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May – September 2019 May – Sep 2019
May 24 @ 5:00 pm – Aug 30 @ 6:00 pm
Enjoy live music at the zoo on Friday evenings. Kids can participate in animal-related activities focused on conservation. No concert June 21.
Whitaker Music Festival
May 29 @ 8:00 pm – Jul 31 @ 9:00 pm
Every Wednesday, the botanical garden welcomes a different musical artist.
university city summer band
Jun 11 @ 7:00 pm – Jul 23 @ 8:00 pm
The band’s 23rd season is themed Around the World in 6 Concerts. Performances are every Tuesday, with the exception of July 3. A special concert July 18 will be held on the grounds of the Ulysses S. Grant House.
The legendary R&B group brings its signature sound to St. Louis.
Diana Ross in Concert
One of the most successful recording artists of all time makes a local stop on her Music Book tour.
The five-member pop group will appear in St. Louis on the second leg of its 8 Letters tour.
St. Louis Burger Week
Jul 29 @ 12:00 pm – Aug 4 @ 12:00 pm
Pull up a chair for $6 burger specials at some of the area’s favorite joints, including Bar Louie, Hi-Pointe Drive-In and The Blue Duck. Collect stamps on your Burger Passport for a chance to win a grill party.
Categories: Food
Beck in Concert
The Grammy-winning artist is set to appear with Cage the Elephant and Spoon as part of his multicity tour, The Night Running.
Gesher Music Festival
Aug 8 @ 12:00 pm – Aug 18 @ 12:00 pm
Four concerts at local venues celebrate the history and importance of different musical genres.
Blues at the Arch
Aug 9 @ 6:00 pm – Aug 23 @ 6:00 pm
Celebrate the past and future of the blues at a concert series featuring local and national artists.
Brandi Carlile in Concert
The Grammy Award-winning artist and her band take the stage with favorites from albums like The Firewatcher’s Daughter and By the Way, I Forgive You.
Gary Clark Jr. in Concert
The native Texan makes a stop in St. Louis to share his unique mix of musical styles.
Knez Jakovac Quartet
The Gaslight Jazz Series concert includes guest vocalist Janet Evra.
St. Louis World’s Fare
Live music, art, games, food, kids’ activities and more come together at this fun, multicultural festival.
Categories: Art Festival Food Music
Todd Mosby World Fusion Ensemble
A variety of world music styles are explored, including guitar, percussion and vocals.
Jacques Thibaud String Trio
Pianist Tin Lao joins the chamber music ensemble for a concert featuring Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven. A reception will be held at 6:30 p.m.
African Children’s Choir: Just As I Am Tour
Traditional spirituals, gospel favorites and children’s songs are featured at a concert supporting education and relief efforts in Africa.
Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
The legendary big band of swing presents a tribute to Frank Sinatra at Powell Symphony Hall. The St. Louis show is a stop on the band’s world tour.
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Posts Tagged ‘The Who’
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: Jeff Sessions’ Honesty Questioned
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Friday, June 16, 2017
Despite all the “best intentions,” United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a Republican, and former Senator from Alabama, cannot keep the questions from coming. Our nations Intelligence Services have clearly identified involvement by a foreign government, specifically, Russia, in our 2016 General Election, to specifically sway voters for Donald Trump. Furthermore, those same intelligence agencies have also identified successful hacking efforts 39 states’ voter databases. These are not mere accusations. There is hard-core, irrefutable demonstrable evidence. Furthermore, Russia – though some say it no longer a “communist” nation – is NOT an American ally, nor will they ever be. Even before the rise and “fall” of communism in Russia, that nation and it’s leaders had NEVER been our “friends.” Consider also this fact: Even though Russia may no longer claim they are “communist,” the Russian political leaders now in power are the very same ones who were in power when Russia “was” communist. It reminds me of a song by “The Who” entitled “Won’t Get Fooled Again” which states in part, “Meet new boss… same as the old boss.”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a former Republican Senator from Alabama, is sworn in before the Senate Intelligence Committee in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, June 13, 2017.
Lobbyist For Russian Interests Says He Attended Dinners Hosted By Sessions
Richard Burt contradicts Jeff Sessions’ testimony that he didn’t believe he had contacts with lobbyists working for Russian interests during Trump’s campaign
An American lobbyist for Russian interests who helped craft an important foreign policy speech for Donald Trump has confirmed that he attended two dinners hosted by Jeff Sessions during the 2016 campaign, apparently contradicting the attorney general’s sworn testimony given this week.
Sessions testified under oath on Tuesday that he did not believe he had any contacts with lobbyists working for Russian interests over the course of Trump’s campaign. But Richard Burt, a former ambassador to Germany during the Reagan administration, who has represented Russian interests in Washington, told the Guardian that he could confirm previous media reports that stated he had contacts with Sessions at the time.
“I did attend two dinners with groups of
former Republican foreign policy officials
and Senator Sessions.”
– Richard Burt, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany
during Reagan administration, and
Russian lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
Asked whether Sessions was unfamiliar with Burt’s role as a lobbyist for Russian interests – a fact that is disclosed in public records – or had any reason to be confused about the issue, Burt told the Guardian that he did not know.
Several media reports published before Trump’s election in November noted that Burt advised then candidate Trump on his first major foreign policy speech, a role that brought him into contact with Sessions personally.
Burt, who previously served on the advisory board of Alfa Capital Partners, a private equity fund where Russia’s Alfa Bank was an investor and last year was lobbying on behalf of a pipeline company that is now controlled by Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled energy conglomerate, first told Politico in October that he had been invited to two dinners that were hosted by Sessions last summer, at Read the rest of this entry »
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Woman In Super Bowl Ad Is First Female Skill Player To Earn Scholarship
posted by Bill Galluccio - Feb 28, 2019
Antoinette Harris, who rose to fame following her role in Toyota's commercial during Super Bowl LIII, has made history by becoming the first female position player to earn a college football scholarship. The 5'7" free safety signed a letter of intent to play football next fall at Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri. Harris, a junior at East Los Angeles College, said that she had received offers from five other schools.
"I picked Central Methodist because of the resilience within the school itself and how Coach Calloway had been communicating with me before the Super Bowl stuff ever popped up," Harris said in a press release.
Harris isn't happy just making history in college sports. Her ultimate goal is to become the first female player in the NFL and she one day hopes to suit up for the Seattle Seahawks.
"I believe I’m going to be the first female NFL player," Harris told the Detroit Free Press. "But if it just so happens that I’m not, I want to make sure there’s a way paved for the next little girl that can get there."
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Fabolous Net Worth
Source of Wealth: Professional Rapper
John David Jackson, known best as Fabolous, is an American rapper, record producer, musician and vocal singer from New York. He is best known for his songs ‘ Can’t Deny it’ and ‘Young’n Holly Back’. His second release was 2003’s Street Dreams, which was supported by two Top 10 singles “Can’t Let You Go” and “Into You”.
As of 2019, Fabolous’ net worth is estimated to be roughly $20 Million dollars.
John David Jackson was born on the 18th of November, 1977, in New York City. Jackson is of Dominican and African-American descent.
Jackson began his career in hip hop while he was still in high school. He performed on the New York City radio station ‘Hot 97’. He was eventually signed by DJ Clue to his record label ‘Desert Storm Records,’ following which he was featured on several of their mixtapes.
Fabolous began his career in 2001 when he dropped his debut album ‘Ghetto Fabolous’. The album found commercial success and sold 140,000 copies in the first week. It also debuted at the fourth position on the US Billboard 200.
He released his second studio album ‘Street Dreams’ in 2003 which also was a success commercially. It reached the third position on the US Billboard 200, with sales of 185,000 copies in the first week. Its most successful singles were ‘Can’t Let You Go’ and ‘Into You,’ both peaking on the US Hot 100 at the 4th position.
His third studio album ‘Real Talk’ was released in 2004, and like his previous albums, it was a commercial success. It had sold more than 550,000 copies by the end of the year.
His next studio albums were ‘From Nothin’ to Something’, which was released in 2007, and ‘Loso’s Way’ which was released in 2009. Both the albums were commercially successful, the former peaking at the 2nd position on the US Billboard 200, and the latter peaking at the 1st position.
His album ‘The Young OG Project’ was released in 2014. With singles, such as ‘Lituation’, ‘We Good’ and ‘You Made Me’, the album reached the 12th position on the US Billboard 200.
As of 2019, Fabolous’ net worth is $20 Million dollars.
Here are some of the best highlights of Fabolous’ career:
Into You (Song, 2003)
Breathe (Song, 2004)
Thim Slick (Song, 2015)
Friday on Elm Street (Album, 2017)
Favorite Quotes from Fabolous
“I’m so devoted to my music and becoming the best artist I can be. I don’t want to devote too much time to anything else before I say I’ve conquered that. I just wanna become bigger and I’m never satisfied with just what I am today, I just always want to be bigger. If I was Bill Gates, I would double Bill Gates. That’s the mindstate you should keep in any profession, just keep striking iron and trying to get bigger and better.” – Fabolous
“I hate to see somebody get locked up, especially someone as talented as Lil Wayne. You know Wayne is a strong figure in the hip-hop marketplace, and for him to go away for 8 months, you know it’s sad for hip-hop as a whole.” – Fabolous
“Everybody’s not always open to everything. People have biased feelings about certain things, especially in the hip-hop world. The hip-hop world hates homosexuality.” – Fabolous
“I’ve been around for almost 10 years in the game but somehow I still look like I’m like on my second or third album or something. So it’s good cause it doesn’t blow up my age.” – Fabolous
“I try to do stuff that I’m more passionate about, more than just like being all over the place doing different sneakers.” – Fabolous
3 Strong Lessons from Fabolous
Let’s take a look at some of the strongest lessons we can learn from Fabolous:
1. Know Your Worth, Ain’t No Discounts
Pretty self-explanatory, but let’s unpack this for a moment. How many of you will admit that you were/are afraid to charge what you’re worth because people will say “you’re too expensive”?
The truth is that many entrepreneurs have felt this way at some point during their career. You don’t feel you are worth it, so you charge less money for your products and time because, at the end of the day, you just want to make money.
2. Don’t Make Excuses, Make Deposits
One of your main objectives as a boss is to make money, right?
Now money should not be the main objective. Great businesses exist because there is a problem to solve, not because there is a product to sell. As a boss, part of your responsibility is to ensure the success of your business. That means putting in the hours and resources necessary to accomplish your goals.
3. Pops Vision; the Bottoms Crowded, the Top isn’t
There has never been a better time to understand how you add value and impact to the world around you. Social media has turned everyone into a business owner – being an entrepreneur is the hottest trend right now. It may be easy to jump on the success of another and follow trends in order to make money.
Fabolous has released six albums and sold over three million copies in the US. He has had multiple hit singles, one chart-topping album, and all of his albums have charted on the Billboard 20.
What do you think about Fabolous’ net worth? Leave a comment below.
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UCPS employees again recognized as United Way top giver
Richard Heins, (at left), United Way vice president of county operations, presents UCPS Superintendent Dr. Mary Ellis a plaque honoring Union County Public Schools employees for being the top giver in the 2013 United Way Campaign.
For the second year running, Union County Public Schools teachers, principals, Central Office personnel and maintenance workers alike have been recognized as the top givers to the United Way’s 2013 Campaign.
UCPS Superintendent Dr. Mary Ellis was presented an award on behalf of the school system at Friday’s (April 4, 2014) United Way Annual Thank You Breakfast held at Carolinas Medical Center-Union.
Ellis said the fact that UCPS educators gave about $176,000 is even more remarkable when you consider that educators have not had a pay-raise in five years. “It’s easy to do good things when you work with like-minded people,” she said. “Folks join together for the betterment of the all.”
Michael Lutes of Carolinas Medical Center-Union and a member of the 2013 Union County United Way Board of Directors said UCPS set the example for leadership in the community.
“(UCPS) employees serve on the local United Way Board and serve on every United Way council or committee we have,” Lutz said. “More than 300 of their employees came out to volunteer for Day of Caring. Their campaign raised nearly $176,000, which is the largest school campaign in our five-county region.”
Six UCPS schools were also recognized for their contributions: Forest Hills High School raised $8,000 (with a 74 percent participation rate); Marvin Ridge High raised $5,700; Monroe High raised about $6,000; Piedmont High raised about $6,000; Piedmont Middle raised about $7,500 (with an 81 percent participation rate); and Weddington High raised more than $18,000 (the largest school campaign in the region).
Ellis, who chaired the 2013 United Way Campaign, said the money raised by United Way helped 19 agencies that serve more than 40,000 people in Union County.
Former UCPS Superintendent Dr. Ed Davis, the 2013 Union United Way Board Chair, said the job as board chairman was a “joyous job.”
“There is no higher calling than to look out for our fellowman,” Davis said.
The top 10 organizations recognized at the breakfast as top givers in the 2013 United Way campaign are the Union County Public Schools; Charlotte Pipe and Foundry, Plastics Division; ATI Allvac; Carolinas Medical Center-Union; RSC Chemical Solutions; Tyson Foods; UTC Aerospace Systems; Union County; UPS-Monroe; and Wingate University.
Written by: Deb Coates Bledsoe, UCPS Communications Coordinator
Posted: Apr 06, 2014 by Deb Coates Bledsoe
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Coffee and Regrets (a min7en story): Chapter Eleven
Chapter: Eleven [R]
Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Seoul could have fallen in the silence between the two men and they would not have heard it. Changmin stood in the corner of the master bedroom, staring out the window at the city below, numb to anything other than the breathing of the man behind him. If he could take a few steps backwards, Min was certain he would be able to hear Se7en’s heartbeat.
Can half of a heart still beat? His gremlin whispered. If you hear it, will it be the other half of your own heartbeat? Will you then feel alive?
Changmin rested his forehead against the cool glass, listening to Se7en move around the room. Even after a year, he could see the older man in his mind, Se7en’s ruffled black hair swept back from his strong face. The creak of a spring and the shuffle of bare feet on a rug meant the singer was sitting down. In a few seconds, if they were still lovers, he’d lay back and pat the mattress, giving Min a wicked grin and a wink in the hopes the younger man would join him.
The singer didn’t know what hurt more; seeing Ji laying on Se7en’s long body or not hearing the pat-pat-pat of the man’s hand on the bed.
“Are we going to do this?” Se7en asked. “The view’s nice but you’ve seen it before. Even after a year, the city doesn’t change much from up here.”
“You’re angry.” Min tapped his head against the window.
Of course, he’s angry, his mind whispered. There are times when I want to move into someone else’s mind…someone intelligent..
“Great, now my own brain’s against me,” The younger man sighed to himself. Sliding around, he leaned until his shoulder blades hit the glass. The cold would bolster him, he thought, remind him that he wasn’t totally to blame for their parting although at the moment, he couldn’t remember what started the argument to begin with. Cocking his head at Se7en, the singer asked softly, “What started this? This argument?”
“What killed us?” Se7en looked down at the carpet, not seeing Min wince at the cut in his words. “You tell me. You walked out. Even after everything you said to me, I was still willing to work things out. You closed the door on us. You didn’t answer my phone calls and you were the one who changed his phone number.”
“The company gave us… new phones,” Min started to say. Even knowing he was telling the truth, it still sounded like a feeble excuse. “I… shouldn’t have let it go this long. I’m sorry.”
“Sorry would have cut it if it were only a few weeks, maybe a month,” The older man said, looking up. His eyes were cold, frigid amber against Min’s entreaties. “It’s been a year and the first time I see you, you’re almost undressed and bleeding from another man’s hands. What happened to you, Min? Who have you become since you left me?”
Ji pressed the ice pack against the side of his face, wondering if he shouldn’t pull over and wait for some of the swelling to go down before he continued driving. The night sky was beginning to darken, the evening’s stars lost behind the glow of the city’s lights and Seoul’s temperamental weather. His Audi was newly waxed, the gleaming black glossy paint swirling with neon from the billboards on the main strip and he hated to get spots on it.
“If I don’t crash because I can’t see,” He grumbled, hitting his phone link on the dashboard. Letting the GPS access, he let the system scroll through his list of friends, hoping to find someone home in the early evening. “Who do I know nearby? Hell, who won’t give me crap about Dong Bang’s baby hitting me in the face?”
Ji knew who was nearby. Every time he drove to Dong-Wook’s apartment, he couldn’t help but glance down the street, foolishly catching a glimpse of a certain balcony on a particular building. It was silly. It was as if he were one of the giggling girls in their school uniforms chatting over cakes and teas when a hot guy walked by.
“But he’s definitely a hot guy,” Ji murmured softly, rumbling with a longing moan.
He clenched his teeth, aroused at the thought of the man’s long-fingered, artistic hands and down-swept mouth exploring his body. Tapping his fist on the steering wheel, Ji admonished his self control. A quick drop of the ice pack between his legs didn’t help. His face still throbbed and his groin took up the beat.
Pulling over, he parked where he could see the building he always sought out. A foolish thought strayed into his mind, wondering if the older man was home or if he were busy. Finding the apartment was easy. He’d studied the floors so often he could identify the drapes and he thought he saw them flutter but couldn’t be sure. The ache in his heart lessened a bit at the thought of the older man looking for him among the crowd and he sighed, resting his chin on the wheel, hoping to catch a glimpse of his crush.
It hurt to see Se7en in pain. He loved Dong-Wook…as much in the present as he’d done in the past. Cocky and brash, the persona of Se7en hid a romantic, sleepy-voiced singer who’d run into more than a few rough patches in his life. The trip to America had been disastrous, and despite the talent and dedication Se7en brought to the studio, he’d been cast aside when the studio was done ‘trying on the Asian thing’. Nothing he had done seemed to matter, even working to smooth out his English only gained him derision from some of the management.
“No one wants to hear a failed ESL student sing love songs,” Se7en said after a few mouthfuls of whiskey. “He said that right to my face, like I wasn’t standing there. I guess he thought I couldn’t understand him. He kept bobbing his head and smiling while he insulted me. I wanted to punch his face in but I couldn’t. Everything I had was riding on whether or not he’d promote me.”
“You should have punched him before you left,” Ji said, patting his hyung on the shoulder. “And what’s an ESL student?”
“God I love you, Ji. It means English as a Second Language. Don’t feel bad. I had to look it up.”
Se7en’s bold laughter was nice to hear, especially after weeks of brooding. The America trip had been hard on his mentor but worse was the steeped anger and hurt Se7en wouldn’t speak about. Now knowing the other man was in love with Shim Changmin, everything made so much more sense.
The lean singer was everything Ji was not; somber, handsome, elegant… and tall. Wrinkling his nose, Ji made a monkey face at himself in the rear view mirror. Mostly, he thought in sheer disgust — Min was handsome and tall. He knew he was cute. Ji traded on it. He used his amiable features and flexible body to sell his music, often trading on his charisma to get him past doors that would normally be closed to him.
The industry viewed him as unthreatening and silly, sometimes shocking but not so much that he’d be shunned. He encouraged that image, hiding his proclivities in plain sight. No one expected the court jester to be anything but outrageous. He’d be famous before they realized he’d meant to push every button on purpose and stretch every rule he could.
Life isn’t worth living if you didn’t bend it until it breaks, Ji thought with a grin. He sobered thinking of the men he’d left in Se7en’s apartment. But that doesn’t work for hearts, Chil and I know now that you’ve bent your heart past breaking and you still love him.
“All I’ve got to say is; he better be worth it, hyung,” Ji nodded, reaching for the ice pack again. The cold leeched any feeling from his cheekbones and he was grateful for the numbness. It was becoming difficult to see out of his eye and he worried that Min had gotten him in the middle of his nose. He’d have two black eyes before midnight if that was the case. “Damn, I should get some aspirin. That’ll help.”
He took one last longing peek at the apartment above him, wondering if he’d ever see past the drapers. Pursing his lips, he stared at his phone, his fingers itching to reach out and tap out the number he’d stolen from TOP’s phone months ago.
“You’d tell any of the others to go for it, Ji,” The young man whispered, staring at the brightly-lit screen. “You’d cheer them on as they dialed and help them get dressed when they went on their date. But oh, I don’t even know if he likes… guys like that. Hell, I don’t even know if he’d like me like that.”
Only one way to find out. He thought. Call.
The phone was ringing before Ji even had the headset in and the soft growling voice on the other end gave his stomach the shivers. Under his t-shirt, his nipples peaked, roused only by the sound of the man’s gentle hello. Swallowing, Ji plunged in, puffing out his cheeks before speaking.
“Hey, gae!” Ji winced when the pain in his nose and cheek traveled across his face and into his teeth. “I’m glad you’re home. I kind of need a small favour.”
“I don’t know…what happened to me,” Min admitted. His lashes were wet with tears and he wanted to wipe them away, erasing any sign of weakness from existence. “Just everything… became so much. The members…”
“You can’t blame this all on the members, Changmin,” Se7en said quietly. “Jae and the others did what they felt they had to do in order to remain sane. You chose to react the way you did. You’re the one who said things in anger, not them.”
He rested back on his hands, crossing his ankles out in front of him. The older man was the picture of casual elegance; a beautiful face and a sculpted body clothed casually for a night in. Only the tenseness around his mouth betrayed the tenuous hold he had over his emotions and Min wanted nothing more than to wipe away the crease between the other man’s eye brows but he’d lost the right to do that long ago.
“I’m not…” Min closed his mouth, worrying at the necklace he wore. “Standing here in front of you right now is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.”
“Walking out that door…walking away from me should have been the hardest thing that you have ever done,” Se7en said, tilting his chin up to meet Min’s eyes.
There was a shimmer across his burnt amber gaze, tears swelling from heartfelt emotion. Unlike the young singer, Se7en never hid his emotions, even when they could be seen as unmanly. Not for the first time, Min found himself envious of the man’s confidence.
“I know I should have… been a better lover…”
“You should have been a better friend,” Se7en replied. “You should have let me be a better friend.”
“I just… everything was so…” Changmin explained. He paced, counting off the strides in the back of his head. He reached five and turned around, laughing that everything in his life seemed focused on that one number… that single number. “It felt like they were leaving me. Like they wanted to leave me. I hated Joongie-ah for turning me away. It felt so… good to be angry at him. And then you came back and I should have loved you better…held you tighter and I didn’t. I know that now. I didn’t… I didn’t know that a year ago. Things are different now. I’m different now.”
“I’m not so certain I like the different Min.” The other man said. “The man I fell in love with took care of the people he loved. Even if he was heavy-handed with it, he still…thought of people. He still thought of me even when the world was pushing in on him. My Min would have talked to me. Or at least reached out to me in some way. You…this Min…shoved me aside and to be honest, baby… I’d had enough of being shoved aside to last a lifetime by then. I needed you. I needed you to need me. I didn’t need you to tell me I was just a piece of shit on your shoe.”
“It’s so easy for you. Everything is just…” Changmin threw his hands up in the air, exasperated. “Haven’t you ever made a mistake? Haven’t you ever done anything that made you wonder if what you were doing was worth it?”
“Hell yeah,” Se7en laughed, a bitter hard sound, and said, “I fell in love with you, didn’t I?”
c&r11,
supersonicjaz
Apr. 6th, 2010 02:02 am (UTC)
are these cookies made out of unicorn meat? >.>
nope. chocolate and sugar. and jaejoong kisses :D ♥
You know how to make me happy ^^
supersonicjaz : (no subject) [+2]
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Classical music: The new year starts out on a sour note — Chopin’s favorite piano maker, the venerable Paris-based Pleyel, has gone out of business even while Steinway seems to have a bright future. Plus, violinist Kangwon Kim performs music by Brahms and Rochberg this Friday at noon for FREE. | January 8, 2014
ALERT: This week’s FREE Friday Noon Musicale, to be held from 12:15 to 1 p.m. in the Landmark Auditorium of the historic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Drive, features violinist Kangwon Kim (bel0w) with pianist and FUS music director Dan Broner in the Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78, by Johannes Brahmas and music for solo violin by the American composer George Rochberg.
The past few days I have spent catching up with some leftovers from 2013. This is another one, though it could also be classified as opening the new year of 2014 with sad news.
The news is that Pleyel, the venerable Paris-based piano maker (below) that made the favorite pianos of composer Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) — and was the oldest piano maker in the world — has gone out of business. (You can hear Chopin’s famous Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23, performed an 1836 Pleyel in a YouTube video at the bottom.)
Was too much attention paid to marketing and promotion? Not enough to building pianos? Did too much effort and money go to surface and not enough to substance? Check out this YouTube video from several years ago about Pleyel trying to go upscale:
Perhaps the story with piano makers is not unlike the problem that some orchestras are facing because too much money has gone into new facilities, refurbishing concert halls and raising conductors’ salaries rather than to the musicians.
Whatever the answer is, the fate is certainly different that what has been promised to the famous Steinway and Sons company by its new owner, billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson.
Here a link to the Steinway story I posted earlier:
https://welltempered.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/classical-music-steinway-will-remain-steinway-says-the-new-billionaire-hedge-fund-owner-of-the-famed-piano-company/
And here is a link to the story about Pleyel, which Chopin (below) favored for its light touch and soft sound, as reported by Paris correspondent Eleanor Beardsley, one of my favorite NPR reporters.
It also features audio-visual clips with the superb Canadian pianist Janina Fialkowska (below, who has recovered from a debilitating injury) playing an 1848 Chopin-vintage piano.
Perhaps it is similar to the Erard piano that American pianist Emanuel Ax used some years ago to record with the late Charles Mackerras Chopin’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 in E Minor and 2 in F minor (really his first concerto) on a period instrument:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2013/12/28/257581367/chopins-favorite-piano-factory-plays-its-final-chord
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Until I read this I thought Pleyel was mainly famous for building the harpsichord that Wanda Landowska used to reintroduce harpsichord literature and performance to modern audiences.
Comment by Ron McCrea — January 9, 2014 @ 2:29 pm
Everyone with an interest in the piano and the Steinway Company should see Note by Note, a documentary about the making of Steinway L1037. It is a wonderful film and can be streamed through Netflix.
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Zen Cruises to Start in India with Pacific Jewel
Another new cruise line is entering the fold as Zen Cruises announced today it had purchased the 1990-built P&O Pacific Jewel and intends to start service in 2019 out of India.
The cruise brand is owned by Essel Group, which describes itself as a “multi-faceted business conglomerate, with a legacy of over 90 years.”
The company today announced the appointment of industry veteran Jurgen Bailom as President and CEO of the Group’s upcoming cruise line business, Zen Cruises Private Limited.
“Bailom will steer the company on a course to captivate Indian cruise passengers with an offering par excellence,” the company said.
The Pacific Jewel entered service in 1990 as the Crown Princess after being built by Fincantieri. It also served as the A’Rosa Blu, AIDAblu and Ocean Village Two before moving to P&O Australia as the Pacific Jewel in 2009. It will wrap up its service career with P&O in March.
Bailom was previously at the head of Grupo Vidanta Cruises prior to Essel Group. He has also held senior corporate director positions within several of Royal Caribbean’s brands.
“I’m thrilled to be a part of the Essel Group which has done pioneering work across sectors and consider it a great opportunity to be at the helm of India’s first cruise company. India has a 6,632 km long coastline along nine states and two union territories which presents the tremendous potential to promote and grow cruise tourism in India. We intend to take the cruise liner experience to a new level for people in India, and I look forward to unveiling our plans soon,” Bailom said.
No further information was released.
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Stephen Webster to Launch Bridal Collection
The designer is bringing his Gothic, rocker aesthetic to the world of bridal jewelry.
A WEBSTER WEDDING: Stephen Webster is turning his Gothic, rocker aesthetic to the world of bridal jewelry. The jeweler’s first bridal collection, which launches this month at Webster’s Mount Street store in London, includes delicate engagement rings, wedding bands and earrings in white, yellow and rose fair trade gold, set with Forevermark diamonds. Forevermark is a diamond brand from the De Beers group of companies, and the company pledges that the diamonds are both rare and responsibly sourced. Last week, Webster took over a deconsecrated church in Mayfair to hold a dinner to launch the collection, where the ornate space was decked out with tables set with white freesias and glossy black candelabras wound with barbed wire.
Webster noted that the collection is a romantic take on his signature jewelry. “You’ve got to keep romance in mind, but I think when people buy my jewelry they expect a certain thing from it,” said Webster. “It’s trying to capture the spirit of what we do — I hope it’s got a bit of an edge, because that’s why people want our jewelry, and I hope it’s got a delicacy to it,” he said.
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Robert Henry Hammersley Heenan[1]
George Heenan
Died 18 Dec 1866 Parsonstown, Ireland
Father John Heenan, b. Abt 1787, Ireland
Mother Alexander?, b. Abt 1770
Family Belinda H Hammersley, b. 1819, Ireland
Married 22 Aug 1843 Shinrone Church
1. George Frederick Hammersley Heenan, b. 17 May 1844, Birr, Offaly, Ireland
2. John Alexander Heenan, b. 5 Nov 1845, Birr, Offaly, Ireland
3. Richard Hammersley Heenan, b. 5 Jan 1847, ParsonTown, Kings County, Ireland
4. Robert Henry Hammersley Heenan, b. 10 Jan 1852, Birr, Kings County, Ireland
5. Wilhelmina Frances Heenan, b. 6 Aug 1854, Birr, Offaly, Ireland
Belinda H Hammersley
Birth 1819 Ireland
Died Mar 1899 Rathdown, Ireland
Family George Heenan, b. 1814
Edith Maria Fuller
Birth Abt 1859 Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Died 2 Sep 1933 Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Buried (5 SEP) Inglewood cemetery, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Father James Fuller, b. 12 Oct 1824, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Mother Elizabeth Adcock Whittle, b. Est 1833
Family Robert Henry Hammersley Heenan, b. 10 Jan 1852, Birr, Kings County, Ireland [1]
Married 1878 Cape Colony, South Africa
1. John Hammersley Heenan, b. 14 Feb 1879, King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa
2. Evelyn Hammersley Heenan, b. 10 Oct 1880, South Africa
3. Claude Hammersley Heenan, b. Abt 1882
4. Vernon Hammersley Heenan, b. 25 Mar 1888, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
5. Nora Hammersley Heenan, b. 29 Aug 1891, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
6. Eileen Hammersley Heenan, b. Abt 1902, Eastbourne, Sussex, England
John Hammersley Heenan
Birth 14 Feb 1879 King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Died 17 Jan 1960 Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Father Robert Henry Hammersley Heenan, b. 10 Jan 1852, Birr, Kings County, Ireland
Mother Edith Maria Fuller, b. Abt 1859, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Family 1 Ailsa Linley Robinson, b. 1897, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Married 28 Sep 1918 Hampstead, Middlesex, England
1. John Barry Hammersley Heenan, b. 9 Sep 1919, London, England
2. Michael Hammersley Heenan, b. 3 Apr 1925, Sheffield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England
Family 2 Dorothy Bower, b. 22 Sep 1893, Durham, Durham, England
Evelyn Hammersley Heenan
Birth 10 Oct 1880 South Africa
Buried 1901 St Peters Cemetery 2D-U-13/14
Claude Hammersley Heenan
Birth Abt 1882
Died 1963 Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Buried 1963 Forest Hill Cemetery, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Family Gertrude (Gertie) Julia Rudman, b. 1892
1. Edith Patricia Hammersley Heenan
2. George Hammersley Heenan, b. 5 Aug 1923
3. Emma Rhoda Hammersley Heenan
Commander Vernon Hammersley Heenan
Birth 25 Mar 1888 Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Died 6 May 1954 Pancras, London, England
Family Victoria Wood
Married 4 Aug 1915 Newcastle on Tyne Registration District
2. Margaret Joan Hammersley Heenan
Nora Hammersley Heenan
Birth 29 Aug 1891 Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Died 29 Nov 1982 Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Family Alfred Benson Laing
Married 30 Sep 1917 Holy Trinity, Finchley, England
Eileen Hammersley Heenan
Birth Abt 1902 Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Died Sep 1974 Hertford and Ware, Hertfordshire, England
Family Aldo Otto Sabino Cosamati
Married 1926 Marleybone, London
Name Robert Henry Hammersley Heenan [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
Birth Jan 1852 Birr, Shinrone, Offaly, Ireland [2, 5, 7, 9]
Kings County at this time - subsequently Offaly
Born 10 Jan 1852 Birr, Kings County, Ireland [8, 10, 11]
Occupation 1896 Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa [12]
Chief Harbour Engineer for the S Africa Colony at Port Elizabeth
Census 2 Apr 1911 Eltham, London, England [11]
Residence 1929 San Diego, California, USA [6]
Residence 1931 Phoenix, Arizona, USA [13]
Probate 25 Jul 1936 South Africa [3]
Died 25 Jul 1936 Los Angeles, California, USA [4, 9, 10]
Buried 28 Jul 1936 Inglewood cemetery, Los Angeles, California, United States of America [10]
Probate granted 11 Feb 1937 London [4]
Name Robert Henry Hammersley-Heenan
Occupation Civil engineer
_UID 4DBA9FFF3A9646B79E0CFC46E8448F506914
Person ID I165150 master
Father George Heenan, b. 1814, d. 18 Dec 1866, Parsonstown, Ireland (Age 52 years)
Mother Belinda H Hammersley, b. 1819, Ireland , d. Mar 1899, Rathdown, Ireland (Age 80 years)
Family Edith Maria Fuller, b. Abt 1859, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa , d. 2 Sep 1933, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age ~ 74 years)
Married 1878 Cape Colony, South Africa [11, 14]
_UID BA8FB8DA511B4804B5369ED5F1C91DD29A36
Place: South Africa [1]
1. John Hammersley Heenan, b. 14 Feb 1879, King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa , d. 17 Jan 1960, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 80 years)
2. Evelyn Hammersley Heenan, b. 10 Oct 1880, South Africa , d. 1901 (Age 20 years)
3. Claude Hammersley Heenan, b. Abt 1882, d. 1963, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age ~ 81 years)
4. Vernon Hammersley Heenan, b. 25 Mar 1888, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa , d. 6 May 1954, Pancras, London, England (Age 66 years)
5. Nora Hammersley Heenan, b. 29 Aug 1891, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa , d. 29 Nov 1982, Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, USA (Age 91 years)
6. Eileen Hammersley Heenan, b. Abt 1902, Eastbourne, Sussex, England , d. Sep 1974, Hertford and Ware, Hertfordshire, England (Age ~ 72 years)
Married - 1878 - Cape Colony, South Africa
Occupation - 1896 - Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Probate - 25 Jul 1936 - South Africa
He was chief engineer for the harbour in Port Elizabeth and also in Cape Town - https://heenan.one-name.net/heenans-a-z-robert-hammersley-heenan-engineer-for-south-african-ports/
see also https://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=1252
[S4032] Heenen-Davis, Karen.
Record originated in https://heenan.one-name.net/tng/familygroup.php?familyID=F74&tree=tree1
[S4105] Passenger lists, Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service,, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).
[S3996] Transvaal Province, South Africa, Estates Death Notice Index, 1855-1976, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).
[S4106] England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).
[S4107] Passenger lists, The National Archives, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists.; Class: BT26; Piece: 855; Item: 36.
[S4108] U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).
[S4109] Passenger Lists, The National Archives, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc).
[S4110] UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, The National Archives, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists.; Class: BT26; Piece: 339; Item: 20.
[S4112] California, Death Index, 1905-1939, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).
[S409] Death Certificate, (Family search).
[S4111] Census England and Wales, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).
[S4114] Newsletter of Antique-Wireless-Association of-Southern Africa .
[S4113] US City Directories 1822-1995, (Ancestry).
[S4115] Newspaper announcement .
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Selected Minor Works: The Question of Marriage
Posted on Monday, Oct 31, 2005 12:20AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Justin E. H. Smith
Justin E. H. Smith
I shall have to write this Selected Minor Works piece in haste, for it is less than 24 hours ago that I was married, for the first and only time, and my bride will not have me throwing away the blissful infancy of our life together crouched at my laptop.
But in order not to be completely neglectful it seems fitting that I hang out here, as it were, a bloodied sheet for the digital age, by offering both a précis of the event, as well as some reflections on marriage, what it could mean and why it is a genuine good, both in general and in this particular case.
It was a glittering and star-studded event, featuring leading figures of the Quebec literary demimonde, a well-known flyer distributor for the now mythical 1980s Sacramento new-wave all-ages dance-club scene, and, not least, the editor of 3 Quarks Daily himself. We danced late into the night at a rented hall of the Musée des beaux-arts, all dressed up, as if we were rich, and there was much talk of how heavenly the salmon canapés were, and how lovely the bride. I was of course much more interested in the latter sort of talk. She is stunning, whereas I am experiencing, looks-wise, some bizarre, swift, and evidently genetically predetermined descent from comparison with Gustav Mahler to nearly being mistaken for Karl Rove. I can only assume grace is involved in her decision, or in God’s plan, or whatever brought this miracle about.
But on to important matters. It goes without saying that, in this particular case, there is love involved (are you reading this, O Immigration Canada?), but this is not what I wish to dwell on. What I want to consider is this: given love, why marriage?
Philosophically, I am not in good company. For Nietzsche, Socrates served as the perfect cautionary tale to any philosopher thinking about the path of marriage. After his shameful example, it is certainly true that, statistically, philosophy and marriage do not tend to occur together. Leibniz, for example, seems to have enquired with a young woman’s father about the possibility of taking her hand, never heard back, and only recalled that this business was outstanding 20 years later, just before his death. His contemporaries, by and large, appear content to have ground lenses, and proved things, and in general to have acted as though there were no women in the world. By the 19th century, marriage comes into its own as a distinctly philosophical issue, with figures such as Kierkegaard taking the problem of marriage as the primary stimulus for productivity. Kierkegaard decided firmly against.
In the 20th century, though, the problem would seem to die out altogether, and marriage to become no more or less problematic for philosophers than for any other segment of the population. Arguably though, this is not because the problem is solved, but only because philosophy is professionalized to the extent that no radical commitments or serious lifestyle measures of any sort are thought to be required. Nobody would dare claim that ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’ could have been any richer if not for the sinister influence, from the shadows, of Madame Quine.
But didn’t marriage suffer a crisis in all segments of the population, the first anticipation of which was earlier suffered by the likes of Kierkegaard? Society has been transformed, and marriage displaced as the primary glue that holds it all together. Here in Quebec, we could, after all, certainly get away with not getting married. There is no social pressure to do so at all, and if anything the pressure is in the other direction. Cohabitation impresses immigration officials, anyway, much more than a sudden plunge into official coupledom.
So why the plunge? The simplest reason is this: when I met this woman, I knew that ‘partner’ just wasn’t going to cut it. What I wished to do with her bore no resemblance to what accountants do when they open an office together. I wanted to draw on antiquated social forms, to go back before the discovery that the personal is political, that families are tyrranies, and declare that this woman was mine, my wife, ma femme, as though the Enlightenment had never occurred.
Philosophy thought it was liberating its practitioners from nagging Xanthippes, and eventually it made it possible for some to think about liberating everyone from what, seen under the aspect of eternal reason, is indeed an arbitrary bond, and one that can’t but limit one’s freedom. But the lack of good reasons, reasons of the sort accountants come up with every day, is what makes marriage better than accountancy, and what makes the modern blurring of the arrangements of the business world and those of the intimate life such a tragedy. Keep your sound and level-headed arrangements, your rational and limited partnerships. I, as the saying goes, shall take my wife.
PERCEPTIONS: Pakistan – land of plenty …. of beliefs
Monday Musing: Posthumously Arrested for Assaulting Myself
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Injustice—How Widespread?
Will God Ever Do Anything About Injustice?
Is Injustice Inevitable?
You Can Deal With Injustice!
“The Judge of All the Earth” Always Does What Is Right
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom (Simplified)—2017
Injustice—How Widespread?
EARLY in 1940 a 34-year-old man named Roy was arrested in New Mexico, U.S.A., and accused of robbery. He claimed to have been a thousand miles from the scene of the crime when it was committed, but he could not produce any witnesses to prove it. So he was found guilty and sentenced to prison. Sixteen years later Roy was released from prison. An investigation had revealed that he was innocent!
Some years ago a woman in Colombia wrote to a newspaper telling a sad story. Her husband had abandoned her and their four sons for another woman. Nevertheless, with great effort and sacrifice she had provided an education for her sons and then, with their help, built up capital so that her family could live comfortably. Then one day she was summoned to appear before a judge. Why? Her husband had instituted legal proceedings. The wife was told that half of everything she owned belonged to her husband. “I cannot believe such injustice,” she exclaimed.
Many years ago a wise man summed up much of human experience when he said: “Man has dominated man to his injury.” (Ecclesiastes 8:9) This domination has resulted in individual suffering, as these two examples show. It has also resulted in whole classes of people suffering injustices. Consider just a few examples.
Economic: According to The World Almanac & Book of Facts 1984, the average income in India was $150 (U.S.) a year—at a time when in many countries of Europe the average income was about $10,000 (U.S.) a year. Economists say that such differences have “brought into question the efficiency and justice of the existing economic order.”
Health: “Towards Justice in Health” was a recent headline in a UN health magazine. What is unjust about health? Well, as an example, not long ago a young man in Nepal died because he needed insulin. There was just no insulin available in the whole area where he lived! Is it fair that people die in some lands of diseases that are routinely cured or controlled in others? Twenty-five million people a year die from sickness caused by polluted water and poor sanitation. Yet it would not be difficult to supply them with clean water, and it would cost only one third of what the world spends on cigarettes or about one eighteenth of what it spends on armaments. Is this just?
Food: In 1980 some 50 million people died of hunger. There is, however, more than enough food for everyone—if it was distributed efficiently. The problem is, some countries use more than their share. Often, even when food is available, the poor cannot afford to buy it. A high official of the United Nations Children’s Fund said that the situation is ‘unjust, unacceptable and almost wholly avoidable.’
Prejudice: Describing a violent race riot in the United States, a news magazine said: “Strongest of the riot’s many causes was a sense of injustice.” Yes, certain racial groups are often discriminated against. So are women. So are the poor, whatever their sex or color.
Why is the world filled with injustice?
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Movie Persepective: The Humbling Hero’s Bow Of “Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends”
“Man does not live by strength alone.” This and other memorable lines have been found worthy for an ending fit for a legend at the third and final installment of the Rurouni Kenshin trilogy, “The Legend Ends”. For the first time, I was one of those given a chance to see its premiere night. For a Rurouni Kenshin fan like me, I wouldn’t trade this ticket even for a thousand bucks. After being left hanging in the second part, Himura Kenshin finds himself returning to his roots. In order to defeat a nation’s crumbling under a madman like Makoto Shishio, the former Battousai has to learn how to overcome his past, his fears, and himself. Of course, I wouldn’t be a spoiler although some of you (especially those who had followed the anime series) may be guessing how the story will gou. But the movie emphasized one point — to have the will to live. Up to the end, Rurouni Kenshin did not disappoint me. Though much has been left out from the series to fit into the film (like the highlights of the one-on-one matches with the members of the Juppongatana), the final installment retained the very soul and mantra of Kenshin himself. Just like the anime series, Rurouni Kenshin is not just a battle of swords, and fighting styles, with a bit of ostentatious politics lurking behind the higher-ups in society. It is the battle of principles. Kenshin’s “will to live” — which his Sensei Hiko Seijuro emphasized — is not for on glory and fame alone. To live is for the most important things in life, which is, not only for self, but for others and the peace of society. Although our timelines are far off from Kenshin’s “new era” under the Meiji reign, still his principle is something that we can learn from. While I couldn’t help but gape at the impressive fight scenes and quick storyline, it brings to the point the need to search and think about of our purpose in life. We live for something far more worthy than money, fame, and power. When we take off our eyes from the temporal things, we’ll find something more worth fighting for. I’m sure I’d miss Kenshin again after the final installment. But I’m sure this ending, though humbling, is a worthy bow for a remake. Screening of “Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends” in Philippine cinemas begins at September 24. I bet you have to get in line first before countless Kenshin fans start to fill the queue. 🙂
Himura Kenshin
Makoto Shishio
premiere night
The Legend Ends
Overcoming the World
Great is the battle we’re facing. All of us are born idealists. We are meant to overcome. But only a few emerge from the ashes. It’s a matter of perspective on how we overcome. The worlds to overcome are paradoxial.
It’s not easy to change the world. We want to pull down strongholds of hopelessness, injustice, and corruption. But it can never be done if we embrace these very strongholds.
To overcome the world, we have to overcome our personal struggles. How can we pull down hopelessness if we lack hope within us? No injustice will be shaken if we are unjust to our very brothers. Corruption will flourish if we deny our tolerance to this base culture in our own daily practices. The weapons we use are formed by the values we uphold. We cannot charge towards the battlefield if we can’t escape the prison of our personal struggles.
We begin with ourselves, then we overturn the world. We see change when we ourselves are willing to change. History makers are overcomers. Overcomers overcome their own weaknesses.
From the Inkload, Outbursts and Meditation
Pressure in the Waterloo Front
I have crossed the Jordan. But I’m not yet at the Promised Land. The moment I stepped in, I’ve been met with resistance…hordes of them.
As I go on the 11th day of my fast, I discover so much more of God’s promises. However, I’d discover more how I have been keeping a lot of heart issues, and lots of character refinement is required. There is a secret spiritual battle in the air as human personalities clash with pride without understanding and discernment. There is so much hypocrisy going on bringing in the deception of too much effort equals reward without remembering that rest is part of the reward.
I felt so much lack around me. And there is a lack of time that keeps me from meditating and pondering on the expansion of this spiritual waterloo I’m in.
I’m asking for strategy. I’m claiming an increase in wisdom.
Days ago at the start of my 21-day fast, the Lord gave me Joshua 1:5-9 after asking Him for “the Word of the Season”. Three times, the Lord said, “Be strong and courageous” or in other versions, “Be strong and brave”. It’s like something that He’s echoing into me in preparation for a major conquering to do. Right now, I’m weary and I’m tempted to give up. But again, the Lord tells me, “Be strong and courageous.” With that command is a promise…rather tons of promises. There is an assurance that when I rest in His presence. I can only conquer the territories promised to me if I push through. Besides, I won’t go this war alone, for He said that He’ll never leave me nor forsake me.
Oh, Lord, uphold me. I’m about to faint.
Welcome August. Welcome shift. I need to push through. May I be carried on His wings.
My Oscar already praying on my bed. Imagine him having a quiet time first before I could!
conquering
Quiet Hopes and Silent Prayers
This little piece of paper has been on my wall for almost two years. Seeing the names of my friends and family members I long to be in the Lord made me guilty as I have not been praying much for them these months – or for almost a year. I could still remember how I laid my hands on their names every night with great expectation and hope they would come to the Lord. Now, as their names were gaining house dust, I am still hoping that there would be changes in their lives.
