords for even longer than that. She has 35 bestselling novels under her belt and more than twice that number of swords. Now writing under her real name for the first time, she’s turned to reverse harem, because who wouldn’t. She’s known as Cayenne or even Cayenne Pepper in some circles and she lives with her husband and three boys in Seattle. When she’s not causing or fixing trouble, she enjoys shower sonatas, velvet cupcakes and drawing anime portraits. Sign up for updates at http://eepurl.com/dz63d1.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/authorknknight
Email: kn@knknight.com
About Ariana Hawkes
USA Today bestselling author Ariana Hawkes writes spicy romantic stories with lovable characters, plenty of suspense, and a whole lot of laughs. She told her first story at the age of four, and has been writing ever since, for both work and pleasure. A horse-lover, an ex-financial writer, a former competitive runner, and a Minoan civilization aficionado, she graduated in English and Latin Literature from Oxford University and nowadays lives in Massachusetts with her man and two huskies.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/arianahawkes
Twitter: http://twitter.com/arianahawkes
Email: ariana@arianahawkes.com
Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/c-lAEf
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WHO, Pharma, Gates and Government: Who’s Calling the Shots?
By wpadmin | February 5, 2019
By Barbara Loe Fisher
The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a report on January 16, 2019 ranking “vaccine hesitancy” as one of the top “10 Threats to Global Health in 2019,” alongside air pollution and climate change, noncommunicable diseases, global influenza pandemic, antimicrobial resistance and infectious diseases such as ebola, dengue fever and HIV.1
Throughout history, the greatest contributors to disease and early death in human populations have been poverty, poor sanitation and poor nutrition,2,3,4 but infectious diseases with pharmaceutical solutions dominated this list.
And, there was no mention of the major opioid addiction crisis crippling and killing tens of thousands of people in the U.S. and Europe,5,6 or the iatrogenic medical error epidemic that every year claims more than 750,000 lives in Europe7 and 250,000 lives in the U.S., where it is the third leading cause of death.8
The immediate mainstream media response to the WHO’s announcement was to focus on “vaccine hesitancy,” with The Editorial Board of The New York Times declaring January 19 that “anti-vaxxers” are “the enemy” and calling on the U.S. government to “get tough” by waging a “bold and aggressive” pro-vaccine campaign that includes “tightening restrictions around how much leeway states can grant families that want to skip essential vaccines.”9
By January 23, The Hill announced Washington state had declared a state of emergency because of 23 cases of measles reported in an “anti-vaccination community” near Portland, Oregon,10 and there was a public call in the U.K. for social media platforms to “clamp down on fake news” and censor “misleading information and negative messaging around vaccination.”11,12
The New York Times’ editorial headline, “How to Inoculate Against Anti-Vaxxers,” was a theme repeated in articles reacting to the WHO’s suggestion that people wanting to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination are a global menace. One doctor suggested that parents who don’t vaccinate their children are selfish: “[I]t’s a matter of ‘I don’t care about other people in the community, I only care about the health and welfare of my own child.'”13
There was no discussion about institutionally acknowledged gaps in vaccine safety science14,15 or the fact that most parents dutifully follow the advice of pediatricians and public health officials and only became vaccine safety critics after the risks of vaccination for their children turned out to be 100 percent.16,17
There was no discussion about the fact that since 2011, pharmaceutical companies have no liability for injuries and deaths caused by the vaccines they sell in the U.S. that are government recommended and mandated.18
Instead, parents of vaccine injured children and others concerned about vaccine safety, who for decades have been asking government and industry to produce better quality vaccine science and more humane vaccine policies that respect genetic and biological diversity, were stereotyped as “anti-vaxxers” and demonized as a “threat” to public health.
The Editorial Board of The New York Times explained, “It’s no mystery how we got here. On the internet, anti-vaccine propaganda has outpaced pro-vaccine public health information.”
Authoritatively, “the Board, its editor and the publisher” of The New York Times stated that, “Scientists, especially, are uncomfortable with black and white statements, because science is all about nuance. But, in the case of vaccines, there are some hard truths that deserve to be trumpeted. Vaccines are not toxic, and they do not cause autism. Full stop.”
There was no discussion about why people are legitimately concerned about vaccine ingredients19 and Pharma paying the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to fast track new vaccines to licensure without adequate testing.20
There was no discussion about the fact that doctors giving children 69 doses of 16 vaccines starting on the day of birth21 — three times as many vaccinations as they got in 198322 — cannot explain why so many highly vaccinated children in the U.S. today are sicker, not healthier today: 1 child in 6 is learning disabled23 and 1 in 40 has autism.24
Millions more suffer with asthma, diabetes, severe allergies, epilepsy, cancer, schizophrenia, depression and other chronic disease marked by chronic inflammation in the body.
The CDC states that “90 percent of the $ 3.3 trillion in annual health care expenditures are for people with chronic and mental health conditions.”25 The largely unexplained chronic disease and disability epidemic in the U.S. is bankrupting the U.S. health care system and there is no research being funded to investigate the role that ever-increasing numbers of vaccines given to infants, children and adults may be playing.
Multinational pharmaceutical corporations26,27 in command of a global $ 34 billion vaccine market28,29 are holding billion-dollar contracts with mass communication companies30 and public-private partnerships with governments to purchase vaccines and create vaccine marketing campaigns31,32,33,34 that dwarf the relatively small number of websites and blogs labeled “anti-vax” simply for criticizing vaccine science and government policy.35
Yet, there is no recognition by mainstream media articles of the fact that wealthy corporations and philanthropic foundations with political agendas,36,37 well-paid medical doctors38,39,40 and government health officials in charge of operating the vaccine system41 are in privileged positions of power with a distinct advantage over ordinary people subjected to vaccine laws that place an unequal risk burden on individuals with genetic and biological susceptibility to suffering harm from vaccination.42,43
‘Bio-Populism’ Blamed for Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe
In the U.K., The Economist published an article entitled, “The Campaign Against Vaccination,” in which an anonymous author declared, “Across Europe, the rise of populism is damaging public health. A common feature is skepticism of vaccines.”44
Pointing to Italy, Austria and France as hotbeds of political support for “parental choice” about vaccination, the author attempted to politically tie growing public support for vaccine choice to a fear of migrants and coined a new term: “bio-populism,” saying:
“It is increasingly clear that Europe’s populists want for the body what they want for the nation: purity, unity and self-governance. Populist health policies mean citizens being free from outside influences — whether vaccines devised by doctors, regulations invented by politicians or diseases supposedly carried by migrants — and in control of their own epidemiology.”
He (or she?) went on to explain that bio-populism is a “combination of me-first libertarianism and anti-expertise herd mentality.” Quoting Italian medical professor Dr. Roberto Burioni, who has stated authoritatively that “Vaccines are not an opinion” and offered an explanation for “Why science can’t be democratic,” The Economist article ended with a warning that, “At least one pandemic will probably sweep the interconnected world in the next decade. Viruses, after all, know no borders.”
There was no discussion of the fact that most parents and physicians calling for better quality vaccine science and informed consent protections in vaccine laws are ideologically diverse and do not all identify with one particular political party. In fact, a 2015 Pew Research Center survey revealed that age and parenthood had more to do with vaccine hesitancy, with young adults and parents with children under age 18 being less supportive of mandatory vaccination.45
Vaccines, Autism, Erosion of Trust in Drug Companies and Doctors
In the U.S., Live Science trumpeted: “Anti-Vaccine Movement Joins Ebola, Drug Resistance on List of Top Global Threats.”46 A doctor at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security was quoted as saying the reason that noncommunicable diseases and not infectious diseases made the WHO’s top 10 global threat list is “a testament to how powerful vaccines are.”
Pointing to the jubilant public response to the release of polio vaccine in the 1950s, he commented, “We need to get back to that era when vaccines were celebrated the way a new iPhone [is].”
The headline People Magazine chose was “World Health Organization Names Anti-Vaxxers As a Top Threat to Global Health in 2019.”47 At the beginning of the article, the following statement appeared: “There is no scientific link between vaccines and autism, according to the Centers for Disease Control.”
It ended with the statement, “To tackle the rising levels of vaccine hesitancy, WHO plans to push forward with the goal of eliminating cervical cancer with greater application of HPV vaccine …”
U.S. News & World Report ran this headline: “WHO: Anti-Vaccine Movement a Top Threat in 2019.”48 That author stated, “So-called anti-vaxxers refuse the required shots for their children on religious or philosophical grounds. An increase in unvaccinated children has, in part, been tied to the medically discredited belief that vaccines cause autism spectrum disorder.”
Pointing out that a recent U.S. survey found that public trust in vaccination is on the decline, she added, “The heightened mistrust, researchers said, was especially prevalent in small pockets of people in insular communities or like-minded communities online.”
Pacific Standard asked, “Are Anti-Vaxxers a Major Health Threat? The World Health Organization Says Yes.”49 This article included a quote from a pediatrician:
“The ongoing erosion of trust in the medical establishment as a whole is also to blame, as frequent reports of dubious financial relationships between physicians, professional medical societies, and the pharmaceutical industry leave many questioning whether or not physicians can be trusted. Unsure of what to do and whom to listen to, many seek answers to their questions elsewhere, or simply rely on their gut feeling …”
Salon created the most sensational headline that asked the foreboding question, “The Anti-vaxxocalypse: What Happens to Humanity if Vaccine Hesitancy Continues?”50 The author explained to readers, “In other words, the anti-vaccination movement, which has inspired many in first-world countries to refuse or hesitate vaccination for easily-preventable diseases, is now a threat to global health and, ergo, stability.”
The exaggerated response to the WHO announcement by corporations owning mainstream media outlets has been curiously uniform. Often using identical talking points, perspective from parents and physicians in the U.S. and Europe rationally calling for reform of the vaccine policies and laws is left out.51
The politics of vaccination are in full swing, but where is the money coming from to fund these vaccine marketing campaigns using name calling, threats, shaming and misinformation to demonize and call for discrimination against those who criticize vaccine science and government policy?
The WHO Markets Vaccines
Immediately after World War II in 1945, the United Nations (U.N.) voted to establish a new international health organization. In 1948, WHO was founded by the U.N. after ratification by 26 member states and given a budget of $ 5 million.
WHO is a specialized agency of the U.N. headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and is composed of six regional offices operating in different parts of the world, including the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Washington, D.C.
Today, 194 member states of the U.N. are impacted by the activities of the WHO, which has a broad mandate to “act as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work.”52
The WHO Constitution, revised in 2006, states that its objective “is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health,” and health is defined as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”53
The WHO Constitution also states that “Informed opinion and active co-operation on the part of the public are of the utmost importance in the improvement of the health of the people.” The top priorities of the WHO when it was founded 70 years ago were malaria, tuberculosis, venereal diseases, maternal and child health, sanitary engineering and nutrition.
During the first 30 years of WHO’s operation, the U.N. agency spearheaded a global smallpox eradication campaign (1958 to 1980); prevention and control of yaws, endemic syphilis, leprosy, trachoma, cholera and yellow fever (1960s); fertility regulation and birth control (1970s); childhood vaccination programs (initiated 1974); and the institution of primary health care of all national health systems (initiated 1978).54
Today, the WHO is the world’s largest and most influential public health agency with an annual budget for 2018 to 2019 of $ 4.4 billion.55 Slightly more than 21.6 percent ($ 956.9 million) of the WHO budget is funded by assessments on member states and the remaining is funded by “voluntary contributions.”
The biggest individual programs funded by WHO are for polio eradication vaccine campaigns ($ 903 million); vaccine campaigns for other communicable diseases ($ 805 million); and corporate services/enabling functions ($ 715.5 million).
Currently, the top 10 U.N. member state annual funders of WHO are the governments of the U.S. ($ 125 million); Japan ($ 49 million); China ($ 40 million); Germany ($ 33 million); France ($ 27 million); United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ($ 23 million); Brazil ($ 19.5 million); Italy ($ 19 million); Canada ($ 15 million) and Australia ($ 12 million).56
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest non-state funder of the WHO, having donated more than $ 2 billion in earmarked grants to the international health agency since 1998, and is the second largest WHO funder overall (after the U.S. government). Because Gates Foundation grant money is earmarked for specific programs, such as vaccine purchase, delivery and promotion, the Gates Foundation significantly influences the setting of WHO’s program priorities.57
In 2010, after a joint investigation by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in collaboration with the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, an article was published in the BMJ revealing that three key scientists — who influenced the WHO’s decision to declare a swine flu (H1N1) influenza pandemic in 2009 and recommend that all countries use and stockpile vaccines and pandemic flu drugs — had financial ties to pharmaceutical companies profiting from the WHO recommendations (GlaxoSmithKline and Roche).
WHO was also criticized for lack of transparency for refusing to release the identities of the 16 members of an emergency committee formed in 2009 to guide pandemic policy.58
The 2009 pandemic H1N1 vaccine, which was rushed to market to address a WHO declared pandemic that did not happen, triggered an autoimmune reaction in more than 1,300 people in Europe who got GSK’s Pandemrix vaccine and left them with narcolepsy, an incurable immune mediated neurological disorder.59
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Marketing Vaccines
The WHO and the U.S. government are founding partners of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. In 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided $ 750 million in seed money to spearhead the creation of Gavi, a public-private partnership and multilateral funding mechanism involving the WHO, governments, the vaccine industry, the World Bank, philanthropic foundations and civil society groups to “improve access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world’s poorest countries.”60
Of the more than $ 15 billion raised by Gavi since 2000 to vaccinate the world’s children, U.S. government contributions have totaled $ 1.9 billion or 12 percent of all contributions received by Gavi. The United Kingdom has contributed $ 2.2 billion or 14 percent of Gavi’s total contributions.
The single biggest funding source for Gavi is the Gates Foundation, which has donated more than $ 3 billion or 20 percent of Gavi’s total income.61 Between 2000 and 2013, only about 10 percent of total funding provided by Gavi ($ 862 million) was used to strengthen health systems in developing countries, such as improving sanitation and nutrition, while nearly 80 percent was used to purchase, deliver and promote vaccines.62
Gavi is headquartered in Geneva with an office in Washington, D.C. that carries out day-to-day operations, and one of Gavi’s core goals is to “shape markets for vaccines and other immunization products.”
In 2008, Gavi announced that five countries — Italy, Norway, Canada, the U.K. and Russia — had joined the Gates Foundation to pledge $ 1.5 billion in Advance Market Commitments (AMC) to accelerate access to pneumococcal vaccines with donors providing up-front funding commitments to support vaccine purchase and speed the introduction and use of vaccines in countries partnering with Gavi.
Currently, the AMC incentivizes vaccine manufacturers to sign contracts to provide pneumococcal vaccine to developing countries at lower per dose prices and be reimbursed by Gavi funds. By March 2015, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline had received more than $ 1 billion from Gavi’s AMC funds.63
CDC officials provide Gavi with technical support and guidance. In 2015, the U.S. Congress pledged to appropriate $ 1 billion to Gavi that was spread over four years (2015 to 2018).64
At the World Health Summit in Berlin on October 16, 2018, Gavi CEO Dr. Seth Berkley announced that 11 heads of the world’s leading health and development organizations had signed a “landmark commitment” to find new ways to accelerate achieving goals of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals created in 2015.
The new Global Action Plan vaccine marketing initiative is being coordinated by the WHO.65 Relating Sustainable Development Goals to vaccination of all the people in the world, Gavi states that:66
Immunization protects people from being forced into poverty by high out-of-pocket expenses
Vaccines protect child health and support cognitive development, allowing children to perform better at school and have more opportunities
Vaccinated healthy children grow into a productive workforce and become strong contributors to the economy, and healthy children free up parents’ time so they are able to work
Vaccines are critical to building people’s resilience to and mitigating the risk of disease outbreaks tied to climate change
Good health is a critical determinant of peace and well-being in a society. People-centered health systems are core social institutions in every country, and immunization is often the first point of contact between these systems and the population
In 2016, Berkley and other Gavi executives came under criticism in the U.K. for taking excessively high salary packages. According to an investigative news report:67
“Seth Berkley has taken home more than £2 million over the past four years as chief executive officer of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi), which has been given £1.5 billion by Britain. Another official at the Geneva-based group collects a pay package of more than £500,000 a year. Incredibly, Dr. Berkley was given a housing allowance on top of his £623,370 pay package.”
In December 2018, Berkley told CNN that “while measles is one of the few diseases we could potentially eradicate, that will never happen if wealthy countries like the United States can’t maintain herd immunity. Because a measles case anywhere is a threat everywhere.”
He said parents in the U.S. are delaying their children’s vaccinations “perhaps because they believe in immunization but are worried by some of the anti-vaccine scaremongering. This needs to stop.”
Echoing the idea that parents who don’t go along with the vaccine program are selfish, he added, “In countries like the United States we need to stop thinking about vaccination as something you only do to protect the ones you love, and instead view it also as a goodwill act for the benefit of others.”68
According to the CDC, in 2017 to 2018 “vaccination coverage among kindergarteners remained high,” with 94 percent of children having received two doses of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine; four or five doses of diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTaP) vaccine; and two doses of varicella zoster (chickenpox) vaccine (among many other vaccines required by states for school attendance). Only 2 percent of kindergarteners had an exemption from one or more state required vaccines.69
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Marketing of Vaccines
The Gates Foundation was established in 2000 by Microsoft Corporation founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda.70
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the Gates Foundation is the largest philanthropic foundation in the world with a $ 43.5 billion trust that makes grant payments of more than $ 3 billion annually to advance the foundation’s goals for reforming education systems, such as the institution of Common Core curriculum in all U.S. schools,71 and funding public health initiatives, primarily global vaccination programs.72
A major goal of the Gates Foundation is to make sure every child in the world is vaccinated.73 Investor businessman Warren Buffet, who took control of textile manufacturer Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. in 1965 and went on to amass a personal fortune of more than $ 60 billion, pledged $ 31 billion and became a co-director of Gates Foundation in 2006.74
In 1998, the same year that the U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation,75 Bill and Melinda Gates committed $ 100 million to create the Bill & Melinda Gates Children’s Vaccine Program. One purpose of that program was to establish an international consensus on vaccine use recommendations:
“Efforts will be made to support international conferences and the development and dissemination of strong international consensus statements and recommendations for the use of the new vaccines.”76
The homepage of the Gates Foundation proclaims ALL LIVES HAVE EQUAL VALUE and states77
“We believe we can save lives by delivering the latest in science and technology to those with the greatest needs. We work with partners to provide effective vaccines, drugs and diagnostics and to develop innovative approaches to deliver health services to those who need it most. And we invest heavily in developing new vaccines to prevent infectious diseases that impose the greatest burden.”
In 2016, Global Justice Now published an investigative report, “Gated Development: Is the Gates Foundation always a force for good?” Authors were critical of the unchecked political power and influence on global health programs and agricultural policies of Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF):78
“To say that the BMGF has become an important actor in international development would be an understatement. When it comes to global health and agriculture policies, two of its key grant areas, the BMGF has become probably the most influential actor in the world.
It is also likely that Bill Gates, who has regular access to world leaders and is in effect personally bankrolling hundreds of universities, international organizations, NGOs and media outlets, has become the single most influential voice in international development.
But the BMGF’s increasing global influence is not being subjected to democratic scrutiny. Unlike governments, which are formally accountable to their electorates, the BMGF is a private U.S. foundation, and remains unaccountable to public bodies (except for tax reporting purposes).
Even worse, the BMGF appears to have bought the silence of academics, NGOs and the media who might otherwise be expected to criticize aspects of the foundation’s work.”
Money Makes the World Go Around
Congress appropriated nearly $ 90 billion to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2018, and the biggest line item in the CDC’s $ 11 billion budget was the Vaccines for Children program (VFC) ($ 4.5 billion), which was created by Congress in 1993.79
Under the VFC program, the federal government purchases CDC recommended vaccines from vaccine manufacturers to administer to children who are on Medicaid, are uninsured or whose health insurance plans do not fully cover CDC recommended vaccines.80,81 Hundreds of millions of dollars are additionally allocated in the HHS budget for vaccination programs, including $ 700 million for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
One of the most politically powerful public-private partnerships in the world today is the lucrative one that has been forged by the pharmaceutical industry with government,82,83,84,85,86 mainstream media87 and wealthy philanthropic foundations with political agendas.88,89
In the past decade, these public-private partnerships have come under scrutiny by public policy analysts. In 2015, authors of a special report published by the Global Policy Forum observed:90
“However, it is not only ‘big business’ but also ‘big philanthropy’ that has an increasing influence in global development policy, particularly large philanthropic foundations. The scope of their influence in both past and present discourse and decision-making processes is fully equal, and in some cases goes beyond that of other private actors.
Through the sheer size of their grant-making, personal networking and active advocacy, large global foundations, most notably the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have played an increasingly active role in shaping the agenda-setting and funding priorities of international organizations and governments.”
For example, the Gates Foundation has given Johns Hopkins more than $ 100 million in research grants since 2015, including for vaccine development and promotion.91 At the same time, Johns Hopkins University receives more than $ 2 billion per year in funding from U.S. government agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), to conduct research, including for vaccine development and vaccine use promotion.92
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal health agencies give millions of dollars in taxpayer dollars to academic institutions and vaccine manufacturers to improve vaccine technology, find new lucrative vaccine markets and boost vaccine marketability.93 The U.S. government also partners with the Gates Foundation to develop and promote vaccine use.
For example, in 2013, the CDC Foundation received three grants totaling $ 13.5 million from the Gates Foundation to globally “advance the implementation” of meningitis and rotavirus vaccine programs.94
The Centers for Disease Control and the CDC Foundation have received more than $ 167 million from the Gates Foundation.95 Vaccine manufacturers have also received millions of dollars in grants from the Gates Foundation, including GlaxoSmithKline (over $ 50 million);96 Merck ($ 1.4 million);97 Pfizer ($ 16.5 million);98 and Sanofi Pasteur ($ 3.6 million).99
Big Media: Under the Influence
Mass media corporations also are under the influence of Big Pharma and Big Philanthropy money. For example, National Public Radio has received $ 20 million in grants100 and Solutions Journalism Network has received $ 4 million101 in grants from the Gates Foundation. Recently, Gates’ Microsoft Corporation partnered with NewsGuard Technologies Inc.,102,103 a new corporation that is rating websites and online publications to “fight false news, misinformation and disinformation.”104,105,106
The NewsGuard corporation is also collaborating with other corporations, such as Google,107,108 which owns over 90 percent of the internet search market.109 One of the biggest investors in NewsGuard is Publicis, the oldest advertising company in the world and the third largest mass communications company today.110
Publicis is paid billions of dollars by pharmaceutical companies to market vaccines,111 including a $ 1.5 billion media contract with GlaxoSmithKline.112 PDI, a Publicis health company, states:113
“Vaccination coverage in the United State is high, but in the face of the resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases such as pertussis and measles, the existing gaps in the vaccination coverage of the U.S. population have become worrisome.
Gaps exist because not every patient who needs a vaccination gets it at the recommended age. Moreover, the recommendations for new vaccines, including vaccines for influenza and human papillomavirus (HPV), have been expanded …
PDI’s field-based medical sales representatives and inside medical sales representatives from our health care contact center can increase adoption of vaccines by responding to questions and concerns … To increase immunization rates, we must build sustainable systems for vaccination within the context of a changing health care system.
Here [are] some recommended steps toward achieving this goal: assessment of the actual vaccination rate in a provider’s practice; consistently making recommendations for timely vaccinations to both the parents of pediatric patients and adult patients; standing orders for non-physician personnel to carry out vaccinations at the scheduled time without physician involvement; educating physicians on emerging research of vaccine risks and on how to interact with parents who are concerned about the detrimental effects of the MMR and HPV vaccines; and educating physicians about state-sponsored and other programs that can help patients overcome financial barriers to vaccination.”
