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Amy Cappellanti-Wolf
Chief Human Resources Officer at Symantec
Technology & HR Effectiveness
Business Transformation/Change Management
Organizational Design and Process Management
Communication Strategy Facilitation
Diversity & Inclusion in Tech.
Amy Cappellanti-Wolf is SVP & CHRO at Symantec, the world’s largest cybersecurity software company, based in Mountain View, CA. In addition to serving on the executive team and managing Symantec’s global human resources function, she leads Symantec’s Workplace/Workforce Strategy and Planning, Real Estate and Facilities organizations.
With more than three decades of experience leading companies across high tech, entertainment and consumer products industries through complex transformations, Amy is a proven organizational design and development leader as well as executive coach focusing on talent as the key driver of business growth. Amy specializes in helping businesses survive and thrive while undergoing deep transformation. Her focus areas include Business Transformation and Change Management, Organizational Design and Process Management, Business Partnership, Communication Strategy Facilitation, and Diversity in Tech.
As CHRO at Symantec, Amy has successfully led the global organizational operating model, structure, change management and integration strategies for large scale acquisitions and divestitures. She has led effectiveness strategies related to organization and people optimization, and delivered systemic program and metrics related to structure, workforce planning, talent, and real estate consolidation. Amy has deep experience in architecting HR Operating Models in support of the business with her most recent emphasis on building Talent Development and HR Solutions capability. She has delivered high-impact automation and predictive data analytics and reporting, reducing operating expense, while improving operational effectiveness. In the real estate space, she has integrated workforce planning with real estate optimization, significantly reducing operating costs while also delivering award-winning workspaces for better collaboration and productivity, among other successes. Prior to joining Symantec, Amy was CHRO at Silver Spring Networks, where she led Global HR, Real Estate, and Technical Education organizations. Amy helped to deliver a successful IPO in March 2013. She established HR infrastructure, programs, and technology to drive global scale for the fast growing hardware, software, and services business, and she led several organizational companywide restructures. Amy built and ramped a professional talent acquisition team, doubled the employee population in less than eighteen months, implemented various automation and information systems, and opened up the European, South American, and Asian offices.
From 2001 to 2009, Amy held key human resources roles at Cisco Systems, where she developed innovative leadership development programs and processes. She directly contributed to Cisco’s globalization efforts by developing workforce planning and global mobility practices to resource new and emerging capabilities outside of the US. Specifically, Amy led HR for the U.S. Enterprise Sales team; Worldwide Marketing; Business Functions; and the Decision Support, Services and Operations Businesses. Prior to Cisco, Amy also led HR teams at Sun Microsystems, The Walt Disney Company, and Frito-Lay.
Amy holds an M.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations and a B.S. in Journalism and Public Relations, both from West Virginia University. Amy provides ongoing support of children and foster children as a Board member of the non-profit Silicon Valley Children’s Fund and also serves an advisor to several private companies. Amy was recently named one of the top 50 most influential women tech leaders by the National Diversity Council. She is a frequent speaker and lecturer at industry-related conferences.
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Maite Viudes
Tecnocampus University, Spain
Maite has been working in internationalisation of higher education in both the public and private sectors since the end of the 1980s. After earning her law degree from the Universidad de Murcia, Spain, and her Master’s in European studies from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, she joined Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona as director of international relations. Her work now includes serving as a director at ICEF and a partner at Your Global Liaison, a consultancy that promotes internationalisation at universities. She is the founder and CEO of the study abroad agency Itaca Education and is currently in charge of internationalisation and career development at TecnoCampus, an emerging entrepreneur-oriented campus in Barcelona. She was an elected member of the EAIE General Council (2014–2016), a cofounder of the EAIE Expert Community Marketing and Recruitment, a regular speaker at international conferences and a recipient of the EAIE Bo Gregersen Award for Best Practice.
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What Is Open Source Software?
For today’s tech blog we’re going to discuss open source software. What is it, and how is it different from other types of software? In simple terms, open source software is a term for any program whose source code has been publicly released, allowing for others to modify it however they like.
Software Types
It’s easiest to understand open source software in the context of other types of software, so here’s a refresher in the other major types.
Licensed software is any computer application that requires licensing to be used. This licensing can be as simple as purchasing a digital download code for a single computer, or it can be a complex, enterprise-wide licensing agreement. Nearly all licensed software must be purchased to be used legally. Microsoft Office has long been an example of licensed software.
Cloud or Subscription-Based Software
Technically a subset of licensed software, cloud or subscription-based software requires a recurring subscription-style payment. If your payment lapses, the software may become inoperable. Examples here include Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft’s newer offering, Office 365.
Freeware is a broad term for software that’s distributed freely, with no expectation of payment for personal use. Install these at home as much as you like. Beware that some freeware is only free for personal use, though. If you want to use it in a corporate setting, you may need a license.
Open source software takes the concept of freeware to the next level. To be considered open source, both the software and its source code must be freely available. Users are permitted (and even encouraged) to modify the source code to improve the software or to customize it for their own needs.
Open Source Certification
Open source as discussed above is a concept or philosophy. Developers who wish to release open source software with a sort of seal of approval can do so through the Open Source Initiative. This group offers a certification mark, Open Source (yes, it’s just the term we’ve been discussing, but with capital letters), which verifies that a piece of software meets certain qualifications.
To receive the Open Source designation, a piece of software must meet these two criteria.
The software is available to anyone else, restriction free.
The software’s source code is available for others to change and customize.
Additionally, provision is made so that the original creators can demand that future, customized versions of the software are clearly distinguished from the original, through naming or versioning.
By reading this tech blog post, you now understand what open source software is. If you’re wondering what it can do for your or your business, contact us today. We’re glad to help!
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Author: Bill - Dr. William J. Ward, a.k.a DR4WARD is the Professor of Social Media at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He is ranked one of the "Top Marketing Professors on Twitter" in the world by Social Media Marketing Magazine for providing useful content and consistently engaging with followers and truly "getting it" when it comes to the best ways to use Twitter and other forms of Social Media. He earned his Ph.D. in Media and Information Studies at Michigan State University and teaches internationally. He also participates with theCannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
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Forensics Case: Stella Nickell’s Trail of Fingerprints
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Sue Snow suddenly collapsed on June 11, 1986, in the bathroom of her home in the Seattle, Washington, suburb of Auburn. Paramedics found her unconscious and gasping for breath. They transported her to the hospital, where she soon died. One possible explanation for the young woman’s death was a drug overdose, but she was not a known user and had taken only a couple of Extra-Strength Excedrin, a safe medication.
During her autopsy, examiners noticed a faint odor of almonds emanating from the corpse. A toxicology exam revealed the presence of cyanide. An examination of the Excedrin capsules followed, and they too tested positive for cyanide.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the manufacturer, Bristol-Meyers, moved quickly to remove all Extra-Strength Excedrin bottles from shelves across the country. Seattle police found two other contaminated bottles, one in Auburn and the other in nearby Kent.
In a separate turn of events, Stella Nickell told police on June 17 that her husband had died suddenly just a few days earlier and that he too had taken Excedrin. Already buried, Bruce Nickell’s death certificate stated that he’d died of emphysema. However, because he was a registered organ donor, a sample of his blood had been retained, making an exhumation unnecessary. Tests done on his blood sample showed that he too died from ingesting cyanide.
While police searched for a connection between Sue Snow and Bruce Nickell, the FDA examined more than 740,000 Excedrin capsules from the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. They found cyanide in only five bottles, two of which were in the possession of Stella Nickell. Asked whether she bought the bottles at the same time and from the same store, she said no, she had purchased them on different days at different stores. The odds against such bad luck are astronomical.
In addition to cyanide, FDA examiners detected another odd chemical in the contaminated capsules: traces of an algaecide known as Algae Destroyer, which is used in fish tanks. Stella Nickell had a fish tank and immediately became the focus of the investigation. An in-depth look into her background revealed that she had a history of forgery, fraud, and child abuse. In addition, she had purchased extra insurance on Bruce that would pay her $176,000 in the event of an accidental death.
Stella Nickell denied any involvement in the product tampering but failed a polygraph examination. Then her own daughter came forward, telling police that her mother had often mentioned killing Bruce, even going so far as indicating that she’d researched the use of cyanide.
This information led police to the local Auburn library, where they discovered that a book Stella had checked out was overdue. The title? Human Poisoning. They also found that she had twice checked out Deadly Harvest, a book on toxic plants. At the FBI crime lab, 84 of Stella’s fingerprints were found on the book’s pages. Most of them were found in the section dealing with cyanide.
On May 9, 1988, Stella was sentenced to a 99-year prison term.
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A Few Thoughts on the Democratic Party's 'Hostility' Toward Religion
An ex-Obama aide offers political futility masquerading as tolerance.
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I have great empathy for the people whose lives feel so desperate, or whose spirituality feels so besieged, that they decided to hand the government over to a vulgar talking yam. I have great empathy, but Jesus H. Christ on a grand piano, I am completely out of sympathy. Ever since November 9, I have been told that the only thing for us all to do is buy a cookie for every member of the White Working Class while simultaneously abandoning "identity politics." Come now, inevitably, the white evangelical Christians, shoving their way to the front of the snickerdoodle line.
Tout les 'Toobz have been abuzz over an interview in The Atlantic with this Michael Wear fellow, a former Obama religious-outreach aide who's pitching a book about the "hostility" toward religion that he found among his colleagues while working in the White House. This, it should be pointed out, has now become a regular part of the presidential transition process. Back in 2008, when C-Plus Augustus was handing the keys over to the current president, David Kuo, who'd held a similar position to Wear's within the Bush administration, published a book in which he argued that the Bush White House had been disrespectful to religious conservatives.
When did the followers of Jesus become such delicate little snowflakes? Whatever happened to muscular Christianity anyway?
(To his credit, Kuo related one anecdote that will be hard for Wear—or anyone else—to top. In his book, Kuo says he once heard another aide ordered by Karl Rove, "I don't know. Just get me a fucking faith-based thing. Got it?" This is exactly how St. Francis would have sounded, had he been a capo regime in Assisi.)
Wear's book is just now out so, in fairness, I haven't read it. But, judging from the interview, it seems he's reading from the Epistle of Paul to the Buttercups the same way Kuo did. To wit:
Many people have noted that 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in this election. Why do you think that was?
It shows not just ineptitude, but the ignorance of Democrats in not even pretending to give these voters a reason to vote for them. We also need to have a robust conversation about the support or allowance for racism, misogyny, and Islamophobia in the evangelical tradition.
This answer is politically absurd. Evangelicals went 81 percent for perhaps the most irreligious presidential candidate in American history because evangelicals vote their conservatism and not their Christianity. Long ago, I was on a panel with a theology professor who said he could envision these voters supporting an out atheist if the candidate held the right positions on the social issues and tax cuts. I thought he was mistaken. In 2016, I realized I was wrong.
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And who, precisely, is the Democratic politician who could embark on this "robust conversation" among religious and sexual bigots about how their dearly nurtured prejudices were not necessarily what the gospels had in mind without being condemned as a godless infidel?
There's a lot of conversation in Christian circles about Jeremiah 29, which is Jeremiah's letter to the exiles in Babylon. The message Jeremiah had, and that the Lord had, for the exiles is that they should seek the peace and prosperity of the city where they've been planted, and multiply—they should maintain their convictions for the flourishing of others. The concern I have, and that many others have, is that in this time of cultural transformation in America, you're going to have many evangelicals who just become Babylonians.
OK, but it's going to cost them a fortune in headgear.
They think, in some ways wrongly, but in other ways rightly, that it would put constraints around their policy agenda. So, for instance: You could make a case to evangelicals while trying to repeal the Hyde Amendment, [which prohibits federal funding for abortion in most circumstances,] but that's really difficult. Reaching out to evangelicals doesn't mean you have to become pro-life. It just means you have to not be so in love with how pro-choice you are, and so opposed to how pro-life we are.
I am trying to parse this concern for the tenderness of the faith-based fee-fee in such a way that it doesn't end up with the party discreetly throwing the privacy rights of 51 percent of the country's people overboard. I am largely failing at this task.
Another reason why they haven't reached out to evangelicals in 2016 is that, no matter Clinton's slogan of "Stronger Together," we have a politics right now that is based on making enemies, and making people afraid. I think we're seeing this with the Betsy DeVos nomination: It's much easier to make people scared of evangelicals, and to make evangelicals the enemy, than trying to make an appeal to them.
My father worked in public education for 35 years and Betsy DeVos doesn't believe in public education. She's also manifestly unqualified and has demonstrated dangerous incompetence. That she's also blatantly theocratic about it is only part of the problem. (Taxpayer money for religious schools is so nakedly unconstitutional that it shouldn't even be an argument.) She's not an "enemy." But she's also a terrible example in terms of the case Wear is trying to make.
I don't want to "appeal" to people who think Betsy DeVos should be in charge of public schools. I want to stop them. Period.
There were a lot of things that were surprising about Hillary's answer [to a question about abortion] in the third debate. She didn't advance moral reservations she had in the past about abortion. She also made the exact kind of positive moral argument for abortion that women's groups—who have been calling on people to tell their abortion stories—had been demanding.
I sincerely hope Wear doesn't think this is some kind of problem. I suspect my sincere hope is in vain. Oops, I'm right, too.
The Democratic Party used to welcome people who didn't support abortion into the party. We are now so far from that, it's insane.
Unless, of course, you count the outgoing leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate. Find me a pro-choice Republican in a position of power anywhere in the party. I'll wait. Clock's ticking, though.
This debate, for both sides, is not just about the abortion rate; it's not just about the legality of it. It's a symbolic debate. It's symbolic on the pro-choice side about the autonomy of women and their freedom to do what they want with their bodies. On the pro-life side, they care not just about the regulations around abortion, but whether there's a cultural affirmation of life. Even the symbolic olive branches have become less acceptable.
Want to know why? Because doctors get murdered in church and in their kitchens, that's why. Because clinics get bomb threats and, on occasion, actually get blown up. That's why. Because women and doctors get harassed in their homes and on the street. That's why.
If We Tolerate This, What Won\'t We Tolerate?
And it actually is all about the legality of a woman's right to choose, which is why so many Republican governors and state legislatures are crafting, you know, actual legal laws to restrict that right, and it's why they're all slavering for that One More Vote on the Supreme Court to overturn Roe. This is not a symbolic fight in any way that actually matters to people.
It's sad that this is a throwaway response, but it's the duty of statesmanship. It's the duty of living in a pluralistic society to make a case to all folks.
Yes, and when it doesn't take, you work like hell for the policy outcomes you prefer and, if you win, those other "folks" can take a seat for a few years. Wear's argument almost never is applied to Republicans, by the way.
The second would be that America is still a profoundly religious nation. There are reports that high-level Democratic leadership was not interested in reaching out to white Catholics. And they sure didn't have a lot of interest in white evangelicals. That's a huge portion of the electorate to throw out. So if the civic motivation doesn't get you, let me make the practical argument: It doesn't help you win elections if you're openly disdainful toward the driving force in many Americans' lives.
OK, put up or shut up. Who in a position of power in the Democratic Party is "openly disdainful" of religion? Not some anonymous staffer that Wear allegedly met in the West Wing whose knowledge of Matthew's gospel is lacking, but a person of real power and influence. (And, no, that leaked e-mail about conservative Catholics is not it, either.) Hillary Rodham Clinton talked endlessly about the impact of her Methodist upbringing on her development as a public person. She lost to a guy who talked about Two Corinthians, who couldn't tell the difference between a Methodist and a Podiatrist if you spotted him John Wesley, and for whom 81 percent of the people Wear thinks the Democrats disdain voted anyway.
What Wear is proposing is a prescription for political futility in the guise of tolerance.
I've been speaking across the country for the year leading up to the election, and I would be doing these events, and without fail, the last questioner or second-to-last questioner would cry. I've been doing political events for a long time, and I've never seen that kind of raw emotion. And out of that, I came to the conclusion that politics was causing a deep spiritual harm in our country. We've allowed politics to take up emotional space in our lives that it's not meant to take up.
Here's a cookie. Buck up, lad.
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Rachmaninov - Liturgy of St John Chrysostom Op. 31
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Label: Glossa
Cat No: GCDSA922203
Format: SACD
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Rachmaninov, Sergei
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, op.31
Flemish Radio Choir
Kaspars Putninsh
Rachmaninov's Liturgy of St John Chrysostom was composed in 1910 when, at the age of 37, he had just returned from his first American tour, having given a series of recitals in which his third piano concerto had been enthusiastically received.
Rachmaninov had always been fascinated by the melodic legacy of the Orthodox Church, and with the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom he penetrated the very heart of the spiritual world of Orthodox Russia, where its greatest desires and hopes for eternal life gleam.
In the world of choral music, the high standards reached in recent years by chamber choirs has been a hugely encouraging development. No longer are singers obsessed with having a solo career, instead they are more than happy contributing to the enrichment of a choral repertory which fully merits it, exemplified by ensembles such as Accentus, RIAS Kammerchor, Polyphony and Tenebrae.
The latest to join such an elite is the Vlaams Radio Koor from Belgium - the Flemish Radio Choir. Although the choir has been in existence for 70 years it is only in the last decade or so that its success has acted as a catalyst for amateur choirs in the Flanders region. On this occasion, and in sumptuous Glossa sound, they present an impressive version of the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, a magical work, banned by the Bolsheviks as part of their fight against the Orthodox Church. This is sublimely inspiring music performed by an elite choir, with one of its regular guest conductors, the Latvian-born Kaspars Putninsh directing.
Recorded at Jezu�etenkerk, Heverlee, Belgium, in March 2006
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Our mission is to promote livable communities which enhance the quality of life for the present and the future by:
Promoting convenient, attractive, harmonious and healthy communities;
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Promoting the protection, conservation and restoration of natural and heritage resources;
Addressing the needs of low and moderate income populations;
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Providing services, information and guidance on land use and zoning issues; and,
Identifying and utilizing technological innovations.
The primary purpose of the Department is to provide proposals, advice and assistance on land use, development review and zoning issues to those who make decisions on such issues in Fairfax County. The Department of Planning and Development consists of three divisions: the Planning Division (PD), the Zoning Evaluation Division (ZED), and the Zoning Administration Division (ZAD). The Department of Planning and Development is located in the Herrity Building, 12055 Government Center Pkwy., Fairfax, VA 22035.
The Planning Division (PD) maintains the Fairfax County Comprehensive Plan and processes all suggested and required amendments to the Plan text and map; evaluates land use and development proposals for conformity with the Comprehensive Plan and measures related environmental, development and public facility impacts.
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Home Bottomline Dealing with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
Dealing with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
By Roelof Bezuidenhout
Hanlie Snyman from the Institute for Disability Innovation (IDI) in the Northern Cape explains the need for Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) awareness, support, prevention, as well as skills training programmes for pregnant women.
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What is the extent of the FAS problem?
Although Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is an old, serious and growing malady, it only draws brief public attention when some of its more sensational spin-offs in the poverty-stricken rural areas hit the headlines. Recently, for example, it was reported that young women – often schoolgirls – not only use the social grant system to earn money by becoming pregnant, but deliberately try to give their children FAS so that they can qualify for the R1 200/month grant for disabled children.
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It’s hard to say how far this facet of the problem extends, because information about FAS is both scarce and unreliable. Some statistics indicate that Wellington in the Western Cape has the most FAS cases; others indicate that it is De Aar in the Northern Cape. However, international studies show that South Africa has the highest reported incidence of FAS in the world. About 25 000 babies are born with FAS every year, and 12,2% of all people living in De Aar have FAS.
South Africa does not have appropriately- qualified professionals to perform diagnostic evaluations in rural areas. FAS can thus be described as a neglected and worsening problem, which is growing in most towns without any structures to protect the unborn children. City Press reported that the alcohol trade remains one of the biggest money-spinners in the Northern Cape.
What is FAS?
FAS is caused by heavy alcohol consumption (usually in binges) during pregnancy. These can lead to permanent brain damage in the unborn child. It occurs among all race groups and across all socio-economic sectors, but is most prevalent in low-income areas where jobs are scarce. Alcohol abuse, teenage pregnancies, lack of family planning, and chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, as well as malnutrition, are often more common here.
FAS is characterised by retarded growth, facial and neural abnormalities, as well as malformation of certain organ systems. Alcohol and its primary metabolite, acetaldehyde, are tissue toxins which may interfere directly with cellular growth and metabolism. When alcohol is consumed, it is carried through the bloodstream to all organs and tissues. In the case of a pregnant woman, this includes the placenta.
Maternal risk in giving birth to a child with FAS is known to vary substantially between different population groups and individuals. It is not recommended that mothers who regularly consume alcohol, even moderately (more than two drinks per day), breastfeed their babies.
Due to these mothers’ alcohol use and the cognitive damage to their offspring, both are at a higher risk of abuse and HIV/Aids infection than the average person in their communities.
How can a FAS victim be identified?
There are three main indications: growth retardation (before and after birth), facial characteristics, and neurological effects such as permanent brain damage. Typical disabilities are a low level of intelligence, physical disabilities including heart defects, visual or hearing impairment, and difficulty in learning or carrying out tasks.
Secondary problems include dropping out of school, unplanned pregnancies, especially among young schoolgirls, as well as trouble with the law. All of these factors have serious secondary effects and lead to increased misery in entire neighbourhoods. Mothers of FAS children also have discernable characteristics. They usually live in an environment in which heavy drinking is the norm, especially heavy binge-drinking on weekends.
They may also be heavy smokers and have a lower body mass index than normal mothers, due to malnutrition. Poorly educated, these mothers are less likely to have full-time employment, and are often psychologically depressed. Having had a previous child with FAS is also a strong risk factor for having another baby with FAS. It’s a vicious cycle if ever there was one. Fighting it makes you feel as if you are in a small boat on a wide river.
What is the cure?
Alcohol is possibly causing far greater harm than any other drug in South Africa, simply because there are so many users. Evidence from around the world indicates that the most cost-effective way to reduce alcohol-related harm, is to restrict access to alcohol, rather than ban it. But the only complete cure for FAS is for women not to drink at all during pregnancy.
However, before we can make any progress in achieving this ideal, we have to honestly answer these questions:
Is the Department of Social Development neglecting its duty as the lead department coordinating and implementing interventions for this problem?
Are health professionals equipped to do the necessary screening and perform the evaluation diagnosis correctly? If not, then who will undertake the correct screening and evaluations without labelling children incorrectly? Currently, diagnosis is made on an ad hoc basis by unqualified people.
Does the Department of Education offer educational support in schools for children with FAS?
What role does the Institute for Disability Innovation play?
It is a non-profit organisation aimed at building its own capacity and skills, as well as effectively managing the necessary community development among the poorest of the poor, disabled persons with special needs, and those with little or no schooling, especially the youth.
To combat FAS, we suggest that a screening and evaluation method be developed that can be performed at local clinics by under- and postgraduate health professionals. Only the Department of Health Services can perform such an initiative.
We would also like to see a workable FAS prevention programme for pregnant women, carried out by service providers countrywide. The main purpose of the prevention programme would be to equip women during the critical periods of their pregnancies. The aim would be to help them make informed choices, thereby enabling them to protect their unborn babies from the devastating effects of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. This would also reduce and prevent alcohol- related birth defects.
High risk women and teenage girls from impoverished rural communities and farms must be fully informed about the negative and life-threatening consequences of substance abuse during pregnancy. Children suffering from FAS must receive care and guidance along with their parents and teachers.
There is evidence that brief interventions in prenatal settings (clinics) are an effective, low cost means of helping pregnant women with early stage alcohol problems, thereby reducing or eliminating alcohol use during pregnancy. The technique of brief intervention can be defined as a time-limited, patient-centred counselling strategy to change behaviour and increase patient compliance with therapy.
Such a programme must be executed during early pregnancy because it helps expectant women become aware of their unborn baby’s daily development. It will also be advisable to develop a skills training programme over the nine-month period, teaching pregnant women the difference between a normal, healthy pregnancy and an abnormal one and its consequences.
Training in needlework, arts and crafts entrepreneurship is essential for keeping pregnant women off the streets to prevent alcohol consumption and help them create a sustainable income. Women can then continue working after giving birth. Finally, an alcohol rehabilitation programme must be made available to all those who need it.
Phone Hanlie Snyman on 053 382 3679 or 076 576 7726, or email [email protected]. Email Beatrice Conradie at [email protected] or visit the website www.institutefordisabilityinnovation.co.za.
This article was originally published in the 2 May 2014 issue of Farmer’s Weekly.
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Strength and Humility in the Photographs of Dorothea Lange
October 29, 2018 by Miss Rosen
Paul S. Taylor. Dorothea Lange in Texas on the Plains, ca. 1935
© The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California
Dorothea Lange. Drought Refugees, ca. 1935
In 1902, at the age of seven, Dorothea Lange (1985–1965) was stricken with polio. Left with a withered foot and a permanent limp, Lange’s next challenge came at the age of 12, when her father abandoned the family. These early traumas formed and shaped Lange, forcing her to become self-reliant at a young age.
While in high school, Lange determined that she would become a photographer, though she had never used a camera before – but she made moves, studying the medium with Clarence H. White at Columbia University. She honed her skills on the streets of New York, recalling, “On the Bowery I knew how to step over drunken men. I knew how to keep an expression of face that would draw no attention, so no one would look at me. I have used that my whole life in photographing.”
In 1918, Lange and a close friend decided they would see the world, so they jumped in a car and headed West. The international leg of their trip was aborted in San Francisco, after they were robbed. Lange quickly fell in with the local photo scene, secured financial backing, and set up her own photo studio where she created portraits of the city’s bohemian and artistic elite. But when the Great Depression hit, everything changed – and the story of Dorothea Lange comes to center stage. The discrepancy between what was happening in her studio versus the reality f the streets became more than the artist could bear, and she decided to be the change she wanted to see in the world.
In Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing (Prestel), author Alona Pardo has created a stunning visual biography that provides an incredible survey of Lange’s career, providing a rich and nuanced look at the political power and impact of photography of the way we see, think, and feel. The book takes us through the Dust Bowl, heading into Texas and Mississippi to look at African Americans living in apartheid conditions under Jim Crow, before circling back to California to document life for Japanese Americans who had everything taken from them before being forced into concentration camps.
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind,” Lange said, “To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable, but when the great photographs are produced, it will be down that road. I have only touched it, just touched it.”
But the delicacy of Lange’s touch is heightened by the specificity of the narratives she chooses to portray. As the only woman photographer working in the Farm Security Administration, Lange’s perspective is invaluable, for her eye was drawn to stories that no one else saw. Amid the iconic photographs of the Depression and the Dust Bowl, Lange’s float above, for though hers is a hard-luck story, it is never insurmountable.
In Lange’s photographs, the road ahead is long and dry, but it is matched by a grim determination that underscores the fight to survive. The people of Lange’s photographs never say die – though they assuredly have more than a few words that tell it like it is.
Lange’s approach strongly differed from that of her contemporaries. To make her photographs, Lange recalled, “Sitting on the ground with people, letting the children look at your camera with their dirty, grimy little hands, and putting their fingers on the lens, and you let them, because you know that if you will behave in a generous manner, you’re very apt to receive it.”
This mutuality was driven in large part by Lange’s understanding of the collaborative nature of the photograph. She revealed, “I never steal a photograph. Never. All photographs are made in collaboration, as part of their thinking as well as mine.”
Lange’s fundamental humility and respect for her subjects has imbued her work with a profound depth of humanity that is as impressive now as it was when these photographs were made. Lange, in many ways, is a progenitor to the famed slogan, “The personal is political,” for she understood just how to use the truth to provoke not only empathy and understanding but wisdom and knowledge.
“If you can come close to the truth, there are consequences from the photograph,” Lange observed. The ultimate value of the photograph is greater than the sum of its parts. For Lange, “There is an element which you can’t call other than an act of love. That is the tremendous motivation behind it. And you give it. Not to a person, you give it to the world… an act of love – that’s the deepest thing behind it… The audience, the recipient of it, gives it back.”
Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936
Dorothea Lange. Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona, 1940
Dorothea Lange. Sacramento, California. College students of Japanese ancestry
who have been evacuated from Sacramento to the Assembly Center, 1942.
Courtesy National Archives, photo no. 210-G- C471
Dorothea Lange. Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An evacuee
is shown in the lath house sorting seedlings for transplanting.
These plants are year-old seedlings from the Salinas Experiment Station, 1942.
Dorothea Lange. White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1933.
Dorothea Lange. Centerville, California. This evacuee stands by her baggage
as she waitsfor evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in
War Relocation Authority centers for the duration, 1942.
Courtesy National Archives, photo no. 210-G-C241
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Holiday in Scotland
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Scotland’s History in a nut shell
The people who inhabited Scotland in 100 AD, at the time of the Romans, were known as ‘Picti’ (Picts) the painted people. Little is known of the Picts except for the many standing stones they have left behind and can be seen all over Scotland today. On the Black Isle just north of Inverness, there is Groam House Museum which has lots of information on the Picts and their superb elaborate stone work.
In 500AD the Scots arrived from Ireland, establishing their first capital at Dunadd, in the Kilmartin Glen just south of Oban which you can still visit today.
In the 9th century Kenneth Mac Alpine, the King of the Scots at Dunadd also became King of the Picts, ruling over central and northern Scotland.
The origins of the present day Scotland date back to 1034 when King Malcolm II was known as “King of Scotia”, ruling over the whole of what we know as Scotland today.
In the 1290’s Edward I of England conquered Scotland which led to the struggle under William Wallace clearly depicted in the film “Brave Heart”. Later Robert the Bruce continued the fight eventually gaining Scotland its freedom. The Stirling area has lots to see on Scotland’s Wars of Independence in the 13th century.
The Declaration of Arbroath in April 1320 stated “For as long as one hundred of us shall remain alive we shall never in wise consent to submit to the rule of the English, for it is not for glory we fight, for riches, or for honours, but for freedom alone, which no good man loses but with his life.” This was the first time in history where freedom is mentioned, not in terms of an individual’s freedom, but that of a nation.
The struggles with England continued until the death of Elizabeth I, July 1603 when James VI of Scotland became James I of England, King of two separate nations each with separate parliaments.
Then comes the period about which, much has been written and sung about, with many stories and myths created as a result. The Jacobite Period.
Who were the Jacobites? They were the supporters of the exiled Stuart Kings in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Called Jacobite after ‘Jacobus’ the Latin version of the name James, the name of the first of two ‘Kings over the water.’ The Jacobite period began with the flight of King James II of England and the VII of Scotland in 1688 to France and ends in 1746 with the Battle of Culloden (the last battle fought on British soil) and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the end of the 45 rebellion.
It was not until 1707 that the two parliaments combined to form the largest free trading block in Europe. There was celebrations in England and rioting in Scotland.
It was not until 1999 that Scotland once again had its own parliament, this time as part of the United Kingdom within the European Economic Community.
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The ‘evident partiality’ standard under US arbitration law
May 2013 | EXPERT BRIEFING | LITIGATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION
A recent US federal appellate court decision concerning review of arbitration awards under the US Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) is a reminder of the risks parties face when conflicts of interest arise in arbitration. Below, we discuss the decision and review some steps parties can take in view of the controlling law. The decision concerns the issue of when a US court may vacate an arbitral award under the FAA on account of the ‘evident partiality’ of an arbitrator. (9 U.S.C. § 10.) Although primarily concerned with domestic US arbitration, the FAA may apply to the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, such as where an arbitration between non-US parties is held in the US.
Relevant US law
The majority of US Circuit Courts, including the Second Circuit sitting in New York, have adopted variations of a ‘reasonable person’ standard for motions to vacate awards based on an arbitrator’s evident partiality. These tests are grounded in the Supreme Court’s plurality opinion in Commonwealth Coatings Corp. v. Continental Casualty Co. (393 U.S. 145), particularly in Justice White’s concurring opinion. Vacating an arbitration award is not something courts do lightly, however, and the FAA allows only limited review of arbitral proceedings and awards. The mere existence of a relationship between a party and an arbitrator is not enough, and courts often find that an undisclosed relationship is too trivial or unsubstantial to warrant vacatur. Indeed, as several courts have recognised, arbitrators will often be selected for industry expertise, and depending on the size of the field, it can be quite common for the arbitrators to have some connection to the parties or to prior, similar disputes. Thus, cases vacating an arbitration award are, in some sense, atypical.
Thomas Kinkade Co. v. White(2013 WL 1296238)
On 2 April 2013, the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (which encompasses the states of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee) issued its decision affirming a lower court’s decision vacating an arbitration award issued after a five-year arbitration. The award was issued in favour of Nancy and David White, art dealers who had a contractual dispute with the Thomas Kinkade Co., a company controlled by a popular artist of the same name. The arbitration panel consisted of three arbitrators, one appointed by each of the parties and a so-called ‘neutral’ appointed by the party-appointed arbitrators who served as the Chair. In the words of the court, the arbitration “was a model of how not to conduct one”. Among other things, and the key issue before the court, was that five years and nearly 50 hearing days into the arbitration, the Chair informed the parties of two engagements recently taken on by his law firm. The first came to the firm from the arbitrator appointed by the Whites. The second was for David White himself. Kinkade filed a motion with the American Arbitration Association (AAA) seeking to disqualify the Chair, but the motion was denied, as was a subsequent demand submitted to the Chair directly.
Soon after, the Chair afforded the Whites significant procedural and substantive advantages, such as allowing them to supplement the proof in support of their damages claim, after the hearings, with documents improperly withheld for years The tribunal ultimately awarded the Whites more than $1.4m, and denied a ‘virtually uncontested’ claim by Kinkade for the return of paintings that the Whites had not paid for. Kinkade moved to vacate the award pursuant to the FAA.
Consistent with the majority view in the US, the Sixth Circuit noted the standard for ‘evident partiality’ is whether “a reasonable person would have to conclude that an arbitrator was partial to one party to the arbitration”, which requires showing more than the appearance of bias but less than actual bias. The court found that Kinkade met this standard because of the substantial engagements of the Chair’s law firm by both David White and the arbitrator White appointed. Moreover, the only plausible explanation for the significant favours provided to the Whites, so late in the arbitration, was that the business provided to the Chair’s firm had made him partial to the Whites.
Picking up on the holdings of some prior cases that suggested that full disclosure by an arbitrator prevents a finding of evident partiality, the Whites attempted to save the award in their favour by pointing to the fact that the Chair disclosed the engagements. Rejecting this argument, the court specifically noted that by initiating business relationships with a party midway through the arbitration process, the Chair of the tribunal jeopardised the legitimacy of the process regardless of the disclosure given. Moreover, the court held that the Chair’s disclosure, five years into the arbitration, actually made matters worse by putting Kinkade in the difficult position of either objecting, and risk offending the Chair, or staying silent, and thereby appearing to condone the conflict of interest.
Some suggested strategies
Parties in arbitration can take steps to try to avoid having evident partiality threaten the arbitration process and the validity of an ensuing award. First, all the major international arbitral institution rules require arbitrator independence and impartiality. For example, Article 11(1) of the ICC Rules states that “[e]very arbitrator must be and remain impartial and independent of the parties involved in the arbitration”. The International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), and the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) rules all contain similar provisions. Thus, by choosing among these or similar rules, a party can have some comfort that the requisite impartiality is in place at the start.
Second, parties should pay strict attention to arbitrator selection and carefully consider all possible conflicts or other indications of partiality that arise during the selection process. The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) has a ‘Due Diligence Evaluation Tool for Selecting Arbitrators and Mediators’ that contains suggested questions to ask in evaluating potential arbitrators. In addition, the International Bar Association’s ‘Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration’ sets out specific examples of situations that, in the opinion of a working group of international arbitration experts, either do or do not require arbitrator disqualification. Resources of this nature can be extremely helpful.
Finally, even the most careful attention to arbitrator selection cannot help where a conflict arises during the arbitration proceedings. To at least provide maximal notice of a potential issue, parties should ensure that the rules governing the proceeding provide for continuing disclosure obligations – i.e., such as in Article 11(3) of the ICC Rules. If evidence of impartiality arises during the proceeding, parties must seriously consider the risk of staying silent. The general rule is that parties, should they wish to raise an objection to the arbitrator’s impartiality, must do so once they have actual knowledge of the objectionable facts, and failure to do so results in a waiver of the right to object later.
Philip D. Robben is a partner and Melissa E. Byroade is an associate at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP. Mr Robben can be contacted on + 1 (212) 808 7726 or by email: probben@kelledrye.com. Ms Byroade can be contacted on +1 (212) 808 7772 or by email: mbyroade@kelleydrye.com.
Philip D. Robben and Melissa E. Byroade
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
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How America's Shale Plays Are Turning The U.S. Into A Global Exporting Power
David Blackmon Contributor
As of February 2018, the United States ranked as the 7th largest crude exporting country
the U.S. became a next exporter of natural gas for the first time in February, 2017.
The Polar Mariner, an oil tanker ship, passes under the Harbor Bridge toward its destination at the Port of Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas. (AP Photo/Paul Iverson)
With U.S. production growth for oil and natural gas out-pacing refining capacity and domestic demand, respectively, the United States is on a path to assume a position among the largest global exporters of both commodities over the next few years. These are among the findings of a new report previewed this week by DrillingInfo, a Texas-based provider of oilfield data and services.
The report's authors note that, because of a growing mis-match of domestic production growth to U.S. refining capacity, incremental production volumes of oil will essentially all be exported through the year 2025 and beyond. Virtually all incremental U.S. production during that time frame will be in the form of light, sweet crude from shale plays like the Permian Basin, the Bakken Shale and the Eagle Ford Shale, a mis-match for domestic refineries set up largely to refine heavier grades of crude coming in from Canada and other exporting countries.
As of February 2018, the United States ranked as the 7th largest crude exporting country , shipping about 1.6 million barrels of oil per day (bopd). DrillingInfo projects that export volume will double to 3.36 mmbopd by 2020, and grow by another 45% to 4.84 mmbopd by 2025. That volume of exports would rank the U.S. third among current exporting countries, behind only Saudi Arabia and Russia.
DrillingInfo anticipates that the majority of those incremental exports will move out from the burgeoning Port of Corpus Christi, which currently handles more than half of the country's crude exports. This is largely due to the Port's proximity to the Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin, which are currently providing most of the country's production growth.
This obviously anticipates that the long-awaited project for the Army Corps of Engineers to deepen the Port's main channel will ultimately be fully funded and move forward. While congress has been negligent in allocating such funds, the Port itself approved a plan earlier this year to take on debt for the first time in its history in order to get that project kick-started. So, the Port is intent on gaining this market share, and its advantageous location and comparatively low traffic level gives it an edge over other major Gulf Coast ports.
The DrillingInfo report also notes that the U.S. became a next exporter of natural gas for the first time in February, 2017. That was the point at which the country's exports via either pipeline into Mexico and Canada or on LNG tankers moving out of Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass facility exceeded volumes coming into the U.S. from Canada.
The U.S. currently exports over 6 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) of natural gas, about 1 bcfd more than it imports from its northern neighbor. By 2022, DrillingInfo notes that the U.S. EIA projects that net export surplus to grow to a much as 8 bcfd, and total U.S. export volumes to exceed 13 bcfd.
The vast majority of this growth in exports is projected to come from the opening of a raft of new LNG export facilities that are scheduled to come online between now and 2025. Four such new facilities are in the queue to open in 2019, with at least another seven to follow in the years after that.
This ramping up of LNG capacity is a blessing for U.S. natural gas producers, as well as those drilling mainly for crude oil in the various shale basins around the country. Wells that are technically "oil" wells in the Permian, Bakken, Eagle Ford and other shale plays typically contain large volumes of associated natural gas, a subject my Forbes colleague Jude Clemente covered at length recently. The Permian Basin, in fact, has in recent years risen to become the nation's second-biggest natural gas producing basin - behind only the Marcellus Shale region - despite often not having a single active rig drilling wells that would be classified as a "natural gas well" by the Texas Railroad Commission.
U.S. demand for natural gas has risen significantly over the last several years thanks to growing use in the power generation sector and the recent recovery in U.S. manufacturing industries that use natural gas as a feedstock. But the overall demand growth has been well-exceeded by domestic production growth in these prodigious shale plays, making the the ramping-up of LNG capacity one of the main drivers of the industry's continued health.
The DrillingInfo report also details the recent development of infrastructure to facilitate the growth in demand for U.S. ethane exports in recent years, which is another development no one saw coming as recently as 5 years ago. Overall, the report paints a picture of how a nation that just a decade ago was extremely dependent on energy imports from other, often hostile nations has already grown into a significant exporter of these same products and will, over the next 7 years, become one of the world's major exporting powers.
It's an amazing transformation that pretty much no one saw coming.
David Blackmon
David Blackmon is an independent energy analyst/consultant based in Mansfield, TX. David has enjoyed a 39-year career in the oil and gas industry, the last 23 years of w...
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Ford Recalls 1.1M Pickup Trucks
By Jennifer Booton Published August 01, 2011 FOXBusiness
Ford (NYSE:F) on Monday said it was recalling 1.1 million Ford F-150 and Lincoln Blackwood pickup trucks for possible corrosion and breaking of straps that hold fuel tanks.
The recall deals with certain F-150 models from 1997 through 2003, F-150 Heritage from 2004, F-250 models from 1997 through 1999 and Lincoln Blackwater vehicles made from June 1995 to August 2004.
The vehicles were originally sold in 22 states where they faced prolonged exposure to road deicing chemicals that may cause severe corrosion of the fuel tank traps. Affected areas include many states in the North East as well as Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and District of Columbia.
As a result of the corrosion, the company warned in a report on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration site that one or both straps may fail, allowing the fuel lines to separate from the tank, or in some cases, causing the tank to make contact with the ground, either of which could result in a fuel leaks and cause a subsequent fire hazard.
Ford said it will notify owners and instruct them to take their vehicles to a Ford or Lincoln dealer to have the tank straps replaced with others that have increased corrosion protection.
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The stock market's bull run keeps going in 2014; Major indexes extend gains
Published December 31, 2014 EnergyAssociated Press
Stocks delivered again in 2014.
Even after a poor start in January and wobbles in October and December, the U.S. market has climbed 13 percent and is ending the year close to record levels. The solid gain has pushed the bull run for stocks into its sixth year, the longest such streak since the 1990s.
Investors have been encouraged by rising corporate earnings and a strengthening U.S. economy, which helped stocks overcome a brief winter chill in growth and tensions with Russia. The stock market also overcame worries about the impact of the end of the Federal Reserve's stimulus program.
Those who stuck out the market's ups and downs were rewarded with double-digit returns for the fifth year out of the last six.
"Companies delivered and the ability to produce on the bottom line remained resilient," said Jeff Kleintop, Charles Schwab's chief global investment strategist. "Ultimately, that's what stocks track."
All the major stock averages are ending the year with respectable returns. The Standard & Poor's 500 index has returned 14 percent including dividends, after a return of 32 percent in 2013. The Dow Jones industrial average has returned 11 percent.
The stock market also experienced its biggest bout of volatility in more than two years. Stocks plunged as much as 9.8 percent in October on concerns about global growth and worries about the spread of the Ebola virus. The market also managed to climb despite a big drop in oil prices that hit energy companies. Geopolitical tensions flared as Russia seized Crimea, war broke out in eastern Ukraine and the Islamic State group seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria.
These were some of the biggest themes in the financial markets in 2014:
A RESILIENT ECONOMY
The backdrop for the stock market's gains was a gradually strengthening U.S. economy. Hiring and consumer confidence continued to improve.
Despite a big contraction in the first quarter caused by an unusually harsh winter, the economy continued to grow. The average pace of growth climbed to 2.7 percent by the end of the year, up from 2.3 percent a year earlier.
DON'T COUNT OUT BONDS
A widely forecast demise for bonds failed to materialize.
Bonds had been expected to slump as the Fed neared the end of its bond-buying stimulus program and growth accelerated. Instead, they rallied as investors became more pessimistic on the outlook for global growth as economies overseas weakened.
Bonds also gained because they looked attractive to overseas investors. Their yields, while close to historically low levels, are still higher than in countries like Germany and Japan.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note is ending the year at 2.18 percent, after starting 2014 at 3 percent. The Barclays Aggregate Index, which measures the performance of a broad range of bonds, returned 5.9 percent, its best year in three.
STILL LOOKING FOR INCOME
The biggest beneficiaries of lower bond yields were companies that pay rich dividends as investors looked to them as an alternative source of income.
"Investors still want bond-like returns," said Krishna Memani, chief investment officer of OppenheimerFunds. So "the more bond-like parts of the equity market have done quite well."
Those sectors included utilities and real estate investment trusts. The utilities sector is ending the year with a gain of 26 percent, the best performance of the 10 sectors that make up the S&P 500 index.
Utility companies in the index have an average dividend yield of 3.3 percent. U.S. REITs pay about 3.6 percent.
DEAL REVIVAL
It was also a good year for deal-making. The value of global mergers and acquisitions rose to the highest point since 2007, while the number of initial public offerings was the highest since the technology bubble days of 2000.
Among the notable tie-ups announced were Actavis' agreement to buy fellow drugmaker Allergan for $66 billion in November, and Comcast's deal to buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion in February.
In IPOs, China's e-commerce giant Alibaba raised $25 billion in its stock market debut in September, making it the biggest U.S.-listed IPO in history. Strong demand for the stock sent the market value of the company beyond that of Amazon, eBay and Facebook.
KEEP THE GROWTH COMING
U.S. companies, benefiting from low interest rates and a gradually improving economy, have become adept at driving their profits higher since the recession. Those rising earnings are underpinning the rally in stocks.
Earnings at S&P 500 companies are projected to reach a record of $116.97 per share for 2014, an increase of almost 8 percent from a year earlier, according to S&P Capital IQ.
"If you look at the cash flow and profitability of companies today, especially in the U.S., it is just darn impressive," said Seth Masters, chief investment officer for Bernstein Global Wealth Management.
CHEAP OIL ISN'T ALL GOOD NEWS
Fears of weak growth overseas and worries of a supply glut combined to push oil down 50 percent in six months. After trading at a peak of $107 a barrel in June, oil is ending the year near $53.
Falling oil prices lead to lower gas prices, which is a good thing for consumers. But there are also losers when crude slumps. Energy stocks, which account for about 10 percent of company earnings in the S&P 500 index, plunged.
As the losses in oil accelerated this fall, investors also worried about the wider implications. If prices stay low, some producers could go out of business, costing workers their jobs and prompting defaults in the bond market.
The fall in oil also created the year's biggest winners and losers.
Transocean, a provider of offshore drilling services to the energy industry, was the year's biggest loser among S&P 500 stocks as demand for its services was expected to fall. The stock price has slumped 63 percent.
Airlines, which are heavy users of fuel, were big beneficiaries of the slump. Southwest Airlines' stock has climbed 128 percent, the biggest gain in the S&P 500.
CENTRAL BANKS GO IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS
The Fed ended its bond purchases in October and is inching closer to its first rate increase since 2006. At the same time, other central banks around the world started to introduce more stimulus as growth in their regions slowed.
The Bank of Japan stepped up its efforts to revive that country's economy, as did the European Central Bank. China also lowered a key interest rate.
Investors debated whether the U.S. will pull the rest of the world up, or be dragged down by it.
STOCKS AREN'T CHEAP ANYMORE
After big gains in recent years, stocks are no longer a bargain. At the same time, they haven't yet reached vertiginous levels that would keep investors up at night.
The average price-earnings ratio for S&P 500 companies, which measures the price of a stock against the company's expected earnings over the next 12 months, climbed to 16.5, from 15.3 at the start of the year. That's above the 10-year average of about 15, according to FactSet data, but still a long way off from the levels seen during the technology boom fifteen years ago, when the average ratio was as a high as 27.
The slight rise in valuations suggests that investors have moved from being skeptical to being "pragmatically optimistic," said Anastasia Amoroso, global market strategist for J.P. Morgan Funds.
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Indu Sarkar: Jagdish Tytler flags negative portrayal in film, writes to Madhur Bhandarkar
Jun 28, 2017 12:13:05 IST
Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar's upcoming drama Indu Sarkar, based on the 1975 Emergency imposed by then prime minister Indira Gandhi, has raised hackles (mainly among the Congress part members) even before its release.
File image of Jagdish Tytler and a still from Indu Sarkar.
Congress leader Jagdish Tytler has now expressed his contention with a character in the film that has uncanny resemblance to him. Mumbai Mirror reports that Tytler has gone on record to say that he had no role to play in the Emergency and wants to scan the research gone into Bhandarkar's film. In fact, he even wrote a letter to Bhandarkar addressing the issue.