I know how a lot of us expect too much when we pray. On the onset that we don’t get answers as quickly as we want, we have the tendency to give up. It’s because we don’t see with the eyes of faith. But what we don’t know, something is happening in the spiritual realm.
The Bible has been very clear that our battle is not in the flesh but with spiritual forces (Eph. 6:12). We are usually deceived by what we see. Actually, everything that happens in the physical is just a manifestation of the spiritual world. One way is through our words – there is power in them. Even a mere joke can become real. When we cling to what we see and loose faith on what we are hoping for, chances are, we won’t get what we’re praying for.
But I believe the time will come that everything that we have been praying for a long time will be done so suddenly, we won’t believe it’s happening. When revival comes in, things will be so fast that the salvation of multitudes will be so great. The people we have been praying for will come before the Lord altogether. But it will happen if we continuously and earnestly seek the Lord. But we can only do that if we have deep, deep passion and hunger for Jesus to return and reign on this earth.
I’m one of those groaning to see revival. I remember talking to a friend yesterday how we’ve been waiting to see the hand of the Lord move in such a way that everything we know will change. I’m tired of the architype church and society we’ve been raised to. I want a realy Holy Spirit movement and awakening. I’m tired of the hypocrisy we generate saying that by good works we win souls, but it’s only by the Spirit of the Lord deliverance and salvation be done. I’m tired of the restrictions we give to the Lord’s Spirit by setting a program based on human knowledge. When the Lord comes, He has ways we don’t agree and that will surely offend many. What we’ve been praying for in days, weeks, or years will suddenly come and happen – for I believe that this year will be a year of SUDDENLY.
Can’t for the Lord to come back, shake everything until He remains. I believe we’re nearing that season. Right now, we are at its “birth pangs”. For now the Lord has one word: WAIT.
We’ll keep on waiting while praying and worshipping. Just like the apostles in the beginning of Acts, they did not move and spread out until God’s appointed time. May we be granted patience and endurance as we press on by waiting for His move. May we learn how to trust in Him fully as we continuously seek Him with all our hearts.
When the time comes, I hope I’ll never be surprised when all the names in my paper turn to the Lord. Let His perfect will be done…
Christian, From the Inkload
groaning
…And the Government Shall Be Upon His Shoulders
As a reporter in the political realm, I’ve become aware of the law and its technicalities. It used to be such a boring subject to me. But because it’s my job, I have to learn and understand it or I would not be an effective media personnel. Little by little, I was becoming used to it and soon, I was already enjoying it. But what amazes me more is how the Lord had shown that He is sovereign over any human law and that the government rightfully belongs to Him. No matter how clever a man of power can be, his wisdom is foolishness in the sight of the everlasting God, as He brings kings and leaders to rise and fall.
For the past week, I’ve monitored developments on a former president’s watchlist that turned sour. Cong. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo or CGMA had been defying the law as she tried her best to remain in power as president for 9 nine years. And yet the government today is set out in putting down into justice all those who had done the nation wrong in her administration. One of these was her involvement (or her leading) in the 2007 election fraud.
As cases were filed against her regarding the electoral fraud, the Department of Justice (DOJ) had filed a watchlist against her. It’s kinda weird that she would suddenly become sick and be in need of a bone biopsy at that point in time. I got doubts about that. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court (SC), where which a majority of its justices were her appointees, filed a temporary restraining order (TRO) against her watchlist. The Aquino administration, due to the fact that they were not given a chance to be in an oral argument before releasing the TRO, filed a motion for reconsideration (MR). What the nation watched out for was the en banc session, in which I was assigned to be last Friday.
While waiting for the result of the en banc, I was praying that the Lord would intervene and justice be served. Those charged for a big crime against the nation should not be released to another country, especially when there are doubts on the countries where she wanted to be. But imagine my great disappointment when the SC spokesperson came out and said that the MR is null and the TRO is in full effect. Majority of the justices voted for such results in the en banc session. But I was still hoping that GMA would not leave the country. It would be unfair for her not to be out of the country while a case was filed against her. Besides, I myself found it too weird for the need to get a bone biopsy in abroad while we got good doctors who can perform that here in the Philippines. Wouldn’t that be an insult to our own doctors? On the other hand, it’s unfair that she gets a good treatment for her “condition” while we got thousands of Pinoys who suffer without receiving the proper treatment for their condition because of lack of money
The developments were quick. Earlier that day, DOJ and COMELEC filed electoral sabotage charges to CGMA and other a number of former COMELEC and government officials. Right after the en banc session and before GMA was able to get to her 5:10 pm flight to Singapore, a warrant of arrest was issued against her. Such speed in the Philippine courts is very rare, especially in high-profiled cases like this. Indeed, the Lord intervened because only He can make this happen!
At that point in time, I realized that God is moving in the government. No matter how corrupt or weak it is, when His people pray, He rises and moves like a restless lion. But He needs His children to pray as we have been given authority over the earth (Genesis 1:26). And yet we have to give it back to Him as it is really His all along (Psalms 24:1). But as a gentleman, He will not intervene until we ask Him to.
The government, as one of the pillars of society, rightfully belongs to Him. For the time being, it is lent to man, and yet it is He who appoints and brings down kings (Ps. 75:6-7).
It’s time. We have to continue breaking down the walls of corruption and injustice through prayer and worship. The battle still rages on. God is really at work. He is indeed God and His reign is established – not only in heaven – but also on earth which is His footstool.
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Breaking My Palace Walls
It’s natural to be afraid of many things. Until now in my 26 years of existence, I’m still battling with a number of fears that try to coincide with my self-confidence.
It’s hard to fight fears. For most of the time, I love laying on my perfumed couch in my little ivory palace of complacency. Outside my palace walls is a whole new world of wonder that I’ve never seen. But there are no doors or windows. The only way to break out is to break the walls. But I’d hesitate because I have to ruin that expensive, beautiful facade.
Many think I’m not afraid of anything because I smile a lot. But deep inside, I cry when you tell me about being bold enough yielding my rights.
I need to yield my right to be offended.
I need to yield my right for worldly applause.
I need to yield my right to please everybody.
I need to give up being so selfish for complacency.
I wanted to cry at times because I can’t give up those rights. I want to, but I’m scared. I’m so afraid of hearing criticisms or taunts. I’m not made for man, but I’m afraid of man.
Lord, bring me out of this.
I hate this cycle. For once again, the Lord is revealing some bumps in me in this new season. I’m not a perfect lady, anyway. But I hate it when I see myself not really that perfect. In order to be refined, I have to give up what I’ve been embracing for so long.
While I break those ivory walls, my heart goes down with brokenness. But I have to. It’s now or never. If I don’t do this, I’ll suffocate. Break me out of my fears or I’ll die!
Hence, I’m yet to see the whole new world outside…
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Looking Forward to the Council Break in August
Published: Thursday, 11 July 2019 21:49
Written by Stephen Vance, Editor
Sitting in the council chamber on Monday afternoon was a little bit like sitting in Grade 11 history class in mid-June with the summer break teasing me from a distance.
Don't get me wrong, I loved history class, it was one of my favourite subjects, but there comes a time when you just need a break, and while I quite enjoy council meetings (far more than I let on actually), it has been a long year, and I will be quite happy to have the month of August free from the council chamber.
Members of council can no doubt use a break as well. At Monday's meeting, which was largely dull but also very productive, council had a lengthy and at times scary discussion about bridge infrastructure. This is a council that desperately wants to find a way to address our infrastructure needs without resorting to closing any bridges. And for bridge-like structures 21 and 22 on the Holland-Sydenham Townline, which have been closed for a couple years now, this council wants to find a way to replace and reopen them.
From my seat at the media table I can see members of council becoming frustrated with their inability to quickly solve the issue for the folks who rely on bridges 21 and 22, and it is frustrating, but then again it is no secret that government moves slowly, not by the choice of members of council but due to the way our system has been designed. So while councillors would love nothing more than to be able to yell from the rooftops that they will have working bridges at that location very soon, they can't, but they are certainly working toward that outcome.
As much as councillors are working hard to avoid bridge closures (in spite of misinformed rumours on the street) I think they too are due for a break. When I see councillors asking questions that have been answered a dozen times previously, or when I see members of council agonizing over what they are unable to do, it is clear that they are exhausted, and who can blame them? I shadow these folks in a sense, and I am exhausted too.
So like a high school kid with the end of the school year in sight, I am giddy with anticipation, and I am looking forward to a full month free from the council chamber, a month without motions and votes, a month where I don't feel an urge to scream across the council chamber “read the reports!!” when councillors are asking questions for which they have already been provided the answers.
I plan to enjoy not having to read through the hundreds of pages of reports included in a typical council meeting agenda package, I plan to not stress about the infrastructure funding deficit, or the fact that residents confuse master plans with binding documents. For me the month of August will be gloriously free of anything council related. That said, I know that by August 26 I will be itching to get back to the council chamber, and I will be frustrated that it will still be a couple of weeks away.
While council won't be in session next month, that doesn't mean that the myriad issues that are found in this municipality are put on hold. The cemetery maintenance issue isn't going to go away, nor will the complaints about potholes or the many other demands that are placed on council. But the August break should mean that in September councillors can return to the horseshoe rested and refreshed and ready to tackle all of the issues before them.
No more agendas, no more Clerks (sorry Mr. Smith), no more councillors' dirty looks...
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Hodges Capital Management Inc. Reduces Holdings in Floor & Decor Holdings Inc (FND)
April 15th, 2019 - Comments Off on Hodges Capital Management Inc. Reduces Holdings in Floor & Decor Holdings Inc (FND) - Filed Under - by Donna Brown
Hodges Capital Management Inc. reduced its holdings in Floor & Decor Holdings Inc (NYSE:FND) by 23.5% during the 1st quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 469,295 shares of the company’s stock after selling 143,805 shares during the period. Floor & Decor comprises 2.0% of Hodges Capital Management Inc.’s holdings, making the stock its 7th biggest position. Hodges Capital Management Inc. owned about 0.48% of Floor & Decor worth $19,344,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in FND. Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Floor & Decor in the fourth quarter valued at about $26,000. Cornerstone Advisors Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Floor & Decor by 42.2% in the fourth quarter. Cornerstone Advisors Inc. now owns 1,398 shares of the company’s stock valued at $36,000 after purchasing an additional 415 shares during the period. Captrust Financial Advisors grew its holdings in shares of Floor & Decor by 99.4% in the fourth quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 1,715 shares of the company’s stock valued at $44,000 after purchasing an additional 855 shares during the period. We Are One Seven LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Floor & Decor in the fourth quarter valued at about $51,000. Finally, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank grew its holdings in shares of Floor & Decor by 62.2% in the fourth quarter. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank now owns 4,142 shares of the company’s stock valued at $107,000 after purchasing an additional 1,589 shares during the period.
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FND stock traded down $0.50 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $46.01. 681,758 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,277,667. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.24, a current ratio of 1.38 and a quick ratio of 0.22. The firm has a market cap of $4.55 billion, a PE ratio of 47.43, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.75 and a beta of 1.69. Floor & Decor Holdings Inc has a 12-month low of $23.30 and a 12-month high of $57.85.
Floor & Decor (NYSE:FND) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 21st. The company reported $0.20 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.02. Floor & Decor had a net margin of 6.80% and a return on equity of 18.70%. The business had revenue of $436.70 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $435.66 million. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.19 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 12.1% compared to the same quarter last year. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Floor & Decor Holdings Inc will post 1.1 EPS for the current fiscal year.
In related news, major shareholder Corporate Opportunities F. Ares sold 6,673,401 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, February 28th. The shares were sold at an average price of $37.50, for a total value of $250,252,537.50. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, Director George Vincent West sold 20,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, January 25th. The shares were sold at an average price of $33.01, for a total transaction of $660,200.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 20,000 shares in the company, valued at approximately $660,200. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last three months, insiders sold 6,958,252 shares of company stock valued at $261,481,778. Insiders own 7.00% of the company’s stock.
A number of brokerages recently issued reports on FND. Telsey Advisory Group reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $44.00 price objective (up previously from $40.00) on shares of Floor & Decor in a report on Friday, February 22nd. Wells Fargo & Co set a $37.00 price objective on shares of Floor & Decor and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, January 8th. Gordon Haskett raised shares of Floor & Decor from a “hold” rating to an “accumulate” rating in a report on Thursday, March 21st. Wedbush set a $43.00 price objective on shares of Floor & Decor and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, February 22nd. Finally, Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of Floor & Decor from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Friday, January 4th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, ten have given a hold rating and ten have assigned a buy rating to the company. The stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $41.77.
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Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc operates as a multi-channel specialty retailer of hard surface flooring and related accessories. The company's stores offer tile, wood, laminate, and natural stone flooring products, as well as decorative and installation accessories. It serves professional installers, commercial businesses, and do it yourself customers.
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On the death of Aaron Swartz and his legacy
Posted in activism, education, piratism, politics, science on January 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Some time ago I re-published in this blog The Guerilla Open Access Manifesto written by a young online activist called Aaron Swartz. This last Friday came the news that Swartz had committed suicide at the age of 26. At the time of his death, Swartz was facing charges for breaking into the MIT network to download paywalled academic articles that could have placed him in prison for a very long time.
I’m not going to speculate on the reasons why Swartz decided to end his life, or comment on the disproportionality of his charges. Instead, I’m going to highlight a remarkable campaign that has been spreading in the social media: hundreds, if not thousands of academics have been tweeting free download links to their own papers that have been published in subscription journals, in tribute to Swartz. One can only hope that this will be the beginning of an awakening that will see an end to the information monopoly that has the academic world in a stranglehold. After all, it’s the academics whose work has been essentially stolen by these corporate vultures that have never contributed anything to society.
The US government has, predictably, positioned itself firmly on the side of capital and against freedom of information and human progress. However, while they may be able to destroy the life of one man, but they won’t be able to terrorise the entire international academic community. The Open Access Manifesto is now more relevant than ever.
Edit: You can now honour Swartz’s memory with a couple of clicks by liberating an article from the JSTOR library using this bookmarklet.
Librarians discuss privacy, censorship and copyright
Posted in books, censorship, copyright, education, internet, p2p, piratism, privacy, videos on August 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Speaking of public education, undoubtedly one of the most significant steps in democratising educational resources in history has been the establishment of the public library system. Unlike schools, libraries promote self-directed learning and are thus less susceptible to authoritarian control. Like mentioned in the above video, file-sharing networks can be seen as a continuation of the idea behind public libraries. They take the idea one step further, though: on the file-sharing networks the available content is not limited by the budget constraints and possible ideological inclinations of bureaucrats.
This video is a recording of a speaker’s corner session at the 2012 World Library and Information Congress in Helsinki on August 15, 2012. Guest speakers include Hanna Nikkanen, a Finnish journalist who’s written extensively on issues around freedom of information, and Anna Troberg, president of the Swedish Pirate Party.
Noam Chomsky on public education and the corporate state
Posted in education, history, politics, videos on August 26, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Professor Chomsky discusses in this talk the history of public education in the United States and how it has been co-opted as a tool of indoctrination by the corporate elite. Parallel developments can be traced in Europe as well, of which I’ve blogged before. Chomsky’s talk was held at St. Philip’s Church in Harlem, New York on March 16, 2012.
Against the academic publishing monopoly
Posted in education, piratism, quotes, science on September 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
George Monbiot provides in his column in the Guardian some telling figures on the academic publishing monopoly:
“Everyone claims to agree that people should be encouraged to understand science and other academic research. Without current knowledge, we cannot make coherent democratic decisions. But the publishers have slapped a padlock and a “keep out” sign on the gates.
You might resent Murdoch’s paywall policy, in which he charges £1 for 24 hours of access to the Times and Sunday Times. But at least in that period you can read and download as many articles as you like. Reading a single article published by one of Elsevier’s journals will cost you $31.50. Springer charges €34.95, Wiley-Blackwell, $42. Read 10 and you pay 10 times. And the journals retain perpetual copyright. You want to read a letter printed in 1981? That’ll be $31.50.
Of course, you could go into the library (if it still exists). But they too have been hit by cosmic fees. The average cost of an annual subscription to a chemistry journal is $3,792. Some journals cost $10,000 a year or more to stock. The most expensive I’ve seen, Elsevier’s Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, is $20,930. Though academic libraries have been frantically cutting subscriptions to make ends meet, journals now consume 65% of their budgets, which means they have had to reduce the number of books they buy. Journal fees account for a significant component of universities’ costs, which are being passed to their students.
Murdoch pays his journalists and editors, and his companies generate much of the content they use. But the academic publishers get their articles, their peer reviewing (vetting by other researchers) and even much of their editing for free. The material they publish was commissioned and funded not by them but by us, through government research grants and academic stipends. But to see it, we must pay again, and through the nose.
The returns are astronomical: in the past financial year, for example, Elsevier’s operating profit margin was 36% (£724m on revenues of £2bn). They result from a stranglehold on the market. Elsevier, Springer and Wiley, who have bought up many of their competitors, now publish 42% of journal articles.
More importantly, universities are locked into buying their products. Academic papers are published in only one place, and they have to be read by researchers trying to keep up with their subject. Demand is inelastic and competition non-existent, because different journals can’t publish the same material. In many cases the publishers oblige the libraries to buy a large package of journals, whether or not they want them all. Perhaps it’s not surprising that one of the biggest crooks ever to have preyed upon the people of this country – Robert Maxwell – made much of his money through academic publishing.
The publishers claim that they have to charge these fees as a result of the costs of production and distribution, and that they add value (in Springer’s words) because they “develop journal brands and maintain and improve the digital infrastructure which has revolutionised scientific communication in the past 15 years”. But an analysis by Deutsche Bank reaches different conclusions. “We believe the publisher adds relatively little value to the publishing process … if the process really were as complex, costly and value-added as the publishers protest that it is, 40% margins wouldn’t be available.” Far from assisting the dissemination of research, the big publishers impede it, as their long turnaround times can delay the release of findings by a year or more.
What we see here is pure rentier capitalism: monopolising a public resource then charging exorbitant fees to use it. Another term for it is economic parasitism. To obtain the knowledge for which we have already paid, we must surrender our feu to the lairds of learning.”
Clearly, there is a useful role to be played here for the pirate movement, as outlined by Aaron Swartz in his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto. The pirates working or studying in universities are in a good position to crack this monopoly by mass-distributing paywalled academic content via p2p-networks. The current situation is not only hurting publicly funded research, but also thwarts a lot of potential independent research conducted outside established institutions, thus augmenting the inequalities of the knowledge society. Ultimately, the publishers are contributing negatively to the progress of science and society.
Obviously, the academic publishers are not going to give up their monopoly voluntarily, so civil disobedience is needed. The publishers have no leg to stand on here; they can’t argue that “stealing” their content jeopardises the creation of more content, since none of the content was actually produced or funded by them. The publishers themselves are shamelessly leeching on the public sphere, making profit on the taxpayer’s expense. By attacking their privileged position, the pirates would be doing an indisputable favour to the society at large. Indeed, this is the essence of piratism: taking back from corporations what they have originally stolen from the people.
The Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
Posted in activism, education, manifestos, piratism, quotes, science on August 7, 2011| 5 Comments »
Aaron Swartz is an Internet activist, scholar and programmer. He’s been involved in the founding of such projects as Reddit, theinfo.org, Open Library and Demand Progress. Recently, he was charged with fraud for hacking into the MIT network to gain access to the paywalled academic content of the JSTOR archive. This manifesto, reproduced here in full, was written by Swartz in 2008.
“Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You’ll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost.
That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? It’s outrageous and unacceptable.
“I agree,” many say, “but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it’s perfectly legal — there’s nothing we can do to stop them.” But there is something we can, something that’s already being done: we can fight back.
Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords with colleagues, filling download requests for friends.
Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by the publishers and sharing them with your friends.
But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it — their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that’s out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access.
With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?”
The JSTOR incident and academic publishing
Posted in activism, analysis, education, politics, science on July 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The controversy regarding Harvard fellow Aaron Swartz‘s alleged hacking into the MIT network to gain access to the JSTOR archive of academic journals has been widely in the news in the recent days (The New Yorker has a useful outline of the story). More interesting than the case itself, however, is the prevailing logic of academic publishing that is at the root of the incident.
At least in Europe most scientific research is still being funded mainly by the state. This makes perfect sense since the scientific method itself is inherently public. But it also gives commercial publishers of academic journals, and archivers such as JSTOR who sell subscriptions to these journals, the chance to profit on the tax-payer’s expense.
The typical procedure of academic publication has three steps:
A research project produces a scientific article.
The article is submitted to an academic journal for peer-review and publication for which the journal often takes a fee.
The institution behind the research project pays for a subscription to the journal to gain a limited access to the published article, available only to those who are affiliated with the institute.
So, in the worst case scenario, the tax-payer has to pay three times for the same article and even then doesn’t get access to it. Institutions engaged in scientific research are typically forced to subscribe to a large number of journals since the researchers need them for reference, and this is where the archivers come into picture. Thus, the publishers and the archivers of academic journals are able to take advantage of their monopoly position to leech money out of publicly funded institutions.
And that’s not all. A large part of the articles in the JSTOR archive are actually from the public domain, including most of the catalog of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, dating all the way back to year 1665. Thus, JSTOR is profiting on historical documents whose copyright has long since expired and which should by all intents and purposes be made available to all as a part of our shared heritage.¹ And this is from an establishment that claims to be a “not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.”
Despite the recent proliferation of open access publishing, the ongoing privatization of universities is likely to lead to even more restrictions to the access to scientific publications. This can be seen as a kind of censorship, imposed to advance private interests.
(You can sign a petition in support of Aaron Swartz here.)
¹ Greg Maxwell was upstanding enough to make a chunk of these available as a torrent.
From Bologna to Bologna, or: The death of the European civilization?
Posted in analysis, education, politics on July 19, 2011| 1 Comment »
The European civilization is currently facing its greatest danger since the Cold War. No, I’m not talking about immigration, but of the phenomenon that is exemplified by the so-called Bologna Process of higher education reform. The Bologna Process is set to “stregthen the competitiveness and attractiveness of the European higher education and to foster student mobility and employability” (to paraphrase the official Bologna Process website) by means of harmonizing the degree structures of European universities. It’s a part of a bigger scheme to commodificate higher education in Europe. In this scheme, students are turned into “customers” of the universities which sell them “qualifications” that can be used to apply for jobs in the private sector (Matteo Pasquinelli has called this model the “IKEA of education”). Parts of the scheme are increases in student fees and stricter bureaucratic control of students.
Another effect of the Bologna Process is what could be called the expertization of the academia. Academics are no longer perceived as intellectuals but as experts in some narrow field of knowledge, and they’re no longer involved in free intellectual discourse but “innovation,” that is to say creation of ideas that can be commercially or socially utilized. The output of academic research is being increasingly privatized by means of patents, partnerships with private companies and the replacement of public funding with private funding. The point of these developments is to subjugate academic activity to the needs of the nation and the market (which are, of course, one and the same). Criticising these institutions is no longer allowed and “useless” faculties, such as philosophy, are being starved to death.
Every expert is basically an engineer, and those who work in the field of social sciences are social engineers. An engineer is someone who builds the dam without questioning, even if it means chasing over a million people from their homes.¹ Similarly, a social engineer never questions the predominant values of the society. For the social engineer, society appears as a gigantic machine. Any conflicts in society are perceived as malfunctions of that machine, to be dealt with using technocratic means. The task of the social engineer is to make the machine work as fluidly as possible, eliminating all conflict and establishing a sort of a Western variation of the Confucian harmonious order.
The work of the social engineer is in stark contrast to the notion of academic freedom upon which the modern European university system is based. Academic freedom was established just so that academics would be able to pursue the truth and criticise the ruling classes without fear of retribution. It’s ironic that the process currently destroying this freedom was named after the city of Bologna, the home of the first university with a charter on academic freedom (the so-called Constitutio Habita).
It looks like the time of the European university as a sanctuary of free intellectual activity is coming to an end. However, I think we can still salvage its tradition. Here I would like to return to the concept of the public domain I recently wrote about. The public domain lies, by definition, outside any formal institutions, thus providing a space where ideas can be exchanged freely. Such exchange is the basis of intellectual freedom. The public domain is free of utilitarian control thus allowing us to perceive the inherent value of ideas and the free pursuit of knowledge.
David J. Staley has described a model for a “Wiki-ized University” which consists of voluntary and self-organizing associations of teachers and students, non-restricted entry, open access to all knowledge and a non-fixed curriculum with no official tenures, diplomas or administration. Such a model could provide a new forum of intellectual activity that is not only unfettered by the state apparatus and the market, but that also goes beyond the faculty limits of the academic tradition.
¹ I don’t mean to put down actual engineers here, what I’m talking about is an archetype.
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When Prince sat courtside at Thunder-Warriors game
Draymond Green: ‘When he walked in, no one’s attention was on the game anymore’
Singer Prince and Model Damaris Lewis take in the game between the Golden State Warriors and the Oklahoma City Thunder on March 3, 2016, at ORACLE Arena in Oakland, California. Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images
By Marc J. Spears @MarcJSpearsESPN
OAKLAND, California — Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Rihanna. Floyd Mayweather Jr. Rapper E-40. Neymar. Dave Chappelle. Russell Wilson and Ciara. Snoop Dogg.
These are a few of the celebrities who have sat courtside to watch the Golden State Warriors. But of all the stars who have graced the seats at Oracle Arena, none distracted the Warriors players more than Prince, who on March 3, 2016, walked to his seat at tipoff with the aid of a fancy cane.
“Having Prince at your game is a big deal,” Warriors forward Draymond Green said. “Everybody ain’t Prince. He kind of stole the show. That’s OK. It was huge. When he walked in, no one’s attention was on the game anymore.
“You have Jay-Z and Beyoncé, and that’s like dope. Super dope. But, it’s like, Prince garners a whole other type of attention.”
Prince attends the Oklahoma City Thunder game against the Golden State Warriors on March 3, 2016 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California.
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Said Warriors guard Shaun Livingston: “You see a lot of people with influence. Some star power. Prince? My mom and daddy grew up on Prince. Seeing him was like a step under seeing Michael Jackson.”
On the eve of the two-year anniversary of Prince’s death, the Warriors recalled the stunning guest appearance of the eight-time Grammy Award winner as if it happened yesterday. Perhaps Prince was just as excited to see Stephen Curry and the Warriors play against their Western Conference rival Oklahoma City Thunder.
Prince was a high school basketball star in Minnesota who was a good ball handler and shooter despite standing just 5 feet, 2 inches tall. He attended numerous Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx games and even treated the Lynx players and staff to a private concert at Paisley Park after they won the 2015 WNBA title. Chappelle’s Show had a famous skit in which comedian Charlie Murphy told a hilarious story about playing Prince in basketball and eating pancakes afterward.
“All I remember is looking across the way, seeing him and being blown away,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “He just had that presence. The It factor. There aren’t many people like that on Earth. We were all in awe. I’m a fan. I have him on my Spotify. He’s phenomenal.”
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Prince had come to the Bay Area because his protégé Denise Matthews, better known as Vanity, died in nearby Fremont on Feb. 15, 2016. Prince attended Matthews’ funeral in Union City on Feb. 27, and his presence changed it from public to private. Prince performed two sold-out concerts the next day at Oakland’s Paramount Theater.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, before one of the songs, Prince asked his fans, “What can you truly count on besides Steph Curry? And you can count on Steph Curry.” Green attended one of the shows at the Paramount, sitting four rows from the stage.
“It was special to see him, like I’d never seen him before in my life,” Green said. “To have that opportunity to see Prince at my age was special. What I took away from it was you see so many of these huge stars now with the way they perform on the floor, and then you say, ‘That is where they got some of their beats from.’
“He does little subtle things, but the crowd goes nuts. It was very satisfying. I was honored.”
Warriors owner Joe Lacob offered Prince two courtside seats for the game against Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and the Thunder. Prince not only agreed to take the tickets but also ended up agreeing to perform at Oracle Arena the next night.
The hallway that extends from the north tunnel entering Oracle’s VIP parking lot to the visiting locker room was dimmed with purple lights. There was also a purple curtain that went from the visiting locker room to the court. Curry took a picture of the hallway after the game and posted it on social media.
Think they were expecting someone special tonight at @OracleArena????? #PurpleRain pic.twitter.com/AvjZ36wHii
— Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) March 4, 2016
Durant, now with the Warriors, also recalled the purple lights when he arrived with the Thunder that night.
“I didn’t know what was going on,” Durant said. “Then you go out to the court and see a legend out there. Someone you’ve heard so much about. To get to see him watching us play knowing how much he enjoyed basketball, it was kind of surreal. It was like out of a dream. He was someone who meant so much to culture, music and entertainment. It was an honor.
“You really didn’t expect to see all those lights. But to then see Prince there and then say, ‘Oh, that was what that was all for.’ ”
Prince arrived sporting mammoth sunglasses and a blue satin pantsuit with black trim while walking with the aid of a cane and security watching closely. The crowd gave him rousing applause and a standing ovation.
Green described the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s entrance as “so Prince.”
“He picked a perfect time to make an entrance,” Green said. “Dead ball. He made his entrance walking only the way he could walk. Big Afro. He kind of drew all of the attention.”
Supermodel Damaris Lewis arrived with Prince and sat next to him during the game. Lacob said the legendary singer didn’t say much that night.
With 1:22 remaining in the first quarter, the Warriors showed a smiling Prince on the JumboTron during a timeout. The Warriors showed how much they adored him as the dance team performed to his song “Let’s Go Crazy.” His song “Kiss” also played during the timeout staple Kiss Cam. Prince had a gift, and every fan received a copy of his “HITNRUN Phase Two.”
The Warriors tied the Chicago Bulls’ record that night by winning their 44th straight regular-season game en route to a 121-106 win over the Thunder, Golden State’s 55th victory of the season. Curry also entertained Prince and the fans by scoring 33 points. But Prince departed at halftime and didn’t see the second half.
While Prince was watching the NBA game, he probably did not know that the players were watching him intently as well.
“I remember him sitting right across from our bench,” Curry said. “He showed up in the first quarter with purple on, cane. It looked like he was having a good time. He really didn’t have many facial reactions. But he seemed to enjoy the vibe, and I remember that we made it real warm and welcoming for him in the hallways and stuff.
“I saw him on the sideline. I kind of gave him a head nod. He smiled.”
Said Livingston: “He was iconic. We were like, ‘Yo, that’s Prince.’ Everybody was. You usually don’t see icons come to the game.”
Said Durant: “It was incredible. It was like seeing an angel on the sidelines.”
The Warriors players were all offered suite tickets to attend Prince’s concert at Oracle Arena the next day. Green and forward Andre Iguodala attended. At that show, Prince also told the crowd, “Take your place in history. I know Stephen Curry has.” Green actually watched Prince perform twice that week and shook his hand at the Oracle concert near the Warriors’ locker room.
Curry gave up the ticket he had to see Prince because of a prior engagement. The two-time NBA MVP said he saw two of Prince’s shows in Oakland in 2011. Curry’s father-in-law, John Alexander, is a musician who was inspired by Prince.
“I went to two shows in a row because they were that good,” Curry said. “He knew how to entertain. My father-in-law and basically my wife’s family are all die-hard Prince fans.”
Prince died on April 21, 2016, from an accidental overdose of fentanyl. He was 57. The Warriors heard the news of his death during a shootaround for a playoff game against the Houston Rockets.
Warriors assistant coach Nick U’Ren accepted a request from Curry and Iguodala and played Prince’s “Purple Rain” and “When Doves Cry” on a portable speaker. Next up was “Raspberry Beret,” a request from forward Klay Thompson. The Warriors put out a statement in which Lacob said that he was “shocked and saddened” by the news and that a “true icon in the entertainment business” was lost.
“I’m a fan of his music. I got his songs on my iPhone library,” Thompson said.
Said Green: “I was like, ‘Damn, life is so short.’ I just saw this man. What are the odds that I get the opportunity to see him? The chances to see him at 26 and then he passes away? I cherish that.”
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Durant said he saw Prince perform in concert once.
“You never want to hear that your heroes or legends pass away. But we all are human,” Durant said. “I never thought something would happen to guys like him, Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross. Growing up, my mom, aunts and uncles would play their music. I just felt like these people were like gods to us.
“You felt like everything they did was perfect. But they are human. You can appreciate them for what they do and how hard it was for them to get where they were.”
Marc J. Spears is the senior NBA writer for The Undefeated. He used to be able to dunk on you, but he hasn’t been able to in years and his knees still hurt.
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Labour groups request meeting with Gertler to discuss changes to postsecondary funding
Joint letter calls on Gertler to help counter “threats to learning and employment”
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Five Toronto labour organizations which collectively represent 21,208 staff and faculty at U of T penned a joint letter to President Meric Gertler on May 8 requesting to meet for a discussion on the Ford government’s recent changes to postsecondary funding.
CUPE 1230, CUPE 3261, CUPE 3902, the United Steelworkers Local 1998, and the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA) wrote to Gertler and the university’s three Vice-Presidents to express their dismay at what they call “the provincial government’s threats to learning and employment at the University of Toronto.”
The labour groups had numerous concerns, including how the provincial government’s decision to cut domestic tuition by 10 per cent comes “after years of underfunding universities.” They also criticized the government’s move to slash $670 million from student assistance programs.
The groups were also “deeply concerned” about the decision to render some ancillary fees as optional — allowing students to opt-out of “non-essential” student services — and to increase the proportion of “performance-based” funding for Ontario universities from 1.4 per cent in 2018–19 to 60 per cent by 2024–25.
University will see revenues drop, possible changes to hiring plans
After accounting for Ford’s policies, U of T’s Planning & Budget Committee projected an $88 million revenue reduction for 2019–2020 and a loss of $65 million in 2018–2019.
According to the budget report, the cuts will mean “some combination of changes to faculty and staff hiring plans, deferral of capital projects, service reductions, and operating cost efficiencies.”
P.C. Choo is both the Vice-President of the United Steelworkers Local 1998 and an administrative governor on Governing Council. He told The Varsity that in his capacity as a governor, he does not believe that the university “will be forced to cut salaries.” However, Choo continued, “whether the University will be forced to cut jobs remains very much an open question.”
UTFA President Cynthia Messenger is equally unsure of what’s to come. Messenger told The Varsity in an email that if Gertler would be willing to meet with UTFA and the other unions, she would hope to “discuss ways in which together we could protest the Ford government’s attacks on universities.”
Despite the heightened rhetoric the labour groups employed at times toward the Progressive Conservative government, Merrilee Fullerton, Ontario’s Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, defended the government’s plans.
Tanya Blazina, Fullerton’s media relation representative, told The Varsity that the changes the government is putting forward are “modern, forward thinking, and will lead to good jobs.”
Tying funding to “student and economic outcomes” reflects the government’s priority of making Ontario “Open for Business”, Blazina wrote, while restoring sustainability to the province’s postsecondary sector.
Blazina is referring to the government’s plan to base provincial funding for universities on how well the schools are performing on a number of metrics, as opposed to enrolment numbers. This decision was also criticized by the unions in their letter.
In an email to The Varsity, university spokesperson Elizabeth Church writes that the university is responding directly to the writers of the letter.
“We know how hard our students and their families work to get a university education,” writes Church. “We remain firm in our long-standing access guarantee – financial circumstances will not stand in the way of a qualified student entering or completing a degree.”
U of T President Meric Gertler on international student fees
Gertler: U of T looks “at what our peer institutions are doing” to set tuition levels
U of T President Gertler said there are various services that factor in the cost of tuition. BRIAN RANKIN/THE VARSITY
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In an interview with The Varsity, U of T President Meric Gertler explained comments he recently made in a BBC News interview, in which he said that increasing international tuition led to an increase in demand from international students, saying that the university also takes other factors such as funding and peer institutions into account.
In the BBC interview, Gertler said that because of a higher education market driven by status, people seemed to have a “hard time reconciling” U of T as an inexpensive postsecondary institution and yet a top-30 university.
“When we increased price, we found demand went up — as did the quality of the applications,” Gertler said to BBC.
Speaking to The Varsity shortly after the BBC interview, Gertler said that the university took other factors into consideration when setting tuition fees for international students, especially given the fact that neither the federal nor provincial government provide postsecondary institutions with funding for non-domestic students. The university thus has to cover the “full costs associated with educating those students.”
When asked if U of T increased its fees in part as a way to attract more students from abroad, Gertler said that this was not the case.
“While many of our international students do not require financial assistance, a significant number of them do,” he said. “We have been able to — through the international tuition revenues that we have brought in — fund some international student scholarships.”
The president also mentioned that U of T looks “at what our peer institutions are doing,” in terms of setting fee levels, including in public university systems in places like California, Washington, and Michigan. “We obviously want to be in the similar bands to them,” he said. “We don’t want to be higher and we also don’t want to be lower.”
Gertler said that another factor is the cost of “various services that ensure that [international students] are prepared for a successful experience while they are students here. So there’s special counselling, Centre for International Experience, and things like that that are relevant.”
Tuition fee increases are set differently for domestic and international students. Under provincial regulations, domestic fees cannot be increased past a certain ceiling every year. International fees are unregulated, meaning the university can increase them at a higher rate than for domestic students. Fee increases are proposed by senior administration officials and approved by Governing Council, U of T’s highest decision-making body.
As for the rising number of international students at U of T, Gertler explained that this was due to the university’s active drive to recruit overseas.
“We compared our international enrolment to other peer institutions and found that we were actually lower than a lot of our peers,” he said. “While it’s true that Toronto is a very global city, we found that the university wasn’t quite as globalized as the city itself,” Gertler added, noting that students benefit from having more international students in the classroom.
Around 16.2 per cent of the University of Washington’s Seattle campus students and roughly 14 per cent of the University of Michigan’s students were international.
According to U of T’s 2017–2018 numbers, around 21.3 per cent of students were international.
International fees background
If it seems like international student fees are ever-increasing, you’re not wrong. An undergraduate student entering the University of Toronto in 2019 will pay as much as $59,230 in tuition fees, or roughly four per cent more than someone just the previous year. A student entering U of T in 2015 paid as much as $43,540, or 36 per cent less than in 2019.
According to Statistics Canada, it’s part of a general trend across the country. Data collected by the federal agency shows that the average tuition for an international student rose 6.3 per cent for the 2018–2019 academic year, not including incidental fees and other day-to-day expenses.
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Ralph Muller to receive AHA Distinguished Service Award
The AHA will present its Distinguished Service Award to Ralph Muller, CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting April 8 in Washington, D.C. The award, which is the association’s highest honor, recognizes significant lifetime contributions and service to health care organizations and associations.
During Muller’s 17-year tenure at UPHS, the health system has become a world leader in innovative new immunotherapies that are revolutionizing cancer treatment and is at the forefront of innovation in developing and translating new discoveries to improve patient care and in training the next generation of physician leaders. Prior to joining UPHS, Muller served as president of the University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System for 16 years.
“Throughout his career, Ralph has demonstrated a strong commitment to public service and a real passion for improving patient care,” said AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack. “Just as important, he’s served as a mentor to many in the field – including me – and has trained an entire generation of health care leaders who are working to build a better future for hospitals, health systems and the patients we serve.”
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Adopted 5 Year Old Lacking Social Skills
My question regards my 5-year old son and his recent behavior – and how I can help him.
I'm feeling like a bad mom for my influence in this and I'm hoping there is some way to help him get on track in getting along with other kids.
Before I get to the actual question though, here is some background: I'm a single mom and my son is adopted (from Guatemala); we became a family when he was 11 mos. old. He's always needed to have me close by - by that I mean he's had a lot of separation anxiety, likes/wants to be held a lot, gets jealous when I don't give him my undivided attention (he gets jealous if I hold our kitten because he says I love it more than him, he gets jealous if I talk to other children in our neighborhood, etc.). He also seems a bit less socially mature than his peers because he really has a hard time sharing, seems to “talk at” other kids rather than interact with them, etc.
He's gotten more mature over the past year, but still seems a bit younger acting than many 5-year olds. He's also small for his age, compared with kids born in the US. We have several other children in our neighborhood within a similar age range to F (they range from 4 to 9), including one boy who is just a couple of months younger than my son. Until the past year or so, F didn't want to join in and play with them most of the time (they are always out in front of our houses during free time, playing in a group or in subgroups). He was very shy and would only approach them if I was there with him, but still wouldn't interact much. I tried to spend as much time with them (and their parents) in the area in front of our houses as I could to help him get used to being around them and to help him overcome his anxiety about joining in. His small size and his desire to be with me (and have me hold him) led to the perception, among the neighborhood kids, that he is younger than he really is.
F started preschool last year, after having been in a small home daycare from age 13 months old, and he had a very difficult time transitioning. He basically cried everyday at drop-off for preschool for about 3 months. However, once he started to feel more at home there and became more confident, he loved it and really started to blossom. He started interacting more with his classmates, participated in the class, etc. He also started to interact a bit with our neighborhood children.
He still has issues with sharing and I feel like he still isn't totally attuned to other kids in social situations, but it's much better than it used to be. I really debated within myself whether to send him to kindergarten this year (he turned 5 in April) or to keep him for an extra year in preschool. In the end, because he had blossomed so much in preschool, I decided to give kindergarten a chance. I think he tends to rise to the challenge that he's given a lot of the time.
The kids in the neighborhood were very surprised that he would be going to kindergarten because they didn't think he was old enough… Note: So far, he's doing fine with kindergarten. He hasn't had any problems separating from me to go to school, he seems to have the routine at school down and likes it and he goes to an after-school program (housed in the same place as his former preschool) and likes that too.
After all that background, my concern is about his ability to interact with other kids. I ask him if he has friends at school and I don't really get an answer. He generally played well with his preschool classmates, although sharing was sometimes an issue, but he often played by himself then and I think he must do that in kindergarten as well (just my sense based on how he doesn't really answer my question about friends). While I think he's one of those kids that enjoys playing alone, I don't think that's the sole explanation. I think sometimes he doesn't know how to join in or his intent is socially awkward and other children of his age don't want to play with him or, if they do, they treat him as a much younger child.
A couple of times over the past few weeks he has told me that he doesn't need friends, he only needs himself. I see this specifically with the other kids in our neighborhood now. He has problems with one little boy in particular and I really don't know what to do about it. This boy, will be 5 in September. He's very tall for his age and I'd say he's more socially mature than the average 5-year old. He loves to play with any kids and joins into activities very quickly and easily. In several ways, he and F have opposite temperaments. I'm friends with the other child's parents and we've tried to foster them playing together – because we live so close to each other, they are close in age, etc. They do play together, sometimes just the two of them and sometimes as part of a larger group of children.
However, whenever they are together, it inevitably escalates into arguing – they almost remind me of brothers that are constantly picking at each other and deliberately trying to provoke an argument. F will say one thing and the other boy says the opposite and vice-versa. I don't see the other boy act this way with other kids, although I do see F act this way sometimes with other children (although not to the same extent). The other boy's parents are frustrated with it and so am I. The other day, he came over to our house to play (F wanted him to), but they argued a lot of the time. The other child was no angel, but I was appalled at how F was acting. He literally screamed in the other child's face when he disagreed with him, he said multiple times that he didn't want to be the other child's friend, he ran out of the room a few times saying he wanted to get away from him he refused to share certain toys, etc. The other boy told F he was a baby and just generally disagreed with everything that F said. I started out trying to be calming and get them to play well together, but as the arguing escalated, I'm afraid I let my frustration get the best of me and ended up yelling at both of them for arguing. I've been getting angry like that at F more lately, so this isn't really an anomaly, unfortunately. In the morning, we walk with this other child and another neighborhood girl (7 yrs. old) and their mothers to school (he is also in the same kindergarten, although in a different classroom).
Today, F took one look at the other child, and said “Stop, you're not my friend.” Then, as we were walking, he said that after school, he wants to gather his things and run away to somewhere where this child isn't. Meanwhile, the other boy and the little girl (they are good friends) walked behind us, saying something about how F was grumpy and acting like a baby.
I understand that kids can't always get along, but what bothers me most is my son's way of dealing with this conflict. When he says “stop!!!!” , I hear myself because that's what I say to him when he's doing something I don't like. I just feel like I haven't given him any good tools to handle his anger, so instead he's lashing out and being mean and immature, which ultimately only makes it worse for him with this particular little boy. And, I have to admit that it's embarrassing to have my son act like this in front of other parents, it just seems like my son is mean and I haven't taught him any manners.
And, what if he acts like this with other kids at kindergarten? Perhaps I made the wrong choice in sending him this year?
What can I do to try and help my son? I feel angry with him at times, sad for him at other times, worried overall and guilty that somehow this is my fault and I don't have the skills to make it better.
Thanks very much,
Dear P,
I'm glad you wrote. We all want our child to be socially accepted and to experience the joy of connecting with peers. Naturally you're embarrassed about your son's behavior. More importantly, you're worried about his ability to make friends. The warning signs you're seeing will not just go away. Your son needs your help to develop the emotional and social skills he needs for healthy peer interactions.
Most of us don't know much about these emotional and social skills. They just seem to unfold magically in children. But, actually, the foundation for those skills is laid down during the first year. Unfortunately, your son missed normal interaction during that first year, until he found you. So he needs your help to do some remedial work.
It is my experience that children who are adopted after the first few months almost always have delays of some sort. One mother whose son came to her from Honduras when he was ten months old told me that she felt he was "in limbo" waiting for her, not really developing. Once they were united, he began hitting the developmental milestones of a younger child. She always felt he was about ten months younger than his actual age.
Given what we now know about infant brain development, this makes perfect sense. Babies' brains don't just develop, the way their arms do. Human brains are highly flexible, designed to respond to the environment. So our brains develop depending on our interactions with others. In our first year, we learn the dance of intimacy, in which we gaze at our parent, who gazes back. We smile, she smiles. We feel over-stimulated and look away, she respects our need for a moment of calm space and waits patiently for us to return to the interaction. This is one of the ways we learn the give and take of human interaction, which is a foundational social skill.
At other times, when we are upset, our parent calms us. Our brain is flooded with soothing neurochemicals. Every time this happens, the pathways in our brain that release these soothing neurochemicals are strengthened, which results in our emerging ability to soothe ourselves.This is a critical skill throughout life, since our anxiety and fear drives most aggression and conflict with others. Managing our emotions allows us to manage our behavior with others. The ability to self-soothe is also the seed of empathy.