It is clear that mass media communication today is being controlled by corporations financially tied to pharmaceutical companies and influenced by powerful political institutions in society. It goes a long way to explaining why mainstream media outlets have been nearly united in attacking parents and physicians who defend the ethical principle of informed consent, including informed consent to vaccination, and are calling for vaccine exemptions to be severely restricted or eliminated.114
The five largest companies in the world today are Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook.115 These and other technology corporations dominate online communications and sales and are positioned to join together to aggressively market vaccines and promote “no exceptions” vaccine use policies endorsed by the WHO and governments.
The threat to autonomy and freedom of thought and speech posed by these companies, especially in censoring online public conversations about vaccination and health, is considerable.116,117
The People Are Not Represented
Today, everybody knows somebody who was healthy, got vaccinated and was never healthy again. The people whose lives are being impacted by business deals between governments, Big Pharma and Big Philanthropy increasingly are being marginalized in the top-down public policymaking process by wealthy and powerful institutions in society financing the global multibillion-dollar vaccine industry.118
This is evident when the people raise their voices to ask for better vaccine science and more humane public health policies and are demonized, discriminated against and punished by those in control of those wealthy and powerful institutions.
A system that will not bend will break. The responsibility for the crisis of trust in the global vaccination system lies squarely at the feet of those who operate the system and refuse to acknowledge the suffering of the people harmed by vaccines.119,120
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF JAN PAWEL & QUIANA JENKINS PIETRZ (BOTH DIED ON OCTOBER 15, 2008)
On this date, October 15, 2008, United States Marine Corps Sergeant Jan Paweł Pietrzak and his wife, Quiana Jenkins Pietrzak were murdered by four men in California. We, Unit 1012: The VFFDP, offer our most sincere condolences to the family members of the couple, this case was a reminisce of the murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, where two of the four men were sentenced to death for their crimes. Unit 1012 wish that there was a Joint Enterprise Law and all were be put to death for sure.
Comrades of Unit 1012 will post information of the case from Wikipedia. We, the Comrades of Unit 1012 will honor Jan Pawel Pietrzak as a fallen soldier. May he and his wife RIP!
Twenty-four-year-old Janek Pietrzak and his 26-year-old wife, Quiana Faye Jenkins-Pietrzak, were murdered in their French Valley home. Credit: Maggie Avants (PHOTO SOURCE: http://murrieta.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/former-marine-sentenced-to-life-for-murder-of-french-valley-couple)
The Murder of Jan Paweł Pietrzak and Quiana Jenkins Pietrzak relates to the events surrounding the 2008 deaths of United States Marine Corps Sergeant Jan Paweł Pietrzak (March 13, 1984 – October 15, 2008) and his wife Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak (February 16, 1982 - October 15, 2008).
Sgt. Jan Pietrzak and his wife, Quiana Faye Jenkins-Pietrzak, were slain in their home by a group of Camp Pendleton Marines in 2008. One of those former Marines was sentenced to the death penalty Friday, July 19. (PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/murrieta/murrieta-headlines-index/20130719-french-valley-death-sentence-for-former-marine-who-murdered-couple.ece)
Pietrzak was a Polish American who joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 2003. After a tour in Iraq as a helicopter mechanic, Pietrzak returned to the United States, where he met and married Jenkins, an African-American. Together, they owned and lived in a house in Winchester, a census-designated place in Riverside County, California, located near the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, where Pietrzak worked.
On October 15, 2008, four black Marines entered the Pietrzak home, sexually assaulted Jenkins-Pietrzak and tortured the couple before killing them. Two of the four accused Marines worked under Pietrzak's command. Despite efforts to convey the event as being racially motivated, Riverside County authorities maintain the motivation was robbery, and the pending murder with special circumstances and sexual assault charges do not include an assertion that the crime was racially motivated. All four of the accused plead not guilty to murdering Pietrzak and his wife.
After meeting with the families of the deceased, District Attorney Rod Pacheco decided to seek the death penalty on January 22, 2009. The preliminary trial hearings to determine whether the four assailants would stand trial occurred on March 26, 2009, and April 3, 2009 in San Diego.
On 24 June 2013 a jury recommended the death penalty for two of the four assailants and life in prison without parole for a third.
Jan Paweł Pietrzak and Quiana Jenkins Pietrzak
Jan Paweł Pietrzak, named after Pope John Paul II, was born in either Kłodzko or Świdnica, Poland. In 1994, when Pietrzak was age ten, his family emigrated to the U.S., and settled in the Bensonhurst neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Pietrzak joined the Marines in 2003, became a helicopter mechanic and was sent to Iraq. After his return, he married Jenkins, whom he had met in 2005 at a party for Marines being deployed to Iraq. Jenkins, who worked for the local Black Infant Care Center, was initially reluctant to date a Marine. But Pietrzak won her over, and they were married on August 8, 2008. They bought a house in May in Winchester, an exurb of San Diego, near Camp Pendleton, and Pietrzak remained in the Marines, working as a helicopter airframe mechanic at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.
On October 15, 2008, a group of four Marines entered the Pietrzak home. It was not initially known how they managed to get in as Jenkins-Pietrzak was very careful about security and had equipped the house with an alarm. Later, it was alleged that Tyrone Miller forced entry into the residence by pointing a shotgun at Pietrzak.
After a short skirmish, the couple were bound with duct tape and gagged. Jenkins-Pietrzak was then sexually assaulted as her husband was forced to watch. Finally, both were shot in the head, execution-style. Several small fires were set in the home in an apparent attempt to destroy evidence of the crime. Lance Cpl. Emrys John, age 18, of Maryland, Lance Cpl. Kesuan Sykes, age 21, of California, Pvt. Kevin Darnell Cox, 20, of Tennessee, and Lance Cpl. Tyrone Miller, age 20, of North Carolina were charged with the murders. Two of the four Marines charged in the execution-style murders worked for Pietrzak. Three of the suspects claim that the shooter was 18-year-old John. Miller and Cox have reportedly confessed to the murders, although all four suspects have accused the others of raping Jenkins-Pietrzak. Shortly before the murder, John posted "Chillin waitin 4 da killin" on his MySpace page.
SARAH BURGE/STAFF PHOTO
Glenda Faye Jenkins, the mother of Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, speaks at the sentencing of Tyrone Miller on Friday, July 19, in Riverside Superior Court. Miller was sentenced to the death penalty in the slayings of Jenkins-Pietrzak and her husband. (PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/murrieta/murrieta-headlines-index/20130719-french-valley-death-sentence-for-former-marine-who-murdered-couple.ece)
Three days after the murder, the Los Angeles Times ran an October 18, 2008, news brief noting that the bodies were identified on October 17. On Monday, November 3, the Sheriff's Department announced that it had four Marines under arrest for the murders. As part of the November 3 announcement, the Sheriff's Department noted that investigators had found numerous items of evidence since October 15 linking the four to the killings, even though the killers set a fire in the house to destroy evidence. On November 6, CNN television news journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell reported that the four Marines under arrest were African American and raised the possibility of race as a motivation.
In early November, the four Marines were charged with two counts of murder with special circumstances — murder during commission of a felony, murder during commission of a robbery and committing more than one offense. They additionally face one charge each of sexual penetration with a foreign object, and the District Attorney's office will decide if to pursue death sentences. Just after the release of the charges, the New York Post ran a story entitled "A Few 'Bad' Men - Race Eyed in Marine Dual Slay" which noted that the four accused Marines "could face the death penalty amid speculation the mixed-race couple was targeted in a bias attack." At about the same time, District Attorney Rod Pacheco emphasized the robbery motive, commenting, "To burglarize their home and then to treat them in the way they did before they died and to murder them — it's hard for our minds to comprehend this kind of savagery."
By mid-November, the Riverside County Sheriff's Central Homicide unit responded to the race motivation issue, stating "There's nothing to suggest what happened was a racial crime." Detectives said jewelry, a camera, and wedding gifts had been stolen, and that some of the items were found in the suspects' barracks.
Despite the conclusion proposed by the investigators, the couple's parents and many in the general populace, as shown by blogs and posts over the Internet, continue to believe that there was a possible racial motive, particularly since Jenkins-Pietrzak was sexually assaulted, and there was evidence of premeditation in the murders (as 'Chillin waitin 4 da killin' was posted on a perpetrator's MySpace page before the murders) Anti-miscegenation racial epithets in the form of "Nigger Lover" were found on the wall near the master bedroom and on a bathroom mirror. The Defendants have all indicated that spray-painting the racial epithets was a calculated attempt to misdirect investigators.
On November 20, all four pleaded not guilty to murdering the Pietrzaks. District Attorney Rod Pacheco on February 2, 2009, decided to pursue the death penalty against the suspects.
Correspondence and other involvement with White House
On November 11, 2008 (Veteran's Day), Pietrzak's mother, Henryka Pietrzak-Varga, wrote a letter to president-elect Barack Obama about what happened to her son and daughter-in-law, wondering, "If it was a robbery, why didn't they come when nobody was home instead of in the dead of night, armed to the teeth? ... What was it about my son and daughter-in-law that inspired such hatred and loathing?" Pietrzak-Varga has said she believes the crime was racially motivated, as her son was not well-off. Seven months later on July 27, 2009, the Obama administration responded with generic form letter made for all soldiers killed in combat. Once it made it to the news, the Obama administration issued an apology. The mothers of Pietrzak and Jenkins requested an audience with President Obama. In a letter to the president, the mother of slain Sgt. Jan Paweł Pietrzak said they want to "talk how the sacrifice of Jan Paweł and Quiana could unite us." On August 17, 2009, the Commissioner on Civil Rights in Poland wrote to the U.S. Ambassador to Poland supporting this request. The U.S. ambassador responded with a short letter on August 24.
Henryka Varga, the mother of slain Marine Sgt. Jan Pietrzak, speaks at the sentencing of Tyrone Miller Friday, July 19, in Riverside Superior Court. Miller, a former Marine, was sentenced to death. (PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/murrieta/murrieta-headlines-index/20130719-french-valley-death-sentence-for-former-marine-who-murdered-couple.ece)
Criminal trials
On April 3, at a preliminary hearing for the four defendants, prosecutors alleged that the motivation for the crime was financial, not racial. Evidence, however, presented at the hearing detailed that two racist remarks were spray painted in the couple's home. Evidence was also presented showing that Jenkins-Pietrzak was sexually assaulted and that Jan was severely beaten. Riverside County investigator Benjamin Ramirez testified that property belonging to the couple was recovered from Miller's residence on Camp Pendleton, including bank cards, a bracelet with the couple's names written in Polish, and Pietrzak's dress blue uniform. Investigators further testified that footprints left at the crime scene were linked to shoes belonging to the suspects.
On May 8, 2009, a recording was played in court of Cox's girlfriend, Melissa Buck, stating that after Cox and the other three accused returned home after the alleged murder, they drank beer and that one of them said, "Good job, E. You earned your stripes tonight." Buck stated that the four had carried out other burglaries prior to the killings and that she had gone with them on one occasion.
In June, Miller acquaintance Justin P. Weissinger testified that several days after the crime Miller had confided in him details of the assault and killing of the Pietrzaks. Weissinger had accompanied Miller and the other suspects on previous burglaries and home invasions.
On August 12, 2009, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Judith Clark ordered the four defendants to be tried for the deaths of the Pietrzaks. The re-arraignment was scheduled for August 26.
The trial of the four was suspended on February 1, 2011 after Kesaun Sykes urinated during a court hearing. The judge ordered a psychological evaluation for Sykes. Sykes' mental competency trial began on May 24, 2011. The jury returned a verdict of mentally fit after two hours of deliberations. In response, the judge ordered criminal proceedings to resume against Sykes and his co-defendants.
Three of the defendants, Kevin Darnell Cox, 25, Emrys Justin John, 23, and Tyrone Miller, 25, went on trial for murder and related charges on Monday, April 8, 2013, at 9 a.m. at the Riverside Hall of Justice. Two separate juries, one for Cox and another for John and Miller, were empaneled to hear the case. The fourth defendant, 25-year-old Kesaun Kedron Sykes, was tried separately because there was not enough space in the Hall of Justice for three juries.
On June 5, 2013 Cox and John were convicted of two counts of first-degree murder. Miller was convicted of sexual penetration with a foreign object and two counts of first-degree murder.
On June 20, 2013, a jury recommended that Judge Thierbach sentence Tyrone Miller and Emrys John to death, and a separate jury recommended that Cox be sentenced to life without possibility of parole. The fourth defendant, Kesaun Sykes, will go on trial in August 2013.
On July 19, 2013, in Riverside Superior Court, Miller was sentenced to execution. On August 16, 2013 Cox and John were sentenced. Cox was sentenced to two life terms without parole Cox showed no remorse stating, "I apologize for what happened to the victims' family. I didn't say I'm sorry I did anything because I still don't feel that I did anything to be here for it." He also said he would appeal. John, the gunman, was given the death penalty. Judge Christian Theirbach called the murders savage, and the most inhuman he had seen in his 27 years on the bench.
Labels: African American Murdered Victims, California, Fallen Soldiers, Slain Couple
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Bhutan Newsletter
Kuzu zang pola (Hello) everyone!
The warm days and cool nights of Autumn are slowly giving way to winter and the peaks of distant mountains are already covered in sparkling layers of powder soft snow.
During this season the sky is a crystal clear blue and the warm rays of the sun quickly dispel any lingering chill. With beautiful sunny days and cozy evenings spent relaxing by a bonfire late Autumn is one of the best seasons to visit Bhutan.
This month we will be taking a look at one of Bhutan’s most well known destinations, the Paro Dzongkhag (district)!
THE DISTRICT OF PARO
(PARO DZONGKHAG)
Paro valley extends from the confluence of the Paro Chhu and the Wang Chhu rivers at Chuzom upto Mt. Jomolhari at the Tibetan border to the North.
This picturesque region is one of the widest valleys in the kingdom and is covered in fertile rice fields and has a beautiful, crystalline river meandering down the valley. Accentuating the natural beauty are the many elegant, traditional-style houses that dot the valley and surrounding hills.
Paro is one of the most popular destinations in Bhutan and visitors can often spend many days here. This is because in addition to its picturesque natural beauty, Paro is also home to over 155 ancient temples and monasteries including Bhutan’s most iconic temple, Taktsang (The Tiger’s Nest).
Taktsang Lhakhang is Bhutan’s most iconic landmark and religious site. The name Taktsang translates to “The Tiger’s Nest“. This temple is one of the most holy sites in the kingdom and clings impossibly to a sheer cliff face 900 hundred meters above the Paro Valley.
It was first built in 1692 at a cave where Guru Rimpoche meditated in the 7th century A.D. Legend states that Guru Rimpoche flew to the site atop the back of a tigress and meditated in the cave for 3 years, 3 months, 3 days and 3 hours in order to subdue evil demons residing within it. The cave has been considered a sacred site ever since and many famous saints have travelled to meditate in it.
Taktsang Lhakhang is located approximately 10 km north of Paro town at an altitude of 3.120 meters. In order to arrive at the temple visitors must trek for around 2-3 hours through beautiful, shady pine forests. No trip to Bhutan would be complete without a visit to this remarkable heritage site.
Drukgyel Dzong means ‘The Fortress of the Victorious Bhutanese‘. It was constructed by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in 1646
to commemorate his victory over marauding Tibetan armies. It was the foremost defensive fortification against Tibetan invasions.
Though the Dzong was destroyed by fire in 1951, the massive ruins still retain a measure of their former grandeur. While in Paro it is highly recommended that you pay these ruins a visit. The fortress grounds are a popular picnic spot amongst tourists and locals alike.
The National Museum is set inside a conical watchtower that once helped defend Paro Rinpung Dzong from invasions. The watch tower was built in 1649 by the first governor of Paro.
The tower is uniquely shaped as resembles a conch shell with an internal ascending spiral. In the 1950′s the Third King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck proposed that the tower be renovated and converted into a museum.
The museum was opened to the public in 1968 and has displayed valuable historical artifacts and paintings ever since. It plays an invaluable role in preserving and promoting Bhutan’s rich history and culture.
Paro Tshechu (Annual Religious Festival)
The Annual Paro Tshechu is undoubtedly one of the popular tshechus in the country. Pilgrims come all over the country to attend the festival and it is also hugely popular among the many tourists that visit the country. On the final day of the three day festival a gigantic Thongdrel (Embroidered Religious
Painting) is unfurled. The thongdrel is so sacred that simply gazing upon it is said to clean away the viewers sins.
The Paro festival features various masked dances and prayers, some dating back hundreds of years. However like all tshechus the festival is not only a religious occasion but also an opportunity for people to relax and spend time with their families and friends.
A lively, jovial air surrounds the festivities making it a fun and uniquely Bhutanese experience that visitors won’t want to miss.
For more information on the various tshechus in Bhutan visit our website at:
http://www.tourism.gov.bt/activities/festivals
The Jomolhari Loop Trek
The 7 day Jomolhari Loop Trek is the shortest of the treks around Mt. Jomolhari. These treks are easily the most popular in Bhutan as they offer spectacular views and an interesting
array of flora and fauna. The Jomolhari Loop Trek is a good choice for trekkers that want to enjoy the dazzling beauty of the region without undertaking too strenuous a challenge.
However the path climbs to high altitudes ranging from
2500-5000m and should not be underestimated.
http://www.tourism.gov.bt/trek/jomolhari-loop
UPCOMING EVENTS IN BHUTAN
Nomad Festival (22nd February 2014)
This annual gathering of Bhutan’s nomadic highlanders bring together the herders of the northeastern and northwestern Himalayan frontiers in an unforgettable celebration of their unique culture and traditions.
You’ll gain an intimate glimpse into the proud communities that have survived virtually unchanged to this day and form a rich part of Bhutan’s ethnic and cultural diversity.
The festival takes place in Bumthang, the sacred heartland of Bhutan. This region is dotted with some of the most beautiful and ancient monasteries and temples in the Himalayas.
The two major nomadic tribes of Bhutan, the Brokpas in the east and the Layaps in the west, inhabit some of the most rugged terrain in the kingdom. Their economy still mainly consists of ancient bartering practices and is heavily dependent upon their yaks and the products they derive from it such as milk, cheese, wool, meat and leather. In recognition of this interdependency, the yak features prominently in many of the nomadic festivals and celebrations.
Chorten Kora Festival (February 2014)
This festival is set in Trashiyangtse, the eastern most district in Bhutan. The festival is known as Dakpa Kora and is held on the 15th day of the 3rd month
corresponding to 28th February and Drukpa Kora (circumbulation by the Bhutanese) is held on the 30th day corresponding to 15th March every year.
According to legend a young girl from Tawang, believed to have been a Khando (Dakini) agreed to be buried alive inside the Chorten. For this reason a ritual known as
Dakpa Kora is organized every year where hundreds of people from Arunachal Pradesh known as the Dakpas make it to Chorten Kora to circumambulate.
In Bhutan, hot springs are known as Tshachus and are found all over the Kingdom. The medicinal properties of these hot springs have been used by the Bhutanese people for centuries to cure various ailments ranging from arthritis to body aches and even sinuses. It is a popular tradition among Bhutanese to visit hot springs during the winter months.
http://www.tourism.gov.bt/activities/hot-spring-therapy
Tourism Council of Bhutan, India Representative Office
C/o Charson Advisory Services Pvt. Ltd.
1104 Arcadia, 11th Floor, NCPA Marg, Nariman Point, Mumbai 400021 – India
Tel: 91 (22) 65172273; Fax: 91 (22) 22828835; Email: exec.office@charsonadvisory.com Tourism Council of Bhutan
Tarayana Centre, Chubachu, Thimphu, Bhutan
Tel: 975 2 323251/2 ; Email: info@tourism.gov.bt; Web: www.tourism.gov.bt
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Flavia de Luce is a precocious eleven-year-old sleuth and chemist with a passion for poisons in 1950s rural England. In A Red Herring Without Mustard, Alan Bradley’s third novel in the series, Flavia de Luce has to investigate the murder of an old Gypsy woman who is possibly tied to an earlier child abduction.
Pedaling Gladys, her faithful bicycle, across the countryside in search of clues to both crimes, Flavia uncovers some odd new twists.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, the first Flavia de Luce mystery, received the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award, the Dilys Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, and the Agatha Award, and was nominated for the Macavity, the Anthony, and the Barry awards.
Raves about the Flavia de Luce series:
“Flavia is incisive, cutting and hilarious . . . one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.”—USA Today
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12, Bunina Street. Building of Joint-Stock Company of Odessa private pawnshop
A huge monumental structure, built in 1905 for Odessa private pawnshop, can be called one of the most striking constructions in Odessa citing Italian Renaissance. An architect Vikentiy Ivanovich Prohaska, raising largely exquisite apartment buildings and mansions, however, coped perfectly with an unconventional challenge— the design of the building of administrative and public function.
Type of building: administrative
Style: modernized Neo-Renaissance
A. A. Digbi (building, the 1820-s)
A. N. Kolovich (rebuilding, 1851)
V. I. Prohaska (rebuilding, reconstruction, replanning, raising of the second storey, new design of facades and interiors)
Date of construction: 1904—1905
Status: local architectural monument
Second address: 12, Lecha Kaczynskogo Street (former Polskaya Street)
Previous building of the site: house of Sikard, old building of Joint-Stock Company of Odessa private pawnshop
House of Sikard, later the pawnshop, before the rebuilding
Odessa from the first years of its existence was, first of all, a city of trade and usury. Loaning was started in 1800, as, however, and pawn operations, when the city was sent 25,000 rubles at the supreme injunction for construction work that took place in the port. The use of money occurred under the percentage that was usually charged from the total amount taken, and the expense was on parts. If a money lender became aware of the unreliability of the merchant, he could at any time request a refund the amount back. However, the owners of pawnshops did not abuse such right: they valued their reputation, and for a termination of the contract a suspicion of bankruptcy had to be significant.
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At the beginning of the XIX century Committee for the fulfillment of works in the port was formed. The president of Commerce College was actually a prince Gagarin, who later gave permission for the issuance of money in a pledge of valuables and goods. It is known that the first loan was given an Italian whose name did not come up to our days, but following loans were issued Odessa businessmen of that time: bills, showing the issuance of a number of loans for 1000 rubles in a pledge of 1000 pounds of fuel sulfur several loans of 1000 rubles and 500 rubles in a pledge of 80 and 40 pounds of wax, oil drums, fur goods, houses were preserved in the archives. For paying majority of debts deferments were widely practiced.
Life in debt, it can be said, was perhaps the custom, quite well-known people took loans as well. Among them there are two obligations from December 17, 1800 from Felix Deribas, who took 1,000 rubles in a pledge of silver jewels, and his wife, Octavia, taken 1,200 rubles in a pledge of ladies' powder set, a large silver tub, two trays, spoons and more.
At the end of 1886 in Odessa the first private pawnshop was opened (chairman and manager— V. Kirchner), it was not even partially owned by the state, and had a capital of 500 thousand rubles. Later, with the growth of the firm prosperity, the capital was increased to 700,000. Being a very respectable office, the pawnshop had as many as seven offices throughout the city, the most important of which was located on 12, Policeiskaya Street, in a large two-storey house of Sicard, probably erected as early as the 1820's (architect A. Digbi). Originally, this house was built as a grain warehouse («magazeyn») with habitable rooms, in 1851, the building was subjected to reconstruction (architect — A. N. Kolovich) significantly modified its look and layout. Since its foundation, the pawnshop rented this house, and in 1891 finally bought it.