Read on Firstpost — Indu Sarkar isn't the first film to face the Congress' ire for its depiction of Gandhi family, Emergency
“I don’t know on what basis you are portraying a character that resembles me. I should know the source of your research. I am categorically mentioning that I was not part of the Emergency,” his letter stated. “My role was more of restoring the situation. There are many people still alive who can tell you about my activities during the Emergency."
The same report states that Tytler, who is an accused in the 1984 Sikh riots, demanded that changes be made in the film if the character resembling him has been portrayed in negative light. He said that it would be 'mischievous' on Bhandarkar's part to present him negatively. However, he added that if he is being depicted in positive light, such as his spearheading the 'Each One, Teach One' campaign during the Emergency, he would not mind the allusion to him in the film.
The same report quotes Bhandarkar's spokesperson as saying, "All political incidents mentioned in Indu Sarkar have been extensively documented in books, videos and documentaries. There is no scene created to sensationalise the incidents during the Emergency. Meanwhile, the storyline of the girl, Indu, is completely a work of fiction."
Indu Sarkar stars Kirti Kulhari, Anupam Kher, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Supriya Vinod. It is produced by Bhandarkar Entertainment and Mega Bollywood Pvt Ltd and is slated to release on 28 July.
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2011 Haut Batailley
AVERAGE SCORE: 89.79
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Haut Batailley 2011 +£152.00 (+61.79%) Latest price: £398.00
Average Score 89.79
Decanter: 17
James Suckling: 91-92
Jancis Robinson: 16.5
Neal Martin: 89
Jeff Leve: 88-90
Well-expressed, almost crunchy, fruit, clear and refreshing flavours, a charmingly elegant Pauillac. Drink 2015-2025. Decanter.com
Very pretty length to this with silky tannins and a juicy finish. Medium to full body, with fine tannins and a fresh acidity. jamessuckling.com
72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, on deep coarse gravel. 60% new oak. Deep crimson. Fresh, leafy but not green. Refreshing and lively, even at the end of a long day's tasting. Lightish, fresh and juicy, nice cool Cabernet. Light, fine tannins. Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Sweet berry, with currant and mint on the nose and palate. Full-bodied, yet reserved and silky. Lovely finish. WineSpectator.com
Tasted at a vertical tasting at the chateau. The 2011 Haut Batailley has an open and expressive bouquet with blackberry and crushed stone—not as vibrant or displaying the same contrast as the 2012, but that powdered stone develops nicely in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin and satisfying fruit concentration. This is a more elegant Haut-Batailley, without the weight and concentration of the previous two vintages, but offering finesse and composure on the finish. You could actually drink this now, but it will give another 15-18 years of pleasure. Tasted July 2016. Jun 2017, www.robertparker.com
Blending 72% Cabernet Sauvignon with 28% Merlot, the wine will be aged in 60% new oak. Cedar wood, crème de cassis, green forest scents, medium bodied with light textures and a bright cassis finish. theWineCellarInsider.com
Haut-Batailley always seems to represent a synthesis in style between St.-Julien and Pauillac. The silky 2011 possesses dark red and black fruits, medium body, good purity and texture, and reasonable depth. It is not a big wine, but is a well-made effort to drink over the next 10-15 years. Wine Advocate.April, 2014
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Despre Fujitsu Romania
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European switch-on of worldwide standardized platform for fast and trusted IT services: on-demand, pay per use
Fujitsu Delivers Flexible and Secure Services via Global Cloud Platform
Munich, May 19, 2011
Fujitsu today completes the global rollout of its Global Cloud Services offerings by unveiling the full portfolio in Central Europe, Middle East, Africa and India. As a result, Fujitsu customers around the world can rely on a trusted, homogeneous global cloud platform.
Combining the scale of public cloud and the security and customization of private cloud, Fujitsu’s dynamic Global Cloud Platform provides multinational enterprises, channel partners and independent software vendors (ISVs) with the best of both worlds. Fujitsu’s Global Cloud for Central Europe is hosted at its Tier 3 Neuenstadt datacenter in southern Germany.
In introducing the service for Central Europe, which goes live officially on June 7, 2011, Fujitsu operates the world’s first premium Cloud offering, hosted in datacenters at geographically strategic locations including Australia, Germany, Japan, Singapore, the UK and the USA, and backed by globally standardized levels of service.
Fujitsu's Cloud Services allow enterprises to match technology systems and costs directly to changing business needs by offering a fully flexible model for Information Technology infrastructure, platforms, and applications. The highest levels of availability and a highly sophisticated self-service portal ensure that customers retain direct control over their infrastructure and help distinguish Fujitsu’s offering.
Andre Kiehne, Vice President Cloud Business at Fujitsu Technology Solutions comments: “In doing business around the world, companies are only as strong as their weakest link. Thanks to full support from Fujitsu Global Cloud Services that are tailored to their needs, multinational enterprises and ISVs can now migrate from legacy environments to achieve their competitive goals. Our globally standardized approach provides a reliable, secure, same-service-everywhere and eliminates unnecessary administration costs.”
The global Fujitsu approach delivers a single point of contact for the provision and management of all infrastructure requirements through its Cloud Services Portal. This interactive, self-service portal allows dynamic adjustment of services, change capacity and usage, as well as real-time pay-per-use billing management.
The Fujitsu Global Cloud enriches earlier cloud offerings introduced last year. Specifically, Fujitsu now provides customers with a globally uniform platform for setting up complete virtual data center environments including tiered network zones, with individual load balancing and firewall configurations. The self-service portal includes pre-defined and custom system templates for quick replication and deployment of virtual systems and applications. Fujitsu’s cloud model enables small organizations to perform like big players, and allows large organizations to be as nimble as start-ups.
Fujitsu’s Global Cloud Platform was recognized as one of the industry’s leading private cloud solutions in the independent ‘Cloud Vendor Benchmark 2011’ published in early May 2011 by independent research firm Experton. The report ranks Fujitsu as a leader for offerings including Cloud Infrastructure, with research based on Fujitsu’s pilot cloud platform operations in Germany.
In markets including Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Portugal, Fujitsu is offering a free trial program encouraging partners and customers to evaluate its Global Cloud Services.
Global Deployment – Closing the Circuit
Fujitsu is the third largest IT services provider globally, and in CEMEA&I enjoyed above-average growth in 2010 in server, external controller based storage and IT services. To address local cloud computing needs, as well as supporting global companies operating across regions, Fujitsu has built its cloud platform on a global network of highly-reliable datacenters.
By working with its customers to foster new business and help solve problems facing society in areas such as agriculture, healthcare, energy and the environment, Fujitsu aims to leverage the power of IT to enable the creation of a prosperous human centric intelligent networked society that is both rewarding and secure.
The Global Cloud Platform is at the heart of Fujitsu’s cloud strategy. The company aims to deploy its diverse array of technologies and the wide range of services that it has developed over the years in new areas such as agriculture and the healthcare sector in which the utilization of IT systems has been limited, as well as in the development of smart grids and other social infrastructures. This in turn will allow new solutions to be offered, opening new opportunities in the application of IT systems.
About Fujitsu's Global Cloud Platform
Fujitsu’s new Global Cloud Platform delivers bundled virtualized IT infrastructure, such as servers and storage functionality. These resources can be employed on-demand in accordance with a customer's needs, and ensure a level of reliability that is high enough to support the deployment of companies’ mission-critical systems.
By using Fujitsu’s service, customers need not build and maintain their own IT infrastructures in circumstances when such an infrastructure is needed only temporarily, or for business systems with wide fluctuations in capacity requirements. Customers can utilize a cloud-based IT system by simply accessing Fujitsu's datacenters when necessary, helping to significantly reduce IT system costs.
More information on Fujitsu’s cloud offerings is at http://ts.fujitsu.com/dynamic-cloud .
Images of Neuenstadt datacenter:
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Fujitsu’s cloud definitions
Fujitsu has identified four distinct types of clouds: Public, Trusted, Private and Hybrid Cloud.
Public Cloud is a ‘public’ environment that can be used by any number of people and enterprises. IT systems are shared by various users to a very high degree, and since networks are not separated, users typically do not know where their data is stored. Public Clouds offer the greatest potential in terms of cost-effectiveness, but offers nominal data protection and “end to end” availability.
Trusted Cloud is used by Fujitsu and other vendors to refer to an environment where a limited number of customers share a single cloud. By separating networks, this cloud can offer high levels of security. Each enterprise has its own virtual servers and storage systems that are accessed exclusively via virtual LAN. Fujitsu offers managed Trusted Clouds only from its own secure datacenters. This form of provisioning offers enterprises the benefits of economies of scale along with a high level of security.
Private Cloud is an enterprise-specific environment with dedicated IT systems as well as private access and sharing. The strictest rules can be defined and implemented individually. A Private Cloud can be located within an enterprise or hosted externally. Fujitsu offers connectivity to Trusted Cloud implementations in Fujitsu datacenters as a standard feature to provide additional “cloud burst” functionality.
Hybrid Cloud is a combination of Private, Trusted and/or Public Cloud. Data and applications are segmented according to defined guidelines and business or IT requirements. It is likely that Hybrid Clouds will become more widespread in the future – mostly as a mixed form of internal and external IT services. Fujitsu offers this concept to enable customers to connect their existing IT environment to the cloud. External IT services from the cloud are managed by Fujitsu, while internal IT services are managed by the customer. Alternatively, the customer can delegate complete responsibility to Fujitsu within the framework of Managed Services.
For further information, please see:
http://blog.ts.fujitsu.com/
http://www.twitter.com/Fujitsu_TS
http://www.facebook.com/face2fujitsu
Sigrun Harsch, Senior Manager Public Relations
Tel.: + 49 (0) 89 62060 4454
Mobile: + 49 (0) 170 855 06 08
sigrun.harsch@ts.fujitsu.com
About Fujitsu Fujitsu is a leading provider of ICT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately 170,000 employees supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.5 trillion yen (US$55 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com .
About Fujitsu Technology Solutions
Fujitsu Technology Solutions is the leading European IT infrastructure provider with a presence in all key markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, plus India, serving large-, medium- and small-sized companies as well as consumers. With its Dynamic Infrastructures approach, the company offers a full portfolio of IT products, solutions and services, ranging from clients to datacenter solutions, Managed Infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Fujitsu Technology Solutions employs more than 13,000 people and is part of the global Fujitsu Group. For more information, please see: ts.fujitsu.com/aboutus .
All other company or product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Information provided in this press release is accurate at time of publication and is subject to change without advance notice.
Date: 19 May, 2011
City: Munich
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Alberta is a province in Western Canada. Its landscape encompasses mountains, prairies, desert badlands and vast coniferous forests.It has more than 600 lakes, and rich mineral deposits. In the west, the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks have glaciers in the Columbia Icefields. The Waterton Glacier International Peace Park is a biosphere reserve that straddles the southern border with the USA. Alberta’s population is 4.1 million and capital city is Edmonton.
According to the Statistics Canada Police-reported hate crime, 2017 report, the number of police-reported hate crimes in Alberta increased from 139 in 2016 to 192 in 2017, with the most hate crimes targeting race/ethnicity. The increase in hate crimes against the Arab or West Asian population largely occurred in Alberta, where 15 more hate crimes targeting this population were reported.
FSWC Commissioned Study on Holocaust and Antisemitism
A 2018 study commissioned by FSWC reveals that 78% of people in the Canadian Prairies believe that it's important to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, while more than 8% said that Jews talk too much about the Holocaust.
The same study revealed that more than 11% believe Jewish people in Canada have too much influence in the business world (more than 47% said Jews have "the right amount of influence and more than 38% said they're unsure about the level of influence); 11% said Jewish people have too much influence in international financial markets (more than 45% said "right amount of influence" and more than 40% said "unsure").
When it comes to the Canadian government, almost 9% of people in the Prairies said Jewish people have too much influence, while more than 41% said there's the "right amount of influence" and 39% said they're unsure.
In regards to global media and global affairs, 12% said Jews have too much influence in media and more than 11% said Jews have too much influence in global affairs.
Police were investigating two separate fires that appear to have been deliberately set at a Jewish school in Edmonton on July 15th and 16th, 2017. The Israeli and Canadian flags were stolen from the Orthodox synagogue down the street from the school one day later as well.
On January 31, 2018, FSWC alerted Calgary Police Service to an antisemitic web postings by a group called Muslims in Calgary. Concerns were raised in particular regarding an article promoting Holocaust denial by white supremacist David Duke, which was posted to the group’s website on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The police were also alerted to the group’s Facebook page, which featured an infographic depicting a swastika and linked to an article which asserted antisemitic claims, including Holocaust denial and conspiracy theories of organ harvesting by Jews. While the postings are now inactive, Calgary police responded quickly to launch an investigation.
Last year, a reported antisemitic post to the Muslims in Calgary website was condemned by the Muslim Council of Calgary (MCC). The September 25th, 2017 article stated that the MCC disassociated itself from remarks about the “Jewish controlled media” and Jews’ preference for male circumcision contained in an article as they were "..false assertions" that "perpetuate anti-Semitic notions and foster misconceptions and distortions of Judaism and the Jewish People”.
The Toronto Sun ran an article September 5, 2017 stating that a website, Muslims in Calgary, featured an article speaking about the benefits of female genital mutilation (FGM) - a practice identified and strongly condemned by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a violation of human rights. Further to this, the author allegedly disputes the WHO claim, stating that "the Jews" and "Jewish controlled media" are responsible for the so-called 'misinformation' about FGM.
On August 17th, 2017 Nimra Amjad, a Calgary woman running for a position as school board trustee, reported that she received threatening comments on her Facebook campaign page along with a threatening personal message. The first comment included a racial slur and questioned her right to run for the school board position. Another post stated that the neo-Nazi Aryan Guard group, which has been active in Calgary in the past, would find out where she lives, telling her to "beware." Yet another post read: "you will be lying dead on the street like Heather Heyer." (Heyer is the 32-year-old protester killed after a car plowed through a crowd in Charlottesville, Va. where white supremacist groups and counter-protesters violently clashed). Calgary Police are investigating.
In May 2019, a man who drove a stolen vehicle through the town of Edson’s provincial building and courthouse also left antisemitic messages. According to a CBC report, the accused – who was charged with public incitement of hatred – is an extremist rapper who holds a dark fascination with Hitler.
Following a report from a local business, Medicine Hat police arrested and charged a man for inciting hatred in public after he displayed money stamped with antisemitic messages as well as a link to an antisemitic website that promotes conspiracy theories against Jewish people. Following a search at the accused’s home, police also discovered white supremacy documents, high capacity magazines and hate stickers displaying“Immigration = White Genocide,” firearms and ammunition.
Prior to the above 2018 incident, police in Medicine Hat are investigating two incidents involving hate-related material that was distributed. The material included posters that read "immigration=white genocide" and pamphlets that promoted the website of an anti-immigration group led by Paul Fromm and included phrases such as “stop white genocide,” “white self-hate” and “Jewish supremacy.”
Disturbing antisemitic mail that numerous synagogues across Canada received
On December 18, 2017, FSWC was dismayed to learn that synagogues in multiple cities - including Edmonton, Hamilton, Toronto, Montreal and Kingston - received disturbing and threatening antisemitic mailings. The unmarked letters depicted in graphic style a swastika embedded in a yellow Jewish star dripping with blood accompanied by the words "Jewry Must Perish."
On October 11, 2017 Calgary Councillor Ward Sutherland used what appeared to be an antisemitic term, "Johnny Jew from New York" in a public hearing regarding artwork.
In April 2017, FSWC responded to a Catholic high school in Red Deer that was teaching its students that abortions in Canada are equivalent to the Holocaust. “The Case Against Abortion, Personhood” – is a video was being shown behind closed doors. Alberta Education Minister David Eggen informed Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools that “there is no place in a publicly funded school for a video comparing the horrors of the Holocaust to abortion.”
Days after the Calgary Jewish Community Centre was evacuated due to a bomb threat in March 2017, a racist group called “Blood and Honour” announced it was hosting Alison Chabloz, a white supremacist from the UK. A closely monitored group by the RCMP, Blood and Honour is named after a Hitler Youth slogan and publishes a magazine promoting neo-Nazism. Chabloz is said to have referred to Auschwitz as a “theme park” and to the gas chambers as a “hoax.”
Monika Schaefer
Antisemitic sentiments were exposed against a Jasper woman who produced and starred in a Holocaust denial video. The CBC reported on July 15, 2016 that Monika Schaefer “expresses her firm belief that six million Jews did not die at the hands of Nazi Germany and refers to the Holocaust as the six million lie.” The Green Party, for whom Schaefer ran as a candidate, immediately distanced itself from Schaefer.
In late March 2019, NDP election signs in Edmonton were found spray-painted in black with swastikas and crude language.
Police began an investigation in November 2018 after several north Edmonton schools – Queen Elizabeth, Glengarry and Killarney – were found tagged with swastika graffiti.
Swastika painted on a bus stop in west Edmonton
A string of antisemitic graffiti was found in west Edmonton the first week of August 2018, with swastikas painted on a bus stop, single residential driveway and on a residential fence. Swastikas and homophobic slurs were also painted on equipment around a park and on the Lessard Community League building.
On September 21, 2017, former football player Craig Ellis discovered the letters "KKK" spray painted on his home's garage door in Edmonton. The next day nearby residents united to clean the racist graffiti. According to Edmonton police, this was an isolated incident and is being investigated as a hate crime.
Calgary police are investigating after hateful graffiti was found on a car, which was also set on fire. On September 19, 2017, "White power", a swastika and the number 666 was spray painted on the car. The graffiti and vandalism is being investigated as a hate crime.
On August 29, 2017, antisemitic graffiti that was discovered outside a strip mall in Okotoks. The Star of David was spray-painted with a swastika inside. The city’s mayor, Bill Robertson, said that while the RCMP has dealt with numerous graffiti incidents, this is the first swastika he’s seen. The RCMP is treating the graffiti - which has been condemned by FSWC - as a hate crime.
Graffiti discovered at Ranchlands
On March 17, 2017 – CTV reported that Calgary police were investigating hate graffiti in a park in Ranchlands. “The messages containing insults directed towards Jews and Muslims” were found by a resident. Earlier in March, swastikas and graffiti was also found in the Bridgeland neighbourhood – possibly targeting refugees.
In December 2016, the Calgary Sikh community said profanity and swastikas were painted on its temple. Its community proudly spoke out against this form of hate and racism and encouraged Calgarians to report such hate to police.
On February 13, 2017, the Calgary Sun reported that a dozen posters were found on windows and doors at the University of Calgary – attempting to cast doubt that six million Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust. The posters asked, “Did the 6 million really die?” Like most investigations, the culprits were never found.
In September 2016 Global News reported that the University of Lethbridge suspended one of its professors without pay pending an investigation. Lethbridge police investigated professor Anthony Hall’s Facebook page. The post said in part, “kill all Jews now. Every last one” (the original post was not Hall’s). Police did not lay charges against Hall stating, the post “did not meet the threshold for intent... for advocating genocide or public incitement of hatred.” As of January 2017, the university re-activated Hall’s pay and launched a complaint against him with the Human Rights Commission of Alberta. Additionally, Hall is suspended from teaching and contact with students.
Terror struck Saturday, September 30th, 2017 on the streets of Edmonton as a police officer was run down and then stabbed by a suspect. The suspect then returned to his vehicle and proceeded to run down four more pedestrians before being apprehended. The actions are being pursued as an act of terror and it is believed the suspect acted alone. Police have identified and arrested the suspect: Abdulahi Hasan Sharif; he is known to police having been previously investigated in 2015 for reportedly "espousing extremist ideology". The investigation had allegedly been closed with no further action following a series of interviews.
Tragedy struck in 2015 when Const. Daniel Woodall was shot several times on the doorstep of a home in west Edmonton while serving an arrest warrant relating to a hate crimes matter. That was the year the number of hate reported incidents in the city hit 138, whereas in 2016 there were approximately 108 recorded cases.
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The Key to Fighting Against Global Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Hatred
Your key partnership this past year has been essential to the fight against unprecedented global antisemitism and anti-Israel hatred.
Dear Supporter,
I don’t have to tell you that we are facing a pivotal time for the Jewish State and Jewish people the world over.
I am deeply grateful to have had you and your fellow supporters at our side as Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) has made a difference in the struggle to safeguard our people, to empower our students on campus, to confront our enemies, and to win new allies in the fight against resurgent antisemitism and campaigns to demonize the Jewish State.
You know that FSWC stands with Jews here in Canada and around the world. Today, I am asking you to stand with us. Please renew your valued support of FSWC for 2019 today.
Your renewed support will put you at the front lines, playing a direct and active role in supporting all of our vital efforts.
You’ll help us fight antisemitism and extremism here in Canada. Nearly 15% of Canadians hold anti-Semitic views and believe that Jews in Canada have “too much influence” in the government, business and world media, according to a recent poll FSWC commissioned.
Those disturbing attitudes are reflected in intensifying anti-Semitic hate crimes and vandalism here in Canada. In just one of the recent incidents, three teens were arrested after hate-motivated graffiti – including swastikas and other racist drawings – was discovered on a school in Mississauga. Days later, a swastika was found spray painted on a school in London, Ontario.
You can count on FSWC to speak out against this racism, bigotry and hate. But more than speaking out, FSWC is taking measures to actively counter hatred before it starts through our high-level educational initiatives.
The work of our Tour for Humanity – the mobile classroom designed to inspire and empower Canadian students to raise their voices and take action against hate and intolerance – is more important than ever in this climate. Your support will help groups across Ontario to experience the state-of-the-art tolerance centre in this remarkable on-the-go resource.
FSWC offers interactive, educational programming specially designed for law enforcement personnel at all levels. This work is incredibly important today as our frontline first responders face an increasingly complex and globalized world.
You’ll support our efforts to fight back against the antisemitic, anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Universities across Canada continue to host annual “Israeli Apartheid Week” events full of anti-Israel propaganda and divisive rhetoric, and the atmosphere grows increasingly toxic for Jewish students, faculty and staff.
In just one recent example, at the University of British Columbia, a gala for the Geography Students Association scheduled to take place in a space owned by the UBC Hillel chapter was canceled after some of the geography faculty protested. The faculty members called Hillel “controversial” and objected to the organization’s “political” nature.
With your renewed support, FSWC will be able to continue to work closely with university and student leadership to help counter anti-Israel and antisemitic hate on campuses and support beleaguered pro-Israel students.
You’ll help us tell the TRUTH about Israel and the Jewish people. Our partner, the Academy Award®-winning Moriah Films division, produces documentaries that educate millions about the 3,500-year experience of the Jewish people, the Nazi Holocaust, and contemporary anti-Semitism.
Moriah’s newest film is about the life of the late Israeli President Shimon Peres and features interviews with several luminaries, including former U.S. presidents Obama, Clinton, George W. Bush, and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
There are many fronts in the crucial struggle against this ancient hatred, but with your help, FSWC will continue facing down antisemitism, bigotry and extremism here in Canada and worldwide.
In everything we do, though, we must turn to YOU. Your renewed support is essential if we are to meet the tremendous challenges facing us in 2019.
Believe me, FSWC’s strength is directly linked to your renewed and ongoing support. So if you can possibly afford to send even more than you have in the past, you can rest assured it will be put to immediate good use.
Avi Benlolo
P.S. As extremism escalates throughout the world, we haven’t a moment to rest. So please, renew today. (And be sure to check our website at www.fswc.ca or our Facebook page for breaking developments.) Thank you.
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When Soccer Injuries Happen
Watching the World Cup Through an Athletic Trainer’s Eyes
As the head athletic trainer for the Milwaukee Torrent and a certified athletic trainer at the Froedtert & MCW Sports Medicine Center, Ryan Koeberl watches soccer differently than most people. He doesn’t watch the ball. His eyes are trained to focus on where the ball was and where it’s headed.
“As an athletic trainer, you’re not watching the game,” said Ryan Koeberl, MA, LAT. “Your eye is on the whole field because 90 percent of the time soccer injuries do not happen where the ball is. You’re watching your players before and after they have the ball and before they come into contact with another player. It’s all about gathering information so you know how to react if an injury happens.”
Koeberl ranks the top four situations when the risk of injury in soccer increases:
1. The corner kick
“My highest level of stress in a game is when there is a corner kick,” Koeberl said. “It is an unpredictable moment. On a given corner kick, you have 16 to 18 players in an 18 yard box, all with the same purpose – get to the ball first.”
Typically during a corner kick, the ball is played in the air. Several players from opposing teams jump up for the ball from multiple directions, all of them targeting the ball with their heads. It is a risky moment for head injuries, which is why Koeberl created a drill based on those motions for the Torrent to practice.
“During our warm-up, players are paired up and jump at the same time, in a header position, to get shoulder contact,” Koeberl said. “It simulates a game-like scenario and prepares their bodies for the shock of contact.”
2. When the competition level drops off
Some players don’t have the experience to know how to protect their bodies or how to recognize a potentially dangerous play. A mismatch in team skill level can be dangerous because players may take risks resulting in injuries that could have been prevented.
“If we are up 4-0 and the other team is still trying to score, I get nervous,” Koeberl said. “An inexperienced or less skilled player may go in for a challenge or a slide tackle instead of positioning themselves in a better place to get the ball.”
3. Tied, minutes from the end
A game that is tied and near the end can get scrappy, which increases the likelihood an injury will happen.
“Teams are trying to push more players forward,” Koeberl said. “Instead of having your back line holding the midfield, everyone is pushing up to attack and you have more players in a tighter space.”
4. Returning to play after an injury
Anytime one of Koeberl’s players is recently recovered from an injury, he keeps a closer eye on them.
“We are always diligent with our warm-ups, but we are extra cautious with players who have recently been released from an injury,” Koeberl said. “Hamstring injuries are the most common soccer injury so we spend a lot of time on preventive exercises.”
As an athletic trainer for the Milwaukee Torrent, it is Koeberl’s job to work with the team physicians and coaches to keep the athletes healthy.
“I focus on injury prevention through muscle activation and recovery,” Koeberl said. “If you can prevent injuries, the team and the players’ performance will be at optimal levels.”
Lower extremity injuries, particularly in what Koeberl refers to as the “hip complex” (hamstrings, quads, glutes and groin) are very common in soccer players, but there are specific evidence-based injury prevention exercises.
Koeberl designs his strength and conditioning workouts based on a popular program for both professional and amateur teams, FIFA 11+. It involves specific running, strength, plyometrics and balance exercises to activate players’ muscles. Koeberl also supplements with contact exercises.
“Everything we do is in motion,” Koeberl said. “It’s all about preparing the muscles for the game, and we do this by simulating the motions they’ll experience on the field.”
Learn more about Froedtert & MCW Sports Medicine services.
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FILE - In this June 6, 2019 file photo, musician R. Kelly departs the Leighton Criminal Court building after pleading not guilty to 11 additional sex-related charges in Chicago. A U.S. Attorney’s office spokesman says Kelly was arrested Thursday night, July 11 on federal sex-crime charges in Chicago.
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FILE - In this June 6, 2019, file photo, singer R. Kelly pleaded not guilty to 11 additional sex-related felonies during a court hearing before Judge Lawrence Flood at Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago. R. Kelly, already facing sexual abuse charges brought by Illinois prosecutors, was arrested in Chicago Thursday, July 11, 2019 on a federal grand jury indictment listing 13 counts including sex crimes and obstruction of justice.
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FILE - In this June 26, 2019, file photo, R&B singer R. Kelly, center, arrives at the Leighton Criminal Court building for an arraignment on sex-related felonies in Chicago. R. Kelly, already facing sexual abuse charges brought by Illinois prosecutors, was arrested in Chicago Thursday, July 11, 2019 on a federal grand jury indictment listing 13 counts including sex crimes and obstruction of justice.
FILE - In this June 26, 2019, file photo, Musician R. Kelly departs from the Leighton Criminal Court building after a status hearing in his criminal sexual abuse trial in Chicago. elly was charged with racketeering and sex-related crimes against women and girls in sweeping New York federal indictment unsealed Friday, July 12. The 18-page indictment accuses Kelly and members of his entourage of recruiting women and girls to "engage in illegal sexual activity with the singer.
The Metropolitan Correctional Center, left, is seen Friday, July 12, 2019, within the skyline of Chicago where R&B singer R. Kelly is being held after being arrested Thursday in Chicago. Federal prosecutors in New York and Chicago have brought new sex-related charges against Kelly, who was already facing state charges in Illinois accusing him of sexually abusing women and girls. The indictment unsealed Friday in New York charges Kelly with racketeering, kidnapping, force labor and the sexual exploitation of a child. The Chicago indictment accuses him of producing sexually explicit videos of him and underage girls and paying off victims to avoid prosecution.
Federal prosecutors in New York and Chicago have brought new sex-related charges against R&B singer R. Kelly, who was already facing state charges in Illinois accusing him of sexually abusing women and girls.
In this courtroom sketch, R&B singer R. Kelly, center, appears before U.S. Magistrate Shelia M. Finnegan, left, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Friday, July 12, 2019, in Chicago. Also standing with Kelly is his attorney Steve Greenberg and an unidentified prosecutor.
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Attorney Steve Greenberg talks to reporters at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse after his client R. Kelly, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Shelia M. Finnegan, Friday, afternoon in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Friday, July 12, 2019, in Chicago. Finnegan informed Kelly of the pending federal charges filed against him in New York.
Attorney Steve Greenberg listens to a reporters' question at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse after his client R. Kelly, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Shelia M. Finnegan, Friday, afternoon in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Friday, July 12, 2019, in Chicago. Finnegan informed Kelly of the pending federal charges filed against him in New York.
Attorney Steve Greenberg talks to reporters at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse after his client R. Kelly, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Shelia M. Finnegan, Friday, July 12, 2019, in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Finnegan informed Kelly of the pending federal charges filed against him in New York.
The attorney for R. Kelly says the singer "didn't do anything wrong" after federal prosecutors alleged Kelly and his entourage recruited girls and women to engage in illegal sexual activity.
Feds bring new sex-crime charges against singer R. Kelly
By SARA BURNETT and CARYN ROUSSEAU Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly and his entourage recruited girls and women to engage in illegal sexual activity with the singer and covered up the crimes by paying off and threatening victims and witnesses, federal prosecutors alleged Friday in indictments that could keep the Grammy winner behind bars for decades.
Because they come from the federal government, the accusations add a new dimension to the allegations against Kelly, who was already facing sexual abuse charges brought by Illinois prosecutors earlier this year.
One federal indictment in Chicago said Kelly arranged for a girl and her parents to travel overseas to prevent them from talking with police prior to his 2002 indictment on 21 counts of child pornography. The R&B artist allegedly later instructed them to lie to a grand jury about the case. Kelly was acquitted in 2008 of the charges, which accused him of recording a video of sex acts with the girl, who was 12 or 13 when they met in the mid-1990s.
A separate indictment filed in the Eastern District of New York included charges of racketeering, kidnapping, forced labor and the sexual exploitation of a child.
It said Kelly and his managers, bodyguards and other assistants picked out women and girls at concerts and other venues and arranged for them to travel to see Kelly. They also set rules the women and girls had to follow, including not leaving their rooms — even to eat or go to the bathroom — without Kelly's permission, calling the singer "Daddy" and not looking at other men, the indictment alleges.
The allegations have swirled for years around Kelly, whom federal prosecutors said Friday was "emboldened by his fame and the lack of any real consequences." The charges come after two documentaries and a series of news articles about the accusations, as well as pleas from prosecutors who have urged new victims and witnesses came forward.
Kelly was arrested Thursday evening while walking his dog "Believe" in Chicago. He appeared in court Friday, standing before the judge in an orange jumpsuit, with his hands clasped behind his back. The only words he spoke during the 15-minute hearing were "yes, ma'am."
He will remain in federal custody at least until Tuesday, when he's scheduled for a detention hearing. Prosecutors want him held without bail.
His attorney, Steve Greenberg, said the latest charges were "not a surprise" and that Kelly should be allowed to post bail.
"It's the worst kept secret he was going to get charged federally, and he hasn't fled," he said following Friday's hearing.
He also accused the federal government of "piling on" with the new charges and described his client as unflappable despite a series of indictments in recent months.
"I'm amazed he hasn't had a complete breakdown in the face of all of this pressure," he said. He questioned if the victims referenced in the indictments were actually victims.
"They've charged him in New York with enticing people and encouraging people to have sex with him," Greenberg said. "I don't think people accidentally have sex so I'm not really sure what the criminal activity is there."
The New York indictment alleges that the criminal acts occurred over two decades dating back to 1999, both in the U.S. and overseas. It accuses Kelly of engaging in sexual acts with girls under 18, of having sex with a woman without disclosing that he had a sexually transmitted disease and of producing child pornography.
The Chicago indictment charges Kelly with child sex crimes, including producing child pornography, and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government. It also names Kelly's business manager, Derrel McDavid, and another employee.
It says Kelly recorded himself engaged in sex acts with several minor girls and went to great lengths to recover the videos when he realized some were missing from his "collection." Kelly allegedly made some victims and witnesses take lie-detector tests to ensure they had returned all copies of the videos.
Kelly's acquittal in his previous child pornography trial came after he and the girl who prosecutors said was in the video denied they were in the footage, even though the picture quality was good and witnesses testified it was them. She did not take the stand.
The indictment says Kelly continued to make payments to the girl after the trial, and that Kelly also transferred the title on a luxury SUV to the girl in 2013.
Darrell Johnson, a publicist for Kelly, delivered a statement at a chaotic news conference Friday in Atlanta, where he was interrupted seconds after beginning by the family of a woman who lived with Kelly in Chicago. The relatives of Joycelyn Savage pleaded to speak with their daughter.
"I want to know where my daughter is," Timothy Savage, Joycelyn Savage's father, angrily interrupted Johnson. "Where is she at? Answer that question!"
Johnson said he had "nothing to do" with Joycelyn Savage and that she was not being held. In an interview with "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King in March, Joycelyn Savage defended her relationship with Kelly and denied reports she was being held against her will.
Kelly, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was arrested in February on 10 counts in Illinois of sexually abusing three girls and a woman. He pleaded not guilty to those charges and was released on bail.
Then on May 30, Cook County prosecutors added 11 more sex-related counts involving one of the women who accused him of sexually abusing her when she was underage.
Attorney Gloria Allred, who represents three of the victims identified as "Jane Does" in the New York indictment, predicted that long-overdue justice "will soon be done."
"This is a very positive day for those who allege that they are victims of Mr. Kelly, and it is a day that I'm sure that Mr. Kelly hoped would never come," she said.
Associated Press writers Amanda Seitz in Chicago and Ben Nadler in Atlanta contributed to this report.
This story has been corrected to show that defense attorney Steve Greenberg, not U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Joseph Fitzpatrick, said Kelly was arrested Thursday while walking his dog.
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The United Nations Principles to Combat Impunity: A Commentary
Completed in March 2018
Beginning with the post-World War II Nuremberg and Tokyo trials and gaining momentum since the 1990s, a global anti-impunity discourse has increasingly shaped international law and practice. This marks a shift away from the traditional practice of amnesty towards holding individuals accountable for international crimes.
The United Nations Set of Principles for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights Through Action to Combat Impunity (UN Principles) can be seen as a reflection of this global anti-impunity movement. Originally drafted by Louis Joinet and updated by Diane Orentlicher in 2005, the UN Principles are today widely accepted as constituting an authoritative reference point for efforts in the fight against impunity for gross human rights and serious international humanitarian law violations.
As a comprehensive attempt to ‘codify’ universal accountability norms, the UN Principles marked a significant step forward in the debate on the obligation of states to combat impunity in its various forms. Despite this significance, no comprehensive academic commentary of the 38 principles has yet been provided so far. This project seeks to fill this gap. It aims to provide a companion to the document, setting out the text of the UN Principles and their detailed commentaries, with a full introduction and guide to the relevant literature and case law.
The volume, published by Oxford University Press, was prepared under the editorship of Frank Haldemann and Thomas Unger, in collaboration with Valentina Cadelo.
Thomas Unger, Frank Haldemann
This new book, edited by the two Co-Directors of our Master of Advanced Studies in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law, Frank Haldemann and Thomas Unger, provides an unmatched analysis of the United Nations Principles to Combat Impunity.
July 2019, 18:00-19:30
Historical Injustices, Reparations and International Law
This project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, investigated the relevance of international law in relation to such demands for reparation.
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Modes of Liability for International Crimes
Started in January 2015
This project intends to clarify the conditions of accountability for international crimes by providing a detailed assessment of the customary international law status of, in particular, the actus reus and mens rea elements of modes of liability: planning, instigating, conspiracy, direct and indirect perpetration, co-perpetration, the three forms of joint criminal enterprise, the doctrine of common purpose under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, command responsibility and aiding and abetting.
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How One Clothing Drive Drove Worldwide Change
How can one idea and an empty street change the world? Read on to see how one of our partners, The Street Store, turned one thought into a worldwide movement which helps the homeless everyday.
Pictures Taken from The Street Store Facebook Page
Photos by Neal Tofesky www.overexposed.co.za
The first Street Store opens up in Capetown, South Africa.
Have you ever stared blankly out the office window, waiting for that genius idea to hit that can and will change the world? That’s exactly how Kayli Levitan and Max Pazak happened upon The Street Store, the world’s first pop-up clothing store for the homeless.
While pondering creative ideas for one of their clients, The Haven Night Shelter, the pair was focused on raising awareness and bringing in donations. They knew they wanted to create a clothing drive, but they wanted it to be more than just a one-time thing. They needed to host a clothing drive unlike any other. While staring out that window into a very hip and trendy area in Capetown, South Africa, they couldn’t deny that its streets were also home to many homeless.
Volunteers become personal shoppers to help people in need for the day.
The team began to notice a clear divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots.” The two sides were always crossing paths, but incrementally growing further away from ever meeting in the middle, let alone understanding one another – thanks to fear, frustration, and being in constant survival mode in whatever ways they knew how. Kayli and Max wanted to find a way to connect the “haves” and “have-nots” in a respectful way to work towards humanizing both sides to one another.
This man was able to shop the Street Store and get a new and much needed wardrobe.
The best way to bring these two worlds together was on the street they already share. And so, the Street Store was born as the first rent-free, premises-free shopping experience for those in need. In hopes of creating a breakthrough towards the deeply ingrained common stereotypes which exist, the Street Store was offering an easy way for the “haves” to give, and a dignified way for the “have-nots” to receive.
Kayli and Max were hesitant about rolling out the first store. Nothing like this had ever been done before, and they realized they were their own biggest obstacle. They decided to do it, and remain astounded every day at the waves of impact they have seen because of the Street Store. Only two years after the first store opening, they are setting up for the 500th Street Store worldwide.
The Street Store team wanted to address the international homeless problem. They wanted to ensure that people could help the homeless worldwide and create the experience within their own communities. This was the inspiration behind what became an open source project. By providing a do-good solution to help communities on a global scale, the Street Store has since helped an estimated 600,000 homeless people with over 1.2 million items of clothing.
The beauty of the Street Store is in its simplicity. By creating a dignified way to shop for clothing, and an easy way to donate, the Street Store is continuing in its path to bridge communities anywhere in the world.
Volunteers help setting out clothes and inviting the homeless to shop for clothes.
The Street Store has changed lives in so many ways. International hosts have also gone on to continue making a difference. One person opened a homeless shelter, and one person hosts a Street Store every month in her community. Once a Street Store was broadcast on television and someone spotted a missing family member, and was then able to find and give them a home.
The simplicity behind the idea seems to have created the most life changing and rewarding of impacts. From a homeless man who had lost all of his belongings in a xenophobic attack, he sent a simple note saying “thanks for making me realize I can smile again.”
If you’d like to host a Street Store, take the pledge on www.thestreetstore.org and you will receive everything needed to get started. You can also find them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thestreetstoreorg or twitter www.twitter.com/thestreetstore and on instagram @thestreetstoreorg.
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Navigating Full-Time Care and Work
We’re strongly committed to ensuring we’re benefiting from all that gender equality can deliver to our workplace, communities, and to the individuals whose lives we impact. We believe achieving diversity is about more than targets. So we’re taking a holistic approach, which includes challenging the biases in our systems and providing practical support for our people.
— John Bradley, Secretary, Department Of Environment, Land, Water & Planning, Victoria
Kelly Crosthwaite and her partner Beth have taken turns being the full-time stay-at-home parent as well as the full-time worker. She writes about how they have supported each other, their family and the important role her workplace has played.
We are a two-Mum family. My partner Beth and I have two children, a nine year-old son and a six year-old daughter. We each gave birth to one of our children - our donor is a friend and our kids know him and his own children well. Our kids have known, since they were very young, how they were created, and our donor is involved with our family but not as a parent. Why am I sharing this with you?
It is because we feel like it is normal to talk about our family situation, and we would like other people to feel normal talking about it too. The more easily and naturally these things can be put out in the open, then the better off our kids will be in the future.
But we’re also very conscious that not every rainbow family likes to disclose the details of how their family is put together or who is in it. Like the rest of the population - some people are inherently private and keep that stuff to themselves.
There isn’t any right or wrong approach. But it is something to be mindful of for rainbow families – you need to respect people’s boundaries, and sensitively work them out as you go.
Beth and I have taken turns not only in giving birth, but also in being the full-time stay-at-home parent or full-time worker. We have both worked part-time for periods within the last nine years across two states and four government agencies (State and Federal).
All those workplaces have been incredibly flexible and supportive, and we have benefitted from the great conditions and policies that government agencies implement (or at least the ones we’ve worked in).
The policies and practices that have made the most difference to us are the same ones that make a difference to any family:
Parental leave: we have clearly defined access to parental leave for mothers who give birth and for non-birth parents.
Flexibility: we have the ability to work part-time and to work flexibly.
Job sharing: we have the opportunity to job share - this one is an important ingredient to have in the mix so that the part-timer doesn’t get delegated ‘other’ more menial work in a workplace; and that the teams that you are a part of don’t have to ‘carry’ a position.
As with all HR policies and procedures, it is the practice of them that really makes the biggest impact and the intangibles that can make or break your experience.
For me, being in a workplace, like the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning that so pro-actively deals with gender equity, means that drawing boundaries around my time is seen as a good thing not a bad thing.
Then there is your boss. He or she is one of the most important factors in navigating parenthood and career and we have been fortunate to have caring and supportive supervisors who have made things easy.
The second biggest influence is the team that you’re in. My teams have been fun, inclusive, caring and generous – and I have benefitted from that as much as anyone else in the team. Those people that are extra thoughtful are so important in a situation where you might be made to feel on the outside. I know that my teammates in Adelaide celebrated the birth of our son with me just as much as if I had given birth - that meant the world to me. And taught me lessons about how to do the same for others.
For more information and tools to assist in your parenting journey, please click here to login.
We recognise that families come in all shapes and sizes and so we have been exploring how we can better support rainbow families in our community. Therefore we invite members of rainbow families to take part in our survey. Your responses will allow us to build on our existing research, to create a more inclusive platform that supports and empowers all parents. Please click here to fill it out.
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For people leaders, Finding Joy in the JugglePrue Gilbert 9 November 2018
#Metoo - a blueprint for change
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Riot Fest 2019: Blink-182, Bikini Kill, Slayer & More To Celebrate 15th Anniversary
The Raconteurs, Rise Against, The Flaming Lips, Patti Smith, Bloc Party and many more will head for Chicago this September
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Since 2005, Riot Fest has grown from a basement to a three-day don't-miss event of the summer for fiesty fans of all types of punk, rock, hip-hop, metal, alternative and more. Today, 15 years and 1,500+ bands later, the lineup for Riot Fest 2019 arrives, an electrifying mix of iconic and emerging bands, special album performances, tributes and farewells. Check out the impressive linup below.
The Riot Fest 15th Anniversary lineup is here. September 13-15 at Douglas Park, Chicago. Tickets ON SALE NOW. https://t.co/JnL4F0OgmV pic.twitter.com/oyqeTpZsQd
— Riot Fest (@RiotFest) May 29, 2019
Last year, Blink-182 were forced to cancel its Riot Fest appearance due to health issues, but they return triumphantly in 2019, leading the bill alongsite top-liners Bikini Kill, who recently reunited, The Raconteurs, who make their first Riot appearance in 11 years, as well as Rise Against, The Flaming Lips, Bloc Party, Patti Smith, and Slayer, who will be performing their final Chicago show.
The B-52s will also be playing their final Chicago show, joining the bill with Jawbreaker, Ween, Die Antwoord and more, showing Riot's range.
Tickets for the three-day festival, set for Spetember 13-15 in Chicago's Douglas Park, are available via Eventbrite.
Pitchfork Fest's Adam Krefman On Lineup Diversity, Reasonable Prices & More
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After co-founding the group in 1962, Lawson and the Persuasions went on to three decades of successful recording and touring, creating a lasting legacy that continues to resonate
Jerry Lawson, original lead singer of a cappella group the Persuasions, has died "after a long illness" according to Associated Press and collaborator and frend Rip Rense. He was 75.
As the group's original lead singer, Lawson formed the Persuasions in Brooklyn in 1962. Six years later they signed a record deal with Frank Zappa in 1968 and released their debut LP Acapella on Zappa's Straight label in 1970. Bruce Springsteen opened for the Persuasions in the early 1970s, and opened for Joni Mitchell in 1979 the group continued to record and tour over the next 30 years, and were known by their fans as "The Kings Of a Cappella."
"Thirty-eight years and we still ain't got no band, man!" Lawson said in a 2000 interview. "That's the story right there."
The Persuasions influence continues to resonate. Jamie xx sampled the group’s “Good Times” from 1972’s Street Corner Symphony for his song “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times).” from 2015's In Colour. That same year, at age 71, Lawson released his first solo album, Just A Mortal Man.
Fans of the groundbreaking a cappella group included Rod Stewart, the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and the members of Boyz II Men.
RIP: Jerry Lawson.
He recorded this nice version of my song.https://t.co/RHeeBcHVmU
— Billy Vera (@billybeater) July 11, 2019
"They've never gotten their due," Rense said. "They're the greatest, most enduring American a cappella group. In another country like Japan they'd be declared a living treasure."
A documentary on Lawson is in production and expected to be released later this year. He is survived by his wife and two daughter, and his memory lives on in the music he made.
Joni Mitchell's 'Mingus' At 40: A Look Back At A Seminal Jazz Collab
Harley Flanagan
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Cro-Mags Return With 'Don't Give In' EP, Their First New Release In 19 Years
The Harley Flanagan-led lineup drops new music the frontman describes as "Metallica meets Minor Threat"
Hardcore heroes Cro-Mags released their first new music in 19 years today, dropping the 3-song Don't Give In EP.
The band's lineup on the EP consists of Haley Flanagan, who won sole ownership of the Cro-Mags name in a legal settlement, on lead vocals and bass Gabby Abularach and Rocky George on guitar and Garry Sullivan on drums. As a result of the settlement, there is a separate iteration of Cro-Mags known as “Cro-Mags JM” featuring John Joseph, Mackie Jayson, A.J. Novello and Craig Setari, according to Consequence of Sound.
The new EP marks the first release under the Cro-Mags name since 2000's Revenge. After teasing on Instagram that the new music sounds like "Metallica meets Minor Threat," Flanagan described how the EP came together with Victory Records and Arising Empire in a statement:
"I got a strange phone call in the middle of the night that turned out to be from Tony Brummel of Victory Records,” Flanagan said. “I thought it was a prank call; it turned out not to be, and I worked out record deals with Victory and Arising Empire in Europe. One of the many things that make me happy about signing with Victory and Arising Empire is that they are genuinely fans of my music and know the history; they are not just labels trying to make money off us or the genre.”
Don’t Give In is available digitally here, with a 7″ vinyl version due out Aug. 2.
The Velvet Underground's 'The Complete Matrix Tapes' Is Coming To Vinyl
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters Plot Fall Tour, But Will They Play Your Favorite Song?
The Just Trust tour will follow the band's summer co-headlining trek with Blondie with two dozen more U.S. dates
Just Trust Elvis Costello & The Imposters. So goes the name of E.C.'s newly announced fall U.S. Tour, which will hit 24 cities in October and November.
Elvis Costello & The Imposters Announce Fall Tour!
Just Trust Elvis Costello & The Imposters. Starting 10/23 in Charlottesville, VA this 24-date tour ends 11/26 in Milwaukee, WI. Tickets On-Sale June 28th. For a complete list of dates & ticket info visit - https://t.co/PqUksKE29R pic.twitter.com/nW1TSoT099
— Elvis Costello (@ElvisCostello) June 24, 2019
Explanation of the tour's title may offer fans some insight on what to expect from the shows. A statement reveals, "The tour is entitled, 'Just Trust' in answer to the musical questions: 'Will they play my favourite song?,' or, 'Are they going to frighten the horses with a lot of excellent songs that are rarely performed?,' not to mention, 'Can I expect the hits of yesteryear and those of tomorrow?'