By the end of the first year, babies have a tremendous number of capabilities that form the foundation for social skills. First, they can hopefully soothe themselves when upset. Second, babies have decided whether it's a friendly universe. If they run into a problem, will help come, or are they on their own? Third, babies have drawn conclusions about what relationships are like and whether they are safe and rewarding. Finally, babies will have definite opinions about whether there is enough to go around, which helps determine their generosity and aggressiveness.
My hypothesis is that your son may be a bit behind on all of these skills. It's not easy to make them up, but it is possible with your help. However, intervention is needed, or his peers will outstrip him and begin to shun or bully him.
1. Find a place to work out your own feelings so you can help your son. Naturally you get upset when he acts inappropriately with other children, and in your frustration and fear, you want to scream. But what he needs at that point is help with his feelings, and modeling from you about how to work out the difficulty. If you scream, he will soon be screaming at his playmate. It would help you enormously to have someone to talk to. This person could be a counselor or a friend. For some people, a journal even works; others need a real listener. What you don't want is someone who will be judgmental or insist that you should discipline your son to "teach" him. You are looking for someone who will simply help you process your own feelings.
2. Play with your son daily as much as possible. First, play with him like a peer. This helps him learn peer skills. In other words, negotiate with him about what game to play, just as a peer would. But you will be more patient and helpful than a peer would, in exploring options, expressing differences in opinion, etc. "You want to play trains, and I want to go outside and run around...what should we do?...Do you think we could do your idea first for 15 minutes and then my idea second? But because I have to wait for my game, maybe we should do that a bit longer?"
Second, play games with him that help him develop the skills he needs to take turns, follow rules, delay gratification, and manage his impulses. Studies show that games such as "Red Light Green Light" , "Duck Duck Goose" and "Follow the Leader," help kids develop these abilities, which they need to play with other kids in a positive way.
3. Roleplay with him. Tell him you want to help him learn how to solve problems with other kids. Tell him he should pretend to be another child who wants his toy, and you will be him. Then reverse roles. As you keep playing versions of this "game" over time, you can get him to suggest other problems he runs into with kids (like wanting to join in a game on the playground) so you can role play solutions with him. Having these experiences with you will give him more options when he finds himself in the same situation with a peer. Make these games fun. The more you get him giggling, the more he's releasing anxiety about these interactions, as well as learning new skills.
4. Read books with him about social interaction. On my website, there's a whole page of books to read with kids that promote emotional intelligence, all of which will be helpful to your son. You'll notice that some of these books are specifically about social intelligence.
Books to Help Kids Develop Emotional Intelligence
There are MANY more books out there that deal with the themes of social skills and friendship, if you browse online, a bookstore, or at a library. For instance, How Kids Make Friends: Secrets for Making Lots of Friends, No Matter How Shy You Are by Lonnie Michelle, is written for shy kids, but it's great to give kids an understanding of the process. Use these stories as a jumping off point for discussions and role playing. Notice his reactions to reading them. For instance, if such a book makes him sad, hold him while he cries and offer empathy, reflecting his feelings as he expresses them: "You feel left out at school....you worry that no one wants to play with you...." If he gets angry, that's a defense against his deeper fear and sadness. Reflect that also: "That book makes you mad and sad....you worry about whether you can have good friends..." After he has a chance to express his feelings, once he seems to be feeling better, reassure him that you love him no matter what, and that once kids get to know him, they will love him too. Explain that you two will keep role playing so he learns how to make good friends.
5. Teach, model and interface during playdates. Kids often need our help to navigate social situations. There's no shame in getting into the sand box to model and help him negotiate with other kids. Your presence will also help him feel safer, so he's less likely to veer into aggression. So for now, understand that you will need to stay very present during playdates to provide calm and negotiating skills.
Here are some articles that give examples of how you can do this:
How to Help 4 Year Old Make Friends on Playground
Toddler Hitting Other Kids - I know this is written about a younger child, but the description should be helpful to you about how to help your son with his feelings during playdates.
6. Teach and model during your every interaction with him. Kids all have their personalities, but they will copy what we do to a large degree. If you yell at him, he will yell at others. I don't know what kind of discipline you use, but I encourage you to check out the section of my website on discipline:
Discipline that Works
The more you're able to parent in a positive way, the more hell relate to peers in a positive way.
7. Help him "vent" his fears. All small children find numerous daily reasons to feel fearful. I have never met a child who was adopted after a few months old who did not have some fear to work out. In your son's case, his fears are being expressed very directly: If you pet the kitten, he fears you love the kitten more. How is this related to his peer relationships? First, he has less practice, because he has been too fearful, so he's been clinging to you rather than joining in. (Pushing him away would exacerbate the problem, btw, the only solution is to help him work through his fear.)
Second, when children are afraid (as every child is at times), they respond as all humans do. They become less flexible, less generous, more wary, more aggressive. They have a harder time simply playing. They lash out.
Your son needs help with some big feelings. I would start by focusing on his feelings about sharing. These are the same feelings he has about sharing you with the kitten. Your son can't be blamed for feeling this way. When he was an infant, he was powerless and dependent, and he probably felt, frequently, like there was not enough to go around. Babies in orphanages sometimes actually die from lack of touch, so he may well feel that sharing attention or toys (both symbolizing love and sustenance) threaten his very existence. Most young children feel this to some degree and are challenged by sharing, but for your son this is a primal issue: If he shares, he might die.
To help him with this, I recommend that you help him access those fears and show them to you. Luckily, when humans feel and express their emotions, the feelings dissipate. It's when we stuff them down and try to repress them that they burst out and drive our behavior. So your son's aggression around sharing is almost certainly directly connected to his fear. To help him feel that fear, and express it, you can "schedule a meltdown." By that I mean, you can pick a time when you are well rested and feeling patient and loving, and help him "process" his feelings about sharing.
Begin talking with your son about sharing. To make this real, it's helpful to have an upcoming playdate you can refer to, in which he will be expected to share. But since your son is so triggered around this issue, even a general discussion might be sufficient for him to feel all those upsetting feelings about sharing, as soon as you raise the issue. Hold him or sit close, on the floor with him, so he feels safe. Your goal is to help your son feel safe enough to feel those fears and show you them, or tell you about them, or act them out.
As you suggest to your son that at this upcoming playdate, he will be expected to share with the other child, acknowledge that this is hard for him. Look him in the eye. The eyes truly are the windows to the soul, and it helps us all to connect to our deeper emotions when we meet the kind, loving eyes of someone who cares about us.
When he begins to cry, empathize. Your goal is to help him to let out all these feelings, so stay kind and calm and just keep letting him know he's safe. This article gives you a good example of how to do this:
Angry 5 Year Old
8. Play games to help your son vent and to develop emotional intelligence. Children express their fears through tears, but they also work them out through play. That's one reason we think of play as children's work. So the more you can get your son giggling, the less you'll have to help him work out emotions by crying. You have two goals in these kinds of games: Helping him vent his feelings, and strengthening your relationship so he feels comfortable showing you his deep feelings.
This article is a good example of how to help him vent about his social experiences:
How to help 4 year old who's been bullied
For games to strengthen your relationship:
Games to bond and build emotional intelligence:
9. Work to help your son develop Emotional and Social Intelligence
There's a whole section on this website about helping your child develop Emotional intelligence and another on
How to Raise a Socially Intelligent Child. I think you'll find a lot of guidance on these pages to help you.
You might also do some additional work to help your son read social cues by making faces with him. Have him say things to you and make faces in response. Ask him what feeling you are showing him with your expression. For instance, if he says something mean, you can look hurt. Make this a fun game by exaggerating your responses. The more he giggles, the more he is letting off his anxieties about such social interactions, and the more helpful it is to him. Hopefully, he will love this game so much that he'll become quite adept at reading the expressions of others!
10. Consider having your son assessed. This may seem premature. After all, he is only five. But problems with social skills are sometimes the first indicator of broader issues. Specifically, your son is missing social cues, is behind on developing empathy, and is having a hard time regulating his emotions. I am hoping that your consistent and dedicated intervention using the other suggestions I've given will yield positive results within a few months and you will see progress in all these areas. However, if your son is still having significant social issues in three months, I urge you to have him professionally evaluated. It may be that he needs some extra help.
I realize you're a single mom and this might be overwhelming to you. I encourage you to get some support to work on these issues intensively over the next few months. The longer your son goes without confidence in this area, the harder it is to make up these deficits. I do believe that with these kinds of interventions, you will see positive change. One thing you might consider is joining one of my parenting groups that meets by telephone. I realize you work, but maybe one at lunch hour would be possible? Just a thought, since it would give you ongoing support for six weeks as you try this all out.
In any case, I send you and your son blessings.
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The Circassians (Circassian: Adiga, Adygekher), people of northwestern Caucasia, also referred to as the Cherkess. the term 'Circassian' includes the twelve Adyghe (Circassian: Adiga, Adyge) tribes (three democratic and nine aristocratic), i.e. Abzakh, Besleney, Bzhedug, Hatuqwai, Kabardian, Mamkhegh, Natukhai, Shapsug, Temirgoy, Ubykh, Yegeruqwai, and Zhaney, each one represented by a star on the green-and-gold Circassian flag. However, due to Soviet administrative divisions, Circassians were also designated as the following: Adygeans (Adyghe in Adygea), Cherkessians (Adyghe in Karachay-Cherkessia), Kabardians (Adyghe in Kabardino-Balkaria), Shapsugians (Adyghe in Krasnodar Krai) although all the four are essentially the same people residing in different political units.
Circassians are found today chiefly in the Russian republics of Adygea and Karachay-Cherkessia and kabrdey republic and in larger groups in Jordan, Turkey, Israel and Syria. Their languages belong to the North-West Caucasian languages, a non-Indo-European group. They are related in language origin to many other mountaineer peoples of Caucasia and Transcaucasia. Since the 17th century, they have been Muslims. Although Circassia was ceded to Russia in 1829, the Circassians were not subjugated until 1864, when, after fierce resistance, many left the Caucasus and migrated to various parts of the Ottoman Empire.
The Circassians - self-designation Adyge- are the oldest indigenous people of North Caucasus. Their language belongs to the North-West of the Caucasian family of languages. It's unusual phonological system-an overabundance of consonants and scarcity of vowels has stimulated much interest among linguists. In the 6th century, under Georgian and Byzantine influence many were Christianized, but under the growing influence of the Ottomans, Islam replaced Christianity. However, the process was gradual. Blending with Christian survivals and even pre-Christian folk beliefs, Islam became fully established only in the 18th-19th centuries. ' Neither Christianity nor Islam,' as Henze points out, 'resulted in the creation of a distinctive priestly class who could preserve written literature or encourage literacy' (Henze, 1986:247).
Attempts at reducing the language to writing in the 19th and early 20th century had also failed .Circassians become a literary language only after the Russian revolution .The Circassians are Sunni of the Hanafi school who tend to be non-fanatical and among whom the Adat or custom low - The Adyge-Habze - has reminded extremely strong .It is the language and the custom law that have formed the chief component parts in Circassian tribal groups speaking numerous, but mutually intelligible dialects, were the main ethnic element in NW Caucasus .This changed drastically when under the pressure of the Russian conquest, especially after the defeat of the Great Revolt (1825-1864) a Circassian mass exodus - 'One of the greatest mass movements of population in modern history ' (Henze , 1986) - took place to Turkey and other areas of the Ottoman Empire, including the Middle East .One and a half million Circassians abandoned their ancient homeland, leaving behind scattered remnant communities .The Russian census of 1897 recorded only 150,000 Circassians, less the one tenth of the original population .
Occupation and Deportation Caucasian peoples characterize events which happened during the Second World War as their third catastrophe - after the colonization and the destruction of the native elites. The German Army reached the Caucasus in 1942 on the way to the Caucasian oil fie lds in Maikop, Grozny and Baloi. Parts of the Caucasus were occupied 1942~322, but the mountain range barred further access. Kalkhozes, col lective farms, were closed, mosques reopened in areas where the German Army arrived, and promises for sovere ignty were given to those people who were willing to cooperate.
Following these events, came deportation - the worst peri od in history for the native peoples in the North Caucasus. Between November 1943 and March 1~, on decrees signed by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, all Karachai, Ingush, Chechen and Balkar - to mention only the Caucasian peoples - were rounded up, loaded into tens of thousands of cattle waggons and transferred to Central Asia and Siberia in five rounds of deportation reported meticulously to Moscow. The violent deportations were carried out with extraordinary speed, on an admittedly mostly unfounded accusation of collaboration with the enemy.
The deportations, or repressions as the peoples themselves prefer to call them, can be said to be genuine genocides because ethnicity was the sole criteria for selection, and practically nobody from the selection was spared.223 Some were taken not only from their national territory but also from other Soviet republics, and those at the front were deported after the war. All deportees came under severe surveillance, with up to 20 years in labour camps if they left their assigned place of settlement. Wherever they set tled, the local population was told that they were bandits, traitors and criminals, which resulted in their isolation and other additional hardships. They often lived in dugouts or in the open, under hard labour, had little food and many of the children had no schooling at all. One quarter of the Chechen and one third of the Karachai died during transport or deportations.
The former republics of the deported peoples were dis solved and the territory given to other repacks or groups. New inhabitants moved into the houses of the deported, others fell into decay. Graveyards and national monuments were destroyed and the names of the collectively punished peoples were deleted from maps, streets, documents and public memory. It was forbidden to enquire on their fate. It was only during Perestroika that the first article on details of the deportations was published in the Soviet Union.27 The first book containing personal recollections was published in 1993,% This experience has left its mark on the peoples of the Caucasus, comparable only to the memories of those who survived the Holocaust in the Second World War. Read more at Wikipedia
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This work has been carried out by “Justice For North Caucasus Group” and “Radio Adiga” in addition to other devoted Circassian individuals, who worked for approximately four years to analyze, index, translate and publish the documents that were sent in a CD as an attachment to the letter that was sent to the European Parliament in 11, October, 2006, in several languages, which included documents that present the correct vision on how Tsarist Russian forces had dealt with, and treated Circassians when Circassia was invaded and eventually was entirely occupied.
The clear picture that is reflected in the documents shows details of occupation consequences that included but not limited to murder, genocide operations, destruction, intimidation, ill-treatment, displacement and deportation.
Book: The Circassian Genocide
The Circassian Genocide (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)
by Walter Richmond
Circassia was a small independent nation on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea. For no reason other than ethnic hatred, over the course of hundreds of raids the Russians drove the Circassians from their homeland and deported them to the Ottoman Empire. At least 600,000 people lost their lives to massacre, starvation, and the elements while hundreds of thousands more were forced to leave their homeland. By 1864, three-fourths of the population was annihilated, and the Circassians had become one of the first stateless peoples in modern history.
Using rare archival materials, Walter Richmond chronicles the history of the war, describes in detail the final genocidal campaign, and follows the Circassians in diaspora through five generations as they struggle to survive and return home. He places the periods of acute genocide, 1821–1822 and 1863–1864, in the larger context of centuries of tension between the two nations and updates the story to the present day as the Circassian community works to gain international recognition of the genocide as the region prepares for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the site of the Russians’ final victory.
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The Latest: Juncker: filling Europe’s top jobs won’t be easy
Posted: Jun 20, 2019 / 08:34 AM EDT / Updated: Jun 20, 2019 / 08:40 PM EDT
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, June 20, 2019. European Union leaders meet in Brussels for a two-day summit to begin the process of finalizing candidates for the bloc’s top jobs. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on the EU summit on the candidates for the bloc’s top jobs (all times local):
European commission president Jean-Claude Juncker will have to wait at least one more week before he finds out about his successor at the helm of Europe’s executive arm.
Although he is confident the bloc’s leader can find an agreement on candidates for Europe’s top job on June 30 when they meet again, Juncker does not expect it to be an easy task.
“I don’t expect that. But it has to be done,” Juncker said at a press conference in the early hours of Friday following a day of unsuccessful horse trading at the European Council.
European Union leaders have failed to reach a deal on candidates for the bloc’s top jobs and have announced a special summit for June 30.
After a full deal of secretive huddles among top leaders, the EU summit ended early Friday without any solution on who will get a half-dozen of coveted top jobs in the 28-nation bloc.
Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas said “all the names are still on the table but I am positive we will find a solution next Sunday” June 30.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron had said it was better to wait a few more days and continue talks that to make hasty decisions.
European Council president Donald Tusk says he is “more cautious than optimistic” ahead of the latest gathering of European leaders in Brussels.
The bloc’s leaders are holding a two-day summit to try and find a consensus over the candidates for the European Union’s top jobs to be filled later this year.
But discrepancies remain on who should get the positions, and nominations could be delayed.
In a message posted on Twitter alongside a picture of him speaking with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, Tusk wrote: “Last round of consultations on appointments before the start of #EUCO. Yesterday I was cautiously optimistic. Today I’m more cautious than optimistic.”
French President Emmanuel Macron says the nomination contest for Europe’s top positions isn’t a battle between France and Germany.
Speaking upon arrival at a European Council meeting where EU leaders will discuss possible candidates for the much-coveted jobs, Macron said it would be a “mistake” to transform the meeting into a power struggle between the two countries.
Macron said “I’m not locked up in any specific scheme, and our aim is to make emerge the best team for Europe.”
Macron said he met with several European leaders on Thursday morning, and is holding talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He will also meet with European Council President Donald Tusk before the summit starts later in the afternoon.
EU leaders will to try do decide during the summit who will head the bloc’s key institutions, including the European Commission presidency. Other jobs up for grabs are the EU foreign policy chief, the head of the European Central Bank, the president of the European Parliament and the head of the European Council.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that the EU summit starting Thursday might not necessarily succeed in filling all the top jobs at stake, an issue which has divided the 28 member states over the past weeks.
Before bilateral meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron, Merkel said that positions were still so far apart that “it’s possible there will be no result today,” but she said it was no big problem since “we still have a few days left.”
Merkel has come out in favor of German parliamentarian Manfred Weber, but Macron hasn’t backed his candidacy for the job of European Commission president.
European Union leaders are converging on Brussels for the start of the process to finalize candidates for the bloc’s top jobs who will supervise a sprawl of policy files for at least the next five years.
The EU is responsible for coordinating the 28 member countries’ common policies on sectors ranging from the single market to immigration.
The main posts up for grabs Thursday are the head of the EU’s powerful executive arm, the European Commission, and president of the European Council, which represents the member states. The European Parliament has a say too.
The current European Council president, Donald Tusk, says his many contacts “have shown that there are different views, different interests, but also a common will to finalize this process before” parliament sits on July 2.
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Reflection and Choice or Accident and Force
June 11, 2013 , David Corbin and Matthew Parks , Leave a comment
This is the first in a series of essays examining and applying the timeless principles and truths of the Federalist Papers to the political events of our day.
Two hundred twenty-six years ago today [May 14], the Constitutional Convention was scheduled to open in Philadelphia. While it took eleven more days for a quorum of delegates to assemble, it took those delegates less than four months to answer the question that had brought them together: what can be done to make the Articles of Confederation “adequate to the exigencies of the Union”? Their answer: nothing. And so they proposed an entirely new frame of government, justifying this revolutionary act with an appeal to the document that justified the original American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence: “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government….”
But since this was the people’s right, not the Convention’s, and since the Declaration had also asserted that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed,” nothing would be settled until the public at large, acting through specially-called state conventions, ratified the new Constitution. And since ratification was by no means certain, the authors of The Federalist Papers, over eight and one-half months, made the case for the Constitution in eighty-five carefully-reasoned essays. Theirs is perhaps the world’s finest example of rhetorical statesmanship: morally responsible, intellectually profound, and practically-oriented. It is also profoundly republican.
Whatever their claims to political preeminence–and they were great–Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay made no appeal to authority in laying out their case for the Constitution. Publius, their collective pen name, would be only as persuasive as the reasons he gave. This was natural, since from the opening paragraph of the first essay, they recognized that the debate was not just about whether the United States would adopt the Constitution or even whether the union of the states would continue, but also, and most fundamentally, whether “societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.”
Too often our leaders are not so magnanimous today. A poster in the New York City subway tells it all. Beside a stick figure picture of a man slumped against a support column, the text instructs: “See someone in need? Get help!”and then directs the hopeless citizen to the nearest subway employee or police officer. Let the professionals handle things. From the subways to the State Department, our modern bureaucratic state has been designed to make popular reflection less and less meaningful and choice less and less real. As President Reagan said, “The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program”–guarded by a phalanx of experts impervious to all November election arrows.
As we pay deference to their authority, we hand over more and more power to a ruling class that considers itself too sophisticated to talk about “good”government, a quaint or perhaps nefarious notion from a bygone age. What we need today, they believe, is not good government, but effective government. Over the last two centuries, politics has grown up, setting aside childish debates about philosophical abstractions like justice to confront the real scientific facts of social life. And since the most universal fact of all is that our existence is a matter of metaphysical accident, modern statesmanship amounts to artfully applying intellectual force against those who still believe that their reflection and choice is a matter of consequence–against, in other words, the members of the political flat earth society. Thus, President Obama promised in his First Inaugural that his administration would “restore science to its rightful place” and supplied all the necessary graphs to demonstrate the wisdom of his stimulus bill, health care overhaul, and energy policy.
Not surprisingly, then, the biggest players in today’s political arena are the fact-checkers. And they are everywhere–essential members of every post-speech or -debate cable news panel and the best-placed columnists in the best print and online journals. Apparently inspired by the reverence with which media elites receive a judgment of “two pinocchios,” one debate moderator in the last presidential season even took it upon herself to do some real-time fact-checking (at the expense of the unfortunate Republican candidate, as last week’s hearings on Benghazi made abundantly clear). Along the way, the definition of political facts has expanded with the profile of the fact-checkers. As a result, more and more judgments about facts are really just another form of ideological warfare. We naturally wonder: is there any room left for reasonable debate on contestable questions?
There is good reason to dispute the “just the facts” approach to politics–and not only the remarkable distance between the lines on the graphs and the real facts of our experience. The founders, as it turns out, were not as unscientific as we presume. Hamilton’s Treasury Department, composed of the Secretary and a few clerks, gathered and analyzed detailed data on the new nation’s debt, international trade, and manufacturing base. But Hamilton never supposed, as Secretary of the Treasury or advocate of the Constitution, that well-tabulated numbers carried with them necessary policy prescriptions. The national debt was $76 million, but whether and how that should be paid down were moral questions that required careful reasoning from first principles. And since human beings are, in fact, responsible moral agents ultimately accountable to the God who made them, it was not just meaningful, but necessary, to distinguish good government from bad and to challenge the belief that all politics is a matter of accident and force.
What would be required to reintroduce reflection and choice into the public square–and, perhaps more importantly, deliver us from the arbitrary power (“accident and force”) of the ruling class? We would do well as a political community to consider Publius’s opening argument in Federalist 1 and model our politics accordingly. There he states simply: (1) You have been called to choose; (2) Yours is a fundamental choice between (rare) good government and (common) bad government; (3) Your choice will make a difference for you, your descendants, and the world at large; (4) The flaws of human nature make good choices difficult, but not impossible.
Such a political reclamation project would require leaders who were willing to make arguments, and citizens who were willing to consider arguments and empowered to make choices. The reward for the revival of this type of politics would be the satisfaction of having resurrected reflection and choice as an alternative for mankind, along with all of the associated benefits of peace, prosperity, and human flourishing that typically result from them. The risk of not reviving this type of politics is the frightening prospect that the kinder, gentler, more palatable employment of accident and force in politics will not remain so; that having lost the taste for governance rightly understood, both rulers and ruled will become more and more accustomed to imposing their will upon one another, making arbitrary government, along with death and taxes, the most reliable fact of all.
David Corbin is a Professor of Politics and Matthew Parks an Assistant Professor of Politics at The King’s College, New York City. They are co-authors of “Keeping Our Republic: Principles for a Political Reformation (2011).”
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David Corbin is a Professor of Politics and Matthew Parks an Assistant Professor of Politics at The King’s College, New York City. They are co-authors of “Keeping Our Republic: Principles for a Political Reformation” (2011). You can follow their work on Twitter orFacebook.
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Self-funded retirees may get concessions back
By ERWIN CHLANDA
The NT Government wants to bring back under its concession scheme self-funded retirees over 65 who were excluded from it by the Giles Government in May 2014.
Right: Keeping seniors in the NT. Annual fundraiser at Old Timers, photo from our archives.
From that date financial subsidies such as for electricity, water, rates and motor vehicle registration and licensing, as well as a travel subsidy of $500 every two years, became restricted to pensioners and carers who qualified for Commonwealth pension and carer payments or cards.
The Gunner Government is now putting the proposed changes, including raising the $500 subsidy to $700 every two years and permitting it for uses other than travel, before the public for comment.
“The scheme in its current form has not been reviewed for a number of years and has become outdated, expensive, unsustainable and open to fraud and rorting,” says a government spokesperson.
“Some concessions were not capped, so members could claim thousands of dollars in concessions.
“The top 25% of eligible claimants received 54% of the claimed money. The bottom 25% of those eligible received 4% of the claimed money.
“These issues need to be addressed to ensure a robust, fit for purpose scheme that supports Senior Territorians to remain in the Territory after retirement.”
The proposed scheme will be two-tiered and will offer concessions for eligible pensioners and all seniors, says the spokesperson.
“The two tiers will be those on a government pension, and self-funded retirees 65 years of age or over. The details of eligibility may be a topic of discussion at public consultations.”
Similar to Centrelink’s Basics Card arrangements for some Aboriginal people, it is likely future NT Government concessions will be administered via debit card. It will be loaded with a single annual concession amount and can only be used for specified purchases with identified vendors.
“How this will work is still to be identified and finalised through the consultation process, however depending on the results of our consultations it may continue to it will include things like power and water, travel, and smaller items such as motor vehicle registration and spectacles,” says the spokesperson.
There will be a cap on concessions paid: “How and where these are used will be part of the public consultation. The Government has included an additional $2.1m extra to support senior Territorians previously excluded from the scheme under the CLP.”
The new scheme will commence on January 1, 2018. Hardship provisions for low income and very special needs such as unusual medical needs requiring high use of power, “if required,” will be incorporated into this review.
The Government will also have an independent review of the current scheme to better understand why some households are claiming very high concessions.
This review will be completed in June and will be used to inform ways to support a more moderate consumption of electricity as well as how to more fairly distribute the funding across all members.
The key findings will be made publicly available “and will inform the community consultation”.
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Posted June 27, 2017 at 3:09 pm
I and many others in the mature age sector in the Territory had the understanding that the “Concession Scheme” is to give an incentive to keep the seniors living in the Territory, and stay in the Territory in their retirement.
This was to be done by supporting them in the everyday utilities of essentials, such as power, water, council rates, driver’s licence, travel and car rego.
It’s not a welfare scheme.
If money is to be cut, a suggestion could be: Only X amount of dollars for every utility, put on automatically as they are now on our invoices from the power, water, rates.
This would stop any rorting of the scheme and save thousands on bringing in a card.
If a card is required, it should be one for genuine Territorians who have been living in the Territory over 25 years. This would be a help in identifying genuine members.
It would be given automatically to them without being means testing, for identification.
People on welfare already are getting assistance for all of the above already.
Why should they receive it twice ?
When self funded retires have all the same utilises to pay as everyone else.
If they are not able to assist this scheme, why was this scheme to assist Territorians here in the first place?
These Self Funded Retires have work in the Territory most of their lives, shortly this is a thank you and please stay incentive
Finally, I believe it should be for all Territorians as above, and not only for persons on the welfare.
Surprised!
Some may challenge why older people receive these concessions and this is a different discussion.
Removal of and reinstatement of these concessions must make financial planning extremely difficult for the older folks. It would be hard enough to “calculate” how much you need to retire and fund yourself until you die, without these sudden changes.
Similarly, changes to superannuation laws and retirement ages are governments’ way to bring in more revenue knowing that the older people have less of a voice.
If these changes were based on humanitarian grounds, I could see merit, but they are based on political agendas and that is disgraceful!
Notwithstanding the fact that the older people are the ones who made Australia great.
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Raids in US over NY bomb plot
Three people held on immigration violations during searches across the northeast.
Shahzad faces five terrorism-related charges in connection with the botched May 1 attack [AFP]
The official said one of the men had been arrested because he had overstayed his visa.
A second man had already been awaiting a ruling from an immigration court hearing on whether he would be removed from the US.
"We can confirm that several search warrants have been executed in the northeast in connection with the Times Square bombing investigation," Gail Marcinkiewicz, an FBI spokeswoman, told the AFP news agency.
'No immediate threat'
Faisal Shazhad, a Pakistani-born US citizen, has already been charged with terrorism in connection with the botched May 1 attack, after he allegedly parked a car laden with a home-made bomb in New York's Times Square.
Profile: Faisal Shahzad
Blog: 'All Pakistanis are terrorists'
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Authorities said Shahzad, 30, a former financial analyst who lived in Connecticut prior to the bombing attempt, has been co-operating with federal officials.
Dean Boyd, a justice department spokesman, said the searches were the result of evidence collected during a 13-day investigation.
Shahzad faces five terrorism-related charges. But he has still not appeared in court or been seen in public since his arrest on May 3 when he was hauled off a flight to Dubai.
In its statement on the latest arrests, the FBI said it could "provide no further details as the investigation is ongoing".
But it added: "This search is the product of evidence that has been gathered in the investigation subsequent to the attempted Times Square bombing and [does] not relate to any known immediate threat to the public or active plot against the United States."
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the failed attempt to detonate a car bomb in the heart of New York City. If this claim is confirmed to be true, the attempt would be the group's first act in the United States.
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EU urges 'strong response' to Syria attack
US Secretary of State Kerry welcomes statement, but EU ministers stop short of endorsing military action.
Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, has said that "a clear and strong response" must be delivered on the use of chemical weapon weapons in Syria, but has urged those advocating military strikes to wait for a UN inspectors' report.
Speaking in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, on Saturday, Ashton said that the EU's 28 governments agreed that available information showed strong evidence that the Syrian government was responsible for an alleged chemical weapons attack on civilians on August 21 that killed hundreds.
"[The Syrian government] is the only one that possesses chemical weapons agents and the means of their delivery in a sufficient quantity," Ashton told reporters as she read out a joint statement prepared by the ministers.
'War crime'
Ashton said the August 21 attack was a "blatant violation of international law, a war crime and a crime against humanity" and that the ministers "were unanimous in condemning in the strongest terms this horrific attack".
The ministers agreed, she said, that the world "cannot remain idle" and said a clear and strong response was needed to prevent any future use of chemical weapons in Syria.
The ministers stopped short, however, of explicitly supporting military action against Syria, as proposed by the United States, France and others.
US Secretary of State John Kerry, in Vilnius trying to make the US administration's case for a strike, thanked the EU for a "strong statement about the need for accountability".
Kerry said he would share his counterparts' concern with US officials, but at a later press event in Paris said that President Obama had not yet made a decision on whether or not to wait for the inspectors report before ordering any action.
Kerry was speaking after meeting French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who said that carrying out a military strike against Bashar al-Assad's regime "is not at odds with a political solution [...] Assad will not participate in negotiations as long as he sees himself as invincible".
Al Jazeera's Neave Barker, reporting from Paris, said that Fabius addressed a domestic audience with some of his remarks.
"One of the most interesting points made by the French foreign minister was to defend against accusations that France has isolated itself on global stage. What he failed to mention of course is that no other states than France and the US have gone so far as to say that they will militarily intervene," he said.
President Barack Obama has asked the US Congress to approve the use of force in Syria, and on Saturday announced that he will be doing a series of television interviews ahead of a nationwide televised address on Tuesday. A final vote in the US Senate is expected at the end of the coming week. A US House of Representatives vote is likely the week of September 16.
Ashton said EU ministers welcomed French President Francois Hollande's earlier commitment to wait for a report by United Nations inspectors on the August 21 attack before taking any action.
"The EU underscores [...] the need to move forward with addressing the Syrian crisis through the UN process," she said.
The US says that 1,429 people were killed in the August 21 attack, while aid agencies have confirmed at least 355 deaths, with thousands more wounded.
Fighting rages in Syria
Meanwhile, fighting continues on the ground in Syria, where rebels and government forces have continued to battle for control of the mainly Christian town of Maaloula, according to a UK-based anti-government rights group.
"There are clashes just inside the town in the western district between [a pro-government militia group] and rebel forces," Rami Abdul Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.
"There are also clashes between soldiers backed by militias and rebel fighters around the area of one of the entrances to Maaloula," he said.
The fighting on the outskirts of the town started with an army attack on a group of rebels in a hotel on a nearby hill.
State television, meanwhile, citing a military source, said the army had targeted the hotel and surrounding positions where "terrorists" were stationed, killing several and destroying their weapons.
Elsewhere in Syria, the Observatory said on Saturday that 14 rebels and two civilians were killed in government shelling of the Kiswa and Maqbaliya, two areas south of Damascus.
The group also reported bombardments in Zamalka, east of Damascus, as well as Daraya and Moadamiyat al-Sham in the southern outskirts of the capital.
Syria's Civil War
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Executive Order 12038--Relating to certain functions transferred to the Secretary of Energy by the Department of Energy Organization Act
Source: The provisions of Executive Order 12038 of Feb. 3, 1978, appear at 43 FR 4957, 3 CFR, 1978 Comp., p. 136, unless otherwise noted.
By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America, in order to reflect the responsibilities of the Secretary of Energy for the performance of certain functions previously vested in other officers of the United States by direction of the President and subsequently transferred to the Secretary of Energy pursuant to the Department of Energy Organization Act (91 Stat. 565; 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Functions of the Federal Energy Administration.
[Sec. 1 amends Executive Order 11647 of Feb. 10, 1972, which was revoked by Executive Order 12149 of July 20, 1979; Executive Order 11790of June 25, 1974, Chapter 10; Executive Order 11912of Apr. 13, 1976, Chapter 10; and Proc. 3279 of Mar. 10, 1959, which was revoked by Proc. 5141 of Dec. 22, 1983. The amendments have been incorporated into those documents codified in this volume.]
Sec. 2. Functions of the Federal Power Commission.
[Sec. 2 amends Executive Order 10485of Sept. 3, 1953, Chapter 10, and Executive Order 11969 of Feb. 2, 1977, which was revoked by Executive Order 12553 of Feb. 25, 1986. The amendments have been incorporated into Executive Order 10485. Additionally, Sec. 2 amended Executive Order 11331of Mar. 6, 1967, which was revoked by Executive Order 12319 of Sept. 9, 1981.]
Sec. 3. Functions of the Secretary of the Interior.
[Sec. 3 amends Executive Order 8526of Aug. 27, 1940, Chapter 18, and Executive Order 11177of Sept. 16, 1964, Chapter 33. The amendments have been incorporated into those orders.]
Sec. 4. Functions of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Energy Research and Development Administration.
[Sec. 4 modifies Executive orders that refer to functions of the Atomic Energy Commission, including specifically Executive Order 10127 of May 23, 1950, which was revoked by FR Doc. 61-9007 of Sept. 15, 1961 (26 FR 8883); Executive Order 10865of Feb. 20, 1960, Chapter 32; Executive Order 10899of Dec. 9, 1960, Chapter 32; Executive Order 11057of Oct. 18, 1962, Chapter 22; Executive Order 11477of Aug. 7, 1969, Chapter 10; Executive Order 11752 of Dec. 17, 1973, which was revoked by Executive Order 12088of Oct. 13, 1978; and Executive Order 11761 of Jan. 17, 1974, which was revoked by Executive Order 12553 of Feb. 25, 1986. The modifications have been noted to those orders where applicable. Additionally, sec. 4 amended Executive Order 11652 of Mar. 8, 1972, which was revoked by Executive Order 12065 of June 28, 1978; Executive Order 11902 of Feb. 2, 1976, which was revoked by Executive Order 12058of May 11, 1978; Executive Order 11905 of Feb. 18, 1976, which was superseded by Executive Order 12036 of Jan. 24, 1978; and Executive Order 11345 of Apr. 20, 1967, Executive Order 11371 of Sept. 6, 1967, Executive Order 11578 of Jan. 13, 1971, Executive Order 11658 of Mar. 22, 1972, and Executive Order 11659 of Mar. 22, 1972, which were revoked by Executive Order 12319of Sept. 9, 1981.]
Sec. 5. Special Provisions Relating to Emergency Preparedness and Mobilization Functions.
[Sec. 5 amends Executive Order 10480of Aug. 14, 1953, Chapter 32, and Executive Order 11490 of Oct. 28, 1969, which was revoked by Executive Order 12656of Nov. 18, 1988. The amendments have been incorporated into Executive Order 10480.]
Sec. 6. This Order shall be effective as of October 1, 1977, the effective date of the Department of Energy Organization Act pursuant to the provisions of Section 901 thereof and Executive Order No. 12009 of September 13, 1977, and all actions taken by the Secretary of Energy on or after October 1, 1977, which are consistent with the foregoing provisions are entitled to full force and effect.
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JUST IN: APS Superintendent Murphy Announces September Retirement
Michael O'Connell June 14, 2019 at 4:30pm
(Updated 6/15/19) Dr. Patrick K. Murphy announced today that he would be retiring as superintendent of Arlington Public Schools effective Sept. 3.
Murphy, who has been APS superintendent since July 1, 2009, notified the School Board of his decision in a June 12 letter.
“As I think about the ebb and flow of changes that have occurred over the past 10 years, the progress we have made for children has been the most rewarding,” Murphy wrote. “Each year we offer new opportunities to allow children to flourish, grow and reach for new heights of success. I know great strides will continue to be made because of the dedication of the School Board, community leaders and APS staff and families, who all believe in the importance of excellence in public education.”
In his nine years as superintendent, Murphy has overseen continued growth in student enrollment, the opening of new schools, an increase in the high school graduation rate, and full-accreditation for all Arlington schools by the Virginia Department of Education.
“Dr. Murphy has guided the school division through unprecedented growth and change, and we thank him for his leadership and unwavering commitment to our students and their success,” said School Board Chair Reid Goldstein, in a statement. “During his tenure, APS leadership and staff have expanded opportunities for our students and further strengthened the quality of education in all our schools, solidifying Arlington’s reputation among Virginia’s top school divisions.”
“Now, with our recently adopted Strategic Plan as a roadmap, APS is in a very strong position, and we are poised to continue that success in the future,” Goldstein continued. “The School Board is excited to carry that work forward with new leadership and APS’ exceptional teachers and staff.”
The School Board is starting the process of identifying Murphy’s successor, APS said.
Murphy is the second member of APS leadership recently to announce his departure. Assistant Superintendent of Instruction Dr. Tara Nattrass announced that will be resigning at the end of this month.
Murphy’s retirement letter to the School Board can be found after the break:
Dear Reid, Tannia, Nancy, Barbara, and Monique:
Serving as the Superintendent of Arlington Public School (APS) for the past decade has been an honor and rewarding experience as I have worked to make a difference in the lives of children and families. As I reflect on my career with APS and my more than 30 years in public education in the Commonwealth of Virginia, I realize that I have come to a crossroad in my professional journey and believe that it is time for me to make a transition. I am, therefore, announcing my plan to retire as Superintendent of Arlington Public Schools, effective September 3, 2019.
As I think about the ebb and flow of changes that have occurred over the past 10 years, the progress we have made for children has been most rewarding. Each year we offer new opportunities to allow children to flourish, grow and reach for new heights of success. I know great strides will continue to be made because of the dedication of the School Board, community leaders, and APS staff and families, who all believe in the importance of excellence in public education. This has been demonstrated by our many accomplishments and articulated in our most recent Strategic Plan which places a high emphasis on academic achievement, human capital, operational management, and capital planning and programming.
During my time in Arlington, I have had the pleasure to work very closely with 13 school board members and 8 school board chairs as the school division has grown. I want to thank all of the elected school leaders I have worked with – past and present – for the important service you provide to the community, staff and children in Arlington. All of the Arlington School Board members have believed as I do in the value of public education and how it is a paramount to the fabric of our community and our Nation. Public education represents a critical responsibility for every community, because in the end, it is the true pathway to the “American Dream.” We know that when children receive the right encouragement, environment and resources to learn, they will achieve!
I also want to recognize and thank the Arlington County Managers, most recently Mark Schwartz, along with the many County Board members who have been advocates and staunch supporters of our schools and have ensured an economically vibrant Arlington for our children and families.
Finally, I want to thank the members of the APS Executive Leadership Team and our principals who have been on the front lines of so many positive changes. Their knowledge, will, enthusiasm and caring nature have been the fuel to make good things happen for the students in all of our schools.
I will always hold fond memories of my experiences with Arlington Public Schools, and I thank you for your support of me in my role as the APS Superintendent. I wish you continued success with the important work of the Strategic Plan and in your transition to a new leader.
Patrick K. Murphy, Ed.D.,
Arlington Public Schools Dr. Patrick Murphy School Board
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Arsalan Shahid
Doctoral Research Scholar in High-Performance Heterogeneous Computing
Arsalan Shahid is a doctoral research scholar in Heterogeneous Computing Lab (HCL) at University College Dublin, Ireland. He is currently working on energy-aware massively parallel heterogeneous processing architectures. Arsalan graduated as gold medalist for best final year project in BS Electrical Engineering from HITEC University Pakistan, in 2016. As a research associate, he worked on embedded benchmarking at EMWITECH, Pakistan. He also holds a research experience of more than 2 years as a research assistant in a funded research project on multicore reconfigurable processors by Ministry of IT, Pakistan.
During his stay at HITEC, Arsalan founded TecHub to transform educational flow, in 2015. In early 2018, he co-founded KATech, which is a startup business in Dublin registered with the Republic of Ireland to revolutionize software technology in e-commerce and education sectors. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer at KATech.
Arsalan is a member of European Network for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing (NESUS) and Energy-Efficient High-Performance Computing Working Group (EEHPC WG). His work has been published in well-reputed journals, conferences and books. Arsalan is a member of editorial board for Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Furthermore, He also served as a reviewer at many reputed journals, conferences and books, i.e., Elsevier VLSI, IEEE/ACM CCGRID 2017, MKP Technologies – Cyber Tech Publishing, etc. He had been awarded Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing by Elsevier in 2017. He has interests in:
High Performance Computing,
Heterogeneous computing,
Real-time programming,
Parallel computing/programming,
Advanced computer architecture,
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Office: Science North/G13, Heterogeneous Computing Laboratory, School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
M: +353 83 884 6096
Email: arsalan.shahid@ucdconnect.ie
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Dutch, 1606-1669
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn’s etching of Adam and Eve, depicts the story of the first Man and Woman with descriptive, wiry lines that create an evocative atmosphere. Shown at the moment of temptation, the couple is surrounded by light that seems about to be blotted out by the dark tree branch and leering serpent (the devil) stretching ominously above them. With their fleshy bodies and ordinary faces (so far removed from Dürer’s idealized pair), Rembrandt’s Adam and Eve are easy to identify with; their confusion, temptation, and choice become ours.
Etching on ivory laid paper
Recto, in plate, lower center: "Rembrandt f. 1638"
Gift of Marjorie Blum Kovler Foundation Collection and the Harry and Maribel G. Blum Foundation Collection
Daniel Daulby, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Rembrandt (Liverpool, 1796), p. 15, no. 29.
M. le chev. de Claussin, Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l’œuvre de Rembrandt (Paris, 1824), p. 22, no. 34.
Thomas Wilson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Prints of Rembrandt (London, 1836), p. 46, no. 35.
Charles Blanc, L’œuvre de Rembrandt (Paris, 1880), pp. 55-57, no. 1.
Woldemar von Seidlitz, Die Radierungen Rembrandts (Leipzig, 1922), pp. 40-41 (ill.).
Arthur M. Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt’s Etchings, 2 vols. (London, 1923), I:83, II:pl. 159.
Ludwig Münz, Rembrandt’s Etchings , 2 vols. (London, 1952), I:pl. 197, II:87, no. 177.
George Biörklund, Rembrandt’s Etchings: True and False (Stockholm, 1955), p. 70, no 38D (ill.).
Karel G. Boon, Rembrandt: The Complete Etchings, trans. by Elizabeth Willems-Treeman (New York, 1963), pl. 140.
G. W. Nowell-Usticke, Rembrandt’s Etchings: States and Values (Narberth, Pa. 1967), n.p., no. B28 (ill.).
Christopher White, Rembrandt as an Etcher: A Study of the Artist at Work, 2 vols. (London, 1969), II: 248, pl. 35.
Christopher White and Karel G. Boon, Rembrandt’s Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue, 2 vols. (Amsterdam, 1977), I: 13, no. 28, II:17 (ill.).
Stephanie S. Dickey (editor), Illustrated Bartsch 50: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (New York, 1993), p. 18, no. 28 (ill.).
The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Charles Scribner’s Sons Publishers 2004).
Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, edited by Ger Luijten, The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts: 1450-1700. Rembrandt: Text II: 1636-1665, nos. 156-314(Amsterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2013), p.27.
The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987-February 9, 1989 (Allerton gallery 209A).
The Art Institute of Chicago, February 14, 2004-May 9, 2004.
Adolf Schwartz, Amstelveen, Holland [invoice]. Sold by Robert Light, Santa Barbara, Calif., to the Art Institute, 1987.
Bartsch 28
White & Boon 28
Biörklund 38-D
Nowell-Usticke B28
Munz 177
Hind 159
Rovinskii 28
Seidlitz 28
Daulby 29
Claussin 34
Wilson, Rembrandt 35
Boon 140
New Hollstein 168
Three Oriental Figures (Jacob and Laban?), 1641
Self-Portrait in a Flat Cap and Embroidered Dress, c. 1642
Abraham and Isaac, 1645
The Raising of Lazarus: Small Plate, 1642
The Hundred Guilder Print, c. 1648
The Baptism of the Eunuch, 1641
Cottage Beside a Canal with a View of Ouderkerk, c. 1641
Jan Lutma, Goldsmith, 1656
The Artist’s Mother Seated at a Table, Looking Right: Three Quarter Length, c. 1631
The Agony in the Garden, c. 1652
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Trouville (Grey and Green, the Silver Sea)
In the early 1860s, James McNeill Whistler began to develop an art-for-art’s-sake aesthetic, eschewing narrative or naturalistic details to focus more intently on formal concerns. In 1865 the artist traveled to Trouville, a French resort town, where he painted with Gustave Courbet and experimented with a series of increasingly simplified seascapes. The high horizon line and broad expanses of muted color in this spare composition reveal Whistler’s interest in Japanese woodblock prints. The sweeping, horizontal brushstrokes and restrained palette, limited to pale greens and soft grays, reinforce the painting’s innovative, flattened perspective.
American Art, Gallery 246
Signed, lower right: "Whistler"
51.5 × 77.2 cm (20 1/4 × 30 3/8 in.)