Advertisement of Joint-Stock Company of Odessa private pawnshop
As already mentioned, the pawnshop departments were scattered throughout the city. In addition to the head office of the pawnshop situated on Policeiskaya Street, there were seven more of its branches, four of them — of general purpose (in 26, Tiraspolskaya Street, 62, Richelievskaya Street, 16, Preobrazhenskaya Street, 44, Stepovaya Street,) and three specialized ones— on 22, Uspenskaya with large warehouses for furniture storage; on 29, Mikhailovskaya Street, where it was possible to pawn a car, a carriage, a bicycle, a foot sewing machine and other bulky items, and on 14,Deribasovskaya Street, they took as a pledge gold, silver, precious stones and watches, and, right up to nine pm, as a person could always urgently need money. A loan is usually issued for a period of up to three months, after which one could still ask for a two-month delay its return, but then all unredeemed things, were sold by auction at the main office of the pawnshop on certain days of the week: jewelry — Mondays, furniture — Wednesdays, fur and clothing — Thursdays, bicycles — on Fridays. Besides, the pawnshop without issuing a loan, but for a certain fee, took different things in storage for one year, and some housewives preferred to leave fur coats and other expensive furs for the summer without any risk of damage by the moth, which was quite possibly in the home conditions. Very thrifty or staying in reduced circumstances citizens, before moving to the country even refused from the apartment and the furniture and other property gave to the pawnshop, where it was safely stored until the autumn return of their hosts in the city and rent them new or old accommodation.
By the end of the XIX century, the firm started to experience a strong lack of storage space for unredeemed and stored property, among which, of course, there were many very bulky items that required a large exhibition space. Besides, for implementation of auctions and bank operations required specially equipped rooms. The old building on Policeiskaya Street no longer met the needs of the company in the first place owing to the lack of space. In 1904, a construction work on the «adaptation» of the house to the needs of the pawnshop started. The project was made by a well-known by that time architect V. I. Prohaska, who, beginning with the reconstruction of the original building, raised in fact a new one.
Pawnshop building before the end of construction works, still without a wing on Polskaya Street
By 1905, all construction work had been completed, but an interior finishing still took a while. At the corner of Policeiskaya (Bunina) Street and the Polskaya Street a magnificent building arose, the style of which was made in the best traditions of the Italian Renaissance with some elements borrowed from Art Nouveau. The new building of the pawnshop was carrying out in two stages: firstly a wing on Policeiskaya Street was raised, as evidenced by the photo of the end of 1904, and the following year a wing on Polskaya Street appeared. In fact, the previous building was entered in the volume of currently existing one, the first and second storeys kept the shape of windows and the width of piers. A passage arch location to the courtyard also had no changes. The third storey and a mezzanine were already overbuilt by Prohaska. The second floor housed the auction and operating rooms, and from Policeiskaya Street side, on the first floor, extensive areas for the storage of the pawnshop clients’ property were equipped.
Photograph of the building of the Soviet times
The building is located on a corner site and is L-shaped in plan. The wing on Policeiskaya Street is more extensive than the wing on Polskaya Street (17 to 13 window axes, respectively), and occupies most of the block. A large scale structure is emphasizes not only by chiaroscuro of large forms with refined profiles and moldings, but by a general proportional order as well.
An extreme window axis, adjacent to the neighboring hotel «Bristol», is singled out by a massive risalit. The corner part of the building is accentuated by wide risalit of three window axes on every street side.
Risalits
Having met, they form a volume similar to the square in plan tower. Similarly the corner part of a later house Von-Desh at the corner of Gogolya Street and Sabaneyev bridge is accentuated. «The Tower» and the extreme risalit have a mezzanine, through which the level of the roof here is much higher. Between risalits on Policeiskaya Street rhythmic series of identically decorated third-storey windows stretch. The composition formed by the decoration details of each of them is remarkable for harmony and well found proportions. Under the window there is a balustrade, serving as a basis for two pilasters with Corinthian capitals, flanking window openings and supporting a triangular fascia. Each pilaster is decorated with moulded wreath of a modernized style at the base. A window of the third storey in the risalit, that adjacent to the neighboring hotel, is decorated in a similar manner.
Decoration of the second floor windows
Decoration of one of the windows in the courtyard of Doges Palace in Venice — the most likely source of inspiration for the architect V.I. Prohaska.
At the level of the first and second storeys risalits have a trapezoidal shape, with a pronounced inclination of the edges, and at the third storey level the edges are perpendicular to the horizon line. Such a move significantly strengthened the monumentality of the building and weighted its lower part, in contrast to which the upper looks much lighter and refined. The central part of the facade plane on Policeiskaya Street is marked by another risalit, less deep, but having the same shape as the others. Its width is two window axes, on the second floor there is a balcony with a stone balustrade, and on the ground — two-column portal in the vein of classicism.
Central risalit on Bunina Street
Another portal is closer to Polskaya Street. Compared with the previous one, it is put forward much further as regards the plane of the facade and is treated as a small porch. Here there is an entrance to the staircase, and from the ground floor landing a passageway into the courtyard is made.
Portico of the main entrance
The corner part of the building is decorated with the greatest magnificence. A second-floor window is flanked by pilasters, and a massive fascia, the central, is based on two columns that, like the pilasters, are crowned with Corinthian capitals. From the side of each street there are balconies with balustrades. Balconies of the corner part and the central risalit on Policeiskaya Street are supported by large consoles made in Art Nouveau style. Over extreme windows of the corner risalit from Polskaya Street side there are preserved dates of the pawnshop foundation and the building construction (1886, 1905 respectively). Over similar windows from Policeiskaya Street side, originally an inscription: «Odessa pawnshop» was placed, eventually destroyed. A strip of meander, framing windows from Policeiskaya Street side as well, is stretched along the piers of the corner part.
The similar meander adorns under windows cornices of the first floor. On the corner part of the building there is a marble advertising plate of the architect: «Built by architect. V. I. Prohaska. 1905». A similar one can be seen on the facade of Prokudin’s house.
Decoration of the corner part of the building
Gap for the flag holder
Rustic stone of the corner
Advertising plate of the architect
The facade from Polskaya Street side is compositionally different. For example, second-floor windows are grouped in threes and the central one is devoid of any kind of framing.
Console (from Lecha Kaczynskogo Street)
A semicircular passage arch is enclosed in the volume of trapezoid portal of two-storey height.
Building facades are processed with rustic stone that on the ground and first floors is rather deep and expressive, and on the second — conditional.
Finishing of the ground and first floors
The facade plane of the second floor is separated from the two lower floors by a cornice. Much more massive cornice crowns the building itself and rests upon large dentils traditional for Prohaska.
Dentil
Between them (outside risalits) there are small gaps, designed to illuminate the garret. Mezzanine windows are much larger and decorated by Art Nouveau wreaths.
Mezzanine windows
The facade from Polskaya Street has three storeys, and from Policeiskaya Street goes from three to two that is associated with the descent of the street in the direction of Karantinnaya gully. Hence, to identify number of storeys is quite difficult.
The pawnshop had safely existed within the walls of the building until the revolution, in Soviet times the building housed a clothing factory named after Vorovskiy, which subsequently moved into a new building on Ilfa and Petrova Street. However, much of the interior decoration was irretrievably lost. The staircase (entrance from Policeiskaya Street) has preserved the original railings of unique pattern, which, however, similar to the gate of a merchant Blizhenskiy’s house (authorship of V.I. Prohaska as well). Walls of the staircase are completely devoid of decoration, but on the second floor it can be seen conditional arcades from shallow arch niches. Entrances to operating and auction rooms, which interiors have not been spared by time and lodgers, are located here as well.
Through the passage arch (not used now) and the passage from the landing of the ground floor one can get into the courtyard of the building. The rear facade is decorated modestly, but the second-floor windows as windows of the exterior facade, have a semicircular shape in order to comply with the symmetry of the halls with two-sided lighting.
Courtyard facade
The concisely decorated passage arch is probably remained untouched during the rebuilding of the old building; the details of the house view can be read on the front facades.
Passage arch
In general, despite the highly dilapidated state (with the loss of major details of the decor), the facades of the building survived to the present day in virtually unchanged shape. The building of Joint-Stock Company of Odessa private pawnshop can be called one of the key in early works of V. I. Prochaska, equally with houses of Ksid and Blizhenskiy. These exquisite building, undoubtedly, have one thing in common — a masterly mix of Renaissance and Art Nouveau, which became, later, a real «calling card» of the architect and a detail of his unique style.
References and Archives
«Architects of Odessa». V. Pilyavsky
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Home • Faculty & Research • Faculty Directory • Francis E. Warnock
Francis E. Warnock
James C. Wheat, Jr. Professor of Business Administration
FOB 298 D
Global Economies and Markets
International Finance, International Portfolio Allocation, Capital Flows, Financial Sector Development
BiographyPublicationsCoursesCase Studies
Education: B.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Francis E. Warnock, the James C. Wheat, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, teaches core GEM, Global Financial Markets and, along with Veronica Cacdac Warnock, Transforming Societies.
Warnock is an expert on international capital flows, international portfolio allocation and financial sector development. His work has been featured in the Financial Times, the Economist, Barron's, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and his publications have appeared in a number of journals, including the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Housing Economics and Financial Analysts Journal.
Before coming to Darden in 2004, Warnock was a senior economist in the international finance division at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System while also teaching at Georgetown University. Warnock's international experience includes, among other things, two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi's Thyolo District. His professional career started on Wall Street, where he was a commodity trading advisor.
Warnock is research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge. He consults regularly at the European Central Bank and the Bank for International Settlements Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific. In the recent past, he has been a research fellow at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Council for Foreign Relations; co-led a multi-team Inter-American Development Bank project on housing finance systems in Latin America; and been a consultant to the IMF and to the World Bank on its GEMLOC emerging bond markets project.
Current Working Papers
Ahmed, S., S. Curcuru, F. Warnock, and A. Zlate, 2017. Decomposing International Capital Flows.
Holland, S., S. Sarkissian, M. Schill, and F. Warnock, 2017. Global Equity Investment.
International Capital Flows/Portfolio Allocation
Burger, J., F. Warnock and V. Warnock, 2018. Currency Matters: Analyzing International Bond Portfolios. Journal of International Economics 114: 376-388.
Burger, J., F. Warnock and V. Warnock, 2018. Benchmarking Portfolio Flows. IMF Economic Review 66(3): 527-563.
Burger, J., R. Sengupta, F. Warnock and V. Warnock. "U.S. Investment in Global Bonds: As the Fed Pushes, Some EMEs Pull," Economic Policy, Vol. 84 (2015).
Burger, J., F. Warnock and V. Warnock. "Emerging Local Currency Bond Markets," Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 68, No. 4 (2012): p. 73-93.
Forbes, K. and F. Warnock."Capital Flow Waves: Surges, Stops, Flight and Retrenchment," Journal of International Economics, Vol. 88, No. 2 (2012): p. 235-251.
Ammer, J., S. Holland, D. Smith, and F. Warnock. "U.S. Equity Investment," Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 50, No. 5 (2012): p. 1109-1139.
Curcuru, Stephanie E., Charles P. Thomas, Francis E. Warnock, and J. Wongswan. "U.S. International Equity Investment and Past and Prospective Returns." American Economic Review 101, No. 7 (December 2011): p. 3440-3455.
Rothenberg, A. and Francis E. Warnock. "Sudden Flight and True Sudden Stops." Review of International Economics 19, No. 3 (August 2011): p. 509-524.
Francis E. Warnock and Veronica Warnock. "International Capital Flows and U.S. Interest Rates," Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 28, No.6, October 2009, 903-919.
Bong-Chan. Kho, Rene. Stulz, and Francis E. Warnock. "Financial Globalization, Governance, and the Evolution of the Home Bias, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 47, No. 2, May 2009, 597-635.
Christian Leuz, Karl V. Lins, Francis E. Warnock. "Do Foreigners Invest Less in Poorly Governed Firms?," Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 8, August 2009, 3245-3285.
Hali Edison and Francis E. Warnock. "Cross-Border Listings, Capital Controls, and Equity Flows to Emerging Markets," Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 27, No. 6, October 2008, 1013-1027.
Ahearne, Alan, William Griever, and Francis E. Warnock, 2004, Information Costs and Home Bias: An Analysis of U.S. Holdings of Foreign Equities, Journal of International Economics 62: 313-336.
Edison, Hali, and Francis E. Warnock, 2004, U.S. Investors' Emerging Market Equity Portfolios: A Security-Level Analysis, Review of Economics and Statistics 86: 691 - 704.
Edison, Hali, and Francis E. Warnock, 2003, A Simple Measure of the Intensity of Capital Controls, Journal of Empirical Finance 10(1/2): 81-103.
Returns Differentials
Stephanie E. Curcuru, Tomas Dvorak, and Francis E. Warnock. "Cross-Border Returns Differentials," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 123, No. 4, November 2008, 1495-1530.
Curcuru, S., C. Thomas and Francis E. Warnock. "On Returns Differentials," Journal of International Money and Finance, 36: 1-25 (lead article).
Stephanie E. Curcuru, Tomas Dvorak, and Francis E. Warnock. "Decomposing the U.S. External Returns Differential," Journal of International Economics, January 2010, Vol. 80, No. 1, 22-32.
Housing Finance and Bond Market Development
Warnock, Veronica and Francis E. Warnock. "Developing Housing Finance Systems," in Property Markets and Financial Stability, eds. Alexandra Heath, Frank Packer, and Callan Windsor. Pgs. 49-67. Reserve Bank of Australia and BIS. 2012.
Veronica Warnock and Francis E. Warnock. "Markets and Housing Finance," Journal of Housing Economics, Vol. 17, No. 3, September 2008, 239-251.
John Burger, Francis E. Warnock, and Veronica Warnock. "Ingredients of a Well-Functioning Capital Market, Korea's Economy, Volume 24, 2008, 31-38.
Burger, John D., and Francis E. Warnock, 2006, Local Currency Bond Markets, IMF Staff Papers 53: 115-132.
Advanced Global Financial Markets
Second Year Elective: Transforming Societies
Advancing knowledge through research that shapes business, Darden professors are recognized thought leaders in their fields. They are not only master case method teachers, they also author many of the cases used in Darden classrooms and around the world.
Francis E. Warnock's cases are available in the Darden Business Publishing website.
For the Transforming Societies course
Warnock, Veronica Cacdac, and Francis E. Warnock, 2015. BPI Globe BanKO and Financial Inclusion in the Philippines (UVA-GEM-0137).
Warnock, Veronica Cacdac, and Francis E. Warnock, 2018. Lifting Filipinos Out of Poverty: An NGO MFI Approach (UVA-GEM-0148).
Warnock, Veronica Cacdac, and Francis E. Warnock, 2018. Background Note on the Philippines and Financial Inclusion (UVA-GEM-0149).
For the Global Financial Markets course
Long-term interest rates
Warnock, Francis E., 2018. Powell's Perilous Situation (UVA-GEM-0156)
Warnock, Francis E., 2006. The Determinants of Interest Rates (UVA-BP-0489).
Warnock, Francis E., 2011. Yield Curve and Growth Forecasts (UVA-GEM-0106, UVA-GEM-0106TN)
Warnock, Francis E., 2013. Draghi's Commitment (UVA-GEM-0113, UVA-GEM-0113TN)
Warnock, Francis E., 2008. Exchange Rate Models (UVA-BP-0496)
Fand, Jeremy, and Francis E. Warnock, 2014. Prospective capital flows and currency movements: Euro versus Canadian dollar (UVA-GEM-0124).
Global Asset Allocation
Warnock, Francis E., and Marc Chandler, 2011, revised summer 2015. Global Asset Allocation: Whither the U.S. Dollar? (UVA-F-1591, UVA-F-1591TN)
Warnock, Francis E., and Liz Wurster, 2015. Global Asset Allocation: Investing in a Time of Debt, Deficits, and Quantitative Easing (UVA-F-1738, UVA-F-1738TN)
Warnock, Francis E., 2011. Global Asset Allocation: All That Glitters? (UVA-F-1646, UVA-F-1646TN)
Warnock, Francis E., 2011. Global Asset Allocation: Crude Calculations (UVA-F-1647, UVA-F-1647TN)
For the Core GEM course
Warnock, Francis E., 2018. A User's Guide to the BOP and IIP (UVA-GEM-0154)
Warnock, Francis E., 2015. The Eurozone at 15: A Monetary Union without Growth? (UVA-GEM-0136)
Warnock, Francis E., 2008. Inflation Targeting in South Africa (UVA-BP-0507, UVA-BP-0507TN)
Warnock, Francis E., 2011. Currency Crises in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong (UVA-GEM-0108, UVA-GEM-0108TN)
International Portfolio Allocation
Financial Sector Development
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Telecom Egypt signs MoU with European vendor for 5G use-cases
Written on Monday, 04 March 2019 07:58
Telecom Egypt announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nokia to introduce 5G network and test use cases This announcement took place during the GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. The MoU has been signed by Adel Hamed, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Telecom Egypt, and Amr K. El Leithy, head of the Middle East and Africa market, Nokia, in the presence of a number of dignitaries from the two companies.
Under this MoU, collaboration between the two sides will focus on 5G deployment as well as the evaluation of appropriate use cases of the 5G technology in the Egyptian market. As a matter of fact, this MoU represents a turning point for Telecom Egypt towards its digital transformation strategy, particularly because the company has already a set of state-of-the-art 5G-ready solutions and services from Nokia.
Adel Hamed, Managing Director & CEO of Telecom Egypt, said: “We are delighted to sign this MoU with our strategic partner Nokia which paves the way for the development of 5G use cases in Egypt. This MoU marks a new chapter of the partnership between the two companies as it will allow our company to support the realization of the digital transformation strategy in Egypt.
We are confident that Nokia with its global expertise will help us maintaining our leading position in providing the best and latest technological solutions to our customers. This is also an ideal opportunity for us to put a strategic roadmap to develop our network capabilities and make sure of its readiness to deploy 5G technologies.
Amr K. El Leithy, head of the Middle East & Africa market at Nokia, said: “This MoU is part of the long-term strategic partnership between the two companies. Nokia, as one of the global leading providers of network and communications technology, is keen to provide the latest communications technologies to the Egyptian market.
We are committed to innovating new and exciting 5G solutions to meet the business objectives of our operator customers. 5G solutions will allow Telecom Egypt to proactively address the increasing data traffic, create new revenue streams as well as continue working on the improvement of customer experience".
Nokia and Telecom Egypt are working together to deploy 5G network with Nokia’s end-to-end 5G solutions that provides ultra-fast connectivity with ultra-low latency. This will allow the operator to flexibly support various use case scenarios and many business models in addition to connecting billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to enable smart cities and improve the quality of life for citizens.
Published in Telecom Operators
Spanish operators set to use Huawei and ZTE in 5G pilots despite security concerns
Embattled Chinese telecommunication vendors Huawei and ZTE have received a welcome reprieve following the news that two Spanish operators are planning on using them for forthcoming 5G pilots.
AT&T set to expand 5G trials to three other US cities by the end of 2017
Written on Monday, 04 September 2017 13:34
US telecommunications incumbent AT&T has announced that it will expand its 5G trials to three additional US cities by the end of the year. The operator has already adopted an aggressive approach to developing the next-generation technology - but its latest statement is indicative of its desire to ramp up operations in its attempts to be in a position to deploy 5G technology by the end of 2018.
In a statement released to the press, the US telecommunications colossus said it would conduct fixed wireless 5G trials in Waco, Texas, Kalamazoo, Michigan and South Bend, Indiana in latter half of this year. It made the announcement following the successful launch of its fixed wireless trial in Austin, Texas with a host of local businesses.
AT&T has claimed that it has garnered a lot of useful information and gained new insights into (mmWave) performance and propagation since commencing the tests in Austin, and has disclosed seeing speeds of up to 1GBps and latency rates well below 10 milliseconds.
The US operator now aims to user the additional trials in the US cities mentioned above to increase the number of participants and expand the physical footprint for 5G technology. It has been further disclosed that AT&T strategic plan with the next wave of testing is to reach universities, hospitals, restaurants and other small medium enterprises with the next-generation technology.
The trials in the Waco, Michigan and Indiana will be very similar to those conducted in Texas - as participants will be allowed to stream premium live TV via DirecTV Now - as well as gain access to faster broadband services thanks to the 5G connection.
SVP of AT&T’s wireless network architecture, Marachel Knight said moving the testing program away from the lab and into the physical environment is able to convey to them key information and insights into the technology. He said, “Taking our fixed wireless 5G trials out of the lab and into the real world helps us learn important factors about mmWave and 5G.
In addition to these tests, AT&T is collaboration with Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia and Intel on other 5G-related projects. A representative of AT&T said it would continue to invest aggressively in equipment - spectrum and technology, which will lay the foundation for 5G, standards for 5G have still not yet been finalized.
Despite the uncertainty in relation to the standardization of 5G, AT&T has claimed it is targeting a commercial deployment date of 2018, with the deployment likely to happen closer to the end of the year.
Its major competitor Verizon is also aiming for a 2018 launch, and is currently conducting pre-commercial trials for fixed wireless 5G in 11 cities.
ZTE and Samsung’s investment in 5G infrastructure threatens traditional network trio
Written on Sunday, 27 August 2017 10:00
South Korean multinational conglomerate Samsung and Chinese vendor ZTE have both adopted aggressive strategies in relation to investment for 5G infrastructure – and many analysts are predicting that this approach will both disrupt and threaten the traditional trio of networks players which include Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei.
ZTE has focused largely on the development of 5G specifications in the last twelve months, which is much more than any of it previous forays in relation to mobile technology. The Chinese telecommunications equipment and systems colossus has doubled its R&D spending on 5G in 2016 to $400m – and has assigned 1,600 employees to work on the technology at four dedicated research facilities located in China, the US and Europe.
Director of Wireless Standardization, Wang Xinhui has claimed that ZTE’s inactivity with 2G, 3G and 4G was down to the fact that it lacked maturity, and declared it was now much better equipped for the forthcoming era of 5G. At a 5G Summit in Tokyo in May, he told Mobile World Live: “In the past we were simply less mature. With 2G and 3G, and even with 4G, we weren’t that big. But in the era of 5G, we were well prepared. We’ve spent a huge amount of money and devoted so much human resources, particularly towards the New Radio specifications.”
Chief analyst at Global Data Technology, Peter Jarich said it made perfect sense for an entity like ZTE to attempt to penetrate the 5G market, as the technology will require new expertise and infrastructure. He feels it’s a natural and logical progression from ZTE to invest heavily in 5G, as they recognize it as a phenomenal opportunity.
South Korean smartphone giants Samsung have also adopted a similar approach, and have been working on 5G since 2012, when it started its first mmWave research and development. It has previously stated that it firmly believes that strong 5G infrastructure will help ensure Samsung executes its mission which is to ‘connect everything’.
Samsung has boldly set its sights on becoming a top-three player in the 5G infrastructure market, and it has estimated that network equipment sales will treble to $8.6 billion in 2022. It has been disclosed that Samsung, which is the world’s largest smartphone maker plans to accumulate market share by moving swiftly and targeting the US market.
The reason behind its strategic targeting of the US market is that its Asian competitors such as Huawei and ZTE may face a ban on selling networking gear due to security concerns which have been raised by the government. In May, Samsung publicly announced that it had conducted the world’s first field trial of a multi-vendor, pre-standard 5G network with US telecommunications firm Verizon. In addition to this, more recently Samsung and UK communications firm Arqiva announced it had conducted the first field trial of 5G Fixed Wireless Access Technology in Europe that went live in Central London.
VP of next-generation business and products at Samsung Networks, Woojune Kim, has expressed his confidence they can become a top tier network player in 5G, citing the fact that its Finnish and Swedish competitors are currently struggling. This stark assessment of its rivals was evidenced by the CEO of Nokia, Rajeev Suri conceded that the fact 5G was accelerating much faster than originally expected, would almost inevitable create some near term risks for his company, with the timing and completion of certain projects now uncertain.
CBTC uses high-resolution location determination and high-capacity data communications – such as those enabled by LTE networks – to support automatic train protection, operation and supervision functions. With more accurate information about the exact positions of trains, operators can manage traffic in a more efficient and safe manner. CBTC systems are more reliable than older train control systems, require less wayside equipment, have built-in redundancy features, and enable operators to make optimal use of tracks and trains by responding to demand more swiftly and efficiently.
In the CBTC tests, the LTE networks achieved uplink and downlink latencies far below the threshold of 100 milliseconds and packet losses approaching zero (anything less than 0.5% was considered a pass mark). Quality of Service capabilities built into Ericsson’s equipment also allowed for the preemption and prioritization of mission-critical railway services.