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The Just Trust tour begins Oct. 23 in Charlottesville, Va., and wraps up Nov. 26 in Milwaukee, Wis, making stops along the way in Nashville, Tenn., Atlanta, New Orelans, Memphis, Chicago and Minneapolis, to name a few.
In addition to mainstay band members Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas and Davey Faragher, singers Kitten Kuroi and Briana Lee will join Costello on stage, the same personnel heard on the group's latest release, 2018's Look Now, which marked Costello's first studio album in five years.
The extended road run is double good news for fans, as this time last year Costello revealed he'd been diagnosed with cancer and was forced to cancel his remaining European tour dates to focus on recovery, which he has since confirmed is going well. Earlier this month, he was awarded the prestigious O.B.E. honor, the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for "services to music." Next month he and the Imposters head out on a co-headlining stint with Blondie for the cleverly coined Blondie & The Beastly E.C. tour
If you're ready to take the trust plunge, tickets for the Just Trust tour begin to go on sale June 28. Visit Costello's website for a full list of dates and ticket info.
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Above & Beyond Announce New Album 'Flow State' above-beyond-announce-new-album-flow-state-inspired-yoga-mindfulness
Above & Beyond Announce New Album 'Flow State' Inspired By Yoga & Mindfulness
The anthemic dance group follow up last year's 'Common Ground' with a "panoramic journey of ambient compositions and warm, neo-classical soundscapes"
Above & Beyond have always gone, well, above and beyond any musical limitations associated with dance music. From recording an acoustic album to releasing a single in 2018 called "Red Rocks" inspired by the Colorado amplitheatre of the same name, they pull inspiration from anywhere and channel it any way they please, always with their signature upbeat spin. Today, the English trio announced a new album inspired by yoga and mindfulness, Flow State, due out band’s Anjunabeats imprint on July 19.
According to a statement from the group, "Flow State is the culmination of a journey which began at Burning Man in 2014. A chance encounter on the Playa led to a spontaneous sunset yoga set on the infamous Robot Heart stage, guided by renowned yogi Elena Brower. A magical and spiritual experience for those present, it inspired Above & Beyond to begin opening their biggest global gigs with yoga sets, creating transformative experiences for 25,000 strong crowds at The Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington and Huntington Beach, California. The original Burning Man yoga set has subsequently gone on to amass over 2 million streams on Soundcloud."
The new album follow's 2018's highly acclaimed Common Ground., which earned the group their second GRAMMY nomination for Best Dance Recording for "Northern Soul."
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“Our music has always been about getting in touch with, and understanding and accepting our emotions. After those amazing yoga sets, we realized that there is a bigger place for this more reflective music within our little universe,” said A&B's Paavo Siljamaki. “With the Flow State project, we want to help bring people’s attention and focus towards helping themselves find better mental fitness and overall happiness in life. Through raised awareness, being more present, one can reach a state of flow: a creative and free state of mind where time, fear and stress dissipate.”
Flow State is a 49-minute experience the statement calls a "panoramic journey of ambient compositions and warm, neo-classical soundscapes that offer moments of meditative calm in these busy and often overwhelming times." A three-song sampler EP of Flow State drops today and coincides with International Yoga Day, and the album will be accompanied by a 13-minute talk on self-acceptance from Brower. The album is available now for pre-order.
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Lizzo Got ‘Emotionally Honest’ About Her Depression—And the Response Was Powerful
Ariana Grande Wrote a Heartfelt Letter Explaining Why She Cried During a Recent Concert
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Ariana Grande Wrote a Powerful Letter About Manchester in Her New Documentary—Read It Here
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Ariana Grande released her long-awaited four-part docuseries for YouTube, Ariana Grande: Dangerous Woman Diaries, this week. In it the singer gives fans a look into the making of her fourth studio album, Sweetener, never-before-seen highlights from various concert performances, backstage footage from her Dangerous Woman Tour, and special moments from her One Love Manchester tribute concert. (There are even a few brief cameos of her former fiancé, Pete Davidson, peppered throughout the series.)
But perhaps the most impactful few minutes of the docuseries is a sobering moment at the start of episode four, when the singer addresses the terrorist attack on her Manchester performance in May 2017. She does it through a powerful statement to the victims, her fans, and all who felt the heavy weight of violence that day; written by Ariana herself, the words are a reflective look back at the bombing eight months later.
Grande has openly discussed the events of her Manchester performance before, but this letter feels especially personal and moving. She discusses how heavily that horrific night has weighed on her and how she will carry that experience with her "every day for the rest of my life."
Below, the letter in full:
"I'm writing to you this February 22, 2018.
It's been eight months since the attack at our show at the Manchester Arena. It's impossible to know where to start or to know what to say about this part. May 22, 2017, will leave me speechless and filled with questions for the rest of my life. Music is an escape.
Music is the safest thing I've ever known. Music—pop music, stan culture—is something that brings people together, introduces them to some of their best friends, and makes them feel like they can be themselves. It is comfort. It is fun. It is expression. It is happiness. It is the last thing that would ever harm someone. It is safe.
When something so opposite and so poisonous takes place in your world that is supposed to be everything but that…it is shocking and heartbreaking in a way that seems impossible to fully recover from.
The spirit of the people of Manchester, the families affected by this horrendous tragedy, and my fans around the world have permanently impacted all of us for the rest of our lives. Their love, strength, and unity showed me, my team, my dancers, band, and entire crew not to be defeated. To continue during the scariest and saddest of times. To not let hate win. But instead, love as loudly as possible, and to appreciate every moment.
The people of Manchester were able to change an event that portrayed the worst of humanity into one that portrayed the most beautiful of humanity. 'Like a handprint on my heart'…I think of Manchester constantly and will carry this with me every day for the rest of my life."
Later in the docuseries, Grande explains why she feels it's important, now more than ever, to continue to move forward. "Another thing that I'll take away from this is how important it is to stay present and to appreciate everyone in your life and every single moment that you're lucky enough to have with them," the singer says toward the end of the final episode. "Nothing will ever be able to stop us from doing what we do and doing our jobs, because how it makes people feel is the most beautiful thing in the world."
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Co-founder of the English Opera Group.
Original Producer / The Rape Of Lucretia, 12 July 1946 at Glyndebourne view performance details
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Lucas Moura: Leonardo convinced me to reject Manchester United and join PSG
By Andrew Wychrij
The Brazil international has admitted that the Premier League club were interested in his signature but looks forward to playing alongside Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the French capital
Paris Saint-Germain star Lucas Moura has revealed that director of football Leonardo persuaded him to reject Manchester United and move to the French capital.
The 20-year-old attacking midfielder is regarded as one of the brightest prospects in world football and moved to PSG this month after the club agreed a reported £28.5 million (€35m) fee with Sao Paulo in August.
Sir Alex Ferguson attempted to bring Lucas to Old Trafford but the Brazil international says he was convinced to make the move to Ligue 1 by the former AC Milan player.
"Manchester United wanted me but I talked a lot with Leonardo and he convinced me," he told Telefoot TF1.
"It's an honor for me to play with [Zlatan] Ibrahimovic. I will learn a lot from this side."
Lucas has scored twice in nine Copa Sudamericana games for Sao Paulo this season and his father believes that he has been successful because of his level-headed nature.
"Lucas is a modest kid," said Jorge Moura. "He never lost his head and this is priceless."
PSG sit top of Ligue 1 in the winter break with 38 points, leading challengers Lyon on goal difference.
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Hervé Benzakein
Philippe Hancock
Victor Fuentes
Degree in Business and Economics from the University of Geneva.
From 1987 works as a credit analyst at BNP New York and then at Credit Lyonnais Tokyo.
In 1989 he joins Banque Paribas (Suisse) SA in Geneva as a credit manager within the Credit department.
He then joins the Commodity and Trade Finance team and in 2001 he joins the Management Board with responsibility for the servicing and development of private clients based in Europe.
In 2003 he is a co-founder of HBS.
He sits on several boards of directors in Switzerland and abroad.
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Degree in Economics from the University of Geneva with major in law.
Starting 1986 he worked for 10 years at BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA as Senior Banker in the international credit department joining the executive committee.
In 1996 he joined the Private Banking team and ran the Swiss, Scandinavian and Eastern European markets for BNP Paribas Private Bank globally.
In 2003, building on his broad banking experience and extensive knowledge of these markets he co-founded HBS SA.
He is also founder and shareholder of an established retail company in Central Europe and an Eastern hemisphere focused investment fund.
He is a director of a number of companies and acts as strategic advisor to several families.
Holds a Degree in Economics, a post-graduate diploma in Economics and Finance as well as an AZEK diploma of Expert in Finance and Investments.
Worked as a financial analyst at two Geneva banks before joining Pictet & Co in 2001, where he joined the Wealth Management departement in 2008.
He joined HBS in December 2017 as a Partner in order to support our Financial and asset management activity.
Daniel Biderbost
Partner & COO
Petri Alder, CFA
Trained as an apprentice to become a fully fledged Banker and worked for 10 years at UBS in wealth management.
From 1994 through 2004 he was employed at Berger van Berchem, a Geneva investment management company as an asset manager.
He joined Pictet in 2004 as deputy to the head of the Independent Asset Managers Team.
He joined HBS in 2015 as Chief Operating Officer (COO).
He holds a Bachelor degree from University of California (San Diego) and a CFA.
Worked at Deutsche Bank in Geneva in the back-office department and, from 2011 at Merrill Lynch as a financial advisor.
Joined HBS in July 2014 as a financial analyst.
Graduated from the Geneva “Ecole superieure de Commerce” and obtained a “Wealth Management” diploma.
Worked in the finance department of the Canton of Geneva.
In 2000 he joined Citco Funds in Geneva providing administrative services for investment funds.
In 2004 he started at HSBC in Geneva as a Fund trader and became responsible for the fund trading team. In 2010 he accepted a position as a relationship manager on the Brazilian team.
Since 2014 he has been a client relationship manager at HBS.
Annik Cornebise
Boris Cottier
Finance and Accounting Manager
Olivier Filgueira, CIIA
Holds a degree in Sciences commerciales et industrielles from the University of Geneva.
Started her career with Merrill Lynch Bank in the capital market department.
Joined Société Générale Private Banking in 1987.
Has worked in the capital market,bonds,advisory and Private Banking.
From 2006 became Director in charge of a Private Banking VIP Clients portfolio.
Member of Pension Funds board.
Joined HBS in 2015 as a Senior Relationship manager.
Graduated from the “Ecole Supérieure de Commerce” in Grenoble.
Began his career in the financial and accounting manager of a French trading company.
He then joined a Geneva company active in events management and trade fair organization.
In 2000 he joined the financial advisory firm Swisscorp as head of accounting.
He has been with HBS in December 2006 and now heads Finance and HR.
Started his career at Pictet with an apprenticeship in 2006.
Joined the Private Banking department as an assistant in 2010.
Appointed Junior Private Banker in September 2013 and then Private Banker in March 2016, he then joined HBS in November 2018 as a Relationship Manager.
Andreia Maillard
Bertrand Otto
Jérémy Pauchard
Andreia holds a Bachelor degree in Economics.
Worked as a marketing assistant and later as assistant relationship manager at Edmond de Rothschild SA.
From 2011 until 2015 worked as an executive assistant in a Financial Company in Geneva.
From november 2015 has joined HBS as an administrative assistant.
Holds a MBA from Hartford University Connecticut.
From 1986 to 1989 has worked as an auditor at Arthur Young.
From 1989 has been responsible for all the non financial investments of the Edmond de Rothschild group (wines, agriculture, real estate, hotels) and from 1998 CEO of Edmond de Rothschild holding.
Joined HBS in april 2016 as a senior advisor.
Trained as an apprentice and graduated in 2003.
After working at Pictet & Cie and Deutsche Bank, Jérémy then worked for 13 years as a Client Relationship Manager at GS bank in Geneva.
He joined HBS in June 2018 as Relationship Manager.
Pascal Penon
Mathias Rossier
Carine Bankumuhari Haymoz
Business Developer, Africa
Earned his diploma as “CFC Employe de Commerce” in Geneva in 1999.
In 1999 he worked at the Vaudoise insurance company as an insurance manager.
He joined SCS Alliance bank as an internal accountant in 2001.
As of 2004 he worked as an accountant with Investec Trust (Switzerland Ltd.) in Geneva and joined Kennay Sevices Ltd in Geneva in 2006 to head their accounting team.
He joined HBS in 2010 and since 2014 has been in charge of accounting. He has a strong administrative and accounting background together with a sound knowledge of the insurance world.
Following his 3 years apprenticeship at Lombard Odier in Geneva, he started a 3 years study period in parallel of his professional activity with the view to obtain a Banking Economist diploma.
After 9 months of activity at LODH, he joined HBS in April 2017 as a Relationship Manager
Holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Management in Geneva.
Relationship Manager at Lombard Odier from 2007 to 2013, she also worked from 2011 on a “Private Client Development” project in Africa.
After a period in a Project Financing company dedicated to African clients, she returned to Lombard Odier as a Business Developer for African markets.
She joined HBS Family Office beginning of 2019 as a Business Developer for African countries.
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Marketing Edge
Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society
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John A. Deighton
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John Deighton is The Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is an authority on consumer behavior and marketing, with a focus on digital and direct marketing. He teaches in the area of Big Data in Marketing, and previously initiated and led the HBS Executive Education program in Digital Marketing and taught the elective MBA course, Digital Marketing Strategy.
His research on marketing management and consumer behavior has been published in a variety of journals including the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Harvard Business Review. His research has also received a number of commendations, including the American Marketing Association’s Best Article Award for an article in the Journal of Marketing and an honorable mention from the Journal of interactive Marketing. He received the European Case Clearing House Award in Marketing (2012), the Edward N. Mayer, Jr. Award for Education Leadership (2011), the Direct Marketing Education Foundation Robert B. Clarke Outstanding Educator Award (2002), and the University of Chicago's Hillel J. Einhorn Excellence in Teaching Award (1995). He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, the Judge School of Business at Cambridge University and the Said Business School at Oxford University.
He is a past editor of the Journal of Consumer Research, a leading outlet for scholarly research on consumer behavior, and was the founding co-editor of the Journal of Interactive Marketing, which reports academic research on marketing and the Internet. He is a past Executive Director of the Marketing Science Institute, a member of the Chairman’s Advisory Council of Marketing Edge, and a Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He has been with HBS since 1994 and received the Greenhill Award for outstanding service to the school.
Prior to joining HBS, he was on the faculties of the University of Chicago and the Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth College). He has a Ph.D. in Marketing from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the University of Cape Town. He also has a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Natal. His applied research includes consulting with a number of U.S and international corporations.
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Big data is defined and distinguished from a mere moment in the “ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified which, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs on big data is described as diffusing with unprecedented speed but as being difficult to analyze and critique, and therefore the designers of society’s big data infrastructure, whether human or machines, play an unacknowledged legislative function of great consequence.
Rethinking the Profession Formerly Known as Advertising: How Data Science Is Disrupting the Work of Agencies
Speaker's Box, Journal of Advertising Research
“Speaker’s Box” invites academics and practitioners to identify potential areas of research affecting marketing and advertising. Its intention is to bridge the gap between the length of time it takes to produce rigorous work and the acceleration of change within practice. With this contribution, John Deighton shows how data technology sits within its industry, which he defines as the “commercial Internet.” He depicts this industry as a supply chain and shows how a small number of firms have defied the chain metaphor to integrate all the way from data source to data application. These integrators, he argues, are titans in a battle to create the dominant design for a platform on which all marketing will be practiced. But, he asks, who will do the work of marketing? Will it be done by an evolved version of the advertising agency; will it be institutionalized into the culture of data science; or will it not be professionalized at all but rather defer to one or more standard-setting industrialists, perhaps Google or Amazon?
The Value of Data
Consequences for Insight, Innovation and Efficiency in the U.S. Economy
Professor Deighton was the lead author on a new study entitled "The Value of Data: Consequences for Insight, Innovation, and Efficiency in the U.S. Economy". The study investigates the amount of incremental value data-driven marketing contributes to the U.S. economy and also estimates the proportion of the value that is accounted for by the flow or transfer of data among firms. For more information or to download the study click here.
Economic Value of the Advertising-Supported Internet Ecosystem
This 105 page report analyzes the structure and dynamics of the commercial internet by classifying individually the internet-dependent revenues and employment of the 412 largest firms that participate in the ecosystem, and rolling up smaller firms and individuals. The report concludes that about 4 million jobs in the U.S. depend on the internet, of which 43% comprise small firms and self-employed individuals. The report identifies the most rapidly growing sectors by comparing this report to earlier reports published in 2008 and 2012. The commercial internet has been growing at 20% per year over the duration of the three studies, and its share of U.S. GDP appears to be increasing over that period.
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Predicting the Patterns of Cross-Channel Elasticities Over Time
The authors propose a conceptual framework to explain whether and when the introduction of a new retail store channel helps or hurts sales in existing direct channels. A conceptual framework separates short- and long-term effects by analyzing the capabilities of a channel that help consumers accomplish their shopping goals. To test the theory, the authors analyze a unique data set from a high-end retailer using matching methods. The authors study the introduction of a retail store and find evidence of cross-channel cannibalization and synergy. The presence of a retail store decreases sales in the catalog but not the Internet channel in the short run but increases sales in both direct channels over time. Following the opening of the store, more first-time customers begin purchasing in the direct channels. These results suggest that adding a retail store to direct channels yields different results from adding an Internet channel to a retail store channel, as previous research has indicated.
Journal of Marketing, May 2012, Vol. 76, No. 3: pp. 96-111
Learning to Become a Taste Expert
Evidence suggests that consumers seek to become more expert about hedonic products to enhance their enjoyment of future consumption occasions. Current approaches to becoming an expert center on cultivating an analytic mindset. In the present research the authors explore the benefit to enthusiasts of moving beyond analytics to cultivate a holistic style of processing. In the taste context the authors define holistic processing as non-verbal, imagery based, and involving narrative processing. The authors conduct qualitative interviews with taste experts (Master Sommeliers) to operationalize the holistic approach to hedonic learning, and then test it against traditional analytic methods in a series of experiments across a range of hedonic products. The results suggest that hedonic learning follows a sequence of stages whose order matters and that the holistic stage is facilitated by attending to experience as a narrative event and by employing visual imagery. The results of this multi-method investigation have implications for both managers and academics interested in how consumers learn to become expert in hedonic product categories.
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Jury Duty: What to Expect
By: Matthew J. Healy
The official envelope greets you from your mailbox -“SUMMONS FOR JURY SERVICE.”To you, a summons may invoke more questions than answers. Recently, since the George Ryan trial, there has been a focus in the media on jury service. Your initial reaction may be “How do I get out of this?” This is a common reaction. I challenge you to overcome it. Putting aside the fact that disregarding a summons can be a serious matter, consider why jury duty is necessary.
PHILOSOPHY OF A JURY SYSTEM
Serving as a juror is a fundamental civic responsibility. When you are sworn in as a juror, you become a temporary officer of the court, a tradition that goes back 800 years to the Magna Carta. Thomas Jefferson said that the jury system is the best line of defense against tyranny and more precious to democracy than even the right to vote. A vital purpose of the jury system is to subject our laws to democratic interpretation by drawing upon the values and common sense of the people. The citizen jury is what sets us apart from the rest of the world.
A juror’s responsibility is a near-sacred one: to dispense justice fairly. The statue of Lady Justice, the Greek Goddess holding the scales of justice, has a blind fold over her eyes. It symbolizes blind justice. Whether you’re a large corporation, a powerful individual, an accused, or everyday folk, everyone is treated fairly and the same under the law.
At the very least, jury duty is a rare opportunity to witness the real life operations of a court.
NUTS AND BOLTS OF JURY DUTY
If you have to report for jury duty, you will be required to show up at the courthouse in the morning. You will be given an orientation covering the theoretical (such as juries have a constitutional role in protecting the people from the power of the government) and the practical (such as your boss can’t fire you because you’re on jury duty).
Next, you will be brought into a courtroom. The judge will ask if anyone has a compelling problem that will keep them from serving. If you have a legitimate reason such as compelling work, medical or family care responsibilities, you likely will be relieved of jury duty. People offering excuses will be asked to speak with the judge, lawyers, and/or court employee. This may be done in private or in open court. You will then either be relieved of jury duty or told to return to your seat.
Next, you will be sworn to tell the truth and answer questions, or “voir dire” (literally “to speak the truth”). The judge and lawyers will question you in open court. The questions are not meant to embarrass or pry, but rather to afford the lawyers some insight as to your beliefs. The judge will instruct you to be candid and that you need not be afraid.
Voir dire questions are also designed to reveal any conflicts of interest you may have in judging a particular case. For instance, if the case is about an allegedly defective product, the court wants to make sure you’re not a manufacturer who is too biased to judge the case fairly. You can expect questions about your job, friendships and family.
The judge will determine which jurors will be excused “for cause,” which means they have a legitimate conflict. Attorneys are allowed to excuse potential jurors using a limited number of “peremptory challenges,” which can be used against a juror for any reason. Each party uses them to discard jurors that will be too detrimental to its side. In the end, twelve jurors and a number of alternate jurors will be selected. People who were not selected as a juror or an alternate will be excused. The excused will return to the jury pool room and may be assigned to another courtroom or be dismissed for the day.
For a typical trial, a jury is expected to be in court each day for about eight hours. A juror can get a certificate of attendance each day if an employer requires it. The Court does modestly compensate jurors with around $15 – $40 per day, depending on the jurisdiction. The law does not require an employer to pay you while you are serving. The law does require that your job be protected while you serve. Some employers will continue to pay a juror’s full salary while they serve, others will pay full salary less the Court’s compensation, while other employers won’t pay you at all while you are on jury duty.
Finally, the judge will give the selected jurors some procedural instructions. The stage is now set for trial.
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Serious Sex Attack in Southampton Park
Police are investigating following a serious sexual assault on a 24-year-old woman in the early hours of Sunday, May 27 in Mount Pleasant Park.
The 24-year-old woman from Southampton was walking home from The Dungeon club in Bevois Valley Road just after 2am on Sunday with a man she had just met.
When the pair reached a park area in Mount Pleasant Road the man pulled the woman into a bush and sexually assaulted her.
The woman began to make her way home before contacting police.
Detective Inspector, Ellie Hurd said: “This is an isolated incident. I would appeal to anyone who may have been in the area of Mount Pleasant Road and may have witnessed the incident ,or saw the pair walking together in Bevois Valley Road or Mount Pleasant Road to contact us.
“The victim is described as white, 5ft 4ins tall, medium build, wearing a pink, white and black long vest top with fairly short denim shorts and red pump shoes. She was carryinga small light coloured canvas surf style handbag which would normally be worn across the body.”
A 23-year-old man from Southampton has been arrested on suspicion of rape. He has been released on bail pending further enquiries until July 27.
Anyone with information should contact the Area CID at Southampton Central police station on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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All About the Region of Messenia in Ancient Greece
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When walking through modern Greece, you can’t help but be confronted by reminders of the country’s ancient past. The Parthenon in Athens, for example, is still a distinct part of the landscape in the city. Besides that, there are ancient reminders, such as temples and old Minoan palaces, and it’s hard to go anywhere in Greece without seeing them. Despite that, however, there are still some subtle difference between the ancient borders of a region and what stands today. In Messenia, however, that isn’t the case since it seems to have evolved naturally and has retained similar borders between ancient times and the present. Here’s more information about the history of Ancient Messenia:
Location of Messenia
Messenia is a part of Ancient Greece that was located on the Peloponnesian Peninsula in the southwestern corner. As mentioned above, the ancient borders of the region are very similar to the modern ones. The region is bordered by the Neda River,Mount Elaeum, Mount Nomia, Taygetus, Koskara River, and the sea. Besides the borders of the region not changing since ancient times, the native population in the area is also mostly Greek, with a very small portion of the population belonging to some Slavic and Albanian people who settled here. In Ancient Greece, however, the population was almost completely Greek. The Greek dialect that is spoken here is listed as Doric Greek but early in its history, the language spoken here was Mycenaean Greek. The Doric dialect didn’t kick in until the Greek Dark Ages after the Dorian invasion of the region.
People of Messenia
The history of Messenia began early on in Ancient Greece during the Greek Bronze Age. The original inhabitants in the region are written about by early Greek writers as Pelasgians, which is a blanket term to indicate that the people were part of the “original” Greek population. It is said that the early people in Messenia that lived here during the bronze age were the Aeolians. It is thought that the Aeolians originally lived in Thessaly and then migrated to Messenia to live. During the Bronze Age the people were identified as Mycenaean, or at the very least they spoke the Mycenaean language. By the time the Dorian invasion occurred, the Doric people began to settle in the area and blend with the original segment of the population.
Spartan Rule of Messenia
There is also some evidence to suggest that Messenia was ruled early on in its history during the Archaic Period, which came after the Bronze Age, by Sparta. Because of Messenia’s location, it the people of the region enjoyed fertile soils, which allowed them to benefit from the land. Sparta’s inherent territory wasn’t as fertile, which means that they wanted to enjoy what Messenia had to offer. The First Messenian War, which was fought between Messania and Sparta, after the Spartan king, Teleclus, was murdered. Eventually, the Messenians were conquered. Much later, during the Classical Period,t he Messenians revolted. It wouldn’t be until the Hellenistic period, though, that the Messenians were officially liberated from the Spartans.
Today, Messenia is a pretty region of modern Greece where the people still enjoy what the beautiful land has to offer.
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Welcome to Underwater Archaeology! The Naval History and Heritage Command’s Underwater Archaeology Branch (UAB) is responsible for the management, research, preservation, and interpretation of the U.S. Navy’s sunken military craft. The Navy oversees one of the largest collections of submerged cultural resources, which includes over 2,500 shipwrecks and 14,000 aircraft wrecks dispersed around the world. The UAB was established in 1993 to manage these sites and to advise the Department of the Navy on all matters related to the science of underwater archaeology and historic preservation as it pertains to military ship and aircraft wreck sites.
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Night Music: Poems
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Selected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a collection of antic, autobiographical episodes in blank verse, in 1968. Eight years and three books later, he died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of forty-eight. Of Sissman's remarkable final poems John Updike wrote, "What other poet had ever given such wry and unblinking witness to his own dying? His poetry gave back to life more generously than he had received, and carried his beautiful wit into darkness undimmed." Now Sissman's longtime editor, Peter Davison, has selected from his lifework the essential poems--the essence of an American original. (A Mariner Original)
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Gators maintain regular-season hold on Hogs with 57-51 win at BWA
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas made a fierce comeback to cut a late 15-point deficit down to 2, but the Florida Gators held on while continuing their regular-season mastery of the Razorbacks, winning for the third consecutive time at Bud Walton Arena, 57-51, on Wednesday as both teams now sit 1-1 in SEC play.
Florida (9-5) has not lost to Arkansas (10-4) in the regular season in nearly 6 years. The Hogs did end an 8-0 losing skid against the Gators, 80-72, in the 2018 SEC tournament in St. Louis, but the last time Arkansas won a regular-season game against Florida also marked its last home win against the Gators, 80-69, on Feb. 5, 2013.
Florida snapped Arkansas’s 3-game winning streak as the Hogs lost for the third time at BWA this season. The loss also dropped Anderson-led Arkansas teams to 2-10 against Florida.
“We talk about the sense of urgency in conference games and every game is going to have a different adventure,” Arkansas head coach Mike Anderson said. “We saw where we didn’t show up with that sense of urgency in the first half and allowed Florida to get a cushion that went up even bigger in the second half. In the first half we turned the ball over 12 times and so you talk about experience vs. inexperience, you saw that tonight on display.
“We had a very energetic crowd and a good opponent. Defensively they are good but I talk about with so many new faces it was was one of those bumps we talk about. We are going to have those bumps throughout the year and that was a bump. So hopefully we can get over it and learn from it.”
North Little Rock native and senior guard KeVaughn Allen — he had a team-high 18 points — made two free throws to push Florida’s two-point lead to 55-51 with 12 seconds remaining, then he rebounded sophomore wing Mason Jones’s miss from 3 and made two more free throws for the final margin — all after Jones (who scored a career-high 30 points) spearheaded a 15-2 Arkansas run, including a 2-of-2 free throw trip that pulled the Hogs within 53-51 with 1:02 remaining in the game.
Sophomore center Daniel Gafford rebounded a Florida miss, and Arkansas called a timeout with 33.1 seconds remaining and still trailing 53-51. But Jones missed on a drive into the paint, and junior forward Adrio Bailey missed at point-blank range after an offensive rebound as Florida secured the ball and sealed the win with Allen’s free throws.
Neither team shot well — Florida was 18-of-58 for 31.0% compared to Arkansas’s 15-of-50 for 30.0%, and the teams were an identical 6-of-26 from 3 for 23.1%.
But, Florida was better at the free throw line (15-of-19 for 78.9% compared to Arkansas’s 15-of-26 for 57.7%), the Gators won the turnover battle (16-12 for plus-4) which was crucial in helping them get eight more shot attempts and three more makes than the Razorbacks, and Florida won bench scoring 10-0 as Arkansas’s reserves went scoreless for the first time since the program’s first season in the SEC (1991-92).
Both teams had 10 offensive rebounds, although Arkansas did win the overall rebounding battle, 42-39.
Allen, who’s now 6-1 against Arkansas, was only 3-of-11 shooting (including 1-of-9 from 3) but his 11-of-12 free throw effort was the catalyst in his team’s win. Freshman guard Noah Locke had 10 points for Florida.
Jones was 7-of-13 shooting, including 4-of-9 from 3, plus 12-of-13 from the free throw line for his 30 points. The rest of the Razorbacks were a dismal 8-of-37 from the field (21.6%) including 2-of-17 from 3 (11.8%) and 3-of-13 on freebies (23.1%).
Gafford and freshman guard Isaiah Joe had both scored in double-figures in each of the Hogs’ first 13 games, but both failed to do so against Florida. Gafford finished with 9 points (3-of-4 field goals and 3-of-6 free throws) and a game-high 12 rebounds, while Joe had 6 points (2-of-10 shooting including 2-of-9 from 3, plus 0-of-1 free throws) to go with 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal, and 1 block.
Gafford, who was one point shy of his fourth consecutive double-double and his third in as many games played against Florida, logged only 27 minutes with foul trouble, and after he left game with his fourth foul at the 9:44 mark Florida scored 5 quick points for its biggest lead of the game, 48-32, with 9:13 remaining.
Florida led 51-36 with 6:11 to go when Jones scored 11 points in the Hogs’ 15-2 run that pulled them within 53-51 heading into the final minute.
“When you start off you have to start off with great energy,” Anderson said. “We started off scoring inside early on. Dan scored a couple of buckets and then we kind of got away from it. And so I’ll take the blame for that. We’ve got to do better in terms of really continuing to get involved and moving around. But we’ve got to get the ball to him and quite frankly we didn’t shoot the ball well.
“We had open shots. We didn’t make them. I never saw so many airballs. I don’t know if it was nerves or what it was, but I’ve never seen so many airballs.But give our guys credit. we we were down 16 and we had the ball with 20 or 30 or some seconds with an opportunity to tie or go ahead in the game. We had two shots. Mason’s shot off balance and Adrio had one there point blank. But again you are trying to climb that hill up and you expend so much energy.
“Our bench, you talk about it being consistent. I say it’s going to be a strong component of our basketball team but they did not score a point. They played hard but they did not score a point tonight. So when you have all those things take place, it’s kind of a mountain you’ve got to climb. We didn’t get it done. So give Florida credit. They are a good defensive team. But for us to score 51 points at home, that’s something we’ve got to get better at.”
Arkansas jumped out to a 4-0 lead as Gafford went to work inside early, but the Gators held him to only 1 more point for the remainder of the first half.
Florida’s 10-0 run gave the Gators a 12-6 lead at the 10-minute mark, and the Hogs would go scoreless for 7:38 of game time before Gafford’s 1-of-2 trip to the free throw line with 8:20 left before halftime.
Jones made back-to-back 3-point baskets during an 11-6 Hogs’ spurt that pulled them within 18-17 at the 5:30 mark, but Gators’ freshman guard Andrew Nebhart sparked a 15-5 run with 6 consecutive points as Florida grabbed it’s biggest lead, 33-22, at the break.
Jones scored 13 first-half points (3-of-6 field goals including 2-of-5 from 3, plus 5-of-6 free throws) for the Razorbacks, while Allen notched 11 points (2-of-6 field goals including 0-of-4 from 3, plus 7-of-8 free throws) to pace the Gators in the first 20 minutes.
Arkansas shot 7-of-25 from the field (28.0%), including 2-of-14 from 3 (14.3%), and 6-of-10 from the free throw line (60.0%). Florida wasn’t much better: 10-of-32 field goals (31.3%), including 3-of-16 from 3 (18.8%), and 10-of-12 free throws (83.3%).
Arkansas was competitive on the glass (minus-1 at 21-20), but a turnover deficit of 12-7 minimized Arkansas’s scoring opportunities.
Next up for the Hogs is LSU at Bud Walton Arena at 5 p.m. CT on Saturday before going on the road next week against No. 3 Tennessee and Ole Miss. Those three SEC teams are currently a collective 5-0 in SEC play.
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Griffins lose to Philadelphia
Brian Lashoff recorded an assist in his first professional game, but the Grand Rapids Griffins dropped a 4-1 decision to the Philadelphia Phantoms at the Wachovia Spectrum on Sunday. With five games remaining, the Griffins are four points ahead of the Hamilton Bulldogs for second place in the North Division.
Lashoff, a defenseman by trade, played forward for the injury-depleted Griffins and registered an assist on Cory Emmerton’s third-period goal. Jimmy Howard, fresh off his career-best 47-save performance on Friday night, stopped 20 shots in net for the Griffins (42-21-6-6). Scott Munroe got the start for the Phantoms (38-29-2-4) and turned aside 33 of the 34 shots that Grand Rapids took. The Griffins, already hit hard with injuries, also played without defenseman Garrett Stafford, who was called up to the Dallas Stars before the game.
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Wanted: A Color-Blind Voting Rights Law
Michael Fleshman
This past week in Alabama Black Caucus v. Alabama, the United States Supreme Court, by a five-to-four decision—with Justice Stephen Breyer writing for the four liberal justices plus Justice Kennedy—struck down Alabama’s redistricting plan for its state Senate and House of Representatives under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The issue arose as a result of a confluence of two powerful factors. First, the inevitable shifts in population densities between censuses make current districts noncompliant with the Supreme Court’s exacting numerical identity standard for state district. The second is the change in legislative control from Democrats to Republicans, allowing Republicans to imitate the Democrats after the 2000 census—to create districts with equal populations that will let Republicans nab seats in excess of their percentage of popular support.
The most common technique to skew political power gives the opposition party a smaller number of seats in which they hold commanding majorities, while reserving for itself a larger number of seats with smaller yet still safe electoral majorities. Politically, a 55 to 45 percent margin is roughly 99 percent as safe and stable as, say, a 70 to 30 percent margin. Given the detailed knowledge of race and voting patterns, it’s duck soup for any computer-savvy political caucus to implement the program.
In a sensible world, the best counter to these dangerous tendencies uses explicit formal requirements to remove this unpleasant form of tit-for-tat politics. Two constraints, taken together, could achieve this result in a relatively simple fashion. The first is to stick with a requirement of rough numerical equality across districts. The second is to require relatively compact districts, which look more like simple squares than some grotesque 28-sided monster that white citizens (outnumbered by 4 to 1) consciously created in Tuskegee Alabama in 1957 to block the possibility that newly enfranchised black residents would soon take over local politics. Six years after Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court in Gomillion v. Lightfoot struck down this ploy under the Fifteenth Amendment, which provides that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
But now that the political tables are turned, the Supreme Court, under its version of Tuskegee Modern actively encourages the use of these same racially constructed districts to increase the influence of minority voters relative to white ones. Since the Fifteenth Amendment is quite useless for that purpose, all attention shifts to the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of Equal Protection under the laws, which was invoked in the stirring 1896 dissent of John Marshall Harlan in Plessy v. Ferguson aimed to usher in a color-blind Constitution.
No longer, clearly. The Supreme Court has made a U-turn to a race-conscious Constitution. At the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the systematic exclusion of black citizens from the polls prompted the adoption of strong preclearance measures to prevent subtle rearguard actions by entrenched public officials determined to perpetuate the old order. Those days are long gone, and in 2012 a sharply divided Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder rightly struck down the much-expanded use of preclearance procedures long after segregationists had lost any control over the political process. Essentially the majority held the expanded preclearance proceedings as inappropriate overkill in the absence of any evidence of current racial bias in the administration of the voting laws—a no-brainer in light of the high rates of black participation throughout the South.
Shelby County should be read to hold that the Supreme Court should no longer use the Equal Protection Clause to maximize overall black political influence, however defined. Nonetheless, Black Caucus only expands the use of race-based redistricting. To get a grasp of the doctrinal confusion, consider the Court’s current Equal Protection jurisprudence.
Its argument starts off innocently enough: electoral districting violates the Equal Protection Clause when race is the “’predominant’ consideration in deciding ‘to place a significant number of voters within or without a particular district,’ and the use of race is not ‘narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest.’” Next, that compelling state interest consists in “avoiding retrogression with respect to racial minorities’ ability to elect their preferred candidates of choice.” The odd word “retrogression” refers to language in the 2005 Voting Rights Act, which was intended to counter, at the very least, the possibility that the redistricting process might be used to increase the concentration of minority voters in the “majority-minority” districts. By reducing the minority votes, the anti-retrogression provision would stop any shrinkage in minority representation.
In Black Caucus, Alabama used, as it had to do, race at every stage in the process to create a new set of districts that it wanted to reflect the exact same black-white voting percentages in the prior reapportionment. Only a sophist could argue that these district lines were not motivated by race, given the use of systematic quotas. The sensible remedy is to nip the problem in the bud by striking down that raced-based process by using the population parity and compactness criteria mentioned above. Oddly enough, Justice Breyer thought that those tests were incomplete because they did not include “not splitting counties or precincts, minimizing change, and protecting incumbents.” The first of these is a rough proxy for compactness, the second is an independent value that may advance the attachment of local citizens to the political process. The third looks to be an inexcusable form of self-protection in any institutional setting.
Nonetheless, Justice Breyer’s uncritical acceptance of the “compelling state” interest to allow minority members to elect candidates of their choice is sadly perverse. In most other contexts, the compelling state interest test is an exacting one, which roughly speaking, cuts back on protected constitutional interests in order to preserve domestic order and to protect the nation from foreign aggression. Some form of extrinsic necessity is required for a careful and limited abridgment of constitutional rights.
How then does the conscious advancement of the political influence of African-American voters count as a socially compelling interest as opposed to the latest partisan ploy in the endless round of skirmishes over political control? This heavy-handed technique is no longer needed as a counterweight against systematic forms of institutional racism. If Shelby County was correct to condemn overly intrusive preclearance provisions, the same response is appropriate to any federal standard that prefers one class of voters to another on the ground of race—indeed on any grounds at all.
In dealing with this issue, moreover, the Supreme Court seems to make some unexamined but highly dubious empirical assumptions that the means chosen will fit the ends in question. But the set of social considerations do not lend themselves to these easy calculations. The original goal of the 1965 VRA was to increase black participation to the level of white participation. That end has already been achieved, at which point the influence of formerly disenfranchised voters is felt in every district in which they vote. Winning elective office is always an arduous task of stitching together complex coalitions, minority voters included, assuming that they vote as a block, which they need not do.
It is therefore fair to ask why, once the vote has increased, is it better socially for minority voters to be part of winning coalitions in multiple districts or to be the dominant players in a smaller number of districts? Owing to the immense variations in local politics, only the foolhardy would be confident which way the balance tilts. Ignoring race in redistricting does not strip minority voters of influence. But it does reduce the influence of the Alabama Black Caucus, whose number decreases if black voters are dispersed through multiple districts, leading to a deep conflict of interest between the Black Caucus and ordinary black citizens. The Black Caucus is composed exclusively of blacks elected to public office. A rule that refuses to make race-conscious classifications will surely thin its ranks, but may also increase the overall influence of black voters who are parceled out across multiple districts.
What is clear, regrettably clear, is that maximizing black representation upsets the overall political configuration. The creation of more majority-minority districts will move the representatives of those districts to the left, given the strong level of black support for the Democratic Party. By the same token, the remaining majority-majority districts will become more conservative as their candidates for office need not worry about the political preferences of non-members. Looked at in the round, race-conscious rules in drawing district lines lead to increased polarization of politics. It is hard to see why the Equal Protection Clause requires this divisive form of politics.
Nor are we sure how this will play out. The Supreme Court struck down Alabama’s prior redistricting and ordered a new one. But the Court left it unclear exactly what principles shall govern this second go around. Is it really the case that the system will be unconstitutional unless Alabama maximizes the number of majority-minority districts with, say, 55 percent votes? Can it do less? If so, by how much? Can it achieve the same result by different means, stating explicitly that it is trying to increase the number of heavily majority-Democratic districts in order to maintain the Republican chokehold of the Alabama House and Senate? None of these alternatives are defensible as a matter of first principle.
This sorry episode once again validates a central theorem of constitutional law. Once a legal system goes off the rails on its major premises, it cannot undo the institutional damage by fine-tuning the rest of the system. Today, it is untenable to invoke the Equal Protection Clause when so many simple race-blind rules are available to handle districting. In the end, Justice Thomas’s sole dissent was right to call Alabama Black Caucus the latest installment in the “disastrous misadventure” of the Supreme Court’s voting rights case law. The Supreme Court should scrap its unsound Equal Protection case law and return to the simpler principles of Gomillion v. Lightfoot, which thankfully addresses a once terrible set of problems already solved by the political and legal process.
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Come and admire the Musée d'Orsay's rich collection of Impressionist art less than 20 minutes from the Hotel De Fleurie.
Musée Carnavalet_en
Dedicated to the history of Paris, the Carnavalet museum offers a rich collection of objects dating from the Gallo-Roman era to the memories of the French Revolution.
Musée Rodin_en
Situé dans l’hôtel particulier Biron, le musée Rodin présente une impressionnante collection d’œuvres du célèbre sculpteur, mais aussi de son entourage, comme Camille Claudel.
Jardin des Plantes de Paris_en
Strolling through this garden of science created 4 centuries ago, where statues, remarkable trees and mysterious recesses follow one another, will be one of the highlights of your stay in Paris at the Hotel De Fleurie.
Near our hotel in the 6th
The most prestigious museums in Paris
If you visit Paris and the 6th district as a family, keep in mind the city is full of museums designed for all interests and ages. Visits designed for children will give a different perspective of the museum for parents.
The world’s largest museum and one of the most visited – the Louvre – under its transparent Pyramid, has taken this type of approach to present the world’s art and history, from Egyptian Antiquity to the 18th century in a less austere way.
The Musée d’Orsay, famous for its collection of Impressionist painters, is housed in a former train station with light, open spaces showcasing the best of the 19th century in all fields of art.
In Rue de Varenne, the Rodin museum houses major sculptures by Auguste Rodin and some by Camille Claudel, as well as sketches of the artist’s future masterpieces. If the history of Paris interests you, head to the Musée Carnavalet, near Bastille and Place des Vosges (where you will find Victor Hugo’s house), and the Marais district.
The Pompidou Centre in the district of Les Halles (the topic of Zola’s “Le Ventre de Paris”), is of a completely different style. The modernist design and architecture (by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, built in 1977) reflects the collection it houses in all fields of contemporary art.
Instigated by President Jacques Chirac, the Musée du Quai Branly is devoted to primitive art from around the world. The collections are presented in a pleasant, easy flowing manner accessible to visitors of all ages.
Further upstream on the Seine, you will find the Jardin des Plantes and Natural History Museum. The Gallery of Evolution alone is worth the trip.
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Steve Leatham has practiced law in Vancouver since 1986. He is admitted to practice before state and federal courts in Washington, Oregon, Colorado and the Court of Federal Claims. Mr. Leatham graduated from Washington State University in 1982, cum laude, and is a Phi Beta Kappa member. He then graduated from the University of Washington School of Law, with honors, in 1985.
Mr. Leatham worked in both the Seattle and Vancouver offices of Seattle-based Williams, Kastner & Gibbs until he left in 1995 to become the third member of the firm that was then known as Heurlin & Potter. He has been a principal with that law firm since 1996.
Mr. Leatham has practiced as a trial attorney throughout his career. He has litigated construction, commercial and products liability suits throughout the country, including in the Court of Federal Claims, as well as in New Jersey, Colorado, Arizona, New Hampshire, Idaho, Arkansas, and California. In addition to products liability litigation, Mr. Leatham practices extensively in the areas of commercial litigation, construction law, and real estate. He is often selected to serve as an arbitrator or mediator in uninsured motorist litigation and other civil disputes.
He has worked extensively with experts in various fields from around the country. He has also represented Columbia Machine in products liability lawsuits throughout the country since 1996, working with engineers, medical experts, and many other experts. He has also defended manufacturers and product sellers in other products liability actions in Oregon and Washington, involving toxicology, engineering, and other technical subjects.
John Holtmann is a principal with the law firm of Heurlin, Potter, Jahn, Leatham & Holtmann, P.S. He graduated cum laude from Central Washington University in Ellensburg , Washington in 1983. He graduated from the College of Law at Willamette University in Salem , Oregon in 1987.
Mr. Holtmann has spent his entire career practicing law in his hometown of Vancouver, Washington . His current practice emphasizes representing individuals who have suffered all types of personal injury, including claimants in Washington Worker’s Compensation cases. Mr. Holtmann is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in the State of Washington. He is a member of the Washington State Association for Justice, Clark County Bar Association and an EAGLE Member of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association.
Mr. Holtmann enjoys volunteering his time to better the community. He has been involved with such projects as the HOST Reading Tutor Program, local high school moot court competitions, Dynamic Young Men program and the volunteer lawyers pro bono program. Mr. Holtmann has coached numerous little league baseball and Hotshot basketball teams in the area.
MARK F. STOKER
Mark Stoker is a principal with the firm and has practiced law in Vancouver since 1984. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1981, and graduated from the Lewis and Clark Law School, cum laude in 1984.
Mr. Stoker has a long and deep commitment to the Clark County community. He has served 11 years on the Vancouver School District Board of Directors and is past President. He has been a
member of the Vancouver Rotary Club since 2000-2001 and is a past President. He is a former member of the Vancouver School District Foundation Board, Futures Committee for the Vancouver School District, and I Have a Dream of Clark County Foundation board.
Mr. Stoker is a member of the Washington and Oregon Bar Associations and his law practice emphasizes the areas of real estate transactions and finance, land use, estate planning and
business. This practice includes transactional matters (e.g., the purchase and sale of: businesses, real estate, apartment complexes, etc.), land use negotiations and hearings, negotiation of loan documentation, review and preparation of contracts, leases, easements, boundary agreements, formation of corporations and limited liability companies, as well as general business counsel
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Rick Potter is a principal of Heurlin Potter. Mr. Potter graduated from the University of Washington in 1973 and Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College in 1976. He is an experienced litigator, having tried numerous cases since 1976. Mr. Potter is admitted to practice before the state and federal courts in Washington and Oregon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He has been specially admitted and appeared in state and federal counts throughout the country, including California, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Indiana, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, Alabama and Oklahoma.
Mr. Potter represents numerous business, banking, real estate and professional entities in commercial, product liability and employment disputes. He is national product liability defense counsel for a worldwide industrial equipment manufacturer. Mr. Potter often serves as an arbitrator and mediator in commercial, employment and personal injury disputes.
Mr. Potter is a member of the Washington State Bar Association, the Oregon State Bar Association, the Washington Defense Trial Lawyers and the Defense Research Institute. He has lectured at several continuing legal education seminars for the Washington State Bar Association regarding civil litigation, employment law and creditors’ rights.
Mr. Potter is active in the community serving as volunteer for local and state charitable, civic and political organizations. He has coached youth soccer teams, counseled arts organizations, represented numerous pro bono clients, served as a board member for a number of state and local poverty law programs and served as an advisor on political campaigns.
Thomas DiStefano is an associate with the law firm Heurlin, Potter, Jahn, Leatham, Holtmann & Stoker, P.S. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, in 2000, with two Bachelors of Arts in Political Science and Speech Communication and a Minor in Philosophy. He graduated from Villanova Law School in 2006.