Gift of Honoré and Potter Palmer
Elisabeth L. Cary, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study with a Tentative List of the Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, no. 12, 157.
The Art Institute of Chicago Forty–Fourth Annual Report of the Trustees, for the Year 1922, 11.
Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 15, 5 (September–October 1921), 158–159.
Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 16, 3 (May 1922), 27, 47.
The Art Institute of Chicago Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings, Part II, Paintings and Drawings (1922), 69, no 850.
Guide to the Permanent Collection, (Art Institute, 1925), 157.
Bernhard Sickert, Whistler (London: Duckworth & Co., New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., n.d.), no. 20. p. 153.
Walter Sickert, A Free House: Or The Artist as Craftsman: Being the Writings of Walter Richard Sickert (London, MacMillan, 1947).
Paintings in the Art Institute (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 483.
Denys Sutton, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler (London, 1963), 51–2.
Roy McMullen, Victorian Outsider: A Biography of J.A.M. Whistler (New York: E.P. Dutton & co., 1973), 13–133.
Elizabeth R. and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols. (London: William Heinemann and Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1908), 133–134.
John Shapley, Editor–in–Chief, The Index of Twentieth Century Artists, 4 vols. (1934; repr. New York: Arno Press, 1970), 182–220.
Judith A. Barter et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2011), no. 12.
London, England, Society of French Artists, Seventh Exhibition, Nov 3– ?, 1873, cat. no. 110, as The Yacht Race–A Symphony in B Sharp.
Boston, The Copley Society, Copley Hall, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler: Oil Paintings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Drawings, Feb 1904, cat. no. 12, as Marine–Gray and Green.
Paris, Palais de l’Ecole des Beaux–Arts, Exposition des Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, May 1905, cat. no. 63, as Gris et vert, Marine.
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, Northbrook Memorial Hall, Feb 1939.
Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada, Two Hundred Years of American Painting, Mar 8–Apr 3, 1955, cat. no. 22, as Gray and Green: The Silver Sea.
Art Institute of Chicago, James McNeill Whistler, Jan 13, 1968–Feb 25, 1968, Frederick A. Sweet, no. 12, p. 50, ill.; traveled to Utica, NY, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Mar 17, 1968–Apr 28, 1968, as Grey and Green: The Silver Sea.
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Deaprtment of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, From Realism to Symbolism, Whistler and His World, Mar 4–Apr 3, 1971, no. 19; traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, Apr 15–May 23, 1971.
Albi, France, Musée Toulouse–Lautrec, Trésors Impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, Jun 27–Aug 31, 1980, Jean Devoisins, no. 58, p. 66, ill. as Gris et vert: la mer d’argent.
Paris, Galeries Nationals du Grand Palais, Origins of Impressionism, Apr 19–Aug 8, 1994, Gary Tinterow and Henri Loyrette, fig. 290, cat. no. 192, ill. p. 237; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sep 27, 1994–Jan 8, 1995.
Art Institute of Chicago, Whistler: Prints and Paintings, May–Aug 31, 1979, no cat.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manet and the American Civil War, Jun 3–Aug 17, 2003, Juliet Wilson–Bareau, cat. no.57, p.74, 83, ill. p. 76.
Owned by Mrs. Charles W. Deschamps, London, by 1873; sold back to the artist, April 1891; sold to Theodore Duret, Paris, 1892; sold to Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago, in July 1901; by descent to her sons, Potter II and Honoré Palmer, 1918; given by them to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
Étretat: The Beach and the Falaise d’Amont, 1885
Rocks at Port-Goulphar, Belle-Île, 1886
Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth), 1897
The Annunciation, 1887
George Hitchcock
Woman at Her Toilette, 1875/80
The Customs House at Varengeville, 1897
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Second Issue of Comic Book Series Skin&Earth – Written & Illustrated by Lights – Out Now
11 August 2017 (Toronto, ON) – Alt-pop musician and newly-minted comics artist Lights has announced the release date of her upcoming album Skin&Earth for September 22, 2017 via Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company. The comic book concept album is available now for pre-order, and includes three instant grats – the anthemic lead single “Giants”, which is rapidly climbing the Hot AC radio chart, plus the sensual “Skydiving”, as well as today’s empowering new release “Savage”. “Savage”, which features Josh Dun of Twenty One Pilots on drums, corresponds directly with Issue 2 of the album’s companion comic book series, on sale now via Dynamite Entertainment. You can watch the video for “Savage” here.
In creating the immersive world of Skin&Earth, Lights actively worked on both the album and comic series concurrently – letting the music inspire the comic and vice versa. The press has already taken notice of this unique undertaking, with Billboard expressing, “Concept albums are nothing new, but it’s the lengths to which Lights takes her fourth album Skin&Earth that sets it apart,” while Idolator praises that “Lights is going all out for album four.” Playboy applauds this “Real-life musical wonder woman” for her fusion of “drawing, story-telling and musical talents in a way that’s never quite been done before,” and Forbes has dubbed Lights “A creative, enthusiastic force.”
Skin&Earth will be the fourth studio album from Lights, whose 2015 release Little Machines won the singer and songwriter her second JUNO Award, for Best Pop Album of the Year. Little Machines featured the Platinum-selling hit “Up We Go” and earned accolades from TIME, Idolator, Refinery29, Alternative Press, Noisey, NYLON, and more. Lights has sold out headline tours across North America and Europe and has played numerous festivals including Coachella, Reading & Leeds, plus she has toured with OneRepublic, Tegan & Sara, Paramore, Kaskade, and many others.
Lights will be on the road this fall in the U.S. as main support on tour with PVRIS. A full list of dates is below, with tickets and details available at music.iamlights.com/tour.
Skin&Earth Tracklisting:
Until The Light
New Fears
Almost Had Me
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4th Berlin & Beyond Honolulu
Join us for two full days and nights at the Honolulu Museum of Art Doris Duke Theatre - April 8-9, 2017 for a vivid selection of films, crossing various cultures, experiences, and histories from the main San Francisco lineup of America's leading festival of the contemporary cinematic movements of German-speaking countries. All eight films will make their Hawaii Premieres at this special series, including all three Audience Award Winners from the San Francisco program: "Center of My World" (Narrative Premiere), "Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe" (Narrative Gala), and "Silicon Valley Revolution" (Documentary).
Presented by the Goethe-Institut San Francisco. In collaboration with the Honorary Consuls of the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland in Honolulu under the auspices of their respective Consulates General in San Francisco. Sponsored by BMW of Honolulu. With additional support from the Honorary Consul of Austria in Honolulu and Community Partner Honolulu Museum of Art.
11:00 AM - At Eye Level
1:00 PM - Eva Hesse
3:00 PM - Fukushima, mon Amour
5:30 PM - Opening Night Reception at BMW of Honolulu
7:30 PM - Opening Night Film: Scrappin'
11:00 AM - Heidi
1:00 PM - Silicon Valley Revolution
3:30 PM - Center of My World
6:45 PM - Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Single Ticket Per Regular Film (afternoon and evening screenings):
$12.00 general
$10.00 senior
$9.00 student
Opening Night Package (Reception + Scrappin' film)
$25.00 (no discounts)
Single Ticket Per Family Matinée Film (morning screenings):
$8.00 (no discounts)
Festival Pass (All Films + Opening Night Reception)
$100 general
$80.00 student
Online Box Office:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/98451
At Eye Level
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Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIn_uwWgJdE&t=8s
At Eye Level (Auf Augenhöhe)
Saturday, April 8 at 11:00 AM
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2906283
Directed by Evi Goldbrunner, Joachim Dollhopf. Starring Luis Vorbach, Jordan Prentice, Ella Frey, Marco Licht, Anica Dobra . Germany. 2016. 106 min. German with English subtitles.
Winner of the 2016-2017 Berlin & Beyond Film Festival Youth 4 German Cinema Award, presided by a special jury of young people from across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Michael, an 11 year old orphan, lives in a children's home and has to fight each day to win the respect of the other children. One day, he finds out who his real father is and writes him a letter. His father, Tom, happens to be a person of short stature, who is even shorter than Michael. He wants to accept the challenge of fatherhood, even though he knew nothing about Michael until now. For Michael, Tom’s handicap is a disaster, as he feels that it is opposite of the manliness and strength he envisioned his father to have. When the other children finds out, Michael’s life becomes a disaster and he runs away from the children's home. With no other place to go, he moves in with Tom. Tom is new to fatherhood but tries his best, while Michael tries to hide his embarrassment from his classmates. This forces Tom to confront his handicap head on. As time passes, they discover that they have more in common than other sons and fathers, and form an unlikely bond.
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Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KngE3DzUC8
Saturday, April 8 at 1:00 PM
Directed by Marcie Begleiter. USA, Germany. 2016. 108 min. English.
Eva Hesse (1936-1970) is one of America’s foremost postwar artists. Her pioneering sculptures, using latex, fiberglass, and plastics, helped establish the post-minimalist movement. Dying of a brain tumor at age 34, she had a mere decade-long career that, despite its brevity, is dense with complex, intriguing works that defy easy categorization. Eva Hesse, the first feature-length appreciation of her life and work, makes superb use of the artist’s voluminous journals, her correspondence with close friend and mentor Sol LeWitt, and contemporary as well as archival interviews with fellow artists (among them, Richard Serra, Robert Mangold, Dan Graham) who recall her passionate, ambitious, tenacious personality. Art critic Arthur Danto has written that her work is: “full of life, of eros, even of comedy… Each piece vibrates with originality and mischief.” The documentary captures these qualities, but also the psychic struggles of an artist who, in the downtown New York art scene of the 1960s, was one of the few women to make work that was taken seriously in a field dominated by male pop artists and minimalists. −Karen Cooper, Film Forum
Fukushima, mon Amour
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Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGiOE3jxTyw
Fukushima, mon Amour (Grüße aus Fukushima)
Directed by Doris Dörrie. Starring Rosalie Thomass, Kaori Momoi, Moshe Cohen, Nami Kamata. Germany (Filmed in Japan). 2016. 106 min. English, German and Japanese with English subtitles.
Winner of three awards, including the Audience Award Runner-up at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival in Germany. Young German woman Marie escapes to Fukushima to change her life. Working with the organization Clowns4Help, she hopes to bring joy to 2011 disaster survivors, some still living in emergency shelters. Marie soon realizes that she is absolutely unsuited to the task of making tragedy less wearisome. Instead of running away, Marie decides to stay with cantankerous old Satomi, the last geisha of Fukushima, who of her own accord has decided to retreat back to her ruined house in the formerly radioactive Exclusion Zone. Two women who couldn't be more different, but who – each in her own way – are trapped in the past and must learn to liberate themselves from guilt and the burden of memory. A universal and poetic tale about life and letting go from acclaimed writer-director Doris Dörrie (Cherry Blossoms - Berlin & Beyond Opening Night 2009, Enlightenment Guaranteed, Men). For the first time, one of her feature films has been shot entirely in Japan and in breathtaking black and white.
Scrappin'
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Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5bEjvzq31g&t=38s
Scrappin' (Schrotten!)
Directed by Max Zähle. Starring Lucas Gregorowicz, Frederick Lau, Anna Bederke, Lars Rudolph, Heiko Pinkowski, Jan-Gregor Kremp. Germany. 2016. 96 min. German with English subtitles.
Following his Oscar®-nominated short film Raju, Max Zähle dedicates his feature film debut to a bizarre and largely unknown culture marked by long-standing tradition: scrap dealers. Scrappin’ sheds light on this sometimes weird but always loveable milieu and tells the story of a family that needs to overcome their differences in order to keep the family business going. Mirko Talhammer (Lucas Gregorowicz) is beside himself when two strangers show up at his posh insurance office to remind him where he really comes from: a provincial scrapyard, where careers are not what counts and other things are more important: scrapping things, the family, and every once in a while, a good old fist fight. Mirko thought he had left all that behind, but his father messed things up big time before he died and left his son the run-down scrapyard – along with his brother Letscho (Frederick Lau, Victoria, The Wave). Letscho is still ticked off that Mirko deserted the clan. Soon the brothers realize that the Talhammers could only have a future if they can pull themselves together and fulfill their father’s last wish: to rob a train like real professionals. The coup itself is already a suicide mission, but then Kercher, the Talhammer’s biggest nemesis, gets wind of things…
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Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mqregHzdc8
Sunday, April 9 at 11:00 AM
Directed by Alain Gsponer. Starring Anuk Steffen, Bruno Ganz, Quirin Agrippi, Isabelle Ottmann, Anna Schinz, Katharina Schüttler. Switzerland, Germany. 2015. 105 min. German and Swiss German with English subtitles.
The most successful Swiss film in Swiss box office history and winner of the 2016 German Film Award for Best Children's Film: Orphan girl Heidi spends the happiest days of her childhood together with her eccentric grandfather, cut off from the outside world in a simple cabin in the Swiss mountains. Together with her friend Peter, she tends to grandfather's goats and enjoys freedom in the mountains to the fullest. But these carefree times come to an abrupt end when Heidi is taken to Frankfurt by her Aunt Dete. The idea is for her to stay with the family of the wealthy Mr. Sesemann and be a playmate for his wheelchair-bound daughter Klara, while also learning to read and write under the supervision of the strict nanny, Fräulein Rottenmeier. Although the two girls soon become friends and Klara's grandmother awakes a passion for her books in Heidi, her longing for her beloved mountains and her grandfather grows ever stronger.
Silicon Valley Revolution
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Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjXnwhBtbK8
Sunday, April 9 at 1:00 PM
Directed by Jan Tenhaven. Germany. 2017. 90 min. English and German with English subtitles.
This documentary tells the forgotten stories of some of the most influential personal computer pioneers in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the late 1960s, big mainframe computers owned by large corporations and the government were seen as tools of control. The Hippie movement and the anti-Vietnam war protests served as a hotbed for a revolutionary idea: creating an affordable home computer to be used by ordinary people – as a counterbalance to Big Brother. Well, the rest is history, but what has happened to the early ideals and the initial ethos of free sharing? As one of the visionaries puts it: “It’s true that what I helped to create is today’s establishment. That’s what I was trying to get rid of: the establishment.
Center of My World
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Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSkO4G1ZVSU
Center of My World (Die Mitte der Welt)
Directed by Jakob M. Erwa. Starring Louis Hofmann, Jannik Schümann, Sabine Timoteo, Ada Philine Stappenbeck. Germany, Austria. 2016. 115 min. German with English subtitles.
Best Feature Film (ex-aequo) winner at the 2016 Florence Queer Festival in Italy and In Competition at the 2016 Moscow International Film Festival in Russia. After a summer away at camp, Phil returns home to find that his mother and twin sister are not speaking to each another. Not willing to confront his family during the last days of the summer holidays, Phil escapes to hang out with his best friend, Kat, eating ice cream and playing dress-up. As the school year begins, a new student arrives – the handsome and mysterious Nicholas. Smitten, Phil watches his crush as he runs around the track after school, and is thrilled when Nicholas returns his feelings. However, when first love’s volatility comes to light, Phil realizes he must deal with the problems of his past, in order to deal with the issues of his present.
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
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Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB8mPgMHsyI
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (Vor der Morgenröte)
Directed by Maria Schrader. Starring Josef Hader, Barbara Sukowa, Aenne Schwarz, Matthias Brandt. Germany, Austria, France. 2016. 106 min. German, English, Portuguese, French, Spanish with English subtitles.
Austria’s Official Entry to the 2017 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Maria Schrader’s drama Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe episodically tells the story of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and his life in exile between 1936-42. Having been driven into emigration at the peak of his worldwide fame, Stefan Zweig falls into despair at the sight of Europe’s downfall, which he had anticipated early on. It’s the story of a refugee, a tale of losing one’s homeland, and of the search for a new one. Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, New York, Petrópolis are four stations of an expatriate unable to find peace. Despite the generous welcome and the overwhelming opulence of tropical vegetation he encounters, nothing can replace his homeland. Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe is a visually stunning historic picture about a great artist and, at the same time, a film about a time in which Europe was coming apart. Premiered at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival in the Piazza Grande section.
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Hyperloop One getting serious about Dubai-Abu Dhabi route
A trip from Dubai to Abu Dhabi may take just 12 minutes.
Nov 9th 2016 at 9:11AM
Hyperloop One, which is trying to develop its super-high-speed tube transportation project, is touting a route between Dubai and Abu Dhabi that would ferry customers between the two UAE cities in as little as 12 minutes. To put that into perspective, the 100-mile drive usually takes about two hours. Yes, Hyperloop One has always thought big. And fast.
Hyperloop One on Tuesday outlined its plans with Dubai Roads and Transportation Authority (RTA) as well as the feasibility study it's conducting with McKinsey & Co. and the Bjarke Ingels Group. For potential passengers, that means autonomous transportation, and "conceptual" interiors and exteriors for Hyperloop One passenger stations.
The company is following up on its plans to use the high-speed tubes to transport cargo at Dubai's Port Jebel Ali. Part of the network would be under water, while part of it would be suspended above the ground. The system involves levitating pods being shot through tubes at as fast as 750 miles per hour. That's about twice as fast as Japan's fastest maglev high-speed train.
The good news is that Hyperloop One says it has raised more than $160 million, and that it would have a trial system ready to go at its Nevada site as soon as next year. The company also said Tuesday that it may have "multiple" Hyperloop systems within five years.
The less-rosy development is that Hyperloop One co-founder Brogan BamBrogan left the company this past summer, and is involved in a lawsuit against co-founder and executive chairman Shervin Pishevar, who has accused BamBrogan of trying to sabotage Hyperloop One by forming a competing company.
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Rashaan Ayesh Jun 12, 2019
Trump wants increased protections for Venezuelans fleeing to U.S.
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President Trump said he's looking to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to the thousands of Venezuelans who have fled to the U.S. as a result of the violent unrest in their home country, reports AP.
The big picture: A core component of Trump's presidency has been his tough stance on immigration from Latin American countries. However, he is taking a different approach to Venezuelans seeking to migrate to the U.S. — likely because his administration opposes Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Trump was one of the first international leaders to recognize opposition leader Juan Guaidó as president, rather than Maduro.
Venezuela is currently suffering from extreme inflation, food and medical shortages.
4 million Venezuelans have fled in recent years, and a large number don't have passports, per AP.
Details: TPS allows people from other countries to legally stay in the U.S. if their home nations are ravaged by a natural disaster or war, and they're allowed to stay until things improve.
The Trump administration is trying to end TPS protections for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Nepal, Honduras and Sudan, reports Vox. The decision is currently being challenged in court.
Go deeper: Inside Trump's Venezuela pivot
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Gigi Sukin Jun 4, 2019
Trump administration to enforce new Cuban travel restrictions
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The Trump administration introduced regulations on Tuesday for U.S. citizens' travel to Cuba — prohibiting some educational, cultural and recreational tours, PBS reports.
What they're saying: “This administration has made a strategic decision to reverse the loosening of sanctions and other restrictions on the Cuban regime," said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. "These actions will help to keep U.S. dollars out of the hands of Cuban military, intelligence, and security services."
“Cruise ships as well as recreational and pleasure vessels are prohibited from departing the U.S. on temporary sojourn to Cuba effective tomorrow.”
— the Commerce Department, per a statement to AP
The Treasury Department, in a statement, explained that the U.S. will no longer allow group trips dubbed "people to people" travel to Cuba. The U.S. will also deny requests for private and corporate planes and boats, though commercial flights remain impervious to the restrictions for now. Tours for media, college groups and academic research, as well as professionally oriented meetings, will still to be permitted, according to PBS.
The new restrictions are expected to go into effect on Wednesday.
Why now: Mnuchin explained that the move follows what he described as Cuba's "destabilizing role" in the Western hemisphere, which includes the nation's ongoing support for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's regime.
Context: The U.S. restored diplomatic relations with Cuba in late 2014. Cruise travel from the U.S. to Cuba began in May 2016, per AP.
Go deeper: Trump administration announces new policy crackdown on Cuba
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NewsroomEuropean Jetstream 41 operators win major Industry Awards
European Jetstream 41 operators win major industry awards
7 Oct 2014 2014-10-07T05:25:00+02:00
22 years after first flight aircraft still providing valuable service. Eastern Airways of the UK and Crete-based Sky Express have won Gold and Silver Awards respectively at the European Regions Airlines Association (ERA) Airline of the Year Awards held at the Annual General Assembly in Barcelona this week.
Both airlines operate, among other types of aircraft, fleets of BAE Systems-built 29-seat Jetstream 41 turboprop aircraft which form an important part of their scheduled service networks.
The Jetstream 41 made it first flight from Prestwick on 25 September 1991 and 100 aircraft were built before production ceased in 1997. Most of the aircraft remain in service with airlines and other operators across the world and BAE Systems Regional Aircraft at Prestwick provides comprehensive on-going engineering and product support for the aircraft.
John Stevens, Head of Product Support for BAE Systems Regional Aircraft, who was at the Awards ceremony said today: “These prestigious awards, which have been recognised as the most important in the European regional aviation market since 1991, are a testimony to the continued excellence of airline operators flying in one of the most demanding and competitive sectors. The fact that both these operators fly our Jetstream 41, 22 years after its first flight last week, underlines the continued effectiveness of this aircraft, its strong performance in the market and the value of our support services.”
Based at Humberside Airport Eastern Airways has been operating scheduled flights since 1997 and provides a network of services across 17 airports in the UK, Norway and France. The airline is the world’s biggest operator of the Jetstream 41 with a fleet of 17 aircraft.
The airline celebrates its 17th anniversary this year and is Europe’s leading provider of fixed wing air services for the oil and gas industry. It operates over 800 flights a week, has more flights from Aberdeen than any other carrier and previously gained the most prestigious gold award in this industry sector in 2006/7, following consecutive silver awards in 2003/4 and 2004/5.
Richard Lake, Chief Executive of Eastern Group, said: “It is a great honour to again win the prestigious gold award, which is testament to the efforts and professionalism of every member of the team at Eastern Airways. To be recognised by our peers in the industry is tremendous as regional aviation is one of the most challenging and competitive sectors in the world. We must also thank our customers and trade partners who have continually supported us throughout our many years of operation.”
Heraklion-based Sky Express was established in 2005 and operates Greek domestic flights covering more than 24 destinations, mostly centred on serving the Aegean islands. Its fleet of four aircraft includes three Jetstream 41 aircraft.
Mr Agamemnon Kikerakis, Chairman and CEO of Sky Express, who accepted the silver award, thanked everyone who has been involved in the success of Sky Express especially during the recent management transition of the airline and he offered particular thanks to the passengers of Sky Express for their continued support.
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NewsroomU.S. Navy contract awarded to support and integrate combat systems
BAE Systems awarded $86 million U.S. Navy contract to support and integrate combat systems
Nov 21 2016 2016-11-21T15:00:00+01:00
The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a five-year contract worth up to $86 million to provide management, engineering, maintenance, and IT support services for the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) at Wallops Island, Virginia.
BAE Systems experts will integrate various mission equipment, combat systems, and computer programs to help NAVSEA’s Surface Combat Systems Center meet current and future operational requirements. The high-fidelity systems are used by sailors for mission planning, testing and evaluation, research, and training.
“We are ensuring the interoperability of deployed systems and integrating next-generation technologies for use in testing and exercises at sea,” said DeEtte Gray, president of BAE Systems’ Intelligence & Security sector. “This is critical work that is supporting the Navy’s strategy to provide the fleet with the advanced capabilities it needs in an increasingly complex maritime environment.”
BAE Systems provides intelligence and security services to manage big data, inform big decisions, and support big missions. BAE Systems delivers a broad range of solutions and services including intelligence analysis, cyber operations, IT, systems development, systems integration, and operations and maintenance to enable militaries and governments to recognize, manage, and defeat threats. The company takes pride in supporting critical national security missions that protect the nation and those who serve.
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O's sign Ross Wolf, Willie Eyre, Ryan Edell to minor league deals
By By Dan Connolly
Just catching up with some recent minor league signings made by the Orioles that I don't believe we had mentioned here before.
The Orioles have signed right-handed pitchers Ross Wolf and Willie Eyre and lefty Ryan Edell to minor league deals. Eyre and Edell will receive spring training invitations.
Wolf, 29, returns to the organization with which he spent all of 2009 and part of 2010 before being traded to the Oakland A's for Jake Fox in the unforgettable Wolf-Fox swap. Wolf has a 7.92 ERA in 25 major league games with the A's and Florida Marlins. He was 4-3 with a 4.76 ERA in 56 games with the Houston Astros' Triple-A affiliate in 2011.
Eyre, 33, was designated for assignment this offseason after going 2-2 with a 3.44 ERA in 19 games for the Orioles in 2011. The Orioles grabbed Eyre as a minor league free agent last August when he opted out of his deal with the A's Triple-A club. He is 7-8 with a 4.95 ERA in parts of four big league seasons with the Orioles, Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers.
Edell, 28, was 10-6 with a 3.38 ERA in 29 games (22 starts) for the Philadelphia Phillies' Triple-A and Double-A affiliates. A former eighth-round pick of the Cleveland Indians, he allowed just 20 walks and struck out 115 batters while allowing 159 hits in 149 minor league innings last year. He has yet to make his major league debut.
Baseball America first mentioned the Edell signing, and MASNSports.com first reported the Eyre signing.
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Election 2017: What jobs do UK workers actually do?
By Laura Gardiner Resolution Foundation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39966615
Politicians of all parties spend election campaigns fighting for the votes of what they call "ordinary" or "hard-working" people.
There are record numbers of people in work in the UK, but what exactly do they do and what might be on their minds when they head out to vote?
A nation of service industry workers
When politicians want to appeal to working people they tend to don hard hats and head to factories or construction sites.
These workplaces may look good in pictures, but they do not chime with most people's experience of work.
Fewer than one in 10 people work in manufacturing and even fewer in construction.
Image caption The vast majority of the UK's workers are employed in service jobs
In contrast, four out of five people work in service industries.
This covers everything from bank workers to plumbers and restaurant staff - the businesses that provide work for customers, but which don't manufacture things.
These service sector jobs have grown over time: 20 years ago they made up less than three-quarters of employment.
The biggest growth since then has been in public administration, education and health.
Over the same period, the biggest fall has been in manufacturing, where the share of jobs has halved since the 1990s. The sector now provides employment for just under three million workers.
Workers are older and more likely to be female
The world of work may once have been a man's world, but that is no longer the case.
At the start of the 1970s, a little over one third of workers were women.
But rapid growth in female employment during the 1970s and 1980s means that women now make up almost half of the workforce.
However, there are still big challenges in terms of how men and women experience work, like the enduring gender pay gap - which is 18% for all workers and 9% among full-time staff.
Nonetheless, rising female employment has been one of the key drivers of improvements in living standards over the past 50 years.
More recently, the workforce has also grown older.
Nearly one in three people in work is now aged 50 and over, compared to just over one in five back in 1992.
This trend is being driven by rising life expectancy, the progress of the large baby boomer generation through their careers and policy changes like the increasing state pension age.
A work life less ordinary
The changing nature of work and the jobs people do to make ends meet has become an increasingly important issue.
At present, there is a particular focus on the emerging gig economy.
The term is often used to describe short-term casual work, although there is some disagreement about exactly what it means and the number of jobs it includes.
However, what is clear is that ways of working that might be thought of as atypical have increased.
In the UK there are nearly five million self-employed people, from highly-paid management consultants to delivery drivers - an increase of 50% since the turn of the millennium.
In addition, there are 900,000 workers on zero hours contracts and 800,000 agency workers. Both groups have grown markedly in recent years.
Less clear is what is driving this and whether these jobs provide an acceptable balance between flexibility and security for workers.
As a result, the government has commissioned a high-profile review of employment practices in the modern economy which will report later this year.
But a traditional full-time job is still the norm
Although the world of work is changing, it is still the case that most people have what might be called traditional jobs.
Nearly two-thirds of people in work have full-time roles for an employer - a proportion that has fallen only slightly since the early 1990s.
The average working week is 32 hours long, only an hour shorter than it was a quarter of a century ago.
Even if we only focus on workers aged under 30, it remains the case that two-thirds - more than five million of them - have full-time employee jobs. However, this proportion has fallen a bit faster since the early 1990s.
But with 32 million people in work overall and the employment rate at a record high, job numbers have never been stronger going into an election.
The minimum wage has helped low earners
For most people, living standards are determined by whether they have a job - and how much they get paid.
For the lowest-paid workers, the introduction of the National Minimum Wage in 1999 set a minimum hourly rate for the first time.
It has since risen faster than both inflation and average earnings.
The bar was raised further with the introduction of the National Living Wage in April 2016, bringing a 70p hourly pay rise to millions of minimum wage workers aged 25 and over.
This meant that the earnings of the lowest-paid are growing faster than average earnings - a trend which is forecast to continue.
But pay rises haven't been worse since the Napoleonic wars
The wider picture for earnings is not so positive.
The UK experienced a pay squeeze following the financial crisis of 2008, with wages growing more slowly than prices for five years.
Helped by low inflation, a couple of recovery years followed, but real wages are once again falling as pay fails to keep up with inflation.
Combined with the Office for Budget Responsibility's gloomy economic forecasts for the coming years, it looks likely that average real pay will be lower in the years 2011 to 2020 than it was between 2001 and 2010.
That would make this the worst decade for earnings in over 200 years.
Average earnings are £480 per week, but they would be closer to £600 per week if these two periods of pay squeeze had been avoided.
Improving productivity is going to be key for any government if it wants to deliver for the hard-working people it champions.
Achieving that, however, will not be straightforward.
This analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.
Laura Gardiner is a senior research and policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation, specialising in the labour market.
The Resolution Foundation describes itself as a think tank that works to improve the living standards of those on low to middle incomes.
UK wage growth lags inflation for first time since mid-2014
Budget 2017: Squeeze on family finances 'extended until 2020s'
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Best Sportsbooks - Betting News - 2018 Las Vegas Bowl Odds and Expert Prediction: Arizona State vs. Fresno State
2018 Las Vegas Bowl Odds and Expert Prediction: Arizona State vs. Fresno State
The best sport betting sites favor the Fresno State Bulldogs by 4 points over the Arizona State Sun Devils. The Bulldogs were the Mountain West conference’s West Division champions with an 11-2 record (7-1 in conference play). Fresno State also went 9-4 ATS during the regular season. The Bulldogs beat Boise State 19-16 in the Mountain West championship game. According to the best online sportsbooks, they were 1.5-point road dogs in that one. This will be Fresno State’s second straight bowl appearance under head coach Jeff Tedford, and third Las Vegas Bowl.
Arizona State finished second in the Pac 12’s South division with a 7-5 record (5-4 in conference play). In addition, the Sun Devils had a 7-5 ATS record this season. Their final game of the regular season was a 41-40 win over Arizona as 1.5-point road favorites. This will be their third straight bowl appearance since 2016. It’ll also be their second time playing a bowl game in Las Vegas.
Betting Arizona State
Receivers N’Keal Harry and Kyle Williams have 1,520 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns between the two. However, the former will skip the Las Vegas Bowl. “He’s one of those guys who you have to find ways to get him the ball,” head coach Herm ‘The Herminator’ Edwards said. “I felt like [offensive coordinator] Rob Likens did a great job of moving him around, whether it was moving him inside or outside. In the big moments, he came up with big plays. You need a play and he makes one that ignites the team. He catches it at moments of big games and when the momentum needed to be switched, he made those plays. That’s the kind of guy he is.” Or rather, the kind of guy he was.” Starting QB Manny Wilkins will have to rely on Williams and Frank Darby. Or just give ‘Brian’ Eno Benjamin the ball.
Per the best sport betting sites, the Sun Devils have covered each of their last five games as an underdog of at least three points.
Betting Fresno State
The Bulldogs have the added motivation that this could be their first 12-win season ever. Starting QB Marcus McMaryion has 25 TDs and just three picks on 3453 passing yards. KeeSean Johnson and Jared Rice have a combined 11 TDs on 1931 receiving yards. And Ronnie Rivers has eight rushing TDs on 531 grounds on the yard.
According to the best sport betting sites, the Bulldogs have covered nine of their last 11 games as a favorite of at least three points.
Arizona State Sun Devils vs. Fresno State Bulldogs – Las Vegas Bowl Betting Preview
Time: 1:30 p.m. MT
Venue: Sam Boyd Stadium, Whitney, NV (Las Vegas Bowl)
ARIZONA STATE +4 (-110) 53½ (-110) +160
FRESNO STATE -4 (-110) 53½ (-110) -185
The Bulldogs are 8-2 ATS in their last 10 non-conference games
The Bulldogs are 1-6 ATS in their last seven bowl games
The Bulldogs are 26-7-1 ATS in their last 34 games overall
The Sun Devils are 2-7 ATS in their last nine bowl games
The Sun Devils are 2-6 ATS in their last eight non-conference games
The Sun Devils are 1-6 ATS in their last seven versus MWC opponents
The over is 4-1 in the Sun Devils last five non-conference games.
The under is 22-8 in the Bulldogs last 30 games overall.
Our Prediction: ASU’s offense is neither very good nor very bad. And definitely not one to blow other teams out of the water. Conversely, FSU’s defense is almost airtight. The Bulldogs rank No. 2 in the country in points allowed per game (13.7). With their ability to keep points off the board, FSU should be able to cover the point spread.
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David Hataj Named BTC 2018 Distinguished Alumni
The Blackhawk Technical College District Board is delighted to honor David Hataj with the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award. Hataj is a graduate of the Machinist Apprenticeship program and current president and co-owner of Edgerton Gear, Inc. Hataj is an outstanding advocate for technical education. He has offered scholarships to high school students and has invested significant time, energy and resources into a variety of initiatives tied to the expansion of technical education.
Each year, BTC recognizes one alumnus who has demonstrated the value of a technical college education through career advancement, community service, continued personal and professional growth and support of the technical college system.
“Dave is a true testament to life-long learning,” said BTC President Dr. Tracy Pierner. While a student at BTC, Hataj devoted time outside the classroom learning his trade at Edgerton Gear under his father. He went on to receive his Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine; Master’s Degree in Theology and Family Business Systems from Regent College in Vancouver, B.C., Canada; and finally, a Doctor of Transformational Leadership Degree from Bakke Graduate University, Dallas, Texas, where he currently serves on the Board.
Hataj has served the past 25 years in his family business, Edgerton Gear. The company has been in his family for over 50 years. Under his leadership, Edgerton Gear is dedicated to combining historical craftsmanship with the world’s newest technology, manufacturing the highest quality components.
In 2014, he was recognized by Edgerton School District with the Golden Apple Award for his key contributions to the District and for his commitment and vision to the value of technical education. He is active in the Youth Apprenticeship and Registered Apprenticeship Programs and serves on BTC’s CNC Advisory Committee. Additionally, Edgerton Gear hosts high school students each year for Manufacturing Day.
His commitment to developing the talent pipeline in the skilled trades is evident through his creation of Craftsman with Character, a program he developed to address young people not entering skilled trades fast enough to replace an aging workforce. The uniquely created, 16-week customized curriculum, which is anchored by a Craftsman’s Code (www.craftsmanwithcharacter.org), blends traditional classroom instruction, worksite mentorship, and exposure to programs at Blackhawk Technical College, into a single experiential learning model. Hataj credits his staff at Edgerton Gear, as well as Joe Mink and the Edgerton School District, for the success of the course. According to Hataj, “Without their dedication and enthusiasm to mentor youth, none of this would be possible.”
Thanks to Hataj’s vision, the Craftsman with Character course has been transformed into a dual credit offering now being offered at school districts within BTC’s District. Hataj has been a guest speaker around Wisconsin, speaking to employers and educational institutions on the value, success, and need for the Craftsman with Character program as we look ahead to the future and the skilled labor shortage.
Hataj and his wife have a strong commitment to the community at home and abroad. Together, they have served extensively in Honduras, focusing on community transformation through the education and mentoring of young people. Additionally, they offer paid leave for employees who volunteer their time to charitable causes. Through Edgerton Gear, they support numerous community service organizations such as: Edgerton Teen Center, Pregnancy Helpline, Wisconsin Lion’s Camp, Edgerton Community Outreach, Wisconsin Badger Camp, and Pure Water for the World.
Dr. Pierner adds, “Hataj embodies the spirit of the Wisconsin Technical College System and is a living testimony to the quality of a Blackhawk Technical College education.”
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Bennet: Tourism Bill Will Create Jobs in Colorado, Boost Travel Spending in Tough Economy
Estimates Show Bill Could Create 1,100 New Jobs in Colorado, Increase Travel Spending in State by Over $100 Million Per Year
Tourism Is Second Largest Industry in Colorado, Generating $4 Billion Per Year and Employing Nearly 150,000 People
Washington, DC - Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, applauded the passage of the Travel Promotion Act, which was approved by the Senate today by a vote of 79 to 19.
Bennet co-sponsored the legislation, which could create an estimated 1,100 jobs in Colorado and increase international travel spending in the state by more than $100 million.
As Colorado's second largest industry, tourism brings in millions of dollars each year to the state and employs nearly 150,000 Coloradans. Although Colorado's tourism economy remains robust, revenues for Colorado's ski industry declined by 8 percent in the first quarter of 2009 and are expected to slip further over the coming months, according to industry analysts.
In an effort to create more jobs in the state and boost Colorado's tourism economy, Bennet urged his colleagues to support the Travel Promotion Act of 2009, a fiscally-responsible bill that would establish a nationally-coordinated travel promotion campaign aimed at attracting international tourists to the United States at no cost to the American taxpayer.
"Tourism is a tremendous economic driver for Colorado, accounting for tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars for our economy," said Bennet. "By creating a new, national program to attract international visitors to our state, we can spur job creation and economic growth while building on Colorado's reputation as a place where people want to travel."
The tourism industry has created nearly 17,000 jobs in Colorado since 2002. As the economic downturn continues to hurt local communities and unemployment remains high, the Travel Promotion Act will help to reverse this decline by creating new jobs, boosting economic activity and bringing in more revenue for the state.
According to a study conducted in 2007 by Oxford Economics, a leading economic forecasting agency, a modest travel promotion program like the one outlined in this bill could drive between $4 billion and $8 billion in new tourism spending nationwide, a one percent increase in the U.S. market share in tourism.
Colorado accounts for 2.5% of the U.S. market share in the tourism industry and could expect an increase of $100 million to $200 million in travel spending. Historically, for every $1 million spent by travelers, eleven new jobs are created, according to the U.S. Travel Association. The potential $100 million to $200 million boost in travel spending in Colorado could therefore create between 1,100 to 2,200 new jobs in the state.
At no cost to taxpayers, the Travel Promotion Act will:
Establish the Corporation for Travel Promotion, an independent, non-profit corporation governed by an 11-member board of directors appointed by the Secretary of Commerce. It also creates an Office of Travel Promotion in the Department of Commerce to develop programs to increase the number of international visitors to the United States.
Set up a Travel Promotion Fund, financed by a public-private matching program. Federal contributions will be financed by a required $10 fee paid by foreign travelers from Visa Waiver countries and collected via Electronic Travel Authorization system. A 2007 report finds that any negative impact of the fee would be negligible. The total federal contribution is capped at $100 million per year.
The Travel Promotion Act of 2009 is one part of a multi-pronged process to improve travel to the United States in order to improve international relations, increase revenues from travel, create jobs in the travel industry and promote economic growth across the United States.
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June 30, 2019 WebDeskComments Off on IOM: Migrant Deaths Globally Top 32,000 Since 2014
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - The International Organization for Migration says more than 32,000 migrants worldwide have died or gone missing between 2014 and 2018, with most fatalities occurring on the deadly Mediterranean Sea crossing from North Africa to Europe.
The U.N. migration agency says its global figures underestimate the true nature and extent of the problem as many migrant deaths are never reported and many bodies are never recovered. Nevertheless, researchers say the statistics paint a very grim picture of the perils awaiting the hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants risking their lives in search of protection or a better life.
The report shows nearly 18,000 people have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean between 2014 and 2018. It says the remains of almost two thirds of those victims have not been found.
IOM spokesman, Joel Millman said Rohingya refugees comprise the vast majority of the 2,200 deaths recorded in South-East Asia and most of the 288 deaths recorded in South Asia since 2014 were of Afghan migrants.
"Despite the conflict in Yemen, people continue to attempt the sea crossing from the Horn of Africa across the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. At least 125 people drowned off the shores of Yemen in 2018, compared with 53 in 2017. An increasing number of deaths on the United States�Mexico border have been recorded each year since 2014, with the total we have over the five years is 1,907," he said.
Millman told VOA that the numbers included in IOM's Missing Migrants Project are defined as people in transit. He said there is a separate category for people who die in custody, though exceptions do occur. He said recent cases of people who have died while in custody for less than two hours are included in the current data base.
"In general, in transit is the rule of thumb. But we have had some cases, I think six or seven already this year of recently in custody in the U.S. or recently released from custody that resulted in deaths within a few days and those we parse the best we can in the data base," he said.
A related report recently released by IOM and the U.N. children's fund focuses on the growing number of children embarking on dangerous migrant journeys. The data finds nearly 1,600 children, about one every day, were reported dead or missing between 2014 and 2018. Researchers add the full extent of this tragedy is unknown as many of these migrant child deaths go unrecorded.
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Richard Lovelace
Richard Lovelace, (born 1618—died 1657, London), English poet, soldier, and Royalist whose graceful lyrics and dashing career made him the prototype of the perfect Cavalier.
Lovelace was probably born in the Netherlands, where his father was in military service. He was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford, and at age 16 or possibly a little later he wrote The Scholars, a comedy acted at Whitefriars, of which the prologue and epilogue survive. He took part in the expeditions to Scotland (1639–40) at the time of the rebellions against Charles I. During this period he is said to have written a tragedy, The Soldier, but there is no certain evidence of this.
Returning to his estates in Kent, Lovelace was chosen to present (1642) a Royalist petition to a hostile House of Commons. For this he was imprisoned in the Gatehouse, London, where he wrote “To Althea, from Prison,” which contains the well-known lines: “Stone walls do not a prison make/Nor iron bars a cage.” He passed much of the next four years abroad and was wounded fighting for the French against the Spaniards at Dunkerque in 1646. In 1648 he was again imprisoned. During his imprisonment, Lovelace prepared Lucasta (1649) for the press.
The antiquarian and historian Anthony à Wood says he died in misery and poverty in 1658, but an elegy on him was printed in 1657. He had certainly sold much of his estates, but none of the elegies supports the story of his unhappy death.
The only other publication of his work was Lucasta; Posthume Poems of Richard Lovelace, Esq. (1659), edited by his brother Dudley, including Elegies, and dated 1660.
This article was most recently revised and updated by J.E. Luebering.
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London 1960s overview
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Guadalcanal Diary
At Your Birthday Party
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• First worldwide release of classic 1999 live album. • Contains performances of favorites from all four Elektra releases. • Packaging featuring updated artwork and new liner notes from the band’s Murray Attaway “This is what we sounded like, for real. Turn it up.” —Murray Attaway Guadalcanal Diary exploded on the scene in 1985 when the previous year’s Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man was issued via Elektra Records and spawned the hit “Watusi Rodeo.” Over the next four years, Murray Attaway (vocals, guitar), Jeff Walls (guitar, vocals), Rhett Crowe (bass, vocals), and John Poe (drums, vocals) released three more critically acclaimed albums before calling it a day. The band reconvened for live shows in the late ’90s, and tape was rolling during their two-night stand at Smith’s Olde Bar in Atlanta, GA, January 1998. The following year, At Your Birthday Party was self-released as a thank you to “Guadal fans everywhere.” This 16-track performance finally sees worldwide distribution nearly two decades later, with updated artwork and new liner notes from Attaway. It encompasses everything their fans love about the band—favorites from all 4 Elektra releases, as well as one song which only appears on this collection, plus the hooks and passion that filled venues. At Your Birthday Party shows that the band never lost its drive, and that the songs still resonate to this day. As the originalsliner notes stated, “Your table is ready.” Take a seat. But, you’ll be standing up and dancing soon enough...
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Performing rights organizations & Collecting societies
IMRO is a national organisation that administers the performing right in copyright music in Ireland on behalf of its members (songwriters, composers and music publishers) and on behalf of members of the international overseas societies that are affiliated to it.
IMRO is working with BMAT to monitor in real time Irish works being broadcast in key overseas markets – we are very happy with the results of our collaboration to date and enjoy working with the BMAT team who perfectly understand our requirements.
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Director of Broadcast, Online & International Licensing
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers is an American not-for-profit PRO that protects its members‘ musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them accordingly.
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GCA (Georgian Copyright Association) is a non-profit association which represents the members of the Association of copyright and neighbouring rights holders and their successors.
Ifpi Asia promotes the value of recorded music, safeguards record producer rights and expands the commercial usage of recorded music in all its member markets.
STIM gathers most of music creators in Sweden and spreads its activity to the rest of the world by administrating more than 1.3 million rights for Swedish rightsholders.
Sena represents the rights of musicians and producers in The Netherlands, who receive payment whenever their music is played in public. The society represents more than 28,000 musicians and producers and is committed to the right holders on a daily basis.
Gramex is a Scandinavian copyright society which promotes and administers the rights of performing artists whose performances have been recorded on phonograms and of producers of phonograms.
MCSC is the Music Copyright Society of China, the country’s only officially recognized organization for music copyright administration and has issued copyrights for over 14 million music works for approximately 4,000 members since 1994.
VCPMC Vietnam Center is one of the first and leading collective management organizations in Vietnam. All VCPMC’s activities are implemented thoroughly not only on local but also on international scale.
RIPS (Recording Industry Performance Singapore) is a collective licensing body, empowered to exercise the rights of the record companies with respect to different fields of application.
IFPI subsidiary in Norway. IFPI is a not-for-profit international organization registered in Switzerland. It defends the recording industry worldwide and represents the interests of 1,300 record companies from across the globe.
MCSK is the Kenyan non-profit making Collective Management Organization for authors, composers, arrangers and publishers of musical works.
IFPI subsidiary in Israel. IFPI is a not-for-profit international organization registered in Switzerland. It defends the recording industry worldwide and represents the interests of 1,300 record companies from across the globe.
AACIMH is the authors, composers, interprets and musicians association in Honduras, protecting and managing their works, lincenses and copyrights and their usage by broadcasting companies and collective management of copyrights organizations.
AGINPRO is the Guatemalan organization that operates as the national collective manager of copyrights and related rights.
SPRE (Société pour la Perception de la Rémunération Equitable) is a French society that collects and distributes the equitable remuneration to producers and artists/performers and is co-managed by four companies – SCPP, SPPF, ADAMI, SPEDIDAM.