Charlotta Sund, head of Customer Group Industry & Society at Ericsson, says: “The results of the tests performed to date are very promising and we will continue to test a variety of modems to ensure we can provide robust LTE networks for rail applications. We aim to develop solutions that ensure enhanced rail safety through communications-based train control and CCTV, as well as enhanced entertainment for passengers through services such as voice, platform information, advertising and Wi-Fi.”
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Collection: Away from Keyboard: Aaron H. Swartz
Aaron H. Swartz (November 8, 1986 ? January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, writer, archivist, political organizer, and Internet activist. Swartz co-authored the "RSS 1.0" specification of RSS, and built the Web site framework web.py and the architecture for the Open Library.
Swartz also focused on sociology, civic awareness and activism. In 2010 he was a member of the Harvard University Center for Ethics. He cofounded the online group Demand Progress (which recently voiced its support for Richard O'Dwyer) and later worked with US and international activist groups Rootstrikers and Avaaz.
Benefits, holidays, come on out!: Folks, hope you are all well and ready for the holidays. Since my last update, I've been working hard on an album that will be finished this winter and out next year. For a peek into the process, you can check out the fall/winter edition of Columbia Magazine where author Paul Hond did an in depth piece on the recording process.
I'm honored to be playing two fundraisers in December, first the 4th Annual Downtown Elves benefit this Sunday at 11th Street Bar, details here.
On December 11th, I'm joining many musicians at The Rock Shop in support of Mark Spencer, a friend I've made music with since 2004, both on the road and in the studio. Mark and I have spent a good bit of time this year working on my new album both in Nashville and here in NY working at his Tape Kitchen studio. Both Mark's home and studio were severely damaged during Hurricane Sandy and will take several months to recover. Proceeds of the show will go to the restoration and Mark will be onstage with myself, Jimmy Ryan, Amy Allison, and several others confirming that several feet of water from the Gowanus hasn't kept him down! All details here. See you there!
Farewell to the Queen:
A remembrance of Kitty Wells I wrote for www.TheDailyBeast.com here.
An interview with The Daily Beast with short performance here.
As I digest the news of Kitty Wells' passing this week, a lot of folks have been in touch with remembrances of her music and accomplishments. Kitty's place in the industry can't be understated: her commercial success proved that female country music artists could be as successful as their male counterparts, a fact we take for granted today but was far from certain in her time. Her songs proved that country music made from an explicitly female point of view would resonate with all listeners. Personally the thing that always grabbed me was her voice, high and plaintive, something ancient and visceral but well suited to cut through the hard edges of 1950s honky tonk. And I've tried to emulate how she sang it straight, put the heart in her songs, and made really affecting music without a lot of extra drama or frills.
The times I met her, Kitty was delightfully no nonsense and unassuming but also poised and slightly opaque. She had been called the "Queen of Country Music" for decades, and she could carry that title with an easy grace, though her realm seemed an older world where music business was done between individuals and independent operators, venues were modest, the fans were paramount, the bus got parked in the driveway, and having a cook book to sell on the merch table was a good thing. I remember loving her speech accepting the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991, she was so modest and sweet, saying that the Grammy's were acknowledging something she "loved to do: to sing and perform" as if all that breaking down of gender bias against female artists was just a footnote. To paraphrase Cliffie Stone, the great LA based country music impresario, maybe she and Johnnie Wright weren't trying to make history, just a living. Whatever their intent, I'm glad that Nashville girl and her Tennessee Mountain Boy made all that music, and I am honored that I got to share a couple of musical moments with them, right at the end of their time together.
Radio Free Song Club: Things are still cooking at the
Radio Free Song Club's monthly podcasts featuring new songs from myself and Freedy Johnston, Peter Holsapple, Victoria Williams, and founder Kate Jacobs. Bandleader Dave Schramm has been joined in recent shows by the amazing David Mansfield, and the proceedings are ably hosted by Nicholas Hill who's introduced outstanding guest performers such as Beth Orton and Robin Holcomb. Check out my page here! Expect new "song casts" on a monthly basis!
Remembering Vic Chesnutt: Folks, it is with heavy heart that I pass along the following obituaries of my friend Vic Chesnutt. I met Vic when he was a guest of the Radio Thrift Shop on WFMU in 1995, and over the years I was always amazed at his humor, grace and the power of his music. The first obituary was written by Rene Spencer Saller for Ted Barron's blog Boogie Woogie Flu. It references two songs Vic performed live on the Radio Thrift Shop in 1995, when Nicholas Hill and I were broadcasting live from the Musuem of Television and Radio. I believe Vic appeared that day with his wife, Tina, Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico, and Alex McManus of Lambchop. We had had a tense day, arguing with the museum over moving some furniture to allow Vic's wheelchair passage through to our broadcast studio. In the end, Vic prevailed and I remember, after all the hustle of getting a remote broadcast on the air, settling into the wonder of Vic's performance. Read on about Vic and his music here and the circumstances of his death here. He will be missed.
20 Years of Merge! Our friends at Merge Records
are celebrating their 20th year. Laura proudly
participated in two anniversary projects:
Score: Twenty Years of Merge Records, The Covers, to which she contributed "Cowboy On The Moon" by fellow Nashvillians Lambchop.She was also included
in an oral history of Merge called Our Noise: The Book. Check it all out at here!
Recently on the web: Folks, I really enjoyed the Million Dollar Quartet show on Broadway and wrote a piece about it for VanityFair.com. Read it here.
Also, some of our 2003 visit to Mountain Stage with the Schramms popped up at this blog, sounds pretty good!
Remembering John Peel: Laura's reminiscences of John Peel are included in the box set Kats Karavan: The History Of John Peel On The Radio. The set is as varied and interesting as John's programs, and contains material from several of artists recalling their Peel sessions.
Laura at Vanity Fair: Read an essay on the Patsy Cline crash site written by Laura for Vanity Fair magazine's blog. Find it here!
Real Live Dolly!: Laura contributed a testimonial to the booklet for Dolly Parton: Singer, Songwriter, Legend, Icon a new, career-spanning box set in
stores now.
Patsy vs. Kitty: Check out Laura's contribution to the book, Rock And Roll Cage Match, Music's Greatest Rivalries Decided. Laura details her fascination with Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline, telling how, in her eyes, there can be only one "Queen of Country Music." You can buy it here!
Fit for a Queen: Thanks to everyone who came to see Laura's tribute to Kitty Wells at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. What a special treat to get asked at the last minute to play some of Wells' songs on the Grand Ole Opry's new Country Classics Thursday night broadcast. In case you missed, check out here!
Lucinda Speaks! Lucinda Williams describes how hearing Laura's cover of "Letters" on "Humming By The Flowered Vine" influenced the song choices on her new album, "Little Honey." Read it here!
Check out Laura's interpretation of the NYC subway map, featuring streaming audio of her entire 2005 album "Humming by the Flowered Vine."
Laura's acoustic version of the New Order song "Love Vigilantes" is included on the soundtrack of the film, "Body of War," a profile of Iraq veteran Tomas Young. The soundtrack is available now from Sire Records, and also features tracks by Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, and others.
Elvis & Laura on TV!: Elvis Costello and Laura harmonize on the old James Taylor/George Jones duet "Bartender's Blues" on the fourth episode of Costello's new Spectacle show on the Sundance channel. In case you missed it, check it out here!
Check out the reviews and previews of Laura's recent East Coast tour in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Philadelphia City Paper and New Haven Advocate, read her rant on her musical heroines at the record collector blog Boogie Woogie Flu and hear her recent appearance on WNYC public radio.
Don't Get Lost! This week's episode of Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (entitled "Don't Get Lost") opened with Laura's recording of "14th Street" from "Humming By The Flowered Vine." WOW, the third song of Laura's to be played on Theme Time Radio Hour, we are not worthy! The program airs again on the SIRIUS XM Deep Tracks channel (SIRIUS 16, XM 40) Sunday at 8 am and Monday at 8 am ET.
July 2012 - Heading South: Folks, I hope your summer is off to a good start and you're enjoying the heat wherever you are. I'm personally looking forward to spending some time down South where I'll be appearing at the very cool Music City Roots concert series and live radio broadcast on Wednesday, July 11. The show will feature artists such as Kim Richey and Bill Lloyd and will be hosted by Jim Lauderdale. Gonna be a lot of fun. Later that week we'll be headed to St. Louis for a house concert courtesy of the series Wood House Concerts. Info on either show is available here!.
If you're bored of Facebook, check the cool photos from our February residency at Hill Country BBQ at Jasper Coolidge's photo blog Gimme Shutter and a preview and review from Neville Elder's blog at No Depression, and a nice mention in The Nation here.
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COE Receives Boeing’s “Supplier of the Year” Award
PHOTO COURTESY OF BOEING CO
The College of Engineering was recently presented with Boeing’s “Supplier of the Year” award for providing exceptional performance and contributions to Boeing’s overall success. The COE, along with 16 companies, received the award during a ceremony held at the San Diego Convention Center.
The selection of the COE was on the basis of a longstanding relationship that included a consistently superior pipeline of talent, many successful collaborative projects, and partnership on research and development efforts. “These partners have gone above and beyond the call to help Boeing provide the best, most affordable products and services possible,” said Jack House, leader of Boeing Supplier Management.
Group photo – PHOTO COURTESY OF BOEING CO.
The COE was honored in the category of “Academia” for its outstanding performance as a strategic university. “This award is a wonderful validation of our efforts to support regional socioeconomic development and to partner with Southern California business and industry,” says Forouzan Golshani, dean of the College of Engineering. “Our long and multifaceted relationship with Boeing has included numerous research and development projects, educational initiatives, student scholarships and support, and the Boeing Endowed Chair in Manufacturing—not to mention the fact that more than a few of their engineers have come from our program.”
At the Boeing Supplier of the Year Award ceremony were (l-r) Jack House, Boeing enterprise leader, Supplier Management; John Tracy, Boeing senior vice president and chief technology officer; Paul Pasquier, Boeing Engineering, Operations and Technology vice president, Supplier Management; CSULB Dean for the College of Engineering Forouzan Golshani; CSULB Associate Dean for the College of Engineering Hamid Rahai; Stan Deal, Boeing Commercial Airplanes vice president, Supply Chain Management; Joan Robinson-Berry, Boeing Shared Services Group vice president, Supplier Management; and Kent Fisher, Boeing Commercial Airplanes vice president, Supplier Management.
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TOP 10 Superstar Footballers Involved in Dirty Controversies
After Cristiano Ronaldo’s Alleged **** Accusations, Here Are Some Superstar Footballers Involved in Dirty Controversies – From Wayne Rooney to John Terry
After Ronaldo's **** Allegations, Here Are Controversies These Star Footballers Would Want to Forget
Cristiano Ronaldo was accused of **** by an American woman, who alleged that he ****d her, threatened her and bought her silence in 2009, these claims were published by German magazine Der Spiegel and it was denied and called “blatantly illegal” by the Portuguese international and Juventus football Club striker. Ronaldo and his team of lawyers have now decided to sue the media outlet for making those claims.
German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that Kathryn Mayorga, 34, was ****d by one of the biggest football stars in the world in Las Vegas in 2009. Later, Ronaldo paid her $375,000 to keep her quiet and never speak about that night. Her lawyer is now questioning the validity of that out-of-court settlement in a civil complaint in Nevada.
The authenticity of the allegations is yet to be established. However, this is not the first time a footballer was involved in a controversy like this. Here are four other controversies that involved some of the biggest football stars:
Wayne Rooney: The former Manchester United and England legend Wayne Rooney faced allegations of infidelities pertaining to claims that he physically engaged with a ********** while his wife, Coleen was pregnant.
In 2004, The England international publicly spoke of his “regret” of visiting massage parlors and **********s as a teenager, claiming that he was young and immature and that those incidents took place before he was married to his now wife, Coleen.
Adam Jhonson: In 2015, the former Sunderland and England international was sentenced for pedophile after he was arrested and charged with ***ual activity with a 15-year-old girl. the footballer was jailed for six years and was told by the judge that he abused a position of trust causing his victim psychological harm. Johnson is still serving is jail-term.
Ryan Giggs: The Manchester United legendGiggs was involved in one of the most disturbing cases when his family members claimed that he is a *** addict and he was involved with two women extra-marital affair including his sister-in-law.
John Terry: The former England and Chelsea captain admitted that he cheated on his wife Toni Pool for more than 8 to 10 times and a teenage girl also revealed that Terry was involved with her in the car park. Terry also had a fling with compatriot footballer, Wayne Bridge’s girlfriend and she was reportedly pregnant with the former Chelsea man.
All these footballers are some big names in the sport and have played for successful clubs, and their national teams but these are surely memories they would want to forget.
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Cartwright signs as lead signatory to Pelosi's amicus brief to SCOTUS
8 May 2013 By Laureen Cummings
Newly elected US Congressman Matt Cartwright, who represents PA District 17, has signed onto an agenda that will forcibly and irrevocably change the meaning of marriage. The instrument of this change is his signature on an amicus, or, “friend of the court,” brief requesting that the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) rule against federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman per the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
Interesting to note is that in his recent teleconference he related that he does not vote in a partisan manner or along party lines and denied being a “Pelosi follower.” This, only two weeks after signing onto an amicus brief with the lead signatory being none other than . . . Nancy Pelosi. That document may be viewed here: 212 Members of Congress File Historic Amicus Brief.
The brief is seeking to have the SCOTUS force a redefinition of marriage upon everyone, with prejudice.
If Nancy Pelosi’s and Matt Cartwright’s radical agenda is successful, all states must comply with a new definition of marriage tyrannically dictated by a majority of justices, whose expertise in such matters shirks the line between Church and State. Congressman Cartwright’s radicalism is evidenced by his and his fellow congressmen’s attempt to have undue influence over a suit to be heard by the SCOTUS over California’s Proposition 8—the meaning of marriage as defined by DOMA is the current law of the land and Prop 8 ultimately relies on that meaning.
Congressman Cartwright, along with prior Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and their fellow Democrats, who are not party to this litigation, have volunteered their opinion to the court via this amicus brief to advocate the alteration of the definition of marriage to include same-sex marriage without prejudice.
Also interesting to note is that this past summer we watched as members of the Democratic National Convention split over whether or not to remove “God” from their platform. Convention chairman Antonio Villaraigosa had to have the attendees vote three times, because he could not decipher the nays from the yeas. Is it any wonder, then, how radicals such as Cartwright and Pelosi seem to want us to have to choose between obedience to God or submission to the State? With this action, they are now planting the seeds of religious persecution by a radical government that is increasingly hostile to those who hold their faith dear. Congressman Cartwright, with his signature, has joined the ranks of his fellow Democrats who believe the State is the only true supreme entity.
In addition to all of this, the people of California have spoken in favor of Prop 8, even overturning previous court rulings by means of a referendum ballot. Apparently, Nancy Pelosi and Matt Cartwright believe they are able to circumvent the will of the people.
Representatives Matt Cartwright and Nancy Pelosi need not look to SCOTUS to redefine marriage. They need only look to their own House members who write divisive tax laws that harm the very constituents they purport to represent, tax laws that are creating a rift not only between gay and straight, rich and poor, but now between Christians and non-Christians, and all due to a divisive tax law that allows Congress to pick winners and losers. When looked at openly, these actions are apparent attempts to divide the electorate—all to fulfill a radical agenda.
Had I been elected to Congress, I would have been fighting to replace the current divisive tax law with one that eliminates both the estate and gift taxes, better known collectively as the “death” tax. That superior taxing scheme is known as the Fair Tax.
I suggest to the LGBT community that rather than fighting to redefine marriage, they should demand Congress scrap the current divisive tax code and implement the Fair Tax.
Here’s hoping that come next election, the people will remember the actions of Congressman Cartwright and Congresswoman Pelosi related above, and look to their higher power when casting their votes, rather than vote the party line, a party line that not only seems to write laws that harm the very constituents they claim to represent, but also rejects God at every turn.
Congressman Cartwright has some big shoes to fill Casey and Cartwright should walk the walk Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act Assessing votes of area congressmen on the Amash-Conyers amendment
Laureen Cummings
2012 Candidate for US Congress
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"People of Europe against the looting of multinationals"
Press Release - Brussels, 9 October 2014
October 11 is a European day of action denouncing the free trade treaties TTIP, TISA and CETA. Opposition is getting stronger every day as more and more sectors become aware of the threats they pose to our lives and our democracy. Hundreds of actions and activities are planned in more than 15 European countries (www.stop- TTIP-ceta-tisa.eu). This will also coincide with the launch of the European Citizens’ Initiative, bringing together hundreds of thousands of signatures to tell the European Commission to put a stop to these treaties (www.cncd.be/stop-TTIP).
"These treaties represent a full-frontal charge from a system that has evidently failed. Free trade deals always mean more deregulation and liberalization which has led us to the political impasse that we see today." Says Myriam Djegham from the D19-20 Alliance.
She added "These treaties give even more power to private and financial interests at the expense of our lives, our working conditions, our environment, our food ... These treaties give more power to those ’too big to fail’ that we claim to want to master."
"The secrecy around the negotiations is now pierced, but we had to fight to make it so. We need to learn about what our governments and the European Commission want to impose on us, and even now continue to try and hide; citizens have the right to know. That is why we are launching the European Citizens’ Initiative ’stop TTIP’ to gather hundreds of thousands of European signatures from citizens who refuse to accept ’business as usual’ and want to defend democracy." Says Michael Cermak from CNCD-11.11.11.
"It is now about getting organised effectively and en masse to defeat the treaties. This is the objective of the European movement that is taking place. Today is thus another step towards the convergence of different parts of the social movements that are countering the policies of free trade and austerity which damage the lives and work of millions of Europeans." Concludes Van Felipe Keirsbilk, Secretary General of the National Confederation of Employees and founding member of the Alter Summit.
Media Invitation - Media Briefing - Festive Rally
D19-20 Alliance - Alter Summit - CNCD-11.11.11
Saturday October 11 - 14.30 at the Tricoterie
Théodore Verhaegen 158, 1060 Brussels
The above three organisations are organizing in Brussels a festive rally to inform citizens of the dangers of the proposed TTIP, TISA and CETA treaties. In addition, many organizations have already called to mobilize around a big day of action on December 19th in Brussels, on the sidelines of the European Council Summit.
"The treaties being negotiated today are attempting to put another brick in the wall that stops us reaching our social rights. Yet these free trade policies and the social dumping that will result have brought neither growth nor employment. In the logic of all against all, the world of work is lost. "Says Angeli Verbena Union Syndicale Solidaire who will speak at the rally.
Mihaela Popescu for SOS Rosia Montana Brussels, also speaking at the meeting, says, "The evidence is overwhelming from the USA, which shows that fracking is too dangerous to be continued! More and more states and counties of the United States prohibit or impose a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing. [...] TTIP and ISDS are closely linked to the issue of hydraulic fracturing. With ISDS, companies could sue States and demand compensation for adopting a ban or moratorium. We must stand together against the multinationals and the laws they want to impose on us. We are the 99%, we must make the rules, and not let the 1% dictate! "
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Recommendation R19980107
Recommendation issued to: Regional Airlines
Recommendation details
Output No:
R19980107
Safety action status:
SUBJECT - REGIONAL AIRLINE AIRCRAFT OPERATING ABOVE MAXIMUM WEIGHTS
INTRODUCTION - REGIONAL AIRLINES SAFETY STUDY
Between October 1995 and July 1997, the Bureau of Air Safety Investigation undertook a study of the safety of Australian regional airlines. The objectives of this study were to:
(a) identify safety deficiencies affecting regional airline operations in Australia; and
(b) identify means of reducing the impact on safety of these deficiencies.
For the purpose of the survey, regional airlines were grouped according to the number of passenger seats fitted to the largest aircraft operated by that airline in January 1997. The groups are defined as follows:
(a) Group 1: 1-9 seats;
(b) Group 2: 10-19 seats; and
(c) Group 3: more than 20 seats.
The study involved analysing data obtained from:
(a) responses to a survey of Australian regional airline employees;
(b) discussions with Australian regional airline employees and managers; and
(c) air safety occurrence reports involving regional airlines over a 10-year period (1986-1995) from the BASI database.
This recommendation addresses one of the safety deficiencies identified as a result of this study.
SAFETY DEFICIENCY
Some regional airline aircraft are flown at weights above their prescribed maximum take-off weight.
FACTUAL INFORMATION
Pilots were asked whether they operated their aircraft at weights above the maximum take-off weight (MTOW). To this question, 85% of pilots answered "never", while 15% replied that on some occasions they did operate above MTOW. Pilots answering that they sometimes operated their aircraft over its prescribed maximum take-off weight were predominantly from Group 1 or Group 2 airlines.
A summary of responses to this question can be found at attachment 1.
When asked to describe a safety incident, flight crews described aircraft operation above MTOW as the second most common incident. In response to the question asking respondents to state what they thought was the greatest safety issue facing regional airlines, two common answers given by flight crews were overloaded aircraft and aircraft with poor or doubtful climb performance. These two issues are different aspects of the same safety problem.
The survey indicated that overloading of aircraft was not isolated to individual acts of wilful behaviour. Anecdotal evidence suggested that overloading can sometimes occur when adverse weather conditions require additional fuel. On those occasions when there is a full passenger load, the addition of extra fuel without offloading passengers or cargo has resulted in maximum weight limits being exceeded.
"Overloading is a recurring problem despite recent Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) initiatives. The problem is mainly with low capacity regular public transport (RPT) aircraft where pilots, although instructed not to overload, are presented with situations beyond their control by the airline booking system. Additionally, there is no explicit company policy on load rejection, for example, "last booked, first off". Bookings are predicated on the maximum seat capacity for the type and often no allowance is made for passengers carrying the maximum baggage allowance, or for those circumstances where weather conditions exist that require a flight plan to an alternate aerodrome and where additional fuel must be uplifted for the diversion or holding."
-Pilot, respondent 552
Commercial pressures were also cited as directly contributing to instances of aircraft overloading.
Aircraft weight issues
Limits are placed on aircraft take-off weights for the following reasons:
(a) so that structural limits of major aircraft components such as landing gear are not exceeded; and
(b) so that aircraft are able to climb clear of obstacles (particularly following takeoff), in accordance with prescribed regulations, and can maintain a safe altitude in the event of an engine failure.
Climb performance is degraded in overloaded aircraft, to the extent that safe clearance from terrain may not be able to be maintained. This is a particular safety concern in many twin-engine aircraft that have experienced an engine failure.
Many smaller twin-engine aircraft operated by regional airlines, do not have to meet the "one-engine inoperative" performance requirements that must be met for certification of larger transport-category aircraft. This effectively means that there is an accepted period of risk during the takeoff and the initial climb phase of flight. If an engine failure were to occur during this phase of flight, climb performance would not be guaranteed.
Responsibility for correct loading
Responsibility for ensuring that an aircraft is not overloaded rests with both the airline and the flight crew. As part of the compliance statement for the issue of an Air Operators Certificate, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) requires an applicant to produce weight and balance documents and loading instructions in the company's operations manual.
Civil Aviation Regulation (CAR 235) requires that aircraft weight and loading is within permissible limits prior to takeoff. To comply, flight crews must complete a trim sheet or load statement that includes all items of load. A copy of this document must be left at the point of departure and another copy must be kept by the airline for three months. These documents have to be made available for inspection by CASA staff on request.
Pressure to overload
Despite the considerable penalties imposed on both airline operators and flight crews when aircraft are found to be overloaded, the commercial pressure to meet contractual obligations has been great enough in some circumstances, and the risk of detection sufficiently unlikely, to justify the occasional breach of regulations.
Evidence provided in the commission of inquiry into the relations between the Civil Aviation Authority and Seaview Air, known as the "Staunton Report", supports this view:
"The problem was, for example, that as I might have eight passengers from Sydney who had booked some time before and were excited about going on their holiday and there were perishables sitting there to be taken to Lord Howe, what do I leave behind? Even though the aircraft could physically carry the passengers and freight, it would still be overloaded".