He started his practice of law in 2007. For over 4 years, he was an assistant district attorney in Bucks County Pennsylvania, with a focus on narcotics and forfeiture. He moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and focused on civil matters including contracts, oil and gas law and large discovery projects.
He moved to Vancouver, Washington in March of 2016 and has volunteered at the Vancouver Volunteer Lawyers Clinic and cooked meals for the homeless at St. James the Greater. He is a member of the Pennsylvania and Washington State Bar Associations and his areas of practice include civil litigation and family law.
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09/06/2018 10:30 am ET Updated Sep 06, 2018
Shooting At Cincinnati Bank Leaves 4 Dead, 5 Wounded
The city's mayor renewed calls to end gun violence, saying, "There’s something sick at work here."
By Nina Golgowski
Four people are dead and five others wounded following a shooting at a bank in downtown Cincinnati on Thursday morning that ignited the city’s mayor to call for an end to gun violence.
The gunman was identified as Omar Enrique Santa Perez, 29, Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac said at an afternoon news conference.
Perez, who was among those killed, entered the Fifth Third Bank’s loading dock just after 9 a.m. and opened fire before moving into the building’s lobby, according to police.
Once inside, Perez engaged in a shootout with four officers who were responding to reports of an active shooter. Officers struck Perez multiple times, causing him to fall to the ground, Isaac said. It’s not yet clear whether the gunman was fatally shot by police or took his own life.
Police believe Perez shot five victims during the attack. One victim was determined dead at the scene and two died at the hospital. The two other victims are being treated at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
Isaac said Perez allegedly used a 9 mm gun, which was purchased legally. Police also found “multiple magazines” and about “200 rounds of ammunition” on Perez.
Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley (D), speaking at a news conference earlier Thursday, decried the gun violence as something that “shouldn’t be viewed as normal.”
Police responded to a shooting at a Cincinnati bank on Thursday morning.
“This is abnormal. No other industrialized country has this level of active multiple shootings on a regular basis, almost on a daily basis. I think there’s something sick at work here and we as a country have got to deal with it,” he said.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that with four dead, including the gunman, this is the deadliest mass shooting in the Cincinnati region since 2013.
Cranley last year joined more than 1,000 mayors across the country in signing a pact to end illegal gun use and enforce current gun laws.
Asked what should be done Thursday, Cranley said: “In my opinion, all solutions need to be on the table. ... What we need, as a community is ― not just as a community but as a country ― is how to end these multiple mass shootings.”
This is abnormal. No other industrialized country has this level of active multiple shootings on a regular basis, almost on a daily basis." Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley
FBI Cincinnati tweeted that it had agents on the scene to assist with the situation.
As of 11 a.m. Eastern time, none of the victims had been publicly identified.
Amanda Nageleisen, a spokeswoman for University of Cincinnati Medical Center, previously confirmed to HuffPost that the center had received four victims from the scene.
In an updated statement to Local 12 News, Nageleisen identified those four victims as three men and one woman. Of those victims, two have died, one is in critical condition and one is in serious condition.
Witnesses at the scene have meanwhile recounted the morning’s terror as they heard the gunman firing multiple shots.
@CincyPD investigating active shooter/officer involved shooting incident at Fifth Third Bank at 511 Walnut Street in lobby and loading dock. More details to follow. Media staging area will be forthcoming. Ft. Square and surrounding area will be closed to foot traffic. pic.twitter.com/wSVLhu8xpM
— Cincinnati Police Department (@CincyPD) September 6, 2018
A woman named Ibony Ginyard, who was working in a Dunkin’ Donuts in the building’s lobby at the time of the attack, said she and the other employees ducked behind the counter as they heard at least five or six gunshots.
“Everybody was in there crying. We didn’t know where to go because we didn’t have a backdoor,” she told reporters. “We just saw glass and everything flying.”
“All he had to do was look over at the counter at us and we would have been shot,” she added.
Witness Cheryl Eagleson said she was across the street from the bank when she heard “loud pops” from a gun, prompting people to drop to the ground.
“They were dropping to the ground to get away, trying to find a way to protect themselves,” she told Local 12 News.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) in a tweet said he has spoken with the city’s mayor and will provide any resources needed to local police.
“I commend the law enforcement, fire and EMS personnel who swiftly responded to the scene and share my deepest sympathies with the innocent victims of this violent attack,” he added.
Carla Herreria contributed reporting. This post has been updated with more details about the incident and the gunman.
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Allan Snowden
Allan Snowden was brought up in Burley, Leeds and played Rugby League for Burley National before eventually signing for Hunslet from Roundhay RU club in 1950. He made a try scoring debut in the 15 – 10 defeat of Wakefield Trinity at Parkside on the 15th April 1950 and so began one of the most prolific try scoring careers in Hunslet’s history.
Allan topped Hunslet’s try scoring chart in five consecutive seasons, including 26 in the 1954/55 season before setting the club’s long standing record with 34 in the 1956/57 campaign.
His first representative honour came in September 1957 when he was a try scorer in Yorkshire’s 25 – 11 defeat of Lancashire at Widnes, enabling the White Rose county to win the County Championship. In all he won five caps for Yorkshire and scored tries in three away games against Lancashire.
Allan Snowden left Hunslet for Thrum Hall in January 1958 having scored 151 tries in 213 appearances for the Parksiders. He announced himself at Halifax by producing an unsurpassed try scoring debut – 4 tries in the 28 – 7 home defeat of Hull KR.
Allan was inducted into the Hunslet Hall of Fame in 2014.
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‘Real Housewives Of Atlanta’ Sneak Peek: Kenya Moore Cries After Matt Jordan Gets Violent [VIDEO]
Emma Hernandez
In a new Real Housewives of Atlanta sneak peek, reality star Kenya Moore’s volatile relationship with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Matt Jordan takes a scary turn. The couple’s problems have played out on Season 9 of the hit Bravo series, and Kenya turns to her friend and co-star Cynthia Bailey for advice.
Fans were first introduced to Matt Jordan last season. The personal trainer swept Kenya off her feet despite their 15-year age difference, and things looked promising after Matt introduced Kenya to his family in an earlier episode. But Kenya expressed her concern about Matt’s immaturity and insecurity during last week’s episode after he punched a wall and raised his voice because he was upset that she posted a Throwback Thursday photo of herself with hip-hop star Jay-Z, Vulture reported. In the Real Housewives of Atlanta sneak peek for the upcoming episode, Matt continues to show Kenya his violent streak.
The clip opens with Moore scooping up her dog King, one of the puppies that Matt gifted her with last season. She cuddles with her dog for a moment and sets him back down on the floor when her phone rang.
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Cynthia was on the other end of the phone, and Kenya sounded upset as she answered the call.
“Why you sound like that? What’s wrong?” Cynthia asked.
“I’m not doing good,” Kenya told her friend in the Real Housewives of Atlanta sneak peek. Cynthia asked if Matt had anything to do with why Kenya was upset.
“Yeah, he came over here and he was drunk,” Kenya said, and she started crying. “You know, telling me he wanted to come get his stuff and I had taken the remote out of his car cause I just didn’t want him to have access to the house. Then he just came up to the door and kicked the window.”
Moore explained that Matt had come over to her house after he returned from a trip to California and he was drunk. He told her he wanted to gather his things, but Moore said she went into his car and took the remote for her garage back because she didn’t want Matt to come into her home. After Moore had revoked Matt’s access to her house, she said he kicked one of the windows of her garage door. The incident took place on August 15, 2016, according to police reports obtained by Radar Online.
The clip cut to footage that was captured by Kenya’s home video surveillance system. It shows a dark figure walking up to the glass garage door at her new home, Moore manor. The figure kicked in one of the glass windows of the garage door then walked away.
“He broke the window of the garage,” Kenya explained.
“This is out of control,” Cynthia said, sounding shocked. “Are you kidding me?”
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During her on-camera interview in the Real Housewives of Atlanta sneak peek, Moore said that when Matt came over to her house it was 2 a.m., and they hadn’t spoken since their last fight, so she didn’t feel comfortable opening her door and letting him into her house.
“I don’t know what to do, I mean, he says he gets angry, he’s acting out,” Moore said told Cynthia.
“What do you mean, acting out? What is he, a child?” Cynthia asked.
“Yeah, he’s acting like a child,” Moore agreed.
“He’s a child, he needs to go home to his mother,” Cynthia said, offering her friend some advice. “That’s so crazy, like what kind of sh** is that? Sorry for speaking out of turn, but I’m really nervous about the way he is behaving. Are you afraid of him?”
“I don’t think he’ll ever do anything to me,” Moore said after a short pause.
“I know you are really trying with this guy, but I just don’t have a good feeling about it,” Cynthia told Kenya. “You may have to think about taking some time away from this guy, like seriously.”
Watch the full Real Housewives of Atlanta sneak peek below and be sure to catch the upcoming episode, airing Sundays at 8 p.m. on Bravo.
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‘Lorena’ Director Joshua Rofé Brings Something New to the Bobbitt Case: Empathy
Now entrenched in domestic violence advocacy, Lorena Bobbitt née Gallo participated in the Amazon docuseries to raise awareness.
Libby Hill
“Lorena” Joshua Rofé
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It’s been over 25 years since Lorena Bobbitt – now Lorena Gallo – severed John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis, a singular act of violence that sparked a media firestorm. Overnight, the pair were transformed into household names, as well as late-night punchlines, but lost amongst the jokes and innuendo was the opportunity to honestly engage with the serious issues that predicated Gallo’s actions: a documented history of domestic abuse and accusations of marital rape.
But times change, and in the aftermath of #MeToo and #TimesUp Gallo’s story is ripe for reassessment, as evidenced by Joshua Rofé’s stellar Amazon four-part docuseries “Lorena,” which strips the signal from the noise and contextualizes both the incident, as well as the media circus that followed.
For as unique as Gallo’s tale is, Rofé was almost uniquely qualified to tell it. The director’s two previous documentaries explore similar stories, explorations of individuals scarred by abuse and neglect and ultimately lash out in destructive fashion.
In 2013’s “Lost for Life,” Rofé revealed the lives of juvenile offenders serving life sentences in prison, their lives over before they began in earnest, while 2016’s “Swift Current” explored the life and volatile career of Canadian hockey player Sheldon Kennedy, who rocked the sports world when he went public as a sexual abuse survivor, who had suffered for years at the hands of his former youth hockey coach.
“Nobody ever asked, ‘Well, what happened to this person that made them behave this way?'” Rofé said of his documentary subjects in an interview with IndieWire. “It was just, ‘I can’t believe what they did.'”
“I get mad when people are treated unfairly,” he explained. His parents were immigrants, and Rofé grew up with their tales of survival, of scrounging furniture from the dumpster, but only in the dark of night, for fear of humiliation.
Through speaking with him, it becomes apparent that what underlies all his work is a tremendous sense of empathy, particularly for people who may have found themselves on the wrong side of the cultural conversation. And Gallo is nothing if not that.
“It’s December 22nd, 2016. I scroll through Facebook and I see this Huffington Post article by Melissa Jeltsen – who’s in the series – and the headline is, ‘Lorena Bobbitt Is Done Being Your Punchline,'” Rofé recalled. “It says something to the effect of how we as a society missed this opportunity to have a national conversation about domestic violence and instead it turned into a series of dick jokes. And just right away, I just thought, ‘My god, this is the most well-known story of the very thing that I’ve been examining over the last 10 years of my life.’ And I knew I was dying to tell it.”
After decades spent as mainstream media’s punching bag, Gallo had built up a natural suspicion of journalists, who too often promised to tell the real story, only to get side-tracked into sensationalism. Rofé had a difficult task at hand in trying to persuade her to speak with him, but eventually, it was his previous documentaries that spoke for him.
“They were very sensitive films,” Gallo said of Rofé documentaries, which he sent as an entreaty that he could tell her story in the way it deserved to be told. “He had really taken into consideration the human spirit and was not sensationalistic. It really felt like he understands.”
Once Gallo was on board, things quickly began falling into place for the filmmaker, including the acquisition of a newly minted Hollywood power player as executive producer.
Rofé and Jordan Peele had been friends since the pair met at a screening of “Lost for Life” at the Arclight in 2013, regularly trekking into the Valley for Chinese food and swapping stories about their latest projects. According to Rofé, Peele was intrigued about his friend’s project with Gallo. So intrigued, in fact, that in February 2017, during the opening weekend for Peele’s Academy Award-winning “Get Out,” he called Rofé and said he’d love to be a part of the project.
“Lorena” found a home at Amazon, but the series still had to get made, which means that Rofé and his team would need to set about opening up wounds that had haphazardly healed in the decades since the original traumas. And it wasn’t easy.
“You’re basically asking somebody to, step by step, walk you through the worst things that have ever happened in their life,” Rofé said. “Walk you through the thing that destroyed their family, caused them so much pain and trauma. And so it’s heartbreaking.”
But Gallo was no shrinking violet. Twenty-three years removed from the incident that thrust her into the public eye, she has remade herself as a domestic violence advocate, in addition to founding Lorena’s Red Wagon, a charity to help domestic violence victims and their children.
“She wanted to give it all,” Rofé recalled of his interviews with Gallo. “She understood this was the platform where people would finally understand. And so she was willing to go to those places.”
But she also knew what she was getting into and the toll that the project would take on her own mental health.
“I said, ‘This is going to be tough for me, I know,’ but I feel an urge to do this for the new generations,” Gallo said. “I have a daughter who is 13 years old and going to eventually go to college. I want my daughter to be walking to campus and say, ‘You know what? It’s night. It’s dark. But I feel safe.’ I know that she’s going to eventually be a woman and I want her to know she has freedom and rights as a woman.”
“In order for me to tell this story again, I had to look at [what I wanted for my daughter] and it ignited in my brain the strength to say, ‘You know what? Let’s do this again,'” she continued. “Because I should. For the sake of women. Even for the sake of myself. It’s therapeutic in a way, because once a woman starts telling the story of what happened, the healing process can start.”
Now on the other side of his most successful endeavor to date, Rofé had time to reflect on the heart of documentary filmmaking, and perhaps what makes it a more vital storytelling method than ever.
“For all of the lack of humanity that we’re currently seeing in the world, there’s a tidal wave that I think is equally, if not more, powerful that is pushing back that is full of empathy,” he remarked.
“Empathy is just such a part of being human. And if you’re a doc filmmaker especially, you realize that leaning into it even more is actually a great thing. It’s exciting to connect with people in that way and not just be guarded. Being cool is the lamest fucking thing on earth. You know what I mean?”
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‘Game of Thrones’ Composer Hid a Heartbreaking Jaime-Brienne Easter Egg in Final Episode
Ramin Djawadi's original score teased a hopeful future for Jaime and Brienne that never happened.
“Game of Thrones” composer Ramin Djawadi has revealed to Insider a musical easter egg he hid in the HBO fantasy series’ final episode involving Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie). The moment occurred when Brienne sat down and wrote all of Jaime’s heroic accomplishments into the White Book, which put down in words that Jaime meant a lot more to history than just being the notorious Kingslayer. Djawadi set the scene to a musical composition titled “The White Book.” The score begins with the same melody Djawadi used for Robb Stark and Talisa Maegyr’s wedding in the show’s second season. That music was titled “I Am Hers, She Is Mine.”
“I just threw that in there because I thought it would be a subtle nod to their relationship,” Djawadi said. “When she sits there and she thinks about him and writes down all the things he had done, the second half is the ‘Honor’ theme, but yeah a big chunk of that [song] is the wedding theme.”
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Djawadi continued, “It’s just a hint of what their relationship — if they had stayed together, if he was still alive — what it could have been. What they could have become. That’s why I put that in there.”
The easter egg is a heartbreaking one, as Jaime abandoned Brienne at Winterfell to return to Cersei in King’s Landing shortly after consummating their relationship. Jaime arrived in King’s Landing as Daenerys Targaryen burned the city to the ground. Jaime died alongside his sister, Cersei, in the cellars of the Red Keep as the building collapsed on them. Jaime’s decision to choose Cersei over Brienne was a polarizing one, but Djawadi’s music suggests that despite his choice Jaime’s love for Brienne remained authentic.
“I was amazed some people picked up on it,” Djawadi said. “I was hoping people would go, ‘Wait a minute, that’s from season two.’ And that was exactly my intent. I thought it would be very appropriate.”
Djawadi concluded, “It shows the power of music. There were no words spoken, but by putting that in there your imagination goes [into] where this could have gone. I wanted people to have that emotion, and have those thoughts. I’m glad it was picked up.”
“Game of Thrones” may be over on HBO, but Djawadi will keep the series alive with his “Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience.” The music tour will travel around North America later this year. “Thrones” fans can listen to “The White Book” on Spotify.
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Prisons across the U.S. are quietly building databases of incarcerated people’s voice prints
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Hundreds of thousands of incarcerated people have had their voice added to the biometric database.
By George Joseph, Debbie Nathan
ROUGHLY SIX MONTHS ago at New York’s Sing Sing prison, John Dukes says he was brought out with cellmates to meet a corrections counselor. He recalls her giving him a paper with some phrases and offering him a strange choice: He could go up to the phone and utter the phrases that an automated voice would ask him to read, or he could choose not to and lose his phone access altogether.
Dukes did not know why he was being asked to make this decision, but he felt troubled as he heard other men ahead of him speaking into the phone and repeating certain phrases from the sheets the counselors had given them.
“I was contemplating, ‘Should I do it? I don’t want my voice to be on this machine,’” he recalls. “But I still had to contact my family, even though I only had a few months left.”
So when it was his turn, he walked up to the phone, picked up the receiver, and followed a series of automated instructions. “It said, ‘Say this phrase, blah, blah, blah,’ and if you didn’t say it clearly, they would say, ‘Say this phrase again,’ like ‘cat’ or ‘I’m a citizen of the United States of America.’” Dukes said he repeated such phrases for a minute or two. The voice then told him the process was complete.
“Here’s another part of myself that I had to give away again in this prison system,” he remembers thinking as he walked back to the cell.
Dukes, who was released in October, says he was never told about what that procedure was meant to do. But contracting documents for New York’s new prison phone system, obtained by The Appeal in partnership with The Intercept, and follow-up interviews with prison authorities, indicate that Dukes was right to be suspicious: His audio sample was being “enrolled” into a new voice surveillance system.
In New York and other states across the country, authorities are acquiring technology to extract and digitize the voices of incarcerated people into unique biometric signatures, known as voice prints. Prison authorities have quietly enrolled hundreds of thousands of incarcerated people’s voice prints into large-scale biometric databases. Computer algorithms then draw on these databases to identify the voices taking part in a call and to search for other calls in which the voices of interest are detected. Some programs, like New York’s, even analyze the voices of call recipients outside prisons to track which outsiders speak to multiple prisoners regularly.
Corrections officials representing the states of Texas, Florida, and Arkansas, along with Arizona’s Yavapai and Pinal counties; Alachua County, Florida; and Travis County, Texas, also confirmed that they are actively using voice recognition technology today. And a review of contracting documents identified other jurisdictions that have acquired similar voice-print capture capabilities: Connecticut and Georgia state corrections officials have signed contracts for the technology (Connecticut did not respond to repeated interview requests; Georgia declined to answer questions on the matter).
Authorities and prison technology companies say this mass biometric surveillance supports prison security and fraud prevention efforts. But civil liberties advocates argue that the biometric buildup has been neither transparent nor consensual. Some jurisdictions, for example, limit incarcerated people’s phone access if they refuse to enroll in the voice recognition system, while others enroll incarcerated people without their knowledge. Once the data exists, they note, it could potentially be used by other agencies, without any say from the public.
It’s particularly alarming, they add, that the technology’s use in prisons can ensnare people beyond their walls. “Why am I giving up my rights because I’m receiving a call from somebody who has been convicted of a crime?” asks Jerome Greco, a digital forensics attorney at New York’s Legal Aid Society. Greco argues that the mining of outside parties’ voice prints should require a warrant. “If you have a family member convicted of a crime, yet you haven’t been, why are you now having your information being used for government investigations?”
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‘Big Brother 19’ Spoilers: Details About The ‘BB19’ Fall Season Including Cast, Prize, Possible Identity Of The Vet Players, And Premiere Date
Chrissie Williams
Big Brother 19 is right around the corner, and the fans cannot stop talking about it. They wonder how the feeds will work since the season will be on CBS All Access and not shown on television at all. All Access BB19 has the scoop and reveals everything they know so far about the new season.
The first tidbit we learned is that Season 19 would stream two weeks after Big Brother 18 wraps up. CBS calls the new season a “bonus for the fans,” because they have never considered an all-digital season in the past. Apparently, they asked the fans if they’d be open to seeing the show via the Internet only, and the vast majority stated they would continue to pay for the live feeds if they broadcasted a season on CBS All Access.
Robyn Kass has been the casting director for Big Brother for years, and it was expected that she would assemble a quick cast for Big Brother 19. As luck would have it, Kass is busy casting Big Brother Canada’s new season, so she cannot handle Big Brother 19’s casting. This tidbit alone is reason alone to tune in for Big Brother 19. So many people have complained for years that Robyn casts her friends on the show, so it will be interesting to see how the casting changes without her direction.
Another juicy tidbit we learned was that Julie Chen would host the web season. Julie revealed that there is no Big Brother without the “Chenbot,” so we should expect to see her back on Big Brother in the fall. At first, there was some speculation that Jeff Schroeder could host the show, but Julie put those rumors to bed quickly.
Big Brother 19 spoilers tease that the season will have 12 new players and two veteran houseguests. Yesterday, Zap2it reported that Da’Vonne Rogers could be returning to the game in a “future season.” Big Brother pointed out that they love Rogers, and they were disappointed by her premature eviction. It seemed to point to the idea that Da’Vonne may be one of the returnee players.
It appeared to echo the comments Big Brother made following Frank Eudy’s eviction. Frank left the house as a fan-favorite for a majority of the season. Big Brother asked Frank after his eviction if he would play the game if asked again. Without hesitation, Frank stated he would jump at the chance to play the game again. Many fans have wondered if Da’Vonne and Frank could be entering the house again to compete in Big Brother 19 in October. It looks like we’ll have to wait for a for an official announcement to find out.
The Big Brother house will stay mostly the same because two weeks will not be much time for a massive makeover. They expect to make some minor changes but mostly, the BB19 house will look the same.
The game will last anywhere from 60-80 days and will undergo some minor changes to the format. Big Brother revealed they plan to give the viewers more control than ever before. Apparently, the producers plan to add more challenges for the contestants, and want to give more opportunity to have a power shift. The prize money will be slightly lower because it won’t be aired on television. They expect the grand prize to be $250,000, which will make it the smallest prize in the history of Big Brother (US edition only).
Many Big Brother fans reported they would not watch if the show is not on television, claiming that they won’t “pay” to watch it online. The live feeds are only $0.20 a day and for that price, you can watch the house 24 hours a day. It comes in at less than $6 a month. It’s a fair price, considering many people pay more than that for a cup of coffee.
Are you excited about Big Brother 19? What returnee players would you like to see come back? Stick with the Inquisitr for more Big Brother spoilers, news, and live feed updates.
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Return Of The Polar Vortex? More Than 1,300 Flights Cancelled As 8 Inches Of Snow Expected In Chicago
Teresa CrawfordAP Images
Rahul Srinivas
The dreaded polar vortex that had badly affected the northern United States nearly two years ago might return. According to a recent USA Today report, much of northern United States is likely to come under the influence of an advancing cold wave by the end of this weekend. The report adds that over the course of the next week, people living in the region would see temperatures dipping with the cold wave likely to reach as far south as Atlanta.
Even before the effects of the polar vortex has begun, there have been several winter storm watches and weather advisories issued across South Dakota into southern Minnesota, northern Iowa, southern Wisconsin, Lower Michigan, northern Illinois and northern Indiana and northwestern Ohio, the report added. According to senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski from AccuWeather, the exact track and intensity of the storm will determine where the heaviest band of snow occurs.
Meanwhile, Chicago is reporting cancellations of more than 1,000 flights from the O’Hare International Airport — one of the busiest in the country. Initial reports put the number of cancellations at more than 1,100 flights as of Sunday morning. A subsequent report by NBC News added that the number of cancellations stood at 1,345 flights for all the airports that serve the city. This latest figure of 1,345 canceled flights was reported by flight-tracking website FlightAware which counted all the cancellations from the O’Hare and Midway airports. Later in the day, officials from midway airport announced that all Southwest flights out of the airport would remain cancelled into Sunday morning. As for the few flights operating out of O’Hare, they were reporting delays of more than 15 minutes.
A cyclist braves below zero temperatures and wind while riding his bike on a snow covered street, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. A whirlpool of frigid, dense air known as a "polar vortex" descended into much of the U.S. and plunged temperatures to record lows. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman) Featured image credit: Seth PerlmanAP Photo
Meanwhile, the National Weather service reports that Chicago has since Saturday afternoon seen more than 2.7-inches of snow. The forecast however, is that the cold wave would continue to intensify through the weekend and that parts of Chicago would see more than 8-inches of snow by Sunday night. Apart from metropolitan Chicago, the northern areas of Illinois that include the counties of Cook, Will, Kane, Kendall, DuPage, Lake, and McHenry are all likely to experience heavy snowfall. Also in the affected list includes parts of Lake and Porter counties in northwest Indiana. The forecast also warns that several areas could see as much as 12-inches of snow.
The Mayor of Chicago has appealed to residents to take appropriate precautions in the days to come. People have also been advised to call 3-1-1 in case they need help. Six warming centers have also been set up across the city. A statement issued by the Mayor’s office reads as follows.
“We want residents to know city departments are prepared to assist those needing well-being checks, snow removal and other cold-weather services. We ask Chicagoans to do their part and shovel sidewalks and help out by checking in on family, friends and neighbors during extremely cold or snowy weather.”
The onslaught of this super cold wave has reminded many people about the infamous polar vortex that slammed the U.S. back in January, 2014. Back then, much of north-central and the upper eastern United States experienced unusually cold weather for an extended period. The polar vortex that year was later estimated to be among the worst weather event to affect the U.S.economy since Hurricane Sandy. More than 200 million people were affected, and the economic impact was estimated to be around $5 billion. The airline industry was amongst the hardest hit, with more than 20,000 flights canceled during the time.
Steam rises from the tops of buildings in the Chicago skyline Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, as a whirlpool of frigid, dense air known as a "polar vortex" descended on the city. Much of the U.S. has been hit with a dangerous cold that could break decades-old records with wind chill warnings stretching from Montana to Alabama. Featured image credit: Teresa CrawfordAP Images
If you happen to be in the aforementioned regions likely to be affected by the approaching storm, we recommend taking adequate measures to keep yourselves and your family safe.
[Featured Image by Teresa Crawford/AP Photo]
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MultiChoice unbundling unlocks R57bn for Naspers
By Admire Moyo, ITWeb's business editor.
Johannesburg, 21 Jun 2019
Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk.
Global consumer Internet group Naspers has posted revenue of $19 billion after unbundling MultiChoice operations.
The company this afternoon announced its results for the year to 31 March 2019. Naspers says by unbundling the pay-TV operator, it has unlocked $4 billion of value for shareholders.
In a statement, the company says: “We successfully listed our video entertainment business (MultiChoice Group) on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and distributed our shares in this business to our shareholders in February 2019.”
Founded more than 100 years ago, Naspers has transformed itself from a newspaper publisher into an over $100 billion behemoth with private equity style investments in e-commerce platforms such auction sites, classified and online retail.
Naspers notes that MultiChoice has been presented as a discontinued operation in these summarised consolidated financial results and, accordingly, all income statement information from continuing operations excludes the contribution from MultiChoice Group.
This week, in its maiden results following its successful listing on the JSE on 27 February, MultiChoice said revenue increased 6% to R50.1 billion and trading profit 11% (or 27% organically) to R7 billion.
Discontinued operations
According to Naspers, profit from discontinued operations in the income statement includes results of MultiChoice Group for 11 months in the current year, as a single line.
“As a result of these strategic initiatives, Naspers enters the 2020 financial year as a fundamentally different group, with virtually all revenues now generated from online activities, and is well-positioned as a global consumer Internet group,” says the JSE-listed company.
Naspers says it delivered solid results for the year-ended 31 March 2019. Group revenue, measured on an economic-interest basis and excluding the video entertainment business, was $19 billion, reflecting growth of 16% (or 29% in local currency and adjusted for acquisitions and disposals).
“We executed well during the past financial year, growing revenue 29% to $19 billion, and trading profit 22% to $3.3 billion,” says Basil Sgourdos, Naspers Group chief financial officer.
“With continued focus on accelerating growth in our core segments, the classifieds and core payments service provider businesses are now profitable. Trading loss margins in e-tail and the rest of the payments and fintech business narrowed as the businesses delivered solid revenue growth and continued to scale.
“We have broadened our ambitions in food delivery, which is an exciting, meaningful and rapidly transforming opportunity fuelled by a significant reallocation of consumer spending to this growing sector. Our progress gives us confidence in our ability to continue to identify opportunities that can create significant value going forward.”
Transformational year
Bob van Dijk, group chief executive, says: “This was a transformational year for Naspers. We entered FY20 well-positioned as a global consumer internet group.
“The listing and unbundling of MultiChoice Group unlocked around $4 billion of value for Naspers shareholders, and virtually all group revenues are now generated from online activities. At the end of the financial year, we also announced our intention to list our international Internet assets on Euronext Amsterdam.
“This is designed to create a strong platform for continued growth while also reducing the outsized weighting of our primary listing on the JSE. Looking ahead, we will continue to drive profitability in our established e-commerce segments while selectively investing in earlier stage opportunities.”
Koos Bekker, Naspers chairman, comments: “The team made good progress this year, delivering a solid financial performance while continuing to take action to create value for our stakeholders. We are executing well on our strategy to build meaningful global businesses in the online classifieds, payments and fintech, and food delivery sectors.”
In March 2019, Naspers announced its intention to list its international Internet assets on Euronext Amsterdam.
The company says the listing will create a new global consumer internet group Prosus (formerly referred to as NewCo), comprising Internet interests outside of South Africa and including investments in online classifieds, food delivery, payments and fintech, e-tail, travel, education and social and Internet platforms, among others.
It notes that Prosus will have a secondary, inward listing on the JSE in SA and is expected to be around 75% owned by Naspers with a free float of some 25%.
Further scale
“We invested $3.1 billion to accelerate growth and provide further scale to several existing and new businesses,” says Naspers.
Notably, it adds, this includes: in classifieds, acquiring minority interests in Avito, Dubizzle and letgo totalling $1.5 billion to increase the company’s stakes in these businesses as well as a $89 million investment in Frontier Car Group to further pursue the convenient-transaction model; in food delivery, an additional investment in Swiggy of $716 million to expand its position in India; a $383 million investment in BYJU'S to drive innovation and set new benchmarks for tech-enabled learning products; and through PayU, a $60m investment in Zooz to boost our global merchant capabilities.
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Fiji’s Climate Champion Speaks Up for Women in the Wake of Cyclones
August 8, 2017 | Sonia Narang | News Deeply
When a cyclone devastated Eta Tuvuki’s remote village in Fiji, she wanted to make sure women hit by extreme weather were being heard. Now she brings their concerns to decision makers in the capital and shares weather information so rural women can prepare for the worst.
The cyclone that hit Fiji in February 2016 was the most powerful in the Pacific island nation’s recorded history. AFP/HO/PLAN INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA
– At the end of a narrow dirt path on Fiji’s main island, Burenitu village is dotted with tents. Tin rooftops and wooden boards lie strewn across the lush grass.
Last year, a powerful cyclone struck the South Pacific archipelago, destroying more than 30,000 homes and displacing more than 150,000 people across the island, and Burenitu is still recovering. The storm was the strongest to hit the Southern Hemisphere in recorded history.
Eta Tuvuki, a 38-year-old single mother, was sitting at home as the wind and rain grew stronger by the minute. “All around, I couldn’t see anything, just the timber and the roofing, which was just flying about,” she says.
“Imagine looking directly at your home being dismantled by this cyclone right before your eyes. How can you recover from that trauma?”
Tuvuki and her five children ran for safety to an aunt’s house nearby. “Within half an hour, it all came down. The area was all flattened,” she says. The storm completely destroyed the home she had lived in for 20 years.
“I don’t even know where my roof is. Imagine looking directly at your home being dismantled by this cyclone right before your eyes. How can you recover from that trauma?” she asks.
Carrying the Megaphone
Climate scientists point to warming oceans as a factor behind last year’s disastrous Category 5 storm. Low-lying islands in the South Pacific face some of the worst effects of climate change, and even slight changes in ocean temperatures can wreak havoc. So it’s fitting that in November, Fiji will be the first Pacific island nation to preside over U.N. climate talks at the COP 23 summit.
Having survived one catastrophic storm, Tuvuki says women need to be prepared for a future of extreme weather. She’s on a mission to amplify her community’s voices so that decision makers understand how climate change is taking a toll on women’s lives.
As a rural leader for the Fiji-based FemLinkPacific nonprofit organization, Tuvuki serves as a vital link between women in her village and the government, aid agencies and other decision makers in Suva, Fiji’s capital.
As part of her duties, Tuvuki interviews women in 10 nearby villages, covering more than 150 households.
“I just call them up for a meeting and ask them questions about what they are going through, what hardships they are facing daily,” she says.
She says it’s much easier for women to share their concerns with her one-on-one, rather than at public village meetings, which are often dominated by men. She meets with FemLink’s staff to pass on this information during monthly meetings, and they then relay that information to decision makers in the capital.
“I’m representing the shy moms, the shy ladies, the shy grandmothers, who cannot come out of their shell and share what they’re going through.”
Tuvuki also shares some of the women’s stories on a women’s radio station run by FemLink, FemTalk89FM.
The lack of female leaders on the island can prevent women from seeking or receiving assistance after a climate catastrophe, Tuvuki says. But through her interviews, she has pinpointed the most pressing issues facing women in the villages.
Since the cyclone knocked out water sources in the disaster zone, women have to walk much further to find clean water. The storm also wiped out farms and crucial crops that had sustained families. Tuvuki says this devastation of the food supply greatly affects women, who are responsible for feeding and taking care of their children.
Through her work with FemLink, Tuvuki hopes to get rural women the support they need to restore the farms they lost in the cyclone, train as emergency first responders, and become leaders within their patriarchal communities.
“I want to voice my opinions and my views about what I’m facing at the grassroots level for the people at the top of the ladder,” she says. “I’m representing the shy moms, the shy ladies, the shy grandmothers, who cannot come out of their shell and share what they’re going through.”
A Network of Weather Women
FemLink also runs the Women’s Weather Watch, launched in 2009, to keep women informed about upcoming storms, rainfall and flooding.
Because last year’s cyclone knocked out television signals and electricity in several villages, many people have no idea when to evacuate in case of another cyclone. FemLink’s staff collects real-time weather information from Fiji’s Meteorological Office and sends text message alerts to rural women leaders.
Then, women leaders across the island text these weather alerts to all the households in their village. Local women also send texts about local weather conditions back to FemLink’s staff in Suva.
Through the Weather Watch network, rural families can quickly and easily be alerted to imminent storms,says local FemLink organizer Fane Lomani.
For Tuvuki, last year’s disaster was a wake-up call. She’s now preparing her family for a future of climate catastrophes. “I’ll get everything ready in case anything happens. I’ll put all the warm clothes, the medication, and the first aid kits into a well-packed bag,” she says.
“When a storm strikes, you just grab your stuff and out you go. That’s the advice I’ve been giving my kids, for them to be ready at all times.”
Sonia Narang reported in Fiji with support from the International Women’s This story has been updated to include Fane Lomani’s full name. Media Foundation (IWMF).
Sonia Narang
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Hon. Robert Hight (Ret.) Joins JAMS in Sacramento
All News Hon. Robert Hight (Ret.) Joins JAMS in Sacramento
SACRAMENTO – JAMS, the largest private provider of mediation and arbitration services worldwide, today announced the addition of Hon. Robert Hight (Ret.) to its panel. Judge Hight will be based in the JAMS Sacramento Resolution Center. He will serve as a mediator and arbitrator and in a variety of disputes including Business/Commercial, Construction Defect, Employment, Environmental, Family Law, Personal Injury/Torts, Professional Liability and Real Property.
Judge Hight joined JAMS after a distinguished career on the Sacramento County Superior Court bench. He worked for 28 years at the State Lands Commission serving as Staff Counsel, Chief Counsel and as Executive Officer. Prior to being appointed to the bench in 2003, he was Director of the California Department of Fish and Game.
Drawing on his extensive state government experience, Judge Hight is the consummate deal-maker. Known for his laser-focus, creative problem solving skills and keen ability to reach common ground with parties, Judge Hight is described by attorneys as polite, honest and fair.
“Judge Hight’s work while he served as the Presiding Judge demonstrates his desire to provide access to resolution that is efficient and effective,” said Chris Poole, JAMS president and CEO. “He is lauded for improving the courts’ administrative procedures, specifically for his efforts to reduce the court’s backlog. We’re thrilled to have him join us in Sacramento.”
“I really enjoy helping parties resolve their disputes and joining JAMS allows me to continue doing this important work,” said Judge Hight. “I’m excited to work alongside the talented panelists in Sacramento and start this next chapter of my career.”
Judge Hight received his B.A. from Pacific University in Oregon and his J.D. from Pacific McGeorge School of Law.
Founded in 1979, JAMS is the largest private provider of mediation and arbitration services worldwide. With Resolution Centers nationwide and abroad, JAMS and its more than 300 exclusive neutrals are responsible for resolving thousands of the world’s important cases. JAMS may be reached at 800-352-5267.
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Huawei Still Unsure If Hongmeng Will Replace Android On Its Phones
We had heard that the operating system that the company is developing is known as HongMeng, but now it turns out that Huawei might be having second thoughts. According to a report from the South China Morning Post, Huawei chairman Liang Hua was quoted as saying, “We haven’t decided whether to develop Hongmeng into a smartphone OS yet.”
We should point out that Liang’s statement was merely a clarification about its HongMeng platform, where the company did acknowledge that it was in development, although it seemed to be mostly aimed at Internet of Things devices, as opposed to smartphones. This doesn’t mean that the company isn’t working on an Android alternative, but according to Liang, they would ultimately still prefer to use Android if they can.
Microsoft Word For Android Crosses 1 Billion Installs
Microsoft Word is one of the world’s most popular productivity apps so it’s no surprise that the app has proven to be a hit on Google’s mobile OS as well. Latest Google Play Store stats show that the Android version of Microsoft Word has been installed a whopping one billion times. Most of Microsoft’s other Office apps have been doing well too.
Excel, a popular spreadsheet app, has more than 500 installs on Android and the same holds true for OneNote, PowerPoint, and OneDrive as well. Outlook for Android is gradually picking up pace as well as it has amassed more than 100 million installs on Android.
Android Q Beta 5 Has Rolled Out To The Essential Phone
While the Essential Phone might not have received the warm welcome that the company hoped it would, the upside is that the company seems to be quite on the ball when it comes to updates. They were one of the first few handset makers to roll out the Android 9.0 Pie update for their phone, and now it seems that they could be on track to do the same with Android Q.
In a tweet by the company, it seems that they have started to push out the Android Q beta 5 update to Essential Phones enrolled under their beta program. We should note that this is merely a beta and is not the final update, but presumably all this testing will help Essential fine tune the update to ensure that when the final build of Android Q is ready, they should have ironed out most of the kinks and have the update ready in a very timely manner.
Youtube Arrives On Fire Tv As Prime Video Lands On Chromecast And Android Tvs
A feud between Google and Amazon had essentially forced users to pick sides since the companies blocked their services from each other’s platforms. So YouTube wasn’t available on Fire TV and Amazon Prime Video wasn’t available on Chromecast and Android TVs. This was bound to change after both companies announced that they were making peace and would allow the services on their respective networks. That’s precisely what has happened today.
Starting today, Amazon Prime Video subscribers can stream content from their preferred streaming service on Chromecast and Android TV devices. The Prime Video app is now available for these platforms from Google Play.
Windows 10 ‘your Phone' App Can Mirror Notifications From Android Devices
Microsoft’s ‘Your Phone’ app for Windows 10 allows for greater connectivity between your PC and smartphone. The idea is to enable users to interact with content on their smartphone without requiring them to use the device as long as it’s connected to their Windows 10 PC wirelessly. Checking notifications is why most of us pick up our phones so many times every day and that’s just going to get a bit easier with the latest update to the app.
The latest update for Your Phone now brings the ability to mirror notifications from an Android smartphone to a Windows 10 PC. This functionality has been in testing for a couple of months now and it’s finally being made available to all users starting today.
Swiftkey For Android Could Get Crippled With Google's New Policy
The problem with third-party apps on mobile devices is that they need to comply with the rules and policies set by the company that owns the ecosystem, whether it be Apple or Google. For the most part, if the app complies, they are usually left alone, but there are times when it could spell bad news for the app and its users.
Such is the case with popular third-party keyboard app SwiftKey, in which according to emails Google has been sending out to Gmail users, it looks like the app could see a reduction in quality and functionality due to some policy changes that Google has made that are supposed to help protect the user’s data.
Microsoft's Dual-screen Surface Device May Support Android Apps
It has been rumored for a while now that Microsoft is working on a dual-display device which will be introduced under the Surface brand. A recent report had even suggested that the company had displayed a prototype of this device to employees. A new report claims that this unnamed device will have two 9 inch displays with 4:3 aspect ratio and that it will be capable of running Android apps.
The report claims that this device, codenamed Centaurus, will be able to run Android apps as that will be supported by Microsoft’s new Windows Core OS (WCOS) operating system. WCOS is essentially the platform for a more lightweight version of Windows OS. It’s this operating system that’s known as Windows Lite internally which will be used for dual-screen devices and competitors for Chromebooks.
Bill Gates' ‘greatest Mistake Ever' Was Losing Out To Android
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates talked about what he considers to be his “greatest mistake every” at the company during an interview at venture capital firm Village Global. It was the company’s haphazard move from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone. That move allowed Android to become the only true alternative to Apple’s iOS platform.
“In the software world, particularly for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets. So the greatest mistake ever is whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is,” Gates said.
Huawei Reassures That Existing Phones Will Be Updated To Android Q
However, the good news is that despite these legal troubles, Huawei will not be forsaking its customers. In a post on its website in which Huawei answers a bunch of questions regarding the future of the company and its products, the company has reassured existing customers that they will be bringing the Android Q update to a bunch of handsets.
Now, not every single handset will be getting the update, but there will be over 17 devices part of this list. This includes the Huawei P30, P30 Pro, P30 Lite, Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro, PORSCHE DESIGN Mate 20 RS, P smart 2019, P smart+ 2019, P smart Z, Mate 20 X, Mate 20 X (5G), P20, P20 Pro, Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro, PORSCHE DESIGN Mate 10, and the Mate 20 Lite.
Google App For Android Testing A Way To Share Your Search With Others
Despite Google being so easy and straightforward to use, people still like to ask questions that they can easily Google the answer for, but we get it, sometimes older users might not be familiar with the process and the good news is that Google is testing out a way for users to easily share their searches.
This new share feature seems to be part of a recent update to Google beta app on Android, where as you can see in the screenshot above, there is a new Share button. This means that users can tap on it and share it with other people via messages, email, and so on. Prior to this, users could share search by copying the URL.
Youtube Is Testing A New Way Of Displaying Comments On Android
Image credit – Tushar Mehta/XDA Developers
Most of us have used the YouTube app on our phones. One of the ways to view the comments on our phones is by scrolling all the way down. This isn’t the most convenient way of viewing comments, but according to a report from XDA Developers, it appears that the company is testing out a new way of displaying comments on the Android app.
Dr. Mario World Will Launch On Ios And Android Devices Next Month
If you enjoy games like Bejeweled where you match gems of similar colors to “clear” a space, then you might have played games like Dr. Mario in the past. If you enjoyed the game, then you might be pleased to learn that Nintendo has since announced a new Dr. Mario game that will be coming onto iOS and Android devices next month.
Dubbed Dr. Mario World, this is a game that seems to be pretty similar in concept to the original. According to Nintendo’s description of the game, “Match capsules with viruses and watch them disappear! Simply match three objects of the same color vertically or horizontally to clear them. Take your time, because each puzzling stage’s configuration of viruses must be cleared using a limited number of capsules.”
Someone Got Overwatch Running On A Nintendo Switch By Using Android
The Nintendo Switch is an incredibly popular console, and as such, there are more developers interested in creating games for it than its predecessor, the Wii U. Blizzard has yet to make any of their games available on the console, although in the past, the company has expressed some interest in it.
They even acknowledged that developing Overwatch for the Switch was feasible, but whether or not they’d do it is a different story. However thanks to the work of some developers, it seems that someone has managed to port Blizzard’s Overwatch onto the Switch by using none other than Google’s Android platform.
Xiaomi Android Q Beta Test Schedule Confirmed
Several OEMs are working with Google to test out the Android Q beta on select devices and Xiaomi wants to get in on the action as well. The company has confirmed its beta roadmap for Android Q. A total of 11 devices from the Chinese company will take part in the Android Q beta test before Google’s latest and greatest Android OS iteration is rolled out for these devices.
Nine Xiaomi devices are scheduled to receive the Android Q beta in the fourth quarter of this year. These devices include the Xiaomi Mi 9, Mi 9 SE, K20 Pro, K20, Mi 8, Mi 8 Pro, Mi 8 Explorer, Mi Mix 2S, and Mi Mix 3. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro and the Redmi Note 7 are set to receive their Android Q betas in the first quarter of 2020.
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Over 75 years of quality service
Oscar Hehnke, father of current president Jerry Hehnke, started the company in 1941. He opened his own metal/heating shop and operated it as the O.V. Hehnke Company from his garage on Charles Street. In 1947, Claussen and Sons Construction began building our current location at 907 W. Oklahoma.
In 1967, Jerry and Charlene (Chick) bought the company and changed the name to Jerry's Sheet Metal Heating and Cooling, which was incorporated in 1977. Jerry and Chick ran the company by themselves until 1986 when their eldest son, Jay, came back from college. K.C., the middle son, came back in 1988 and Monte started learning the office duties in 1992.
In 1997, Chick passed away unexpectedly, and at that time the company employed eight workers including their three sons. It has now grown to a company of 45 to 60 employees.
Check out our ad full of historic photos from the Grand Island Independent!
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Kings County men have fond memories of the first Canada Summer Games in Halifax in 1969
John DeCoste
Published: May 27 at 10:56 a.m.
Five of the surviving members of the 1969 Nova Scotia Canada Games soccer team are shown at a recent 50th reunion at the Kings Arms Pub in Kentville. Left to right, are Bernie Davies, Peter Lang, Claude Davidson, Freeman Schofield and Laurie Munroe. All but two of the players were students at Horton District High School. Team Nova Scotia ended up fourth in men's soccer at the first-ever Canada Summer Games held in Halifax-Dartmouth in the summer of 1969. - John DeCoste
'All we wanted to do was play soccer’
In the summer of 1969, Halifax and Dartmouth hosted the first-ever Canada Summer Games, a showcase of some of the best young athletes in the country.
For a group of students from Horton District High School, it was a memorable summer, as they got to compete for Nova Scotia at the soccer competition at the Games.
The surviving members of the 1969 Nova Scotia Canada Games soccer team got together recently for a 50th reunion at the Kings Arms Pub in Kentville.
According to team member Peter Lang, the venue was appropriate, as the bulk of the team was made up of local boys, coached by the late Connie MacNeil of Wolfville.
“We were a close group,” recalls Lang, who also played on the Nova Scotia men’s basketball team at the 1971 Canada Games in Saskatoon. “Nobody had any grudges, and there were no egos. We were a ‘team’ and that’s just the way Connie wanted it.”
And they were there to compete, he added.
"Our mood was great going in. And we were fit. Connie believed in hard work, and besides, we all had to go home and work when we were done playing," said Lang.
The competition at the Games was top-notch, he adds.
“The B.C. team that won gold went on to play pro out in B.C. When we played them, they only beat us by a goal or two, as I remember it.”
According to Claude Davidson, the players from Kings County were all good friends and played a number of sports together.
“A lot of us had never seen a soccer ball until we were 12 or 13 years old, but we ended up playing together as a group for a long time,” he said.
Bernie Davies recalls the players started out as the junior team at Horton.
“We’d play the ‘A’ team, and we’d beat them. Eventually, the ‘A’ team graduated, and we became the ‘A’ team.”
Taking on the best
After winning the right to represent the province by emerging victorious from a tournament held on the Rotary Field in Wolfville, the Nova Scotia squad - bolstered by the addition of Norm Gosse from Halifax and Terry Tanner from Dartmouth - prepared to take on the best from the rest of Canada.