ASAP is the Association of Marketing Agencies from El Salvador. Created in 1964, it promotes, defends, strengthens and dignifies marketing workers‘ profession.
SODINPRO, The Dominican Phonographic Producers Society, is an organism focused in the collective managementof its partners‘ copyright. Sodinpro makes an effort to spread the values of music and to collect the fair remuniration artists deserve.
OSA is the Sayco Acinpro Organization, which operates in Colombia under the National Direction of Copyritghts‘ authorization, aiming to collect the remuneration that its partners are due to receive.
APDIF gathers the main Colombian music producers and defends their copyrights by offering them legal and administrative support, mainly.
ACODEM, the Colombian Association of Music Publishers, manages different kinds of copyright for its partners, focusing its activity in music synchronizarion, reproduction and the field of new technologies.
Acinpro (Asociación Colombiana de Intérpretes y Productores Fonográficos), is a Colombian non-profit collective management society for neighbouring rights.
CMRRA is the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd, a music licensing collective body representing music rightsholders who range in size from large multinational music publishers to individual songwriters.
PROPHON is a non-profit organization for collective management of related music rights. The organization manages the biggest music catalogue in Bulgaria, which includes the repertoire of the four major record companies, as well as more than 25 000 independent local and foreign labels, and 180 of the most popular Bulgarian artists, bands, record companies, music companies.
We want to thank you for the great job you do and the passion you share! Thanks to your efforts and productive collaboration, the Bulgarian repertoire is now far more recognizable. We are happy to have a twice bigger monitoring panel with many new features included. Your innovative ideas, implemented in working technical solutions, help us to improve the accuracy of our royalty collections and distributions and, therefore, to achieve better and better results. Thanks for being such an amazing partner!
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MUSICAUTOR is a non-profit society of composers, lyricists and music publishers for collective management of copyright. It administers Bulgarian and international copyrights for its members (composers, lyricists and music publishers) and it represents more than 2 700 Bulgarian creators.
UBEM is the Brazilian Music Publishers Association, which was created in 2010 by Brazilian record labels as a non profit organism, with the aim of promoting music publishing activities, as well as representing and defending the interests of its parteners.
ABPD (Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos) was established in April 1958 and brings together among its members the largest companies in recording music production in Brazil.
The main purpose of SDADV is to manage the author and neighbouring rights in Andorra.
ZPAV is an association of producers of phonograms and videograms in Poland. Founded in 1991, ZPAV has been authorized by the Ministry of Culture to act as a collective rights management organization.
BMAT is a reliable partner, always ensuring that the offered solutions are tailored to our needs. Vericast turned out to be an efficient tool enabling precise identification of tracks broadcast on radio and tv, matched against a huge database of local and international repertoire. The technology provided by BMAT has significantly improved the accuracy of airplay monitoring in Poland and helped us achieve greater efficiency in performance royalty distribution.
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UPFR is the collecting society covering copyright related rights owed to music producers in Romania.
UNIMPRO is a collective management society representing the recording music industry of Peru.
UACRR administers public performance rights, mechanical recording and reproduction rights, and dramatic rights. UACRR is the only internationally recognized Ukrainian collecting society.
Teosto is the copyright organization for composers, lyric writers, arrangers and music publishers in Finland.
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SUDEI, founded in 1951, is the first collective rights management association for music interpreters in Uruguay.
SPAC is a non-profit Collective Management Entity nonprofit in Panama. Its mission is to preserve copyrights and efficiently manage the resulting economic use of public works of national and foreign members of the organization.
SPA is a limited liability cooperative, established in 1925 to manage authors’ rights. It is the sole entity of its kind in Portugal, representing more than 20,000 Portuguese authors and authors from about 200 sister societies in 90 foreign countries.
SOPROFON is the Performing Rights Organization managing the intellectual property rights of phonographic producers in the Republic of Ecuador.
SOMEXFON, (Sociedad Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas, Videogramas y Multimedia, Sociedad de Gestión Colectiva), is the collective management society that is responsible for the collection, at the national level, of the royalties for the public use of the recorded music catalog it represents.
SOBODAYCOM is the society representing authors and composers in Bolivia.
SGP, the collecting society of Paraguay, was established to administer and defend the rights of artistes and producers whenever their music is used in public places.
Since its founding, SGP distinguished itself by administrating efficiently and transparently the rights of artistes and producers. BMAT provides accurate and auditable data, which forms the foundation of our royalty distribution.
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Director General of SGP in Paraguay
SGACEDOM (General Society of Dominican Authors, Composers and Music Publishers) is a non-profit collecting society established in 1996.
SESAC was founded in 1930, making it the second oldest PRO in the United States. SESEC’s headquarters is in Nashville and it has offices in New York, Los Angeles and London.
SCD is the only music rights collecting society in Chile. SCD’s main objective is to manage music rights of Chilean authors and foreign musicians in Chile.
BMAT has enabled SCD to optimise its royalties distribution process for radios by providing information of great value: percentage share of national music aired, label rankings, list of top artistes and songs.
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SBACEM is the Brazilian Society of Authors, Composers and Music Writers, based in the city of Rio de Janeiro, founded on April 9, 1946.
SAYCO is the collecting society for authors and composers rights in Colombia. SAYCO administers copyright and related rights on behalf of its members.
In the course of protecting music creators' rights, BMAT has provided us with a powerful and precise tool that is improving most of our enterprise's processes.
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SAYCO Operations and IT Group in Colombia
SAYCE is a non-profit collecting society from Ecuador and member of the CISAC group (The International Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies).
SABAM is the Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers. Founded in 1922, SABAM today consists of thousands of artists from every artistic discipline imaginable.
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Recorded Music NZ is the industry representation, advocacy and licensing organisation for recording artists and their labels in New Zealand.
Public Performance (Malaysia) or PPM, established in 1988, is a wholly owned non-profit subsidiary of the Recording Industry Association of Malaysia (RIM). PPM represents all eligible Malaysian recording companies who are members of RIM.
Promusicae (Productores de Música de España) is a trade group representing the Spanish recording industry.
PROFOVI is a private, non-profit organization that represents and defends the intellectual property rights of phonographic music producers of Chile.
PRODUCE, Panamanian Society of Phonographic Producers, is a non-profit civil organization that seeks to safeguard the interests of national and international phonogram producers, whose recordings are being marketed in the Republic of Panama.
The success of rights management depends on the efficiency of collection and distribution processes. For the latter, BMAT monitoring service is the best tool to sanction the credibility and transparency of this operation.
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Director General at PRODUCE in Panama
PPL in the U.K. licenses recorded music played in public or broadcast and then distributes the licence fees to its performer and recording rightholder members.
Muyorbir was established in 200 by 52 founding members. Today, MUYORBIR represents 95% of the recorded production companies of Turkish music industry.
MÜ-YAP was established in 2000 to represent neighbouring rights of phonogram producers. Currently, the society has 92 members, representing nearly 80% of the music industry in Turkey.
With BMAT we extended our monitoring coverage across 80 radios & televisions in Turkey. Vericast service has definitely delivered value by automating actual music usage reports for our performance royalty distribution.
Ahmet Asena
Secretary General of MÜ-YAP in Turkey
MPC Music Company Limited is a music licensing company in Thailand. MPC was formed in 2003 to license and control public performance rights for MCT and Phonorights.
We were negotiating with a cable provider and BMAT provided us with their broadcast music usage evidence. Thanks to BMAT's report, we signed the license within months.
Juntratawil Boonyatikarn
General Manager of MPC Music in Thailand
MESAM is the Turkish society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights.
LATGA-A is a collective copyright management association established by Lithuanian authors and creative unions back in 1990.
LaIPA represents more than 1,200 Latvian performers and more than 700,000 foreign performers in Latvia; Latvian and foriegn producers; as well as, major and independent record labels.
Koda represents approximately 40,000 Danish composers, songwriters and music publishers. Through reciprocal contracts with rights societies in more than 115 countries.
JAMMS was incorporated in 2006 as a private, non-profit organization established under the Copyright Act of Jamaica, to administer the intellectual property rights granted to ‘Record Producers’.
JACAP commenced operations in 1999 to take over the operations of the local Performing Right Society London (PRS) agency in the collective administration of music copyright in Jamaica.
HKRIA was established in October 2008. It is a not-for-profit copyright management organization to handle the copyrights of members who are record companies from Hong Kong and overseas.
GDA is a public, non-profit organization in Portugal that represents artists’ rights when their creations are composed, comercializated or used in Portugal.
We found BMAT an ideal partner as an airplay data provider. Their flexibility and proactivity have improved Portuguese monitoring results considerably.
Luis Sampaio
Vice President of GDA in Portugal
FILSCAP, the Filipino Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Inc. is the association of composers, lyric-writers and music publishers to administer the public performance and reproduction rights of original musical works.
ECCO administers copyright and related rights on behalf of its members in the Eastern Caribbean.
CUD (Cámara Uruguaya del Disco) is a non-profit organization that represents phonographic producers and since 2005 is been recognized as a Collecting Society by the IFPI.
COTT is the premier collecting society for composers and for the protection of musical works in Trinidad and Tobago.
COSCAP – with its 322 composer, author and publisher members, as well as 298 performer and producer members – is widely recognized as the Barbados’ main music industry association.
BMAT guarantees precise, non-stop music broadcast tracking for a transparent and efficient royalty distribution.
Erica K. Smith
CEO of COSCAP in Barbados
COMPASS is an organisation created to protect and promote the copyright interests of composers, authors (and their heirs) and publishers of musical works and their related lyrics.
CAPIF represents the music industry in Argentina. It is a non-profit organization composed of multinational and independent record companies.
BMI was founded in 1939 by forward-thinkers who wanted to represent songwriters in emerging genres, like jazz, blues and country, and protect the public performances of their music.
AudioGest was founded in 2002 as a collection and distribution entity for the recording industry. Today, AudioGest represents all phonographic repertoire available in Portugal.
We were in the midst of negotiations with a broadcaster and we needed to generate non-biased evidence of music usage percentage over their airtime. BMAT came behind us and built a viable solution to a very real problem.
Miguel Carretas
General Director of Audiogest in Portugal
ARTISJUS is the Hungarian bureau for the protection of authors’ rights.
Armonia is a Licensing Hub for online music offering any rights owners an integrated one-stop shop solution.
APDAYC is the association of authors and composers in Peru.
APA (Associated Authors from Paraguay) is a non-profit and private collecting society, which collects and distributes royalties related with authors’ rights.
AKKA/LAA is the Latvian authors’ society. AKKA/LAA brings together diverse authors by collectively implementing the management of their creation rights.
AIE (Artistas Intérpretes o Ejecutantes) is the Spanish Collecting Society authorized by the Ministry of Culture in Spain to defend the rights of the performers.
AGEDI is the Spanish Performing Right Organization managing the intellectual property rights of phonographic producers.
BMAT makes our job easy. They provide airplay monitoring reports, created with a smart technology, that is essential to identifying and distributing music royalties among our associates. A perfect partner of the music industry.
Antonio Guisasola
President of AGEDI in Spain
AGATA, Lithuanian Neighbouring Rights Association, is collecting society acting on behalf of performers and phonogram producers. Since 2002 AGATA is a member of AEPO-ARTIS and SCAPR.
AGADU was established in 1929 as a non-profit copyright collecting society in Uruguay. AGADU defends the rights of national and foreign authors.
AADI is a non profit-making organisation that, since 1954, has been responsible for the collection, management and distribution of the performing rights of musicians in Argentina. It is a member of the Federation of Ibero-Latin American Performers.
We have been using Vericast since last year randomly auditing the information that TV & Radio stations sent to us against it, binding and matching that with our own records. We found the service as a really valuable tool for this purpose.
BMAT Team is always ready to help us to improve our job. Thanks!
Dante Mariani
Gerente de Servicios Informáticos
SACEM is the French association that collects payments of artists’ rights and distributing these royalties to the original songwriters, composers and music publishers.
Thanks to the features jointly developed by BMAT and ARMONIA, SACEM has significantly increased the automatic identification.
Jean-Noël Tronc
CEO of SACEM in France, President of ARMONIA’s Board
AFP defends the rights and interests of the Phonographic Industry in Portugal. Its main activities are combating piracy of copyrighted works and monitoring the legislative process at the local and international dissemination of statistical data.
ACUM is a non-profit corporation administering the rights assigned to it by its members: authors, composers, lyricists, poets, arrangers and music publishers in Israel.
BMAT's technology and service are amazing and very useful to the whole music industry.
Rami Madmon
CIO of ACUM in Israel
SIAE is the performing rights society of authors and publishers for Italy. SIAE’s Headquarters and registered office is located in Rome.
Young and smart company, BMAT played a fundamental role in setting up ARMONIA, the big hub for online music processing, bringing technology, expertise and passion for result and innovation.
Leonardo Beltri
CIO of SIAE Italy
PRS for Music Limited is the UK’s leading collective society, bringing together two collection societies: the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) and the Performing Right Society (PRS).It undertakes collective rights management for musical works on behalf of its 118,000 members.
I’m delighted we’re partnering with BMAT. The technology provided will ensure more accurate distribution of royalties to all.
Karen Buse
International Director at PRS for Music in the U.K.
Labels & Publishers
Tele Music is a Sforzando Musical Editions brand. Entirely dedicated to production music, it represents the catalogues Tele Music, JW Media, The Lost Tapes, Addikt Music and Dynamique & Gaie.1
UMPG,Universal Music Publishing Group, is a music catalogue of unrivalled breadth & depth, crafted specifically for media use.
Playground Music Scandinavia is an independent record company and distributor that operates in Scandinavia with offices in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and with local distribution partners in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Iceland.
Universal Music Group is the largest recording company in the world due to its market share and diversified contents.
Sony Music Entertainment is an American music company owned by Sony. It is incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
Bizarro Records is an Uruguayan music label created in 2000, whose catalogue is mainly composed by national Uruguayan artists.
Konga is a Spanish independent musical publisher whose main activity consists in music additional services.
Vimusica is a music publisher whose main activity takes place in Spain and Portugal.
SONY/ATV Music Publishing was established in 1995 as a joint venture between Sony Corporation and ATV Music Publishing.
Music Library SoundFX is Audio Network’s exclusive distributor in Spain. Audio Network’s production music library consists of more than 40.000 high quality tracks for TV, film, advertising and corporate video.
Vericast is the ideal tool for any music publisher who aspires to check rigorously public execution of his music.
Iñaky Atela
Director of Music Library & SFX of Audio Network in Spain.
EMI Music Publishing is part of the EMI Group, also known as EMI Music, or simply EMI, is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Clipper’s is an independent publishing company founded in 1952 by Julio Guiu Clara in Spain.
Vericast is really useful for the music publishers to check accurately all the public execution of their music, it is a good tool for all of us.
Carlos Lalinde MD
Ediciones Musicales Clipper’s in Spain
West One Music is home to over 200 albums of lovingly crafted music. West One Music catalogue features over 100 unique styles and genres of music, created by more than 200 composers from around the world.
We all really enjoy working with their knowledgeable, personable and fun team and consider them a huge part of our operations
Edwin Cox
Creative Director / President of West One Music Group in the U.K.
Digital platforms & Music services
Epidemic Sound is a global music and technology company, headquartered in Sweden, whose mission is to deliver music without limitations around the world. Epidemic’s sole purpose is to inspire storytellers and musicians to honour and champion their creativity one person, one track, one story at a time.
With a great, user friendly tool, BMAT deliver exactly what they promise. Flexible services and a friendly approach are just the cherries on top!
Max Thörn
IDOL, with its strong marketing expertise, digital distribution experience and technological edge, offers a complete range of services, tailored to meet the needs of producers and content distributors.
Beatport is an electronic music-oriented online music store based in Denver and operating mainly in the US and Europe. It is primarily focused on DJs, selling full songs as well as resources that can be used for remixes.
Believe is a British leading music digital distribution company for independent labels and artists.
Mediapark WM Music is a Hungarian company focused in the music distribution to over 150 digital music services, including iTunes, Deezer or Spotify.
Intervox Production Music is an innovative music catalogue orientated to TV, advertising, cinema, radio, corporate design and media. Among other services, this German independent company chooses the most suitable music contents for its clients and makes sure artists‘ copyrights are respected.
The Orchard is a global leader in digital and mobile music distribution, spanning every genre and era of recorded music.
SynchTank is a sophisticated online application that powers interactive music websites for managing, researching, marketing, delivering and licensing music copyrights in the cloud.
Life's better with BMAT. They're a crew of super smart and dedicated music people that really care about what they're doing. We couldn't have picked a better partner to help us.
Joel Thomas Jordan
CEO of SynchTank
Senzari focuses on the development of premium digital entertainment services targeted at the Latin American and the U.S. Hispanic market.
Red Karaoke is the leading social network for song lovers: leading with the number of members and followers, as well as with the number of karaoke songs available.
Protelcom provides the latest technological solutions for monitoring digital radio and TV for both audio and video transmissions.
Pandora Internet Radio is a music streaming and automated music recommendation service powered by the Music Genome Project.
PacketVideo provides software products that form the foundation for audience-interactive media experiences that give consumers the freedom to enjoy multimedia however, whenever and wherever they want.
MyWay is a service provided by Waymedia Company. MyWay is a digital platform focused on audio and video streaming services.
mSpot Inc. is a technology company in the US. Provider of mobile entertainment services, mSpot’s technology platform provides access to music, movies, news, sports, finance, weather, etc.
Mikestar is one of the largest online Karaoke web sites in Europe, allowing users to receive immediate ratings for their singing performance by a virtual judge.
Jamendo is a music platform that offers free downloads of all music licensed through Creative Commons or Free Art Music.
INgrooves Fontana provides clients customized marketing, promotion, sync licensing and administrative support to help maximize the earnings potential of specific music and video releases or catalogues.
IMusica is the largest service provider in Latin America and the world’s leading digital distributor of Brazilian music.
Herzio is an innovative Spanish company that provides tools to promote bands on Facebook. Fans can easily buy songs, merchandising or tickets for concerts through this web tool.
BajaMusica.com is the number one music digital shop in Argentina.
Ambiance Radio is a company focused on background music programming for hospitality industry, customized by theme, demographics, traffic, sales etc. to each location.
247 Entertainment is Europe’s leading B2B technology provider specializing in online and mobile distribution of music, music video and ring-tones.
Telecommunications & Communications
ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandradio are the German public broadcasting organisations that provide the broadcasting services for the national media. They consist of over 120 TV and Radio channels, including regional networks.
We are glad to have found a service provider with BMAT, whose technology counts to the absolute top in this area.
Ulrich Geiger
Project Management ARD / ZDF / Deutschlandradio
TF1 France is a private national French TV channel with an average market share that makes it the most popular domestic network the most viewed television channel in Europe. TV1 France is a private national French TV channel with an average market share that makes it the most popular domestic network the most viewed television channel in Europe.
RAI, Radiotelevisione Italiana, is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, operating many DVB and Sat television channels and radio stations.
Yota (4G internet) is the first Russian high-speed wireless network based on Mobile WiMAX. Yota extends across Moscow, St. Petersburg and Ufa.
Yamaha is a multinational corporation with a wide range of products, predominantly musical instruments and electronics.
Telefónica Music Service is a Grupo Telefónica Contenidos company dedicated to researching, developing and commercialising integrated music solutions.
Steinberg is a German musical software and equipment company producing music recording, arranging and editing software as used in digital audio workstations and VSTi software synthesizers.
SingTel Mobile is a fully owned subsidiary of SingTel Group and it offers mobile telecomservices in Singapore.
Samsung, part of Samsung Group, is one of the world’s top 20 brands. Its HQ is based in Samsung Town, Seoul.
ISID provides media asset management solutions to help companies improve their digital asset programs and increase their overall performance.
Intel is the world’s largest semiconductor company and inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors found in most personal computers.
ID Grup is an IT service provider, specialising in cloud and integration services in Catalonia, Spain.
Exalead is a global provider of software designed to simplify all aspects of information search and retrieval for organizations of all sizes.
Cellcast is a leading provider of participation television programming and interactive mobile content for today’s dynamic multi-platform digital entertainment sector.
CCMA, Catalan Media Corporation is the public radio and television company in Catalonia, owned by Generalitat de Catalunya.
Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación, S.A., previously Grupo Antena 3, is a Spanish media group, present in the television, radio and cinema industries.
Latina is a Peruvian TV channel that broadcasts live content on the Internet worldwide.
Kandavu Productions is the leading company in live events and performances in Peru.
Grupo RPP is a Peruvian media conglomerate that owns several chains of radio stations, television channels and other businesses.
GPR, Panamerican Radio Group is a Peruvian media conglomerate operating with South American radio stations.
Evenpro is a Peruvian event organiser and ticket-sales platform.
ERM is a Peruvian media group focused on boosting different musical proposals and by implementing new management, production and representation policies.
CRP Media and Entertainment is a Peruvian media group that owns several TV channels, radio stations and digital platforms.
CPR is the Radio Reproductions Centre in Peru. Its activities promote production and research in the Peruvian musical scene.
Rádio Comercial is the leading radio station in Portugal, offering a wide range of contents and programs.
Grupo Media Capital is the leading media group in Portugal. It owns several TV channels, the second largest radio group and Media Capital Digital, a multimedia company whose main brand, IOL, is the second largest national internet gateway.
It has been excellent working with BMAT’s Team and share ideas and knowledge, making everyone’s job easier.
Cláudia Macara
Dept. Music Publishing
TVN, Televisión Nacional de Chile, is a Chilean public service broadcaster headquartered in Santiago. It offers a main television channel, nine regional channels and a news channel.
BNR is Bulgaria’s National Radio broadcasting organisation. It operates two national and seven regional channels, as well as an international service in 11 languages.
Rock and Reggae is an Argentinian independent producer created in 2005 with the aim of organising different musical shows and alternative events. Nowadays, Rock and Reggae promotes up to 250 events per year throughout Argentina.
Cadena 3 is an Argentinian generalist radio station whose main studios are in the city of Cordoba, although its broadcast network spreads throughout Argentina, being one of the most popular stations of the country.
Telecinco is a Spanish commercial television channel operated by Mediaset España.
Talpa Holding has established itself as a full service development, production and distribution company for programmes developed primarily for television.
Kiss FM is a radio station broadcasting in Spain.
Gestmusic is a television production company under the Endemol group. Gestmusic is responsible for some of the most successful television programs in Spain.
FM Rock & Pop is a radio FM network in Argentina.
Cadena 100 is a Spanish music radio station owned by Radio Popular. Its main studios are in Madrid, but its broadcast network spreads throughout Spain.
AGB Nielsen specializes in the installation and management of people meter systems around the world.
Acquamedia helps its clients segment consumer groups according to their likings and on-line behaviour, thereby focusing sales efforts.
R&D partners & Supporting public bodies
Ministerio de Energía, Turismo y Agenda Digital (Ministry of Industry, Energy and Digital Agenda) supports the Strategic Action of Economy and Digital Society -Technological Impulse 2017 (Project PlayIT – TSI-100600-2017-20). Co-funded by Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) – The way to build Europe.
WESO, Univeridad de Oviedo is a multidisciplinary research group from the Department of Computer Science, Spanish Philology and Philosophy. The group is involved in semantic web research, education and technology transfer.
Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya is a public institution dedicated to research and higher education, specialised in the fields of architecture, science and engineering.
Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra carries out research on topics such as audio signal processing, sound and music description, musical interfaces, sound and music communities, and performance modeling.
Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo (Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism) supports the Spanish National Plan for Scientific Investigation, Development and Innovation of Technologies 2008-2011 (Project TAGLOW – TSI-020602-2012-195 and Project CLUBIFY – TSI-100600-2013-24). Co-funded by Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) – The way to build Europe.
Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport) provides support to increase the legal supply of cultural digital content on the Internet and to promote the modernization and innovation of cultural and creative industries. (Ayuda a la inversión en capital ref. 284/MI/2013)
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness). Development and Innovation Oriented to Challenges of Society, in the frame of the Spanish National Plan for Scientific Investigation and Innovation of Technologies 2013-2016. (Project BEBOP – RTC-2016- 4920-7). Co-funded by Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) – The way to build Europe.
ICREA aims to recruit top scientists for the Catalan R&D system.
ENISA, Empresa Nacional de Innovación SA (National Innovation Company) works to stimulate the creation, growth and consolidation of Spanish companies.
CDTI (Centre for Industrial Technological Development) is a Public Business Entity, answering to the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, which fosters the technological development and innovation of Spanish companies.
ACC1Ó is the agency for business competitiveness of the Government of Catalonia. It specializes in promoting innovation and internationalization, and has a network of 34 offices worldwide.
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Denmark Charges 1,004 People For Sharing Teenage Sex Videos On Facebook
By Joseph D. Lyons
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Danish authorities have brought a case against just over 1,000 people for sharing sexually explicit videos of teens on Facebook Messenger. The charge is for distribution of child pornography and could result in prison sentences, marking a big step in Denmark's attempts to fight the distribution of sexual content being posted online without consent.
Police received a tip-off from Facebook about the illegal content. In this case, those shown in the videos were just 15, and those charged with posting and sharing the files range in age from 15 to their 20s. Some 14-year-olds who shared the files were not charged. Approximately 800 of the 1,004 charged individuals are men.
Many of the accused shared an image and the two videos — one was 50 seconds and another nine seconds — just once or a few times. Others shared them hundreds of times, Danish National Police contend.
Police inspector Lau Thygesen from North Zealand Police said in a press release, written in Danish, that sharing of such materials "must be stopped":
It's a very big and complex matter that has taken a long time to investigate. Not least because of the large number of charged. We have taken the case very seriously as it has major implications for those involved when such material is spread.
The police in Denmark are allowed to assign an initial arresting charge, but then it's up to prosecutors to continue with the child pornography violation of the criminal code — or to change the charge. In Denmark, even if those in the explicit image and videos were 18, sharing the files would still be illegal without their consent.
The Danish government moved to strengthen the punishment for this crime in 2017 after several public cases of revenge porn drew widespread attention.
In this case, the couple in the video was reportedly taped by friends at a party. The girl in the video said the friends initially blackmailed her with the video and then spread it online. Those two friends have already been fined for their role in the matter.
"We want to give out a warning to young people: think about what you're doing," Flemming Kjaerside, police superintendent for Denmark’s National Crime Center, told Bloomberg News. "Don't ever share sex videos. It can have consequences for the victims and also for those distributing. We really hope that it is an eyeopener for young people, that they should be careful in the digital world about what you should do."
As for Facebook's involvement, a spokesperson for the social media giant told CNN that they have zero tolerance for such sharing of images:
Our systems run in the background and automatically remove and report intimate content involving children to (the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children) in the U.S., who in turn will review and dispatch the relevant information to the right law enforcement agencies across the globe.
The New York Times spoke with Danish journalist Emma Holten, who was a victim of revenge porn four years ago. She decided to do her own nude photo shoot in response and has been an activist on the issue ever since.
"Four years ago, I would have felt sorry for them," she told the Times. "Back then you could have argued that they were not aware of that it was illegal, but today they know."
To help prevent this from happening again, Facebook rolled out a program in November that could block this type of content from being sent out in the first place.
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Five things to know about the Islanders men's basketball team
Five things to know about the 2018-19 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders men's basketball team
Five things to know about the Islanders men's basketball team Five things to know about the 2018-19 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders men's basketball team Check out this story on caller.com: https://www.caller.com/story/sports/college/texas-a-and-m-university-corpus-christi/2018/10/03/five-things-know-islanders-mens-college-basketball-team-texas-corpus-christi-tamucc-willis-wilson/1515424002/
Quinton Martinez, Corpus Christi Caller Times Published 5:16 p.m. CT Oct. 3, 2018
Kareem South(Photo: Texas A&M University Corpus Christi - Athletics)
The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's basketball team met the media Wednesday after starting official practices last week.
The Islanders feature six newcomers this season — nearly half the roster — and have one senior, sixth-year guard Emmanuel Toney.
Toney received his second redshirt season due to injury last year after playing six games and missing the entire 2016-17 season due to injury.
Of the new faces, Jalon Clark comes to the Islanders as a freshman, as Willis Wilson signed four junior college transfers and one graduate transfer, senior Jake Babic, who previously played at Appalachian State.
Here are five things to know about this year's Islanders squad
Looking for a bounce back: A&M-Corpus Christi finished 11-18 last season and fell in the opening round of the Southland Conference Tournament. The Islanders won at least 21 games in the previous three seasons and played in the Southland Conference Tournament championship game twice.
Northern Flavor: In addition to redshirt junior Kareem South, a Toronto native, the Islanders signed two more players from Canada. Forward Irshaad Hunte, also from Toronto, signed with the Islanders after two seasons at Central Wyoming College and Babic, who is from Oakville, Ontario, also joins the team.
Brotherly Love: Jashawn Talton, a 6-foot-5 junior guard signed with A&M-Corpus Christi from McLennan Junior College. Talton is the younger brother of all-time leading scorer Rashawn Thomas, who finished his eligibility with the Islanders in 2016, leading A&M-Corpus Christi to the championship game of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament.
Familiarity at the top: Willis Wilson begins his eighth season leading Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, and also spent much of his offseason as the interim Director of Athletics for the school. Wilson owns a 110-115 record with the Islanders, including four trips to the CIT. Wilson's entire staff returns including associate head coach Marty Gross, assistants Mark Dannhoff and Terry Johnson and director of basketball operations Josh Ervin.
Kareem's team?: South returns, along with Toney as the most experienced on the Islanders roster and is the leading returning scorer (11.4 points), second-leading returning rebounder (4.3) and had the most steals of any returnee (29). Joseph Kilgore, who won the college slam dunk championship during Final Four weekend in San Antonio, led the Islanders in nearly every statistical category last year as a senior.
More: Islanders basketball great Rashawn Thomas signs pro contract with Italian team
More: Former Islanders basketball player Bullard makes waves with shot from airplane
More: Islanders' college slam dunk champion Kilgore drafted by Harlem Globetrotters
0 Kyle Brown, 5-10, 150, G, Jr., Missouri City
2 Myles Smith, 6-0, 195, G, So., Klein
4 Jashawn Talton, 6-5, 215, G, Jr., Oklahoma City, Okla., McLennan JC
5 Javae Lampkins, 6-1, 180, G, So., Washington, D.C., Allan Hancock College
10 Perry Francois, 6-8, 225, F, Jr., North Miami, Fla.
11 Kareem South, 6-2, 185, G, R-Jr., Toronto, Ontario
12 Peyton Smith, 6-0, 190, G, So., Corpus Christi
14 Elijah Schmidt, 6-8, 195, F, Jr., Spring
15 Irshaad Hunte, 6-8, 215, F, Jr., Toronto, Ontario, Central Wyoming College
21 Tre Gray, 6-2, 170, G, So., Oakland, Calif.
22 Emmanuel Toney, 6-2, 185, G, R-Sr., Bowie, Md.
23 Jalon Clark, 6-6, 200, F, Fr., Houston
35 Tony Lewis, 6-10, 260, F, Jr., San Antonio, Blinn JC
45 Jake Babic, 6-5, 180, G, Sr., Oakville, Ontario, Appalachian State
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
2018-19 Men's Basketball Schedule
Nov. 7, Howard Payne, 7 p.m.
Nov. 9, #Our Lady of the Lake, 7 p.m.
Nov. 12, UTRGV, 7 p.m.
Nov. 16, at UT Arlington, 7 p.m.
Nov. 17, vs. ^UC Davis, TBA
Nov. 21, St. Mary's (Texas), 7 p.m.
Nov. 26, at UTRGV, 7 p.m.
Dec. 2, at Tennessee, TBA
Dec. 5, Texas State, 7 p.m.
Dec. 18, Huston Tillotson, 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 20, UTSA, 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 22, at Louisiana Tech, TBA
Dec. 29, at Oklahoma State, TBA
Jan. 2, *Central Arkansas, 7 p.m.
Jan. 5, *at Lamar, TBA
Jan. 9, *at Northwestern State, TBA
Jan. 16, *at Sam Houston State, TBA
Jan. 19, *New Orleans, 5 p.m.
Jan. 23, *Nicholls, 7 p.m.
Jan. 30, *at Abilene Christian, TBA
Feb. 2, *at Houston Baptist, TBA
Feb. 6, *Southeastern Louisiana, 7 p.m.
Feb. 9, *UIW, 7 p.m.
Feb. 13, *Sam Houston State, 7 p.m.
Feb. 16, *at New Orleans, 4:15 p.m.
Feb. 20, *at Stephen F. Austin, TBA
Feb. 23, *at Lamar, 3:30 p.m.
Feb. 27, *Abilene Christian, 7 p.m.
March 2, *at UIW, TBA
March 6, *at McNeese, TBA
March 9, *Houston Baptist, 5 p.m.
March 13-17, at Southland Conference Tournament
All home games at American Bank Center unless noted
#-at Dugan Wellness Center
^-at UT Arlington
*-denotes Southland Conference game
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Bringing a new generation of drugs to patients
School of Architecture
School of Biosciences
School of Computer Science & Informatics
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
School of English, Communication & Philosophy
School of Geography and Planning
School of Healthcare Sciences
School of History, Archaeology and Religion
School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
School of Law and Politics
School of Optometry and Vision Sciences
School of Physics & Astronomy
School of Welsh
Left to right: Professor John Atack, Peter Halligan, Professor Simon Ward
Cardiff University is stepping up the development of new drugs for mental health and central nervous system conditions, with the launch of the Medicines Discovery Institute.
Focusing on areas of unmet clinical need, the new institute will develop novel medications to improve the lives of people across the world.
Part funded by the Welsh Government, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the European Regional Development Fund, the £14 million centre aims to put Wales at the forefront of medical innovation.
The Institute, which is located within the highly successful School of Biosciences, will also provide an excellent opportunity for training and inspiring the next generation of medicines discovery scientists.
One of the Institute’s first big projects will focus on improving anxiety medications - an area of research where there have been no major advances since early 1960. Thanks to a major investment of £3.5 million from the Medical Research Council, the team will focus on the development of drugs that reduce the side effects associated with the benzodiazepine class of anxiolytic drugs.
Another new grant from the MRC will allow the team to develop improved medication options for people with fragile X syndrome - the most common inherited cause of learning disabilities. Focusing on a protein known to regulate the connections between nerve cells, the team aim to develop a novel medication that will make a difference to the lives of individuals and their families living with the condition.
The Education Minister, Kirsty Williams, said: “Investing in new scientific research is vital to our universities and the long-term health of the wider Welsh economy. Our £95m Sêr Cymru programme is instrumental in keeping Wales ahead of the game in many areas of scientific innovation."
The Medicines Discovery Institute will provide the world-class facilities needed to support pioneering research and further develop our capacity to produce exciting and often life-changing research here in Wales.
Kirsty Williams AM , Minister for Education
Peter Halligan, the Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales, said: “I am really pleased to be involved in the launch of the Medicines Discovery Institute as it provides another opportunity to demonstrate how the Sêr Cymru programme continues to contribute to Wales' growing research capacity. The discovery and development of new drugs and diagnostics is a challenging area which takes many years, but has the potential to impact the lives of patients world-wide.
“The Medicines Discovery Institute represents a further step forward in the Welsh Government ambition for making high quality, productive, impactful research happen in Wales, and in the process ensure that Wales remains competitive in the global economy. The Sêr Cymru programme is working towards creating a step change in research capacity and locating Wales firmly on the map as a centre of scientific discovery.”
Professor Simon Ward, Director of the Medicines Discovery Institute, said: “Patients are at the centre of the vision for our institute. Our ultimate aim is to reduce the impact on patients, families and society of mental health and neurodegenerative disorders by translating advances in our disease understanding into new drugs.
Professor Simon Ward
“We also intend to use our drug discovery capabilities to work with colleagues across Cardiff University to address other unmet medical needs, such as cancer.
“Our Institute is multidisciplinary, bringing together experts from many scientific disciplines so that we can work together to discover new medicines.
We are building on our successful and established reputations at drug discovery scientists, with extensive experience in industry and academic research to develop new treatments for patients.
Professor Simon Ward , Director, Medicines Discovery Institute
Professor John Atack, Co-Director of the Medicines Discovery Institute, added: “At the Medicines Discovery Institute, we are bringing together world-leading scientists to help identify new drug candidates.
“The exceptional scientific environment within the Cardiff area means we are ideally placed to translate basic science into patient benefit.”
Professor John Atack
Anxiety UK Chief Executive Nicky Lidbetter said: “The launch of the Medicines Discovery Unit at Cardiff University is a welcome development that will provide state of the art facilities to support the development of new treatments and medications for a range of conditions including anxiety disorders. We are already linked in with the work being undertaken by Prof John Atack in developing the next generation of benzodiazepines and welcome this and indeed new research on anxiety disorders as historically this area of mental health has not received the research attention that it deserves in spite of such disorders being so prevalent in society.
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Press Release – Oakville, Ontario, June 10, 2019
Cardiol Therapeutics Inc. (TSX: CRDL; OTCQX: CRTPF) (“Cardiol” or the “Company”), a leader in the research and commercial development of pharmaceutical CBD and targeted therapies for inflammatory diseases,is pleased to announce that it will be webcasting the informal portion of its annual general meeting (AGM) being held at Vantage Venues, 150 King Street West, 27th Floor, Toronto, on June 12, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. EDT.
Following the adjournment of the formal portion of the AGM at approximately 9:30 a.m. EDT, David Elsley, President and CEO, and Iain Chalmers, Chief Marketing Officer of Cardiol Therapeutics, will provide a review of 2018 and deliver a corporate presentation to update shareholders.
The Company invites all shareholders to attend the AGM or to join the presentation via live webcast by clicking on the following link:
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Cardiol Therapeutics Inc. (TSX: CRDL; OTCQX: CRTPF) is a leader in producing 100% pure pharmaceutical CBD and developing groundbreaking therapies for heart disease. The Company is focused on commercially launching the safest and most consistent CBD products for consumers and healthcare providers in the multi-billion-dollar medicinal cannabinoid markets. Cardiol is utilizing nanotechnologies designed to deliver CBD and other anti-inflammatory drugs for the treatment of heart failure. Heart failure is a leading cause of death and hospitalization in North America, with associated healthcare costs exceeding US$30 billion annually in the U.S. alone. For further information about Cardiol, please visit the Company’s website at www.cardiolrx.com.
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Ewan Kennedy reviews the Mitsubishi Pajero from 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 as a used buy.
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Mitsubishi Pajero is often seen as being a tough looking people mover rather than a real 4WD, which is a pity because it's pretty competent off-road and can handle most situations likely to be encountered by an adventurous holiday in the bush.
Mitsubishi Pajero comes as an SUV with either two or four passenger doors. The two-door was never particularly popular and imports stopped with the all-new model of 2000, only to make a brief re-appearance when the new model was launched at the start of 2007, then pulled again in 2010.
The early two-door Mitsubishi Pajeros are shorter, lighter and more nimble than the four-doors. They provide plenty of fun at the beach and in tight off-road work. However, they are noticeably less roomy in the back seat and boot. The later ones are better for space, but have the usual problem of difficult access to the back seats because of high-ground-clearance. Kids are happy back there, but grandparents may not be all that keen.
All short-wheelbase Pajeros have five seats, the long-wheelbase models have either five or seven. The rearmost two seats in the seven-seat models are better suited to kids than adults but with a bit of squeezing up the Pajero can handle seven grown-ups.
The Pajero had body-on-chassis until 2000, although it was relatively refined for its type. Realising that most people demanded more comfort it was then given a monocoque (one-piece) body, something it has had ever since. Good engineering meant the post-2000 models retained similar strength to the chassis models.
The Australian Mitsubishi dealer network is long established and well-organised. Spare parts are generally available.
The excellent Mitsubishi Super Select 4WD setup permits the use of 4WD under any circumstance. For example, safe traction on wet sealed roads if you opt for 4WD, or lower fuel consumption on dry dirt roads if you go for 2WD. Or anything in between. 4WD can be engaged or disengaged on the fly at any speed up to 100 km/h.
A 2.6-litre four-cylinder petrol engine was once common in the Pajero. It was discontinued in 1993 and most are now likely to be close to their use-by date. An honest enough performer, the four-cylinder was soon overshadowed by the V6s.
The older V6s are 3.0-litre units, a 3.5 twin-cam unit was introduced in the topline Pajero Exceed in November 1993 and later moved down to the rest of the petrol Pajero range. A 3.8-litre V6 was introduced in September 2003.
Diesel power is relatively common in the early Pajeros, but fell from favour for a while before bouncing back in the early 2000s. The 2.8-litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel has plenty of torque and is reasonably economical. The 3.2-litre four-cylinder intercooled turbo-diesel from 2002 on is one of our favourite powerplants.
Five-speed manuals are offered in all but the topline Pajero Exceed. It wasn't until 1995 that a manual was sold with the 3.5-litre V6. A four-speed automatic transmission works well enough, but the new five-speed auto introduced in 2000 is significantly better. As well as having the added ratio they run a sophisticated sequential system to give you a good degree of manual control.
The Australian Mitsubishi dealer network is long established and well-organised. Spare parts are generally available for all but the oldest models.
Prices can be relatively high as 4WD bits are more rugged and can come as a surprise if you've only owned sedans in the past.
Insurance premiums are moderate for this class and there doesn't seem to be much difference of opinion on the insurance risk amongst the major players.
2015 $28,380 $47,740
2010 $9,020 $22,330
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EXE LWB (4x4) 2.6L, ULP, 5 SP MAN 4X4 $2,640 – 4,070 1991 Mitsubishi Pajero 1991 EXE LWB (4x4) Pricing and Specs
EXE SWB (4x4) 2.6L, ULP, 5 SP MAN 4X4 $2,640 – 4,070 1991 Mitsubishi Pajero 1991 EXE SWB (4x4) Pricing and Specs
GL LWB (4x4) 2.5L, Diesel, 5 SP MAN 4X4 $2,640 – 4,070 1991 Mitsubishi Pajero 1991 GL LWB (4x4) Pricing and Specs
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U.S. Women’s Soccer Team invited to play in Birmingham
by: Malique Rankin
Posted: Jul 9, 2019 / 02:56 AM UTC / Updated: Jul 9, 2019 / 04:46 PM UTC
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team won the World Cup in France Sunday. This is their fourth win and the team’s second title win in a row.
Now, the team has been invited to play in Birmingham at Legion Field. They’ve already confirmed a visit to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena to kick off the victory tour. If they accept Birmingham’s invitation, it won’t be the first time the national team paid the Magic City a visit. The team was in Birmingham in 2015.
Gene Hallman is the executive director of the Alabama Sports Council. He says the city has a good chance at convincing the team to come.
“So we just reached out to U.S. Soccer today. We didn’t want to be presumptuous and reach out to them before they won the world cup, and now that there’s clearly going to be a victory tour, we think Birmingham can make a great case for being a great host once again for these great athletes.”
Gene Hallman
If the deal is sealed, the city can expect visitors from across the southeast. Birmingham City Councilman William Parker says the game could bring in tens of thousands.
“A lot of fan base, saying that the community will support the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team. In 2015, they’re were upwards of 35,000 that attended that game. We’re expecting it’ll be a sell-out this year.”
Councilman William Parker
If the team accepts, the Alabama Sports Council will work with the team to determine a date and opponent at Legion Field this fall. If booked, the game could easily bring in over 10 million dollars to the city of Birmingham.
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Visitors enjoy a ride on a amusement park ride at the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, Germany, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010.
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Men wait for tourists on a horse drawn carriage on a street in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Cuba's government began laying out the details of their drive to create more free enterprise on the island on Friday, mapping out a brave new world of bosses and employees, personal accountants and a dizzying number of small-time businesses.
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Afghan men pray in a street next to a mosque as pigeons are seen in the foreground in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday Sept. 24, 2010.
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A child attends class at a makeshift school in a camp set up for Jan. 12 earthquake victims in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010.
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Residents leave a house through the window while trying to save belongings during a fire at Real Parque shantytown in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. No casualties were reported at the site where, according to authorities, about 1,500 people live.
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A Colombian soldier reads a newspaper showing on its front page a headline about the death Jorge Briceno, the field marshal and No. 2 commander of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, before landing in La Marcarena, Colombia, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Briceno, also known as Mono Jojoy, was killed in the La Macarena area Thursday by the military in bombing raids and combat targeting a major encampment at the edge of the country's eastern plains.
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Heidemaria Baker, widow of Medal of Honor recipient Vernon J. Baker, grieves over his remains during his burial at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Baker, who died July 13, was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1997 for his actions in World War II.
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, Edemir Pinto, president of the BM&FBOVESPA Stock Market, left, Brazil's Vice President Jose Alencar, second from left, Brazil's Finance Minister Guido Mantega, second from right, and Brazil's state-run oil company Pretrobras President Sergio Gabrielli, right, take part in a ceremony marking the first day of trading at the BM&FBOVESPA Stock Market in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, the South American nation's state-run energy company, raised $70 billion Thursday through the sale of more than 4 billion common and preferred shares in Brazil and the U.S. Investors saw an opportunity to invest in one of the world's fastest-growing regions for energy production.
A Super Decathlon flies too low before being crashed during an air show in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010.
The small plane crashed and burst into flames during an air show attended by hundreds of schoolchildren near Indonesia's capital on Friday, officials and witnesses said. The pilot the only person aboard the single-engine aircraft was rushed to a hospital in critical condition, said Asni Wati, the spokesman for the city of Bandung's international airport. No one on the ground was injured.
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An Indian worker carries sand on her head outside Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main venue for the Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Frantic last-minute preparations for the Commonwealth Games were paying off, international sports officials said Friday, with armies of cleaners making progress at the fetid athletes' village and foreign teams announcing they planned to attend the troubled competition.
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A couple in wedding attire get down from a train during a photo shoot while a boy runs past at an art district in Beijing, China, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010.
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William and Kate in an Aston Martin
TRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge leave Buckingham Palace driving a convertible Aston Martin car on April 29, 2011, in London. The pair drove to Clarence House, where they'll stay until they return to the palace for an evening reception.
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Britain's Prince William drives his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, away from Buckingham Palace in a vintage Aston Martin Volante convertible after their wedding at London's Westminster Abbey, Friday, April, 29, 2011.
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Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, drive from Buckingham Palace in a decorated vintage Aston Martin sports car on April 29, 2011 in London.
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Britain's Prince William drives his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, out of Buckingham Palace in London in his father Prince Charles' Aston Martin Volante sports car covered with bunting on their way to Clarence House after their wedding in London's Westminster Abbey, Friday April 29, 2011.
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Britain's Prince William and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, drive away from Buckingham Palace in a convertible after the royal wedding in London Friday, April, 29, 2011.