Lack of alternative travel options may make it awkward for the smaller regional airline operator to offload booked passengers or cargo. Anecdotal evidence suggests that airline operators have exploited this situation, resulting in enormous pressure being exerted on flight crews to overload their aircraft.
Comments from some of the surveyed flight crews suggested that in certain circumstances, company pressure was applied to accept the extra load and falsify the load documentation.
"Before this particular flight, I knew a full load of passengers were booked. I asked the managing director the company's policy regarding offloading should all the passengers arrive with their allocated 12 kg of baggage, as this places the aircraft well above MTOW. His response was "are you telling me something we've done for years, we can no longer do?". It was made very clear that my decision should not be made with regard to aircraft safety but to continued employment with the organisation."
"Overloading. Often the load on the aircraft does not match the paperwork given to me by the traffic officer in charge of loading the aircraft. Management tend to turn a blind eye to overloading."
Ramp checks are carried out as part of CASA's Aviation Safety Surveillance Program of airline operations. Unscheduled surveillance is used as one means of assessing an airline's "safety health". Each district office manager determines the frequency and focus of these inspections, depending on a number of "trigger" factors such as incidents, reports, complaints and other safety intelligence information.
Airline operators and flight crews have overall responsibility for ensuring that aircraft are not overloaded. Overloading aircraft, by even small margins, may expose flight crews and passengers to risks of unacceptable proportions, particularly during the critical phases of takeoff and initial climb. CASA's role is to check the adequacy of any loading procedures and ensure that these procedures comply with prescribed requirements. In the conclusions to Chapter 6 ("Pressure to Overload") of the Staunton Report, the comment is made that "some reliance must be placed on the operator to develop appropriate procedures and adherence to those procedures".
A load rejection policy is one way of achieving this. Such a policy would provide flight crews with a published procedure that would contain explicit and unambiguous directions as to the manner and priority for offloading passengers or cargo, when circumstances require such action. The development and application of such a procedure would provide unequivocal management support to a flight crew's decision to offload passengers or cargo, in order to avoid overloading aircraft. Subsequently, real and/or perceived pressure on crews to overload aircraft may be reduced.
A "load rejection" policy should be contained in the company's operations manual and be part of an AOC approval.
In view of the number of respondents to the survey who alleged overweight operations, the frequency and depth of surveillance may be insufficient to prevent repeated occurrences of overloading.
Output text
The Bureau of Air Safety Investigation recommends that regional airline operators develop and implement a load rejection policy in order to avoid overloading aircraft.
In addition, as a result of the investigation of the above safety deficiency, the Bureau simultaneously issues Recommendation R980106 to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority:
"The Bureau of Air Safety Investigation recommends that the Civil Aviation Safety Authority consider the incorporation of a requirement for a load rejection policy into the Air Operators Certification Manual (AOCM) for regional airlines".
Initial response
Response from:
Regional Airlines
Action status:
Response text:
ATSB response:
ATSB Note: As this recommendation was not issued to any specific organisation, responses were not expected.
Last update 01 April 2011
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Two rescued from warehouse fire in Lincoln
30 December 10 08:46
Two people have been rescued from a fire at a disused furniture warehouse in Lincoln.
Five crews were called out to the blaze on Wragby Road at about 0100 GMT on Thursday, a spokesman from Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said.
The fire took several hours to put out and two people rescued from the blaze have been taken to hospital.
It is not yet known how the fire started or what the people were doing in the disused warehouse.
Andy Whitfield, from Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue, said: "When we got to the warehouse, there was smoke billowing out of every area.
"With there being two persons already in the warehouse, we couldn't take it for granted that the building was clear so we had to search the entire building and then put the fire out."
Investigations into the cause of the fire are under way.
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Nuclear Chemistry - Chemistry Encyclopedia
Photo by: Witold Krasowski
Nuclear chemistry is the study of the chemical and physical properties of elements as influenced by changes in the structure of the atomic nucleus. Modern nuclear chemistry, sometimes referred to as radiochemistry, has become very interdisciplinary in its applications, ranging from the study of the formation of the elements in the universe to the design of radioactive drugs for diagnostic medicine. In fact, the chemical techniques pioneered by nuclear chemists have become so important that biologists, geologists, and physicists use nuclear chemistry as ordinary tools of their disciplines. While the common perception is that nuclear chemistry involves only the study of radioactive nuclei, advances in modern mass spectrometry instrumentation has made chemical studies using stable, nonradioactive isotopes increasingly important.
There are essentially three sources of radioactive elements. Primordial nuclides are radioactive elements whose half-lives are comparable to the age of our solar system and were present at the formation of Earth. These nuclides are generally referred to as naturally occurring radioactivity and are derived from the radioactive decay of thorium and uranium. Cosmogenic nuclides are atoms that are constantly being synthesized from the bombardment of planetary surfaces by cosmic particles (primarily protons ejected from the Sun), and are also considered natural in their origin. The third source of radioactive nuclides is termed anthropogenic and results from human activity in the production of nuclear power, nuclear weapons, or through the use of particle accelerators.
Lasers focus on a small pellet of fuel in attempt to create a nuclear fusion reaction (the combination of two nuclei to produce another nucleus) for the purpose of producing energy.
Marie Curie was the founder of the field of nuclear chemistry. She was fascinated by Antoine-Henri Becquerel's discovery that uranium minerals can emit rays that are able to expose photographic film, even if the mineral is wrapped in black paper. Using an electrometer invented by her husband Pierre and his brother Jacques that measured the electrical conductivity of air (a precursor to the Geiger counter), she was able to show that thorium also produced these rays—a process that she called radioactivity. Through tedious chemical separation procedures involving precipitation of different chemical fractions, Marie was able to show that a separated fraction that had the chemical properties of bismuth and another fraction that had the chemical properties of barium were much more radioactive per unit mass than the original uranium ore. She had separated and discovered the elements polonium and radium, respectively. Further purification of radium from barium produced approximately 100 milligrams of radium from an initial sample of nearly 2,000 kilograms of uranium ore.
In 1911 Ernest Rutherford asked a student, George de Hevesy, to separate a lead impurity from a decay product of uranium, radium-D. De Hevesy did not succeed in this task (we now know that radium-D is the radioactive isotope 210 Pb), but this failure gave rise to the idea of using radioactive isotopes as tracers of chemical processes. With Friedrich Paneth in Vienna in 1913, de Hevesy used 210 Pb to measure the solubility of lead salts—the first application of an isotopic tracer technique. De Hevesy went on to pioneer the application of isotopic tracers to study biological processes and is generally considered to be the founder of a very important area in which nuclear chemists work today, the field of nuclear medicine. De Hevesy also is credited with discovering the technique of neutron activation analysis, in which samples are bombarded by neutrons in a nuclear reactor or from a neutron generator, and the resulting radioactive isotopes are measured, allowing the analysis of the elemental composition of the sample.
In Germany in 1938, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, skeptical of claims by Enrico Fermi and Irène Joliot-Curie that bombardment of uranium by neutrons produced new so-called transuranic elements (elements beyond uranium), repeated these experiments and chemically isolated a radioactive isotope of barium. Unable to interpret these findings, Hahn asked Lise Meitner, a physicist and former colleague, to propose an explanation for his observations. Meitner and her nephew, Otto Frisch, showed that it was possible for the uranium nucleus to be split into two smaller nuclei by the neutrons, a process that they termed " fission ." The discovery of nuclear fission eventually led to the development of nuclear weapons and, after World War II, the advent of nuclear power to generate electricity. Nuclear chemists were involved in the chemical purification of plutonium obtained from uranium targets that had been irradiated in reactors. They also developed chemical separation techniques to isolate radioactive isotopes for industrial and medical uses from the fission products wastes associated with plutonium production for weapons. Today, many of these same chemical separation techniques are being used by nuclear chemists to clean up radioactive wastes resulting from the fifty-year production of nuclear weapons and to treat wastes derived from the production of nuclear power.
In 1940, at the University of California in Berkeley, Edwin McMillan and Philip Abelson produced the first manmade element, neptunium (Np), by the bombardment of uranium with low energy neutrons from a nuclear accelerator. Shortly thereafter, Glenn Seaborg, Joseph Kennedy, Arthur Wahl, and McMillan made the element plutonium by bombarding uranium targets with deuterons, particles derived from the heavy isotope of hydrogen, deuterium ( 2 H). Both McMillan and Seaborg recognized that the chemical properties of neptunium and plutonium did not resemble those of rhenium and osmium, as many had predicted, but more closely resembled the chemistry of uranium, a fact that led Seaborg in 1944 to propose that the transuranic elements were part of a new group of elements called the actinide series that should be placed below the lanthanide series on the periodic chart. Seaborg and coworkers went on to discover many more new elements and radioactive isotopes and to study their chemical and physical properties. At the present, nuclear chemists are involved in trying to discover new elements beyond the 112 that are presently confirmed and to study the chemical properties of these new elements, even though they may exist for only a few thousandths of a second.
Nobel laureate Glenn T. Seaborg was among those who discovered many radioactive elements and isotopes.
As early as 1907 Bertram Boltwood had used the discovery of radioactive decay laws by Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy to ascribe an age of over two billion years to a uranium mineral. In 1947 Willard Libby at the University of Chicago used the decay of 14 C to measure the age of dead organic matter. The cosmogenic radionuclide, 14 C, becomes part of all living matter through photosynthesis and the consumption of plant matter. Once the living organism dies, the 14 C decays at a known rate, enabling a date for the carbon-containing relic to be calculated. Today, scientists ranging from astrophysicists to marine biologists use the principles of radiometric dating to study problems as diverse as determining the age of the universe to defining food chains in the oceans. In addition, newly developed analytical techniques such as accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) have allowed nuclear chemists to extend the principles of radiometric dating to nonradioactive isotopes in order to study modern and ancient processes that are affected by isotopic fractionation. This isotopic fractionation results from temperature differences in the environment in which the material was formed (at a given temperature, the lighter isotope will be very slightly more reactive than the heavier isotope), or from different chemical reaction sequences.
The newest area in which nuclear chemists play an important role is the field of nuclear medicine. Nuclear medicine is a rapidly expanding branch of health care that uses short-lived radioactive isotopes to diagnose illnesses and to treat specific diseases. Nuclear chemists synthesize drugs from radionuclides produced in nuclear reactors or accelerators that are injected into the patient and will then seek out specific organs or cancerous tumors. Diagnosis involves use of the radiopharmaceutical to generate an image of the tumor or organ to identify problems that may be missed by x rays or physical examinations. Treatment involves using radioactive compounds at carefully controlled doses to destroy tumors. These nuclear medicine techniques hold much promise for the future because they use biological chemistry to specify target cells much more precisely than traditional radiation therapy, which uses radiation from external sources to kill tumor cells, killing nontarget cells
Table of naturally occurring radionuclides.
as well. Additionally, the use of nuclear pharmaceuticals containing the short-lived isotope 11 C has allowed nuclear chemists and physicians to probe brain activity to better understand the biochemical basis of illnesses ranging from Parkinson's disease to drug abuse.
SEE ALSO Becquerel, Antoine-Henri ; Curie, Marie Sklodowska ; Fermi, Enrico ; Meitner, Lise ; Neptunium ; Plutonium ; Polonium ; Radiation ; Radioactivity ; Radium ; Rutherford, Ernest ; Seaborg, Glenn Theodore ; Soddy, Frederck ; Uranium .
W. Frank Kinard
Hoffman, D. C.; Ghiorso, A.; and Seaborg, Glenn T., eds. (2000). The Transuranium People: An Intimate Glimpse. London: Imperial College Press.
Morrissey, D.; Loveland, W. T.; and Seaborg, Glenn T. (2001). Introductory Nuclear Chemistry. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Rydberg, J.; Liljenzin, J.-O.; and Choppin, Gregory R. (2001). Radiochemistry and Nuclear Chemistry, 3rd edition. Woburn, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.
American Institute of Physics History Center. Available from http://www.aip.org/history/ .
Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology of the American Chemical Society. Available from http://www.cofc.edu/~nuclear/ .
Society of Nuclear Medicine. Available from http://www.snm.org/ .
Also read article about Nuclear Chemistry from Wikipedia
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Bond Ladys Corner » NEWS FROM IRAQ » Iraq General News, Economy & Oil News » Post-war Iraq: 'Everybody is corrupt, from top to bottom. Including me' (Everybody that holds Dinar should read this Article)
Post-war Iraq: 'Everybody is corrupt, from top to bottom. Including me' (Everybody that holds Dinar should read this Article)
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Post-war Iraq: 'Everybody is corrupt, from top to bottom. Including me'
A corrupt political class has led a 13-year pillage on public money in the pursuit of power. As oil prices fall, further jeopardising the country’s revenues, there is little hope that governance will improve
One of Iraq’s anti-corruption leaders sat in his office, waving his hands in exasperation. “There is no solution,” he said. “Everybody is corrupt, from the top of society to the bottom. Everyone. Including me.”
Coming at the start of a conversation about Iraq’s ailing governance, and what was being done to turn things around, Mishan al-Jabouri’s admission was jarring. “At least I am honest about it,” he shrugged. “I was offered $5m by someone to stop investigating him. I took it, and continued prosecuting him anyway.”
Isis sending children to die at unprecedented rate, report warns
Jabouri is a member of one of two anti-graft bodies, a parliamentary committee, tasked with protecting public monies in post-war Iraq. Both have more work than they can ever hope to deal with – even if they wanted to.
Now, with plunging oil prices leaving Iraq’s revenues in more jeopardy than at any time since the US invasion, attention is shifting to what the custodians of public funds have done over more than a decade with tens of billions of dollars that could otherwise be a buffer from such a budget shock.
If, as projected, global oil prices remain at historic lows, Iraq will be unable to pay some of its civil servants, or honour pledges to build roads and power stations in the next financial year. The gravity of the crisis has created uncomfortable reckonings for Iraq’s political class, military leaders and some senior religious figures, who have led a staggering 13-year pillage that has left Iraq consistently rated as one of the top five least transparent and most corrupt countries in the world.
“Believe me, most of the senior names in the country have been responsible for stealing nearly all its wealth,” said Jabouri. “There are names at the top of the tree who would kill me if I went after them. When people here steal, they steal openly. They brag about it. There is a virus here, like Ebola. It is called corruption. There is no hope, I am sorry to say.”
Across all levels of society, a realization is sinking in that Iraq is now entering a phase that could prove every bit as destabilizing – perhaps even more so – than the war against Islamic State. Jamal al-Bateekh, a senior tribal leader with the ear of the political class, said: “For 12 years we have gone through the process of opening the budget in the parliament. But we have never closed it. There has never been a reckoning. All that time, they have been dividing the carcass into pieces.”
“This is existential,” said former deputy president Ayad Allawi, whose office was abolished late last year in a cost-saving drive. “There are organised corruption syndicates running the country, let alone militias. I tell you very frankly, no Iraqi power can take action on this.”
Over the past four months, some of Iraq’s top office holders, led by prime minister Haider al-Abadi, have tried to do just that. Emboldened by Iraq’s highest religious authority, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Abadi has tried to launch an anti-corruption drive designed to weed out the most guilty and introduce meaningful accountability processes across all levels of business and politics.
Sistani, who has remained taciturn throughout most of his career, had been unusually strident during his Friday sermons, delivered through a spokesman until he stopped them in protest in January. “We spoke so much until our voices were hoarse, yet nobody listened,” he said at the time.
“He was more strong, more fierce and in-depth than he’d ever been,” said Allawi of Sistani’s increasingly forthright interventions. “He knows how serious this is.”
Across Baghdad, the finance minister, Hoshyar Zebari, has been tasked with finding ways around a profound budget shortfall that Sistani, Abadi and others fear could soon lead to civic unrest and even retribution.
“We are 93-95% dependent on oil revenues,” said Zebari. “This year, our situation is far more difficult than in any other year,” he said. “We have exhausted our domestic borrowing. We need to go through a soul-searching process. We need to lose our dependability on oil. We need to prepare the public for change; on things such as VATs and other new measures. It is a question of a change in attitude. Here people are not accustomed to this.”
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Iraq’s budget is modelled on an oil price of about $45 per barrel. However, oil had been hovering at $27 per barrel in recent months, before rallying by 14% over the past week. Nevertheless, oil experts across the Middle East believe that the recent fall in prices is structural, not cyclical, with very serious consequences for economies that are largely driven by old energy.
Zebari said that in early February he took Iraq’s full financial accounts to Sistani in the Shia city of Najaf for the 85-year-old ayatollah to inspect. “He is very serious about turning things around,” he said. “But he is frustrated.”
Iraq has one of the biggest per capita public payrolls in the world, roughly 7 million people from a population of just over 21 million, and it is here that Zebari believes much of the systemic corruption is hidden. “Our biggest issue is ghost soldiers,” he said. “There are maybe $500-$600m in salaries being paid to soldiers who don’t exist. There are so many outlets for this money to go without any accountability.”In such cases, the salaries are instead collected by officers. In other cases, soldiers pay officers half their salaries so they don’t have to show up for duty.
The former chief of staff of Iraq’s army, General Babakir Zebari, who retired last year, conceded that the issue of ghost soldiers had bedevilled the military, along with vastly inflated tenders for weapons. “I warned about this all the time,” he said. “Everybody knew my views.
“The tenders are an issue that needed a lot of focus. It is my understanding that a lot of money went missing there.”
Hoshyar Zebari estimates that there as many as 30,000 ghost soldiers in Iraq’s military and that corrupt officers are pocketing their salaries. The impact is even more significant than the bottom line. The fall of Mosul, Iraq’s second city, in mid-2014 was in part blamed on there being far fewer soldiers in position to defend the city than there were on the books. Generals and other senior officers accused of running the scam have yet to be brought to account.
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“They were protected,” said Jabouri. “We only go after the easy targets here. Recently a Christian businessman was jailed for two years for stealing $200,000 to build his house. That is nothing. It doesn’t even register as a crime compared [with] what else is going on.”
“We have paid out $1bn for war planes that never arrived. In Tikrit there have been budgets paid for courthouses that have never been built. It is the same with road projects all over the country, the port at Umm Qasr near Basra. If I had 50 staff to help me, we could barely scratch the surface.
“The problems here are social as much as everything. You are seen as weak if you don’t steal. Everyone wants to claim power, because they know that nobody else is going to share power with them.”Allawi said he had taken a plan to Abadi to invite forensic auditors to examine Iraq’s books. “I was met by silence and blank stares,” he said. “It was like a bomb went off in the room.”
Abadi has placed much of his political stock on his reform drive, which he sees as essential to holding the country together. Sistani’s full throated sponsorship has given his moves an impetus that they would not otherwise have had. However, so far he has been unable to slow a plunder that has crippled Iraq’s governance.
“He is a good guy,” said Jabouri. “He is cleaner than all people in the parliament. But he cannot do this. Nobody can.”
And what of the self-declared corrupt anti-corruption chief, Jabour? “I did it because I am daring people to come after me,” he said. “No one will dare to. I have files on them all.”
This story was amended on 20 Feb to clarify that Jabouri is a senior member of the parliamentary committee investigating official corruption
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Who wrote the below quote ??? I want who ever said this to be shown or it will be deleted from the article. Thank you for the article , it shows how deep the corruption is and as BondLady and I discussed today Prime Minister Abadi will have to basically take each high ranking official up on a stage for all the world to see and show what laws etc... they have broken just to appease the people and have the police stand by with an arrest warrant .
"This is an opinion piece BUT a very accurate piece and hopefully you will take away what this country is fighting on all fronts and how far they have come since Abadi has take up the job and more to the point how far they have to go . I'm not saying that an rv won't happen because it has to and I'm not saying when it will happen , but if people take nothing else away they should see that calling it everyday,week or month is just for the Snake oil salesmen, calling it to get something from the people listening to them, not so much for money now that boat has sailed but the money that they hope to steal off of people down the road, because a snake oil salesmen dose not change they are always your best friend when they what you to contribute to there project now it will become your money later ."
Lifes purpose is not to arrive at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to slide in sideways shouting HOLY CHIT what a ride
looks like Albadi is right flipping the cabinet and other things to stop this. My only question can it be fixed without new currency being issued.
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Attorney-Razak al-Haidari calls that judicial rulings are commensurate with the size of the crime of financial and administrative corruption of the corrupt
In February 22.2016
MP called Razak al-Haidari, the government dropping off tougher sanctions against senior spoilers even be a deterrent to others.
The MP said al-Haidari, on Saturday, 20/2/2016 that country to the extent of bankruptcy and Hades are the main reasons is the theft of billions of dollars in overseas banks to calculate a large number of officials, pointing to the need for the judicial rulings are commensurate with the magnitude of the crime and theft of public money.
He said the Attorney-Haidari said it was important that the competent authorities are working on the arrest of the accused issues of financial and administrative corruption before announcing brought to justice even Aatseny them escape justice, noting that the referral of defendants to justice who are outside the country, is it not the importance and benefit of the Iraqi people, who are eager to punish who stole his money.
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Sean Turnell
Position: Associate Professor - Department of Economics
Qualifications: BEc Macq. PhD Macq.
Email: sean.turnell@mq.edu.au
Sean Turnell will be away from the University for an extended period after taking up the post of senior economic advisor to the government of Myanmar (Burma).
Expert on Burma, the use of economic sanctions. Has advised the US Congress on the Burma situation
Australian Banks in Asia
A former Senior Analyst at the Reserve Bank of Australia, Sean Turnell joined the Economics Department in 1991.
His research interests include:
Burma and its economy,
financial sector reform in developing countries,
the history of global monetary institutions, and
the history of Australian economic thought.
Sean Turnell has published in numerous international journals on these and other topics, including:
ASEAN Economic Bulletin,
Asian-Pacific Economic Literature,
Asian Studies Review,
Asian Survey,
Australian Economic History Review,
Bijdragen tot de Taal,
Land-en Volkenkunde,
Economic and Labour Relations Review,
Economic and Political Weekly,
the Economic Record,
Asian Economic Policy Review,
History of Economics Review, and
the Journal of Economic History.
His work has been cited by media all around the world, including:
the Wall Street Journal,
Financial Times,
The Economist,
New York Times,
Washington Post,
The Guardian,
The Times,
Australian Financial Review,
and many others.
He has made manyappearances in the electronic media, including:
the BBC,
ABC,
SBS,
Bloomberg Television,
CNN,
Al-Jazeera,
Sky-News and
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Sean Turnell's book examining the history of Burma's monetary and financial system, Fiery Dragons: Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma was published (2009) by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) Press.
Sean Turnell's Ph.D thesis examined the efforts of Australian economists to reform the architecture of the global economy during the first half of the twentieth century. Download a copy of the thesis, Monetary Reformers, Amateur Idealists and Keynesian Crusaders: Australian Economists' International Advocacy, 1925-1950.
Sean Turnell is a member of the editorial board of the History of Economics Review, Burma Economic Watch and the Macquarie Economics Research Papers. He is a member of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, the Economic Society of Australia, and the Asian Studies Associations of the United States and of Australia.
Much of Sean Turnell's work has been concerned with the political economy and economic history of Burma. With Alison Vicary and Wylie Bradford, in 2001 he established Burma Economic Watch, an on-line resource of information and commentary on Burma's economy.
Sean Turnell was a Visiting Scholar to the Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge in 2000, and a Visiting Fellow to the Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, in 2006, and to the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in 2008.
In 2006 and 2009, Sean Turnell was invited to testify on Burma to US Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Foreign Relations and Human Rights.
With colleagues Alison Vicary, Wylie Bradford and Joseph Macri, Sean Turnell is currently the recipient of a Macquarie University Research Development Grant to conduct a survey of Burmese migrant workers and refugees in Thailand.
ARC (2007-2009) – Understanding Burma's Health Crisis and its Challenge to Regional Security
Burma and its economy
Financial sector reform in developing countries
History of global monetary institutions
History of Australian economic thought
Australia's interaction with the global trading and monetary system
The role of currency boards in transition and emerging market economies
Industry Publications
Macquarie Economics Research Papers
'The Chettiars in Burma', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, July 2005, no.12/2005.