Nova Scotia won both its preliminary games over Quebec and Manitoba and advanced to meet British Columbia in the semifinal. A loss to B.C., the eventual gold medal winners, relegated the host squad to the bronze medal match against Newfoundland, which it lost 2-1 to end up fourth.
“We didn’t care about the politics. All we wanted to do was play soccer,” says Davidson. “We ended up fourth in Canada. All our games were close. Nobody walked over us, not even B.C.”
Davidson was the top goal scorer on the team going into the games - but he didn't score a goal during the entire tournament. Against B.C., he laughed, “I hit both goalposts and the crossbar in the same game.”
Looking back, Freeman Schofield, who played centre half, says, “we should have beaten Newfoundland. Ontario and B.C. were definitely better than us, but against Newfoundland, we simply had a bad game."
Coach Connie
Not surprisingly, a lot of the memories of the team members centre around MacNeil.
“Connie was a great coach. He had a kind of vision about things," Lang said. “He had a way about him. He had an artistic background. We used to warm up to the Tijuana Brass.”
And he had faith in his players. Team Nova Scotia, Schofield said, was about three years younger than all the other players.
After the team was picked, the officials changed the age limit. Nova Scotia could have gone back to the drawing board, but MacNeil chose to go with what he had.
"It was a pretty good showing for a bunch of young guys from the country,” says Laurie Munroe. “We were all 18 years old, playing against 21-year-olds.”
The former players all have special memories of MacNeil, who, according to Lang, “molded us into what we became. He was a visionary, really, and he groomed us for what was to come. He could see what was coming, and when the time came, we were ready.”
Munroe recalls, “one of Connie’s favourite sayings was, ‘My old grandmother could do better than that, and she’s in a wheelchair.’ Or he’d tell us, 'you couldn’t hit the Bay of Fundy’.”
MacNeil is recalled as firm but fair, and a big reason the team was as good as it was and got as far as it did.
The 1969 Nova Scotia Canada Games men's soccer team in a photo taken in Wolfville. All but two of the players were students at Horton District High School. The team's coach, the late Connie MacNeil of Wolfville, a teacher at Horton at the time, is far left in the back row.
Provincial pride
“We were very proud to walk into the stadium for the opening ceremonies,” Munroe said, each player wearing blue Nova Scotia blazers and carrying the provincial flag.
The new stadium at Saint Mary’s, built for the Games, was packed, the stands full and spectators ringing the field. “I’ve seen a photo of Prime Minister (Pierre) Trudeau kicking a bunch of soccer balls,” Lang says. “I thought that was pretty neat.”
The soccer was played at the Stadacona naval base.
"There were good crowds for all our games,” Munroe says. “It was a good time. We were very proud to be representing our province.”
Lang agrees.
“My top memory was marching in with the rest of the team at the opening ceremonies. We were the host province, so we marched in last,” he said.
“It was a great feeling, and an experience I’ve never forgotten.”
Nor have his teammates.
“It was absolutely great, being part of that team,” Davies says. “It was special. You knew everybody, and everybody was your buddy. We had a bond, from playing together for so long. It was almost like we were all brothers. We won everything in the province, every year.”
Fifty years later
While it was great to get together – “I literally haven’t seen some of these guys since high school,” Schofield said – there was a tinge of sadness as well.
“Fifty years is 50 years,” Davidson said. “Three of us never made it” – MacNeil, Sheridan Davidson, one of the players, and the other coach, a late pickup along with Gosse and Tanner, whose name “none of us can, unfortunately, seem to remember.”
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Hot time in Middleton - Heart of the Valley Festival July 19-20 promises to be great community get-together
‘It’s been my dream to help the environment’
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Festival for a champion of democracy
By Roy Beers
Published: 12:20 Saturday 10 September 2016
Subversive, revolutionary, paladin of the battle for democracy - Thomas Muir was tried by a kangaroo “establishment” court and exiled to Australia.
Muir escaped from exile in Australia but was caught up in a sea battle with the Royal Navy, where he sustained an injury which shattered his jaw.
But all of that came after a lengthy period of deep embroilment in the subversive nationalistic and social democratic politics of the day. against a backdrop of red revolution and mayhem in France - a bloodbath the British aristocracy were terrified could only too easily be imported across the Channel.
Now Muir’s strong links to East Dunbartonshire are celebrated every year by the Friends of Thomas Muir, who organise a festival in his memory. supported by East Dunbartonshire Council.
The 2016 Thomas Muir Festival, the sixth to date, will include events such as -
October: Unveiling of the winning ‘Thomas Muir 250th Portrait’ from the 250th Anniversary East Dunbartonshire Schools Art Competition at the Scottish Parliament.
The painting by Gabrielle Joy Henderson, a S6 pupil from St Ninian’s, Kirkintilloch, will be unveiled by the Presiding Officer and will then go on display at the Parliament.
The detail of her painting shown here alludes to the face-disfiguring injury suffered by Muir during a running fight with the Royal Navy during his flight from imprisonment, in which his jaw was smashed.
October 2: The Marie Curie Bishopbriggs Fundraising group are organising a sponsored walk along a section of the Thomas Muir Heritage Trail, starting at 9.30am from St Mary’s Parish Church, Kirkintilloch and finishing at the Thomas Muir Coffee Sho in Huntershill.
October 13: Bishopbriggs Academy will host the Thomas Muir Symposium. The theme this year is ‘Scottish and Irish Radicals’, which draws on speakers from Scotland’s academic community, secondary school pupils and members of local history societies.
November 12 to 26: East Dunbartonshire Schools Art Exhibition at the Thomas Muir Coffee Shop. Artwork submitted by schools from across East Dunbartonshire will be shortlisted by a panel of judges.
November 25: ‘Dougie MacLean in Concert’. Cadder Parish Church is to host this year’s concert, supported by local singer-songwriter Katee Kross. Tickets are priced at £20.
December 15: ‘Thomas Muir of Huntershill: Essays for the 21st Century’. Launch event for a book of essays that brings together some of Scotland’s leading academics and local historians.
Professor Sir Tom Devine will be speaking at the launch event at the University of Glasgow.
Festival organiser Jimmy Watson said, “We’re delighted to announce this year’s festival events - which combine art, education, entertainment and talks.
“The festival offers an eclectic mix - shining light on the life and times of a true Scottish hero.
“We’re particularly delighted to be able to announce that famed Scottish international singer/songwriter Dougie MacLean will be coming to Bishopbriggs.
“The Thomas Muir 250 window at Cadder Church - where Thomas Muir was an elder - will make a fabulous backdrop.
“Mark Hanniffy (Consul General) of the Consulate General of Ireland in Scotland, and East Dunbartonshire’s Provost Una Walker, have both confirmed they will be attending this year’s Thomas Muir Symposium on the 13th, and will say a few words of welcome.
“It’s fantastic to have the support of Bishopbriggs Academy in hosting this prestigious event.”
“We’re also delighted to announce that Professor Sir Tom Devine will be speaking at the launch of an important new book of essays on Muir.”
Councillor Alan Moir, Convener of Development and Regeneration at East Dunbartonshire Council, said, “Hats off once again to the Friends of Thomas Muir - particularly Jimmy Watson - for organising a new series of events to celebrate the life and legacy of Thomas Muir.
“The council is proud to continue to support the festival as it enters its sixth year.
“It’s great that East Dunbartonshire schools and young people are once again involved in celebrating Muir through a number of interesting and innovative events.”
For more information visit www.thomasmuir.co.uk or find the festival on Facebook and Twitter.
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Teacher admits witness tampering over sex case
by: Tim Steele
Posted: Dec 29, 2017 / 09:16 AM PST / Updated: Dec 29, 2017 / 09:16 AM PST
MERRILL, Ore. (AP) – A former teacher in Klamath County has been sentenced to probation after admitting he threatened a student not to disclose details of their sexual relationship.
The Herald and News reports Jeffrey Vincent pleaded guilty Dec. 19 to witness tampering. Charges of coercion and official misconduct were dropped in the plea deal.
The 35-year-old Vincent was arrested in July after police learned of his relationship with a young woman that began when the woman attended Lost River High School in Merrill.
Though the student was above the age of consent, the relationship violated school policy. Authorities say Vincent threatened to end the victim’s scholarships if she reported their relationship.
Vincent has agreed to not contest any disciplinary action taken by the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.
by Ian Costello / Jul 15, 2019
These days, Dr. Bill Farrand works for the Space Science Institute and spends a lot of his time thinking about Mars. Fifty years ago, he remembers being a young boy and watching the Apollo 11 mission unfold on television.
He talks to Ian Costello about those fond memories, the national pride that came out of man landing on the Moon and how it helped the American economy.
NW Charity Golf Classic raises money for kids
by AJ McCord / Jul 15, 2019
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John R. Wood Makes the 2019 Real Trends 500 List for Largest Brokerages in the U.S. and Highest Sales Volume in 2018
John R. Wood Properties announced today its ranking in the 2019 Real Trends 500 as #86 for largest brokerages in the U.S. based on sales volume, with over $2.5 billion. This number not only reflects the nearly 13% increase in closed sales in 2018 as compared to 2017, but also the magnitude of business that JRW is managing across Southwest Florida. The ranking further demonstrates the leading advantage JRW holds among major competitors in the area with comparable county coverage.
John R. Wood Properties Announces New Corporate Positions and Promotions
John R. Wood Properties (JRW) announced today the following new corporate positions and promotions.
John R. Wood Properties Launches New Series, “SoWeFlo Life by John R. Wood”
Taking the lead once more in the marketing arena, John R. Wood Properties has launched a new episodic video series, “SoWeFlo Life by John R. Wood”, unfolding as a complementary brand that currently resides on Facebook. The series, with a name that plays off of the abbreviation for Southwest Florida (SWFL), showcases the company’s collective love of the area with each episode featuring a different real estate agent exploring what they enjoy most about living here.
Local Executives Make Florida Trend’s List of the 500 Most Influential Business Leaders
Visibility and financial heft don’t necessarily equal influence according to Florida Trend magazine, which spent a significant amount of time researching and compiling their list of Florida’s Most Influential Business Leaders, 17 of which reside right here in Southwest Florida.
John R. Wood Properties Announces Merger with John R. Wood Island Real Estate
Phil Wood, CEO of John R. Wood Properties, has announced that the firm completed the merger of their long-time Sanibel franchisee, which operates under the name of John R. Wood Island Real Estate.
John R Wood Properties Creates College Scholarships to Commemorate 60th Anniversary
Naples, FL: (February 27, 2018) Local real estate business John R. Wood Properties, Inc. today announced Southwest Florida’s most experienced real estate company will donate $60,000 to provide college scholarships to deserving students.
According to president Phil Wood, the firm...
Our Sincerest Gratitude - Hurricane Irma
What we have all witnessed in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma is truly remarkable. From the tireless work of our first responders, utility workers and public service employees, to the charitable organizations and volunteers assisting neighbors in need, we are grateful for everyone working to restore Southwest Florida.
All of your selfless efforts are a testament to the compassion
and resilience of our beloved communities.
John R. Wood Properties Receives Best Residential Real Estate Agency Award
NAPLES, AUGUST 2, 2017 – Founded in 1958, John R. Wood Properties, one of the oldest real estate companies in Southwest Florida, with almost 60 years of industry and market experience, has been named as the Best Residential Real Estate Agency in the Gulfshore Business Magazine’s 2017 Best of Business Awards.
John R. Wood Properties Named Number 8 for Best Designed Real Estate Website
John R. Wood Properties has been named No. 8 as having the Best of Design for its company website, www.johnrwood.com, by REAL Trends’ 2017 Real Estate WEBSITE RANKINGS.
VANLOO NAMED CFO OF JRW
John R. Wood Properties today announced that it has named Gwen M. VanLoo as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
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Ocean Survey Spacecraft Arrives at Launch Site
An enhanced color view of a storm on Saturn. The larger view includes a view showing Saturn in colors that approximate what the human eye would see. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
PASADENA, Calif. – As a powerful electrical storm rages on Saturn with lightning bolts 10,000 times more powerful than those found on Earth, the Cassini spacecraft continues its five-month watch over the dramatic events.
Scientists with NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission have been tracking the visibly bright, lightning-generating storm--the longest continually observed electrical storm ever monitored by Cassini.
Saturn's electrical storms resemble terrestrial thunderstorms, but on a much larger scale. Storms on Saturn have diameters of several thousand kilometers (thousands of miles), and radio signals produced by their lightning are thousands of times more powerful than those produced by terrestrial thunderstorms.
Color images of the storm are available at: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://ciclops.org .
Lightning flashes within the persistent storm produce radio waves called Saturn electrostatic discharges, which the radio and plasma wave science instrument first detected on Nov. 27, 2007. Cassini's imaging cameras monitored the position and appearance of the storm, first spotting it about a week later, on Dec. 6.
"The electrostatic radio outbursts have waxed and waned in intensity for five months now," said Georg Fischer, an associate with the radio and plasma wave science team at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. "We saw similar storms in 2004 and 2006 that each lasted for nearly a month, but this storm is longer-lived by far. And it appeared after nearly two years during which we did not detect any electrical storm activity from Saturn."
The new storm is located in Saturn's southern hemisphere--in a region nicknamed "Storm Alley" by mission scientists--where the previous lightning storms were observed by Cassini. "In order to see the storm, the imaging cameras have to be looking at the right place at the right time, and whenever our cameras see the storm, the radio outbursts are there," said Ulyana Dyudina, an associate of the Cassini imaging team at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif.
Cassini's radio plasma wave instrument detects the storm every time it rotates into view, which happens every 10 hours and 40 minutes, the approximate length of a Saturn day. Every few seconds the storm gives off a radio pulse lasting for about a tenth of a second, which is typical of lightning bolts and other electrical discharges. These radio waves are detected even when the storm is over the horizon as viewed from Cassini, a result of the bending of radio waves by the planet's atmosphere.
Amateur astronomers have kept track of the storm over its five-month lifetime. "Since Cassini's camera cannot track the storm every day, the amateur data are invaluable," said Fischer. "I am in continuous contact with astronomers from around the world."
The long-lived storm will likely provide information on the processes powering Saturn's intense lightning activity. Cassini scientists will continue to monitor Storm Alley as the seasons change, bringing the onset of autumn to the planet’s southern hemisphere.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of Caltech, manages the Cassini mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. The radio and plasma wave science team is based at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Media contacts: Carolina Martinez 818-354-9382
carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov
Preston Dyches 720-974-5859
Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
media@ciclops.org
› Related image: Hissing Storm
› Storm sound: This audio of a 2006 storm is similar to the current storm.
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NASA Flies Radar South on Wide-Ranging Expedition
Scientists to Io: Volcanoes are in the Wrong Spot
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Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein
NASA's Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star. The findings are among the first detections of this phenomenon -- a result of Einstein's general theory of relativity -- in binary, or double, star systems.
The dead star, called a white dwarf, is the burnt-out core of what used to be a star like our sun. It is locked in an orbiting dance with its partner, a small "red dwarf" star. While the tiny white dwarf is physically smaller than the red dwarf, it is more massive.
"This white dwarf is about the size of Earth but has the mass of the sun," said Phil Muirhead of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, lead author of the findings to be published April 20 in the Astrophysical Journal. "It's so hefty that the red dwarf, though larger in physical size, is circling around the white dwarf."
Kepler's primary job is to scan stars in search of orbiting planets. As the planets pass by, they block the starlight by miniscule amounts, which Kepler's sensitive detectors can see.
"The technique is equivalent to spotting a flea on a light bulb 3,000 miles away, roughly the distance from Los Angeles to New York City," said Avi Shporer, co-author of the study, also of Caltech.
Muirhead and his colleagues regularly use public Kepler data to search for and confirm planets around smaller stars, the red dwarfs, also known as M dwarfs. These stars are cooler and redder than our yellow sun. When the team first looked at the Kepler data for a target called KOI-256, they thought they were looking at a huge gas giant planet eclipsing the red dwarf.
"We saw what appeared to be huge dips in the light from the star, and suspected it was from a giant planet, roughly the size of Jupiter, passing in front," said Muirhead.
To learn more about the star system, Muirhead and his colleagues turned to the Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego. Using a technique called radial velocity, they discovered that the red dwarf was wobbling around like a spinning top. The wobble was far too big to be caused by the tug of a planet. That is when they knew they were looking at a massive white dwarf passing behind the red dwarf, rather than a gas giant passing in front.
The team also incorporated ultraviolet measurements of KOI-256 taken by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), a NASA space telescope now operated by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The GALEX observations, led by Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., are part of an ongoing program to measure ultraviolet activity in all the stars in Kepler field of view, an indicator of potential habitability for planets in the systems. These data revealed the red dwarf is very active, consistent with being "spun-up" by the orbit of the more massive white dwarf.
The astronomers then went back to the Kepler data and were surprised by what they saw. When the white dwarf passed in front of its star, its gravity caused the starlight to bend and brighten by measurable effects.
"Only Kepler could detect this tiny, tiny effect," said Doug Hudgins, the Kepler program scientist at NASA Headquarters, Washington. "But with this detection, we are witnessing Einstein's general theory of relativity at play in a far-flung star system."
One of the consequences of Einstein's general theory of relativity is that gravity bends light. Astronomers regularly observe this phenomenon, often called gravitational lensing, in our galaxy and beyond. For example, the light from a distant galaxy can be bent and magnified by matter in front of it. This reveals new information about dark matter and dark energy, two mysterious ingredients in our universe.
Gravitational lensing has also been used to discover new planets and hunt for free-floating planets.
In the new Kepler study, scientists used the gravitational lensing to determine the mass of the white dwarf. By combining this information with all the data they acquired, the scientists were also able to measure accurately the mass of the red dwarf and the physical sizes of both stars. Kepler's data and Einstein's theory of relativity have together led to a better understanding of how binary stars evolve.
Other authors include Andrew Vanderburg of the University of California, Berkeley; Avi Shporer, Juliette Becker, Jonathan J. Swift, Sasha Hinkley, J. Sebastian Pineda, Michael Bottom, Christoph Baranec, Reed Riddle, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar, Khanh Bui, Richard Dekany and John Asher Johnson of Caltech; James P. Lloyd and Jim Fuller of Cornell University; Ming Zhao of The Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Andrew W. Howard of University of Hawaii, Hilo; Kaspar von Braun of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany; Tabetha S. Boyajian of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; Nicholas Law of the University of Toronto, Canada; A. N. Ramaprakash, Mahesh Burse, Pravin Chordia, Hillol Das and Sujit Punnadi of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, India.
NASA Ames manages Kepler's ground system development, mission operations and science data analysis. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., managed Kepler mission development. Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo., developed the Kepler flight system and supports mission operations with JPL at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore archives, hosts and distributes the Kepler science data. Kepler is NASA's 10th Discovery Mission and is funded by NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters. JPL is a division of Caltech. For more information about the Kepler mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/kepler .
Dead Star Warps Light of Red Star
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Sommer v. Kridel, 74 N.J. 446, 378 A.2d 767 (1977)
A New Jersey Supreme Court case from 1970 – 1977 which matter is currently taught in every law school in the country as the leading case in the area of mandating upon a landlord the duty to mitigate its damages.
This is one of the seminal cases in New Jersey and now the country in landlord tenant law establishing that a lease was subject to contract law principals resulting in imposing a duty upon a landlord to mitigate its damages.
This case was heard upon Mr. Kridel's seeking certification of same by the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey involving an issue of the highest significance to the State and ultimately the country.
EEOC v. ABC Corporation, John Does I-III et. al.
A large, complex sexual harassment suit. Mr. Kridel successfully obtained a complete dismissal in favor of the employer from the EEOC after almost eight (8) years in Federal Court before the Honorable Harold A. Ackerman with the Honorable Stanley R. Chesler acting as Magistrate in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey. Credit is afforded Joint Counsel, Collier, Jacob and Mills.
Yacenda v. Rouse Companies
We represented the Plaintiff in this matter who was the tenant of approximately ten (10) leases at the Willowbrook Mall, owned by the Defendant, The Rouse Company. This case is of significance since during the litigation and after extensive discovery the Defendant refunded in excess of seven (7) figures of various rental overcharges as being mislabeled capital expenditures. Just prior to settlement, Plaintiff raised issues as to the accountability of rentals from kiosks as either reducing all the tenant's common area charges or in the alternative, re-establishing each tenant's percentage of interest in the leased mall premises. It was argued that the kiosks, being leased premises, should diminish the size of the common areas.
Apollo Chemical v. Control and Power Systems
This firm represented the Defendant Corporation, the individuals of which were alleged by Plaintiff to have violated non-competition employment agreements and the theft of trade secrets. This case was heard before the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey, venued in Hudson County. The matter was heavily litigated with voluminous discovery and brought upon by an Order to Show Cause by the firm of Deldaio & Effinger. The matter was concluded by settlement after several years of litigation.
Control and Power Systems v. Arco Performance (the equipment division of Atlantic Richfield)
This Firm represented the Plaintiff in a breach of contract case well in excess of seven (7) figures. The matter was settled after extensive discovery by the payment to Plaintiff of its lost profits and the receipt of future business notwithstanding the litigation. Defendant was represented by Carpenter Bennett & Morrissey. This case was heard before the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey, venued in Essex County.
Mary Jane (name being fictitious so as to protect her identity) v. John Doe, M.D. (name being fictitious so as to protect a sealed settlement)
This Firm represented the Plaintiff as Joint Counsel with the Law Firm of Michael A. Manna & Associates, P.C. alleging psychiatric malpractice against the Defendant doctor for sexually abusing his patients. Prior to institution of the suit, both firms surreptitiously wired the Plaintiff and obtained a complete admission from the Defendant. The matter was settled under seal for a substantial sum of money. The matter was later turned over to the Bergen County Prosecutor as the case was pursued in the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey, venued in Bergen County.
Capital Resources v. Thomas Rogers, Esq. et. al.
This Firm represented a secondary mortgage company who was defrauded by the Defendant involved in a $55 million real estate scam. This Firm's client had loaned in excess of seven (7) figures to the Defendant. The matter was initiated by this Firm on an Order to Show Cause seeking temporary restraining orders and writs of attachment on all of Defendant's real estate. This matter was tried to conclusion and was heard before the Superior Court in the State of New Jersey, Chancery Division, venued in Passaic County. In addition to compensatory damages, the firm managed to obtain a judgment for $300,000.00 in punitive damages. The Law Firm of Poplar & Florio represented the Defendant.
Technimetrics, Inc., a subsidiary of Knight-Ritter, Inc. v. The Carson Group
This Firm represented the Defendant in this matter, an international stock surveillance corporation, who hired a former employee of Knight-Ritter to head its Chicago offices. Knight-Ritter brought this matter before the Supreme Court of the State of New York, venued in New York County, by way of Order of Show Cause and Verified Complaint, so as to prevent Carson Group from retaining the services of its employee, formerly from Knight-Ritter. The Defendant was represented by Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson. The Order to Show Cause was denied in all respects and ultimately mutual releases were executed so that the employee could continue with the Carson Group without interference whatsoever from his former employer.
The Carson Group v. Georginson Company
This Firm represented Plaintiff in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, venued in New York County having brought an Order to Show Cause, Verified Complaint precluding one of Carson's former employees from working on certain accounts, formerly serviced by The Carson Group and for other conjunctive relief. This matter was vigorously defended by the Law Firm of Piper & Marbury, on behalf of Georginson, even to the point of taking an emergent appeal to the New York Court of Appeals from a decision by the now Justice Beatrice Shainswit, then presiding in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The Defendant's appeal was denied. The Carson Group was able to obtain a competitive advantage by precluding one of Georginson's employees from attending the Erie National Convention then being conducted in Florida.
Edith Pepe v. State Farm Insurance, its Agent Denis A. Dankosky et. al.
This Firm represented the Plaintiff in an insurance malpractice claim against the agent of State Farm Insurance alleging that the broker had led the alleged insured to believe she had obtained a life insurance policy on her late husband. Notwithstanding the admission that Plaintiff had received a letter of non-issue from the insurance company and neither Plaintiff nor the broker had ever bound the policy by the payment of any premium. This matter was tried to conclusion in the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey, venued in Passaic County and was granted a judgment in the full amount of the insurance plus pre-judgment interest totaling in excess of $200,000.00. The Defendant appealed the lower Court and McCarter & English represented the Defendant on the appeal. The lower Courts verdict was affirmed and the appeal denied in all respects in favor of the Plaintiff.
R & L International v. Diode Transistor et. al.
This firm represented the Plaintiff in the above matter which alleged that the Defendant and its principal defrauded Plaintiff by falsifying radio frequency transistors in an international transaction for an airport in Italy. The matter was tried to conclusion before the Honorable Judge Robert J. Passero, in the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey, venued in Passaic County, who in addition to awarding compensatory damages in excess of six (6) figures representing the cost of the mislabeled transistors as well as punitive damages, just under six (6) figures for the egregious conduct of the Defendants. The Law Firm of Mandelbaum Salsburg Gold Lazris Discenza & Steinberg, PC originally represented the Defendant; however, the matter was tried by the then Charles J. Rohde, Esq., now the Honorable Charles J. Rohde.
The People of the State of New York v. Peoples Resources
The Defendant was the largest video dating service in the City of New York with offices situate on 57th Street. This Firm represented Peoples Resources for approximately ten (10) years and in particular, insulated them from the statutory requirements for social referral services by convincing the State Attorney Generals Office that Peoples Resources was not in fact engaging in social referral which in turn permitted them to charge the market rate as opposed to the statutory rate for their services. In addition, the Department of Consumer Affairs instituted a suit attempting to determine that Peoples Resources was engaged in the sale of future services and thus subject to New York City's statute regarding same. This Firm successfully concluded the matter in favor of our client. Outside of Court we represented the client as General Counsel hereto.
The People of the State of New York v. Together
This Firm represented Together, which was one of the largest national dating services. This Firm acted as General Counsel and appeared on behalf of the client in Supreme Court of the State of New York and the Federal Courts of the State of New York on numerous litigated matters. During its representation, the State of New York sought to impose liability on the client for the back payment of sales taxes by claiming that dating services fell within the purview of the statute applying sales taxes to “informational services.” The Firm represented client through audit, conciliation, the Tribunal through appeal at which point the State conceded in favor of Together.
People of the State of New York v. Norcom Communications
State of New York sought to subject the client as an excise tax pursuant to Section 183-e which applied to communication companies in general. The Firm was able to differentiate the services provided by the client so as to avoid same from falling within the definitional section of the Statute and therefore freeing the client from payment of the tax.
Goldman v. Margolis
This matter was a contractual dispute between the parties in which this Firm represented the Defendant alleging that the contract negotiated and signed by the parties should not be enforced by reason of duress and/or undo influence. The matter originally rose as a result of the displeasure of the Plaintiff in the distribution of an estate. This matter was tried to conclusion before a jury before the Honorable Isabel B. Stark in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, venued in Bergen County. Judgment was entered in favor of the Firm's client. The original amount of the estate was in the high six figure range.
Anthony Russo v. The Borough of Edgewater, Burl Michelson, et. al.
This matter was a title dispute having resulted from this Firm obtaining a judgment against several individuals for approximately $300,000.00, one of whom sold property to the Borough of Edgewater. Upon discovering same, this Firm commenced litigation naming certain individuals as well as the Borough so as to realize its judgment by execution against the property as a result of its alleged lien on the property, then owned by the Borough. This matter was before the Honorable Gerald C. Escala in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, venued in Bergen County. This matter was settled favorably to this Firm's client in receiving settlement funds from the various clients represented by five (5) attorneys.
James A. Kridel & Associates v. Capital Resources, F.D.I.C., R.T.C. and approximately 26 Banks
This was an adversary proceeding against Capital Resources which had filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Court. The matter was venued before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey before the Honorable Daniel J. Moore and after his death, the Honorable Rosemary Gambardella. This Firm had handled thousands of foreclosures for Capital which remained unpaid pre-petition. The adversary proceeding sought administrative status of the claim involving charging and retaining liens. Included among the Defendants were the F.D.I.C., the R.T.C. and approximately 26 independent financial institutions. Notwithstanding in excess of 28 law firms, this Firm prevailed and obtained a settlement on the day of trial in the high six (6) figures.
Dresher v. LBJ Realty v. OCWEN Federal Bank
This is a current matter before the Honorable Clarkson S. Fisher, Jr. in the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey, Law Division, Monmouth County. The issues are somewhat complex in that this Firm represents a lender known as LBJ Realty, whose mortgaged lien was inappropriately removed. Thereafter, the property was refinanced by OCWEN Federal Bank in excess of $350,000.00, when LBJ's mortgage had an approximate balance of some $200,000.00. Upon learning of the inappropriate lien, this Firm filed a Notice of Motion which resulted in the Court's reinstating LBJ's original lien, which had now moved from second position to that of first. The matter now before the Court is the priority of the existing liens involving doctrines such as equitable subrogation, latches and general equity principles.
Mr. & Mrs. G. v. Save-A-Tree and Scenic Landscaping
This is one of long line of cases in which this Firm represented Plaintiffs against contractors involving violations of the Home Improvement Act (N.J.A.C. 13:45a-16 et seq) which pursuant to Cox v. Sears are per se violations of the Consumer Fraud Act. This matter was settled for a substantial sum just prior to trial. Both these matters were before the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey, Law Division venued in Bergen County. These cases emphasize that the Home Improvement Act includes services rendered in matters other than actual construction to include landscaping, lighting, tree services and other similar such improvements and additions to existing homes.
Daniel Huq v. Home Improvement Contractor.
This is an ongoing matter presently before the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey, Law Division, venued in Passaic County. This Firm represents the Plaintiff who engaged the services of the Defendant construction company to construct a major addition and renovation to his residence. This Firm named the individual principals of the corporate Defendant and has alleged violations of the Home Improvement Act and consequently the Consumer Fraud Act providing for treble damages and attorneys fees. The compensatory damages are in excess of six (6) figures. A jury trial has been set for June 2003.
A Pennsylvania Leasing Company (name being fictitious so as to protect its identity) v. Auto Lease 2000 and Edward D.
This action was brought by a Pennsylvania leasing company against a New Jersey company and its principal, who this Firm represented. Plaintiff brought serious allegations of intentional fraud in falsifying loan applications and otherwise fraudulently inducing Plaintiff to buy its commercial leasing paper. This matter was tried to conclusion in the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey, Law Division, venued in Bergen County before the Honorable Naomi G. Eichen.
U.S. of America, Internal Revenue Service v. Polardi
This matter was before the United States Tax Court in which this Firm represented the Defendant. The Defendant was previously married to the Chief of Police of a nearby city who had been convicted of tax evasion and fraud. Since the Defendant was then his wife and had executed joint returns with the former Chief, the I.R.S., through appeals, sought to inculpate the spouse, represented by the Firm, as jointly and severally liable for the aforesaid tax liability which was in the mid-six (6) figures. After extensive negotiations and discovery and submission of briefs, the I.R.S. conceded the case on the eve of trial so that the Firm's client prevailed based upon the defense provided by the Innocent Spouse Provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.
Gorman v. Pizzeria Uno
This Firm represented the Plaintiff in a substantial personal injury matter, the result of a slip and fall in the restaurant commonly known as Pizzeria Uno. The Plaintiff was leaving the restaurant only to slip on an ice cube in one of the corridors. Plaintiff suffered severe injuries to his left knee upon which he had recently undergone arthroscopic surgery. The matter was before the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey, Law Division, venued in Passaic County. The matter was settled for a substantial amount in excess of six (6) figures. Our adversary in this matter was Winter & Winter, PC.
Regan v. Regan
This was a contested matrimonial matter involving sophisticated and educated parties, business valuations, income determinations, imputed income, alimony, equitable distribution and the like. This matter was tried to conclusion in an eleven (11) day trial before the Honorable Kenneth A. Bloom in the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey, Chancery Division, Matrimonial Part, venued in Essex County. Our adversary in this matter was Franzblau & Dratch, PC.
U.S. of America, Internal Revenue Service v. Mr. & Mrs. G.
This matter involved a subsequent assessment by the I.R.S. of in excess of two (2) million dollars against the taxpayers for a 1986 transaction in which the taxpayers treated the gain on the sale of a corporation as capital gains. Thereafter, the buyer deducted a major portion of the selling price and designated same as payment for a non-competition obligation. The seller was a multi-billion dollar conglomerate known as W.P.P., Inc. This matter was handled in Appeals on Church Street in Manhattan by the then Chief of Appeals, Mr. Hagan. The matter was successfully negotiated and settled in Appeals for less than $50,000.00.
If you need assistance with a business or personal legal matter in New Jersey or New York, contact a business litigation lawyer at The Kridel Law Group.
Our business litigation lawyers serve clients in New Jersey and New York, including Clifton, Paterson, Passaic, Totowa, Wayne, Little Falls, Hackensack, Paramus, Newark, Montclair, Nutley, Morristown, New York City, Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and the counties of Bergen, Morris, Essex, and Passaic.
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Why KTH?
Sweden in brief
Sweden is a modern and multicultural country in northern Europe, with a long-standing tradition of welcoming international students from all over the world. It is the third largest country in the European Union by area, with a modest population of 10 million. Sweden is often described in terms of contrasts: ground-breaking innovation and historical traditions; individual ambition and a strong sense of community; magnificent countryside and modern cities.
Population: 10 million
Capital: Stockholm (2,3 million people)
Language: Swedish, English widely spoken
Currency: Swedish krona (SEK)
Time zone: GMT+1
Five things you need to know about Swedes and Sweden
If you want to strike up a conversation with a Swede, talking about the weather is always a safe bet. The thought of making the most of the daylight is always on a Swede’s mind, visiting the closest park for a picnic or a game of football as soon as the clouds part. And in a country with such varying climate, every season offers something new to see and do.
The academic year at KTH starts in September together with the arrival of autumn. The temperature drops to around 8 degrees and nature puts on a magical display of colours, changing from green to yellow and red. This is the perfect time to get to know your new classmates over a cup of tea and a cinnamon bun in one of Stockholm’s many cafés. As Christmas approaches, so do the cold and cosy winter months. The darkness can be quite a shock for first-timers, but the landscape lights up as the first snow falls. Swedes have almost 50 words for snow, which can be quite useful when hitting the slopes or building a snow lantern.
Although the winter may seem long, when spring arrives around Easter it will be worth the wait. Nature starts to return to green as the snow melts and people fill the streets. Enjoying a long walk in the forest or a drink at an open-air café might almost seem mandatory at this time of year. Spring quickly turns into summer as the end of the semester approaches. As soon as the temperature hits 25 °C, all Swedes shed their clothes and head for the nearest beach. The days are long as the sun barely dips below the horizon in the evening, setting the scene for memorable summer nights.
Getting to know a Viking
Swedes have a reputation for not being the most outgoing people, and the main reason might be the country’s historical seclusion in the north. Around fourteen thousand years ago the first settlers came to Sweden as the ice cap covering the Scandinavian Peninsula melted. Pre-historic ages, the Viking era, Christianisation, kingdoms and industrialism passed as these settlers made their way into modern society. During the last century, Sweden has gone from being among the poorest nations in Europe to being a prosperous welfare nation.
Today, Swedes are exploring the world and different cultures as Sweden itself has turned into an open and multicultural society, with almost one fifth of its population having roots in other countries. Still, the Swedes can be perceived as a bit reserved and it may take some time to get to know them, but once you do you will find them as friendly and warm as anyone else. Most Swedes speak excellent English, although learning Swedish is a great way of meeting new people.
Even though Sweden is a small country, home to just 0.13 per cent of the global population, it is a world leader in innovation, ranked number 2 in the Global Innovation Index 2016. Sweden’s entrepreneurial spirit is fuelled by a historic tradition of inventors, a supportive start-up culture, and a close collaboration between research and industry. In addition to being the origin of companies such as IKEA, Ericsson and H&M, Sweden is also the birthplace of life-changing innovations.
One billion car passengers have been kept safe by the three-point seatbelt since its launch by Volvo in 1959. The modern pacemaker keeps one million hearts beating across the world, as music streaming service Spotify drops the beat for over 500 million listeners globally. Sweden is also the world’s number one exporter of chart music in relation to GDP, and home to classic acts like ABBA and Roxette, as well as modern pop heroines Icona Pop and Zara Larsson.
One for all, all for one
Sweden is a free and open society, with a tradition of trying to provide equal opportunities for everyone. All Swedish citizens are entitled to basic social security through the tax-financed welfare system. This means that the state is responsible for all or most of the costs related to education and healthcare, for example. Apart from social security, Swedes have the right to take part in demonstrations, freedom of speech, a free press and the right to scrutinise those in power. In fact, Sweden became the first country in the world to write freedom of the press into its constitution in 1766.
Equality in general – and gender equality in particular – is another cornerstone of Swedish society, aiming to ensure that women and men enjoy the same opportunities, rights and obligations in all areas of life. Sweden is well on its way, being ranked as the fourth most gender equal country in the world in the Global Gender Gap Report 2015. The 480 days of paid parental leave to which Swedes are entitled are shared between the parents, so expect to see a lot more men walking strollers than in most other countries.
The grass is greener
Recycling is so sacred to Swedes that it might almost seem to be a religion. Swedes recycle an impressive 90 percent of all drinks cans and bottles at the recycling machines found in every grocery store. From a young age Swedes are taught to protect nature by keeping it clean, and to save on energy and resources in order to limit their impact on the environment. Today, Sweden is considered one of the greenest countries in the world, making environmental technology a growing export industry. One example is in the area of waste management where, thanks to innovative solutions, only one percent of municipal solid waste is put into landfills.
Transportation is another big challenge being tackled. Trains in Sweden are mainly powered by renewable electricity from hydropower or wind power, producing minimal emissions. The newest trams in the sustainable city of Stockholm run on green energy and are at least 98 percent recyclable, and the fleet of green busses runs on biogas and ethanol. Carrying your recycling to the nearest recycling station may be an effort, but staying hydrated is both easy and free of charge, as Sweden has one of the cleanest and most refreshing tap water supplies in the world.
This is Sweden
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Aerial views of housing in Calgary. File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS
Federal Liberals’ plan to help first-time homebuyers to kick in weeks before election
Ottawa to pick up 5% of a mortgage on existing homes for households that earn under $120,000 a year
A new federal program aiming to give homebuyers some help covering their mortgage costs will kick in on Labour Day — weeks before a federal election — with the first payments flowing in early November, just days after voters across Canada go to the polls.
The Liberals unveiled details Monday of the $1.25-billion plan, which will see the government take an equity stake in thousands of homes to ease mortgage costs for qualified buyers.
The rules of the program would allow previous homeowners to qualify under certain conditions, permit the purchase of a building with up to four units, and help with a maximum purchase price of $565,000, based on government calculations.
The program will begin taking applications on Sept. 2, days before what is expected to be the official start of a federal election campaign where the cost of living — including housing affordability — is shaping up as a central issue.
The first payments would flow on Nov. 1, two weeks after election day on Oct. 21.
Government officials said Sept. 2 was the earliest possible start date, while the minister in charge brushed off the suggestion that the governing Liberals hope to use the launch date for partisan gains.
“If we look at what we’ve done since Day 1, housing investments have been key in all four federal budgets since 2016,” Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said in an interview.
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“Every one of the federal budgets in those four years has included significant measures around housing affordability and, look, we’ll continue to do so. We’re not going to be stopped because there is an election coming.”
The first-come, first-served program will see federal funds pick up five per cent of a mortgage on existing homes for households that earn under $120,000 a year, on a mortgage of no more than $480,000. The value increases to up to 10 per cent for new homes to spur construction and expand supply to avoid heating housing prices.
There isn’t any interest on the money, but a buyer would have to repay it in full when they sell their house or after 25 years of living in the home. An early repayment carries no penalties.
If the value of the home goes up, so too does the amount of money owed to federal coffers. The opposite will be the case if the value of a home goes down.
Federal officials said there isn’t a specific policy on what to do with any profits — some organizations that already provide these “shared-equity mortgages” use windfalls to expand their offerings — so the extra cash will for now flow back into the government’s general revenue pool.
The officials provided the information during a briefing for reporters on the condition that they not be identified by name.
The government estimates that some 100,000 new buyers could be helped by the program. Depending on the interest for it, the next government could be forced into a decision: increase spending at risk of boosting demand and heating prices, or stand pat and exclude buyers.
Jordan Press, The Canadian Press
Motorcyclist involved in crash succumbs to injuries, dies in hospital
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Two LaGuardia Community College Students Among Only 61 Community College Students from Across U.S. Selected as 2019 Jack Kent Cook Scholars
Congratulations to Matthew Wilson, age 38, and Sukhrob Abdushukurov, age 22!
From left to right Matthew Wilson & Sukhrob Abdushukurov
Two LaGuardia Community College students have been selected as 2019 Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholars. Matthew Wilson and Sukhrob Abdushukurov are two of only 61 community college students from across the U.S. selected for this highly competitive scholarship, which provides up to $40,000/year (for up to three years) for the completion of a bachelor’s degree, thus making it the one of the most prestigious and certainly the largest transfer scholarship available to community college students. Cooke scholars are also eligible for graduate studies funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
With the selection of Matthew Wilson and Sukhrob Abdushukurov, LaGuardia has had 11 Cooke scholars since 2006, three of whom also received Cooke Graduate Scholarships (currently up to $75,000 for a maximum of four years).
“We are incredibly proud of Matthew and Sukhrob on their selection as 2019 Jack Kent Cooke Scholars, which not only reflects their individual achievements, but also the dedication of our faculty and staff who mentored them and supported their applications,” said LaGuardia Community College President Gail O. Mellow. “Too many low-income students, who disproportionately make up student populations at community colleges, are unable to finish their bachelor’s due to financial burdens. It’s especially meaningful that Matthew is pursuing his college studies in his late 30’s while raising two children—with support like this from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, parents who want to make better lives for themselves and their families, and are able to do so.”
“Matthew and Sukhrob are remarkable in their own way for their drive, resilience, and intellectual talents; their Cooke success is truly inspiring. Also inspiring are the many meaningful support networks, opportunities, and advising & mentoring avenues found at LaGuardia, all of which have lifted these scholars closer to their dreams,” said Karlyn Koh, PhD, honors program director and professor of English at LaGuardia Community College. Dr. Koh is LaGuardia’s Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Faculty Representative.
“I thank the many at LaGuardia who worked so hard to nurture and support not just these Cooke scholars, but also the other talented and motivated students who applied for the Cooke scholarship this past year. The work of sustaining a culture that empowers all students—including the high-achieving ones—is the labor of many,” added Dr. Koh.
Matthew Wilson, age 38 and a father of two: his son Dejuan is 18 years old and his daughter Egypt is 11 months, is a Liberal Arts: Film and Television major. He came to LaGuardia through the CUNY Fatherhood Academy, which helps fathers get on track with education and employment. Fatherhood, where he currently works as a mentor, provided him with application support.
At LaGuardia, Matthew was selected as a President’s Society Ambassador, and, through the college’s Honors Internship Program, he secured a competitive internship spot at NBC, where he worked as an on the ground reporter and had items published on NBC's website. He has been accepted to Queens College and York College; he is also considering Columbia, NYU, and Long Island University as transfer options to pursue his passion for moving images. He was recommended by LaGuardia humanities professor Joyce Rheuban, PhD; and Baz Dreisinger, PhD, founding academic director of John Jay’s Prison-to-College Pipeline program.
Sukhrob Abdushukurov, age 22 and a Psychology major, is a member of many programs at LaGuardia including ASAP, the Peer Advisor Academy, and the Open Educational Resources Initiative. Born in Uzbekistan, he speaks English, Uzbek, Tadjik, Russian, and German. He moved to the U.S. three years ago, and shortly thereafter, began his academic journey at LaGuardia, where he joined the Peer Activist Learning Community (PALC). In his future career, Sukhrob plans to use psychology to develop an interdisciplinary approach to education. He has applied to Amherst, Swarthmore, Cornell, and Wesleyan, amongst other four-year colleges. He was recommended by psychology professor Eduardo Vianna, PhD; and Francisco Medina, a doctoral student in the Urban Education Program at The Graduate Center, CUNY and a PALC member.
In addition to the monetary award, these new Cooke Transfer Scholars will receive comprehensive educational advising from Foundation staff to guide them through the process of transitioning to a four-year school and preparing for their careers. The Foundation will additionally provide opportunities for internships, study abroad, and graduate school funding, as well as connection to a thriving network of nearly 2,500 fellow Cooke Scholars and alumni.
“Our recent ‘ Persistence’ report highlights the vast potential, and achievements, of community college transfer students—who go on to outperform their non-transfer peers at selective four-year institutions,” said Seppy Basili, executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. “In an era where many high-achieving students often begin their higher education journey in community college, the Foundation is committed to enabling these transfer students to pursue their academic dreams at the nation’s top colleges and universities.”
Nearly 1,500 students applied for the 2019 Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. The Foundation evaluated each submission based on academic ability, persistence, leadership, and service to others. The recipients selected represent 18 different states have a median household adjusted gross income of $28,000 and an average GPA of 3.93. This year’s cohort of Cooke Transfer Scholars has applied to the nation’s most selective institutions.
Previous LaGuardia Community College students selected for Jack Kent Cooke Scholarships include:
1. Yeshey Pelzom (2006); Agnes Scott; King's College, London (M.A., also funded by the JKC Foundation)
2. Harmonie Kobanghe (2012); Georgetown; Columbia (M.A., also funded by the JKC Foundation)
3. Cristina Mihailescu (2014); Columbia; NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (MPA, also funded by the JKC Foundation)
4. Xavier Medina (2015); Columbia
5. Nathan Weiss (2015); Baruch
6. Jonathan Morales (2017); Stanford
7. Konstandinos Gobakis (2017); Amherst
8. Miguel Castillo (2017); Columbia
9. Eleni Romano (2018); Columbia
Click here for the complete list of the 2019 Cooke Transfer Scholars.
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is dedicated to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need. Since 2000, the Foundation has awarded $175 million in scholarships to more than 2,300 students from 8th grade through graduate school, along with comprehensive counseling and other support services. The Foundation has also provided over $97 million in grants to organizations that serve such students. www.jkcf.org.
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Network joint memo to Justice Committee anticipates legal aid review
Wednesday, September 13th 2017
The Law Centres Network has contributed to a joint memorandum to Parliament's Justice Committee, setting out concerns and proposals ahead of the forthcoming legal aid review.
In January 2017, the government announced its plans for reviewing the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012. The review had been intended to begin in May but the snap general election caused it to be postponed.
However, the government still intends to complete its review within five years of LASPO's implementation - that is, by the end of March 2018. The review will begin with a report by the Ministry of Justice to the Justice Committee.
To inform the Justice Committee's approach to this 'post-legislative scrutiny', the Law Centres Network has teamed up with other access to justice organisations, including the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG), pro bono charity Law Works and sector umbrella body Advice Services Alliance (ASA).
The group's memorandum to Justice Committee chair, Bob Neill MP, provides a great deal of detail on the effects of LASPO over the last 4.5 years. It also suggests four principles to guide the committee's discussions: a focus on legal aid's clients and their needs; ensuring that the scope of legal aid is coherent; prioritising accessibility as key to the rule of law; and basing future policy on robust evidence.
Nimrod Ben-Cnaan, head of policy and profile at the Law Centres Network, said:
"As things stand, civil legal aid is not sustainable and is crying out for reform. Political events have delayed this review, but we have been anticipating it. We now have an opportunity for a critical and comprehensive examination of legal aid, and look forward to contributing to it from our extensive experience."
Click here for the main memorandum to the Justice Committee
Click here for the memorandum's more detailed appendices
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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 Social Science Civics Democratic Politics Chapter 5 Popular Struggles and Movements
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Popular Struggles and Movement CBSE Class 10 Chapter 5 Democratic Policies NCERT Solutions
Question-1
In what ways do pressure groups and movements exert influence on politics?
Like an interest group, a movement group also attempts to influence politics rather than directly take part in electoral competition. But unlike the interest groups, movements have a loose organisation. Their decision making is more informal and flexible.They depend much more on spontaneous mass participation than an interest group.
Describe the forms of relationship between pressure groups and political parties?
In most cases the relationship between parties and interest or movement groups is not so direct. They often take positions that are opposed to each other. Yet they are in dialogue and negotiation. Movement groups have raised new issues that have been taken up by political parties. Most of the new leadership of political parties comes from interest or movement groups.
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Explain how the activities of pressure groups are useful in the functioning of a democratic government.