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Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge drive from Buckingham Palace to Clarence House in a decorated vintage Aston Martin sports car on April 29, 2011 in London.
Britain's Prince William and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, drive away from Buckingham Palace in a convertible after the royal wedding in London, Friday, April, 29, 2011.
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Watch Our First Documentary: ‘Join the Social Sex Revolution’
We’re proud to announce the release of Chandelier’s first documentary film, “Join the Social Sex Revolution,” exploring the mission of MakeLoveNotPorn, Cindy Gallop’s feminist counterpoint to clichéd porn, celebrating "real world sex" in all its glorious, beautiful, silly, messy, reassuring humanness. Directed by The Front’s Thalia Mavros, the 15-minute feature was filmed during MakeLoveNotPorn’s week-long residency at Mermaid Ranch. After the recent premiere at the Ace Hotel, we sat down with Cindy and Thalia to talk about the film and why the future of sex is shareable.
What makes MakeLoveNotPorn so revolutionary to you as a filmmaker? Why make this film?
Thalia Mavros: It’s exciting to see the beginnings of what I think is a brave new world, like it's one of the big, last frontiers. With sex, we’re uncomfortable having these conversations, and this documentary, I think, is a service. Seeing the real people behind MakeLoveNotPorn, how truly authentic, genuine, passionate, motivated they are, and how they really want to change the world and are actively doing so — that's what the documentary wants to bring into the world. That's the heart of it.
Is that what you want people to take away from the film, a better understanding of what you’ve called the “social sex revolution,” Cindy?
Cindy Gallop: Everybody's dying to talk about sex, which is why MakeLoveNotPorn is doing what it's doing. I hope the thing people will really understand when they see this documentary is why we call ourselves the social sex revolution, with the emphasis on "social." Too many people think it's the sex. Actually what’s revolutionary about what MakeLoveNotPorn is manifesting in the world for the first time, is the social aspect of sex in a world where every other part of our lives is social. I think that Thalia really captured that brilliantly in the way that she directed and brought our vision to life in this documentary. That's what I want people to really get out of it, why this is the social sex revolution, but why the most revolutionary thing about it is social.
When you started this work, Cindy, was there a catalyst, an "a-ha" moment?
CG: Well, not in the way you're talking about, no, because MakeLoveNotPorn is an accident. I began realizing, through dating younger men, and the men I date tend to be in their twenties. Nine or 10 years ago, when I encountered this issue of porn acting as default sex education, I thought, "Gosh. If I'm experiencing this, other people must be as well." I didn't know that, because as I say nine or 10 years ago, the media had not discovered this, no one was talking about it, and I was on my own in isolation going, you know, "I guess, this must be happening to other people. I'm going to do something about it." Purely as a little side venture, I put up this little website and the entire world responded in a way that was absolutely staggering.
Chandelier’s CEO Lauren introduces Cindy.
Would you say MNLP is on a mission then?
CG: Our mission is one thing only, to help make it easier to talk about sex. Actually I decided to take every dynamic in social media and apply them to the one area no other social platform will do, to socialize sex: to make real-world sex and talking about it socially acceptable and therefore ultimately just as shareable as anything else we share on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
And how did it evolve?
CG: I've received thousands of emails to my MakeLoveNotPorn inbox, and by the way this is ongoing. They come from everybody: young and old, male and female, straight and gay, from every single country in the world. Beyond the actual site I'd put up, what amazed people was simply that I'd stood on a stage in public and talked about something everybody knows and no one ever speaks about. As a result, people felt able to tell me anything. They poured their hearts out to me in email. They told me things about their sex lives and their porn-watching habits they'd never told anybody before. They wrote to me for advice. 15-year-old boys wrote, 50-year-old women wrote, and it was the sheer human impact of all of these emails arriving day after day after day that eventually made me feel I had to do something.
Thalia, your filmmaking company The Front describes itself as “born out of fire, frustration, and passion.” It seems to share that quality with Make Love Not Porn. Can you tell us a little bit about your kinship with MNLP?
TM: One of the reasons why I was attracted to this doc initially was Cindy and her reputation for being a provocateur, an arbiter for social change, which is right in line with our values. We’re a creative force built on feminism and making sure that underrepresented people, females, female identified humans are, have room at the front. We can create room at the front for them. We shared the same value system. We share the same ideals. Cindy asked for a female director and an all-female team, which was exactly what we intended to do. It was just a perfect alignment of the stars.
When we subscribed to The Front’s newsletter, we noticed it said, "Troublemakers unite." For each of you, how does this idea of troublemaking inform the documentary people are going to see?
TM: When people ask me, "How do you find your story?" I always say, "I look for trouble." I think really what it comes down to is curiosity: the ability to see what's next, what the world has perhaps accepted and hasn't questioned in a while. As troublemakers, our role is to stir things up, to make people question, think about their own intentions and motivation. Really, they're the change agents in the world. I’m proud to call myself a troublemaker, and I think it's something that we built the whole company on. I think we're all fearless, which is another word I love. When I say fearless, it's fearless of the consequences, fearless of what other people think, and fearless to chase what we believe in.
CG: The question is interesting. I don’t describe myself as a troublemaker. Last year I spoke in Sydney at the Mumbrella 360 conference, and on the conference website, they described me as "Troublemaker Cindy Gallop." A number of women and men challenged them on that description, because they felt that it was a biased description of somebody simply talking about how to do business for a new world order. I wasn't bothered either way, because I don't care what people call me. I will just say that I think that description comes out of the fact that anybody who challenges the status quo is seen as causing trouble, and of course my point is, women challenge the status quo because we are never it. I'd say all I'm doing is acting on things that I feel very strongly about. I would love to see a world one day where that doesn’t necessarily translate into the descriptive “troublemaker,” because we're all doing it.
“When people ask me, ‘How do you find your story?’ I always say, ‘I look for trouble.’” — Thalia Mavros
A big part of what we do with The Mermaid Ranch is incubate thinkers and make space for projects that challenge the status quo. How did you feel about having that space to work in? How did being there inform the documentary as a whole?
TM: It permeated every decision that we made. Being able to bring all these wonderful people into a space and be together with the actors there, really allowed us to get to know each other. To go deep and really uncover some of the deeper motivations and all the different interesting facets that everybody brought to the table.
CG: This was the first-ever corporate show of support I've gotten from within my own industry. Chandelier really got it. Got what we were doing and saw the importance and power of it. Offered us a space to be able to develop it further. That was just a really amazing opportunity that my team are so grateful to have had.
“The documentary challenges the iconography and visual cliché of sex in our culture. We’re so closed-minded about sex, because we force it into the shadows.” — Cindy Gallop
Whether they come to the premiere or watch it online later, is there anything else that you want to share about the documentary?
CG: Yes, I'd like to bring it back to what I was saying at the start of this interview: why in the social sex revolution, our emphasis is on the term ‘social.’ The documentary challenges the iconography and visual cliché of sex in our culture. We’re so closed-minded about sex, because we force it into the shadows. A very important part of this documentary is that we don’t operate in the shadows. We’re social in everything that we do.
What, ultimately, do you hope the film conveys to people about the social experience of sex?
TM: That it’s about opening up into the sunlight, into the world, making it feel warm and approachable and not something that people have to hide behind.
CG: What we have is a beautiful, bright, gorgeous, shareful, joyous, happy, life-affirming, celebratory, communal, phenomenal, viewing experience. Which is the absolute opposite of dark, in the shadows, secretive, uncertain, guilty, embarrassed, shameful. I love the fact that this documentary is a visual manifestation, an emotional manifestation from everything that we're about. Being able to own our sexuality, acknowledge that we're all sexual beings, and ultimately create a much happier world accordingly. It's the perfect start of a journey, when everybody joins the social sex revolution.
Cindy (center) and Thalia (far right) with The Front and MakeLoveNotPorn team.
Words by The Editors. Photo (c) Christo Katsiaouni.
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Urgent: Demand China to Stop Secretly Transporting Millions of Uyghurs to Inner China!
Torchlight Uyghur Group started this petition to President Donald J. Trump and
Urgent Call to the World: Demand China to Stop Secretly Transporting Millions of Uyghur Detainees from East Turkestan (Xinjiang) to Inner China!
Torchlight Uyghur Group
(Mesheluyghur@gmail.com)
This Petition Is Also Available In The Following Languages: Japanese (日本語), Chinese (中文), Uyghur (ئۇيغۇرچە), Russian, Arabic.
According to the Chinese Government statistics, the total population of the Uyghur people in East Turkestan (aka Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) was 11.3 million in 2015. However, Uyghur Organizations around the world estimate based on the official natural growth rate of the Uyghur people in East Turkestan that the actual number is not less than 20 million. During an interview with the Al-Jazeera network in September 2018, the Chinese government’s spokesman Victor Gao claimed that the total population of Uyghurs in East Turkestan is about 6 or 7 million. His statement alarmed the Uyghurs around the world: Where are the rest of the Uyghurs? What has happened to the remaining 4 or 5 million people within the last 3 years? Who is making them disappear from their own land? How is it happening? We strongly demand China to answer these questions.
It is reported on October 4th, 2018 on DNN, one of the most popular Swedish media, that evidences show that the Chinese government is secretly transporting the Uyghurs on the locked and windowless trains to unknown destinations of China Proper. The news informed the world of an ominous future of the Uyghurs.
Other media organizations also reported similar news with a specific location: Uyghurs are being transported to the Gansu province of China, a land bordering with East Turkestan in the Northwest.
New Tang Dynasty TV station reported on July 17th, 2017 that the Chinese government was building an enormous prison located at the vast Gobi desert where East Turkestan borders with Gansu and showed the specific dimensions of the prison, which is 17 km long from east to west and 9.5 km wide from north to south. The facility has a capacity to hold up to 1 million prisoners and was built in a deep desert, making it impossible for anyone to escape (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypeaPF02J_s&t=74s
Radio Free Asia obtained some information from a policeman in Konasheher County, East Turkestan on the secret transportation of Uyghurs to the Inner China. The policeman informed the RFA that transporting the Uyghurs from East Turkestan’s concentration camps and prisons to the facilities in Inner Lands has already begun. The RFA investigated the affair and reported that a group of Uyghurs have been secretly transported to Tailai city of Hei Longjiang province in the northeastern China, a place that is 4,699 km away from East Turkestan. The infamous Tailai prison is one of the places that have been used to lock up the Fa Lun Gong group members.
We suspect that the Chinese government is planning to make more than 14 million Uyghur people disappear and to leave no evidence by taking them to the unknown facilities within China Proper.
Why, you may ask, is the Chinese government being in a hurry to “hide” the Uyghurs by secretly transporting them to other provinces from East Turkestan?
The main reason is the statements from the United Nations, United States and other countries at the United Nation’s recent meetings on the incarceration of more than 1 million innocent Uyghurs in concentration camps in East Turkestan. At the UN meeting held on August 10th, 2018, Gay McDougall, a member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, stated that they had received credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uyghurs in China are held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.” The U.S. mission to the United Nations said it was “deeply troubled by reports of an ongoing crackdown on Uyghurs and other Muslims in China” and called on China to free those arbitrarily detained Uyghurs. Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, stated on October 15, 2018, that "at least a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been imprisoned in so-called 're-education camps' in western China," and that "It is the largest internment of civilians in the world today."
In response to above statements, the Chinese government rejected it but showed no further evidence to counter their claim. However, GPS photos and media reports proved the existence and the locations of the camps in East Turkestan and confirmed that the numbers of the Uyghur people in these facilities are doubled between 2015 and 2018. Millions of innocent Uyghurs are detained without trial at the so-called “re-education” camps to be brain-washed, tortured, as well as traumatized by the Chinese regime.
Meanwhile, the United States government and the members of the Congress stated that they are closely monitoring the China-Uyghur issue; the members of the Congress also signed letters and made statements, urging the US government to employ the Global Magnitsky Act to punish the Communist Party leaders, such as Chen Quanguo, whom are the main planner and executers of the concentration camp building project in East Turkestan.
As a result of these international pressures, the Chinese government has to respond to the world. Their tactic is to deceive the world by hiding and wiping the evidence off of the concentration camps and removing the people detained there by secretly transporting them to other unknown locations. In this way, the Chinese government could either say “there is no such thing as re-education camps in East Turkestan” or “there are no detainees at the camp facilities because we did not detain any Uyghur person”.
Why is the Chinese government carrying out a genocide on Uyghurs? The answer lies in the importance of the East Turkestan for the Chinese economy and the national defense. East Turkestan is a land rich with natural resources, such that it provides China with 95% of natural gas, 70% of mineral resources, and 65% of cotton in total. In addition, this occupied land is the source of 99% of organ harvesting market in China. Last but not least, the important geopolitical location of East Turkestan is crucial to the national defense and foreign markets. To totally occupy and control this land, the only way the Chinese government sees is to wipe out the Uyghur people from their motherland and relocate Han Chinese in East Turkestan to dominate the region.
As you are reading these lines, a genocide is being executed on Uyghurs in East Turkestan; the Chinese government is secretly detaining them at the concentration camps, traumatizing them, forcing them to denounce their religion, and announcing the Communist party as their God. Millions of innocent Uyghur parents were detained without trial, and their children are taken to orphanages and being raised as Han Chinese. Millions more Uyghurs are being transported to unknown locations and being made disappear secretly and silently. All these evils are happening right at this moment, in the 21st century where the democracy, human rights, world peace and globalization are at their peak.
What can you do for Uyghur people? You can sign this petition, demand the Chinese government to stop transporting millions of Uyghurs to unknown locations, and close all the concentration camps in East Turkestan. For you it is just one click, but for the Uyghur people, it means one beam of light and 100% hope. Please be generous with your signatures and spread the word to your friends and families. As your fellow human beings, we, the Uyghurs, thank you in advance.
Together we unite, there is no divide! Please be the voice of the voiceless, the hand of the handless and the hope of the hopeless! Please share, for sharing is caring! Thank you!
You can find more information from the following sites:
https://www.facebook.com/torchuyghur/
https://twitter.com/torch_uyghur
http://blog.freedomsherald.org
http://freedomsherald.org/ET/unb/
Torchlight Uyghur Group’s previous petitions:
https://www.change.org/search?q=Torchlight%20Uyghur%20Group
Please share my name and email address with Torchlight Uyghur Group, so that I can receive updates on this campaign and others.
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Colorado Racing Commission Members
Pam Inmann
Chair - Business Member
Ms. Pam Oldham Inmann serves as the business representative to the Colorado Racing Commission, which requires that the Commission member have five or more years of business experience in a management-level capacity. Ms. Inmann’s first term of service will remain in effect until July 2017. Her professional management background is extensive and diverse, includes both government service as the Executive Director of the Western Governors’ Association, a position that she held for approximately eight years. Additionally, she has been employed in positions in the private sector, including that of Director of State Government Affairs/Western District for Altria Corporate Services, Inc. for approximately thirteen years and, prior to that, serving as Director of Special Projects for the Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Association for approximately ten years. (Republican – Fourth Congressional District)
Justine "Tina" Scott Estes
Vice Chair - Racing Industry Member
Ms. Estes was appointed by Governor Hickenlooper on August 25, 2016, to serve on the Racing Commission as a representative of the racing industry for a term that will expire on July 1, 2020. Ms. Estes is very experienced in Colorado agri-business, having been the co-owner and manager of Trademark Farm, a ranching operation involving the production of cattle, hay and horses since 1989. She resides in Gypsum, Colorado. Ms. Estes has also been an approved judge for multiple breeds and horse show associations from 1985 until 2010 and continues to be actively involved with horse, cattle and agricultural associations. She has had a lifetime involvement with showing, breeding, and training horses and is especially interested in maintaining their place in sports as well as ensuring their welfare. Ms. Estes is currently serving as the Treasurer of the Colorado Horse Development Authority, as Secretary/Treasurer of the Eagle County Cattlemen’s Association and as Chair of the Farm Service Agency. (Republican; Congressional District 3)
David Lynn Hoffman
Racing Industry Member
Dr. Hoffman was appointed by Governor Hickenlooper on August 2, 2016, to serve on the Racing Commission as a representative of the racing industry for a term that will expire on July 1, 2020. Dr. Hoffman served previously as a member of the Racing Commission from 2001 through 2009. Dr. Hoffman is a professor of business management at Metropolitan State University. He was formerly a professor of management at the University of Northern Colorado (Greeley). Dr. Hoffman has served as President of the Board for Platte River Industries, is the former President of the Westminster 7:10 Rotary and is a former member of the Westminster 7:10 Rotary’s Vocational Service Committee, Foundation Request Committee and the Foundation Board of Directors. Currently, he heads the University’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Innovation. Additionally, he headed the Small Business Institute Directors’ Association. (Democrat; Congressional District 7)
Lori Scott, DVM
Veterinarian Member
Dr. Lori Scott, who was recently appointed by Governor Hickenlooper to serve a four-year term on the Commission as a representative of veterinarians licensed in Colorado for at least five years. Dr. Scott’s term of service will remain in effect until 2019. Dr. Scott, who is a practicing Veterinarian, graduated from Colorado State University’s School of Veterinary Medicine, operated a veterinary clinic, North Denver Animal Clinic, for 27 years. She had previously served as the Division of Racing Events’ regulatory veterinarian at various Colorado racetracks for approximately twenty years. Additionally, she and her husband have been actively involved in overseeing animal welfare and medication usage at the National Western Stock Show and has received foreign animal disease training. (Unaffiliated; Congressional District 7)
Sandra Bowen
Public Member
Sandra Bowen is the newest member to the Racing Commission and was appointed as the public member by Governor Hickenlooper on August 3, 2018. Her career in the public sector has bolstered her government administration experience. After earning her Master’s degree in management from the University of Denver, Ms. Bowen began her career as a program analyst for the State of Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. In this role, she performs duties including project management, serving as a customer service liaison, and communicating with Health First Colorado members. Ms. Bowen has an immense passion for horses; growing up riding and owning them all her life. She has “the good of Colorado in mind and will keep the bottom line in sight” while serving as the public member on the Colorado Racing Commission. (Democrat; Congressional District 2)
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About SMART
About SMART ›
Why Did We Form SMART?
Efficiency - Regional transit can better coordinate planning, service and infrastructure to deliver coordinated transportation
Economy - Improved services will give all businesses, employees and guests transit we can count on to meet our needs
Less Traffic - A coordinated, consistent, and timely transit system reduces traffic & parking needs
Green Choice - Fewer vehicles on the roads means improved air quality & reduced greenhouse emissions
Grants - Gives our region more leverage to obtain expanded funding from grants and other sources
Access - Increases mobility for everyone in our region
What Areas Does SMART Serve?
SMART boundaries match the Telluride R1 School District. The legal boundaries of SMART include roughly the area of the eastern portion of San Miguel County. The Towns of Ophir and Sawpit chose not be included in preliminary SMART inclusion but have the option of joining at a later date.
The area served by SMART extends beyond its boundaries. Transit can serve any area that is considered important for workforce, recreational, and human service needs. For example, public transit services are currently provided to the Norwood, Cortez, Montrose, and Ridgway.
The initial SMART membership includes the current transit providers in Telluride, Mountain Village, and San Miguel County. The goal is to “start small” and work toward other member jurisdictions in the future.
How Is SMART Funded?
<p>A .25% sales tax is paid on all retail sales taking place within SMART boundaries, with the exception of residential utilities and food for home consumption. Property owners within the boundaries of SMART are impacted by the approved property tax mill levy (.75 mills).
Estimated revenues for the first year (2017) of SMART sales and property tax are $1.3 million. The chart below shows the annual property tax impact that you can expect to see:</p>
Title VI Information
It is the policy of the San Miguel Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) that no person shall on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination in any operation of SMART as provided by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related statutes.
This policy applies to all operations of SMART, including its contractors and anyone who acts on behalf of SMART. This policy also applies to the operations of any department or agency to which SMART extends federal financial assistance. Federal financial assistance includes grants, training, use of equipment, donations of surplus property, and other assistance.
For additional information on SMART’s nondiscrimination policies and procedures, or to file a complaint, please contact Executive Director, SMART, P.O. Box 3140, Telluride, CO, 81435.
If you believe you have been subjected to discrimination under Title VI based on your race, color, national origin, or any aspect of this policy, you may file a complaint up to 180 days from the date of the alleged discrimination.
The complaint should include the following information:
Your name, address, and how to contact you (ie: telephone number, email address, etc.)
How, when, where, and why you believe you were discriminated against.
The location, names and contact information of any witnesses. The complaint may be filed in writing to:
Executive Director, SMART, P.O. Box 3140, Telluride, CO, 81435
You can also review the SMART Title VI plan and related procedures in the following document:
SMART Title VI Plan and Procedures
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Information
ADA Policy Statement: It is the policy of SMART to comply with all the legal requirements of Federal and State laws and regulations as they pertain to individuals with disabilities. The transit system provides quality transportation services without discrimination to all persons including individuals with disabilities. Discrimination on the basis of disability against any person by transit system employees or contractors will not be condoned or tolerated.
Applicability: This policy applies to all transit system employees, and all employees providing service through SMART’s Service Provider (Contractor). This policy applies to services, facilities and vehicles. It applies equally to all persons needing and/or using the services provided by the system.
If you feel that you have been discriminated against because of a disability by any SMART employee or vendor, please download, complete, and return the ADA complaint form which can be downloaded here:
SMART ADA Complaint Form
SMART ADA Policy and Procedures
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You are here: Home The Olympic Games
At the end of the First World War, which had interrupted the four yearly Olympic Games, the seventh edition took place in Anvers in 1920.The Olympic flag was officially raised for the fir*st time and the Olympic oath was introduced:
"In the name of all the competitors I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams."
This was the first time that Monegasque athletes participated in the Games, thus commencing the first chapter in a long and marvellous story..
For more information on past Games, choose a city below.
THE SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
THE WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
Anvers 1920 Sarajevo 1984
Paris 1924 Calgary 1988
Amsterdam 1928 Albertville 1992
Berlin 1936 Lillehammer 1994
London 1948 Nagano 1998
Helsinki 1952 Salt Lake City 2002
Rome 1960 Turin 2006
Tokyo 1964 Vancouver 2010
Mexico 1968 Sotchi 2014
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Justice League (2016-2018)
Justice League (2016-2018) Vol. 6: The People vs. The Justice League
When Batman makes a careless error that results in loss of life, the heroes of the Justice League suddenly find themselves facing justice themselves. The team is brought before the law to be held accountable for their actions in a trial questioning the very existence of a Justice League.
And now, at the worst possible moment, a new threat strikes. Someone is using deadly means to defend the Justice League. Whoever it is seems to know everything there is to know about the team, from their deepest secrets to how to take down a Green Lantern.
Can the Justice Leaguers overcome this opposition when their confidence in their leader is shaken? Or will the League finally lose to the one enemy it can’t defeat—the will of the people it’s sworn to protect?
Eisner-nominated writer Christopher Priest (Deathstroke, Black Panther) and artist Pete Woods (Superman) bring the World’s Greatest Heroes into a crisis like nothing they’ve ever faced before! Collects Justice League #34-38.
Christopher Priest
Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps (2016-2018)
Justice League of America (2017-2018)
Trinity (2016-2018)
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Maine's Tea Party Governor: 'Slash Health and Human Services or I'll Close Schools'
Common Dreams staff
Gov. Paul LePage (R-Maine). The Tea Party favorite who won the governorship with less than 40% of the popular vote has threatened to close Maine schools if he is not granted the cuts he's proposed to the state's Dept. of Health and Human Services. (Pat Wellenbach | AP)
Republican Governor of Maine and Tea Party favorite, Paul LePage, angered many residents of the northeast state Thursday when he said that if the legislature did not pass his proposed cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services' budget, he would order a statewide closure of public schools on May 1 of this year.
The Portland Press Herald reports:
The governor on Thursday held a town hall meeting in Lewiston after a day touring the region as part of his 12th Capitol for a Day event.
The Sun Journal reports that LePage, describing the DHHS budget gap as a "runaway train," told the audience that if the Legislature didn't ratify his proposed budget he would be forced to close the state's schools. It's unclear what authority he has to take such a measure.
Many of the questions posed by meeting participants had to do with LePage's proposed Medicaid cuts.
Lee Myles, CEO of St. Mary's Regional Medical Center, said the governor's proposed reductions in Medicaid were a "nuke approach" that would leave thousands of Mainers without health insurance. The Sun Journal reports that Myles said the resulting increased emergency room visits would have a $6 million impact on St. Mary's.
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WGME-13 in Maine, added:
As with other town hall meetings a sizable group of those that call themselves Maine's Majority - the 61% of people who didn't vote for the Governor - showed up. While there were no disruptions during the meeting, only debates, some did walk out, frustrated with the Governor's answers.
Those critics, as the Sun Journal reported, were most concerned about his plans for Medicaid and what would happen "to those who would be left without health insurance."
LePage acknowledged that hospitals would see increased emergency room visits. However, he said he was working on a proposal that would require an individual to register with a primary care physician after his first emergency room visit. He added that changes in the state's insurance laws would make private insurance more affordable to some of those who would be left without health care if his budget passes.
The governor also defended the tax-cut package he signed into law last session. While critics said that the cuts benefit the wealthy, LePage stressed the package benefited all Mainers, including about 70,000 of the poorest residents in the state.
"I'm proud of (the tax cuts); I'm not ashamed of it," he said.
He added, "(The tax cuts) have nothing to do with the structural problems the state is facing now."
LePage acknowledged that the cuts would be painful. However, he rejected what he described as "emotional arguments about welfare," which he said, were "inappropriate."
After the meeting, some tried to question LePage's State Treasurer, Bruce Poloquin, about the constitutionality of the move:
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Albums Alphabetic list
Showcase (1961)
I Love You So Much It Hurts
Seven Lonely Days
Walkin’ After Midnight
Sentimentally Yours (1962)
She’s Got You
Heartaches
Your Cheatin’ Heart
In Memoriam (1963)
Walking After Midnight
Never No More
I Cried All the Way to the Altar
Hidin Out
Pick Me Up on Your Way Down
Turn the Cards Slowly
Reflections (1965)
Gotta Lot of Rhythm (In My Soul)
Just a Closer Walk With Thee
I’m Blue Again
Love Me Love Me Honey Do
He Will Do for You
Life’s Railway to Heaven
Faded Love
Does Your Heart Beat for Me
Patsy Cline (1957)
Too Many Secrets
Ain’t No Wheels on This Ship
Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray
Patsy Cline (born Virginia Patterson Hensley; September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American country music singer. Part of the late 1950s/early 1960s Nashville sound, Cline successfully "crossed over" to pop music and was one of the most influential, successful and acclaimed vocalists of the 20th century. She died at the age of 30 in a multiple-fatality crash of the private plane of her manager, Randy Hughes.
Cline was known for her rich tone, emotionally expressive and bold contralto voice, and her role as a country music industry pioneer. Along with Kitty Wells, she helped pave the way for women as headline performers in the genre. She overcame poverty, an unsuccessful marriage, a devastating automobile accident, and significant professional obstacles, and has been cited as an inspiration by Reba McEntire, LeAnn Rimes, and other singers in diverse styles. Books, movies, documentaries, articles and stage plays document her life and career.
Her hits began in 1957 with Donn Hecht’s and Alan Block’s "Walkin’ After Midnight," Hank Cochran’s and Harlan Howard’s "I Fall to Pieces," Hank Cochran’s "She’s Got You," Willie Nelson’s "Crazy" and ended in 1963 with Don Gibson’s "Sweet Dreams."
Millions of her records have sold since her death. She won awards and accolades, causing many to view her as an icon at the level of Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. In 1973, ten years after her death, she became the first female solo artist inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 1999, she was voted number 11 on VH1’s special, The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll, by members and artists of the rock industry. In 2002, country music artists and industry members voted her Number One on CMT’s The 40 Greatest Women of Country Music and ranked 46th in the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" issue of Rolling Stone magazine. According to her 1973 Country Music Hall of Fame plaque, "Her heritage of timeless recordings is testimony to her artistic capacity."
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Wise Dan Assigned High Weight for Stephen Foster; Alternation Arrives for Foster Bid
Morton Fink’s homebred Wise Dan, a 10 ½-length winner of the Ben Ali (Grade III) in track-record time on Keeneland’s synthetic Polytrack surface, has been named the 123 pound high weight by Churchill Downs’ Racing Secretary Ben Huffman for Saturday’s $400,000-added Stephen Foster Handicap (GI).
The 31st running of the Stephen Foster for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles on the main track will make history as it will be run under the lights for the first time as part of the “Downs After Dark” Presented by Stella Artois and Finlandia Vodka racing program. For the first time, the Stephen Foster Handicap is included in the Breeders’ Cup World Championships’ “Win and You’re In" series and its winner will earn an automatic starting berth in the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (GI) on Nov. 3 at Santa Anita.
Wise Dan, a 5-year-old gelded son of Wiseman’s Ferry, was making his 2012 debut in the Ben Ali. In his final start at age 4, Wise Dan bested a field of 13 in the Clark Handicap (GI) at Churchill Downs. The Clark is the lone Grade I victory for Wise Dan, who has won a total five graded stakes races for trainer Charlie Lopresti. Those victories include the Phoenix (GIII) and Fayette (GII) at Keeneland, the Firecracker Handicap (GII) on the Matt Winn Turf Course at Churchill Downs and the aforementioned Clark and Ben Ali.
Wise Dan, a chestnut Kentucky bred, has a record of 9-0-0 from 15 starts and earnings of $1,009,601.
The next high weight at 122 pounds is Pin Oak Stable’s homebred Alternation, who is undefeated in four starts this year. The dark bay or brown son of Distorted Humor recorded his most recent victory in the Pimlico Special (GIII) at Pimlico on May 18. His other 2012 triumphs all came at Oaklawn Park in the Essex Handicap, Razorback Handicap (GIII) and Oaklawn Handicap (GII).
Those four victories improved Alternation’s record to 8-1-1 from 13 career starts and earnings of $900,004 for trainer Donnie Von Hemel.
Mike Lauffer and Bill Cubbedge’s homebred Shackleford, winner of the Met Mile (GI) by a nose over Caleb’s Posse, is weighted next at 121 pounds. The Met Mile was the second graded stakes victory of 2012 for Shackleford, who also won the Churchill Downs Presented by Navistar (GII) on the Kentucky Derby Day undercard. His biggest victory as a 3-year-old came in the Preakness (GI), where he was able to hold off a late charge by Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI) winner Animal Kingdom to win for trainer Dale Romans.
Shackleford has a record of 5-4-1 from 16 starts and an impressive bankroll of $2,741,381.
CHAMPION ROYAL DELTA TO CARRY TOP WEIGHT IN FLEUR DE LIS – Besilu Stabes’ Royal Delta, who was named champion 3-year-old filly off a smashing 2 ½-length victory in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic (GI) at Churchill Downs last November, has been assigned the top weight of 123 pounds by Churchill Downs’ Racing Secretary Ben Huffman for Saturday’s Fleur de Lis (GII).
The 37th running of the Fleur de Lis for fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles on the main track will be contested under the lights Saturday as part of the “Downs After Dark” Presented by Stella Artois and Finlandia Vodka racing program.
Royal Delta’s championship season also included wins in the Alabama (GI) at Saratoga and the Black-Eyed Susan (GII) at Pimlico that improved her record to 4-1-1 from seven 2011 starts and earnings of $1,657,400 for trainer Bill Mott.
After a winter vacation, Royal Delta returned for a 4-year-old campaign in the Sabin (GIII) at Gulfstream Park and finished second to Awesome Maria. A dark bay or brown daughter of Empire Maker, Royal Delta then traveled to Dubai and finished ninth against males in the $10 million Dubai World Cup (GI) after a troubled trip.
The next high weight at 120 pounds is Flaxman Holdings Ltd.’s Pachattack, winner of the Doubledogdare (GIII) on the Polytrack at Keeneland in her most recent start. A 6-year-old chestnut daughter of Pulpit, Pachattack was making her first start in the Doubledogdare since ending her 2011 campaign with a third-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic behind Royal Delta and It’s Tricky.
Bred in Kentucky by Dapple Broodmares 2004, Pachattack has recorded stakes wins in England, Canada and the United States and has a career record of 6-5-4 from 27 starts and earnings of $786,893.
Weighted at 119 is another Mott-trained mare, Carolyn Wilson’s Arena Elvira. The 5-year-old daughter of Ghostzapper ended her 2011 campaign with a victory in the Falls City Handicap (GII) at Churchill Downs following a win in the Turnback the Alarm (GIII) at Aqueduct.
In her 2012 debut, Arena Elvira won the Wayward Lass at Tampa Bay prior to finishing third in the Sixty Sails Handicap (GIII) at Hawthorne. Her career record stands at 8-3-3 from 14 starts and earnings of $443,436.
ALTERNATION ARRIVES AT CHURCHILL DOWNS FOR FOSTER BID – Pin Oak Stable’s homebred Alternation, a winner by the smallest of margins in the Pimlico Special (GIII) in his last start, arrived at Churchill Downs at 10:20 a.m. (all times Eastern) Sunday after a van ride from Arlington Park to continue his preparations for Saturday’s 31st running of the $400,000-added Stephen Foster Handicap (GI).
“He’s perfect and we’re getting him settled in,” trainer Donnie Von Hemel said upon Alternation’s arrival to Barn 17 at the Louisville track.
Alternation, who will carry 122 pounds in the Stephen Foster, is undefeated in four starts this year. Other than his win in the Pimlico Special, he had a trio of victories at the Oaklawn Park meet, including the Oaklawn Handicap (GII).
“(The Stephen Foster) was always a race we were going to try to make,” Von Hemel said. “I think with the Oaklawn Handicap and Pimlico Special, he’s had a couple of races that make him fit in the race. We’re happy and we’re looking forward to it.”
A 4-year-old dark bay or brown son of Distorted Humor, Alternation will be seeking his first Grade I victory in the Stephen Foster, but not his first win under the lights. Saturday’s Stephen Foster will be contested under the lights for the first time as part of the “Downs After Dark” Presented by Stella Artois and Finlandia Vodka racing program.
“He broke his maiden (on Dec. 9, 2010 at Remington Park) under the lights,” Von Hemel said.
Overall, Alternation sports a record of 8-1-1 from 13 starts and earnings of $900,004.
Jockey Luis Quinonez was aboard Alternation for seven of his eight victories and Von Hemel said he would have the mount in the Stephen Foster.
FIELDS FOR STEPHEN FOSTER DAY STAKES BEGINNING TO TAKE SHAPE – The “Downs After Dark” Presented by Stella Artois and Finlandia Vodka racing program on Saturday, June 16 will be highlighted by the Stephen Foster Handicap (GI), the Fleur de Lis (GII), the Matt Winn (GIII) and the Regret (GIII). With entries to be taken for the stellar Saturday card on Wednesday, the fields are beginning to come together.
The following is a list of horses believed by Churchill Downs officials to be pointing to each stakes race.
The 31st running of the $400,000-added Stephen Foster Handicap for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles on the main track: Wise Dan (trained by Charlie Lopresti, weighted at 123 pounds), Alternation (Donnie Von Hemel, 122), Ron the Greek (Bill Mott, 119), Fort Larned (Ian Wilkes, 117), Mission Impazible (Todd Pletcher, 116), Nehro (Steve Asmussen, 116) and Rogue Romance (Ken McPeek, 115).
Successful Dan (Lopresti, 119), Nates Mineshaft (Austin Smith, 118) and Astrology (Asmussen, 115) are believed to be possible participants in the race.
The 37th running of the $150,000-added Fleur de Lis Presented by Finlandia Vodka for fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles on the main track: Royal Delta (trained by Bill Mott, weighted at 123 pounds), St. John’s River (Andy Leggio Jr., 118) and It’s Tea Time (Rusty Arnold, 115).
Absinthe Minded (Wayne Lukas, 116), Afleeting Lady (Dale Romans, 116) and Distorted Love (Helen Pitts-Blasi, 114) are considered to be possible entrants.
The 15th running of the $100,000-added Matt Winn for 3-year-olds and 1 1/16 miles on the main track: Macho Macho (trained by Steve Asmussen), Master Rick (Asmussen), Neck ’n Neck (Ian Wilkes), Right to Vote (Eoin Harty) and Stealcase (Mark Casse).
Reigning Eclipse Award 2-year-old champion Hansen (Mike Maker) and Johannesbourbon (Kellyn Gorder) are believed to be possible for the Winn.
The 43rd running of the $100,000-added for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles on the Matt Winn Turf Course: Centre Court (trained by Rusty Arnold), Colonial Flag (Michael Matz), Coup (Graham Motion), Golden History (Mark Casse), Heart of Destiny (Jimmy Baker), Karlovy Vary (Arnold), Left a Message (Tom Proctor), Silver Hustler (Grant Forster), Singn on Themoon (Mark Hubley), Treasured Up (Al Stall Jr.) and Zapper Belle (Dan Peitz).
Funny Proposition (Casse) is considered to be a possible entrant in the Regret.
BARN TALK – Windy Hill Farm’s Nates Mineshaft, who has recorded wins this year in the New Orleans Handicap (GII), Mineshaft (GIII) and Lone Star Park Handicap (GIII), worked four furlongs in :50.20 on the fast main track at Churchill Downs on Sunday morning and will make his next start beneath the Twin Spires.
“He went excellent this morning,” trainer Austin Smith said. “We’re going to talk about it this afternoon, but (he’ll make his next start) in the Firecracker (GII on Matt Winn Turf Course at Churchill Downs on July 1) or the (Stephen) Foster (GI). Right now I’m leaning toward the Foster.”
The time of :50.20 ranked 30th of 53 works at the distance on Sunday. …
Champion Royal Delta, Santa Anita Handicap (GI) winner Ron the Greek and 2011 New Orleans Handicap (GII) winner Mission Impazible are scheduled to arrive at Churchill Downs from New York on Monday to continue their preparations for the Saturday stakes events beneath the Twin Spires. …
Champion 2-year-old filly of 2011 My Miss Aurelia arrived at Steve Asmussen’s barn at Churchill Downs on Saturday, June 9 at 5:50 a.m. Owned by Stonestreet Stables and George Bolton, My Miss Aurelia has not raced since her dominating three-length victory in the Grey Goose Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (GI) at Churchill Downs last November. No plans have been made for when she will make her 3-year-old debut. …
Jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. recorded his 200th career Churchill Downs win with Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider’s Full in the eighth race Saturday. The win aboard Full also brought the 26-year-old native of Lafayette, La. just 30 victories shy of the 1,000-win milestone for his career. …
It would be an understatement to say jockey Corey Lanerie is on a hot streak. Since his six-win day on May 27, Lanerie has won aboard 27 of his last 75 mounts. That’s a 36-percent win clip.
WORKTAB – Zayat Stables LLC’s Nehro, runner-up to Animal Kingdom in the Kentucky Derby (GI) last spring at Churchill Downs and most recently second by a nose to Alternation in the Pimlico Special (GIII), breezed four furlongs Sunday in :50.40 for trainer Steve Asmussen. Churchill Downs officials believe Nehro will make his next start in Saturday’s $400,000-added Stephen Foster Handicap (GI).
Also working for Asmussen on Sunday were Stonestreet Stables and George Bolton’s Astrology, winner of the Iroquois (GIII) at Churchill Downs at age 2, and Vinery Stables’ Regally Ready. Astrology, who is believed to be possible for a Foster start off a 2 ¾-length allowance victory at Oaklawn Park on April 14, breezed five furlongs in 1:02.60. The worked ranked 12th out of 17 at the distance.
Regally Ready, winner of the Nearctic (GI) at Woodbine and the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (GII) at Churchill Downs in 2011, breezed five furlongs in 1:02.40. It was the 10th fastest five-furlong move of 17 at the distance. …
Mike Lauffer and Bill Cubbedge’s Afleeting Lady, second by a neck to Arena Elvira in last November’s Falls City Handicap (GII) at Churchill Downs, worked a bullet four furlongs in :47.20 for trainer Dale Romans. A 5-year-old daughter of Afleet Alex, Afleeting Lady is believed by Churchill Downs officials to be possible for Saturday’s Fleur de Lis Presented by Finlandia Vodka (GII).
Churchill Downs, the world’s most legendary racetrack, has conducted Thoroughbred racing and presented America’s greatest race, the Kentucky Derby, continuously since 1875. Located in Louisville, the flagship racetrack of Churchill Downs Incorporated (NASDAQ: CHDN) also operates Trackside at Churchill Downs, which offers year-round simulcast wagering at the historic track. Churchill Downs will conduct the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby on May 4, 2013, and its 2012 Spring Meet is scheduled for April 28-July 1. The track has hosted the Breeders’ Cup World Championships a record eight times. Information about Churchill Downs can be found on the Internet at www.churchilldowns.com.
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The Foundations of Righteousness
Spencer W. Kimball
The Way of the Lord
The Enriching of Marriage
It Was a Miracle!
Mark E. Petersen
The Tragic Cycle
Marion G. Romney
N. Eldon Tanner
The Blessings of Righteous Obedience
Delbert L. Stapley
The Things of God and Man
LeGrand Richards
We Have Been There All the Time
Paul H. Dunn
A Special Moment in Church History
William Grant Bangerter
Sacrifice: Missionary-Style
Adney Y. Komatsu
A Message to the Rising Generation
The Ten Blessings of the Priesthood
Bruce R. McConkie
Seeing the Five A’s
Marion D. Hanks
Obeying the Right Voice
The Light of the Gospel
Service Saves
Young Women—Real Guardians
David B. Haight
The Balm of Gilead
Father—Your Role, Your Responsibility
The Safety of the Gospel Law
Letter to a Returned Missionary
Charles A. Didier
Three Things to Share
Hugh W. Pinnock
They Didn’t Give Up
F. Enzio Busche
Why Me, O Lord?
Yoshihiko Kikuchi
Rated A
Marvin J. Ashton
Jesus the Christ
Welfare Session
Welfare Services: The Gospel in Action
The Role of Bishops in Welfare Services
A Vision of the Law of the Fast
Victor L. Brown
Welfare Responsibilities of the Priesthood Quorums
The Father’s Duty to Foster the Welfare of His Family
H. Burke Peterson
“She Stretcheth Out Her Hand to the Poor”
Barbara B. Smith
Latter-day Samaritans
W. Grant Bangerter
My dear brethren and sisters, I extend special greetings from the Saints in Brazil and report that the construction of the new temple in São Paulo is nearing completion.
I have in mind a special moment in Church history which has a great bearing on our testimonies and on the progress of the gospel. I hope that it has been duly recorded by those who keep the history. I refer to what happened on the 4th of April, 1974.
The story really begins on the 26th of December, 1973. President Harold B. Lee passed away suddenly on that day. His death was completely unexpected. It is necessary to remember that over a period of twenty-five years, members of the Church had awaited the time when Harold B. Lee would become the president. There had been every reason to think that this would eventually happen, due to his relative youthfulness and because he occupied a position in seniority following Joseph Fielding Smith and David O. McKay, both of whom were of advanced age. In addition, Harold B. Lee had gained more than average prominence. His leadership in the welfare and priesthood programs of the Church, his forceful nature, and his sound judgment had made him one of the apostles most listened to and one whose influence and advice were most respected. He had an evident spiritual stature which commended him to the members of the Church as one of the great men of our time. He possessed an unusual ability to relate as a personal friend to countless people. It was expected that when he became president he would preside for twenty years or more.
Suddenly he was gone!—called elsewhere after only 1 1/2 years. It was the first time since the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith when the president had died before it was time for him to die. In deep sorrow and concern the surging questions arose in the minds of the people, much as they did at the time when Joseph Smith was killed in Carthage, Illinois. “What will we do now? How can we carry on without the prophet? Our great leader has gone. Can the Church survive this emergency?”
Of course we knew that the Church would survive, but it could not possibly be the same. We had never expected Spencer W. Kimball to become the president, and we had not looked to him for the same leadership evident in the life of Harold B. Lee. We knew, of course, that he would manage somehow, until the next great leader arose, but it would not be easy for him, and things would not be the same. “O Lord,” we prayed, “please bless President Kimball. He needs all the help you can give him.” Such seemed to be the attitude in the hearts of the Latter-day Saints during those days of mourning.
We return to the 4th of April, 1974. There were gathered that morning in the Church Office Building, all of the General Authorities as well as the Regional Representatives and other leaders from around the world. We were to be instructed once again, as we had been periodically during the past seven years. On each preceding occasion Harold B. Lee had given us our direction and sounded the trump of leadership. Now he was no longer there, and we all felt his absence deeply. Again came the questions: “How can we proceed without our great leader?” “How can President Kimball fill the empty space?” And again the prayers went forth: “Please bless President Kimball.”
The moment came when President Kimball arose to address the assembled leadership. He noted that he also had never expected to occupy this position and that he missed President Lee equally with the rest of us. Then he reviewed much of the instruction which President Lee had given over the past years, and our prayers in behalf of President Kimball continued.
As he proceeded with his address, however, he had not spoken very long when a new awareness seemed suddenly to fall on the congregation. We became alert to an astonishing spiritual presence, and we realized that we were listening to something unusual, powerful, different from any of our previous meetings. It was as if, spiritually speaking, our hair began to stand on end. Our minds were suddenly vibrant and marveling at the transcendent message that was coming to our ears. With a new perceptiveness we realized that President Kimball was opening spiritual windows and beckoning to us to come and gaze with him on the plans of eternity. It was as if he were drawing back the curtains which covered the purpose of the Almighty and inviting us to view with him the destiny of the gospel and the vision of its ministry.
I doubt that any person present that day will ever forget the occasion. I, myself, have scarcely reread President Kimball’s address since, but the substance of what he said was so vividly impressed upon my mind that I could repeat most of it at this moment from memory.
The Spirit of the Lord was upon President Kimball and it proceeded from him to us as a tangible presence, which was at once both moving and shocking. He unrolled to our view a glorious vision. He told us of the ministry performed by the apostles in the day of the Savior, and how the same mission was conferred on the apostles under Joseph Smith. He demonstrated how these men had gone forth in faith and devotion and were clothed with great power, by which they had carried the gospel to the ends of the earth, reaching further, in some ways, than we with the strength of this modern church are doing at the present time. He showed us how the Church was not fully living in the faithfulness that the Lord expects of His people, and that, to a certain degree, we had settled into a spirit of complacency and satisfaction with things as they were. It was at that moment that he sounded the now famous slogan, “We must lengthen our stride.” (See Ensign, Oct. 1974, p. 5.) I doubt that everyone fully understands that directive even now. If it were put into the vernacular it would sound much more like: “Let’s get off our dime!” “Get going!” “Move!”