'Central Banking at the Periphery of the British Empire: Colonial Burma, 1886-1937', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, July 2005, no.11/2005.
'The Rise and Fall of Cooperative Credit in Colonial Burma', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, June 2005, no.9/2005.
'Keynes, Economics and War: A Liberal Dose of Realism', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, September 2002, no.7/2002.
'Core Labour Standards and the WTO', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, March 2001, no.3/2001.
'Full Employment and Free Trade: An Historical Episode of Australian Intellectual Leadership', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, March 2001, no.2/2001.
'The Right to Employment: Extending the Core Labour Standards and Trade Debate', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, March 2001, no.1/2001.
'Establishing an East Timorese National Currency via a Currency Board', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, February 2000, no.2/2000.
'A Proposal for a Currency Board in a Democratic Burma', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, August 1999, no.6/1999.
'Eminence Grise: The Political Economy of F.L. McDougall', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, September 1998, no.13/1998.
'A Clearing Union or a Stabilising Fund? Australian Economists and the Creation of the IMF', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, September 1998, no.11/1998.
'The Quest for Commodity Price Stability: Australian Economists and "Buffer Stocks"', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, August 1998, no.10/1998.
'Commonwealth and Cheap Money, Australian Economists at Ottawa', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, October 1996, no.9/1996.
'Proto-Keynesian Undercurrents in Australia's External Economic Policy of the Inter-War Years: The Sheltered Markets of F.L. McDougall', Macquarie Economics Research Papers, July 1996, no.4/1996.
'Butter for Guns: F.L. McDougall, Nutrition and Economic Appeasement', Macquarie Economic Research Papers, November 1995, no.14/1995.
Member of: History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, Australia
Member of: Economic Society of Australia, Australia
Member of: Asian Studies Association of Australia, Australia
Member of the Faculty Board of: the Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University Australia
PhD Student Supervision
Associate Supervisor of Mohammod Lutful Kabir - PhD-Economics Research - Full Time
Principal Supervisor of Paul Adjei Onyina - PhD-Economics Research - Full Time
Sean Turnell is now a semi-regular guest on the BBC World Service's 'Business Matters' programme
Publication: BBC
Title: Business Matters
Date: 30 August, 2013
In international media, Associate Professor Sean Turnell is now a semi-regular guest on the BBC World Service's 'Business Matters' programme.
His latest contribution can be listened to on the BBC Podcasts page
Sean Turnell spoke to ABC Radio Australia about investment in Myanmar
Publication: ABC Radio
Title: Many foreign firms still wary of investing in Myanmar
Listen to the full speech on the article page
Sean Turnell on the negative aspects to providing aid to Myanmar farmers
Publication: Myanmar Times
Title: Move to aid farmers may devastate sector
Date: 4 August, 2013
“Minimum prices for crops sounds attractive” but the reality is more complex, he said. “We have an example currently on display in Thailand,” he added, referring to that country’s rice-pledging scheme that has eroded its export power and cost the government billions of dollars.
More comments from Sean Turnell in the full article
Read the full article "Move to aid farmers may devastate sector"
Sean has acted as a referee for The Cambridge Journal of Economics, the History of Economics Review, the Economic Record, the Australian Journal of Politics and History, Asian Survey and numerous other scholarly journals concerned with economics, economic history, and Asian affairs.
Publications and Conference Papers
Ha Vu & Sean Turnell, 2015. "The Behavior of Australian Banks - Capital Buffers: Pro- or Counter-Cyclical?," Applied Economics and Finance, Redfame publishing, vol. 2(1), pages 110-118, February.
Paul A. Onyina & Sean Turnell, 2013. "The Impacts Of A Microfinance Lending Scheme On Clients In Ghana," Accounting & Taxation, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 5(2), pages 79-88.
Ha Vu & Sean Turnell, 2012. "A parametric measure of productivity change from hyperbolic distance function: Application to the Vietnamese banking industry," Journal of Applied Finance & Banking, SCIENPRESS Ltd, vol. 2(5), pages 1-4.
Ha Vu & Sean Turnell, 2011. "Cost and Profit Efficiencies of Australian Banks and the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 87(279), pages 525-536, December.
'Myanmar in 2011' 2012, Asian Survey, vol. 52, no. 1.
'Fundamentals of Myanmar's economy: A political economy approach' 2011 (forthcoming), Asian Economic Policy Review,
(with Ha Thu Vu) 2010, 'Cost efficiency of the banking sector in Vietnam: A Bayesian stochastic frontier approach with regulatory constraints', Asian Economic Journal, vol.24, no.2, June, pp.115-139.
'Burma's poverty of riches: Natural gas and the voracious state', in L. Dittmer (ed) 2010, Burma or Myanmar: The Struggle for National Identity, Singapore: World Scientific, pp.207-231.
'Recapitalizing Burma's rural credit system', in N. Cheesman, M. Skidmore and T. Wilson (eds) 2010, Ruling Myanmar: From Cyclone Nargis to National Elections, Singapore" Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, pp.126-146.
'Finding dollars and sense: Burma's economy in 2010', in S.L. Levenstein (ed) 2010, Finding Dollars, Sense and Legitimacy in Burma, Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Centre, pp.20-40.
Fiery Dragons: Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma, 2009, Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
(with Leanne Ussher) 2009, 'A "New Bretton Woods": Kaldor, and the Antipodean Quest for Global Full Employment', Review of Political Economy, vol.21, 2009.
(with Wylie Bradford and Alison Vicary) 2009 (forthcoming), 'Burma's Economy 2009: Disaster, Recovery…and Reform, Asian Politics and Policy, vol.1.
'Microfinance in Burma', in G. Goenka and D. Henley (eds) 2009 (forthcoming), From Moneylenders to Microfinance: Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution, London: Routledge.
'Burma's economy 2008: Current situation and prospects for reform', in A. Ahmed (ed), 2009, (forthcoming), Myanmar's Economy, ICFAI (Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India) University Press: Bangalore
'The Chettiars', Bulletin of Burma Studies Group, 2009.
'Burma's Economy and the Sanctions Debate', US House of Representatives, Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing, 23 April 2009.
(with Wylie Bradford) 'Paper Money in Burma: Creation, War, Reconstruction', Paper Money in Theory and Practice in History Conference, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, 17-19 April 2009.
'Economic Development in Burma: Where to Now?', Burma Review: Nation Building, Human Security, Sustainable Development, Civil Society and Peaceful Co-existance, Aichi Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan, 13-15 March 2009.
'Bridging the True "Financing Gap": Effective Development Aid in Burma', Burma Review: Nation Building, Human Security, Sustainable Development, Civil Society and Peaceful Co-existance, Aichi Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan, 13-15 March 2009.
'Burma's Insatiable State', Asian Survey, Vol.48, no.6 (November/December 2008).
'The Roots of Unrest: Burma's Economic Crisis', in J. Ball (ed), 2008, Come Rain or Shine, Mizzima: Chiang Mai and New Delhi, pp.12-20.
(with Alison Vicary) 2008, 'Parching the Land', Australian Economic History Review, vol.48, no.1, pp.1-25.
(Review) 'State Dominance in Myanmar: The Political Economy of Industrialization', Tin Maung Maung Than, South East Asia Research, vol.16, no.3, November 2008.
(with Wylie Bradford and Alison Vicary) 2008, 'Migrant worker remittances and Burma', in M. Skidmore and T. Wilson (eds), Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar, Canberra: ANU E-Press.
'Economic aspects of Burma's new Constitution', International Burma Studies Conference, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill., 3-5 October 2008.
(with Wylie Bradford) 2008, 'Burma's economy 2008: Decline, Disaster…and Ways Forward', International Burma Studies Conference, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill, 3-5 October 2008.
(Review) 'Turmoil in Burma; Contested Legitimacies in Myanmar', David Steinberg, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania), vol. 164, no.1, pp.150-152, 2008.
(Review) 'State Dominance in Myanmar: The Political Economy of Industrialization', Tin Maung Maung Than, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania), 2008.
'A wicked creeping', SEAP Bulletin, Winter-Spring 2007-2008, pp.22-29.
'Burma/Myanmar: The Four Crises', Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 23 April 2008.
'Burma's Economy: Current Situation and Prospects for Reform', Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, US State Department, and The Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Arlington, Virginia, 24-25 March 2008.
'The Crisis in Burma: In Search of a Unified Response', The Asia Society, New York, in association with the Open Society Institute, 25 March 2008, New York.
'Burma 2008, Genocide Risks, Triggers, and Pre-Crisis Interventions', US Genocide Prevention Task Force, Pre-Crisis Engagement Group, US State Department/US Institute for Peace, 17 March, 2008, Washington D.C.
'Overturning the Rice Bowl: Burma's Long Road to Economic Privation', Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 6 March 2008.
'Burma Today', review essay of Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Robert Taylor and Tin Maung Maung Than (eds), 'Myanmar: Beyond Politics to Societal Imperatives'; Monique Skidmore (ed), 'Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century'; Mya Than, Myanmar in ASEAN', Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania), Spring 2007, vol.163, no.1.
'Fiery Dragons: The Chettiars in Burma', in B. Chaudhuri and S. Chadhuri (eds), IUAES Inter Congress on Mega Urbanization, Multi-Ethnic Society Human Rights and Development, Volume 2: Urbanization and Multi-Ethnic Society, New Delhi: SM Books 2007.
'Frank Lidgett McDougall' in J.G. King (ed), A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists, Edward Elgar 2007.
'Sir Arthur Tange' in J.G. King (ed), A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists, Edward Elgar 2007.
(Review) 'Myanmar (Burma) since 1962: The Failure of Development', Peter John Perry, Asian Studies Review, 2007 (forthcoming).
(Review) 'Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar', Helen James, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, vol.21, no.1, May 2007.
(Review) 'Burma Today', review essay of Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Robert Taylor and Tin Maung Maung Than (eds), 'Myanmar: Beyond Politics to Societal Imperatives'; Monique Skidmore (ed), 'Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century'; Mya Than, Myanmar in ASEAN', Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania), Spring 2007, vol.163, no.1.
'The Elastic Margin: Central Bank Theory and Practice in Colonial Burma', History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 11-13 July 2007.
'Behind the Teak Curtain: Prospects and Issues of the Burmese Economy', School of Economics, Australian National University, 10 May 2007.
'Implications of Recent Economic Developments in Burma for Thailand', Institute of Asian Studies/Burma Fund closed-door forum, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 19 March 2007.
'Parching the Land: The Chettiars in Burma', Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference, University of Sydney, 12-14 February 2007.
'Burma's Economic Dystopia', Society of Heterodox Economics, University of New South Wales, 11-12 December 2006.
'Burma's Economy 2006: An Overview', 2006 Myanmar/Burma Update Conference, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 17 July 2006.
'Fiery Dragons: Bankers and Banks in Burma', paper presented to the 2006 Burma Studies Conference, National University of Singapore, 13 July 2006.
'Burma's Economic Prospects', Testimony before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 29 March 2006.
'Banks, Bankers and Burma: Continuing Issues', paper presented to the Asian Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 27 February 2006.
'No checks, no balances: The Long and Sorry History of money and banking in Burma', paper presented to the Southeast Asia Program, Einaudi Centre, Cornell University, 16 February 2006.
'Cooperative Credit in British Burma', in T. Frasch and S. Bhattacharya (eds), Merging the Unsuitable, Harrassowitz, Heidelburg, 2006 (forthcoming).
'Burma's Economy 2004: Crisis Masking Stagnation', in T.Wilson (ed), Burma Update 2004, ISEAS, Singapore, 2005 (forthcoming).
'Burma's Banking Crisis', in P. Warr and Zaw Oo (eds), The Burmese Economic Dilemma, Asia-Pacific Press, 2005 (forthcoming).
'Behind the Teak Curtain: Authoritarianism, Agricultural Policies and Political Legitimacy in Rural Burma/Myanmar', by Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, vol.19, no.2, November 2005.
'A Survey of Microfinance Institutions in Burma' Burma Economic Watch, no.1/2005, October 2005.
'Microfinance in Burma', 'From Moneylenders to Microfinance, Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution in Institutional, Economic and Cultural Perspective, An Interdiscplinary Workshop, National University of Singapore, 7-8 October 2005.
'Failed Hopes: Burma's Financial Sector', Seminar, Asia-Pacific Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 4 October 2005.
'Burma's Economy', Seminar, Australian National University, 10 August 2005.
'Burma's April Fools', The Irrawaddy, Vol.13, No.5, May 2005.
'Finance in Burma: A Case Study in Methodological and Property Rights Failure', Eastern Economic Association, 31st Annual Conference, New York, 4-6 March 2005.
'Suppose there was a Bank Crisis that Nobody Ever Heard of: Burma's Monetary Miasma', Seminar, Queens College, City University of New York, 28 February 2005.
(with G.C. Harcourt) 'Some Reflections on Keynes, Policy and the Second World War', in T. Aspromourgos and J. Lodewijks (eds), Peter Groenewegen Festschrift, Routledge, London, 2004.
'Fiery Dragons? The Chettiars in Burma', International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Conference, University of Calcutta, India, 12-15 December 2004.
'Burma's Economy 2004', Burma Update 2004, Australian National University, Canberra, 18-19 November 2004.
'Cooperative Credit in British Burma', 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden, 8 July 2004.
'Burma's Banks and their Role in the Country's Humanitarian Crisis', Roundtable Seminar, Modern Asian Research Centre and Geneva Asia Society, Geneva, Switzerland, 28 June 2004.
'Some Further Developments in Burma's Financial Sector', Burma Economic Watch, no.2 2004, pp.29-35.
'Burma Bank Update', Burma Economic Watch, no.1 2004, pp.19-27.
'Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life', by Tim Rowse, The Journal of Economic History, vol.64, no.1, March 2004, pp.260-262.
'Myanmar's Banking Crisis', Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, 12 February 2004 (Seminar by invitation, ISEAS).
'Myanmar's Banking Crisis', ASEAN Economic Bulletin, vol.20, No.3, December 2003, pp.272-282.
'50 Years a Keynesian and Other Essays', by Geoff Harcourt, The Economic Record, vol.79, no.246, September 2003, pp.388-390.
'Keynes and War', Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, 15-18 July 2003.
'Burma's Banking Collapse', Myanmar/Burma Update Conference, Research School pf Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 9 July 2003.
'Burma's Economy under SLORC/SPDC', Faculty of Asian Studies Seminar, Australian National University, 11 April 2003 (Seminar and paper by invitation, Faculty of Asian Studies).
'Burma's Banks', Burma Studies Roundtable, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 7 February 2003.
'Reforming the Banking System in Burma: A Survey of the Problems and Possibilities', Technical Advisory Network of Burma, Working Papers, no.7, November 2002.
'Full Employment and Free Trade: An Historical Episode of Australian Intellectual Leadership', History of Economics Review, no.36, Summer 2002.
'Reforming Burma's Banks', Burma Studies Conference, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 21-25 September, 2002.
'Core Labour Standards and the WTO', Economics and Labour Relations Review, vol.13, no.1, June 2002.
'Keynes, Economics and War: A Liberal Dose of Realism', Journal of Conflict and Economics, vol.1, January 2002.
'Australia's "Employment Approach" to International Post-war Reconstruction: Calling the Bluff of Multilateralism', Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Tasmania, 11-14 July 2001.
'Free Trade and the WTO', Current Economics, vol.5, no.2, March/April 2000, pp.1-7.
'F.L. McDougall: Éminence Grise of Australian Economic Diplomacy', Australian Economic History Review, vol.40, no.1, March 2000, pp.51-69.
'The WTO, World Trade and Protection', Economics Literacy Centre Economics Conference, St. Joseph's College, 7-8 March 2000.
'Monetary Reformers Abroad: Australian Economists at the Ottawa and World Economic Conferences', History of Economics Review, no.29, Winter 1999, pp.81-96.
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CAAFlog » September 2012 Term » United States v. Mackie
Opinion Analysis: CAAF issues per curiam opinion in Mackie
By Zachary D Spilman, Friday, April 19, 2013
In a case we haven’t been following (update: except in an earlier stage, in posts here and here), CAAF issued a per curiam opinion today “to clarify that even after an initial appellate court decision, the Moreno standard for speedy post-trial review is still applicable as the case continues through the appellate process.” United States v. Mackie, No. 13-0184/AF, 72 M.J. 135, slip op. at 1 (C.A.A.F. Apr. 19, 2013) (per curiam) (CAAFlog case page) (link to slip op.).
The appellant, AFC A1C Mackie, was convicted pursuant to his pleas at a special court-martial in September, 2006. The AFCCA completed its review in September, 2007, and remanded the case for a sanity board finding that the military judge had improperly denied the appellant’s request under RCM 706. Another five years passed before the CCA completed its review, affirming the findings and sentence in October, 2012. The CCA also rejected a claim that the appellant was denied due process by the delay because (1) the delay occurred after an initial appellate decision and (2) the delay was not malicious, citing United States v. Roach, 69 M.J. 17 (C.A.A.F. 2010).
Not so fast, says CAAF. “Here, the CCA initially returned the case to the JAG to be sent to a convening authority who was authorized to order a sanity board. That sanity board was conducted, but the convening authority took no further action on the case for over two years. Our decision in Moreno is equally applicable in this factual situation and the CCA erred in concluding otherwise. Nevertheless, we are convinced that the delay in this case was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.” Slip op. at 4.
CAAF Opinions, United States v. Mackie
New CAAF opinion: United States v. Mackie
By Dwight Sullivan, Monday, April 21, 2008
We previously noted that the Judge Advocate General of the Air Force certified five cases to CAAF from July to December 2007. CAAF has already decided three of those cases, affirming the Air Force Court’s ruling in each. CAAF’s opinion in United States v. Perez — a short per curiam issued just 81 days after the oral argument — appeared to reflect some disagreement with the Judge Advocate General of the Air Force as to whether the case was worthy of certification. See United States v. Perez, 66 M.J. 164 (C.A.A.F. 2008) (per curiam).
Now comes United States v. Mackie, __ M.J. ___, No. 08-5005/AF (C.A.A.F. Apr. 21, 2008) (per curiam) — another Air Force certified issue case. CAAF didn’t even find the case worthy of oral argument before affirming it in another short per curiam opinion.
Mackie affirms the Air Force Court’s ruling, 65 M.J. 762 (A.F. Ct. Crim. App. 2007), that the military judge erred by concluding that A1C Mackie had received an adequate substitute for a 706 board based on opinions rendered by an Air Force clinical psychologist who had seen Mackie “twice by appointment and once for a brief walk-in conversation, never conducted a forensic examination or participated in a sanity board, and was unaware of [Mackie’s] claimed memory losses and blackouts.” Mackie, No. 08-5005/AF, slip op. at 3. As CAAF observed, the psychologist “admitted he had not conducted a forensic examination of [Mackie] or spent much time with him, and that he was unfamiliar with R.C.M. 706 rules and
standards.” Id., slip op. at 6. The psychologist did opine that Mackie “was capable of standing trial,” but the psychologist “could not opine on whether [Mackie] understood the nature and quality of his actions at the time the alleged criminal conduct occurred, as required by English, 47 M.J. at 218-19, and R.C.M. 706(c)(2)(C).” Id.
The upshot was not merely a slam dunk affirmance, but an off-the-glass, one-handed windmill slam dunk of an affirmance. Sprite might have to retroactively strip Dwight Howard of his 2008 Slam Dunk Contest title and award it to Mackie instead.
United States v. Mackie
New certified case [expanded]
By Dwight Sullivan, Thursday, December 27, 2007
Yesterday CAAF docketed two certified issues in an Air Force case:
WHETHER THE AIR FORCE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS APPLIED THE CORRECT STANDARD OF REVIEW WHEN DETERMINING WHETHER THE MILITARY JUDGE ABUSED HIS DISCRETION WHEN HE DENIED THE DEFENSE MOTION FOR A SANITY BOARD.
WHETHER THE AIR FORCE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS ERRED BY FINDING THE MILITARY JUDGE ABUSED HIS DISCRETION WHEN HE DENIED APPELLANT’S REQUEST FOR A SANITY BOARD FINDING HE HAD NOT MET HIS BURDEN OF FACTUAL PERSUASION TO JUSTIFY AN INQUIRY PURSUANT TO R.C.M. 706.
United States v. Mackie, __ M.J. ___, No. 08-5005/AF (C.A.A.F. Dec. 26, 2007). The Air Force Court’s opinion in the case is published at 65 M.J. 762 (A.F. Ct. Crim. App. 2007). We previously discussed that opinion here.
This is the fifth case that the Judge Advocate General of the Air Force has certified to CAAF since July. In the preceding eight years, the Judge Advocate General of the Air Force had certified a total of three cases to CAAF. So far in 2007, there have been six cases certified to CAAF — five (Webb, Miller, Melson, Perez, Mackie) by the Judge Advocate General of the Air Force and one (Gutierrez) by the Judge Advocate General of the Army.
In each year from 2003 through 2006, the Judge Advocate General of the Army won the certification derby. In 2002 the champ was, of all people, the Judge Advocate General of the Coast Guard, who was responsible for the only two certified issues during that calendar year. The Judge Advocate General of the Navy was the champ in 1999 and 2000 and tied with the Judge Advocate General of the Air Force in 2001. Laying out the service breakdown on a graph suggests hot and cold streaks in each service. It makes me wonder whether the hot streaks were caused by some particular individual pushing for certifications with a cold streak following when that individual PCSed or retired. If so, my guess is that the directors of the respective appellate government divisions are the key players in the certification process. It would be interesting to overlay a graph of the appellate government heads’ tenure on the graph of the corresponding service’s certification numbers.
AFCCA orders sanity board
By Dwight Sullivan, Wednesday, September 26, 2007
In a published opinion, the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that a military judge erred by failing to grant the defense’s request for an R.C.M. 706 board. United States v. Mackie, __ M.J. ___, No. ACM S31090 (A.F. Ct. Crim. App. Sept. 24, 2007). The Air Force Court ruled that the military judge erred by concluding that a stipulation of expected testimony from an Air Force staff psychologist with whom A1C Mackie had been consulting was a sufficient substitute for the requested R.C.M. 706 board.
The Air Force Court explained that “a sanity board does not have to be ordered if an adequate substitute has already been conducted.” Id., slip op. at 2. The court helpfully sets out the factors to consider when determining whether a substitute is adequate:
1) participation of a psychologist or someone with similar expertise; 2) performance of a forensic mental examination; 3) knowledge by the performing doctor(s) “of the reason for doubting” the subject’s “mental capacity;” 4) determination of whether the subject is capable of standing trial; 5) the ability to examine and cross-examine the performing doctor(s); . . . 6) the opinion that no further evaluation would be needed to answer the questions required by R.C.M. 706 . . . [and 7)] a description of the examiner’s familiarity with forensic evaluation or participation in previous sanity boards.
Id., slip op. at 3.
The court concluded that only four of those seven factors were satisfied in this case, and that they were insufficient to establish that the staff psychologist’s opinion was an adequate substitute for an R.C.M. 706 board.
The Air Force Court remedied the error by returning the case to the Judge Advocate General of the Air Force to send to a CA, who may order a sanity board to determine whether A1C Mackie is currently mentally competent, whether he was mentally competent at the time of trial, and whether he was mentally responsible at the time of his alleged offenses. Id., slip op. at 5. “Depending on the results of the board, the convening authority may order a rehearing or return the record to this Court for further review. If the convening authority finds ordering a sanity board impracticable, the record will be returned to this Court for further review.” Id., slip op. at 5-6.
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Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It - James 4:13-17
Taught on Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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The Rogues' Rejection
Their Rhetoric (vv. 13–14)
Their Rebellion (vv. 16, 17b
The Righteous' Resignations (v. 15a)
As Commander
To God's Commanding
To God's Commission
The Rewarding Results (vv. 15b, 17a)
Well, the proposition made famous by over four decades of the television and film series, 'Mission: Impossible', which chronicles the adventures of the IMF, the Impossible Missions Force. The clip you just saw is from the latest installment in the film series which is currently in theaters. And just this past month, it's been the top grossing film worldwide and it's anticipated that when it runs its course in full, it will bring in an estimated $600,000,000.