The pressure groups and movements have deepened democracy. Putting pressure on the rulers is not an unhealthy activity in a democracy as long as everyone gets this opportunity. Governments can often come under undue pressure from a small group of rich and powerful people. Public interest groups and movements perform a useful role of countering this undue influence and reminding the government of the needs and concerns of ordinary citizens.
What is a pressure group? Give a few examples.
Pressure groups are organisations that attempt to influence government policies. But unlike political parties, pressure groups do not aim to directly control or share political power. These organisations are formed when people with common occupation, interest, aspirations or opinions come together in order to achieve a common objective.
The struggle in Nepal was called a movement for democracy. We often hear the word people’s movement to describe many forms of collective action: Narmada Bachao Andolan, Movement for Right to Information, Anti-liquor Movement, Women’s Movement, Environmental Movement.
What is the difference between a pressure group and a political party?
In some instances the pressure groups are either formed or led by the leaders of political parties or act as extended arms of political parties. For example, most trade unions and students’ organisations in India are either established by or affiliated to one or the other major political party. Most of the leaders of such pressure groups are usually activists and leaders of party. Sometimes political parties grow out of movements. For example, when the Assam movement led by students against the ‘foreigners’ came to an end, it led to the formation of the Asom Gana Parishad. The roots of parties like the DMK and the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu can be traced to a long drawn social reform movement during the 1930 and 1940s.
Organizations that undertake activities to promote the interests of specific social sections such as workers, employees, teachers, and lawyers are called__________groups.
Organizations that undertake activities to promote the interests of specific social sections such as workers, employees, teachers, and lawyers are called Sectional interest groups.
Which among the following is the special feature that distinguishes a pressure group from a political party?
(a) Parties take political stances, while pressure groups do not bother about political issues.
(b) Pressure groups are confined to a few people, while parties involve larger number of people.
(c) Pressure groups do not seek to get into power, while political parties do.
(d) Pressure groups do not seek to mobilise people, while parties
What were he three demands that were made by the SPA in Nepal?
The three demands were ……………… Restoration of parliament
Power to an all-party government
A new constituent assembly
The World Bank pressurised the government of Bolivia, which is a poor country in Latin America , to give up its control of municipal water supply. These rights were sold for the city of Cochabamba to a multi-national company (MNC), and the cost of water was increased. There was a protest among the people since one-fourth of the income had to be paid for water.
In January 2000 a successful four-day general strike was organised in the city by a new alliance of labour, human rights and community leaders. The strike was called off when the government agreed to negotiate. In February 2000, since the government had not taken any action the people agitated again, and the police took brutal action. In April 2000, another strike followed and the government imposed martial law. The officers of the MNC were forced to flee the city and the government was made to concede to all the demands of the protesters, due the power of the people. Water supply was restored to the municipality at old rates and the contract with the MNC was cancelled. This was known as Bolivia’s water war.
Question-10
Define pressure groups.
Government policies are influenced by a few organisations called Pressure groups. Pressure groups do not aim to control or share political power directly, unlike political parties. When people with common occupation, interest, aspirations or opinions come together in order to achieve a common objective these organisations are formed.
Write a brief note on the Narmada Bachao Movement.
Narmada Bachao Andolan in India was a Issue specific movement. The specific issue of this movement was the displacement of the people by the creation of Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada river.
Its objective was to stop the dam from being constructed. It gradually became a wider movement that Questioned all such big dams and the model of development that required such dams.
1. In Bolivia protest against water privatisation was led by: [CBSE(CCE)2012]
(a) Trade Unions
(b) FEDECOR
(c) Human Rights Organisation
(d) Anti-liquor movement
2. How did King Gyanendra take advantage of the weak democratically elected government ? [CBSE (CCE)2012]
(a) He dissolved the Parliament
(b) He dismissed the Prime Minister
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) He rigged the elections
3. In which two ways, the Public Interest Groups achieve their aims ? [CBSE (CCE) 2012]
(1) They organise meetings to win the Public Support.
(2) They raise slogans against the Government and disrupt public.
(3) They try to influence the media by drawing their attention to their cause.
(4) They set up the public property on fire.
(a) (1) and (2)
(b) (1) and (3)
(c) (1) and (4)
(d) (2) and (3)
4. What did the leaders of the movement in Nepal reject in April 2004 ? [CBSE (CCE) 2012]
(a) Half hearted concessions made by the king.
(b) Democratic elections.
(c) Restoration of Parliament.
(d) Formation of an alliance.
5. To which one of the following Continents, Bolivia belongs ? [CBSE (CCE) 2012]
(a) Africa
(b) Europe
(c) South America
(d) Asia
6. Which one of the following features distinguishes a Pressure group from a Political Party ? [CBSE(CCE)2012]
(a) Political parties take political stances, while pressure group do not bother about political issues.
(b) Pressure group do not seek to mobilise people, while political parties do.
(c) The pressure groups do not aim to directly control or share political power while political parties do.
(d) The pressure groups are confined to a few people or few section of society, while Political parties are related to a greater area and issues.
7. Which one of the following is the main feature of Bolivia’s struggle? [CBSE (CCE) 2012]
(a) About one specific policy of Democratic government.
(b) It involved people’s claim on elected democratic government.
(c) It was about the foundation of country’s politics.
(d) It aimed at restoring democracy in the country.
8. Which one of the following is not the quality of democracy ? [Delhi 2012]
(a) It promotes equality among citizens.
(b) It takes quick decisions.
(c) It improves the quality of decision making.
(d) It enhances the dignity of the individual.
9. Which among the following led the struggle against ‘privatisation of water’ in Bolivia ? [Delhi 2012]
(a) Political parties
(b) Farmers
(c) Factory workers
(d) FEDECOR
10. Which one of the following is the ‘Third Wave’ country that had won democracy in 1990 ? [Delhi 2012]
(a) Bolivia
(b) Belgium
(c) Bangladesh
(d) Nepal
12. In which one of the following countries is democracy not preferred over dictatorship ? [AI 2011]
(a) Bangladesh
(b) Pakistan
(c) Sri Lanka
(d) India
13. Backward and Minorities Community Employees Federation (BAMCEF) is an example of which one of the following ? [Delhi 2011]
(a) Public interest group
(b) A movement for equality
(c) A sectional interest group
(d) A political party
14. Match List I (organisations and struggles) with List II and Select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists : [NCERT]
List I List II
(i) Organisations that seek to promote the interests of a particular section or group A.Movement
(ii) Organisations that seek to promote common interest B. Political parties
(iii) Struggles launched for the resolution of a social problem with or without organisational structure C. Sectional interest groups
(iv) Organisations that mobilise people with a view to win political power D. Public interest groups
(a) C D B A
(b) C D A B
(c) D C B A
(d) B C D A
15. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: [NCERT]
(i) Pressure group A. Narmada Bachao Andolan
(ii) Long-term movement B. Asom Gana Parishad
(iii) Single issue movement C. Women’s movement
(iv) Political party D. Fertiliser dealers, association
(a) D C A B
(b) B A D C
(c) C D B A
(d) B D C A
16. Consider the following statements about pressure groups and parties. [NCERT]
(i) Pressure groups are organised expression of the interests and views of specific social sections.
(ii) Pressure groups take positions on political issues.
(iii) All pressure groups are political parties.
Which of the statements given above are correct ?
(a) (i), (ii), and (iii)
(b) (i) and (ii)
(c) (ii) and (iii)
(d) (i) and (iii)
17. The word MNC is related to which issue :
(a) Nepal’s popular struggle
(b) Bolivia water war
(c) Environmental movement
(d) Narmada Bachao Andolan
18. Observe the statement and choose the correct option.
(i) Democracy evolves through popular struggle.
(ii) Pressure groups never influence people’s movement.
(iii) Political parties exert pressure on the government.
(iv) Mobilisation and organisations shape the concept of democracy.
(a) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(b) (i), (iii), (ii) only
(c) (i) and (iv)
(d) (ii) and (iv)
19. Movement signifies:
(a) An organisation that attempt to influence government policies.
(b) Entities that is not an organisation and depend on spontaneous mass participation.
(c) Groups which promote collective good.
(d) An organisation seeks to capture political power.
20. The city of Cochabamba is related to which issue ?
21. Fill in the following statements :
(a) The government of …………….. sold water right to theMNC. (Nepal / Bolivia)
(b) Democracy evolves through ……………. (Popular Struggles / Interest Group)
(c) The SPA Party called for a ………… strike in Kathmandu. (three days / four days)
(d) ………….. are groups that attempt to influence government policies. (Pressure Groups / Political Parties)
22. Fill in the blanks with the help of options given in the bracket.
(a) The movement in Nepal was to establish ………….. , while the struggle in Bolivia involved claims on elected democratic government. (Democracy / Kingship)
(b) On 24th April, 2004 the SPA chose ………….. as the new Prime Minister of the interim government. (Girija Prasad Koirala / King Birendra)
(c) ………….. is organisation that does not attempt to influence government policies. (Pressure Groups / Interest Groups)
(d) Narmada Bachao Andolan is a good example of ……………… groups. (Movement Groups / Pressure Groups)
23. Write the full form of the following with the reference of Help Box.
(a) SPA ………….
(b) WTO ………….
(c) MNC …………….
(d) BAMCEF ………………
(e) NAPM ……………..
HELP BOX
(i) Multi National Corporation
(ii) National Alliance for People’s Movement
(iii) World Trade Organisation
(iv) Seven Party Alliance
(v) Backward and Minorities Community Employees Federation.
24. In which year Nepal witnessed an extra ordinary popular movement ?
(a) 1990
(b) 1998
(d) 2006
25. What was the mysterious massacre of 2001 ?
(a) Killing of Prince of Nepal
(b) King Birendra was killed
(c) King Gyanendra was killed
(d) All of the above
26. What were the aims of the movement started by SPA ?
(A) Restoration of Parliament
(B) Unlimited power to monarch
(C) Power to an all party government
(D) A new Constituent Assembly
Select the correct options from the above:
(a) (A), (C) and (D)
(b) (B) and (D) only
(c) (A), (B) and (C)
(d) (A) and (C) only
27. What are the objectionable activities of ‘Nepalese (Maoist) Communist Party’ ?
(a) Don’t believe in Parliamentary Democracy.
(b) Armed struggle against the Nepali government.
(c) Control the large parts of Nepal.
(d) All the above.
28. Who were Maoists ?
(a) Communists who believe in the ideology of Mao.
(b) Democrats who believe in the democratic form of government.
(c) Members of SPA group.
(d) Members of royal family.
29. Consider the following statements regarding similarities between Nepal’s and Bolivia’s struggle.
(A) Both these were the instances of popular political conflict that led to popular struggles.
(B) Both these struggles had similar aims.
(C) Both instances involved critical role of political organisations.
(D) Both these struggles involved mass mobilisation,
(a) (A) and (B) only
(b) (A), (B) and (C)
(c) (A), (B), (C) and (D)
(d) (A), (C) and (D)
30. Which king of Nepal refused to accept democratic rule ?
(a) King Birendra
(b) Girija Prasad Koirala
(c) King Gyanendra
(d) None of the above
31. Which pressure group seeks to promote collective good.
(a) Sectional Interest (Pressure Group)
(b) Public Interest Group
(c) Movement Groups
(d) Loose Organisation
32. In which year Nepal was declared as a constitutional monarchy ?
33. What does NAPM signify ?
(a) National Agreement for People’s Movements.
(b) National Alliance for Public Movements.
(c) National Alliance for People’s Movement.
(d) National Alliance for People’s Mobilisation.
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Home » Podcasts » Divorce Magazine Podcast: Complex Property Issues in California Divorce
Divorce Magazine Podcast: Complex Property Issues in California Divorce
How can you ensure that you get your fair share of the assets during divorce? Today's topic is "Complex Property Issues in California Divorce"; in this podcast, Certified Family Law Specialist David Lederman will offer a basic understanding of how property division works in California - including which property is yours to keep, and which you'll have to split with your spouse during divorce.
https://divorcemagazine.podbean.com/?p=10405436&token=0a45982db297f2079e52013f97d6e4a9
Diana Shepherd, CDFA® and Editorial Director, Divorce Magazine
David M. Lederman, Certified Family Law Specialist
How can you ensure that you get your fair share of the assets during divorce? My name's Diana Shepard and I'm the editorial director of Divorce Magazine and Family Lawyer Magazine. Today's topic is "Complex Property Issues in California Divorce," and my guest is Certified Family Law Specialist David M. Lederman, who serves clients in Contra Costa County. The National Association of Distinguished Councils has named him a nation's top attorney every year since 2015, on honor awarded to less than 1% of practicing attorneys in the United States. And he is currently a director for the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists.This podcast will offer a basic understanding of how property division works in California - including which property is yours to keep and, which you'll have to split with your spouse.
Diana Shepherd: David, does marital lifestyle play a role in the division of assets?
David Lederman: No. The concept of marital lifestyle goes into the support analysis, the marital standard of living. What goes into the division of community property assets is something a bit more basic. The concept of community property is that anything earned or acquired during the marriage is going to be community property. And the court's job - or the parties', if they're trying to negotiate - is to decide how to divide the community assets between the spouses. If one spouse has more assets than the other, that may require them to make an equalization payment to the other. The idea is to divide the community assets between the parties unrelated to what the marital lifestyle was, which again is a support concept.
If one spouse inherits significant money or property during the marriage, what can be done to preserve that inheritance in the event of divorce?
Excluded from the idea of community property are assets received by gift or bequest. If I'm married, then anything earned or acquired during the marriage is community property. Gifts and bequests are not earned or acquired, so they are separate property. If the party who received it keeps it separate, that's easy: it doesn't change character, it remains separate property.
Let's say, for example, my grandparents pass away and leave me $100,000, and I take that $100,000 and a stick into a market account or a segregated stock account. If I get divorced 10, 15, 50 years later, that's still my separate property. If, however, I mix it in with community property assets, then the burden's going to be on me to prove that the separateness of the asset still exists. The way I'd potentially prove that is by showing that at no point in time did the amount of money in the account drop below what I'd contributed or what my separate property was. Because if it did it, it would be gone.
So if you keep a gift or inheritance separate, it remains separate. But what if there is interest earned on the inheritance that you put into a money market account? Would the interest be marital because the interest was earned during the marriage?
No, it would not, because it's interest earned on separate property assets. It doesn't require the effort of either party it's simply the Corpus generating income. Earnings and accumulations on separate property retains its separate property characterization. If we think of this from a broader standpoint, the idea behind community property is to give equal value to the efforts of both parties - both the stay-at-home parent and the parent who's out there slaving in the workforce to make a living for the family - and it treats their efforts as community. But if something is not a product of their efforts - earned either before marriage or after the date of separation, or acquired by gift or bequest - it wouldn't be part of the community property and would be separate as would its earnings.
How are tangible assets such as valuable artwork, antiques, jewelry, collections, and luxury cars valued during divorce?
We use market value. A lot of these assets, such as luxury cars, lose value over time. Let's say during property division, one person gets the Jaguar. If it was under acquired during the marriage, it's going to be a community property asset. The other party has a right to half of the value of the Jaguar at the time of trial. You'd get a evaluation of the vehicle at time of trial, understanding that as time goes on, it's losing value.
Other assets might appreciate - including the artwork, the antiques, the jewelry - and depending on the market, they could be worth a lot more at the time of divorce than they were when they were acquired during the course of the marriage. Those assets are also evaluated at the time of trial, based on a market analysis. If it's something of a more ordinary nature - electronics or furniture - you're usually looking at garage sale values: what somebody would pay for it at the flea market or if you had a garage sale at your house. But to the extent it's of more substance, you can have somebody come in to do a market appraisal.
Are there any tax considerations to be aware of during property division in a high-net-worth divorce?
For high-net-worth divorce, there's always the concept of tax planning, right? When you're dealing with the idea of community property, transactions between spouses of assets are nontaxable. One way to avoid taxes - let's say someone's trying to avoid paying tax on spousal support or the sale of a house - or trying to shift the dollars between the parties, analytically you look at what would be the best way to do this. Where are going to shelter the loss due to taxes? Part of that could come from shifting a transaction from the high earner to the lower earner post-separation to have in a lower tax bracket. So it depends: it requires a deep analysis of what are the assets, what are the incomes, what are we trying to accomplish in this division?
If a business has been in one spouse's family for generations, is it exempt from division during a divorce?
Like a lot of great legal answers, the answer is that "it depends on the facts and circumstances of the case." If the business was in the family for generations, and it hasn't grown significantly during the spouse's stewardship, it's probably going to be deemed separate property. If, however, the labors of the spouse have substantially increased the value of the business - remember, we're giving value to the spouse's efforts - the increased value could potentially be a community property asset.
It wouldn't make the business itself community property, but it would create an accounting issue in trying to determine how much of the increase in value was a result of the labors of the community versus simply the growth of the business on it's based trajectory.
If a professional with a practice - a doctor, a dentist, or a lawyer, for example - is going through a divorce, what is their spouse likely to get? Isn't a lot of the value of the company in the doctor, dentist, or lawyer themselves?
Of course it is, but the reality is that the practice is community property. To the extent that the value of the business is me, my efforts, my labors during the marriage, that is community property. The question then is what does that equate to in dollars? Let's take the example of a medical practice or an law practice; you can't give the practice to the non-doctor or non-lawyer spouse. What we can do is value the business and divide the value of the business.
Let's say for example that I'm an attorney (which surprisingly enough, I am!), and I make $300,000 a year. Another attorney who's similarly situated to me the same number of years of experience and competency is making $200,000 a year. That differential would be the increased value that the community is getting because it's my business, and there are lots of different ways to go out and value it. But a shorthand way would be to take that differential and multiply by three or two or four - depending on what the math model is - to determine what is the community property interest in the practice. Then give the asset to the professional who can work it - the attorney, the doctor - and give the other spouse half of the value of the community property interest in the business,
What property is considered during valuation?
All property. If we're looking at a business, and we're trying to value the business, the business is composed of the tangible assets, goodwill, and what's in the bank accounts. All that can all go into the analytical value of the business.
If one spouse received annual bonuses from their employer during the marriage and is expected to continue to receive them post-divorce, will those bonuses be factored into property division?
No: only the bonuses that were earned during the marriage. Let's say the parties got divorced on 1/1/2019, and the bonus for 2018 was earned over the course of 2018, but it wasn't paid until March of 2019 - that bonus would be community property. Again, the basic concept is "earned or acquired during the marriage," and therefore, subject to division. Let's say, however, we're talking about the following subsequent years; and that bonuses earned in 2019 were paid in 2020. Those bonuses would be the separate property of the spouse who earned, although the bonus could be used to pay child support or as a basic pay spousal support as well. And that typically comes from using a formula to determine what that spouse's interest would be based on additional income over and above their base salary.
How does executive compensation, including stock options, RSUs, RSAs, Phantom equity grants, etc., how does that affect a divorce settlement?
They need to be accounted for. We need to know to what extent the stock options are they vested; if they're vested, they're community property and subject to division. Same thing for the RSUs, the RSAs. Phantom income is a concept we talk about in family law; it's income that comes through somebody's tax returns, but it's not really income available for support. It's like the Phantom limits: you feel it, but it's not really there and not available to use. But to the extent that executive compensation is an asset earned during marriage, it is subject to division. Basically, everything of value that's earned during marriage - real estate, stock options, extending, identifying, valued, businesses, cars, vehicles or cars, jewelry and whatnot - is subject to division and must be valued and dealt with during the division process.
In a high-net-worth divorce, would you include capital loss carryforwards as part of the settlement negotiations?
I definitely would. They could be of substantial value and certainly could be subject to negotiation. If there's a shelter of a couple hundred thousand dollars that can be applied to future years, that would be a useful asset. The funds should be part of the settlement negotiations.
Where there are multiple properties - some owned by one spouse before the marriage, some are income properties, and some family residences and vacation homes - how will these be divided on divorce?
Let's deal with these piece by piece. If one was owned by a spouse before marriage, it is presumptively community property. If it's rented out during the course of the marriage and pays for itself, it's a separate property asset. If the recurring income is on its own paying down the mortgage, and the community's not put money into it, that would make it mostly separate property.
If, however, the community is putting money into the house to maintain it, the community would have an interest in that asset - and that interest needs to be quantified and divided. Again, if the asset is self-sustained and is not taking community effort or money, it's going to be separate property. But once community effort and money interweaves into the separate property asset, then it starts acquiring community property aspects.
It doesn't become community property unless title is transferred into joint name, but it becomes a community investment, and the community will get its investment back to the extent that it's quantifiable.
Vacation homes earned prior to marriage are separate property - unless the community is paying the mortgage, or taxes, or for renovation and maintenance. If the community is putting money into it, again, community property interest is accumulated. If the vacation home is purchased during the marriage, of course, the basic rules of community property apply, and it is inherently a community property asset.
Let's say I buy a vacation home while I'm married, and I put it in my name. Well, that doesn't make it separate property. A case came out a couple of years ago, Marriage of Valley, confirming that it doesn't matter whose name is on title: if it was acquired during the marriage, it's presumptively community property.
Is a spouse entitled to a share of their spouse's pension or retirement accounts?
Yes. Just like any other asset, to the extent it's acquired during the marriage, it is presumptively community property and subject to division.
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Legal & General rallies UK retirees to challenge stereotypes through national photo competition
Travelling, family time and freedom from work makes up the modern vision of retirement for UK residents, yet nearly two thirds (61%) expect to work in later life according to new research from Legal & General. Both men and women and those in their 30s, 40s or 50s are largely expecting to work in later life, with less than 10% saying they definitely wouldn’t do so.
The ONS has reported part-time self-employment growing strongly among those aged 65 and above. This shift in views on later life has also coincided with the emergence of the ‘gig economy’, which offers more flexibility with regard to short term or freelance work.
The findings also show that how we think about life after work is outdated. To tackle the retirement stereotypes, Legal & General is launching a photography competition that aims to show what today’s modern retirement really looks like. The competition aims to change the way retirement is currently depicted in print and online imagery. Legal & General will use the winning entries in its advertising and marketing materials, and has a long-term plan to build a repository of similar images.
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It’s time to bin the beige depictions and inject some colour into the way we represent retirement. The winning entries in our photo competition will be those that illustrate later life in all of its various shades.
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Winner of the 1999 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal A wonderful 150th-anniversary edition of Lewis Carroll's timeless classic, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury in this beautiful award-winning interpretation. Full of the most wondrous wit and humour, wonderful magic and believable nonsense, this particular edition has the most stunning illustrations that complement the imaginative story that’s anything but dull. The story is timeless and can be read at so many different levels. It’s a book that can be read by people of all ages; for children it’s a wonderful underworld fantasy that will develop a passion for reading imaginative writing and for everyone else there’s innuendo, puzzling situations that require deciphering, political machinations and bucket loads of surrealism. Plenty of food for thought and a real antidote to the modern world.
From Philip Pullman: "Indispensable. The great classic beginning of English children's literature."
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For a century and a half Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll's classic story of logic and lunacy, has delighted young and old alike. Gorgeously illustrated, this award-winning rendition is full of warmth and humour. The whole approach is contemporary and accessible: Alice herself is a child of today - casually dressed, personable, spirited. In Helen Oxenbury's hands, the topsy-turvy world of Wonderland is a wondrous place indeed!
Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Kurt Maschler Award.
A word from Helen Oxenbury:
I was introduced to Alice by my mother who had loved it as a child. She read it to me when I was about 8 and many of Carroll's jokes and much of his wonderful nonsense went over my head, but she must have passed on her enthusiasm, because I have read it many times since then and my enjoyment grows with each reading.
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'Simply one to own.' The Times
'An Alice for the new millennium, this book is a triumph of design and rare quality. Helen Oxenbury perfectly captures the dreamlike qualities suggested in Carroll's famous classic.' - The Guardian
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About Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on January 27, 1832, the eldest son and third of eleven children born to Frances Jane Lutwidge and the Reverend Charles Dodgson. Carroll had a happy childhood. His mother was patient and gentle, and his father, despite his religious duties, tutored all his children and raised them to be good people. Carroll frequently made up games and wrote stories and poems, some of which were similar to his later published works, for his seven sisters and three brothers. He was educated at Richmond School in Yorkshire, Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford. Although his years ...
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Loyola celebrates life of Paul Bagley, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy, a faculty member who “endured cheerfully”
July 14, 2016 | By Nick Alexopulos
Paul J. Bagley, Ph.D.
A beloved professor, colleague, and inspirational supporter of Loyola athletics, Paul J. Bagley, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland, died in Baltimore on Wednesday, July 13, after a series of recent illnesses. He was 61.
Bagley taught undergraduate philosophy courses at Loyola for 25 years, covering topics from modernity to natural law and the works of Spinoza, Descartes, and Plato. He was a former co-director of the Catholic Studies program who was dedicated to the Catholic intellectual tradition. He co-taught a course on contemporary Catholic intellectual life with James Buckley, Ph.D., professor of theology, who has worked with Bagley since he joined Loyola’s philosophy faculty in 1990.
“Students loved him. He was a scholar. He loved philosophy, loved teaching in it, loved writing in it, and he was really a campus person,” said Buckley. “Paul became a sign of endurance, as a faculty member enduring cheerfully.”
Bagley was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18 and experienced kidney failure in 2000. He was on dialysis for two years, and underwent kidney and pancreas transplants in 2002. Then, in 2008, a serious car accident left him paraplegic. He returned to teach at Loyola in the spring 2010 semester and continued until he fell ill in spring 2016.
His department colleagues Dale Snow, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy, and Frank Cunningham, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of philosophy, stepped in to teach the two undergraduate classes on his schedule. Snow wasn’t surprised Bagley’s students were crestfallen when they learned he wouldn’t return.
“A scholar and a gentleman, there aren’t very many left. And he did both really, really well,” said Snow, who was close to Bagley for 28 years. “He often had the last word, and sometimes it was in Latin. He livened up many a stuffy department meeting with exactly the right observation in the right tone at the right time.”
Snow and Bagley were hired around the same time and regarded themselves as the same departmental generation. When Snow served as department chair and collected required annual updates from philosophy faculty members, Bagley always completed his first and prepared it best. He thought through everything he did down to the finest detail.
“And I loved him for it,” said Snow.
Snow’s husband, James Snow, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor of philosophy, also knew Bagley for more than two decades. He recalls never leaving Bagley’s office without a smile, thanks to Bagley’s tremendously dry sense of humor.
And he, too, was inspired by his fellow professor’s commitment to his craft in the face of adversity.
“His return to teaching was a gift to students and an inspiration to me, a friend and colleague,” James Snow said. “As I would watch Paul heading off to class, I often wondered if in his place I could do what he was doing, day in and day out. And I could never say with complete confidence that I could.”
He was also an inspiration to Loyola athletics, particularly the men’s lacrosse team. He began visiting the team’s practice in his wheelchair during the 2010 season, meeting with the team to “say something philosophical,” in the words of the student-athletes at the time. He continued to attend practices in subsequent seasons and would email motivational messages before games. Deep into the team’s national championship run in the 2012, his messages would often address the need to stay grounded by managing success.
His presence on the sidelines is irreplaceable.
“We have lost a very dear friend. I feel so fortunate to have someone like Dr. Bagley in not only my life, but also with our program,” said men’s lacrosse head coach Charley Toomey. “As our ‘team philosopher,’ he has impacted everyone in our locker room with his words, wisdom, and passion. Our biggest fan is now an angel looking down on us. Dr. Bagley’s visits to Ridley Athletic Complex were something that Loyola men’s lacrosse players will remember for the rest of their lives.”
Bagley was born in Germany and moved several times around the United States and to Italy during his childhood. In 2008, shortly before the accident that confined him to a wheelchair, he married Susan Whitson Bagley, ’13, M.A. ’14. She drove him to and from campus each day during the academic year.
Bagley’s scholarship focused on early modern philosophy, ancient philosophy, Spinoza, Plato, and political philosophy. He was the author of Philosophy, Theology, and Politics: A Reading of Benedict Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-politicus and numerous peer-reviewed articles and book reviews. He frequently presented at conferences and lectures nationally and internationally and held professional memberships in Vereniging het Spinozahuis, American Philosophical Association (eastern division), Metaphysical Society of America, North American Spinoza Society, American Catholic Philosophical Association, and Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.
His extensive service to Loyola included membership on committees for a diverse set of disciplines and programs. Before his death, Bagley decided to donate his body to the Board of Science, telling his wife that science had been good to him and he wanted to give back.
Throughout all of his work at Loyola, Bagley continued to be deliberate about making time to connect meaningfully with those around him.
“He kept us laughing, he endeavored to keep us honest, to keep us focused. He did not mince words if he felt passionately about something, so you always knew where you were with Paul,” said Dale Snow. “He was a person without pretense. And you would think that those of us who are engaged in the search for truth as a profession would be better at that, but he surpassed us all.”
Bagley is survived by his wife and his children, Katherine, '09, and Michael, '16.
Details about services for Paul Bagley will be posted when available. His wife has requested donations to Loyola Athletics in lieu of flowers.
If you are a member of the media and have questions about this story, please contact Stephanie Weaver at sweaver@loyola.edu.
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The Kennebec Historical Society’s July Public Presentation: “The Wall That Heals”
The Wall That Heals, a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, along with a mobile Education Center, is coming to Gardiner, Maine and will be open 24 hours a day and is free to the public. The Wall That Heals honors the more than three million Americans who served in the U.S. Armed forces in the Vietnam War and bears the names of the more than 58,000 men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam.
Gardiner will be among the first to host the new, larger exhibit which includes a three-quarter scale Wall replica that is 375 feet in length and stands 7.5 feet high at its tallest point. With the new replica at this size, visitors will be able to experience The Wall rising above them as they walk towards the apex, a key feature of the design of The Wall in D.C. For the first time in the history of The Wall That Heals, visitors will be able to do name rubbings of individual service member’s names on The Wall.
“We are thrilled to share the new The Wall That Heals exhibit with the public this year. Through The Wall That Heals, we are able to return the names home to communities across the country and allow Vietnam veterans and their family members who cannot make it to Washington, D.C. the opportunity to see The Wall. It gives communities a teaching moment for younger generations on why we should honor those who have served and sacrificed so much,” said Jim Knotts, president and CEO of Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Fund (VVMF).
Billie Ellis, our presenter, has been promoting and making presentations about The Wall That Heals since September 2017. She and her husband, Robert Egloff, are committed to educating the public about The Wall and the Vietnam war era. They believe that bringing The Wall to those unable to make the trip to Washington D.C. is extremely important. Billie and her husband reside in Chelsea.
The Kennebec Historical Society’s July Presentation is co-sponsored by the Christ Episcopal Church and free to the public. Billie Ellis will be presenting The Wall That Heals on Wednesday, July 18, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. at the Christ Episcopal Church located at 2 Dresden Avenue in Gardiner.
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Home Perspectives A popular but problematic position
A popular but problematic position
Yossi Alpher
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s "Jewish state" or "nation state of the Jewish people" demand is popular with the Israeli public. The right wing likes it because it is patriotic and seemingly "anti-Arab". The left and center cannot easily oppose it because it dovetails with their emphasis on ending the occupation in order to maintain Israel as a Jewish and democratic state in view of the demographic threat. Netanyahu can even take credit for getting US President Barack Obama to endorse the Jewish state demand.
Whether Netanyahu is consciously aware of it or not, the origins of the explicit negotiating demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state can be traced to the failed peace talks of the past decade: at Camp David in 2000, Taba in 2001 and the Olmert-Abbas talks of 2008. It was only in the course of these attempts to discuss the "existential" or "core" final status issues of refugees/right of return and the Holy Basin in Jerusalem that Israelis became acutely aware of the ultimate import of Palestinian negotiating positions.
In these negotiations, Israelis confronted the Palestinian demand that Israel recognize the right of return–regardless of the number of refugees actually repatriated–and the assertion that Israel has no rights on the Temple Mount because "there never was a [Jewish] temple there." These positions appear to reflect an insistence that an Israeli-Palestinian final status agreement express, at least in the eyes of future generations of Palestinians, a fundamental Arab rejection of Jews as an indigenous Middle East people enjoying the right to self-determination in their historic homeland. Israel, the PLO seemingly insists, must acknowledge that it was "born in sin".
This negotiating experience, more than any other single factor, explains the growing demand expressed in various forms by the Netanyahu government that the PLO, and for that matter, the Arab citizens of Israel and a growing body of international detractors–all of whom refuse to recognize Jewish national rights in Israel–recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people.
Sadly, Netanyahu seems to be using the Jewish state demand more as a way of browbeating the Palestinians than as a legitimate means of explaining to Palestinians and their backers the problematic nature of their own positions. Moreover, from a negotiating standpoint the Israeli prime minister is confused: first he presents the Jewish state demand as a precondition for agreeing to talks; then it becomes an essential element in any final-status pact; most recently, Netanyahu offered merely to extend the settlement freeze in exchange for PLO recognition of a Jewish state.
This explains the widespread suspicion that the prime minister grasped onto the Jewish state demand as a convenient deal-breaker. Rather than being presented as a legitimate counterweight to intractable Palestinian positions on the Temple Mount and the right of return, it seemingly lets him off the hook of a two-state solution because it is unacceptable to the Palestinians.
Nor is Israeli terminology consistent. We hear talk, interchangeably, of a Jewish state, the nation-state of the Jewish people, the state of the Jewish people, etc. Each of these terms has a different meaning and different ramifications for, say, the status of non-Jewish minorities in Israel. Israel’s declaration of independence, the closest thing we have to a constitution, defines the country as a "Jewish state", but only because United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 of 1947 used that term. Yet this confusion underlines Israel’s own failure both to define its Jewish nature–historic, national, religious–and to persuade the rest of the world, and certainly the Muslim world, that the view of Judaism as nothing but a non-sovereign religion is historically erroneous and insulting and politically outmoded.
Yet the Palestinian response, too, is inconsistent. On the one hand, we are told that Palestinian acceptance of 181 and a two-state solution already embodies recognition of a Jewish state. Yasser Arafat even mentioned Israel once as a Jewish state. On the other hand, Palestinian leaders assert quite reasonably that they are under no obligation to define the ethnic-national nature of the "State of Israel" (Israel’s official name): Israel can call itself whatever it wants. Yet the Palestinian argument that Egypt and Jordan never had to accept Israel as a Jewish state in order to make peace ignores the provocative nature of unique Palestinian final status demands on core issues like refugees and the Temple Mount that Israelis cannot possibly accept.
Two weeks ago, PLO Executive Committee Secretary Yasser Abed Rabbo briefly agreed to recognize Israel as a Jewish state in return for an Israeli commitment to a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. While this statement was immediately denied, it might be significant that a senior Palestinian official not only expressed a willingness to accept Netanyahu’s demand regarding Israel as a Jewish state, but sought to integrate it into the negotiating framework by demanding a quid pro quo that many Israelis and most of the international community can support: the 1967 lines.
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JUNE 1999 VOLUME 6: NUMBER 2
Does Likud Need the Peace Process? An Exchange
Responses from Frank Gaffney, Efraim Inbar and Morton Klein
June 1999 , pp. 64-68
https://www.meforum.org/460/does-likud-need-the-peace-process-an-exchange
In the course of their article, "Why Likud Needs the Peace Process" (MEQ, March 1999), Marshall J. Breger and Steven L. Spiegel argue that Israel's actively pursuing negotiations with the Palestinians is the best way to achieve Likud's goals. They cite several analysts who take direct issue with their views. Given the intense debate on this issue, the Middle East Quarterly asked those analysts to reply, then invited Breger and Spiegel to defend their position.
A POOR POLICY PRESCRIPTION
by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., is the president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington,
Marshall Breger and Steven Spiegel's essay provides a poor policy prescription for any political party in Israel, much less for its government.Their argument has two major flaws.
Ignoring the failure of negotiations.It is preposterous to say, as these two authors do, that:"The Arab-Israeli peace process is no longer about peace."Nor does their explanation make this more sensible:Peace, they say, "normally refers to reconciliation, normalization, and even integration, the end of interstate conflict, hostility between individuals ... . Instead, the [Arab-Israeli] negotiations are about the region's critical danger:limiting the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and long-range missiles to rogue regimes."
How can a peace process not be about peace?Evidently, Breger and Spiegel hope that by no longer judging this negotiating process against the standard that it be conducive to peace, they can simply define away the most serious criticism of the Oslo-Hebron-Wye sequence of deals:that it does not promote reconciliation, normalization, and the like.Instead, these agreements demonstrate the abiding, adamant refusal of Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian Authority (PA), and most of Israel's other Arab interlocutors genuinely and unconditionally to embrace peaceful coexistence with Israel.
In this connection, it is instructive to consider the PA's official maps, a point the authors mention only in passing.Those maps depict a "Palestine" which includes not only all of the Gaza Strip and West Bank but also all of pre-1967 Israel as well. The PA uses such maps for many purposes: the insignia worn by members of its proto-army; adornments in offices used by Arafat and his subordinates; and backdrops to the PA's television service and authority-sponsored social and cultural events.Perhaps most alarming is the use of this map in the textbooks used by Palestinian school children, inculcating an attitude toward Israel in the next generation that is utterly antithetical to peace.
Breger and Spiegel do acknowledge this evidence of PA bad faith, but then ignore its obvious implication that the "peace process" is a formula for disaster.It calls on Israel to make material, territorial concessions and permits the Palestinians to pocket these concessions without deviating from the Palestine Liberation Organization's original purpose of destroying Israel.
Self-contradiction. The authors repeatedly make arguments that are undermined—sometimes within the same paragraph—by other claims, assertions, and conclusions.For example, Breger and Spiegel emphasize the role of the peace process in creating "a Middle East safe from weapons of mass destruction."It is at best fanciful, and possibly irresponsible, to expect such a outcome from any negotiations between Israel and the Arabs.And even if it were a realistic goal, the authors seem unable to decide how to go about making the Middle East "safe" from weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
In one passage they deprecate as "security nihilism" efforts to "seek more civil defense, a second-strike capability, anti-ballistic missiles and a reliance on deterrence." Yet, a little bit further on, they contend that the Israel Defense Forces finds itself blocked by a political leadership focused on the wrong problems.The security establishment increasingly blames the "political echelon" in Israel of being preoccupied with political issues and not investing "enough effort in these potentially threatening areas."
Of course, if the "security establishment" is at all serious about dealing with the WMD threat, it must want a greater investment in the very areas reviled by Breger and Spiegel as "security nihilism."
The authors' treatment of Jordan gives rise to a similar inconsistency.They correctly stress the importance to Israel, and to Western interests more broadly, of preserving a "stable Jordan as part of a moderate bloc and at peace with Israel [which] means Jordanian land and air space are denied to potential aggressors."But then Breger and Spiegel call on Israel to make concessions to create a sovereign Palestinian "entity"—though they must know that such an entity would become a state and would, in turn, threaten Jordan. Were Palestinian nationalist impulses to be realized in a new state west of the Jordan River, Arafat and company would surely renew their long-standing effort to subvert and take over the Hashemite kingdom—a country whose population is largely Palestinian and whose military would overnight give them a formidable conventional war fighting capability. In this context, it was striking to note how, just days after King Husayn's death, Arafat resurfaced his proposal (which the king long ago rejected) for a Palestinian-Jordanian confederation.
Breger and Spiegel evidently appreciate that certain restrictions must apply to such an entity, among which they include:obliging the Palestinians to "forego an army, accept severe limitations on arms, permit Israeli overflights and Israeli control of sensitive high places (perhaps by lease)."Sounds good, but such demands would indubitably become, in short order, new sticking points in the negotiations.And, given that Breger and Spiegel insist on the need to keep the "peace process" going at all costs, it is unclear how they would propose to prevent the limitations they endorse from leading to the sort of paralysis or collapse of the negotiations whose prospect so troubles them.
The article ends with a sentence that captures the essence of these two shortcomings.The authors conclude that critics of the Oslo process have "several reasons to oppose the peace process, such as religious attachment to the entire ‘land of Israel,' nationalist claims to a ‘Greater Israel,' or distaste for the sporadic autocracy and corruption of the PA leadership, but the security of the State of Israel is not such a reason."
In reality, "the security of the State of Israel" is objectively just such a reason to oppose the present negotiating process. There will be no security for Israel if it continues to be pursued in a manner that places a higher priority on the means than the ends and that depends upon incoherent rationalizations and intellectual contortions to sustain itself.
FOUR FALSE ASSERTIONS
by Efraim Inbar
Efraim Inbar is associate professor of political studies and director of the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
Marshall Breger and Steven Spiegel (1) complain about a "lack of progress" in the peace process and (2) blame Likud for this state of affairs. Further, they argue that this situation (3) isolates Israel diplomatically and (4) obstructs efforts to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction. All four assertions, however, are inaccurate.
(1) Lack of progress: If one understands the peace process as the Arabs' formal acceptance of Israel as a partner for regional interactions, it was completed successfully with most of its neighbors and now is actually over with, for Israel has had a peace treaty with Egypt since 1979 and with Jordan since 1994.
As for the Palestinian track, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has since 1993 signed several agreements that amount to its acceptance of Israel and to the partition of the lands it contests with Israel. Israelis have also largely accepted the notion of partition (sometimes referred to as separation); if anything, opposition to partition in Israel is much weaker than it is in the Palestinian Authority (PA). In fact, both populations have reached a strategic decision to divide the land; now they are struggling over the details of this partition, and there are many, and they are complex. It is completely unrealistic for Breger and Spiegel to expect a smooth or quick process of negotiations. Finding a compromise on the final status issues (Jerusalem, settlements, refugees) will be very difficult and may take a long time. The two authors' impatience indicates that they underestimate the difficulty in reaching agreements that eventually require domestic support.
While Israel has done all it can to bring about a peace treaty with Syria, Damascus shows little interest. Specifically, the Syrian authorities have twice rejected the peace option—in August 1993, when Asad did not respond positively to Yitzhak Rabin's offer (to withdraw from the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace treaty and security arrangements); and in January 1996, when Shimon Peres offered an even better deal, which would have left Asad with the Golan Heights, generous American support, and a Peres-orchestrated international ceremony to crown Asad as the number one Arab leader. Even today, a visit by Asad to Jerusalem would elicit an outpouring of relief from the Israeli population—followed by something like the same payoff that Egypt's Anwar as-Sadat received from another Likud government twenty years ago, namely a willingness to withdraw troops.
(2) Blame Likud: Breger and Spiegel wrongly state that Likud remains attached to the ideology of Greater Israel. They ignore the fact that the Netanyahu government has not just signed two agreements that require it to hand over more land to the Palestinian Authority (Hebron agreement of January 1997, Wye Plantation agreement of October 1998), but that it has implemented these promises by handing over the city of Hebron and transferring various lands on the West Bank. The old-style Likud notions of Greater Israel remain alive and are represented by Binyamin Begin, but the support for him is limited to about 6 percent of the Jewish public in Israel. As a whole, both Likud's leadership and rank and file favor partition. More precisely, the party has effectively embraced an old Labor idea (the Allon partition plan) that calls for annexing about 30 percent of the unpopulated areas in the West Bank to Israel.
This said, it remains true that the Likud government does not share the authors' forgiving attitude toward Arafat and the PA. It has a problem with the continued smuggling of weapons; the refusal to confiscate weapons from Islamist militias; the "revolving door" policy that results in the quick freeing of violent opponents to peace; the public incitement against Jews and Israel in speeches, broadcasts, textbooks, and so forth. The authors seem oblivious to the reality now emerging in the PA—an embryonic state with a large territorial appetite ready to use force for getting a better deal. This is precisely why Israel is so careful in its dealings with Arafat and insists on strict enforcement of the agreements.
(3) Isolate Israel: The authors exaggerate the importance of the Palestinian issue for Israel improving relations with Arab countries. Yes, the Arab leaders have always paid lip service to the Palestinian cause; but they then went on to pursue their own interests. For example, in 1982 no Arab state volunteered to host the PLO, which was expelled from Beirut to Tunisia. Currently, Arab states are lending only minimal economic support to the PA. Arab elites have grudgingly accepted Israel as a fait accompli because of its military prowess; so far, though, they have not initiated the political and cultural processes within their own countries to transform the treaties with Israel into a "people-to-people" peace (the Egyptian case) or have tried to do and failed due to the brick wall of popular reluctance (the Jordanian case). What Rabin called the "armed peace" will continue for many years hence. In this light, even a comprehensive Palestinian-Israeli peace will not eliminate the potential use of force against Israel.
More basically, the authors misunderstand the dynamics of Israel's isolation and its ending. Research1 indicates that it is linked primarily to the standing of the United States in world politics; when America's fortunes go down, so do Israel's, when they rise, so, too, do Israel's. The improvement in Israel's international status in the past decade resulted primarily from its being viewed as an important American ally—and not from the Oslo agreements. Politicians from East Europe and Central Asia who cared little or not at all about the Palestinians warmed to Israel because they saw it as a key to gaining favor in Washington. Diplomatic breakthroughs with important countries such as China, India, Nigeria, and Turkey all preceded 1993 and were the result of the gradual realization that Israel was a regional power too important to be ignored or ostracized. What counts for surviving and being an accepted member of the international community is power—not being liked.
(4) Weapons of Mass Destruction: Linking the peace process to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is conceptually faulty. The peace process is predicated upon a strong Israel, one that has a nuclear option. More: the asymmetry in punitive capabilities is a cornerstone of the peace process—a fact well understood by American governments. (This explains why the Clinton administration rejected Egyptian attempts in 1994-95 to force Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty regime.)
A number of Arab states (such as Iraq and Egypt) wish to challenge this asymmetry. Acquiring WMD is their one method; imposing arms control restrictions on Israel is another (though arms control also has possible utility in preventing an Iraqi or Iranian nuclear bomb). Indeed, the multilateral talks on Arms Control and Regional Security (ACRS) which dealt with WMD, collapsed even before Likud came to power (and not, as incorrectly suggested by the authors on p. 42, after its taking office). Moreover, the political dynamics in the Persian Gulf that push Iraq and Iran toward nuclear capability are totally unrelated to the events in the Levant.
The authors suggest establishing "a loose (even unacknowledged) coalition of moderate, regional states with the United States and Western Europe in the defense of the present order in the Middle East" to deal with WMD. But this scheme ignores contemporary Middle Eastern history. Just such a coalition was established by the United States in 1990-91, and it failed in removing Saddam Husayn or in even stopping the Iraqi WMD program. The Western Europeans are partly to blame for this failure because they are unwilling to take a strong stand that might harm their economic interests. But beyond the European weakness, the bitter truth remains that a state intent on acquiring WMD cannot be stopped except through the use of force. Israel must prepare itself for a nuclear environment that no agreement with Arafat or Asad can prevent.
1 Efraim Inbar, Outcast Countries in the World Community, Monograph Series in World Affairs (Denver: University of Denver Press, 1985); Deon Geldenhuys, Isolated States: A Comparative Analysis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
THESE ISSUES ARE NOT RELEVANT
by Morton A. Klein
Morton A. Klein is national president of the Zionist Organization of America.
Neither of the two issues that Marshall Breger and Steven Spiegel trumpet as reasons for Israel to make more concessions to the Palestinian Authority (PA)—the prospect of Israel's diplomatic isolation or the danger of the Arabs acquiring weapons of mass destruction (WMD)—are relevant to the current state of the Oslo process.
More unconditional Israeli concessions may forestall diplomatic "isolation," but only until the next round of escalating Arab demands, which will include demands for surrender of all of Jerusalem, the return of millions of Arab "refugees," and an Israeli retreat to at least the pre-1967 borders—or even to the 1947 United Nations partition plan boundaries, according to some PA officials.
As for Arab acquisition of weapons of mass destruction, Israeli concessions will have no impact here, for those many Arab regimes seeking Israel's annihilation will continue to seek it, and will do so whether Israel gives up 13 or 33 or 100 percent of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.
In other words, further unconditional Israeli concessions in the face of the Palestinian Authority's anti-peace and pro-terror behavior will not bring either lasting international support nor an end to the danger of Arab nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons. To the contrary, such one-sided concessions will leave Israel in an ever more dangerously vulnerable position. Were Israel reduced to the precarious, nine-mile wide border of 1967, Palestinian Arab terrorists would find it far easier to launch attacks and then find shelter across the border. Enemy tanks could cut Israel in two at its midsection. And there would be a significant reduction in the amount of time Israel would have to respond to a threat from Iraq. In view of what Yasir Arafat and the PA have said and done throughout the nearly six years since Oslo I was signed, we should expect that any state which arises in the territories will likely be a PLO-Hamas state—a veritable mini-Iraq—on Israel's doorstep, in close proximity to the cities where 70 percent of Israel's population lives. That prospect is chilling, indeed.