President Kimball bespoke other messages: “We must go to all the world.” “Every boy should go on a mission.” “Open the door to new nations.” “Send missionaries from It’s a Young Church in … Mexico, South America, Japan, Great Britain, and Europe.” (See “When the World Will Be Converted,” Ensign, Oct. 1974, pp. 2–14.) This was a new vision, disturbing and exciting, added to the old.
The thought came to me: “Imagine! At any moment the president might call any or all of us to go to distant lands or otherwise extend the preaching of the gospel.” I little realized that within six months I would be en route to Portugal for that very purpose.
President Kimball spoke under this special influence for an hour and ten minutes. It was a message totally unlike any other in my experience. I realized that it was similar to the occasion on the 8th of August, 1844, when Brigham Young spoke to the Saints in Nauvoo following the death of the Prophet Joseph. Sidney Rigdon had returned from Pittsburgh, where he had apostatized, to try to capture the Church. Many people testified, however, that as Brigham Young arose, the power of the Lord rested upon him to the extent that he was transfigured before them, with the appearance and the voice of Joseph Smith. That moment was decisive in the history of the Church, and the occasion of April 4, 1974, is parallel.
When President Kimball concluded, President Ezra Taft Benson arose and with a voice filled with emotion, echoing the feeling of all present, said, in substance: “President Kimball, through all the years that these meetings have been held, we have never heard such an address as you have just given. Truly, there is a prophet in Israel.”
Now I affirm that since April 1974 things have indeed not been the same. This is no attempt to eulogize President Kimball into a figure greater than other presidents of the Church, but to point out the continuing spiritual power which attends the prophet of the Lord, whoever he may be. But President Kimball has nevertheless launched us into a new perspective and is causing us to take giant strides. Since that day no one has worried the least little bit about who is the Lord’s prophet.
We suddenly find ourselves in a new era of the gospel. The members of the Church should recognize it for what it is. These years are decisive!
Think of what President Kimball says and does! With a word he has called forth nearly 10,000 new missionaries. He has opened many new lands, ushered in the day of the Lamanite, called on the Saints to be true messengers of salvation, proclaimed with new emphasis the urgency of the work for the dead, and projected the construction of many new temples. As have all the prophets, he has called on the Church to purge itself of all evil and unrighteousness, such as immorality, divorce, faithlessness, apathy, slothfulness, dishonesty, and to repent and seek forgiveness whenever necessary. He has warned us to prepare with food, gardens, and financial stability, and to put our homes and families in order. Since we call ourselves a Zion people, President Kimball seems to think we should act like it. Both he and the Lord will be impatient with us if we don’t.
What we heard on April 4, 1974, and what we have heard since, sounds very similar to the declarations of Moses, Malachi, and Brigham Young. I feel, through President Kimball, the Lord’s impatience with leaders who don’t move; with members who won’t listen; especially with a world madly throwing everything overboard, including the anchor, the compass, the helm, and even the pilot. Our purpose is to keep the commandments, proclaim the gospel, baptize to repentance, confer the priesthood, organize the kingdom, and redeem the dead. In all this we are expected to leave footprints.
Since the Lord has been gracious enough to open the heavens in the last days, speaking to us through angels, messengers, and prophets in order that we might obtain eternal life, we cannot afford to languish in apathy. Let us take it seriously. It will be well worth it. Since April 4, 1974, things truly are no longer the same.
I pray the Church will listen to President Kimball. I think it does. There is great growth and improvement. There must be more—much, much more. The great history of the gospel is still in the future. We thank thee, O God, for a prophet. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security
Intelligence in Public Media
Bartholomew Sparrow (Public Affairs, 2015), 752 pp., index
Reviewed by Thomas G. Coffey
What Brent Scowcroft said and did has influenced US foreign policy for the past forty years. He served under the Nixon administration, first as a military assistant, and later as a deputy assistant for national security affairs for Henry Kissinger. He became the national security advisor for presidents Ford and George H. W. Bush. He chaired an eponymous commission which was charged with looking into US strategic forces, served on the Tower Commission under President Reagan, and was head of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board during the President George W. Bush administration. He wrote editorials on foreign policy and continued to advise policy officials after he retired. He grappled with issues ranging from the US opening to China in 1972, the evacuation of South Vietnam before its fall in April 1975, debate over the MX nuclear missile in 1983, the breakdown of the national security process under President Reagan in the Iran-Contra affair, the dismemberment of the Soviet empire starting in 1989, the Iraq invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and—indirectly—debate over whether to invade Iraq in the summer of 2002.
The Strategist is the first attempt to capture the full and consequential life of Scowcroft. The book relies on extensive interviews with Scowcroft himself, interviews with those who knew him, histories of his time, and some documentary evidence. This should have all the makings for a solid historical account of the subject’s life; unfortunately, however, The Strategist suffers from two major problems: instead of using Scowcroft’s own words to support a historical account, the book reads more like an oral history backed by some of the documented record; the book also raises the old question about whether it is a good idea for a biographer to like his subject. Sparrow comes across as a huge fan of Scowcroft’s policies and politics, with the result being a biased account in which the author and subject seem to reinforce one another’s views.
The book works off the sensible premise that bad foreign policy outcomes are the result of bad process. So we learn of the way Kissinger ran the National Security Council (NSC)—and the ways in which Admiral John Poindexter and Condoleezza Rice ran it—and are then given a comparison between their ways and those of Scowcroft. Kissinger by all accounts ran a dysfunctional NSC, full of backbiting, poor information sharing, and inconsistent input from the departments on major issues. Sparrow relates how Kissinger had a habit of skewing his options papers for Nixon towards the policy Kissinger supported—usually the second option in the paper. Though Sparrow does not explicitly mention it, this faulty NSC process, in which many officials were cut out, arguably contributed to the disastrous decision to expand the Vietnam War into Cambodia.
Poindexter’s NSC broke down completely under Reagan, leaving the president with only a general idea (though how general is a matter of dispute) of the arms-for-hostages deals, and the funneling of the sale proceeds illegally to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. The Tower Commission, with considerable input from Scowcroft, resulted in forced resignations, an independent counsel investigation, and a new national security advisor to tighten up the NSC. Rice’s NSC, in both Sparrow’s and Scowcroft’s view, was unable to get the NSC process to accommodate the clash of egos among Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Sparrow contends this is said to have led to the “ill advised” invasion of Iraq.
For his part, Scowcroft receives praise, no doubt much deserved, for restoring perspective to the NSC’s role and raising the morale of those who staffed it after Kissinger’s departure. He cut the staff in half upon becoming director to address the Council’s disproportionate influence on foreign policy. Changes he implemented resulted in a more open flow of paper. Greater input into decisions was encouraged, both from the departments and NSC staff. He gave NSC officers back their passes to the White House cafeteria, overturning a practice Kissinger had enforced to prevent his staff from mingling with other staffers in the White House. Scowcroft’s policy memos to Ford were not skewed towards a particular option. Later, under President George H. W. Bush, Scowcroft breathed new life into the National Security Council forum as designed in 1947 by creating the Core Group, consisting of foreign policy principals and the president, with the addition of the National Security Advisor. He did the same one level below by convening the Principals Committee to discuss issues without taking up the president’s time. The Deputies Committee became the “workhorse” for the administration, reducing the need for the other two decisionmaking bodies to convene.
This streamlined, structured, and more open process got results. On Scowcroft’s watch, the Ford administration signed the Helsinki Accords that contributed to the opening and eventual disintegration of the communist bloc in Europe and oversaw the massive—some say not massive enough—evacuation of US officials, civilians, and members of the South Vietnamese government from Saigon in April 1975. Scowcroft as President Bush’s chief foreign policy advisor successfully secured widespread foreign support for German reunification. Bush enhanced cooperation with the Soviets on a variety of bilateral issues. Scowcroft also helped engineer the victory of US and UN forces over Saddam Hussein’s military in Kuwait.
However, the author overstates his case when contrasting the Scowcroft-run NSC under President George H. W. Bush with the same entity under Rice. Sparrow repeatedly asserts the George W. Bush administration held no NSC meetings to discuss the rationale for going to war against Iraq. Yet his own narrative suggests the decision to move in the fall of 1990 from defending Saudi Arabia (Operation Desert Shield) to evicting Iraq from Kuwait (Operation Desert Storm) did not go through a formal vetting process, either (see Powell’s comments below). The author also takes aim at the Bush administration’s failure to plan for the aftermath of the Iraq war, but he himself acknowledges that the Scowcroft-run NSC failed to deal effectively with the aftermath of victory in Kuwait, which left two-thirds of Saddam’s military capabilities intact—capabilities that were later used to crush rebellions in the Shia south and Kurdish north that Operations Desert Storm and Shield helped to incite. He then adds a second dubious comparison, that Kissinger and Scowcroft would have done a better job of leading, noting “it is impossible to imagine Kissinger [as National Security Advisor] letting a secretary of state, secretary of defense, or vice president marginalize his input on policy decisions.” That may be so, but Kissinger himself was guilty of marginalizing others, as Sparrow chronicles earlier in the book.
Another theme of the book is that a well-functioning NSC leads to cautious policies that default to “staying the course.” Scowcroft acknowledges as much, noting that he always tried to evaluate how a major policy initiative could go wrong and precipitate lots of unanticipated consequences. Most historians give the Bush administration high marks for managing the collapse of the Soviet Union and the liberalization of Eastern Europe in a careful and deliberate manner. In one of his relatively few critiques of Scowcroft, however, Sparrow contends neither the president nor Scowcroft had a vision for how a post-Cold War world should function. The “New World Order” Bush cited in September 1990 lacked definition and received little policy process follow-through. Scowcroft had the phrase dropped, its “grandiose meaning beyond anything he or Bush originally conceived.”
The book covers only a few issues regarding Scowcroft’s interaction with the Intelligence Community. His dispute with CIA director William Colby over the Church Committee hearings is discussed. Scowcroft objected to Colby’s giving full cooperation to the Committee by answering its requests and even volunteering some information. Scowcroft saw these requests as a challenge to executive privilege, while Colby was trying to save the CIA and thought that stonewalling would have made matters much worse. Sparrow raises a point often lost in discussions of this topic that Ford let Colby have his way, in part because Ford’s experience as a congressman on the House Intelligence Committee made him more open to legislative oversight. Scowcroft also backed the Team B exercise, whereby a group of outside experts—many of them opposed to détente and the SALT nuclear arms agreement—looked at information similar to the classified materials to which CIA analysts had access in order to come up with alternative conclusions about Soviet capabilities and intent. As head of the PFIAB, Scowcroft launched a study into intelligence reform for the George W. Bush administration; however, its recommendations were not adopted because Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, as was the case with many of his predecessors, refused to give up control over much of the intelligence budget. And, as the report was finished at the time of the September 11th attacks, DCI Tenet did not want to subject the workforce to a dramatic overhaul when officers were having to grapple with terrorism targeting operations and analysis. Scowcroft contends the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq was a failure of intelligence, when a strong case can be made that it was both an intelligence and a policy failure.
The reader gets a healthy dose of accolades for Scowcroft, many of them earned but gratuitous. One journalist is quoted as describing him as “an honorable public servant, whose instinctive loyalty is to the Commander-in-Chief. He faithfully and competently gets the job done.” (239) Sparrow commends Scowcroft’s comments in his book America and the World as “striking for the comprehensiveness of his thinking, his command of the issues, his knowledge of the histories of the individual countries and regions of the world.” (557) One would expect to see such over-the-top praise on the dust jacket of the book and not in the body of the text. The quotes often descend into cliché: “Bush and Scowcroft believed too, in the importance of national service, honor, courtesy, and self-discipline. Both were also well mannered, unassuming, gracious, and cordial—behavior today many would label ‘old fashioned.’” (278) “Scowcroft—and Gates—shared a fundamental commitment to the current and future security of the United States.” (550) A little of this goes a long way, yet the reader encounters such grand and vague tributes throughout the book.
So it comes as frankly something of a relief to read the few critical comments. Former National Security Advisor and then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell thought Scowcroft, during the run-up to the Gulf war, “had become the First Companion and all-purpose playmate to the president [and that he] was regularly failing in his larger duty to ensure that policy was carefully debated and formulated.” (398) This quote, borrowed from Bob Woodward’s The Commanders, is the most serious charge levied against Scowcroft in the book. Yet Powell’s remark goes largely unexplored. And since Sparrow quotes journalists who praise Scowcroft, it only seems fair to note he should have quoted one of his most vocal critics, the late Christopher Hitchens, who had some rather choice if excessive things to say about Scowcroft’s time with Kissinger and about his policies in the aftermath of the Gulf War.
As another reviewer of this book has noted, Scowcroft also demonstrated a bad habit of putting down those who disagreed with him. Some were too emotional or passionate. Colby was “troubled,” “tortured,” and “overwhelmed” for differing with Scowcroft regarding how to handle the Church Committee hearings. Secretary of State James Baker was “frantic” about Russia’s nuclear weapons’ falling into the wrong hands (Scowcroft thought it simply meant “that many fewer aimed at us.”). Some in the Bush administration had a “religious fervor” for fighting terrorism; for others, it was naiveté. Reagan administration officials who proposed steep cuts in nuclear weapons were said to have a “child-like faith” in strategic warning. His disagreeing with Vice President Cheney—after agreeing on much during their time together in the Ford administration—is ascribed in part to the aftereffects of Cheney’s many heart surgeries. Indeed, some of Scowcroft’s comments about the Bush administration are downright nasty: he suggests President Bush decided to invade Iraq for political gain—to win the second term his father never had. Such dubious and unsubstantiated speculation is beneath Scowcroft, and the author does him no favors by including them in the book. Sparrow conserves them almost certainly to paint Scowcroft as a counter to the “unreasonableness” of others.
But this is not a critical biography, made very clear in the last passage of the book that notes Scowcroft’s (many positive) qualities are “vanishingly rare among those occupying the highest positions of power.” A more objective and reasonable biography of Scowcroft’s distinguished life has yet to be written.
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Itzhak Perlman On ‘Schindler’s List’ And Competing with Eric Clapton At The Grammys
By Monika Vischer
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Itzhak Perlman performs Thursday in Denver with the Colorado Symphony. The legendary violinist, whose accolades include a National Medal of Arts and a Presidential Medal of Freedom, will perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto at Boettcher Concert Hall.
CPR Classical program director Monika Vischer spoke with Perlman about a special anniversary, the role of music today and a Grammy nomination that surprised him, even though he's won 15 awards to date.
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Lowdown: A little boy befriends a Japanese in order to get his WW2 MIA father back.
As it happened, Little Boy turned out to be the third feel good movie I got to watch in a relatively short span. First there was Australia’s Paper Planes, then France’s Populaire, and now the USA’s Little Boy. The funny thing about the experience is that these films evoke all the stereotypes one would associate with their countries of origin. Which doesn’t bid well for Little Boy…
Our premises are simple, as per the genre. Our hero, the Little Boy, is an abnormally little/weak boy raised at your nice all American loving home. Time are tough, though: it’s World War 2. When the older brother isn’t accepted into the army, the father feels he needs to do so instead, thus leaving our Little Boy without his only friend. Worse, the father gets lost in the thick of the war with Japan, with everybody assuming him dead. Everybody other than our Little Boy, whose faith can move mountains. And bring the father back.
The core of the movie revolves around the boy being told by the local priest (Tom Wilkinson) that, in order to bring his father back, he needs to befriend “the enemy” – that is, a Japanese guy residing in the same town that, for unclear reasons, has not been locked up in camp the way the rest of the American Japanese were during WW2. Our boy is rather reluctant, but remember this movie’s genre; this is all about the sweet and the sweeter. The two “enemies” get along, and we all cruise along into a happy ending sunset (albeit following the aftermath of another Little Boy).
Look, Little Boy is not the first or last sweeter than sweet movie to be made. There is nothing wrong with a rare indulgence along these lines. Its problem, however, is in its relentless sweetening; this is a movie that doesn’t know when to let go. Everything bends down before our Little Boy regardless of likelihood. When that includes moving mountains (exactly at the time and place convenient to our hero), you know the movie stepped too far.
Overall: Nice and all, but clearly Hollywood has a sugar addiction problem. 2.5 out of 5 diabetic crabs.
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Ghost Fleet by P.W. Singer & August Cole
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Healthfirst steps into sneaker-based therapy
NYP/Hudson Valley reports profit
With expenses nearly flat compared with the previous year—a rarity among area hospitals—New York-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley earned $10.2 million from operations in 2015 after posting a $1.9 million loss in 2014. The facility, which joined NYP in January 2015, reported net patient service revenue of $166.1 million, up 8.4% from the previous year, according to unaudited financial statements posted online last week. Inpatient revenue rose 8.8%, to $84.7 million, while ambulatory revenue jumped 9.9%, to $48.8 million. Ambulatory surgery revenue increased 5.8%, to $15.9 million. Operating expenses inched up just 0.5%, to $159.3 million, which was $2.1 million under budget. The majority of those unanticipated savings came from lower insurance and depreciation costs. NYP/Hudson Valley nearly halved its insurance expenses compared with 2014, to $1.4 million. That helped offset a 3.9% hike in salaries and a 6.8% increase in medical and surgical supplies costs. The results differed slightly from NYP's unaudited financial statements, released earlier this month, which showed $9.4 million in operating income.
Private hospitals and the undocumented
New York City’s private hospitals aren’t doing enough to treat undocumented patients, City Council Health Committee Chair Corey Johnson said last week during a budget hearing. The comments came during a discussion of the city’s plan for a pilot to provide direct access to health care for 1,200 undocumented immigrants, starting this spring. “Some of the voluntary and private hospitals are not capturing a fair amount of this patient base either through charity care or other types of care. It’s disproportionately falling on our public hospitals, which has put them in a very perilous financial situation,” Johnson said. In response, Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett told Johnson that “regarding the distribution of care for the uninsured, many of whom may be undocumented, your statement is a matter of fact, not opinion.” The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene estimates there are 345,000 undocumented immigrants in the city who are uninsured. In October, Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a plan to provide undocumented immigrants with direct access to primary and preventive care. The first phase of the program is financed through donors that include the Robin Hood Foundation, and is patterned after similar efforts in San Francisco and Los Angeles. That phase, including a performance evaluation, is expected to cost $2.9 million, said Rishi Sood, deputy director of policy at DOHMH’s Bureau Primary Care Access and Planning. If successful, the program could be expanded to serve more people, which Johnson called a welcome development. “It’s great, but it’s sort of like hitting Powerball to become one of those 1,200 individuals if you’re an undocumented New Yorker,” Johnson said.
NY cannabis firm takes on Google
Ari Hoffnung, chief executive of cannabis company Vireo Health of New York, is taking a stand against Google for blocking his ads. The move has made it difficult to reach patients. He sent the Internet giant a letter last week calling its policies "inadvertently evil," as they imply all marijuana is for recreational use. "We're not talking about a community newspaper that decided they don't want to run an ad for a local dispensary," said Hoffnung. "We're talking about one of the largest global companies that has decided to reject ads designed to communicate with cancer and HIV/AIDS patients." In an email response, Google said, "We have global policies that explicitly deal with pharmaceuticals, and the legal distinction between recreational and medical is not made at a state/country level." Etain, a cannabis company based in Katonah, has run into similar problems with Facebook, which took down its page about a month ago, said a spokesman for the company. But the bigger problem is that New York cannabis firms are not allowed to approach doctors to tell them about their products in the same way other pharmaceutical companies can, said Etain's spokesman. State Sen. Diane Savino, D-Staten Island, introduced a bill (S.7042) last week that would change that. It was part of a larger package of proposed reforms to the Compassionate Care Act.
Grants available for pregnancy prevention
The state Department of Health is making $20 million available for the Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention initiative, the latest funding round for a program that promotes adolescent sexual health. Grantees must implement evidence-based programs aimed at individuals ages 10 to 21 that teach abstinence and contraception. There were nearly 12,914 teen pregnancies in New York City in 2013, with the highest rates in the Bronx. That's a 46% decline since 2003. The CAPP program also focuses on preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. This round of CAPP grants will run from 2017 to 2021. Applications are due May 4.
VBP UPDATE: DOH has posted its first annual update to the Value Based Payment Roadmap, which sets out a path for achieving 80% value-based payments by the end of the DSRIP waiver period in 2020. The update, currently in draft form, is open for public comment until April 18 at 3 p.m.
An alternative physical-therapy program centered around the use of a special sneaker has captured the attention of Healthfirst, which is covering the treatment for patients with chronic knee, hip and back pain at three New York hospitals. AposTherapy, the Israeli firm that developed the treatment, is working with the nonprofit insurer to conduct a demonstration project at Montefiore Medical Center and Elmhurst Hospital. Mount Sinai Beth Israel is expected to sign on this week. NYU Langone has been conducting a separate clinical trial on the therapy.
Patients walk around in the sneaker, which has pods on the bottom, for an hour or two each day, and complete periodic appointments with a doctor.
AposTherapy introduced its treatment program in New York through partnerships with physical-therapy clinics, but working with hospitals opens up new possibilities, said David Levy, the company's chief executive.
"With [clinics], it's a pure fee-for-service environment," he said. "With institutions, it's much more about investigating how this fits into the care pathway and how this affects overall population health."
AposTherapy is one of several technology-based treatment options that Healthfirst piloted with providers that are interested in improving population health.
"We need the hospitals and physicians excited about it," said Dr. Jay Schechtman, chief medical officer at Healthfirst. "I'm not interested unless they're interested and are fully involved in it."
At Montefiore, Dr. Matthew Bartels has been prescribing AposTherapy to patients for only a few months, but he is already excited about it. "It's like a paradigm shift in the way we treat people with knee, back and hip pain," he said.
The 23 patients with chronic knee pain who have already completed their two-month follow-up are walking more than 10% faster and experiencing a significant decrease in pain and stiffness, said Bartels. He said even though the results are early, he's optimistic that the treatment could cut down significantly on expensive surgeries and the use of painkillers, and even help address comorbidities related to inactivity.
"Total knee replacement can be easily 10 times the cost of AposTherapy, if not 20 times the cost," said Schechtman.
Levy said he plans to continue testing his therapy program in New York before moving to other markets because there's such a diverse mix of payer models here.
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Analysis Of Salinger 's ' The Catcher 's The Rye '
Analysis Of Salinger 's ' The Catcher 's The Rye ' Essay
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In the Catcher in the Rye, the author J.D. Salinger uses a variety of symbols to represent the struggles and challenges the main characters and narrator Holden Caulfield faces throughout the novel. Through the use of symbolism, Salinger is able to give additional meaning to the plot beyond what is being described by Holden. Through Holden 's desire to be a catcher in the rye, his goal of protecting the innocence of children is conveyed, but the golden rings on the carousel represents his realization that this is an unrealistic goal and also unfair to the children. Holden’s reaction to the profanity he sees on the walls at Phoebe’s school and at the museum also represents his desire to protect the innocence of children. The symbol of the red hunting hat helps reveal Holden’s desire to be an individual, but also his vulnerability white that he desires to keep hidden from people. The symbolism of the red hat, profanity, the catcher in the rye, and the gold rings aid in Salinger 's development and growth of Holden as a character. Holden values the innocence and pureness of children and initially he wishes to have the heroic role of preventing children from growing up and becoming corrupt by adulthood, which is represented by his aspirations to be the catcher in the rye; the gold rings on the carousel represent him realizing that it is unfair to limit children in such a way. When Phoebe asks him what careers interests him, he responds, “I keep picturing all these…
Essay Analysis Of Salinger 's ' The Catcher Rye '
However, society does not guarantee that that “someone” would be accepted considering their difference. One specific fictional society backs up these beliefs. This fictional society is the community that takes place in The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger. J.D. Salinger spawns this relatable “world” with the addition of Holden Caulfield- the teenage main character and overall point of view of the story. Holden Caulfield- with a depressing outlook on life- outrightly illustrates a loathing attitude…
Essay Analysis Of ' Salinger 's ' The Catcher Rye '
J.D. Salinger’s controversial novel The Catcher in the Rye, was first published in 1951 and was originally published for adults. As popularity grew for the book so did his audience and Salinger’s novel soon became popular with teenagers. The story is a three day narration of events that happen to Holden Caulfield beginning at his boarding school Pencey Prep and ending in a hospital in California. Holden is a troubled youth who struggles to find his place in the world and is having a hard time…
In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield returns to his hometown where he goes on an adventure to answer the questions he has about life. After being kicked out of his third boarding school, Holden Caulfield spends three days alone in New York.While in New York, Holden constantly thinks about his old friend Jane Gallagher, whom Holden’s old roommate just went on a date with the night Holden left Pencey Prep School. He also meets up with his little sister Phoebe and takes her to…
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to society’s stigmatization of mental illness. Throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye, the author J.D. Salinger frequently alludes to Roland Barthes’ quote that “literature is the question minus the answer.” One of the most prevalent questions that arises is ‘what is wrong with Holden Caulfield?’ From the beginning of the novel, Salinger hints that Holden has some sort of issue. This question is so ambiguous that Salinger places the leading protagonist into a situation in which everyone is so…
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broke into about fifty pieces. It was in a big envelope and all, but it broke anyway. I damn near cried, it made me feel so terrible, but all I did was, I took the pieces out of the envelope and put them in my coat pocket,” (Salinger 170). This passage in The Catcher in the Rye has a significant meaning behind it that is integral for all of the readers to understand. During this scene, Holden had bought his sister a record that he thought she would love. He then had gone to the bar alone and was drunk…
In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the main character, Holden Caulfield, has many issues. He likes to push his problems onto others, judge them with his internal thought, and isn’t willing to work on any of his personal issues. Holden Caulfield doesn’t take responsibility for his actions and tends to blame society for his problems. Whenever Holden has a bad experience, he’s very quick to blame society and other people around him. For example, Holden blames the general population for…
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challenging for many to trust and confide in others. J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye, suffered from P.T.S.D due to trauma from his time serving in the U.S. army during World War 2 (Gopnik 2013). After the war, J.D. Salinger immersed himself in his work and wrote The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger, in midst of his fame, strayed away from doing public appearances and being in the public eye (Gopnik 2011). During his lifetime, Salinger witnessed the brutality and consequences of war, and…
“That depressed the hell out of me.” (Salinger, 273) J.D. Salinger’s 1951 work The Catcher in the Rye grasps its readers by placing its focus on character development instead of the plot of the story. Holden Caulfield is a well-rounded character with a history, opinions and, at times, troubling emotions. He is a character filled with inner and outer conflicts. His internal battles and the friction occurring between him and the people around him cause Salinger’s character to exist in a spectrum…
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Doctor Faustus : Power And Knowledge
Doctor Faustus : Power And Knowledge Essay
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Doctor Faustus, written by Christopher Marlowe is about a man who sells himself to the devil. The reasoning behind this trade to the devil is for power, fame and knowledge. This story explains his time, and experience in selling himself to the devil. This play was a well known play at the time. It struck people because it was a rebellious decision the main character made, especially with the historical and social events at occurring at this time. The historical impact from what was socially going…
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From the outset of Marlowe's play 'Doctor Faustus,' it is clear that Faustus is a man who is unwilling to accept the limitations of human knowledge. In seeking to become more than a man, with no regard for the spiritual consequences, he becomes an example to the religious audience of Marlowe's time of what happens when a man pursues knowledge undeterred by moral boundaries. From the outset of the play, Faustus appears to be driven by his thirst for knowledge. The chorus introduces him as 'glutted…with…
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Coca-Cola in Canada publishes first Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report
Submitted by: Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Categories: Research, Reports & Publications, Corporate Social Responsibility
Posted: Mar 02, 2009 – 11:30 AM EST
Mar. 02 /CSRwire/ - TORONTO, ONTARIO. - March 2, 2009 - The Coca-Cola system in Canada - Coca-Cola Ltd. (CCL) and Coca-Cola Bottling Company (CCB) - has issued its first, joint Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) Report. The report can be accessed by visiting www.cocacola.ca/corporate_responsibility_report.htm.
"The Coca-Cola system in Canada is committed to embedding Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability into every aspect of our business," said Nikos Koumettis, President, Coca-Cola Ltd. "This report details our progress, and outlines the long-term goals that guide our journey."
"Our commitment to Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability is grounded in operational reality," said Kevin Warren, President, Coca-Cola Bottling Company. "Within these challenging economic times our CRS efforts will help to capture operational efficiencies, drive effectiveness and eliminate waste while reducing our environmental footprint."
The report is a comprehensive look at both companies' operations in Canada, and details progress and plans in five strategic CRS focus areas: Water Stewardship, Sustainable Packaging/Recycling, Energy Conservation/Climate Change, Product Portfolio/Well-being, and Diverse and Inclusive Culture. The report follows the G3 guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and focuses on workplace, marketplace, environment and community.
The Coca-Cola system in Canada has established a goal and targets for each of its five strategic CRS focus areas, including:
Water Stewardship: Establish a water sustainable operation in which we use one liter of water for every liter of product we produce - what we call water neutrality.
Sustainable Packaging/Recycling: Maximize our use of renewable, reusable, and recyclable resources, ultimately recycling the equivalent of 100 percent of our packaging.
Energy Conservation/Climate Change: Reduce carbon emissions in our manufacturing, fleet, sales and marketing equipment, and facilities.
Product Portfolio/Well-Being: Offer every consumer the right product and package in the right place, at the right moment, in the right way.
Diverse and Inclusive Culture: Establish a diverse, winning, and inclusive culture.
Highlights of the report include:
Introducing 22 heavy-duty, hybrid electric delivery trucks to CCB's Canadian fleet - and the first in Canada - with improved fuel efficiency of 32% and less noise and emissions when stopped in traffic.
Reducing CCB's water usage by more than 20% between 2005-2007, using 1.69 litres of water to produce one litre of beverage.
Avoiding the use of 835 metric tons of packaging through initiatives such as reducing the weight of Dasani PET bottles and using a first-of-its-kind, shorter closure on PET bottles.
Launching Supplier Guiding Principles, which detail expectations of suppliers with regard to labour standards, workplace health and safety, business integrity, and environmental practices.
Receiving five Supplier Awards and Recognitions in 2007 and 2008.
Improving CCB's electrical use ratio by 13% in 2007.
Investing more than $1.5 million locally through programs, sponsorships, and in-kind and charitable contributions in 2007.
The Coca-Cola system in Canada will continue to work to improve reporting capabilities and data-gathering systems, and is committed to developing greater transparency in reporting and improving the quality and quantity of the data reported.
About the Coca-Cola system in Canada:
The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company. In Canada, the Company is represented by its subsidiary, Coca-Cola Ltd. (CCL). CCL markets three of Canada's top non-alcoholic sparkling beverage brands: Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Sprite. In addition, it is the largest juice and juice drink company with Minute Maid, Five Alive, Fuze and Fruitopia, and the leading ready to drink tea producer with Nestea. The Company also markets DASANI, PowerAde, vitaminwater and other hot and cold beverages.
Coca-Cola Bottling Company (CCB) is the primary Canadian bottler responsible for manufacturing, sales and distribution of most Coca-Cola brands in Canada. CCB is an indirect, wholly-owned division of Coca-Cola Enterprises, the world's largest Coca-Cola bottler, and operates in all ten provinces and employs 5,500 associates in 65 facilities across Canada.
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Coca-Cola Bottling Company (CCB) is the primary Canadian bottler responsible for manufacturing, sales and distribution of most Coca-Cola brands in Canada. CCB is an indirect, wholly-owned division of Coca-Cola Enterprises, the world's largest Coca-Cola bottler, and operates in all ten provinces a...
Au Canada, Coca-Cola publie son premier rapport sur la responsabilité sociale et le développement durable
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Actress and Humanitarian Activist Mia Farrow Joins Campaign to Hold Chevron Accountable for Contamination in Ecuadorian Rainforest
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Categories: Environment, Events
Posted: Jan 26, 2014 – 08:57 AM EST
QUITO, Ecuador, Jan. 26 /CSRwire/ - The acclaimed actress and prominent humanitarian Mia Farrow will visit the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest to witness first hand the massive environmental damage caused by Texaco, now Chevron, during decades of operation in the northeastern region of Ecuador.
The actress is visiting the South American nation in response to an invitation by the National Secretariat of Communications of Ecuador. Farrow will join the international campaign “The Dirty Hand of Chevron”, which president Rafael Correa launched last September. This campaign is intended to raise international awareness about the environmental disaster caused by the multinational oil giant. Between 1964 and 1990, Texaco, which merged with Chevron in 2001, used illegal disposal methods to systematically dump roughly 18 billion gallons of toxic waste into unlined pits and local waterways, contaminating soil and water sources for local communities and leaving lasting environmental damage and a public health crisis.
Mia Farrow is a prominent actress who has devoted her life to humanitarian efforts, primarily as an advocate for children’s rights in conflict affected regions. She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and has worked extensively to draw attention to the fight to eradicate polio. In recent years, she has visited Darfur, Chad and the Central African Republic to raise awareness of the genocide occurring in this African region. Throughout her long and successful artistic career, Farrow has starred in over forty films, including classics such as Rosemary’s Baby, The Great Gatsby, Hanna and her Sisters, and the 1960’s TV series Peyton Place.
During her visit, Farrow will be able to confirm first-hand the environmental consequences of Texaco’s decades of substandard operations in Ecuador. Other personalities that have visited the sites in the past few months, include actor Danny Glover, Mayor Gayle McLaughlin of Richmond, California, where a local Chevron refinery caused a massive fire, filmmaker and environmental advocate Alexandra Cousteau, among others.
In February of 2011, Chevron was sentenced by the Superior Court of Nueva Loja (Aguinda v. Chevron No. 2003-0002), ordering Chevron to pay $18.3 billion for damages to the environment and the health of the local communities. In November of 2013, Ecuador’s Supreme Court affirmed the judgment but reduced the damages amount to $9.5 billion. Chevron refuses to pay the award claiming that the ruling is illegitimate, and instead has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in New York against the Ecuadorians and their lawyers based on the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, (Case 2:11-cv-00691, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York). The judge overseeing the trial, Lewis Kaplan, has been accused by the plaintiffs of bias in favor of Chevron (U.S. Court of Appeals, case 11-2259). Because the company ceased operations in Ecuador in 1991, the Ecuadorian plaintiffs have been trying to seize the company’s assets in other countries. Last December, the Ontario Court of Appeal issued a ruling allowing the Ecuadorians to pursue enforcement of the $9.5 billion dollar judgment against Chevron’s assets in Canada.
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Biodiversity Conservation
Rural and Regional Communities
Sustainable Development (International)
Strategic Research Area Archives
Partnerships and Linkages
Can Indigenous land management forestall an extinction crisis? (2017-2020)
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, $372,000
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Dr Dale Nimmo
Research Theme
Current rate of species extinction is exceeding background rates by 100 to 1000 times as a result of changes to ecosystems by humans. It is paradoxical then, that Australia's most pressing extinction crisis could be due to too little human disturbance. This project is examining the hypothesis that a lack of indigenous land management has precipitated the collapse of Australia's mammal fauna. It will test the capacity for indigenous land management to forestall further mammal declines and restore degraded ecosystems while providing an innovative pathway for enhancing indigenous livelihoods.
The study, one of the biggest of its kind, is focused on the Martu people who live in the Western Desert. (The Western Desert is described as a cultural region in central Australia. It covers about 600,000 square kilometres of arid Australia in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. The Martu have Native Title over 13 million ha surrounding Karlamilyi National Park and have a long, relatively unbroken history on the land and are still using a fire burning regime that their ancestors would have.)
It combines with the Can Indigenous fire management restore mammal communities? Nimmo, D. Bird, R.B. (Pennsylvania State University), Bird, D. (Pennsylvania State University), Ritchie, E., (Deakin University) (2016-2019) Hermon Slade Foundation, $85,971 project to create what is essentially one major project.
The researchers have selected 60 sites in various fire mosaics, mosaics with differing fire history, close to and far from the Parnngurr community in the Western Desert (400 km west of Newman, WA). Two cameras have been set up at each site to capture visits by both predators (dingoes, foxes and cats) and small native marsupials such as bilbies, mulgara (a small carnivorous marsupial), dunnarts, and antechinus.
The researchers are expecting that the information that they collect from the cameras, which will be left in place for long periods of time, will help them determine whether or not the fire regime being implemented close to the Parnngurr homelands creates more diverse habitats (resulting in more native marsupial species) and encourages more dingo predation of feral cats.
Expected outcomes of this study range from on-ground principles for integrating indigenous knowledge into biodiversity conservation, to transformative insights on the interdependence of humans and their environment.
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Facebook suspends around 200 apps in data misuse investigation
Facebook's investigation into data misuse by third parties is in full swing.
Katie Collins
May 14, 2018 5:21 AM PDT
Facebook is taking a long, hard look at third-parties apps.
Lionel Bonaventure / AFP/Getty Images
Facebook has suspended around 200 apps as part of its investigation into whether companies misused personal user data gathered from the social network.
The company has evaluated thousands of apps to see if they had access to large amounts of data, and will now thoroughly investigate those it has identified as potentially misusing that data, it said in a blog post on Monday.
"Where we have concerns, we will conduct interviews, make requests for information (RFI) -- which ask a series of detailed questions about the app and the data it has access to -- and perform audits that may include on-site inspections," said Ime Archibong, Facebook's VP of product partnerships.
The investigation is part of Facebook's response to the revelations about Cambridge Analytica's collection of user data in March, after which the company was forced to admit it had allowed the data of tens of million of users to be mishandled. The company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised the investigation as one of a number of measures put in place to handle the scandal.
Though Facebook suspects roughly 200 apps of violating its policies by using its data for purposes beyond the apps' stated purposes, the company will not release a list of those apps. If Facebook's investigation confirms individual apps misused data, users who interacted with the apps will be notified.
The investigation is ongoing and the number of apps that raise red flags could continue to rise. "There is a lot more work to be done to find all the apps that may have misused people's Facebook data -- and it will take time,"said Archibong.
-CBS News contributed to this report.
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Ohio State's Harding Hospital adds 18 psychiatric beds
Bill Bush The Columbus Dispatch @ReporterBush
Responding to increased demand for psychiatric health care that might be linked to the opioid crisis, Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center will cut the ribbon on a $2.6 million inpatient expansion on Tuesday.
The 18 new, private, inpatient rooms on the fifth floor of Harding Hospital represent an almost 25% increase in beds in a facility that is experiencing a 10% annual increase in patients needing mental-health services, said Amanda Lucas, Harding's executive director. The expansion will bring the total number of psychiatric beds at Harding to 91.
Between 30% and 40% of patients who visit psychiatric emergency rooms will require inpatient care, Lucas said, and the Wexner Medical Center's psychiatric-patient numbers have been growing faster than Ohio's. The number of mental-health patients in the state is projected to grow by 21% over the next five to seven years, she said.
Lucas predicts it won't take long to fill the beds once they are opened.
Franklin County has more than 800 existing or planned inpatient psychiatric beds at nine facilities, including the state-run Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare Hospital on the Hilltop, said Jeff Klingler, president and CEO of the Central Ohio Hospital Council. The council runs the Franklin County Mental Health Collaborative, which coordinates getting mental-health patients from emergency rooms into inpatient programs.
Over the last decade, the number of emergency-room patients getting placed at inpatient mental-health facilities has tripled from about 400 to 1,200 a month, and the average time on a waiting list has dropped from days to just under 10 hours, Klingler said.
"The 18 beds opening up at the Wexner are certainly welcome," as Ohio State runs one of the county's two hospital-run psychiatric operations. The other is at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital, Klingler said.
Franklin County patients who have no health insurance, not even Medicaid, are referred into the state system, Klingler said.
The state runs six regional psychiatric hospitals with a total capacity of 1,081 beds in Athens, Massillon, Toledo, Northfield, Cincinnati and the 178-bed Twin Valley facility in Columbus, said Eric Wandersleben, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services.
In March 2018, then-Gov. John Kasich signed a $2.6 billion capital-budget bill that included $112 million to replace the main hospital at the Twin Valley campus, adding 30 beds, bringing the total to 208. The new facility, which will incorporate a hub-and-spoke design that allows for future expansion, is anticipated to be completed in 2022, Wandersleben said.
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Winfrey, Clinton kin draw Iowa women
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Sen. Barack Obama hugs Oprah Winfrey as his wife, Michelle, leads the applause during Saturday's "Oprahpalooza" event in Des Moines, Iowa.
Oprah Winfrey stands with Barack Obama as the Illinois senator and Democratic presidential candidate waves to an estimated 18,500 people at a rally Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigns Saturday in Winterset, Iowa, with a rare appearance by daughter Chelsea Clinton and mother Dorothy Rodham.
PUBLISHED: December 8, 2007 at 1:31 pm | UPDATED: May 7, 2016 at 5:46 pm
DES MOINES, Iowa — Oprah and Hillary — two women so famous that they are known by their first names — were vying for the attention of Iowa voters Saturday on opposing sides of the close Democratic presidential campaign.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York was joined by her mother and daughter Saturday as she vowed “change across the generations” and stepped up her pitch to the female voters who could hold the key to Iowa’s caucuses Jan. 3.
The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois — also interested in winning over women, who have been leaning toward Clinton in the polls — enlisted the help of Oprah Winfrey.
Winfrey said worry about the direction of the country and a personal belief in Obama pushed her to make her first endorsement in a presidential campaign.
The weekend “Oprahpalooza” lends star power to Obama’s campaign, drawing huge crowds that he hopes will translate into votes. Tens of thousands were expected to turn out for Winfrey’s Iowa stops and visits today to South Carolina and New Hampshire with Obama and his wife.
In South Carolina, the campaign ran out of the 18,000 tickets originally available for the biggest event and moved it to the 80,000-seat University of South Carolina football stadium.
In Iowa, spectators lined up hours early. Cameras flashed in the capacity crowd during Winfrey’s speech, which opened and closed to loud applause and was frequently interrupted by cries of “We love Oprah.”
Winfrey said she felt nervous and “out of my pew” as she addressed a hall packed shoulder-to-shoulder in the largest gathering of Iowans in the campaign this year. But she did not hide her political convictions, making an argument for change.
“That is why for the very first time in my life I feel compelled to stand up and speak out for the man who I believe has a new vision for America,” Winfrey said.
The campaign distributed 23,000 tickets for the Des Moines event and more than 10,000 for another later in Cedar Rapids. Thousands of people, many who don’t normally participate in politics, came into his offices, volunteered and attended caucus trainings to score tickets.
The campaign said 18,500 people showed up in Des Moines.
Mom, daughter join Clinton
Clinton countered Oprah-mania by debuting two other women on the campaign trail — her mother, Dorothy Rodham, 88, and daughter, Chelsea, 27.
The reluctant Chelsea Clinton’s public emergence normally would have been big news, but it was a last-minute announcement that was overshadowed by hype surrounding Winfrey.
Clinton noted that her mother fits the description of women who were born before women got the right to vote and are now pushing to elect the first female president.
“She has seen a lot happen and change in our country,” Clinton said. “Not everyone is as lucky to have their mother or father or grandparent with them as we are.”
The multigenerational appeal was aimed straight at women voters.
“I’m a proud working daughter,” Clinton said. “My family is able to make the decisions we think are right for us, and that’s what I want for every American family.”
Clinton laid out a plan in Winterset to help families overcome the cost of long-term elder care. She mentioned that her mother is living with her, a choice that some families can’t make for various reasons.
She touted a proposal to give a $3,000 tax credit to help offset the costs of caring for elderly relatives.
Some people in the audience liked what they heard. Two women who had come to see Clinton said they were on their way next to see the Obama-Oprah appearance.
One, Susan Churchill, 40, of Norwalk, said Obama would be hard-pressed to match the substance they heard from Clinton.
“I’ll be interested to see if he’ll have such an in-depth conversation, or will it be more for show to gather momentum for the campaign,” Churchill said.
Three at the top in Iowa
The Democratic race in Iowa is tight, with Obama, Clinton and 2004 vice presidential nominee John Edwards in a dead heat. Winfrey said she doesn’t know whether her influence on the presidential campaign will have the same impact as driving up the popularity of books and products featured on her show.
“I understand the difference between the (Oprah) Book Club and a free refrigerator,” she said. “I understand the difference between that and this critical moment in our nation’s history.
“Over the years, I have voted for as many Republicans as I have Democrats,” Winfrey said — one line that didn’t draw applause in the partisan crowd. “This isn’t about partisanship for me. This is very, very personal. I’m here because of my personal conviction about Barack Obama and what I know he can do for America.”
She said she is “tired of politics as usual,” which is why she seldom invites politicians on her show.
Obama, she said, has an “ear for eloquence and a tongue dipped in the unvarnished truth.”
Obama spoke after Winfrey and acknowledged that he was under no illusions that the crowd was there to hear him. Indeed, some people left during his speech, although the majority stuck around to hear him.
“You want Oprah as vice president?” he asked the crowd, which responded with enthusiastic cheers. “That would be a demotion, you understand that?”
Terri Johnson of Urbandale lined up about two hours before the Des Moines event. She said she had not been involved much in politics before but was drawn to the rally by both Oprah and Obama.
“I would have voted for him without her, but it’s nice to see Oprah,” Johnson said, joking that she hoped Winfrey would have one of her famous giveaways. “I’d love to get a car.”
The Los Angeles Times contributed to this report.
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76ers-Raptors, Blazers-Nuggets set for…
76ers-Raptors, Blazers-Nuggets set for high-stakes Game 7 doubleheader
Golden State will face either the Denver Nuggets or Portland Trail Blazers who open Sunday’s games in Denver at 1:30 p.m.
AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post
CJ McCollum (3) of the Portland Trail Blazers sizes up Jamal Murray (27) of the Denver Nuggets during the second quarter on Thursday, May 9, 2019. The Denver Nuggets versus the Portland Trail Blazers in game six of the teams’ second round NBA playoff series at the Moda Center in Portland.
By Ben Golliver | The Washington Post
PUBLISHED: May 11, 2019 at 2:18 pm | UPDATED: May 11, 2019 at 2:33 pm
The NBA appeared headed for a delectable triple-header of Game 7s on Mother’s Day, but Stephen Curry had other ideas.
Thanks to a 33-point second-half explosion from the all-star point guard, the Golden State Warriors closed out the Houston Rockets on Friday. The champs will therefore get to enjoy the weekend like the rest of the basketball viewing public: glued to the tube, seeing which two teams will fill out the conference finals matchups.
Golden State will face either the Denver Nuggets or Portland Trail Blazers, who open Sunday’s festivities in Denver at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time. In the East, the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks await the winner of the Toronto Raptors and Philadelphia 76ers, who square off in Toronto at 7 p.m.