Now in that clip, we have the main character, IMF operative Ethan Hunt, presented with yet another mission, a mission that he can either choose to accept or reject. It's a mission that will have implications upon world peace and stability and security. And with that, many people flock into the theaters. One thing is clear, there is a lot of people that are interested in what his response to that mission is.
Now tonight, you and I are presented with a mission from God. And this mission is a mission that we can either accept or reject. It's also a mission that will have implications upon our own peace, stability and security. So, if you would please arrive with me at our passage tonight in James Chapter 4 beginning in verse 13. One thing I can tell you for sure is God is intensely interested in what your response to his mission is going to be.
So friends, follow along with me. Your mission should you choose to accept it will be made more clear as we study our passage for James begins in verse 13 with these words, "Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there buy and sell and make a profit. Whereas you don't even know what's going to happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that. But now you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin."
As we look at this passage more closely, it should be noted first off a few things that God is not using James to condemn. You see, God is not through James condemning the idea of planning or having a plan or seeing a plan, follow through on. Nor, is God through James condemning capitalism or the idea of free trade or commerce or even the act of making a profit. Lastly, he is not trying to condemn the idea of having godly ambition. Having initiative especially when it comes to doing things that would advance God's kingdom, none of those things are what God through James is targeting. But rather, let's start off with the consideration of James. James was a first century follower of Christ. James' father was Joseph, his mother was Mary. Yes, the same Mary and Joseph that were Jesus' earthly parents. James was Jesus' half brother, talked about a guy who had a radical change in his direction for his life after he had an encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ.
You see, nowhere in this scriptures does it indicate that James had been a disciple of Christ prior to the death and resurrection of the Lord. It doesn't indicate that he was antagonistic toward his brother. It just doesn't tell us that he had a relationship where he was a zealous disciple, one of the followers of Jesus Christ. But, we do find from a reading of the book of Acts that this very James, the half brother of Jesus was the first leader appointed to the church, contrary to a lot of people's belief who think that it was Peter that was the first leader, it was actually James. Not only was he the first appointed leader of the church, but he is also credited with this book as being the earliest writing of the New Testament.
And most Bible scholars believe that it was written between 44 A.D. and 49 A.D. And the reason that they don't go beyond 49 A.D. is because of what occurred in the book of Acts Chapter 15 known as the "Jerusalem Council." That was a council that involved Jews at the center and their concerns as they were a young church needing to be addressed and so this council takes place. This letter that James writes is addressed to primarily a Jewish audience. And so one would believe that if the writing of this book occurred after the Jerusalem Council, there would be no doubt a reference made to this council, but because there is not, a date of either 49 or before is what's applied to this book. So yet again, the earliest writer of the New Testament is this James. James wasn't just writing to a Jewish audience in general, but he was writing to a Jewish audience of believers in Christ. And more specifically as he refers to them in Chapter 1, he refers to them as the 12 tribes scattered abroad. You see, these were groups of believing Jews that were living outside of Palestine.
Now, there are various reasons why Jews even back then lived outside of Palestine. The earliest reason of which would take us all the way back about 500 to 600 years to the destruction of the first temple back in 586 B.C. It was upon the destruction of the temple that the Jews fled the area for their lives and for their safety. And so you had somewhat scattered generations before, centuries before. You also have other Jews who had just chosen to scatter as a result of perhaps pursuing commerce or trade or maybe a better life elsewhere. But it's better understood that recipient of this letter that James writes were those believing Jews who had scattered outside of Palestine because they were being persecuted for their faith. They were suffering, again fleeing for their lives as new believers in Christ not being received favorably among their Jewish countrymen.
So, God moves James to righteous letter and in this book of James we find a series of tests, tests to prove the authenticity of ones relationship with Christ. I believe God led James to write these tests and present them to this group of believers because James knew that the only way that they were going ultimately endure these sufferings that were coming from their persecutions was to having a vibrant faith in Jesus Christ. And so being presented with these tests, it would be an encouragement to the reader who would pass these tests to say, "Yes, I am in Christ. My faith is solid. And because of that I'll be able to endure these sufferings."
But there are also other benefits to these tests having them presented to this group. In fact, consider those who would be reading the letter, listening to the letter being read and examining themselves in light of these tests and maybe discovering some weaknesses in their relationship with Christ, holds in their faith. This would now offer them the opportunity to identify where they were weak and now apply themselves to become strong in these very areas again with the purpose of having what it takes ultimately to endure these sufferings, these persecutions. But then there is also another benefit, perhaps those within the hearing of this book or reading it themselves, they would apply these tests to their lives and perhaps be discovered as not authentically believers.
So, when we go back to the statement that James makes to this group of people that is our passage tonight, we don't exactly if he is referring to either some who are believers but had simply grown lax in an area they'll walk with the Lord and there was a hole being exposed in the relationship to God, or maybe he is also addressing some of that same group that were in fact not believers at all.
The text doesn't tell us exactly who he speaking to except to say that more than likely just as even in a group like this tonight, we could expect that there is a mixed bunch. There are those who are solid believers. There are those who are having weaknesses exposed in their relationship with the Lord for the purpose of God saying, "Hey, let's work on that, let's become more strong in this area." And then there are perhaps those who would realize, "Wait a minute I've been playing this thing called church and perhaps I'm not a believer and then calling them to make the necessary changes so that they might have relationship with Christ."
Well, we have to now consider who it is that James is addressing here.
Whether it was a weakness in their faith or no faith at all, we know that there was a contingency within this group of Jewish believers that had gone rogue. They had gone rogue. Perhaps in an effort to improve their situation, maybe to even alleviate their sufferings. They went rogue in the sense that they were no longer obedient, no longer controllable by the Lord. Perhaps they were impatient, not wanting to endure sufferings, but they got together and they devised a plan, a mission. The problem with this mission, it didn't involve God. It was made apart from God.
As James addresses this group, we would do well to try to consider the impassion, the plea of James. Sometimes we lose a lot of the scriptures' thrust if we just casually read it from one verse to the next. But as I study this passage, as I read those who have gone before me and studied this passage, a great number of those scholars who've looked at this passage acknowledged that what James is doing is he's calling this group of erring believers out. In fact, somebody have even used the word, "attack." James is attacking them. James is seeking them out. In fact, consider the language where says, "Come now you who say." Almost as if to raise his voice and refer to those who are on the outskirts of where they should've been regarding the flow or the flock of God. Within God's fold, they're wayward, they're out there. They've gone rogue. They're renegade believers. And so almost with an idea that James rushes to them and confronts them face-to-face, he wants to alert them to something. He wants to alert them that in their pursuit of what perhaps they would've called, "The better life." They were missing out on the best life, the best life. Well, it's in contrast to these who had gone rogue.
Now, we're going to look at our passage and in doing so, obtain a more clear understanding of what God's mission is for each of us. You see His mission is first accomplished inwardly, involving an attitude of the heart and then it results in the correct outworking of that attitude in our life, in our mission. So tonight, we're going to look at the rogue's rejection of God's mission. We're going to consider the righteous' resignations to God's mission. And then lastly, we're going to have a good time looking at the rewarding results of God's mission. So, consider with me if you will, the rogue's rejection of God's mission.
We find it first in considering their rhetoric. These words we read that they used to described this mission that they made apart from God. Before we consider what they said, yet again, it's a timely reminder for us to consider the words of Jesus Christ in Matthew 12:34 and the second part of that verse where He says, "Know this for it's out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks." Whatever is going on inside, whatever is overflowing in the form of thought and interest and passions is going to be what comes out of your mouth. And what comes out of these rogue's mouths is a bombastic statement. It's a statement that shows how self-assertive they were. It's a statement that's full of arrogant assumptions.
Let me read it to you the way that perhaps James would call them to task on in reiterating their words back to them. Perhaps they sounded something like this, "Today or tomorrow, we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy, sell, make a profit." Arrogant assumptions. What are some of things that they were assuming here in a very boastful and arrogant manner? Well again, this was a mission of their own devising. And as such, they arrogantly assumed the timing of their mission. That they were going to be in control of when exactly it would start, today or tomorrow. They also arrogantly assumed the location of this mission, "such and such a city." That should not be read or understood as perhaps their consideration of a short list of the few places that they may or may not go. The original language implies a city that the speaker already had in mind. The place that they had already determined they were going to go. And so they arrogantly assumed, "we're going to be there."
Furthermore, they arrogantly assumed the duration of this mission, one year. They believe they had full control over the timetable of their mission. Furthermore, they arrogantly assumed the agenda of their mission. They were going to participate in commerce, trade, buying and selling. Interestingly, there's no mention of anything that would directly impact the kingdom of God or benefit the expansion of God's kingdom, God's initiatives here on this earth. Buying and selling was their task. They also assumed the results of their mission. We will make a profit. No humble consideration of unforeseen circumstances that could get in the way of them fulfilling their mission seemed to have come to their mind.
Perhaps the most indicting of all of their assumptions is found in two words that are found in their statement. It's the words, "We will." We will. Friends, that is the heart of their problem. They were self-willed, not yielding to the mission of God. In response to this bombastic statement, consider if you will James and how he must have sounded to them, maybe even looking at them with bewilderment as he again speaks very impassioned toward them. He says, "Wait a minute. You say this whereas you don't even know what's going to happen tomorrow." Then he asks some question, "What is your life?" It is even a vapor that appears for just a little time and then vanishes away. You see, James here is actually doing an act of love in trying to reason with them to get them to wake up to the foolishness of their mission and how confident they were in it. He's trying to reason with them to show them that they lacked humility to acknowledge that tomorrow isn't promised to anyone.
Friends, means' plans, the best of them are always tentative. Man's plans are always tentative, ultimately depending upon the will of God. Furthermore, he's trying to reason with them, pointing out to the them that they're spending all of their energy, they're investing their life in the temporal by referring to their life as but a vapor. You see, these would have done well to be benefactors of Peter's description that's found in a later writing in the New Testament where he describes, "Our life lived on this earth as we walk through this earth." He describes us as sojourners and pilgrims.
Friends, the truth is, we're just passing through earth. It's simply a holding cell for our entrance ultimately into an eternity spent with Christ and he's trying to reason with them showing them that it's foolish to spend so much of their life and energy on this vapor as it compares to eternity. Lastly, he's trying to reason with them, showing them that they lack the proper perspective of who exactly is in control, who's to be making their plans. You see, these could be referred to as living as practical atheist. What is a practical atheist? A practical atheist is someone who with their mind would acknowledge all the truths of scripture to be true. Yet, in their day-to-day life, they live as if God is irrelevant. God has no impact in their life because they don't let Him. Practical atheist. So, that's a consideration of their rhetoric.
Now, let's look a little bit closer at their rebellion. You see, as we listen to these words, we discover that this group, why they're dripping with self-confidence. We might say these were the Donald Trumps of the first century. These might be looked at as the movers and shakers of their day. Other's might point at them and say, "You know what? Those are the guys and the gals that get things done." It's unmistakable. They had a well-laid plan. What was the problem with their plan? Their mission didn't include God. That meant everything.
In response to this, James says to them, "But now..." Verse 16, "...you boast in you arrogance. All such boasting is evil." Quite literally translated, we would read, "You're boasting in your arrogant pretensions." Thinking that you have a right to lay claim to such fancies, yet God has not been the author of these plans. He calls them on the carpet for glorying in empty assurances, assurances in their own knowledge, their own cleverness, their own business acumen, their own resources apart from God. And really what the Holy Spirit is trying to convey to these people is that He is wanting them to understand that God is denouncing the believer living a life of habitual disregard for the authority of God to determine and control the daily affairs of their life. That my friends, is the issue that God is taking with these group of rogues.
We get to benefit from yet another writing that occurred after the book of James is written, this by Paul, writing to Timothy in I Timothy Chapter 6:17 where Paul tells Timothy, "Command those who are rich in this present age to not be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches, but rather in the living God who gives us freely all things to enjoy." Just a side note, he doesn't say that the problem is in them having riches, but they're trusting in them. Command them not to be haughty, nor to trust in these uncertain riches. Yet, that's exactly what these rouges were hoping to accomplish, the accumulation of riches to make their situation better.
Unfortunately, today as back then, this approach to life demonstrated by this rouge, it's applauded and celebrated by many. Unfortunately friends, even some on the church have fallen in love with this type of person and this approach to life, so much so that it's a sad commentary on the current day church that these types of men are often afforded seeds of the Lord's leadership tables sought out, not because of their spiritual credentials or calling, but because of their abilities with commerce or power broking. Why? Why do we as people have a tendency to be lured in by this kind of approach to life? Well, partly because it offers the illusion of power and control.
So, is that what it yielded? No. What was the end of their pursuits? What was that which their mission accomplished? Well, we find that in Verse 17. "Therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin." What's really sad about this rogue is that they knew better. Their sin, their error wasn't because of ignorance. They knew better, they just didn't follow through again living as practical atheist. See, it's often described as missing the mark. We picture the arrow flying toward the target and not hitting the center. What happened with these, they missed it. They missed out on what God had for them. When it came to God's bounty, they were disavowed, denied.
Their speech is telling, our speech is also telling. Question, what are you talking about these days? What are the words that are coming out of your mouth? How are you talking to others and to God about your life? Are you listening for God? Friends, is there an area in your life where you've grown self-confident apart from God?
If in any way you recognize that there's an aspect of your life in which it mirrors the experience of this rogue, I issue you this challenge. Call yourself into account for it and make changes tonight. You might ask, "Well, how do I make those changes?" Fortunately, our passage gives us a look, a consideration of those that actually did it right. So now, we turn our attention to the righteous' resignations, the righteous' resignations. We find this in the first part of Verse 15 where we read, "Instead you ought to say if the Lord wills."
In order to accept God's mission, the righteous need to do some resigning. When I use the term resignation, I use it in two senses and the first of which is to resign in a sense that you formally give up an office or a position. So, what is the righteous suppose to do? They're to resign as commander. They're no longer in charge. They've relinquished the controls. This word, "if" in the statement that this ought to have been saying, this word, "if" is a beautiful word. It indicates the presence humility. So that the righteous would say, "Of any kind of plan like this, you know what? My hands are off. It's not my call. I don't run the show when it comes to my life."
We find and incredibly powerful and beautiful elucidation of this attitude. In the letter that Paul wrote to the Galatians wherein Chapter 2 Verse 20, Paul makes this proclamation. "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." That my friend, is somebody who had it right. They understood that when they came to faith in Jesus Christ and that relationship was begun, they resigned as commander-in-chief of their lives.
Additionally, when we consider the idea of resignations, I mean it in another sense as well. I mean it in the sense of one having an accepting, unresisting attitude of submission. And for the righteous, it would be an unresisting attitude of submission to God's command. These are those who have taken great delight to nestle themselves up under the lordship of Christ. Again our passage, "If the Lord wills." Consideration of the Lord.
The word Lord is the word "kurios". You know that in the New Testament alone, we find it 717 times in 660 verses. That tells us how much importance the lordship of Christ has in the New Testament. The vast majority of those uses of the word "kurios" is referring to the lordship of God, the lordship of Christ. And notice that we're told that it's the Lord, not a Lord, not the one that I simply report to and maybe others report to somebody else, but we are suppose to report to The Lord, The Lord God. This refers both to His name and His position. You see, this word "kurios" combines two elements with reference to God, His power and His authority and the righteous get it. They understand and appreciate that their Lord is all powerful and all in control. We call that sovereign.
Furthermore, these righteous acknowledge as Paul made reference to in the passage out of Galatians that I just shared with you that they are no longer their own. God is their owner. He is the one to whom we belong and therefore He is the one who calls the shots. So, when the Christians nestles themselves up under the lordship of Christ, it involves an expansion of their vision to include the sovereignty of God that overwhelms their life. The implications of which or that God has complete control of what they do.
It also implies that no matter what we think and no matter what we do, that whether or not we say it as was stated in this passage, the Christian whoever operates on the condition that everything in their life is dependent upon God. In addition to resigning to God's command, the righteous will also resign themselves to God's commission, God's commission. Beyond God's mission. What is His mission? Answer, whatever He wills, whatever He wills. Whatever He wills for your life is God's mission in your life.
What's our responsibility? Our responsibility is to maintain an unbroken dependence upon the will of God and then actually do it. You see, this resignation to God's command is to be an active resignation, not a passive resignation. We're to have what the scripture describes as a working faith. In fact, consider the words of James himself earlier in this book in Chapter 2 Verse 20 where he says these words. He says, "Do you not know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?" We're to have an active faith. A hallmark of a true believer is one who has a desire and willingness to do the will of God, whatever it might be. And that desire to do the will of God must always be greater than any desire they have to fulfill their own agenda.
And friends, here's where it gets interesting. Here's where it interesting for these believers that James is writing to. It got so interesting that someone rogue and figured, "I'm going to solve this problem a different way." It gets interesting for us as true believers. When we're willing to do the will of God, even when it doesn't look like or feel like we expected it to look or to feel. You don't have to turn there, but I just want to take you in your mind's eye back to II Corinthians in the first chapter. For those familiar with that chapter, Paul spends some time giving a list to the recipients of the letter of the hardships that he and his traveling journey, journey buddies had experienced. And as he's listing these hardships, he comes to Verse 9 and he says, "In conclusion yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves." Basically, we felt we have a death sentence. It was over, we were done. But then, he goes on and shares some insight that God had given him as to why God allowed it to get that tough for them. He says, "We had the sentence of death in ourselves for this purpose that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead."
Did you know that God will actually allow circumstances to exist in our life that outwardly seemed against us when they're in fact for us? God's allowing them for the purpose quite often to not just hoard an ever greater dependency upon Him just as with Paul's experience. I want you to look at it this way. Had there been no flood, there would've been no ark. Had there been no murderous army of Pharaoh, there would have been no parting of the Red Sea. Had there been no death of Lazarus, there would be no Lazarus rising from the dead. Had there been no storm, there would be no Jesus calming the storm. Had there been no occupied tomb, there would be no empty tomb of the Lord Jesus Christ. Consider as well, how often Jesus himself while He walked this earth didn't appear to be in control, yet there was never a moment where He was not in control.
Friends, your life to yourself in submission to God's mission, it will be those times where it doesn't look like He's in control. There's going to be times where you don't feel like He's in control, but He is never not in control. So, what was happening in the lives of these rogues? You know what they did? They made a bad trade. They traded in all that they could have experienced with God for what they thought was a better deal, what they thought was a better life. It was keeping them from the best life.
Question, what unsightly or uncomfortable thing in your life are you not yielding to? Now single ladies out there, I'm not talking about the guy you thought was very unattractive who asked you out earlier this week. I'm not implying that you should go seek him out, find him and say, "Well, I think based upon what we studied that I have to say yes now." I'm not meeting in that sense. But seriously, what unsightly or uncomfortable thing in your life are you not yielding to? Can I encourage you by faith in staying true to God's mission? Would you please just yield to the master's touch? In fact, take a play out of the life of Jesus himself, have and perhaps the most agonizing time of His life where He was there in the Garden of Gethsemane knowing the torture that He was about to face, anticipating the incredible suffering of the cross and knowing that the pain of momentary separation from the Father was just hours away. Jesus himself said these words. He said, "Oh my Father, if it is at all possible, let this cup pass from me." But then He says these words, "Nevertheless not as I will but as you will."
Friend, what in your life tonight do you have to have that response to God in order to remain faithful to His mission? In order to allow yourself to continue to be placed, positioned in a way that you're going to see incredible things from God yield to Him.
Lorraine shared something with the school of ministry this morning when she and the children had shared. She talked about a time nine years ago when she was ready to quit. The previous experience with the former kids' ranch went terribly wrong and her heart was just torn out of her chest. She was done. It was her three children that said, "No mom, we cannot let these children not have us be there to love them." And she said, "FHL, what you saw on that video, the beauty, the love." She said, "All of that was born out of adversity." Friend, yield to what God is allowing in your life even that which doesn't look like He thought it would look or feel like you thought it would feel. Because if you do that, you're going to experience the rewarding results of God's mission which is what we'll consider now.
Verse 15, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that." These results my friend, are much more profitable than anything that these rogue would have yielded had their mission been successful according to their terms of success. This is where true riches are. This is where true profit in the Lord is found. And these my friend are your takeaways, your applications for this evening, first of which, confidence, confidence. Again Verse 15, one part of that phrase, "If the Lord wills, we shall live." Those three words, "We shall live."
Thanatophobia is the fear of dying, the fear of death. And I believe that the Holy Spirit let James to go to the center of gravity, the issue of death in order to make a very powerful point. You see, it's a matter of perspective. "If the Lord wills, we shall live." As if to say, whether or not we even breathe our next breath, is under God's control. Therefore, if He controls our very existence, then everything else that is a part of our life would be a lesser difficult task for God to control. If He can take care of the fact that He is the one that sustains us on this earth, then all the affairs of our life are easily taken cared of by Him as well. Faith in the lordship of Christ should allay even the fear of dying. Friends, Christians, you are invincible until God calls you home.
I was incredibly ministered to earlier this week as I consider the words of David out of Psalms 62. We'll only consider a few of those verses.
But in addition to those verses, I was touched by the fact that the heading of this Psalm found in my Bible read this. Psalm 62, "A calm resolve to wait for the salvation of God." Did you catch that? "A calm resolve to wait for the salvation of God." First two verses of that Psalm read this, "Truly..." David says "...my soul silently waits for God. From Him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation. He is my defense. I shall not be greatly moved." Verses 5 through 7 of that same Psalm read, "My soul wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation. He is my defense. I shall not be moved. In God is my salvation and my glory, the rock of my strength and my refuge. All of that is in God." Talk about invigorating confident living. That is what's found when you're faithful to God's mission. Additionally, another reward is that of compliance, compliance.
Verse 17 tells us yet again, "Him who knows to do good and doesn't do it, to him it is sin." But what would be the implication for those who actually know to do good and do it? Well, the implication there is, boom, that arrow hits the bulls-eye. They get it. They comply. They hit the target. This word good is the Greek word "kalos." I just like how that rolls off the tongue, "kalos." Not only does it refer to that which is morally superior, but it has an even more pregnant meaning to it and that it refers to that which is worthy or valuable or worthwhile.
For us as believers, remaining faithful to God's mission, it's important for us to do good at all times but especially just as the readership of James, especially in the midst of persecutions, hardships, sufferings. Why? Well, it's in those times folks that circumstances don't afford us much blessing. Life is just difficult, yet doing good, even when life is difficult affords us the pleasure of knowing that we are pleasing to God. In fact, it affirms the fact that our life counts even when it doesn't look like it counts to many onlookers or it doesn't feel like it counts to us. As we do good, our life matters. It's worth it. It's worth us being here on this earth.
In addition to compliance having that benefit, there's also the benefit of the clear conscience it gives us and my friends, a clear conscience makes for a very soft pillow. Furthermore, I like what C.S. Lewis says about the issue of compliance or obedience. He says, "Obedience is the key to all doors." So as we're walking on God's mission, we have the excitement of anticipating what's next because I'm doing good in the Lord. I'm trusting Him. What door is he going to open now?
Friend, if you're doing good in the Lord and you're walking faithfully according to His mission, whatever doors He wants to open are going to blow open. He's going to take you to places you've never imagined before. He's going to use you in ways that you would never fathom because you're remaining faithful by doing good. Beloved God is not looking for super heroes. God is not looking for tycoons. He's not looking for power brokers. What is God looking for? You can beautifully understand your mission as God's child, God's operative, knowing that God is looking for faithful obedience in His children, staying to the task, sticking to the mission.
Another reward is that of creativity. That comes to us in a consideration of James' word where he says, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that." The idea here is that the believers have their eyes open. They're seeking the Lord. They have their eyes open looking for what God's doing now, what God's going to be doing next and there perhaps even wondering in their minds, "Wow, is that where God's going? Is that what He's doing?"