If the negotiations cannot help Israel's international position or avert weapons of mass destruction (WMD), can they at least achieve the more basic goal of building peace? The answer lies in a close look at both sides' records over the past five years, for the essence of a peace agreement lies in the willingness of both sides to honor its terms.
Israeli compliance: Israel, whether governed by Labor or Likud, has scrupulously adhered to the various accords signed with the Palestinian Arabs. (Brief delays in Israeli implementation at a few stages were made necessary either by imminent security dangers or protracted negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.) It first gave away the city of Jericho and most of the Gaza Strip, followed by the eight largest Arab-populated cities in the territories, and 85 percent of Hebron; released hundreds of Arab terrorists from jail; opened a Gaza airport; and provided weapons to the PA police force. As a result, 98 percent of the Palestinian Arabs now live under PA rule, and the remainder of the land being negotiated is essentially devoid of population. In the Wye agreement of October 1998, Israel agreed to give away an additional 13 percent of Judea and Samaria and has already withdrawn from a section of northern Samaria.
Palestinian Authority compliance: In contrast, Arafat and the PA have consistently violated their obligations when it comes to recognizing Israel's right to exist, terrorism, building an armed force, hostile propaganda, and educating the next generation.
(1) The Palestinian Arabs' most basic obligation, as emphasized in the September 1993 Oslo agreement, is sincerely and permanently to recognize Israel's right to exist. Yet on the very evening the accord was signed on the White House lawn, Arafat went on Jordanian television to assure Palestinian Arabs that the accord was just one phase in the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) "strategy of phases."1 (According to that strategy, first articulated in 1974, the PLO initially gains control over limited portions of Israeli territory, then uses that as a launching pad from which eventually to conquer the rest of Israel.) In the nearly six years since, Arafat and many of his senior officials have repeatedly stated that they adhere to this "strategy of phases."2 In another twist, they frequently compare the Oslo agreement to the ten-year treaty the Prophet Muhammad signed in 628 C.E. with an enemy, the Quraysh.3 Left unsaid, but well known to their Muslim audience is that, just two years into the ten-year period, when Muhammad had significantly improved his military position, he took advantage of a minor infraction to turn against Quraysh and occupy its city.
There are many other indications that likewise point to the Palestinian Authority's reluctance to accept Israel's right to exist. For example, maps on the wall of Arafat's office, in PA-run schools, on the PA letterhead, and even on the shoulder-patches of the PA police, all show the entirety of Israel labeled as "Palestine," implying that Israel should not even exist. The standard atlas used in all PA schools not only omits any mention of Israel but in its "Asia" section lists "Palestine" as comprising 22,000 square kilometers—meaning it includes the whole of Israel.
(2) All five agreements (Oslo, Cairo, Oslo II, Hebron, and Wye) require Arafat and the PA to combat terrorism actively. But instead of outlawing and disbanding groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Arafat permits them to flourish and leaves intact their infrastructure of training camps, safe houses, and the like. Arafat has even publicly praised Hamas as "a patriotic movement."4 The agreements require that the PA seize the terrorists' weapons, yet tens of thousands of them remain in terrorist hands. Instead of jailing terrorists, Arafat's police briefly detain token numbers of them, then soon after release them. Instead of speaking out against terrorists, he eulogizes them as "heroes" and "martyrs," then glorifies them by bestowing their names on streets and squares. The situation is so bad that Arafat has even refrained from taking action against terrorists in his own PLO, despite having signed the Oslo agreement that requires him to "discipline" PLO factions that engage in terrorism (such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the "Hawks" division of Arafat's own Fatah movement).
(3) The Oslo II accords limited the PA police force to a maximum of 24,000 but the force has mushroomed into a 40,000-man quasi-army. The Wye accord then obligated Arafat to reduce those numbers, but again he has not. His aides openly speak of how they will ignore this promise: "This is no problem," says PA Police Chief Ghazi al-Jabali. "We will get around it by reallocating policemen such that one who serves in one location can serve in another."5
(4) The Oslo accords require the PA to halt "hostile propaganda" against Jews and Israel. Nevertheless, throughout the nearly six years since Oslo I was signed, the official PA media, PA school books, and speeches by PA officials have been filled with vilification of Jews, Zionism, and Israel, and (in the tradition of David Duke), distortions and denials of the Holocaust. For example, official PA television recently broadcast a program which included the assertion that Jews "are the seed of Satan and the devils" and that they "have distorted the faith and exchanged the gift of God for heresy, rebellion and prostitution."6 Just four days later, a Gaza newspaper, Al-Hayat al-Jadida, published an article asserting that "Corruption is part of the nature of the Jews ... If one studies their history, it becomes apparent that the Jews were subjected to losses and expulsion as a result of their wickedness and their despicable acts."7 Al-Hayat al-Jadida, it bears noting, last year published an article calling the Holocaust "a deceitful myth."8
(5) Rather than use the PA school system to educate for peace—as Israel does in its own schools—the PA leadership educates Arab children for hatred and war. The Jerusalem-based Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace recently completed a detailed study of 140 commonly-used PA school books and found that the vast majority contain incitement to hatred and violence against Jews and Israel. In these textbooks, Jews are frequently characterized as "evil," "racist," "treacherous," "inhuman," and "a cancer," among other epithets.9 One schoolbook, Reader and Literary Texts for Eighth Grade, includes a poem titled "Palestine" which urges: "Draw your sword, let us gather for war with red blood and blazing fire. Death shall call and the sword shall be crazed from much slaughter. O Palestine, the youth will redeem your land."10 Another PA schoolbook, New History of the Arabs and the World—Upper Grades, teaches: "The clearest examples of racist belief and racial discrimination in the world are Nazism and Zionism."11
It is worth remembering that the architects of Oslo described it as a five-year testing period to show whether Arafat and the Palestinian Arabs had sincerely given up the goal of destroying Israel. As Yossi Beilin, then-deputy foreign minister and one of the fathers of Oslo, put it: "If there are problems on the way to implementing the agreement, and if they cannot control their opposition and there is no order, we will say we can't go on."12 That testing period, which began in May 1994, is now complete. What does the record reveal?
It shows that the Palestinian Arabs are not willing to comply with their peace commitments, despite the huge risks taken and major concessions made by Israel. The "peace process" has turned into little more than a process of unconditional Israeli surrender in exchange for unfulfilled Palestinian Arab promises and the continuation of Palestinian Arab hatred and violence. As U.S. Senator Connie Mack (Republican of Florida) said in a powerful speech on the Senate floor, "The Palestinian leadership does not want peace—they want, first their own state, which they can control with total power; then they want to use that state to eliminate the State of Israel."13
But Breger and Spiegel breeze past this critical problem, preferring instead to focus on timeworn slogans about how "Israel needs peace." Unfortunately our wishing for peace alone has not produced it. Both sides that sign agreements must sincerely want peace. Israel has proven that it wants peace. Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority have not yet proven that they do.
1 The Jerusalem Post, Sept. 29, 1995.
2 Arafat commented on the 1974 plan on Orbit Television (Cairo), Apr. 18, 1998, and in Al-Ayyam (Jerusalem), Jan. 1, 1998; PA Minister of Public Works ‘Azzam al-Ahmad made similar points in an interview with the Independent Media Review & Analysis (Jerusalem), June 11, 1998.
3 PA Police Chief Ghazi al-Jabali on PA Television, Oct. 30, 1998; Arafat on Orbit Television, Apr. 18, 1998, in an interview with Al-Quds (Jerusalem), May 10, 1998, and in remarks to a rally Nov. 16, 1998, as translated by the Middle East Media and Research Institute.
4 Interview with Arafat, Novoya Vremya (Jerusalem), May 25, 1997.
5 Al-Quds, Nov. 11, 1998.
6 PA Television, Nov. 3, 1998.
7 July 2, 1998.
8 Israel Government Press Office bulletin, July 2, 1998.
9 Cited in Palestinian Authority School Books: The Impact of Peace on Education (Jerusalem: The Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, 1999), p. 1.
10 Reader and Literary Texts for Eighth Grade, pp. 120-122, cited in Palestinian Authority School Books, pp. 7-8.
11 New History of the Arabs and the World—Upper Grades, p. 123, cited in Palestinian Authority School Books, p. 7.
12 Cited in Douglas J. Feith, "Land for No Peace," Commentary, June 1994, p. 33.
13 The Forward, Mar. 12, 1999.
PEACE IS THE BEST SECURITY FOR ISRAEL
by Marshall J. Breger and Steven L. Spiegel
Marshall J. Breger is an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Steven L. Spiegel is professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Two realities underline our analysis of Israel's strategic situation: (l) the possible future possession of weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them by so-called rogue regimes poses the only existential threat to Israel; (2) the Middle East is no longer defined by the Arab-Israeli conflict but by a much more complex division between those (especially on the elite level) prepared to deal with the opposing side and those (especially among rogue regimes, fundamentalist Jewish and Muslim extremists, and elements of the Arab street) who are not. On this latter point: we do not suggest that those (like Yasir Arafat) who fall into the first category are saints or (like Yitzhak Rabin) doves, but that they recognize how conditions have changed in the aftermath of the cold war. Our goal is not Arab-Israeli love and bonhomie; it is assessing what is best for Israeli security.
In their zeal to refute, our critics repeat their old errors and misstate our views. We take up their arguments with regard to our two main points, about the Palestinian question and weapons of mass destruction.
THE PALESTINIANS
No surrender. Frank Gaffney (p. 57) confuses our pragmatic flexibility with unconditional surrender. He seems to assume that if one is flexible on anything one will give up everything. But even he acknowledges that we do not support giving up safeguards such as Israeli overflight rights or Palestinian demilitarization. Neither, by the way, will the new prime minister of Israel whomever is elected. Gaffney assumes that any Israeli who moves forward toward peace will cave in to ever-accelerating Palestinian demands once they have "pocketed" the latest concessions. This insults the intelligence of Israeli leaders to negotiate a viable deal for their country and is inconsistent with the history of the last five years: after all, Palestinians do not now have a state and they know that Israel will not return to its pre-1967 borders.
Offensive rhetoric. Morton Klein is so preoccupied with quoting Yasir Arafat's offensive statements that he fails to acknowledge anything the Palestinian Authority (PA) does that is positive. He provides a long—and often correct—litany of inflammatory language (but fewer inflammatory acts) by Arafat and his Palestinian Authority cohorts in the post-Wye season (p. 63-64). We, too, oppose inflammatory rhetoric (and support the anti-incitement process set up under Wye). But to put the name-calling in proper perspective, recall also Arafat's positive statements, the polling data that consistently finds public Palestinian support for the peace process in the 60-75 percent range, the Palestinian National Council's abrogation of the anti-Israel aspects of its charter in a process accepted by the Netanyahu government, and the escalating security cooperation between the two sides that is thwarting terror attacks in Israel. Nor does Klein mention the behavior and actions of extremist Israeli settlers; or the fact that Hamas and the fundamentalist Muslims are the only political alternative to Arafat.
How does Klein account for Binyamin Netanyahu's telephone call to Arafat in March 1999, thanking him for information which made it possible to thwart a major terrorist attack, the explosives for which had already been smuggled into Tel Aviv?1 How does he explain the growing litany of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) professionals who applaud PA counterterror efforts?2 Put another way, surely Klein would not argue that there would have been less offensive Palestinian rhetoric, textbooks, and maps without the peace process; or that Israel would have been more effective fighting terrorism if it faced an intensified intifada, with Palestinian opposition instead of security cooperation?
Change of heart. Klein and Gaffney want to hold back on what they call concessions until the Palestinians have had a change of heart and accept Israel. As Klein puts it, "Both sides that sign agreements must sincerely want peace ... . Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority have not yet proven that they do." But how are the Palestinians to prove that to his satisfaction? As the saying goes, only the Shadow knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men; Klein cannot plumb the recesses of the Palestinians' souls and know what their goals are.
In addition, to some extent it does not matter what the Palestinians want, for even a malign Arafat cannot present an existential threat to Israel. Klein ought to be seeking ways, through an energized peace process, to encourage more positive Palestinian conduct.
We are somewhat mystified that Efraim Inbar sees in the PA "an embryonic state with a large territorial appetite ready to use force for getting a better deal." If he means that a Palestinian state would resort to force to destroy Israel, perhaps in league with Iraq or other Arab states, then he must explain how that state would evade the strict oversight and scrutiny central to any successful final status settlement, neutralize any Israeli counteraction, and undermine the moderate government in Jordan which stands as a buffer against Iraq. In reality, the Palestinians have less than they expected when Oslo was signed, and yet they still continue to support the peace process.
Peace process not so important. Inbar also argues that Israeli isolation in the region is tied not to the peace process but to American standing in the Arab world. But while Israel's economic, political, and other relations with every Arab state have deteriorated since Likud took over in 1996, it is hard to find a comparable deterioration of U.S. standing to account for it. Does he really believe that if American forces had ousted Saddam Husayn, the Arab states would have overlooked Netanyahu's policies?
It baffles us that Inbar argues we "exaggerate the importance of the Palestinian issue for Israel improving relations with Arab countries." Look at how the Arabs' willingness to cooperate with Israel evaporated once the government changed in Jerusalem, and that government at first refused to even meet with Yasir Arafat. On issues from economics to water, rapidly expanding ties stagnated or dried up. Where a deterioration had already set in before Likud came to office—the multilateral arms control talks—serious discussions had been underway to resolve the disputes in question; and even here, the difficulties have only increased since 1996. While we chide the Arab states for not demonstrating the kind of creativity demonstrated by the late King Husayn, the record shows that Israel's diplomatic strategy since mid-1996 has not improved Israel's diplomatic and security situation.
Threat to Jordan. Gaffney writes that a Palestinian state will threaten Jordan. Perhaps, but failure in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations will likely shake Jordan much worse. It would inspire a more severe intifada than the last time—one that will surely spill over into Jordan given its majority Palestinian population. There it will cause severe instability, possibly even leading to a regime change or at least a change of the present regime's peace policies, thereby compromising Israel's vital strategic security.
Accepted Oslo. Inbar states that Likud has bought into Oslo (pp. 59-60). We used the term Likud to represent the entire range of views that constitute the nationalist camp in Israel. These are somewhat difficult to chart, as Likud has already split into four camps (Netanyahu's Likud, Ze'ev Begin's Herut, Yitzhak Mordechai's Center Party, and David Levy's Gesher), and their positions range from the old Greater Israel point of view to alignment with Labor. But if Inbar is correct, we are delighted and say "welcome aboard."
The problem with Inbar's overly cautious approach is that most of those in the nationalist camp who accept the peace process do so begrudgingly and suspiciously. The last three years suggests that they end up with the worst of both worlds: they make concessions but in so halting a manner that the bitterness they stir up among Palestinians deprives Israel of the benefits it justly deserves for making sacrifices. Nor do they satisfy the expectations of the world community. Further, their actions spoil precious openings for peace: leaders such as King Husayn die and Arab support for accommodation diminishes.
Not gullible doves. Gaffney finds it difficult to imagine any security rationale that justifies the peace process. Therefore, analysts like ourselves who support it must be gullible doves who perforce oppose the efforts to "seek more civil defense, a second-strike capability, antiballistic missiles and a reliance on deterrence." But we do support an increase in the Israel Defense Forces' budget and building a theater missile defense. We simply don't believe that weapon-brandishing tactics alone bring peace. As the security establishment in Israel never fails to point out, only a political solution will resolve outstanding issues between Israel and the Palestinians.
The Samson option. Inbar states that efforts to establish a functional coalition of moderate Western-oriented states "ignores contemporary Middle Eastern history." His answer to the possible acquisition of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by Israel's adversaries is to point to Israel's own capabilities, expecting Israel to face down rogue regimes by brandishing its own nuclear arsenal. Having acknowledged that these regimes are at the brink of nuclear capability, what is his prescription? Preemptive strikes such as Israel's 1981 bombing of the Iraqi installation cannot be repeated again and again. Further, Inbar ignores the "poor man's" atomic arsenal—chemical and biological weapons.
Inbar wants Israeli nuclear hegemony in the region, which has served as a cornerstone of Israel's security for the past three decades. But it is expiring as several of Israel's adversaries are acquiring weapons of mass destruction. Unlike the Cold War, where the fact that both sides had second strike capabilities enhanced stability, a Middle East nuclear environment will almost certainly be more volatile, creating a situation by comparison with which the Cold War standoff looks almost benign (because of the presence of second-strike capabilities on both sides). Proliferating weapons and no mechanisms of mitigation leaves states with the "Samson option." Does Inbar really want to rely on Saddam Husayn's rationality in maintaining the pillars of Middle East stability?
The virtues of cooperation. Inbar says collaboration with other states in the region cannot work; but does he really think that Israel is better off as a pariah state? We have in mind not a replay of the failed and poorly conceived post-Kuwait war coalition, but understandings and quiet security arrangements that can only fall into place as the peace process moves forward. As for Gaffney, he fails to comprehend that these kinds of arrangements will create a region which is less conducive to those who would develop WMD options.
Inbar correctly states that "even a comprehensive Palestinian-Israeli peace will not eliminate the potential use of force against Israel." But is it not better
to rely on peace and strength, giving Israel two "weapons" in its arsenal, rather than
relying on machismo alone? Besides, the policies our critics advocate are more likely to alienate the United States than bring it closer to Israel's side—an ever more-important consideration in the new era of peril that we foresee.
More generally, our critics offer two vague alternatives to our policies: Inbar endorses a go-slow approach. He goes light on the carrots and accentuates the sticks but he has no clear endgame vision. In contrast, Gaffney and Klein seem to have nothing in mind other than constant conflict. Like former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir, they intimate a conflict that will continue for generations. The people of Israel will not wait that long. How do either of these approaches enhance Israel's security? While no state can pursue peace at any price, to advocate holding off until there is no price to pay at all is not a viable alternative. No adversary will agree to such terms. Such utopianism will doom Israel to continual regional chaos.
Our critics appear to be influenced by the way the Cold War ended with an American victory; cannot Israel, like the United States, stand fast, not compromise, and win the collapse of its adversary's aggressiveness? The analogy does not hold. The United States and U.S.S.R. were not neighbors, and their conflict was primarily over ideological issues (capitalism, human rights, democracy). By comparison, the Arabs and Israelis are indeed neighbors with very concrete issues in dispute. Moreover, the U.S.S.R. collapse ended the conflict; this will not happen in the Middle East, where the collapse of one anti-Israel party leads to the emergence of another one (e.g. 1979, when Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel and an anti-Israel regime took power in Tehran). If the Israelis wait for all their enemies' aggressiveness to dissipate, they will miss opportunities for accommodation and find themselves in a more dangerous situation than they are in now.
As for the Palestinians, what do our critics propose to do with the more than one million Arabs in the occupied territories (and over another million in Israel proper)? What would Klein do other than police their rhetoric? Under what conditions would he accept the territorial compromise reflected in the Wye agreement? How can he justify refusing them voting rights (or even zoning rights)?
Our critics consider themselves realists and suggest we are fanciful. But their realism strikes us as equivalent to confrontation for its own sake. We hold, in contrast, that pragmatism must be central to any prescription of realism. While we personally subscribe to the view that God loves all the children of Abraham, including both Isaac and Ishmael, our arguments are not based on any such religious views but on Israel's geopolitical and strategic interests. We draw wisdom from such "realist" analysts of international relations as Hans Morgenthau, who warned that "only a rational foreign policy minimizes risks and maximizes benefits."3 We suspect Morgenthau would react to our critics' Manichean approach by calling it "more ideology than policy."
Many present and former security officials, who used to target Arafat and his associates, now advocate accommodation with the Palestinian Authority as being in Israel's interest. David Kimche, a former senior operative in the Mossad, wrote recently that Arafat "is the only Palestinian leader capable of delivering major concessions to Israel while still retaining power and domestic support."4 A sober and calculated security calculus leaves Israel no choice but to energetically pursue the peace process.
1 Israel Wire, Mar. 23, 1999; Ha'aretz, Mar. 24, 1999.
2 Ma'ariv, Apr. 2, 1999.
3 Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics among Nations, 4th Ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967), p. 7.
4 David Kimche, "Arafat Is Israel's Best Hope," The New York Times, Mar. 29, 1999.
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Ice explorers in Tibet use chemistry to gaze into the past
In a new study, researchers developed a method to help scientists identify a molecule called levoglucosan, which can identify carbonaceous aerosols that came from biomass burning.
The researchers behind the new method, from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, say their work will enable scientists to spot the molecules produced by burning forests more easily. This will help them understand the history of fires in the region, adding to the picture of how humans are contributing to climate change.
Lead author Chao You, a PhD candidate at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, explained: "Carbonaceous aerosols can tell the story of biomass burning in a region, helping us understand more about how human activity has shaped glaciers over time. But it’s quite difficult to identify the molecules that tell us when these aerosols were released, so we wanted to come up with a better method to use in Tibet."
This article originally appeared in Talanta, 148, 2016, Pages 534–538. Read more about it here.
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Matheson advises GE on Microsoft Wind Energy Agreement
AUTHOR(S): Garret Farrelly
PRACTICE AREA GROUP: Energy and Natural Resources
Matheson has advised General Electric on its recently announced power purchase agreement with global technology giant, Microsoft Corporation. The deal builds on Microsoft's strategic partnership with GE.
The long term Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), the first ever Corporate PPA in Ireland, allows Microsoft to purchase all wind energy produced at GE’s new 37-MegaWatt wind farm in Tullahennel, County Kerry and will help support the growing demand for Microsoft Cloud services from Ireland. In addition to producing energy, the project will produce valuable data on energy storage. Each GE turbine will have an integrated battery. Microsoft and GE will test how these batteries can be used to capture and store excess energy, and then provide it back to the grid as needed. This provides more predictable power to an increasingly green Irish grid, by smoothing out peaks and valleys in wind production. This will better enable intermittent clean power sources like wind energy to be added to the Irish grid. This will be the first deployment of battery integration into wind turbines to store energy in Europe.
As part of the agreement, Microsoft has signed a deal with Dublin-based energy trading company ElectroRoute, which will provide energy trading services to Microsoft. Matheson also previously advised ElectroRoute on a 2016 partnership with Mitsubishi Corporation.
Welcoming the deal closure, Matheson Partner and Head of Energy and Infrastructure, Garret Farrelly said:
“This transaction is the first of its kind in Ireland. It is evidence of the significant opportunities that exist for corporate buyers in the Irish marketplace who wish to procure their power from renewable generation and the Irish Government’s continuing policy support for the transition to a low carbon economy and sustainable energy system for Ireland. Matheson’s role on the transaction illustrates our position as the law firm of choice for international companies investing in Ireland.”
This deal is the latest in a number of large high-profile transactions that Matheson has advised GE on including the sale of the Acres and Barranafaddock wind projects to BlackRock Asset Management in 2016.
Matheson’s Corporate Group is one of the leading practices in Ireland, ranked amongst the top European law firms for Mergers and Acquisition deals by leading international league table publishers, Thomson Reuters and Mergermarket. On the energy side, Matheson has acted on more energy transactions in and from Ireland than any other law firm in the last five years.
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Prof. Mujumdar holds a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University, Canada and Doctor Honoris Causafrom Lodz Technical University, Poland and University of Lyon, France. He is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at a truly global university in Singapore- National University of Singapore (NUS), following a long tenure as Professor of Chemical Engineering at McGill University, Canada. He is a Platinum Award winner of his alma mater, the Institute of Chemical Technology (formerly known as UDCT), Mumbai, India. He holds Honorary professorships in several universities. His research areas are in transport phenomena, thermal management of fuel cells and battery stacks, energy systems, dewatering and drying and drying processes in diverse industries including foods, products of biological origin, minerals, sludge etc.
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Lorry driver on trial over death of seven-year-old boy
Published: 17:57 Wednesday 17 February 2016
A seven-year-old boy with an “infectious smile” was flung from his booster seat and killed when a lorry driver failed to notice his family’s broken down car in broad daylight, a court heard today.
Christopher Mallett said he must have “blinked” as his DAF lorry cab ploughed into the back of a stationary Toyota RAV4 pulled over on a dual carriageway in March last year.
The family of two adults and two children inside was spun off the road through a hedge and wooden fence and into a field as the silver car was crushed by the impact, trapping them inside.
Little Mohammed Ali Ahmed who was sitting behind the driver, was thrown forward through the car, suffering fatal head injuries.
Professional lorry driver Mallett, from Clyde Place, Bletchley, denies one count of causing death by dangerous driving in relation to the crash along the A4146 by Stoke Hammond in Buckinghamshire.
The jury of seven men and five women was told that the 34-year-old had admitted a lesser count of causing death by careless driving, which had not been accepted by prosecutors.
Ian Hope, prosecuting, said it had been Mallett’s “failure to observe the road ahead” that led him to slew into the broken down car which was clearly visible to drivers on the clear afternoon.
The Toyota’s driver, Sajida Parveen, was forced to pull over and wait for help after having engine problems while driving back home from Costco in Milton Keynes, with her aunt, niece and nephew.
As there was no hard shoulder, the car came to a halt on the far left-hand side of the slow lane, with the hazard lights on.
Ms Parveen - Mohammed’s aunt - said it “didn’t seem safe” for anyone to get out of the car as traffic raced by at speed, so they remained inside with the youngster on his booster seat, but she did not feel in danger until she spotted the lorry in her rear view mirror.
“I could see a lorry coming up behind us and it did seem to be driving fast,” she said.
“It was really close and I had closed my eyes - the next thing I knew is that the lorry had hit us.
“It felt like we were flying through the air. When I opened my eyes I didn’t know where we were.”
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Emergency services raced to the scene, but despite paramedics calling for an air ambulance, they were unable to save young Mohammed, who was declared dead at the roadside at 2.33pm from multiple injuries, including severe head injuries.
Mohammed’s headteacher at Haydon Abbey School in Aylesbury released a tribute on his family’s behalf, paying tribute to the “hardworking and enthusiastic little boy with a huge passion for learning.”
Judith Ejdowski added: “He was very adventurous and loved to try new things. He was a very happy little boy with an infectious smile and loved to entertain his classmates by telling jokes and stories to try new things.
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Similar to all other places, newspapers in Kollam plays a significant role in bringing forward the important as well as every kind of news related to the place. The print media of the city aims at keeping the residents updated about the varied events occurring in the city as well as the world. Apart from the Malayalam language, the citizens of this place even read newspapers, which are published in Hindi and English.
Most Famous Newspapers in Kollam
Kollam, a city in the state of Kerala in India has got a number of newspapers available in the city. The two most famous Kollam newspapers are as follows:
Kerala Kaumudi:
This popular newspaper of Kollam is published in Malayalam language. Apart from this city, the newspaper is even published in the cities of Alappuzha, Kannur, Kochi, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram as well as Bangalore in Karnataka. This Malayalam newspaper was founded by C. V. Kunhiraman and K. Sukumaran in the year 1911. The Editor in Chief of this paper is Mr. M. S. Mani. This daily occupies the 3rd rank amongst the other circulated Malayalam dailies. Besides daily Malayalam online edition, Kerala Kaumudi has even got English online edition, which are updated twice a day. The overseas editions of the online daily are published in London, Singapore and New York.
Malayala Manorama:
Another leading daily in Kollam is Malayala Manorama, a Malayalam newspaper. Founded in the year 1888, the first publication of this paper dates back to 14th March, 1890, when it was a weekly newspaper. It became bi-weekly in 1901, which was followed by the daily publication of 1st World War supplements in 1915. On 2nd July, 1918, this became tri-weekly and after 10 years from that time on 2nd July, 1928, it became daily. During the year 2007, this daily was declared to be India' sole regional language newspaper to exceed 15 lakh copies. From that phase, this daily newspaper has earned more than 16 million readers at present. All over the country, this daily has got 32 publications in 5 different languages of Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and English. Every resident of the city, irrespective of their caste and creed, are associated with this newspaper. The other national regions where this newspaper of Kollam is published are Kottayam, Kozhikode, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Kannur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Bangalore, Pathanamthitta, Mangalore, Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai. The international regions publishing this paper are Bahrain and Dubai.
Some of the other newspapers read by the citizens of Kollam are mentioned below:
Madhyamam Daily:
Madhyamam Daily, one of the daily Malayalam newspapers is widely read in Kollam. It was initiated by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind in the year 1987. From time to time, this daily has brought forward numerous significant cases. In the state of Kerala, this publication has got the 4th biggest circulation. The paper has even won several national and international awards.
Deepika:
This is one of the online Malayalam newspapers that are widely read by Kollam's online readers.
Deshabhimani:
This is a newspaper published in the Malayalam language by the State Committee of Kerala, the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Founded as a weekly newspaper on 6th September, 1942 in Kozhikode, presently it is Kerala's 3rd largest daily newspaper. The present Chief Editor of the daily is Mr. V. V. Dakshinamoorthi, who is C. P. I. (M)'s secretariat member. Deshabhimani Varika is its weekly publication whereas; Thathamma is its special publication for children. The other supplements of this public media are Aksharamuttam, Deshabhimani Varanthappathippu, Kilivaathil and Sthree. This newspaper has even got online editions.
Mathrubhumi:
Mathrubhumi, another Malayalam newspaper, read by the residents of Kollam was founded by the freedom fighter of India, Mr. K. P. Kesava Menon.
Mangalam Daily:
Mangalam Daily, a daily newspaper published by the Mangalam Publications (India) Private Limited has got both printed as well as online editions.
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RAD Expo
By Garrett Rudolph
How two companies have shaken up the cannabis industry and excelled in an increasingly crowded market
Nancy Whiteman and Margot Micallef have taken vastly different paths into the cannabis industry with vastly different business models, but both executives have put their respective companies in a position to thrive in the rapidly evolving, ever-expanding world of cannabis.
Whiteman, the CEO and founder of Wana Brands, has been successful with a laser-focused strategy and is expanding her empire into new markets as laws change. In 2018, Wana Brands was No. 1,087 on the Inc. 5000, an annual ranking by Inc. magazine of the fastest-growing private companies.
Micallef is the CEO of Gabriella’s Kitchen, a publicly traded Canadian company that made its name in traditional markets and recently expanded into cannabis, charging headlong into California and the national CBD market. Gabriella’s Kitchen (CSE: GABY) grew revenue by 600% in the past year and is on pace to at least double that in 2019.
What makes these entrepreneurial leaders similar — and sets them apart from the competition — is how they’ve focused on core strengths and traditional business fundamentals to establish their brands as frontrunners in a hyper-competitive industry.
Wana Brands founder and CEO Nancy Whiteman. Photo by Green Earth Photography.
Wana Brands
Nancy Whiteman built Wana Brands into a national powerhouse largely on the popularity of a single product line: cannabis-infused gummies.
“I’d love to tell you that I was brilliant enough to know right off the bat that gummies were going to be the winning category, but that would not be accurate,” she says, laughing.
It might not have been sheer brilliance that led her down the right path, but perhaps she’s just being modest. She was lucky enough to focus on the right category at the right time. She was smart enough to realize the category’s potential. And then she was skilled enough to dominate that category.
As legalization has progressed over the past decade, gummies have solidified their spot as the top-selling edibles category, accounting for about one-third of all edibles sales in the U.S.
“I just did the math on this the other day: Believe it or not, gummies are, by themselves, about 5% of the total cannabis sales in the United States,” Whiteman says.
And when it comes to manufacturing and selling gummies, no company comes close to Wana Brands, which has operations in Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon and Illinois, and is in the process of launching in California, Florida and Ohio. According to BDS Analytics, Wana Brands is the top-selling cannabis brand in the country. The company has a 21% dollar share of the total Colorado edibles market and more than 50% of the state’s gummy market. According to Headset, six of the top 10 edibles in Colorado are Wana Brands gummies, with the Sativa Sour Gummies ranked No. 1. The company also has four of the top 10 edibles in Nevada.
While gummies have been Wana Brands’ signature product, the company has also branched out into other categories, including disposable vape pens.
Whiteman founded Wana Brands in 2010, just as Colorado was shifting toward a regulated medical marijuana market. At that time, there weren’t analytics companies tracking sales or providing product and consumer data. Market research was all about having boots on the ground: going into dispensaries, talking to budtenders, talking to consumers, paying attention to the popular products and brands.
“You need to be a little bit scrappy,” Whiteman says. “You can’t just sit in your office and theorize about what’s doing well. You have to get out there and look.”
In an industry where so many companies try to produce everything for everyone — flower, concentrates, vapes, every type of infused food imaginable — Whiteman is happy to be an outlier. She decided to specialize, taking a “less is more” approach that allowed her company to get really good at what it does.
The secret to Wana Brands’ success is actually quite simple: “This is a very unsexy thing to say, but I think it starts with product quality and consistency,” Whiteman says. “We’ve spent a lot of time fine-tuning a recipe and making sure it scales consistently. After that, I would say we have a laser-focus on customer service and building partnerships with our dispensary partners.”
The Colorado-based company is most popular in its home state, but as for the future?
“If you ask me where I’m putting my big bets, it’s going to be California,” Whiteman says. “I think California is going to be, by far, the largest cannabis market in the country, and probably the world for the foreseeable future.”
She says the company is in discussions to expand into five or six more states, plus Canada, in the near future.
“Our big momentum right now is our growth out of state,” she says.
While Wana Brands has been extending its reach and developing its reputation in the cannabis space for nearly a decade, Gabriella’s Kitchen took a more immediate approach, plunging into California’s marijuana market with a series of acquisitions and establishing CBD partnerships to target national, mainstream retail channels.
CEO Margot Micallef began to pursue opportunities in cannabis about two years ago, as she realized GABY’s mainstream expertise could elevate the company into a leader in cannabis wellness products. While the cannabis market today is mostly focused on the recreational consumer, Micallef believes the health-and-wellness sector has the most room for growth — and it’s a category in which GABY has already proven to be successful with its line of nutritious, non-infused foods currently sold in more than 3,400 mainstream retailers in the United States.
Gabriella’s Kitchen founder and CEO Margot Micallef.
“The (cannabis) plant and the health attributes fit well with the mission and vision of the company, in terms of using interesting ingredients and innovative ways to make super-charged, healthy food that people could use to enhance the quality of their life,” Micallef says.
To gain a foothold in the exploding California market, she saw two factors being crucial: quality and speed to market.
To accomplish both priorities, Gabriella’s Kitchen in 2018 acquired Sonoma Pacific, a licensed distributor and manufacturing facility that would allow the company to control its own supply chain and utilize the existing infrastructure in California.
“We felt we could amass a sales force organically, but it made more sense to buy a distribution company that already had feet on the street, people with relationships with the dispensaries who could get our product in market quickly,” Micallef says. “We can conceptualize the product, formulate it, extract the oil for it, manufacture it in our facility and distribute it. This also creates an opportunity for us to acquire brands and expedite that process, bring them through the manufacturing facility, enhance formulations and distribute them.”
Sonoma Pacific currently has three brands on the market: Sonoma Pacific is the recreational line, Alto is the wellness line and Aunt Zelda’s is the company’s medicinal brand.
The company also distributes third-party brands, which make up about 35% of Sonoma Pacific’s distribution portfolio — but those third-party brands must fit within the parent company’s imperative on quality.
“We don’t want to do anything to tarnish the Sonoma Pacific brand,” Micallef says, adding that as much as possible, the company works with independent growers in the Sonoma Valley. “We think everybody wins from that perspective.”
The company is also making a national move into the CBD market. Micallef sees the company’s relationships with mainstream retailers as a “launching pad to sell our CBD-infused products.”
In February, Gabriella’s Kitchen announced a joint venture with Eximius Coffee to bring CBD-infused cold brews and coffee pods to retailers across North America. Micallef says independent retailers have jumped quickly into the CBD space. Larger chains are also showing interest, but they’re taking a more cautious approach. Even before the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, more than $300 million worth of CBD products were sold in the U.S.
“It tells you a lot about how eager the consumer is to move into that space,” she says. “I believe CBD — and in due course, THC as well — is just going to become part of the whole spectrum of products we consume. I believe people will eat it, rub it, drink it, they’ll take bubble baths in it. They’ll use it every which way they can think about using it.”
Both Wana Brands and Gabriella’s Kitchen continue to expand their presence in their respective markets.
Every time Wana Brands moves into a new area, Whiteman says it has to fine-tune its process to account for differences in elevation and humidity. The company also has to adapt to new packaging and labeling regulations, a never-ending dance to stay compliant in an industry where no two states require the same rules.
“That’s just a cost of being in the business,” she says, adding that she hopes industry standards will emerge someday soon, though she expects state-by-state differences to persist, just as they have with alcohol.
After a rocky year of regulatory shifts, California is finally settling into normalcy and stability, but Micallef sees the state’s industry continuing on a path of consolidation — and with Sonoma Pacific’s infrastructure and ability to support a lot of brands, she expects her company be a consolidator.
“What I have found in this industry,” she says, “is that there are a lot of smaller participants who have good products, but might not have the infrastructure, the capital or the wherewithal to really expand their products.”
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Four years, $13 million and dozens of hands: How ‘affordable housing’ gets made in America
By Andrea Riquier
Published: June 29, 2019 11:38 a.m. ET
Why is it so hard to build and maintain inexpensive housing?
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W. Kyle Tangney, Herb Schwat, Greysteel
The apartment building at 410 Cedar St. in Washington, D.C., is undergoing a multiyear restoration that aims to keep it affordable for its current residents and for generations to come.
Jennifer Sumler has lived in her apartment building on Cedar Street in the Takoma section of Washington, D.C., for her entire life, but the sound she heard one late November evening a few years ago was like nothing she’d ever experienced.
“All of a sudden the sky got dark and there was a ‘Wizard of Oz’ moment,” recalled Sumler, who’s 50. “Leaves started to whip up. There was this ferocious wind. Then there was this noise. It was loud and really otherworldly.”
As sirens blared, she and several neighbors gathered outside in the leafy courtyard. Through the rain, they could see the source of that horrible noise: a huge portion of the roof had been ripped off.
The freak storm that night in 2016 displaced more than just the roof. Several neighbors were never to return. But for Sumler and a few others, it marked a turning point. Over the next few years, they’d make the journey from discontented renters to affordable-housing advocates, resolved to keep 410 Cedar St. accessible to people of moderate means for generations to come.
Nearly three years later, they’re not done. The financing to repair and renovate the 30-unit building has only now been agreed to and will take another year to finalize. By the time that happens, dozens of parties will have had a hand in the project: developers, community organizers, government workers, bankers, regulators, lawyers, property managers, a historical consultant, lobbyists, investors and more.
The story of 410 Cedar St. isn’t just the story of one Washington, D.C., building; it’s the story of how America creates “affordable housing” — and why it’s so incredibly hard. Anytime a project comes together, it’s thanks to a patchwork quilt of the public purse, private funding, regulatory incentives, tax quirks and even exceptional individuals like Sumler. Those involved aren’t necessarily working against gentrification as much as working toward safe, stable, affordable housing, sometimes one neighborhood, one block or one unit at a time.
“It’s great that we have all these millennials and people moving into D.C. and we’re seeing restaurants and night life pop,” said Gerry Joseph, the real-estate developer whom the Cedar Street tenants eventually hired. “But you can’t do it all at the expense of the people who’ve been here their whole lives. It’s important to try to save as many of [these older buildings] as we can. We’re not going to save them all.”
A ‘tool of equity’
Washington, D.C., a planned city from inception, is unique in many ways. In particular, it has made a strong public commitment to helping its residents access housing that’s affordable, and providing tools that support tenants.
Its mayor, Muriel Bowser, is “doing more for affordable housing than any other mayor in the country,” said Kathryn Howell, an assistant professor of urban planning at Virginia Commonwealth University. Bowser committed $100 million a year to affordable housing in her first term, which began in 2015, and has increased the budgeted amount every year since.
Some initiatives, such as city-budget dollars directed toward initiatives like the Cedar Street restoration, are Bowser’s to claim. But the Cedar Street project owes its existence to Washington’s TOPA, or Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, laws, which precede the mayor’s tenure. It’s this program that perhaps best illustrates the opportunity and complexity facing tenants, developers and other investors in the affordable-housing ecosystem.
Under TOPA, tenants of any building whose owner has decided to sell have the right to buy the building themselves. They can become owners in a condominium or cooperative conversion, or they can transfer their rights to someone they hire, usually a developer like Gerry Joseph, to keep the building operating in its rental format.
D.C. provides the tenants of multifamily buildings resources to organize themselves, including matching them with legal counsel, for example. As long as the tenants (or their own developer) can match the bid that the building’s owner receives on the open market, tenants are given priority.
TOPA is “one of the really unique things about D.C.’s housing landscape. It’s centered on the residents, whom they see as the city’s assets. Most affordable-housing policy looks at rentals as temporary, like [renters are] not really citizens of the city,” Howell said. In contrast, she said, TOPA “gives a lot of agency and control and power to residents.”
In D.C., these programs are increasingly tapped as the population has surged, adding 100,000 residents between 2000 and 2015, a 16% increase. During roughly that same time frame, rents have jumped anywhere from 14% for the lowest earners to 32% for the highest, while incomes have not grown for the two lowest quintiles, according to an analysis from the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.
In fact, the gentrification experienced in the nation’s capital in recent years has been among the most intense in the U.S., in its case resulting in the displacement of mostly African-American residents from low-income neighborhoods, according to a recent study from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.
“While gentrification increases the value of properties in areas that suffered from prolonged disinvestment, it also results in rising rents, home and property values,” the NCRC noted. “As these rising costs reduce the supply of affordable housing, existing residents, who are often black or Hispanic, are displaced. This prevents them from benefiting from the economic growth and greater availability of services that come with increased investment.”
Even with TOPA in place, when a D.C. landlord gets ready to sell, tenants aren’t always interested in making a bid for the property. Many would rather take a buyout and vacate.
Yet Ramon Jacobson, who leads the city’s office of the Local Initiatives Support Corp., a national community-development organization that helps fund projects like Cedar Street, often hears D.C. residents saying they “want a piece” of the community. It was Jacobson and LISC that provided the developer Joseph and the Cedar Street tenants, led by Sumler, financing to match an open-market bid received by their landlord.
“It used to be a big concern of ours that there would be tenants who were just interested in flipping the property,” Jacobson told MarketWatch. “I think people see [D.C.] as a much more desirable place to live, and want to stay as long-term residents. This is a property in a lovely neighborhood. You could easily see that someone could buy [Cedar Street], fix it up, and it could be luxury housing, and there would be no place for the residents that had been there for 30 years. We see this as a tool of equity.”
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The best of the worst solutions?
LISC is the linchpin of a system so complicated that it sometimes resembles a Rube Goldberg contraption. Without all the players and all the levers, affordable housing would not be produced.
“Cities where they’ve been most successful in really moving the needle forward have some group, whether LISC, or the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, or other local nonprofits, that are really essential to bringing a lot of people to the table and taking something difficult and figuring out how it works,” said VCU’s Howell.
Likewise, the struggle to preserve and create affordable housing has many local characteristics but a broad outline that looks pretty similar across the country. Developers cobble together funding packages from all levels of government and attract money from private sources whenever and however possible.
LISC borrows most of its money from banks that want to fulfill their obligations under the Community Reinvestment Act, a decades-old federal mandate that requires financial institutions to meet the credit needs of diverse communities.
“Make no mistake about it: Absent CRA, the partnerships that we have with banks would not be anything close to what they are now,” said Maurice Jones, president of LISC’s national organization. “It is an invaluable tool for us to get loan capital that we can deploy for projects” like Cedar Street.
LISC currently borrows from banks at interest rates averaging about 3.7% to 4%, Jones said, and, to a lesser extent, from “impact investors” and philanthropic groups at about 2%. They lend to developers like Joseph at a rate of 3% to 6%. The spread pays for LISC’s cost of doing business. (LISC also goes directly to the capital markets to raise money; it has an AA rating with a negative outlook from Standard and Poor’s.)
With the Cedar Street tenants’ blessing, Joseph and his partners used a loan from LISC to acquire the property. Joseph then applied to the city for permanent financing to pay back the acquisition loan and prep for reconstruction.
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In early March 2019, one agonizing month behind schedule, Joseph and the tenants learned that the city had approved their proposal for funding. The project had been allotted $5 million earmarked to low-income-housing tax credits, which are sold to investors to raise equity capital for the project.
As of this writing, Joseph is getting ready to hire a syndicator, an agent responsible for matching interested investors to developers. Those investors — usually, but not always, banks — will bid for the right to buy those tax credits, which have a 10-year life span, meaning that every year for the next decade, those investors will see their taxes reduced by $500,000.
The city also gave Cedar Street a little over $4 million of municipal funds. And several banks have already expressed interest in granting Joseph a $2.7 million mortgage.
Between finalizing construction plans, ensuring renovations conform to historic-preservation standards for the 1920s building, putting the rest of the financing into place and pulling construction permits, work won’t begin until early 2020, and is forecast to wrap up roughly a year later.
In all, it will have taken over three years and $13 million to restore 30 units of affordable housing.
Many in the industry liken the process to the messiness of democracy in general: perhaps the worst way to get anything done, except that all the other approaches are even worse.
In an interview in January, Joseph mused on the complexity of the industry: “Every time I close one of these projects I take a deep breath and say there’s got to be an easier way to do this, even though if it was easier, I probably wouldn’t make my living doing it. It’s sort of a deal with the devil — the idea that we can’t produce housing with government money only; we have to get private funds into the transaction. It’s created a whole business sector of people who work in and feed off this … accountants, lawyers, bankers, consultants … and the transactions themselves have umpteen documents. You say, if someone just wrote a check you could just build the housing a lot more quickly.”
LISC’s Jones laughed when told about Joseph’s ruminations.
“We are putting deals together where there may be 15-plus sources of capital, so I agree wholeheartedly there’s got to be a simpler way of doing it,” he said. “But the notion that the public sector is going to produce enough revenues to build all the housing that we need for everybody, the facts belie that. We’ve got to find a way to get the private and the public sector in the game.”
Jennifer Sumler was born in Washington, D.C., in 1968. Her father spent many years as the chauffeur and bodyguard for the president of Howard University, and her mother sandwiched her years at home taking care of the children between stints at the Federal Reserve.
Sumler remembers riding bikes around the neighborhood and swimming in the local pool. She also remembers the Cedar Street building full of families, and how the neighbors would congregate on the wall surrounding the building’s courtyard.
Jennifer Sumler
Jennifer Sumler and brother Calvin in front of their home on Cedar Street in 1970.
“We used to all meet up after work or school and sit and talk and gossip and play a little music and catch up,” she said. “It’s one of my fondest memories. I remember the gas lines of the ’70s,” as the building sits across the street from a filling station.
Sumler has been in Takoma longer than the Metro, the sprawling transit system that spans D.C. and its Maryland and Virginia suburbs. “I remember the talk about the Metro coming and the construction. When it did open, I remember when we got off at the stop we would be the only ones. We would always laugh to ourselves getting off, ‘It’s a secret, nobody knows.’ Boy, has that changed.”
Jennifer Sumler in front of her home in 1981.
Sumler attended Howard University, majoring in broadcast journalism. She’s worked in television and radio news, and briefly toyed with trying to become on-air talent. But when she learned that would mean leaving Washington to work her way up in smaller news markets, she reconsidered.
After a few decades in media, Sumler wanted a new challenge. She had been volunteering as an adult-literacy tutor and “found it rewarding in ways that I had never imagined.” She went back to school and got a master’s degree in education. But life happened: Her mother became sick, and Sumler put the new career on hold to care for her.
“It’s been a lot of stress and a lot of work, and about 2½ years ago, where I thought [my mother] was stable enough [to] let me try to get my life on track, our owner decided to sell the building,” Sumler said. “That created a whole ’nother set of circumstances. Now we’ve got to organize, a third of our population is homeless, and we’re wondering about the roof.”
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Jacobson of the local LISC is of the view that it takes a unique type of individual to execute the implausible task of organizing lower-income tenants into a quasi–real estate development partnership. “In a lot of places in our society there’s not a lot of venues for people to express themselves,” he said. “You have people who, if society were structured differently, they would be leaders in other ways.”
Sumler’s professional background likely gave her an advantage compared with the typical TOPA organizer. But in other ways, the Cedar Street tenant association faced a mightier challenge than most groups vying for TOPA funds: The building’s post-storm disrepair had discouraged many of the tenants from the get-go. Sumler found herself in a position that’s familiar to the LISC staffers but jarring to a lifelong renter with no professional experience in real estate.
“The weird thing is that you are in a position to make a decision about who gets your building,” she reflected in January. “You interview a bunch of developers who all have to come in and kiss the ring. It’s very interesting to see who’s resentful of that. TOPA is a very powerful piece of legislation, and not everyone thinks it’s a good idea that the tenants get to decide who buys the building.”