The East showdown is a pressure-cooker, pitting two teams who have spent the past 12 months aggressively pursuing mercenaries, while the West’s is a battle between two organizations whose long-term organic roster constructions could pay off with an unexpected berth in the conference finals. Best of all, a win on Sunday would represent the pinnacle moment of the past decade for all four franchises.
Toronto is riding high thanks largely to Kawhi Leonard, who has looked unstoppable while averaging 31 points and shooting a blistering 56% during the playoffs. After acquiring the all-star forward in a summer trade for DeMar DeRozan, the Raptors spent all season carefully managing his minutes.
That strategy has paid dividends. Leonard has torched Philadelphia for 45 points in Game 1 and 39 points in Game 4 while emerging as the most dependable player in the series. Meanwhile, center Marc Gasol, a major midseason addition, has been up and down. At times, the beefy center has been able to limit Sixers star Joel Embiid. During Toronto’s losses, though, he’s struggled offensively.
The Raptors are angling for just the second conference finals trip in franchise history. In 2016, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers blitzed them off the court to end their deepest playoff run in perfunctory fashion. This year looks to represent a better shot at reaching the NBA Finals, as Leonard is better than any player on their team from two seasons ago. The Bucks, as talented as they are, lack a player with James’ championship credentials.
Philadelphia, in search of its first conference finals trip since Allen Iverson’s 2001 heyday, has fast-tracked its championship vision this season. First-year GM Elton Brand traded multiple rotation players and future draft picks to land Jimmy Butler and Tobias Harris, thereby filling out a sterling starting lineup around Embiid and his fellow young star, Ben Simmons.
Butler, the Sixers’ most stable piece in this series, has raised his game in the postseason, averaging 19.7 points, 6.3 rebounds and 5.5 assists. Harris, however, has spent most of the second round drifting to the background.
Philly’s young centerpieces have both experienced complicated playoff runs. Embiid has vacillated between dominant and dormant, held back by knee tendinitis and multiple illnesses. Simmons, a skilled point forward who simply can’t shoot, broke free with 21 points in a Game 6 win over Toronto but has otherwise been kept in check. If they manage to deliver a road upset, it would be a sweet milestone for Sixers fans, who were subjected to an extended run of purposeful and painful tanking in recent years.
No matter what happens Sunday, one of these teams will dive head first into a summer of expensive questions. Leonard, Gasol and starting guard Danny Green are all impending free agents for Toronto. Leonard, of course, will be one of the most coveted superstars on the market, and a second-round loss wouldn’t exactly be an ideal recruiting pitch for a Raptors franchise that historically has struggled to attract free agents.
Philadelphia finds itself in nearly the same predicament. Butler and Harris will both be seeking max-level contracts as free agents, and guard J.J. Redick will hit the market, too. A loss might also raise another round of questions about the long-term fit between Embiid and Simmons, whose offensive styles tend to clash.
There are fewer existential questions at stake in the West, where a pair of up-and-coming Northwest Division rivals aim to capitalize on a lopsided bracket. On a wild final night of the regular season, wins by both the Blazers and Nuggets conspired to pit last year’s conference finalists, the Warriors and Rockets, against each other in the second round.
Denver is seeking its first conference finals appearance since a Carmelo Anthony-led 2009 run, and a home win on Sunday would position the franchise as one of the West’s top future powers. The Nuggets have been driven by Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray, rising stars who have easily outpaced expectations in their postseason debuts.
Jokic is only 24, but the Serbian 7-footer has averaged 22.6 points, 11.8 rebounds and 8.1 assists in the playoffs, and keyed Denver’s offensive with his bruising scoring and brilliant passing. Murray, a 22-year-old Canadian point guard, has fought off questions about his inconsistency to settle in as a reliable scorer and clutch late-game performer.
A loss would be crushing in the short-term, given that the Nuggets gutted out a Game 7 win over the San Antonio Spurs in the first round and bounced back from a four-overtime Game 3 loss to Portland, but it wouldn’t leave lasting damage. Denver’s homegrown core of Jokic, Murray and guard Gary Harris is in place for the foreseeable future. Indeed, the Nuggets’ biggest name to watch this offseason might be executive Tim Connelly, who emerged as a candidate to become the Washington Wizards‘ president following Ernie Grunfeld’s April firing.
Of Sunday’s four participants, no team has waited as long as Portland to get back to the conference finals. The Blazers’ last conference finals appearance came in 2000, when they collapsed in heartbreaking fashion to the Los Angeles Lakers. Kobe Bryant lobbed an iconic alley-oop to Shaquille O’Neal in that game, launching a two-decade run filled with various miseries.
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There was the so-called “Jail Blazers” era, career-ending knee injuries to Greg Oden and Brandon Roy and a series of postseason brick walls once franchise forward LaMarcus Aldridge fled to the Spurs as a free agent in 2015. The anguish returned in full force this season, when owner longtime owner Paul Allen died after a battle with cancer and center Jusuf Nurkic suffered a gruesome leg injury late in the season that knocked him out of the playoffs.
Yet all-star guard Damian Lillard has gamely pulled the Blazers through, averaging 29.8 points and delivering the best shot of the playoffs with a 37-foot missile to eliminate the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round. A road win against Denver would further enhance his burgeoning reputation and mark the crowning achievement of his career.
A Mother’s Day defeat would sting badly given the franchise’s tortured history and the fact that valued role players like Al-Farouq Aminu, Enes Kanter and Rodney Hood are all heading to free agency. The silver lining? Lillard, Nurkic and guard CJ McCollum are locked into long-term contracts, giving Portland a talented core that should remain in the mix throughout the 28-year-old Lillard’s prime.
Of course, Blazermaniacs, just like fans of the Raptors, Sixers and Nuggets, aren’t ready to start thinking about the future quite yet.
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While Michael Porter Jr. outwardly tries to practice patience, understanding that his path to the NBA hasn’t been as seamless as that of other elite prospects, his frustration as a 21-year-old is apparent.
The Nuggets are expected to sign Summer League standout Vlatko Cancar, a league source confirmed to The Denver Post.
With the summer free agent frenzy finally quieting down, Nuggets Ink podcast host Matt Schubert and beat writer Mike Singer check back in to talk about an earth shattering two weeks in the NBA.
While the rest of the Western Conference stockpiled stars, the Nuggets added former Thunder forward Jerami Grant in a trade earlier this week.
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By Maria Minsker,
The Evolution of the MBA
In the few years following The Great Recession, a master's in business administration (MBA) was the last degree on anyone's mind. But in 2013, after three years of double-digit decline, the MBA's popularity began to return, and many of the country's highest ranked business schools noticed a boost in application volume. The Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University saw a 12 percent increase in applications to its full-time MBA program, while the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business reported increases of 11 percent, 10 percent, 9 percent, and 8 percent, respectively. In its recovery, however, the MBA has been transformed, and the degree that emerged after the economic downturn is an entirely different animal from its previous incarnation.
Markets wobbled during the recession, and as a result, many post-MBA positions were unusually volatile. Jobs in consulting and investment banking became uncertain, and, seeking a more secure future, many MBA graduates began looking to technology companies, which have recently enjoyed more steady success than financial institutions. Preparing students for a business career in the technology sector, however, is no easy feat.
"Technology is changing business education in fundamental ways, not only because it's affecting the industry, but also because of how it shapes students' interests," Doug Stayman, associate dean for MBA programs at the Johnson Graduate School, says. "In the industry, the digital economy is forcing companies to be flatter and move faster, and from the students' perspective, it is sparking new interest. They see that a young, small company can be bought for millions of dollars, and that's an exciting prospect," he explains.
As business opportunities at technology companies become increasingly lucrative, there is a growing need for professionals who can cross the tech-business divide. To help bridge the academic gap between business and technology, business schools have worked to refresh their MBA curricula and created new, cross-sector opportunities. Johnson, for example, has recently launched an additional MBA program at Cornell's new Tech campus. Now housed in the Google Building in Manhattan, the campus will eventually be constructed on New York City's Roosevelt Island.
The inaugural class of 40 begins instruction in May 2014 on Cornell's Ithaca campus, where they will study the foundations of business, in the context of the global digital economy. The program moves to New York City for two semesters, with students engaging in intensive forms of learning, including co-learning alongside students in the technical master's degree program. The focus is on learning content and applying learning to address real problems for businesses ranging from international corporations to entrepreneurial start-ups. "This MBA offering will be very focused on the digital economy, and it's going to be a heavily application-oriented program. There is a growing need for a fresh workforce that can contribute right away, work flexibly, and be highly tech-literate, and we're responding to this need with the New York City MBA," Stayman says.
This more nimble MBA offering, Stayman states, will help secure technology's place in modern business education, even for those students who don't necessarily want to work at a tech company. "The separation between the two is going away because technology has become so integral to the daily functions of an organization. Forget Google—that's a true 'tech' company. Look at
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Council of State meeting holds Thursday
By Isiaka Wakili | Published Date Feb 21, 2018 18:42 PM Jul 18, 2018 16:20 PM
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday preside over a meeting of the Council of State.
The meeting is scheduled to hold at 11:00am inside the Council Chambers of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Sources at the Presidency disclosed yesterday that the meeting would discuss security issues, particularly kilkings by suspected herdsmen in some states as well as the Boko Haram insurgency.
It was gathered that issues regarding the conduct of the 2019 general elections are also likely to be discussed at the meeting.
The last time President Buhari held such a meeting was on September 7, 2016; while the first was on October 21, 2015.
The Council of State is an organ of the Federal Government saddled with the responsibility of advising the executive on policy making.
The council, which comprises president as chairman and vice president as deputy chairman, has as members all former presidents and Heads of State all former Chief Justices of Nigeria, President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, all state governors and Attorney-General of the Federation.
The duties of the council includes advising the president in the exercise of his powers with respect to the National population census and compilation, publication and keeping of records and other information concerning the same; prerogative of mercy; award of national honours; the Independent National Electoral Commission (including the appointment of members of that Commission); the National Judicial Council (including the appointment of the members, other than ex-officio members of that Council); the National Population Commission (including the appointment of members of that Commission).
The council also advises the president whenever requested to do so on the maintenance of public order and on such other matters as the he may direct.
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Organic, fair trade cocoa and sugar supplier born
23-Mar-2005 - Last updated on 19-Jul-2008 at 14:48 GMT
Related tags: Fair trade, Côte d'ivoire
Leading merchant of cocoa, sugar and coffee ED&F Man has
launched Corigins, a US-based supplier offering traceable, quality
sugar and cocoa ingredients, Philippa Nuttall reports.
Corigins will supply sugar and cocoa - as far as possible sourced from organic or fair trade producers - with access to ED&F Man's network of 4,000 employees in 90 countries.
"It is important that we're seen as part of the ED&F Man group, so customers know they are not dealing with three guys in an office," said Chris Armero, CEO of Corigins.
The new group is also keen to emphasize the importance of quality. It will be testing the quality of all its suppliers and has organic inspectors on site.
Hence, Armero explained they have decided to start with a fairly large number of producers and will later narrow this down to a select group.
Corigins is currently working with eight or nine sugar suppliers and wants to reduce this to three or four, "one for each type of sugar". The sugar is sourced primarily from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay and "we are looking for domestic suppliers.
The cocoa generally comes from the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Equador, Venezuela, Jamaica, Trinidad or Papua New Guinea.
"One of our favourite organic cocoa suppliers is in Madagascar," said Armero.
"We want to work with the right people. With cocoa, for example, we will pick those suppliers who offer ingredients with the best flavor profiles."
The company will therefore not source only organic or fair trade ingredients; if they are not available or not up to scratch it will look elsewhere. However, it plans to work with suppliers, NGOs and cooperatives to improve the quality of ingredients produced in a socially or environmentally beneficial way.
"We are not supplying just fair trade ingredients - as they don't always exist and we are trying to meet our customers needs - but we would love that to happen," said Armero.
Organic and fair trade ingredients tend to be more expensive than their "normal" counterparts, but these should come down as the number of suppliers increases. Moreover, the fact all the ingredients are fully traceable means they will help food manufacturers comply with the new bioterrorim legislation.
The company will also work with manufacturers on formulation and advise them on what type of cocoa, for example, they should buy for a certain taste.
The US began certifying fair trade cocoa in 2002 and, according to Transfair USA, that year the country imported 1450 lbs of beans. This figure reached 178,888 lbs in 2003 - an increase of 1173 percent - and 562,782 lbs in 2004, growth of 215 percent over the previous year.
In terms of benefit to farmers, Transfair believes they earnt an additional $956 in 2002, $12,171 in 2003 and $38,291 in 2004.
The US market for organic foods is projected to reach a value of $30.7 billion by 2007, according to analysis by research firm Datamonitor, and is growing more than 20 percent annually.
Related topics: Ingredients
Starbucks commits to sustainable coffee supply
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Top U.S. trade negotiator says Canadian dairy the most difficult issue of his career
Doud said the challenge is the 'disparate' nature of the two dairy sectors, involving Canada’s 'closed' supply-management regime, and America’s open system
More from Tom Blackwell
Published on: September 14, 2018 | Last Updated: September 14, 2018 7:53 PM EDT
One of President Donald Trump’s top trade negotiators says NAFTA talks with Canada have been exceptionally arduous, calling haggling over the Canadian dairy market the toughest issue of his career.
Offering a rare glimpse inside the high-pressure trade discussions, chief agricultural negotiator Gregg Doud said both sides have been working “very, very hard,” with dairy the headline dispute.
“The amount of time we’re spending on Canada right now is extraordinary,” Doud told a gathering of the U.S. National Farmers Union. “We have one issue that’s probably the most difficult that I’ve ever seen in my career that we’re trying to deal with.”
At a separate appearance before a U.S. Senate committee, Doud said the challenge is the “disparate” nature of the two dairy sectors, involving Canada’s “closed” supply-management regime, and America’s open system.
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His comments came to light as Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland met Friday with Canadian milk producers, who are concerned the trade deal will give U.S. farmers more access to their customers.
Lucie Boileau, a spokeswoman for the Dairy Farmers of Canada, said she had no comment on the session between her group’s leaders and Freeland.
The Americans want to be able to sell more milk products to Canada, whose supply-management system sets dairy prices and assigns a limited duty-free quota to the U.S. The States exported just under $500 million of dairy goods north of the border last year, about three times what it imports from here.
Canadian milk producers say supply management assures them a stable price, avoiding the kind of government subsidies that are common in the struggling, over-supplied American industry.
Aside from dairy, dealing with barriers to the Canadian grain market and wine retailing are the most important agriculture issues for the U.S., Doud said.
Canada re-entered the NAFTA talks last month after five weeks of two-way negotiations that resulted in a sweeping new trade deal between the U.S. and Mexico. Mexican politics and the requirements of U.S. law have created pressure to bring Canada into the agreement before the end of this month.
Freeland met with U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer on Tuesday, but has not been back to Washington since. It’s unclear when their meetings will resume, although both sides’ officials have been talking between the ministerial-level talks.
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland arrives at the Office Of The United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, on Sept. 11, 2018, in Washington. Carolyn Kaster/AP
Trump has repeatedly highlighted agriculture as the key point of contention, accusing Canada of broadly mistreating American farmers, though most of them, and his own agriculture department, call NAFTA a huge success story.
Doud, who is part of Lighthizer’s office, said dairy is “the” top priority among agricultural issues. And despite the appearance that negotiations are stalemated, he suggested both sides are committed to resolving them.
“We have spent an enormous amount of time working on this (dairy) issue. Good faith. Both countries are trying to resolve this issue,” he told the Senate agriculture committee Thursday. “The challenge is how disparate these two systems are between Canada and the U.S.: their closed, supply-management system versus our open system.”
He said the wine trade, and Canada’s policy of automatically classifying U.S. grain exports as lower-priced feed grain, were the next biggest agricultural issue. The USTR has complained about policies that give B.C. wines preferential treatment in the province’s grocery stores.
And Doud said he and colleagues are looking closely at allegations, reported by the National Post this week, that Canadians are dumping fresh potatoes into the States, while impeding American imports.
“That is definitely a priority,” he told the committee. “We’re having some conversations and addressing that as we speak.”
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Symantec Provides NAS Anti-Virus Protection
Symantec Corp. today announced the availability of CarrierScan Server for NetApp filers and NetCache appliances. CarrierScan Server 2.1, Symantec says, integrates protection from viruses and other malicious code with Network Appliance's data management and content delivery products to ensure the safe and reliable storage and delivery of network-attached data.
According to Symantec, CarrierScan Server, which can be deployed on one or more servers inside a companies infrastructure, enables companies to tightly integrate anti-virus scanning and repair capabilities into services such as Web-based e-mail, Web-based file sharing, Internet-available databases and other applications that deliver files over the Internet.
Gary Warren, senior vice president for Symantec, said, "This product fills an important need for users of caching and data management devices. For example, a single infected file placed on a shared storage appliance can infect the entire community of users. By integrating CarrierScan Server with Network Appliance devices, Symantec provides thousands of NetApp customers with the most advanced anti-virus protection available."
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People are taking Manchester United seriously again, says defender Phil Jones
Phil Jones recently signed a new contract at Manchester United
Phil Jones believes everyone is taking Manchester United seriously again having been “a bit of a laughing stock” at the start of the season.
Few could have predicted the upturn in fortunes that caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has overseen since replacing Jose Mourinho in December.
United have won 10 of the Norwegian’s 11 matches in the hotseat, leading him to break records, become United’s first manager of the month since Sir Alex Ferguson and be installed as the bookmakers’ favourite to get the job permanently.
WWWWWWWWDWW pic.twitter.com/hGid1WyXgY
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) February 9, 2019
Solskjaer’s excellent audition continued with a 3-0 win at embattled Fulham on Saturday – a result that moved them into the top four for the first time since the opening weekend of the season.
United were 11 points shy of the top four when Mourinho was fired, but Jones, a Premier League champion with the club in 2013, believes they are back on the up.
“It was a big game for us,” he said. “We knew we could get into the top four.
“It’s a big statement from where we were, we just need to keep improving and keep picking up points.”
New #MUFC contract ✔️Solid performance ✔️Assist ✔️
Yes, @PhilJones4! pic.twitter.com/46xPQ0SmoE
Asked if it was a big psychological boost to be in fourth, Jones added: “Yeah, huge.
“Everyone’s got to take us seriously now, you know?
“OK, we might have been a bit of a laughing stock maybe at the start of the season but certainly not now.
“We’ve proven that in the last 10 or 12 games. We’re improving, still getting better.”
Man Utd move into the top four… #FULMUN pic.twitter.com/EOKCeOgM6z
— Premier League (@premierleague) February 9, 2019
United have won 25 points in nine league matches under Solskjaer – just a point less than Mourinho managed over the opening 17 games of the season.
Quizzed on the change of mindset, Jones said: “Yeah, just a positivity about the place to grind results out when we’re not playing well, to play forward, to play with intent and purpose and that’s exactly what we’re going.
“You can see it in every game. We’re creating a number of chances and putting them away.
“It was tough for everyone involved (at the start of the season).
Victory +3⃣Clean sheet ✅ Seeing Martial’s goal live Away fans pic.twitter.com/ckmxIdx2AX
— David de Gea (@D_DeGea) February 9, 2019
“Everyone at the club, the supporters, everyone. But it’s about becoming stronger and seeing that through. I think we have done.
“I’ve said in the past, we’ve not achieved anything yet. We’re under no illusions of that but we’re heading in the right direction.”
Jones’ excitement at the future was clear after signing a new deal until 2023, with the option of a further year, on the eve of the Fulham game – an extension that some fans expressed disappointment about.
“Listen, I don’t lose sleep over what people say about me,” the England international said. “It’s football.
Three massive points for us at Fulham pic.twitter.com/jgei0O7tkJ
— Ander Herrera (@AnderHerrera) February 9, 2019
“I’m going to get criticism in the future, I’m going to get criticism in the past. Honestly, I generally don’t care.
“I have a wonderful family, wonderful friends. I play football for Man United and I’ve been given an extra contract and I’m grateful for that and thankful for that. It’s great.”
It is the kind of thick skin required at a club like United, whose desire to improve at centre-back under Mourinho was clear throughout the summer.
Another 3 points on the road ✅ The support today in the Putney End was unbelievable! #mufc pic.twitter.com/3e9MHlVb1y
— Chris Smalling (@ChrisSmalling) February 9, 2019
A variety of different names were mentioned but Jones was not stung by that hunt for new faces.
“If I’m being brutally honest, not really at all,” the centre-back said. “Since I’ve come to the club, we’ve signed players left, right and centre: forwards, defenders, goalkeepers.
“Listen, we’re Man United, of course we’re interested in the best players in the world. I’d be pretty amazed if we weren’t, so yeah, it’s great.”
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Details about Olympic Games 1936 BERLIN, GERMANY-Official Poster Reprint 16x12 Offset Litho
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Search for extraterrestrial life costs school IT chief his job
A former Arizona school district employee is accused of using school computers in an experiment to find intelligent life from outer space, costing the worker his job and the district more than $1 million, reports the Associated Press. Schools officials say Brad Niesluchowski, who was Higley Unified School District’s information technology director, downloaded free software onto district computers in 2000. The program, known as SETI(at)home, uses internet-connected computers worldwide to analyze radio telescope data in an experiment to find extraterrestrial intelligence. But Superintendent Denise Birdwell told the East Valley Tribune that the program also bogged down the district’s computer network and interfered with technology use in classrooms. Birdwell said it will take more than $1 million to fix the problem, including removal of the SETI software. She says police are conducting a broader investigation…
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Why are colleges getting free Big Data services?
By Denny Carter, Editor, @eCN_Denny
Many colleges and universities are finding that Big Data analytics services aren’t included in the axiom preaching that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
[Editor’s note: This story was originally posted in February, as a host of Big Data companies offered their free or low-cost services to colleges and universities. With colleges launching Big Data degree programs and companies hoping for students to familiarize themselves with data analytics programs, we thought this was a good time to re-introduce the corporate interest in a burgeoning educational field.]
Hoping to mold a generation of college graduates specializing in analyzing data using certain proprietary Big Data software, companies are offering their services for free to campuses nationwide.
The latest offer is from California-based Predixion Software, which announced its Predixion in the Classroom (PIC) initiative Jan. 28.
Students at St. Joseph University, University of Maryland University College, the University of Washington, and the University of Western Michigan will have free access to Predixion’s predictive model software and related services through the PIC program.
“The expectation is that students who use their software in class will be more apt to want to use it in their future careers, so these companies see this as an investment,” Murray Jennex, a professor in computer science at San Diego State University, said in an interview with CruxialCIO.
Predixion’s offer to U.S. schools is the latest from companies leading the way in data analytics as universities look for ways to use that data to streamline campus infrastructure and trim student and institutional costs.
IBM announced in August that it has has added nine new institutions to its academic partnerships that focus on Big Data. More than 1,000 universities around the world are involved in similar collaborations with IBM.
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E-Rod sparkles as Red Sox rout Dodgers
By Bill Koch / Providence Journal
Eduardo Rodriguez throws a gem as the Red Sox defeat Los Angeles, 8-1, in World Series rematch at Fenway Park.
BOSTON - His last start against the Dodgers ended with Eduardo Rodriguez slamming his glove to the mound at Dodger Stadium.
It was Game 4 of the World Series, and the left-hander had just been rocked for a three-run homer by Yasiel Puig. The Red Sox were left with some rallying to do, and their late explosion relegated what would have been a defeat for Rodriguez to a no decision.
Rodriguez was excellent prior to that one wayward fastball, and on Friday served as a reminder that Boston’s leader in victories this season has the goods to produce against elite opposition. Rodriguez was superb through seven innings as the Red Sox started their second half off right with an 8-1 dusting of Los Angeles in this World Series rematch.
Rafael Devers knocked in a pair of runs and Christian Vazquez added a solo homer as Boston won its fifth straight overall and for the sixth time in its past seven. The Red Sox joined the ranks of 50-game winners in the big leagues and are now a season-high nine games above the .500 mark. Rodriguez has racked up 10 of those wins on his own, his third season of double digits since his 2015 debut and his second straight.
Alex Verdugo’s solo home run to right in the top of the second inning was the lone breakthrough for the Dodgers against Rodriguez. He allowed only two other men to reach scoring position and set a new career high by inducing 22 swings-and-misses. Rodriguez struck out 10 for the second time this year and the 14th time in his career.
Rodriguez’s change-up was particularly filthy on this night. Four of his strikeouts and 11 of his swings-and-misses came on the pitch, and Rodriguez threw it only 33 times. He scattered four other singles and issued his only two walks with two outs in the top of the first.
Boston sandwiched Verdugo’s round-tripper with two of its own. Devers drove a solo shot to deep left in the bottom of the first and Vazquez lofted a solo shot down the line in left in the second. Boston enjoyed an early 2-1 lead, one that only grew as the night went on.
The extra-base train continued for the Red Sox leading off the sixth. Mookie Betts shot the gap in left-center with a leadoff double and Devers banged a drive off the Green Monster for another double. It was a 3-1 Boston cushion, one that left Los Angeles starter Kenta Maeda on the hook when he exited after 5 2/3 frames.
The Red Sox staged an extended five-run rally in the seventh, one prolonged by a 60-minute rain delay. Brock Holt’s RBI double to left preceded a band of thunderstorms in the area and Betts touched off the resumption with a sacrifice fly to center, making it 5-1. An intentional walk for Devers was followed by a hanging slider from JR Chargois, and Xander Bogaerts crushed a three-run homer that zipped its way just above the Monster.
Boston’s dominance in inter-league play continues. The Red Sox won for the 30th time in their past 38 games and the 40th time in their past 52. The Dodgers are only 1-4 against American League opponents this season and have won only one of their nine games against Boston all-time at this venue.
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Blog Death and taxes - understanding inheritance in Australia
Death and taxes - understanding inheritance in Australia
Financial Planning | 8/05/2019 | 7 min read
They say nothing is certain but death and taxes. So let’s look at the actual rules around estates taxes, superannuation, and what happens to assets when they’re distributed to family and friends following a death.
Talk of an estate tax (also known as a death taxes in some circles) has popped up during the election campaigning. While there’s no evidence to suggest such a tax is being considered on either sides, it does raise questions about estates, inheritance, death and taxes.
Australia is an outlier, in that we don’t currently have any kind of estate tax. Whatever assets are passed down to family members, whether that’s property, cash, shares or otherwise, is exempt from any direct tax.
The caveat is that any change to a person’s financial position following on from an inheritance will be subject to the usual taxes, including interest earned, capital gains, etc. So if you inherit a share portfolio, or a sum of cash that generates interest, you’ll be obliged to pay the relevant taxes on any earnings it generates.
Things get more complicated when it comes to superannuation and death. There various rules around the distribution of assets - and just as many exemptions. But before we delve too deep, let’s look at the history of estate taxes, and why Australia has such a unique system.
A short history lesson
Australia had an estate tax until 1979. But when QLD premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen abolished all inheritance and gift taxes in the mid-70s to attract interstate migrants, the Federal Government responded by abolishing those same tax nationally.
Fast forward four decades, and the least popular tax policy in Australia is poking its head over the parapets again. The Henry tax review, in a proposal that was promptly rejected by both the ALP and the Coalition in 2010, said there were major reasons to consider what it termed a bequest tax.
It found "large asset accumulations" ended in the hands of a relatively small number of people, and that bequests were likely to rise from $22 billion in 2010 to $85 billion in 2030.
More recently, the Grattan Institute’s budget policy director, Danielle Wood, has said that, “A person earning $100,000 a year in wages or salary pays a little over $26,000 in income tax. A person who received a $100,000 inheritance from a deceased family member does not pay a cent of tax.”
She did add that any estate tax policy was "heinously unpopular" at the ballet box. Which means there’s very little political will to review the current arrangement.
Other western nations have maintained estate taxes of varying amounts. The top four nations for estate tax are outlined below.
1. Japan 55%
2. South Korea 50%
3. France 45%
4. United Kingdom 40%
4. United States 40%
Those numbers don’t tell the whole story. In the US an estate tax only applies to sums over $11 million (USD), which means only about 2000 deceased estates are impacted per year. On the other end of the spectrum the UK applies an estate tax on any estates above £325,000 (GBP)and imposes a 40% tax on any sums above that threshold.
The OECD average is 15%, but again, that number becomes quite fuzzy when you take into account various thresholds.
Australia may not have an estate tax, but the distribution of wealth after someone’s passing can still have significant impact on the beneficiaries. This includes tax implications from additional income as well as capital gains from the sale of assets.
In some instances superannuation inheritances may also be taxed. While there’s no tax when super is transferred from one deceased partner to another, the rules get murkier when it comes to non-dependents, e.g. children over 18. In these scenarios super may be taxed at either 15% or 17% based on the estate planning done beforehand.
Speaking to a qualified financial planner can help you better understand your options, and the most appropriate way to distribute your assets.
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Etihad Airways expands African network
With new flights to Algiers
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, today announced the launch of a three times per week service between Abu Dhabi and Algiers, marking the next stage of growth for the airline’s African network.
Commencing on 17 June 2015, the new capital-to-capital link will make Algiers, the largest city of Algeria, Etihad Airways’ tenth destination in Africa.
The new flights will offer significant travel options for business and leisure travellers in Algeria, a country with a population exceeding 37 million, providing links to the airline’s Abu Dhabi hub and destinations across the Gulf region, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Australasia. They will also provide better access to Algeria for over 10,000 Algerians expatriates living in the UAE.
James Hogan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Etihad Airways, said: “The direct link between the capitals of the UAE and Algeria is another milestone in our African expansion strategy and underscores our ongoing commitment to serve emerging markets.
“Algeria, the tenth largest country in the world and the largest in Africa, is rich in natural resources, such as oil and natural gas. Our new services will strengthen the oil and gas links between the UAE and Algeria, and create new opportunities for both countries in the areas of government, trade, tourism and cultural exchange.”
The Abu Dhabi-Algiers route will be operated by a three-class Airbus A330-300 aircraft, configured to carry 231 passengers, with eight seats in First Class, 32 seats in Business Class and 191 seats in Economy Class, offering a total of 1,386 seats per week.
TheA330-300 aircraft will also offer just over 72 tonnes of weekly belly hold capacity to and from Algeria, giving a further boost to trade opportunities. The airline expects to transport oil equipment, consumable commodities, garments, electronics, building materials and vehicles to points across its network. Imports including dates, lubricants and a wide range of manufactured goods will be shipped in the other direction.
Located on the west side of a bay on the Mediterranean coast, the cosmopolitan city of Algiers is home to numerous historical and cultural attractions, including the Great Mosque, Notre Dame D’Afrique, Martyrs Square and multiple monuments and forts.
With its Phoenician, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, and French colonial heritage, Algeria offers a rich variety of architecture and a vibrant cultural scene. The country has some of the world’s most beautiful coastline, as well as vast mountainous and desert landscapes.
Etihad Airways currently has flights to Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, the Seychelles, South Africa and Sudan in its African network.
The airline has announced six new routes for the first half of 2015, starting with Kolkata in February, Madrid in March, Entebbe in May, and Edinburgh, Hong Kong and Algiers in June.
The airline’s flights to and from Algiers can be booked from today on etihad.com, through Etihad Airways Contact Centres, or via travel agents.
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Pauley Perrette's Naked Limo Ride to the PCAs
By Raphael Chestang 11:26 PM PST, January 11, 2012
CBS news anchor Betty Nguyen was on duty for ET at the 2012 People's Choice Awards on Wednesday night and things got a little risque when she asked Pauley Perrette a seemingly innocent question.
"I changed clothes in the car and I had no mirror, so I have no idea what I look like," said the NCIS star, who was coming from another event just before the awards show. "I told my driver, I said, 'No offense, dude, but I'm about to get naked.'"
Pauley presented the award for Favorite New TV Comedy, but she admitted that she was somewhat biased.
"I'm really hoping that it's 2 Broke Girls, because I love those girls," Pauley beamed.
"Those girls" -- Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs -- did take home the statuette, but their award wasn't the only surprise they had to look forward to.
The two lovely ladies flipped out when they heard their pal, ET's Mark Steines, would be featured in the show.
"I'm even more excited now," Beth gushed.
Watch the video for more.
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United Nations soldiers, part of United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), monitoring Eritrea-Ethiopia boundary. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Can Ethiopia-Eritrea Reconciliation Offer Hope For Israel-Palestine? – OpEd
July 10, 2018 July 10, 2018 Richard Silverstein 2 Comments
By Richard Silverstein
Over the past few days, I’ve watched as something unimaginable has happened. Two countries engaged in war for two decades, who have together killed 80,000 of each other’s citizens, have reconciled. It is beyond belief. How can these two nations, both governed by authoritarian regimes undergo such a change of heart? How did this happen? And can it offer any hints for the seven decades of war and hate between Israel and Palestine?
There are interesting colonial historical parallels between Ethiopia-Eritrea and Israel-Palestine. Ethiopia was once a colony of Italy, and fought two wars to liberate itself from colonial occupation. In 1941, it succeeded in ejecting Italy and governing itself as an independent nation. A brutal Marxist dictatorship took control of the country and overthrew Emperor Hailie Selasie in 1974. A decade later, an armed rebellion led to the fall of this regime in 1991 and the current government assumed control. Eritrea, which had been part of the larger Ethiopia fought, as part of this rebellion, for its own independence which it gained in the same year. However, territorial disputes roiled relations between the countries and led to three years of bloody conflict, which is only now seeing its conclusion two decades later.
Compare this to the situation of Israel-Palestine in which Mandatory Palestine was a colony of Great Britain. The Yishuv fought a nearly twenty year conflict to free itself of British control, which ended in 1948 with declaration of the State of Israel. Though the West Bank was controlled by Jordan and Gaza by Egypt at the time, after 1967 Israel conquered both. Since then, Palestinians have fought Israel for their own freedom. Both nations have been roiled by bloody conflicts over territory and resources. Unlike the African situation, Palestine has yet to win its freedom from Israeli Occupation and domination.
Though they are not identical by any means, Eritrea’s position vis a vis Ethiopia mirrors that of Palestine vis a vis Israel. Just as Palestine (or the Arabs of Mandatory Palestine) was a part of a larger nation freed from colonial rule, only to see itself eventually colonized in turn by the newly free Israel; so Eritrea was originally part of Ethiopia, but did not win full control of all its own territory until the latter finally agreed to settle its territorial dispute just this week. If Eritrea can do it, Palestine should too.
Many factors contribute to this week’s massive transformation in relations: partly the ceaseless wars which drained so much capital that neither country could move forward with development and social welfare projects. Feeding the war machine monopolized so many resources there was little left over for human needs. This led to unrest, especially in Ethiopia, which faced riots which led to ousting the prime minister. In turning to a successor, the ruling party named an entirely different brand of politician. Abiy Ahmed didn’t wish to continue iron-fist and the failed approaches of his predecessor. Instead he wanted radical change both at home and abroad. He made known his wish to reconcile with Eritrea and his willingness to solve the territorial disputes which divided them. It was as if a huge boulder disintegrated and a blocked river could flow free for the first time in ages.
The Ethiopian leader has just completed his first trip to Eritrea and both men have agreed to recognize each other’s governments, exchange ambassadors, reopen trade and air routes and borders:
Abiy said the two leaders have “agreed to bring down the wall between us. Now there is no border between Ethiopia and Eritrea. That border line has gone today with the display of a true love … love is greater than modern weapons like tanks and missiles. Love can win hearts, and we have seen a great deal of it today here in Asmara. From this time on, war is not an option for the people of Eritrea and Ethiopia. What we need now is love.”
This advent of harmony has not been without its difficult moments. Recently, at a massive rally in the nation’s capital, unknown forces exploded grenades during the ceremony and caused chaos and one death. It’s thought that those in the old government whose power derived from maintaining the status quo, attempted to throw a spanner in the works. It doesn’t appear to have worked. Though it’s hard to know whether these dark forces will orchestrate other more damaging attacks in future.
What about Israel-Palestine? If two African nations who’ve been at each others’ throats for ages can break such a logjam, can Israelis and Palestinians? That’s a difficult question. First, Ethiopia and Eritrea are both relatively poor African countries. Their resources were limited and their ability to fund the conflict was not inexhaustible. As in the case of South Africa, in which the white leader, F.W. de Klerk, saw the handwriting on the wall and determined to end decades of white rule, that’s what happened in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
But Israel appears different. There is no dawning realization that the Occupation and apartheid is unsustainable in the long-term. On the contrary, both Israelis and their leaders believe the status quo can be maintained indefinitely. Israel’s economy is relatively strong. Its economic outlook is bright. It has a high standard of living (for the top three-quarters of the population, at least). It’s military forces are among the strongest in the region and in the top ten in the world. While Israel has few strong allies other than the U.S., many states are happy to do business with Israel and buy its exports, especially its technology and weapons systems.
It hardly matters that economists project Israel and Palestine would benefit enormously both economically and commercially from a peace agreement. Israelis prefer the thing they know, even if it is imperfect, rather than the thing they don’t.
The key to breaking through the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict was the dawning realization of one leader that his country faced a far brighter future if it compromised, rather than insisted on maintaining long-time demands. I see no hope of that happening in Israel. There is neither a Party nor a leader who has such a vision. Politics in Israel is frozen solid. The national consensus is so strong and so stubborn that any politician who attempted to break it would be made to pay. That’s why political life in Israel is so barren and infertile.
Nevertheless, I retain some hope that a miracle might happen. But most likely the only way peace will ever come to Israel-Palestine is if there is a catastrophic tragedy which compels the international community to act and impose a solution on both parties.
This article was published by Tikun Olam
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Richard Silverstein
Richard Silverstein is an author, journalist and blogger, with articles appearing in Haaretz, the Jewish Forward, Los Angeles Times, the Guardian’s Comment Is Free, Al Jazeera English, and Alternet. His work has also been in the Seattle Times, American Conservative Magazine, Beliefnet and Tikkun Magazine, where he is on the advisory board. Check out Silverstein's blog at Tikun Olam, one of the earliest liberal Jewish blogs, which he has maintained since February, 2003.
2 thoughts on “Can Ethiopia-Eritrea Reconciliation Offer Hope For Israel-Palestine? – OpEd”
1 This article has too many errors. Ethiopia was not Italy colonies , only Italy invaded Ethiopia for 5 or 6 years but the Italian were defeated . You might be right saying Eritrea was Italy’s colony for about 60+ years .
2 Eritrea also have had full control of it’s land since it’s independent 1993 except few disputes territories and Ethiopia has also some land controls by Eritrea. Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed peace treaty in 2000 and singed border demarcation . Ethiopia rejected it for a small village town called Badme which was a flashpoint of the two years war.
3 Ethiopia and Eritrea main difference is political. All culturely, religion, food , etc are very the same and similar on both country .
Oh dear, Ethiopia was never never colonized by Italy. Never. Check your source please.
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Gary L. Kermott promoted to chief operating officer of First American Title Insurance Company
December 23, 1997, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA
Gary L. Kermott has been promoted to chief operating officer of First American Title Insurance Company. He will retain both the position of executive vice president of the company and that of regional vice president for Arizona.
"Gary will help our company be as good as it can be in terms of efficiency, market share, product quality and service to the customer," said President Parker S. Kennedy. "He is very well qualified for the position and very well liked within our company."
Kermott began working for First American in 1983 as a law clerk at the corporate office in Santa Ana while attending law school at Western State University. After passing the bar in 1985, he was promoted to assistant counsel. In 1988 he moved to Arizona to serve as assistant vice president-associate counsel in Phoenix. Later that same year he was named vice president-county manager in Tucson. In 1990 he was promoted to president of the Arizona division and in 1993 he took on the additional responsibility of regional vice president for Arizona and Utah. In 1996 he relocated to the Santa Ana headquarters when he was named executive vice president.
Kermott was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington. He currently resides in Laguna Niguel with his wife, Debby, and their two sons.
First American Title Insurance Company, principal subsidiary of The First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF), traces its history to 1889. The largest title insurer in the nation, it offers title services through a network of more than 300 offices and 4,000 agents throughout the United States. It also provides title services abroad in Australia, the Bahama Islands, Canada, Guam, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the United Kingdom. The company has its headquarters in Santa Ana, California.
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FIRST AMERICAN TITLE NAMES ROBERT J. HAUSER, JR. REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT OF NORTH ATLANTIC REGION
May 3, 2001, SANTA ANA, Calif.
First American Title Insurance Company, one of the nation's largest title insurers and a member of The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies, today announced the appointment of Robert J. Hauser as regional vice president of the company’s North Atlantic region. Hauser replaces Mike Frederick who retired after 24 years with First American.
Hauser, a 30-year veteran of the title insurance industry, joined First American in 1997. Hauser served as national accounts sales manager and director of national agency operations.
Prior to joining First American, Hauser served as president and chief operating officer at Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company and Transnation Title Insurance Company. Hauser served on the board of directors at both companies.
Hauser was chairman of the Government Affairs Committee for the American Land Title Association. He is a member and past president of the New England Land Title Association and the Connecticut Board of Title Underwriters. Hauser spent nine years in the Connecticut General Assembly, where he served as vice chairman of the Banks Committee.
Hauser is a trustee of Quinnipac University in Hamden, Conn., where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Newtown, Pa.
First American Title Insurance Company, the largest subsidiary of The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF), traces its history to 1889. One of the largest title insurers in the nation, the company offers title services through more than 900 offices and an extensive network of agents throughout the United States and abroad. The company has its headquarters in Santa Ana, Calif. Information about The First American Corporation’s subsidiaries and an archive of its press releases can be found on the Internet at www.firstam.com.
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First Title Bolsters European Expansion with New Appointment
August 27, 2008, LONDON
First Title Insurance plc (First Title), a subsidiary of First Title plc and the largest provider of title insurance in the United Kingdom and Europe, today announced the appointment of Philip Eilmer to the European business development team.
Eilmer, who will report directly to David Hawkins, managing director of First Title, has been appointed as a business development executive with the intention of helping to cultivate and expand First Title’s commercial title insurance proposition within Germany.
Eilmer has been brought in to help expand business in Germany to coincide with First Title’s latest product, German Voidable Lease Cover, which is specifically designed to respond to the difficulties that can emerge as a result of breaching the German Civil Code. He joins the company from Austria’s leading financial newspaper, WirtschaftsBlatt, where he was a deputy sales director, responsible for 17 percent of total net company sales.
Hawkins comments: “We are delighted to welcome Philip to First Title’s European team. Germany has been pinpointed as an integral part of First Title’s expansion when it comes to commercial sales, and this new appointment should help us to realise our goals in this region. The wealth of knowledge and experience that Philip brings with him makes the future look even more promising for First Title.”
About First Title plc
First Title plc has nine offices throughout Europe—five offices in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Germany, Poland, Hungary and Turkey—with more than 600 employees. It provides a wide range of innovative products that enable lawyers, mortgage lenders and estate agents to deliver more efficient and advanced service to their property clients. More information about the company can be found at www.firsttitle.eu. First Title is a wholly owned subsidiary of The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF), a FORTUNE 500® company that traces its history to 1889. First American is America’s largest provider of business information, supplying businesses and consumers with valuable information products to support the major economic events of people’s lives. Additional information about the First American Family of Companies can be found at www.firstam.com.
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Wednesday | January 9th, 2019
More than 50 percent of endowment and foundation managers are bullish on private equity (PE) investments while the vast majority of those surveyed expect domestic equities to be relatively flat or will taper off this year, returning single digits.
The year-end 2018 survey by NEPC’s Endowments & Foundations Practice Group was conducted Nov. 15, prior to the major dip in the Dow during December. NEPC is based in Boston.
Almost half of those surveyed (45 percent) expect domestic equities to be relatively flat in 2019 and almost as many (38 percent) expect domestic equities to “taper off a little, but still return in the mid-to-high single digit range.”
Only 4 percent of those surveyed are bearish on PE during the next 12 to 24 months, expecting it to underperform, while 45 percent are neutral.
A majority of respondents (53 percent) think that the U.S. economy is in a better place compared to a year earlier while nearly one-third (32 percent) said it is in the same place. Only 15 percent said it is worse.
Almost half of those surveyed identified geopolitical tensions (23 percent) and rising interest rates (23 percent) as the biggest threats to portfolios during the next 12 months, followed closely by a U.S.-China trade war (19 percent) and political uncertainty (17 percent).
Forty-seven percent said that they had no plans to adjust their portfolio allocation due to a downturn in emerging markets. The same proportion said that although they did not plan to make changes, they were monitoring the situation and would make a change if volatility continues.
What keeps endowment and foundation managers up at night? The most significant concerns were meeting or exceeding spending plus inflation and falling short of return targets in the near term. Less significant was increasing demands on staff and time commitments and priorities of investment committee members.
When it comes to private equity (PE) and private debt (PD), more than one-third of those surveyed said that 6 percent to 10 percent of their portfolio is dedicated it. Some 28 percent report 11 percent to 20 percent of their portfolio is focused on private equity and private debt. One in 10 estimated that 21 percent to 30 percent of their portfolio emphasized PE and PD and 2 percent said exposure is greater than 30 percent.
Sixty percent are concerned about fees for PE and PD but no more or less than normal. Fees are a greater concern than ever before for 40 percent due to subdued return expectations.
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ICONX St Basil Cathedral
Saint Basil commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a former church in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The building, now a museum, is officially known as the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat (Russian: Собор Покрова пресвятой Богородицы, что на Рву) or Pokrovsky Cathedral (Russian: Покровский собор). It was built from 1555–61 on orders from Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan. A world famous landmark, it has been the hub of the city's growth since the 14th century and was the city's tallest building until the completion of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600.
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3.5"H x 2.6" x 3.5"
ICONX US Capitol
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Located in Washington D.C., the Capitol is the meeting place of the United States Congress. It sits atop Capitol Hill which is located at the east end of the National Mall. Construction began September 18, 1793. The Capitol is built in the distinctive American neoclassical style with a white marble exterior.
ICONX Notre Dame
Notre-Dame de Paris also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is a historic Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. The cathedral is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture and among the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world. The naturalism of its sculptures and stained glass are in contrast with earlier Romanesque architecture.
ICONX Taj Mahal
is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal is widely recognized as "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage".
ICONX Arc De Triomphe
Located on the right bank of the Seine at the centre of a dodecagonal configuration of twelve radiating avenues. It was commissioned in 1806 after the victory at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon at the peak of his fortunes. Laying the foundations alone took two years and, in 1810, when Napoleon entered Paris from the west with his bride Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria, he had a wooden mock-up of the completed arch constructed.
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