And as a result, their mind is fiery, they're being creative. Now, to say that a Christian is creative, in one sense it's a misnomer. It's a misnomer and that none of us can create anything. The best we can do is rearrange that which God has already created. But even when it comes to the issue of rearranging or reorienting and seeing how God might rearrange our lives, we have this beautiful reward of being able to live creatively.
Remember what God declared in Isaiah 43:19? He says, "Behold I will do a new thing." Friends, what new thing does God want to do in your life? What thing that you've been doing that maybe you're growing a little dull doing it? Have you considered asking God how He might want you to change things up? How He might want you to reorient, rearrange your life in such a way that you stay faithful to the mission, but He's affording you this ability to be creative and to spice things up? You know that axiom that variety is the spice of life? I believe that comes from the heart of God and He wants to allow us to have the benefit of being faithful to His mission and in doing so live creatively.
I mentioned the fear of dying earlier. Here's another phobia for you. Atychiphobia, it's the fear of failure. Do you know Christian that as you're faithful to God's mission, you do not need to have the fear of failure? Why? Well as you're creative, as you're wondering what God's doing next, as you're exploring what it is that He's doing in your life, you can try things out because guess what? If it's not of Him, it will come to nothing. But if you try something out and it is of Him, He is the one who gives it life, so you don't have to fear failing. You can try it out. If He wants it to flourish, if He wants it to prosper, He'll make prosper.
And lastly we have the rewarding result of completion, completion. Again back to Verse 15, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that." It'll get done friends. God wins, His will gets fulfilled. God's mission gets accomplished and we have the privilege of being a part of it. It's no wonder why Paul writing to the Philippians would make this statement out of Chapter 1 Verse 6 where he says, "Being confident of this very thing that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ." If God wills it, it will get done.
Friends, that is some good living. Those rewards from being faithful to God's mission should excite us about our life here on earth. So, what is your mission? Should you choose to accept it? It's this, faithful resignation to the lordship of Christ which gives rise to a willingness to demonstrate that trust by remaining faithful to His mission even when it doesn't look like or feel like you expect it.
I want to simply share with you my adaptation of a statement that comes from a man by the name of James Sizoo. Together we write these words. "Let it never be forgotten that glamour is not greatness; applause is not fame; prominence is not eminence. The Lord's man of the hour is not apt to be the man of the ages. A stone may sparkle, but that does not make it a diamond; people may have money, but that does not make them a success. It is more often what the seemingly unimportant people do that really counts and determines the course of God's mission throughout history. The greatest forces in the universe are seldom spectacular. Summer showers are more effective than hurricanes, but they get no publicity. The mission of God being accomplished through his people will soon dies but for the fidelity, loyalty, and consecration of those whose names are often unhonored and unsung."
Friends, that might be true of earth's perspective but I can tell you this much. You remain faithful to God's mission, He has his eye on you, you're hitting His target and you're pleasing the only one that you should be living to please. Friends, that is your mission, choose it. Let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much that we have the opportunity to nestle up under your lordship to live a life of faith, to trust you even in midst of those circumstances and times at which things aren't feeling too hard or even looking too certain. We can know God that as long as we're faithful to you, as long as we're not going rogue that God, we're in your control and that is the best place to be. So Lord, however it is you can take what we've considered this evening and make it personal to each and every man, woman, and child that has joined us tonight. We pray you would do your work that we would resign to your lordship and in doing so, live this life of incredible rewards. We ask all of this in the name of our great God and savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God” (Romans 12:1-2). “If we truly want God to reveal Himself to us and His purpose and plan for our lives, we need to be empty of our own agenda and set aside our own preconceived ideas. God will never force His way into our lives. His desire is to transform our hearts and renew our minds to reflect His character and wrapped in unselfish love towards one another. He cannot fill us with ‘Him-self’ and His attributes if we are already full of ‘our-self’.” —C.S. Lewis
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MULTIPLAYER BATTLES AND MORE ARRIVE IN TEEN TITANS GO FIGURE!’S NEW “LEGION OF DOOM” UPDATE, OUT NOW
Collect and fight with new DC universe figures against real players around the world!
ATLANTA – Dec. 6, 2018 – Cartoon Network has released the new “Legion of Doom” update for Teen Titans GO Figure!, the latest hit in the best-selling Teeny Titans global mobile game franchise, which has been downloaded over one million times worldwide.
“Legion of Doom” will introduce a highly requested fan feature: multiplayer battles! Face off with friends and other players with new Teeny Titans figures – including Lex Luthor, Cheetah, The Riddler and more – to climb their ranks and earn exclusive figures. The update also lets you visit the Hall of Doom and adds brand-new tournaments, figure repaints and fun missions to keep your journey going for hours on end.
Teen Titans GO Figure! is developed by Grumpyface Studios based on Teen Titans Go!, Cartoon Network’s popular animated series from DC and Warner Bros. Animation, and inspired by the hit Warner Bros. Animation film “Teen Titans Go! To The Movies,” now available on digital and Blu-ray. It combines the adorable 3D stylized figures, action-packed battles and exciting shopping system of the original Teeny Titans with a new adventure featuring the Justice League. Experience fan-favorite characters and locations from the DC universe while collecting and fighting with nearly 100 customizable figures, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Black Lightning, Swamp Thing, Shazam and more.
Teen Titans GO Figure! is available now on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets via the App Store, Google Play and Amazon Appstore. The update will be available to players in North American, Latin American and Asia-Pacific territories. This game licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on behalf of DC Entertainment is rated E10+ (Everyone 10+) on Google Play and 9+ in the App Store.
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Cartoon Network is Turner’s global entertainment brand and the # 1 animation network in the U.S., offering the best in original content for kids and families with such hits as Adventure Time, The Powerpuff Girls, Steven Universe, We Bare Bears and The Amazing World of Gumball. Seen in 192 countries and over 400 million homes, Cartoon Network is known for being a leader in innovation with its approach to engaging and inspiring kids at the intersection of creativity and technology. Its pro-social initiative, Stop Bullying: Speak Up, is an acknowledged and often-used resource for kids and adults looking for tools that can assist in dealing with the ongoing issue of bullying.
Turner, a WarnerMedia company, a global entertainment, sports and news company that creates premium content and delivers exceptional experiences to fans whenever and wherever they consume content. These efforts are fueled by data-driven insights and industry-leading technology. Turner owns and operates some of the most valuable brands in the world, including Adult Swim, Bleacher Report, Boomerang, Cartoon Network, CNN, ELEAGUE, Great Big Story, HLN, iStreamPlanet, TBS, TurnerClassic Movies(TCM), TNT, truTV and Turner Sports.
About “Teen Titans GO! to the Movies”
When the Teen Titans go to the big screen, they go big! “Teen Titans GO! to the Movies” finds our egocentric, wildly satirical superheroes in their first feature film extravaganza—a fresh, gleefully clever, kid-appropriately crass and tongue-in-cheek play on the superhero genre, complete with musical numbers.
Will Arnett (“The LEGO® Batman Movie”) and Kristen Bell (“Frozen”) lend their voices to the first-ever big-screen version of DC Entertainment and Cartoon Network’s animated TV show, which also stars Greg Cipes (TV’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”) as Beast Boy, Scott Menville (TV’s “Spider-Man”) as Robin, Khary Payton (“The Walking Dead”) as Cyborg, Tara Strong (the “My Little Pony ”franchise) as Raven, and Hynden Walch (TV’s “Adventure Time with Finn & Jake”) as Starfire, reprising their roles from the series.
The film was directed by Peter Rida Michail and Aaron Horvath, from a screenplay by Michael Jelenic & Horvath, based on characters from DC. Horvath, Jelenic, Peggy Regan, Michail and Arnett produced, with Sam Register serving as executive producer. The music is by Jared Faber. Apart from Arnett, all are “Teen Titans GO!” series contributors. Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
From Warner Bros. Animation, the film is available digitally from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and now available on Blu-ray. It is rated PG for action and rude humor. TeenTitansGO-movie.com
About Warner Bros. Animation
Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) is one of the leading producers of animation in the entertainment industry, producing and developing projects for multiple platforms, both domestically and internationally. Theatrically, WBA’s full-length film, Teen Titans GO! to the Movies, released on July 27, 2018. WBA’s TV series include Teen Titans Go!, Unikitty! and the upcoming DC Super Hero Girls and ThunderCats Roar for Cartoon Network; Be Cool Scooby-Doo!, Bunnicula, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, The Tom and Jerry Show, New Looney Tunes, Wacky Races and the upcoming Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who? and Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs for Boomerang; Mike Tyson Mysteries for Adult Swim; Green Eggs and Ham for Netflix; Harley Quinn and Young Justice: Outsiders for DC Universe; Animaniacs for Hulu; and the upcoming Looney Tunes Cartoons content initiative. As home to the iconic animated characters from the DC, Hanna-Barbera, MGM and Looney Tunes libraries, WBA also produces highly successful animated films — including the DC Universe Animated Original Movies — for DVD, Blu-ray® and digital media. One of the most-honored animation studios in history, WBA has won six Academy Awards®, 35 Emmy® Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, an Environmental Media Award, a Parents’ Choice Award, the HUMANITAS Prize, two Prism Awards and 20 Annie Awards (honoring excellence in animation).
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The prisoners’ case, a reflection on the conflict
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By Daoud Kuttab
If you ever want to have a single case that can illustrate all the sources of disagreement in the Middle East all you need to do is look at the Shalit prisoner exchange deal.
Legally Israel refuses to recognize the over ten thousand prisoners it is holding to be prisoners of war because that assumes that there is a war involved in the region. Nor does it accept that they are protected individuals for which the Geneva Convention applies. The Convention regulates how an occupying power is supposed to deal with civilians under its occupation. Israel doesn’t accept that it is an occupying power. Palestinians considers their lands occupied and demand an Israeli end to the occupation in order for the establishment of a Palestinian state in accordance to international commitments. Continue Reading »
Aspects of a conflict: the prisoner exchange
If there were a case that could illustrate the disagreement between Israel and the Palestinians, the Shalit prisoner exchange deal could be the one.
Various aspects of any such exchange, and the way different issues are being spun politically, are illustrative.
Legally, Israel refuses to recognise the over 10,000 prisoners it is holding as being prisoners of war. Nor does it accept that these prisoners deserve the title of “protected individuals”, to which the Geneva Convention applies. The convention regulates how an occupying power is supposed to deal with civilians under its occupation. Israel does not accept that it is an occupying power.
An Absurd Situation
The following appeared in the NY Times web site
Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist and a former Ferris professor of journalism at Princeton University.
The case of Palestinian prisoners and the prospect of an eminent prisoner exchange between Hamas and the Israelis reveal aspects of the conflict that Israel has tried to push under the carpet for too long. Indeed, it showcases the absurdity of the Israeli army occupying an area against the wishes of its people for 42 years while refusing to honor international humanitarian law regarding the treatment of people under occupation.
It is horrifying that Israel is willing to reward radical Hamas but not freeze settlements in the occupied territories.
What’s more, it is politically horrifying that Israel is willing to reward radical Hamas with a prisoner exchange instead of honoring the commitments of the Road Map, which call for, among other things, a freeze in settlements in the occupied territories.
Israel is holding more than 10,000 Palestinians, some without charge or trial. Almost all of these prisoners are being held in contradiction to various international laws and treaties, particularly the Geneva Conventions, which regulate the actions of a prolonged occupying power. These prisoners are routinely denied basic rights, including the right of family visitations because of the inaccessibility of Israeli prisons to more than 90 percent of Palestinians living in the occupied territories. (Only families living in East Jerusalem or those who have managed to get permits through the Red Cross can visit their imprisoned loved ones.)
According to international law, once occupation ends, the occupying power is obliged to release prisoners. But Israel refuses to recognize these jailed Palestinians as either prisoners of war or as “protected individuals,” insisting that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a war. (When Israel regrouped its military forces to the outskirts of Gaza, it demanded that the world consider the occupation of Gaza over and yet refused to release Gazan prisoners.)
If press reports about Israel’s refusal to release prisoners from East Jerusalem are correct, it is one more example of Israel expecting the world to respect its unilateral decision to consider East Jerusalem part of the occupied territory.
Palestine after Abbas?
Daoud Kuttab
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RAMALLAH – A political leader’s decision not to seek re-election usually triggers fervent discussion about potential heirs. Yet, President Mahmoud Abbas’s withdrawal from the presidential election scheduled for January 24, 2010, has produced nothing of the kind in Palestine – not because of a dearth of leadership or a reluctance to mention possible successors, but because the presidency of the Palestinian Authority has become irrelevant.
Abbas’s withdrawal comes at a time when Palestinian frustration with the political process has rendered suspect the entire rationale behind the PA, established in the mid-1990’s, following the Oslo Accords. The main component of the PLO’s agreement with Israel was a five-year interim period during which negotiations were expected to lead to an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. Continue Reading »
Accomplishing Palestinian statehood might have to be done unilaterally
Mahmoud Abbas is in a bind. Faced with a seemingly insurmountable impasse to negotiations with Israel, the Palestinian Authority president can either resign from his PLO chairmanship or come up with some serious, unilateral action to break the deadlock. With hopes that Barack Obama would stand up to the right-wing Israeli leadership dashed, an unwillingness to return to violent resistance, and the inability to resign his presidency of the PA in protest, the Palestinian leader has no alternative but to declare a Palestinian state unilaterally.
The first question one might ask of the leader who has yet been unable to deliver a solution for his people is simply: Why not resign? Indeed fresh leadership, some argue, is just what the situation needs. But the Basic Law of the Palestinian Authority stipulates that such a resignation would prompt presidential elections within 60 days. With the recently released pro-Hamas Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Abdel Aziz Duwaik, poised to become that leader should a vote proceed, resignation is not an option for the secular Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader.
So Abbas is left with unilateral action. The idea to declare independence is not new; a similar Declaration of Independence was made in Algiers in1988, setting forth Palestinians’ historic compromise by accepting the two-state solution: An independent and free state of Palestine alongside a safe and secure state of Israel. The declaration came at the height of the relatively nonviolent Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, dubbed the intifada, and forced the PLO to accept the two-state solution as a means to end the occupation of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza Strip. The declaration was welcomed by more than 100 countries.
Then what happened? The unilateral declaration failed to significantly alter the reality on the ground. In the ensuing years, the Oslo peace process failed to produce an end to the occupation, and Palestinians began searching for an alternative to the talks. The process’s five-year interim period expired in May 1999, leaving many Palestinians worried that the status quo of occupation would become a permanent reality. After the failed Camp David II talks, the violence of the second intifada, and finally, the tragedy of September 11, there was little remaining chance that a unilateral action would succeed. Washington had no stomach for any Palestinian action that was opposed by Israel, and the staunchly pro-Israel U.S. Congress issued a number of sharply worded resolutions against such declarations of Palestinian statehood.
But today is not then. A decade has elapsed since the end of the interim period, and for the last five years, the Palestinian Authority has been led by the moderate Abbas. He deeply believes in negotiations and has delivered near total security in cooperation with Israel and the United States. So while unilateralism does not provide any guarantee of success, it does offer the potential to help a frustrated leader, whose every effort has yet to yield a firm solution, sort out some of the dilemmas facing Palestinians now.
A declaration of independence would allow the Palestinians to demarcate a state covering territory that best reflects minimal Palestinian requirements — without having to negotiate those red lines. This is particularly important because the building of Israeli settlements has continued in Palestinian territories, encroaching on the lines drawn in the Road Map. These settlements were the very reason that Mahmoud Abbas decided to give up on what appears to be a useless peace process – one that gives more and more of the Palestinians’ land away. Unilaterally declaring his own lines may be the only choice remaining.
Any such unilateral Palestinian action will also push the ball not only into the Israeli court, but into the court of Western countries, especially the United States and members of the European Union. These countries will be hard pressed to oppose a Palestinian declaration following years of failed negotiations by a moderate leader such as Abbas, who is so clearly committed to a nonviolent resolution to the conflict. Western powers would also find it difficult to refuse recognition of a state declared within the internationally recognized borders of June 4, 1967.
Israel can be expected to move quickly to nip this unilateral eventuality in the bud. Israeli leaders know that if the idea sees the light of day, it may develop a dynamic of its own. But the Palestinian leadership, the Israelis, and to a lesser degree the Americans, have only themselves to blame for allowing a conflict as volatile as that of today’s Middle East to unravel. If reaching an independent Palestinian state is in the national interest of the United States, as President Obama has said, then it would be ill advised to deny that inevitability to Palestinians — whether they achieve it through negotiations or unilateral action.
Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist and a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. His email is info@daoudkuttab.com
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Radio Balad experience highlighted in Paris
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The following appeared in the Jordan Times
AMMAN (JT) – The experience of a Jordanian radio station was highlighted in an international meeting at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris last week titled “Voice and Empowerment through Community Media”. Attendees in an international UNESCO conference co-sponsored by AMARC, the world association of community radio stations, heard about the efforts of Radio Al Balad’s listeners’ club, according to a statement from the station. “During the Israeli war on Gaza, members of this club were able to enrich the station’s broadcasting by providing live eyewitness reports from different parts of Amman after Friday prayers,” Station Director Daoud Kuttab told participants from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. The final resolution of the conference, co- sponsored by AMARC, called on UNESCO member states to facilitate the working of community radio stations and to cancel licence fees and other obstacles.
Abbas’ move signals end of Oslo phase
In the midst of discussions regarding possible scenarios following Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision not to run for president, few have paid attention to the larger picture.
Abbas’ refusal to run for a second term as president of the Palestinian Authority signals a clear end of the Oslo phase in which he, Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres were key players.
The Oslo process called for a step-by-step process as the best way to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The idea was that easier issues will be dealt with first, with the hope that confidence will be built between the two sides, making the resolution of the more difficult issues at a later stage possible. A five-year interim plan was suggested in the agreement signed on September 13, 1993, at the White House.
Some ambiguity was agreed upon in the written text of the agreement, but both sides were clear that the ultimate goal was the end of the 1967 Israeli occupation and the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
The Palestinians reluctantly agreed then not to insist on a settlement freeze, because Rabin said he needed time to convince the Israelis of the eventuality of a Palestinian state. Rabin didn’t live long enough to carry out his promise; his political heirs took the easy way out and failed to carry out this unwritten promise.
As the 20th century came to an end, it became clear that the five-year interim agreement was becoming permanent, negotiations were not reaching any conclusion and Jewish settlement building was continuing unabated. With no end in sight and the Israelis refusing to deal fairly with the requirements of peace, it was a question of time before the occupied territories exploded in a second, much more violent, uprising.
During the dark early years of the 21st century, Abbas was one of the few Palestinian leaders that clung to the hope that a negotiated process would eventually produce results that would address the minimum Palestinian national aspirations.
Sixteen years after that historic White House handshake, it has become clear that no effort is being made to convince the Israelis to come to term with Palestinian national aspirations. The number of illegal Jewish settlers in Palestinian areas has doubled and more and more Palestinians are convinced that negotiations are a waste of time.
Many still remember the threats of former Israeli prime minister Shamir to drag negotiations. Speaking to the Israeli daily Maariv, Shamir was quoted as saying: “I would have conducted negotiations on autonomy for 10 years and in the meantime we would have reached half a million people in the West Bank.”
The failure of the step-by-step negotiations has focused on the need to follow a different paradigm.
Abbas outlined the Palestinian red lines. His disappointment with the US administration has led him to believe that the way out of the present impasse is to work backwards. The Palestinian leader believes that instead of wasting time in wasteful negotiations, there must be a firm decision about the end result of the negotiations and then talks can deal with a schedule for implementation of such a results, rather than what negotiations should contain.
The two-state solution has become accepted bipartisan policy in Washington. The Palestinian and Israeli public have repeatedly been polled about a compromise solution roughly on the 1967 borders, with slight adjustments and a fair solution to the Palestinian refugee problem. Such a solution is best codified in what is referred to as the Clinton parameters. It is also detailed in the Israeli-Palestinian blueprint titled the Geneva Agreement.
Another approach is that of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad who is convinced that Palestinians must prepare for statehood in spite of the occupation. In two years, Fayyad believes that a de facto Palestine will exist and it will then seek international recognition.
The flurry of US officials’ visits to Ramallah is likely to stop unless a major and important change takes place in Washington. In the meantime, Abbas will pay more attention to the home front, trying to stitch together some type of agreement with Hamas.
The PLO will most likely gain much from Abbas’ decision, as the Palestinian leader will likely de-emphasise the status of the president of the Palestinian Authority, while raising the profile of his position as the chairman of the PLO’s executive committee.
Abbas cannot resign from his post, so as not to allow the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council to take over, and he has not given up his position as the head of the PLO and the leader of its biggest faction, Fateh. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that any Palestinian official from the PLO will be running for the position of president without Abbas’ approval until a new mechanism for an end to the occupation is found.
My NY Times blog entitled “Abbas has not resigned”
Published by admin under Blogs
The following blog appeared in the New York Times “Room for Debate” section
Abbas Has Not Resigned
President Abbas’s decision not to seek another term as head of the Palestinian Authority complicates issues but it also clarifies them. The announcement comes at the end of a turbulent few weeks that saw President Obama humiliate him in New York by asking him to a photo op with Prime Minister Netanyahu and then ordering him to withdraw support for the Goldstone report, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lecturing him in Abu Dhabi and then lavishing praise on Mr. Netanyahu for the unprecedented act that the right-wing Israeli has yet to take.
The Israelis and the Americans couldn’t dream of finding a better Palestinian leader than Abbas.
The Palestinian leader has also been kicked around by radical Palestinians and the Islamic Hamas movement for his unwavering faith in a peace process that seems to be politics as usual in yet another spineless U.S. administration.
The Israelis, the Americans, the international community and any genuine proponent of a negotiated settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict couldn’t dream of finding a better Palestinian leader. Mr. Abbas has publicly attacked his own party’s hot heads declaring his opposition to the militarization of the intifada. He also mocked Hamas for its useless rockets against Israel and convinced delegates to the Sixth Fatah convention that nonviolent negotiations are the way forward.
Mr. Abbas’s frustration is understandable. Instead of the other parties responding to his moderation, they interpreted them as a reflection of the weak party to the conflict. Palestinians might be weak but they are clearly stubborn on what it is that they will not concede on.
In his public statement Thursday, Mr. Abbas laid out his own red lines: an independent state on the 67 borders including East Jerusalem and a fair solution to the refugee problem. By restating that position he has declared a shift in the paradigm. Instead of negotiations leading to a solution, he has said that his involvement in any negotiations has to be based on how to implement this universally accepted two-state solution.
Late last month, Mr. Abbas signed a decree announcing the Jan. 24 date for presidential and parliamentary elections. Two weeks earlier, he had also signed the Egyptian reconciliation agreement with Hamas in which he was willing to accept a six-month postponement of such elections if there is reconciliation. The Hamas refusal to sign that document left him with little choice but to carry out the constitutional mandate. Mr. Abbas, of course, has not resigned. Any such resignation will mean that the Hamas-supported, recently released by Israel, speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, will become president for 60 days until new elections take place.
The announcement that he will not seek another term becomes crucial only if elections will indeed take place. In 2006, Mr. Abbas refused all suggestions to the contrary and organized elections that led to the overwhelming victory for Islamists. While his and other Palestinian Liberation Organization nationalists will certainly win, it is highly unlikely that he will go ahead with such elections without Gaza’s participation and without some type of national unity agreement.
Will the real Hillary please stand up
Conflicting, wavering positions that do not help peace
As first lady of the United States, Hillary Clinton was the darling of Palestinians and Arabs when late in Bill Clinton’s term she uttered the hot button word: Palestine. Since then, she has been swinging depending on the political winds.
As a senator for the state of New York, she became a staunch Israeli supporter, standing by Israel whether justifiably or not. To win the US presidency, she continued this pro-Israel stance, but as secretary of state in the Obama administration, she flipped back.
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