The tenants’ attorney had prepared them well, she said. “You’re making a decision based on who you think you can get along with and who respects you as tenants and who you can respect as an owner.”
The neighbors found that they had converged on a simple yet profound principle: It wasn’t enough for them to retain affordable rentals for themselves; they wanted to pay it forward, to make sure generations to come had the same options.
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“This was a very conscientious building,” Sumler said. “We didn’t want to become another property that sold out to condos and got the best offer in terms of buyouts.”
In fact, 12 current tenants did decide to accept the buyout offer of $15,000, including of all those whom the storm had displaced.
Ultimately, Joseph’s development company was “the most aligned” with the tenants’ desires, Sumler said. So far, it’s been a respectful, collaborative process, if risky. “There were other developers that could come over in 90 days and get construction started, but their commitment to affordable housing was not in line with ours. We chose the harder path. We took the chance, and, quite frankly, we’re not even sure the chance is going to pay off.”
Joseph, 65, is far from the brash wheeler-dealer that one may associate with big-city real-estate development, but he’s proven to be a genuine partner for this group of tenants striving for housing equity.
Gerry Joseph
Affordable-housing developer Gerry Joseph in a 1998 photo in Northampton, Mass.
He began his career in Springfield, Mass., organizing low-income residents and then ran a community development corporation before moving to the nation’s capital to join a nonprofit that included TOPA projects among the developments it undertook. He struck out on his own in 2010, establishing an affordable-housing consulting practice.
The Cedar Street project is only his second solo turn as a developer, and the first time he’d ever applied for tax credits for a project, a reality that the Cedar Street tenants had to take into account when weighing whether to hire him. And Joseph is also, despite his background in social justice, a for-profit developer, a consideration that gave LISC pause in deciding whether to fund him.
Even more pressing: LISC’s financing was merely keeping the lights on in a building where maintenance had been deferred for years, where one-third of the tenants, and their rental revenues, had left. Interest on LISC’s loan to Joseph cost the developer approximately $20,000 per month. With the building not fully occupied, the rent rolls covered the cost of operating the building and a sliver of that interest.
Jennifer Sumler documented poor conditions and repair needs in her apartment and her building that a more responsive landlord would likely have fixed.
Every resident of Cedar Street who spoke to MarketWatch, as well as Joseph, described chronic problems in the building that a more responsive landlord would have taken care of. Sumler experienced ceiling leaks in both the bathroom and the kitchen, bubbling paint on a bedroom wall, shoddy workmanship in fixing a gas furnace and patching floor tiles, and a gas stove that received a city citation for leaks.
‘It’s sad that the city is being given away to the highest bidder. We can at least say we stood up. We want to keep this place low-to-moderate affordable for years to come.’
Lillian Hanger, lifelong 410 Cedar St. resident
MarketWatch reached the former landlord, Brad Gillian, and offered him the chance to comment. Without hearing specifics, Gillian responded: “I don’t have any response to any of that. That’s a bunch of nonsense.”
The building will see a significant transformation: Its plumbing, heating and electrical systems will be modernized; the portions destroyed during the storm repaired; and it will be made accessible to people with disabilities. Each individual unit, even those not damaged by the storm, will be upgraded. And perhaps most significantly, its mix of apartment configurations will change to make the building more family-friendly, as noted below.
Unit size in bedrooms Current Proposed
Lillian Hanger is, like Sumler, a lifelong Cedar Street resident. Hanger, 56, works on Capitol Hill and has a master’s degree in public administration from Georgetown University. She’s helping Sumler with the TOPA organizing after seeing firsthand the impact of gentrification on her city, as well as what she sees as the value of rent control.
“My parents retired and moved away, my sister got married and moved away,” Hanger said. “I kind of never left. I’ve had thoughts about moving, but I said, let me stick around here. My father always told me, whatever you do, don’t give the apartment up. I never understood that, but now I do. He foresaw the changes coming.”
Lillian Hanger and her sister Clare, left; her father and mother, William and Marika, right, 1966-71.
Hanger has withstood several attempts at being moved out, she said, and even a buyout offer by the former landlord. “I was like, uh-uh, no way. They realized that they couldn’t force me out. I was a good tenant, paid my rent, did what I was supposed to.”
Even though the TOPA pursuit has been a lot more work than she bargained for, Hanger is proud of the line the tenants drew. “It’s sad that the city is being given away to the highest bidder,” she said. “We can at least say we stood up. We want to keep this place low-to-moderate affordable for years to come so people can come and live in this neighborhood. It was nice to grow up here.”
Tenant Don Mosteller, who grew up near Philadelphia and has lived in D.C. since graduating from college, took the buyout offer. He had mixed feelings about leaving Cedar Street but was living there with a girlfriend who was “insistent” that they take the cash.
“The long-term economic decision would be smarter to stay here for a rent that is locked in, but I don’t think we saw ourselves staying here for a long time,” Mosteller said. Shortly after coming to that decision, the couple broke up. Each will receive still one-half of the $15,000 buyout.
Mosteller mused on the torrid D.C. housing market: “I’m 34, I have a good job, I’m a Yale graduate, I work in energy policy,” he said. “But almost all of my classmates from Yale in D.C. do not own homes. There are a few people who are married, who’ve managed to get a 600-square-foot condo and are paying condo fees. When the news was announced that Amazon was coming [to nearby Crystal City], most of us in the city were like, ‘Crap, this is really bad — how could it possibly get worse?’ ”
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Now, Mosteller is back out apartment hunting. He believes that living in a three-bedroom apartment with two roommates is “the monetary hack” for the D.C. housing market.
“Everyone I know knows it: Owning a home is the way to go,” he said. “But there’s almost nowhere left in D.C. where owning a home is reasonable. I don’t want to live in a neighborhood that’s incredibly far away, or be dependent on a car, or get a home that’s in disrepair that I’m going to have to put a lot of money into.”
Mosteller has found the TOPA process emotionally resonant. “There are so many people who’ve been displaced because people like me have moved in,” he said.
Mosteller has been paying $1,265 a month for the one-bedroom apartment at Cedar Street. It’s very hard to get accurate price data for rentals at the ZIP Code level, but a recent search on Zillow for a one-bedroom apartment in the same ZIP as 410 Cedar St. showed that the least expensive availability cost $1,466. Other options went as high as $2,500 per month.
Hanger and Sumler declined to reveal the monthly rents for their apartments.
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‘A challenge for black and brown communities’
For all the grim statistics about D.C.’s housing challenges, it’s especially daunting in one important respect.
As of 2017, the most recent data available from the Census Department, black median household income in the city is about $42,000 — less than a third of the white median household income of $134,000, according to an analysis from the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. Meanwhile, a 2016 report from the Urban Institute found that a typical white D.C. resident possessed a staggering 81 times the wealth of a black resident.
“White incomes have always been significantly higher, but it’s definitely been the case that white income has bumped up as the city has changed, whereas black income has remained stagnant,” the VCU professor Howell said. “In part that’s because blacks who have the means to buy a home are going out to the counties. They move for the same reason we all do — schools, services, access to home ownership. They’re voting with their feet.”
LISC staffers often encounter city residents who have few, or no, such choices. Adam Kent, who works with Jacobson at the agency’s Washington office, taught for a time in the Washington public schools.
He was thoughtful for a moment when asked what drew him to the issue of housing.
“I saw the talent that our society was throwing away. I got into community development work because we are just forgoing so much potential in so many neighborhoods. Everybody needs a place to go home to at the end of the day. I feel like if so many of my kids had more stability, they would have been able to focus on school, focus on realizing their dreams. Having a safe, affordable and stable home is a key part of working toward the rest of your life,” he said.
‘Highways were driven through black communities, isolating them from investment, so what you’re seeing is not something that just organically developed. It developed with the help of public policy.’
Maurice Jones, Local Initiatives Support Corporation
As president of the national LISC organization, Jones takes a broader view.
“This is overwhelmingly a challenge for black and brown communities throughout the country,” he said. “Highways were driven through black communities, isolating them from investment, so what you’re seeing is not something that just organically developed. It developed with the help of public policy. We need to own that, and we need to do something about it as a country. You can’t have a policy without race to correct a problem that was created by policies explicitly about race.”
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One of the curiosities about 410 Cedar St., though, is how diverse the building and the neighborhood around it are.
“It’s a very mixed neighborhood in terms of race, ethnicities, economic demographics — everything,” longtime resident Hanger said. “It’s a place where people can raise their kids, even if you’re living in an apartment building. There’s a great elementary school within walking distance of the apartment complex.”
She remembers with a laugh how “hippies” used to live together in large Takoma houses, until those hippies grew up and bought the houses themselves.
In communities all around the country, LISC’s Jones has seen how neighborhoods were purposely cut off from areas of development, or split in two, stripping residents of resources and leaving segregation and economic hardship in its wake.
The complex at 410 Cedar St., he said, “doesn’t have any of that. This one is a gem.”
Why not just knock it down?
It’s a gem that was constructed in 1927, and that’s about all that’s certain about the property’s origins. According to local lore, it was built as hospice housing in association with the Walter Reed Medical Center, which was located a few blocks away until it relocated a few years ago. But in response to a MarketWatch inquiry, a researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Department Museum said that pedigree is doubtful.
Because of its age and its location within the Takoma Historic District, an official designation from the National Parks Service, the property is eligible to apply for Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credits.
Within the affordable-housing category, however, the term “preservation” doesn’t necessarily imply historic, as the designation may apply to anything other than new construction. “Wouldn’t it be better to just knock it down and build something new?” is a question developers, government officials, consultants and investors hear often.
Yet as LISC’s Jacobson puts it, “People are rooted in preservation deals. Social fabric takes a long time to develop. You have to go through some snowstorms and people going out to shovel at the same time, someone bringing an infant home. With new housing projects, we just count up the units and the numbers and forget that there’s a community that has to be built.”
While the notion of social fabric sounds poetic, as VCU’s Howell likes to point out, it also makes preservation deals “a lot messier” than new construction.
And the clock is ticking. The types of financing incentives that the developer Joseph is using to fund his project, and which developers use to build new affordable homes, have expiration dates. A 2015 mayoral task force determined that nearly 14,000 units of affordable housing with such subsidies are “at risk of loss” by 2020 in Washington.
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Counterintuitively, the complexity of the affordable-housing funding process may be what keeps it going.
A cynical view is that the thousands of people who have a hand in projects like 410 Cedar St. now represent an entrenched constituency for this way of doing business. A more generous take is that the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit has actually become the Holy Grail of public policy: a bipartisan solution that can be leveraged for far bigger impact than the amount of money it requires.
“LIHTC has rehabilitated the reputation of public policy for affordable housing,” Buzz Roberts, the CEO of the industry group the National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders, told MarketWatch.
In 1986, when a housing tax credit was being considered as part of the massive tax-reform effort then underway, “there were a lot of skeptics that anyone could manage affordable rental housing effectively,” Roberts said. “There had been all these previous government projects that were poorly managed, poorly located, beset with crime and other social problems.”
By involving private investors, the LIHTC program established a sense of market stability that helped convince banks to enter the space, too.
That private-sector involvement — along with the fact that LIHTC is a tax expenditure, not a direct spending program — has also kept Republicans, who might not ordinarily support public funding for affordable housing, on board, and has helped LIHTC survive party-rule changes over three decades.
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In April, after the city approved the funding that enabled the Cedar Street project to move forward, everyone involved breathed a sigh of relief.
LISC’s Jacobson and Kent had faced an extra layer of scrutiny from their national colleagues over the risk associated with the Cedar Street project: the building’s disrepair, the uncertainty of city financing, Joseph’s comparative lack of relevant experience and, no small matter, rising interest rates. In February, LISC was handed a downgraded outlook by the credit-rating agency Standard & Poor’s, which cited a growing debt burden.
That made the city’s financial boost extremely timely. LISC will get back the money it lent to Joseph relatively quickly, which means that the repaid money can be recycled into another project.
Joseph faces his own version of that dilemma. “The thing about this kind of work is that it’s all money out for a long period of time, until we get a return,” he said. He got an unpleasant reminder of that — and of the complex’s recent history of deferred maintenance — in March. One apartment had a leak severe enough that he temporarily relocated the tenants until the problem was patched, costing time, energy, and about $1,000.
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The Cedar Street project has what Joseph calls “a double bottom line”: one that pays the bills but also feeds the soul of someone who originally got into housing as a way of affecting social change.
“I believe that the economic forces that are creating displacement in these hot markets will continue. But I also believe that what you’re seeing now is more people in the public and private sectors who are willing to actually get into the game,” LISC’s Jones said in March. “I think that there is the possibility here for us to get more laborers in the vineyard and thus do this work on a bigger scale.”
Jennifer Sumler had never expected to be called to any kind of cause. She just wanted to save her home, even as the ground under her feet has continued shifting.
“I love the neighborhood and the location and the history here,” she said. “But it is going through a transformation right now. It’s just a little scary right now in terms of seeing how this all shakes out. What we will be able to maintain and what we will lose is the scariest part of all.”
Andrea Riquier
Lifelong resident Jennifer Sumler concedes that it’s still uncertain what will be maintained and what lost of Cedar Street and its evolving environs.
Andrea Riquier reports on housing and banking from MarketWatch's New York newsroom. Follow her on Twitter @ARiquier.
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The Boots Motel on Route 66 at Carthage, Missouri
posted in Photography of Route 66 on October 7, 2012 Comments Off on The Boots Motel on Route 66 at Carthage, Missouri by Mr Smith
Room at the Boots Motel in Carthage
What a wonderful place. Located on the intersection of Route 66 with Route 71 at Carthage, the Boots Motel was saved from demolition by the local community. In 2011 it was bought by sisters Deborah Harvey and Pricilla Bledsaw who are painstakingly restoring it to its original style with period features in every room. These have to be amongst the best rooms on Route 66, one of which was a favourite of Clark Gable in the 1940’s. But the appeal of the Hotel does not stop at the rooms. Hotel Manager, Debbie Dee ensures the motel provides offers a quality of service to die for. The nightly cost of a room is interesting. Either 66 or 71 dollars, acknowledging the numbers of the routes intersecting at the location of the motel, described as the crossroads of America.
The Boots Court Motel opened its doors for business in 1939 with a gas station, in front of the residential building, later transformed to the Motel office. The architectural style of the motel is art deco / moderne. A failed attempt to demolish the building and erect a Wlagreens on its site may have been the catalyst for change which resulted in the Motel’s current incarnation. Since my first stay I have kept an eye from abroad on developments. The raise the roof campaign has fascinated me. It is a matched funded project to restore the original roof of the Boots Court Motel.
This hotel is a must for travellers on Route 66.
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4/2/2015 10:05:43 AM - An herbal remedy used to treat styes in the 9th Century has been used successfully to kill MRSA. MRSA or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus 9, is an antibiotic resistant bacteria that kills tens of thousands of people every year. Researchers at the University of Nottingham and Texas Tech...
Deadly 'superbugs' escaped hospitals, now infecting homes
4/24/2014 4:11:40 PM - One of the most virulent pathogens known to man is no longer just a threat at dirty hospitals, according to a new report. For the first time, the antibiotic-resistant superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been identified in common households, and researchers from the Columbia...
Now from the makers of the deadly cervical cancer vaccine: An MRSA superbug jab in the works
6/27/2013 - The woman responsible for developing the infamous Gardasil vaccine for cervical cancer, which has seriously maimed or killed tens of thousands of young girls since first being introduced, is working on a new vaccine for antibiotic-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according...
Study: Deadly 'superbug' MRSA now being found at U.S. wastewater treatment plants
5/21/2013 - Using reclaimed water to irrigate lawns, parks, gardens, and various other types of landscaping is common in many communities across the U.S., particularly in areas prone to water shortages and drought. But a new study headed by researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health suggests...
Manuka oil conquers deadly MRSA bacteria where conventional medicine fails
5/7/2013 - With life threatening instances of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections on the rise, many are seeking safe and effective alternatives in the realm of natural medicine. Manuka oil is a shinning example. Reports of healing attributed to the oil are becoming more commonplace -...
Bacteriophage therapy, the amazing cure for MRSA being ignored by mainstream medicine
2/24/2013 - It has been used as an effective treatment against bacterial infections for nearly 100 years, but the medical-industrial complex today refuses to recognize it as a valid form of medicine. And yet bacteriophage therapy, also known as phage therapy, has been shown time and time again to cure methicillin-resistant...
Boost your defenses against flesh-eating bacteria
6/9/2012 - If you've been following our site and the news in general recently, you're aware of an outbreak of MRSA - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - cases involving antibiotic-resistant, flesh-eating bacteria. Three cases of necrotizing fasciitis, as it is called, stand out in particular: Lana...
MRSA variant resistant to last line of antibiotic defense
6/4/2012 - MRSA strain CC5 has emerged as one of the first bacteria to be resistant to all antibiotics, meaning that this hospital acquired infection is now potentially the most dangerous threat to hospital patients. In the findings of a new study, published by the American Society for Microbiology, it was...
The 5 best herbal antibiotics and anti-virals that kill deadly MRSA, flesh-eating bacteria, superbugs and a host of other pathogens
5/31/2012 10:19:19 AM - In my article The 5 best natural antibiotics and anti-virals that destroy superbugs and just about everything else, I discuss some of the best natural substances for treating MRSA and other antibiotic-resistant bacteria. https://www.naturalnews.com/035516_natural_antibiotics_superbugs.html Natural...
We knew this day would come - Deadly strain of MRSA now resistant to last-line antibiotics for infections
5/31/2012 - As more and more bacteria and organisms in the world become resistant to the things that used to kill them, which in turn has kept humanity relatively safe and healthy, there is new evidence that a deadly strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is now becoming resistant to last-ditch...
As antibiotics continue to fail, use garlic instead to kill MRSA and superbugs
5/30/2012 1:38:22 PM - Garlic has been used as an antibiotic, antiviral and antifungal for centuries. But most probably consider it a lightweight, outdated folk medicine against serious bacterial infections. Antibiotics gave modern allopathic pharmaceuticals an illusion of legitimacy from 1928, when penicillin was discovered,...
Large hospitals spread MRSA superbug
5/15/2012 7:26:04 AM - The antibiotic resistant bacteria, MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphlococcus aureus) which first appeared more than 50 years ago, is now being increasingly used as an indicator for the quality of hygiene in hospitals. The MRSA stain first became prevalent around the time antibiotics were first introduced....
Use these natural remedies to fight and overcome superbugs
5/6/2012 - Nearly half of the meat sold in the United States has been found to contain methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MSRA), a strain that causes a staph infection but is resistant to antibiotic drugs. Antibiotic resistance caused by overusing antibiotics in people and animals creates superbugs,...
The 5 best natural antibiotics and anti-virals that destroy superbugs and just about everything else
4/10/2012 - Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the antibacterial power of the mold Penicillium notatum in 1928. Even though it was a natural healing agent effective in destroying Staphylococcus aureus and other noxious bacteria, the pharmaceutical industry got hold of nature's bounty and it became -- along with multiple...
Colloidal silver cures MRSA infections, purifies water, destroys candida and fights the flu - In spite of FDA ban
2/8/2012 - More than 90 years ago doctors and health practitioners discovered the life-saving, disinfectant and germicidal properties in colloidal silver. Anecdotal evidence has confirmed its efficacy as a natural antibiotic, anti-viral and anti-fungal agent. The FDA, however, doesn't agree and ruled in 1999 that...
Can probiotics replace the flu shot?
11/15/2011 - We now know the real reason why children hospitalized with swine flu have been at risk for dying. It is not because of the swine flu virus itself! Most of them contracted methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections that they passively harbored in their nasal passages before contracting...
Truth comes out: 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic 'deaths' of children were actually caused by MRSA
11/7/2011 - Remember two years ago when every news show featured hysterical reports about the so-called H1N1 pandemic and how the supposed killer flu was striking down healthy kids? True, many previously healthy children became critically ill, developing severe pneumonia and respiratory failure. And some tragically...
Natural tree compound effective at treating MRSA, skin cancer
3/26/2011 - It is often considered to be a "trash tree" by farmers who fight to eliminate it in order to protect the viability of their land. But the Eastern Red Cedar contains certain powerful compounds that fight methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the deadly hospital "superbug" that is resistant...
MRSA superbugs actually caused by widespread antibiotics use in the 1960s
3/31/2010 - A recent study published in the journal Science has concluded that the emergence of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, also known as methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), was caused by the widespread use of synthetic antibiotic drugs which began in the 1960s. Scientists analyzed 63 samples...
Coconut Oil Provides a Solution to the Spread of MRSA
2/11/2010 - MRSA is often described as a contagious, potentially lethal bacterial infection that's difficult to eliminate because it's resistant to antibiotics. But the problem is that doctors are trying to use antibiotics to fight the disease - and antibiotics are immune destroying drugs that pathogens are known...
Drug-Resistant Bacteria Often Brought Home From the Hospital by Patients
2/8/2010 - Patients who carry drug-resistant bacteria home after hospital discharge can transmit the infection to their home caretakers, according to a study conducted by researchers from Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, and published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine. Infection...
MRSA Superbug Found on Public Beaches
1/14/2010 - Public beaches may provide a home for and mechanism for the spread of the superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Washington and presented to the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. "Our...
Studies find copper may help protect against MRSA and other hospital superbugs
12/13/2009 - The Journal of Hospital Infection is set to publish three papers in its January issue that discuss new research about the antimicrobial properties of copper. Studies are showing that copper is highly resistant to bacteria and that it may be a viable biocide to use in hospitals where superbugs like methicillin-resistant...
Deadly MRSA superbug has 50 percent mortality rate in hospital patients
11/30/2009 - A recent Henry Ford Hospital study revealed that a new strain of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the deadly bacterial "superbug" that becomes resistant to many antibiotics, is five times more deadly than other previously-seen strains. Fifty percent of patients who become infected...
Swine Flu Could Combine With Hospital Superbugs to Kill Thousands
8/17/2009 - The combination of H1N1 swine flu and antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria could lead to a deadly form of pneumonia that kills half the people it infects within three days, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Researchers analyzed two patients who had experienced bacterial...
New Threat: Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria Causes Deadly Pneumonia
7/18/2009 - While the talking heads on TV have recently reported that thousands of people in the U.S. are now infected with the new "swine flu", or H1N1, there's another infectious disease problem brewing that has received little attention. The over-use and abuse of antibiotics has produced antibiotic-resistant...
Cell Phones Spreading Superbugs in Hospitals
5/14/2009 - The cellular phones that hospital doctors and nurses bring to work are widely contaminated with dangerous pathogens, even when the health workers wash their hands regularly, a new study has found. "Our results suggest cross-contamination of bacteria between the hands of health care workers and their...
Swimming May Be Route for MRSA Exposure
5/1/2009 - A simple swim at the beach may expose people to the potentially deadly bacteria known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Miami and presented at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of...
Stethoscopes Infected with Deadly Bacteria
3/18/2009 - You've probably heard some horror stories about bacterial infections, including the "flesh eating" kind, that are resistant to broad-spectrum antibiotics. In fact, MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections have been on the rise over the last decade, occurring primarily in hospitals,...
MRSA Superbug Found in Raw Pork
1/30/2009 - In October, 2008, an investigation by KOMO-TV in Seattle, in partnership with Fisher Broadcasting stations across the region, found the super bug, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), in 3 packages of ground pork bought at grocery stores in California, Oregon and Idaho. They purchased...
Eighty Percent of Facelift Surgery Infections are MRSA "Superbugs"
9/1/2008 - Eighty percent of all surgical-site infections that occur after face lifts are caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to a study conducted by researchers from the Lennox Hill-Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital and published in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery. MRSA,...
The Rise of MRSA in Pigs and the Health Risk to Humans
7/30/2008 - Numerous researchers in other countries have been reporting results on the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in pigs and the risk of human contraction. But no U.S. agency or institution has tested MRSA patients to identify whether they carry the strain, according to the...
MRSA Infections Becoming Commonplace Among Texas High School Football Players
7/28/2008 - Infection with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is 16 times higher than the national average among Texas high school football players, according to three studies conducted by the Texas Department of Health Services. MRSA is an antibiotic resistant version of the same bacteria that...
Wildflower Extracts Easily Kill MRSA Superbug
6/6/2008 - Extracts from two Eurasian wildflowers are highly effective at killing the superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to a study conducted by researchers at the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) in Ireland. Researchers found that extracts from Inula helenium (commonly...
MRSA Superbug Found to be Widespread in Pigs, Pig Farmers
6/3/2008 - The antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is widespread among both pigs and pig farmers in Canada, suggesting the livestock industry as a possible source of the disease, according to a study published in the journal "Veterinary Microbiology." Researchers...
MRSA Superbug Invades Public Schools as Conventional Medicine Ignores Natural Cures
5/2/2008 - Schools in at least eight states have reported confirmed cases of students being infected with the "superbug" known as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) following the death of a 17-year old Virginia student late last year, and the deaths of a New Hampshire preschooler and an 11-year-old...
U.S. hospitals plagued by surprisingly high level of MRSA superbug infections
4/18/2008 - Nearly 5 percent of patients in U.S. hospitals may have acquired a particular antibiotic resistant staph infection, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). Researchers surveyed a total of 1,200 hospitals and other...
French Volcanic Clay Kills Antibiotic-Resistant MRSA Superbug
4/15/2008 - Researchers have discovered that a clay made from volcanic ash in France has powerful antibiotic properties and is capable of killing even antibiotic-resistant superbugs such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). "It's fascinating," said researcher Shelley Haydel, a microbiologist...
MRSA Superbug Infections Now Killing More Americans than AIDS
3/10/2008 - An antibiotic-resistant strain of the common staph bacteria is now responsible for more deaths in the United States than AIDS, according to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "This is a significant...
U.S. Hospitals Plagued by Ten Times More MRSA Superbug Infections than Previously Thought
1/15/2008 - Nearly five percent of patients in U.S. hospitals may have acquired a particular antibiotic resistant staph infection, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). Researchers surveyed a total of 1,200 hospitals and...
Newly identified MRSA superbug kills healthy young adults in 24 hours
1/27/2007 - A new, dangerous superbug that kills within 24 hours has begun to spread across the industrialized world. The bacteria is called PVL-producing MRSA, and it is a highly-virulent strain of Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as the staph infection. This strain of staph infection is resistant to...
MRSA bacteria called a worse health threat than SARS or bird flu
8/21/2006 - Infectious disease experts from across the United States recently suggested that MRSA -- an antibiotic-resistant infection often acquired in hospital settings -- is a more immediate threat to public health than bird flu or SARS. A study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed...
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R. Kelly Indicted on Federal Kidnapping, Racketeering and Child Sex-Related Charges in NYC; Separate New Charges Also Filed in Chicago
Separate federal indictments have been filed in Chicago and Brooklyn accusing the R&B singer of sex crimes
By Jonathan Dienst
Published Jul 12, 2019 at 9:40 AM | Updated at 9:56 PM CDT on Jul 12, 2019
R. Kelly Indicted on Multiple Charges in Illinois and NY
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The singer faces racketeering, kidnapping, forced labor and child sexual exploitation charges dating back to 1999. Kelly did not enter a plea Friday, and it will be determined next week when he will be brought to New York to face a judge. NBC 4 New York's Pei-Sze Chenge reports.
R&B singer R. Kelly has been federally charged with racketeering, kidnapping, forced labor and sexual exploitation of a child in a sweeping New York indictment unsealed in Brooklyn Friday, hours after prosecutors filed a 13-count federal indictment charging him with new sex crimes in Chicago.
The five-count superseding indictment (read it below) unsealed in 18 pages of court documents alleges Kelly and members of his entourage recruited women and girls to "engage in illegal sexual activity with the singer.
R. Kelly Arrested on Fed Child Porn Charges, Indicted in NYC, Illinois
It says Kelly and his managers, bodyguards and other assistants picked out women and girls at concerts and other venues and arranged for them to travel to see Kelly. They also set rules the women and girls had to follow, including not leaving their rooms — even to eat or go to the bathroom — without Kelly's permission, calling the singer "Daddy," and not looking at other men, the indictment alleges. Kelly is the only individual named in the indictment.
The indictment alleges that the criminal acts occurred over two decades dating back to 1999, both in the U.S. and overseas. It accuses Kelly of engaging in sexual acts with girls under 18 and without disclosing that he had a sexually transmitted disease. It also accuses him of producing child pornography, including by asking minors to send him photographs.
"Today that comes to an end," U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Richard Donoghue said in a statement. "This indictment makes clear that neither fame, power nor status will not shield from prosecution predators who victimize members of our communities for their own sexual gratification."
Federal authorities are seeking any interest or property Kelly may have obtained in connection with the first racketeering account as forefeiture. It wasn't immediately clear what exactly that would include or how much it'd be worth.
The 52-year-old was arrested Thursday night in Chicago by Homeland Security Investigations agents and NYPD Public Safety Task Force after a separate indictment was handed down in federal court for the Northern District of Illinois. He was taken into custody around 7 p.m. local time, a law enforcement source familiar with the case said. He was being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, according to the Federal Prisons Bureau website.
Steve Greenberg, an attorney for Kelly confirmed his arrest in a statement early Friday, adding "the agents were courteous and professional, as was Mr. Kelly."
"The conduct alleged appears to largely be the same as the conduct previously alleges against Mr. Kelly in his current State indictment and his former State charges that he was acquitted of," Greenberg said. "Most, if not all of the conduct alleged, is decades old."
Kelly made his initial court appearance Thursday night. At a brief hearing in Chicago on the New York indictment Friday afternoon, Kelly stood before the judge in an orange jumpsuit, with his hands clasped behind his back. The only words he spoke during the 15-minute hearing were "yes, ma'am."
The singer did not enter a plea for either the Illinois indictment nor the superseding indictment from the Eastern District of New York.
Kelly was being held at the high-rise Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago, where he will remain until an arraignment hearing scheduled on Tuesday for the Illinois charges. How he will be detained and sent to the Eastern District of New York will also be addressed that day.
Greenberg says Kelly hopes to be released from custody following that hearing. Prosecutors in Illinois, however, filed a detention memo asking that Kelly remained jailed pending trial.
The separate indictments in the two major American cities include no victim overlap.
Greenberg said Kelly already has a team of "outstanding" federal litigators and was not surprised by the new allegations.
"He and his lawyers look forward to his day in court, to the truth coming out and to his vindication from what has been an unprecedented assault by others for their own personal gain. Most importantly he looks forward to being able to continue to making wonderful music and perform for his legions of fans that believe him."
R. Kelly Spokesperson Confronted by Family
The family of Joycelyn Savage, who believe their daughter is being held by R. Kelly against her will, interrupted a press conference by R. Kelly spokesperson Darrell Johnson
Investigators in New York issued a scathing series of statements condemning Kelly for preying "upon young women and teenagers whose dreams of meeting a superstar soon turned into a nightmare of rape, child pornography and forced labor," as one of the lead officials, Homeland Security Investigations New York Special Agent in Charge Angel Melendez said in a statement. "R. Kelly believed he could fly, but it will be justice to see his oppressive wings clipped."
NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill echoed those sentiments, saying, "Those who engage in these reprehensible offenses against our most vulnerable will be pursued relentlessly, and held accountable for the pain and suffering they cause."
Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred said she was pleased federal authorities charged R. Kelly with sex crimes, and saying "justice, which is long overdue for his victims, will soon be done." Allred said in the statement that she represents three women for whom charges were filed and who are referenced in the New York indictment of Kelly.
Andrea Kelly, the singer's ex-wife, had no comment following the arrest, her rep said.
'Taking a Stand Against R. Kelly ... Has Not Been Easy'
Faith Rodgers, who has accused R. Kelly of sexual battery, knowingly infecting her with herpes and locking her in rooms for punishment, spoke at a press conference Monday with attorney Gloria Allred.
(Published Monday, Jan. 14, 2019)
R. Kelly has been the subject of different sexual abuse allegations for nearly two decades, with some of the alleged acts dating back to 1998.
One of his accusers, Asante McGee, said in a statement upon news of the indictments Friday that she hoped the charges would send a clear message.
"To all of Robert’s victims and victims of others, don’t be afraid to speak out against your abuser, there is power in numbers," McGee said. "To the two young women who are still in his home, he can no longer hurt you, you don’t have to be afraid. Come home to your family, be with your family who really love and care about you! They need you and you need them."
Back in February, Kelly was charged with aggravated sexual abuse involving four women, three of whom were minors when the alleged abuse occurred. He pleaded not guilty and was released from Chicago's Cook County Jail after posting bail.
A jury in 2008 acquitted Kelly of child pornography charges stemming from a video showing him having sex with a girl as young as 13, prosecutors claimed at the time. Kelly faced 15 years in prison for that charge, but the young woman in that claim denied it was her and did not testify.
R. Kelly Yells In Explosive Interview: 5 Biggest Bombshells
R. Kelly gave his first explosive and emotional interview with Gayle King on "CBS This Morning" since sexual abuse charges landed the singer in jail last month.
(Published Wednesday, March 6, 2019)
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Strong Quake Jolts Northwest Japan; No Major Damage Reported
Japan is one of the most earthquake- and tsunami-prone areas in the world
By Mari Yamaguchi
Published Jun 18, 2019 at 6:55 AM | Updated at 9:58 AM PDT on Jun 18, 2019
A powerful earthquake jolted northwestern Japan late Tuesday, prompting officials to issue a tsunami warning along the coast which was lifted about 2 ½ hours later.
Thousands of families lost electrical power and bullet train services were suspended, but there were no reports of serious injuries or damage from the magnitude 6.7 quake.
Japan's Meteorological Agency said the earthquake was located off the western coast of Yamagata about 50 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of the city of Sakata.
It said the quake was fairly shallow, about 14 kilometers (9 miles) below the sea's surface. Shallow quakes tend to cause more damage.
The agency warned of a possible tsunami up to 1 meter (3.3 feet) high along the coasts of the northwestern prefectures of Yamagata, Niigata and Ishikawa. But only a minor swelling of the sea was observed in several cities about half an hour after the earthquake struck.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said several minor injuries were reported in Niigata and Yamagata, but no serious ones. He urged residents of the affected areas to be prepared for possible aftershocks.
The shoreline closest to the epicenter is sparsely populated, but it's close to the small city of Tsuruoka.
Tsuruoka city crisis management official Takehiko Takahashi said in a televised interview that city officials were helping coastal residents evacuate to higher ground as a precaution.
More than 1,500 people took shelter at evacuation centers in Murakami city and elsewhere in Niigata. Public broadcaster NHK showed people using flattened cardboard boxes as mattresses to sleep on in a school gym. Many others, including children, were still awake and sitting against the walls.
Bullet train service was suspended in parts of the region because of power outages and for safety checks. About 9,000 households in Yamagata and Niigata lost power, according to Tohoku Electric Power Co.
All seven reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata were off line and no abnormalities were reported. Two other nuclear power plants in the affected region were also intact, according to the Nuclear Regulation Authority.
An emergency response team was set up at the Prime Minister's Office to assess the extent of injuries and damage.
"We put people's lives before anything else," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. "We'll do our utmost in rescue operations as we closely cooperate with local authorities."
NHK showed broken glasses and dishes scattered on the floor of a bar in Tsuruoka which was empty after customers rushed out, leaving behind their half-eaten food on the counter.
Japan is one of the most earthquake- and tsunami-prone areas in the world. On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 offshore quake hit the northeast coast, causing a tsunami that took more than 18,000 lives and triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
There was no danger of a tsunami from Tuesday's quake on the eastern coast, where the Fukushima plant is located.
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Wichita man arrested on plot to bomb Wichita Airport
A 58-year-old Wichita man allegedly plotting a suicide car bombing at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport was arrested Frid...
Wichita man arrested on plot to bomb Wichita Airport A 58-year-old Wichita man allegedly plotting a suicide car bombing at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport was arrested Frid... Check out this story on news-leader.com: http://sgfnow.co/1fchgs7
Springfield Published 2:17 p.m. CT Dec. 13, 2013 | Updated 2:22 p.m. CT Dec. 13, 2013
A 58-year-old Wichita man allegedly plotting a suicide car bombing at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport was arrested Friday as he tried to drive on to the facility's tarmac.
Terry Lee Loewen, an avionics technician at the airport, was arrested at 5:40 a.m. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Owen had been under investigation and surveillance since early summer, when he allegedly stated he wanted to "commit an act of violent jihad' against the United States.
Loewen was charged in federal court in Wichita with one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, one count of attempting to damage property by means of an explosive and one count of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
Authorities say bomb materials Loewen allegedly planned on using had been "rendered inert'' before Loewen arrived at the airport.
"At no point was any citizen in any type of danger,'' Grissom said.
Loewen had a security card that provided access to restricted areas of the airport, the largest in Kansas. He allegedly planned to load his car with explosives, then detonate the bomb as he entered the airport. Authorities said Loewen had planned to set off the bomb when the airport was most crowded.
While the case remains under investigation, no additional arrests are anticipated. Loewen is not associated with any religious group in Wichita, Grissom said.
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Why Black Market Entrepreneurs Matter to the World Economy
Soon, two-thirds of the world's workers will be part of street economies, Neuwirth says.
Photo: Jessica Dimmock
Not many people think of shantytowns, illegal street vendors, and unlicensed roadside hawkers as major economic players. But according to journalist Robert Neuwirth, that’s exactly what they’ve become. In his new book, Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy, Neuwirth points out that small, illegal, off-the-books businesses collectively account for trillions of dollars in commerce and employ fully half the world’s workers. Further, he says, these enterprises are critical sources of entrepreneurialism, innovation, and self-reliance. And the globe’s gray and black markets have grown during the international recession, adding jobs, increasing sales, and improving the lives of hundreds of millions. It’s time, Neuwirth says, for the developed world to wake up to what those who are working in the shadows of globalization have to offer. We asked him how these tiny enterprises got to be such big business.
Wired: You refer to the untaxed, unlicensed, and unregulated economies of the world as System D. What does that mean?
Robert Neuwirth:There’s a French word for someone who’s self-reliant or ingenious: débrouillard . This got sort of mutated in the postcolonial areas of Africa and the Caribbean to refer to the street economy, which is called l’économie de la débrouillardise—the self-reliance economy, or the DIY economy, if you will. I decided to use this term myself—shortening it to System D—because it’s a less pejorative way of referring to what has traditionally been called the informal economy or black market or even underground economy. I’m basically using the term to refer to all the economic activity that flies under the radar of government. So, unregistered, unregulated, untaxed, but not outright criminal—I don’t include gun-running, drugs, human trafficking, or things like that.
“There are the guys who sneak stuff out of the port. The guys who get it across the border. The truck loaders and unloaders. All working under the table.”
Wired: Certainly the people who make their living from illegal street stalls don’t see themselves as criminals.
Neuwirth: Not at all. They see themselves as supporting their family, hiring people, and putting their relatives through school—all without any help from the government or aid networks.
Wired: The sheer scale of System D is mind-blowing.
Neuwirth: Yeah. If you think of System D as having a collective GDP, it would be on the order of $10 trillion a year. That’s a very rough calculation, which is almost certainly on the low side. If System D were a country, it would have the second-largest economy on earth, after the United States.
Wired: And it’s growing?
Neuwirth: Absolutely. In most developing countries, it’s the only part of the economy that is growing. It has been growing every year for the past two decades while the legal economy has kind of stagnated.
Wired: Why?
Neuwirth: Because it’s based purely on unfettered entrepreneurialism. Law-abiding companies in the developing world often have to work through all sorts of red tape and corruption. The System D enterprises avoid all that. It’s also an economy based on providing things that the mass of people can afford—not on high prices and large profit margins. It grows simply because people have to keep consuming—they have to keep eating, they have to keep clothing themselves. And that’s unaffected by global downturns and upturns.
Wired: Why should we care?
Neuwirth: Half the workers of the world are part of System D. By 2020, that will be up to two-thirds. So, we’re talking about the majority of the people on the planet. In simple pragmatic terms, we’ve got to care about that.
Wired: You talk a lot about wares that are sold through tiny kiosks, street stalls, and little informal markets. Where do those goods come from?
Neuwirth: The biggest flow of goods is from China. It’s no secret that China is the manufacturing engine of the planet. In a lot of ways, they’re more capitalist than we are. If someone wants something made—even if that person isn’t licensed—a Chinese factory will make it. It’s also easy to deal with China. You can go to the local Chinese consulate and get a tourist visa within a couple of hours. You can’t say the same about coming to the US. So African importers, for instance, travel to China and commission Chinese firms to make goods for them to sell in Africa.
Wired: But it’s not all Chinese manufacturers, right? In your book, you write about how huge international corporations want to get their goods into informal markets.
Neuwirth: Sure. Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive: They sell lots of products through the little unregistered and unlicensed stores in the developing world. And they want their products in those stores, because that’s where the customers are.
Wired: How does that work?
Neuwirth: Basically, they hire a middleman. Procter & Gamble, for instance, realized that although Walmart is its single largest customer, System D outposts, when you total them up, actually account for more business. So Procter & Gamble decided to get its products into those stores. In each country, P&G hires a local distributor—sometimes several layers of local distributors—to get the product from a legal, formal, tax-paying company to a company willing to deal with unlicensed vendors who don’t pay taxes. That’s how Procter & Gamble gets Downy fabric softener, Tide laundry detergent, and all manner of other goods into the squatter communities of the developing world. Today, in aggregate, these markets make up the largest percentage of the company’s sales worldwide.
Wired: You write that there are even street-vendor-specific brands.
Neuwirth: Absolutely. A good example is UAC Foods, which is based in Nigeria but active throughout West Africa and traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. It’s a highly formal company that was originally incorporated by the British more than 100 years ago. UAC Foods owns hotels and restaurants, but it also has this product called the Gala sausage roll. You never find Gala being sold in normal stores. It’s sold only by unlicensed roadside hawkers and at roadside kiosks. Basically, UAC recognized that this product wasn’t going to sell well in a normal store. But sausage rolls are in demand where people are on the go, when they need a quick snack on the side of the highway or in a traffic jam. So UAC relies on this informal phalanx of thousands of unregulated hawkers who sell Gala sausage rolls all over the streets of African cities. This is UAC’s distribution channel for this one product.
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Mystic Seaport seeks stowaway for whaling ship
MYSTIC — Mystic Seaport is looking for a stowaway for its restored 19th century whaling ship.
Whoever is hired will sail with the Charles W. Morgan ship next summer on visits to ports across New England.
The stowaway will receive a stipend and will share the experience through videos and blog posts.
The museum in Mystic has spent four years restoring the ship that was built in 1841.
The Morgan's last voyage ended in 1921 and is the world's only surviving wooden whaling ship.
The ship was launched by Mystic Seaport in July and will visit ports in Boston, New Bedford, New London, Newport and Provincetown next year. It will sail with a mission to raise awareness of the importance of protecting the oceans and its species.
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UConn prospect's arrival at Putnam Science generates excitement
Marc Allard mallard@norwichbulletin.com, (860) 425-4212 mallardnb
PUTNAM — Tom Espinosa said he stole the line from St. Thomas More coach Jere Quinn, who used it when current NBA All-Star Andre Drummond played for the Chancellors.
“Jere used to say Andre had a lottery ticket in his back pocket,” Espinosa said.
Espinosa feels the same way about Zach Brown.
The 7-foot-1 center from Miami, Fla. probably won’t be around the prep or college ranks for long.
But for the remainder of this season, at least, fans in Eastern Connecticut will be able to get a sneak peek at his talents — generally for free.
Brown, who verbally committed to UConn recently, enrolled at Putnam Science Academy on Wednesday and this weekend played his first games for the Mustangs. On Sunday, he scored 12 points in limited action in a 95-76 win over Lee Academy.
The Putnam Science Academy gym had a good crowd in it on Sunday, but it paled in comparison to Saturday’s opener of the back-to-back games between the two schools, which the Mustangs also won, 85-63.
“It was unbelievable,” Espinosa said. “We’ve had big crowds in here before, but I can’t even tell you what it was like. We turned away over a hundred or so people.”
The game didn’t start until 7 p.m. Saturday and by 6 p.m., the tiny gym was already 2/3 full, according to Espinosa.
“It made me feel good that we’re doing something right,” Espinosa said.
Espinosa hopes he’s doing something right with Brown.
Brown left Miami in the middle of the week, not because he wanted to, but because he had to. Espinosa said UConn “flat out told him” that he had to get out of Miami if he wanted to play in Storrs.
“Miami is a big party city and I wanted to be able to focus on basketball and school so I can do what I have to do to be successful,” Brown said.
It’s that kind of attitude that leads Espinosa to believe Brown will blossom at Putnam Science. That may be good for Brown, but not as much for the Mustangs.
Originally, Espinosa was hoping to have Brown for the remainder of this season — he is not eligible to play in the National Prep Championship tournament because of his late arrival — and next year.
Brown said that if his academic and basketball skills are up to it, he wants be on the Storrs campus in the fall.
“It won’t be only Zach’s call, I’m sure UConn will have something to say about it,” Espinosa said. “He’s a true junior, but he wants to rush it. Everyone is on the same page, we’re going to take it day by day and see how it goes.”
Brown had a difficult childhood in Miami and is now looked over by a pair of legal guardians.
“He hasn’t had it easy. It isn’t just about him. He wants to help out his family. The sooner would be better for him and you have to understand that,” Espinosa said.
Espinosa said all of that was discussed by the staff and all felt that it was in the best interest of Brown for Putnam Science to open its doors to him.
Should the Mustangs make the national tournament again (they should with a 21-2 record this season) and Brown helps them get there, it could affect the team’s chemistry. Espinosa said the team knows that and has more than accepted it.
“We’re looking at it like this: we don’t want to lose again. We want to have 30-plus wins and only two losses and get a top-three spot and play a lower level seed. If we didn’t have Zach, it would be the opposite,” Espinosa said.
It’s been an adjustment for Brown as well.
He said he was “stressing every day” in Miami wondering how things would go. In about two weeks time, Brown committed to a Division I school, went from a high school to a prep school and left the metropolis of Miami for a small hamlet called Putnam.
“I was telling my people before I left (Miami) that I might cry. I never cried,” Brown said with a smile.
He was welcomed when he arrived at the school this week.
“I fit in anywhere. I don’t know how to say it, but I have a great personality and the kids here have great personalities and they welcomed me with love,” Brown said.
“The whole team is excited that he’s here,” Espinosa said. “This is a unique group because not one kid pouted or questioned it. When they heard Zach was coming here, they knew he could take us to the next level.”
It’s been great for another UConn recruit, Mamadou Diarra, who had been playing the center position for Putnam Science and now can move back to his more familiar power forward slot. Diarra will play for UConn in the fall.
“I was excited, I couldn’t wait for him to get here,” Diarra said. “I knew of him and about him. He’s been working in pretty good, he’s family now.”
Brown looks a little tentative on the floor, but he scored 26 points in two games and has impressed Espinosa.
“He’s out of shape and hasn’t played in a little bit, so he’s a little rusty and he’s trying to get used to the weather and this place up here. But I haven’t had a kid dominate practice like he has in the two days he has been with us,” Espinosa said.
Espinosa said Brown needs to get better defensively. He needs to get better at spacing, watch his fouls, get his timing down and become a better shot blocker. But Espinosa was impressed with his offensive quickness, his hands and his post moves.
“For a 7-foot-1 kid, he can move,” Espinosa said. “He’s going to be good.”
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Ben Sidran, 'Talking Jazz' with the Masters
June 30, 2007 Ben Sidran's latest release is a whopping 24-CD box set — and not a second of it features any actual music. Hear the jazz pianist and former NPR host speak about his new compilation of interviews with luminaries of the jazz world.
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Does Violent Music Beget Violence?
June 25, 2007 Spelman College professor William Jelani Cobb and Loyola Marymount University visiting professor Michael Datcher discuss whether the violence in rap simply mirrors a mean-street reality or if it helped create it.
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Inside the Los Angeles Hip-Hop Undergound
June 21, 2007 The Los Angeles record label Stones Throw has been a major force in independent hip-hop for more than a decade. Artists Peanut Butter Wolf and Egon run Stones Throw, and they describe their vision for a label that's known for its eclectic catalog.
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Picturing Hip-Hop
June 20, 2007 For more than three decades, Ernie Paniccioli has been photographing many of rap music's most important artists. He's revealing the stories behind some of his best-known photos.
Roundtable: Homophobia in Hip-Hop
June 20, 2007 Is it free speech or hate speech? The hip-hop series continues with a special roundtable on homophobia in rap music. New York-based writer Staceyann Chin, rapper and satirist Deadlee, and author and educator Mo Beasley weigh in. Note: Some of the language used in this segment may be offensive.
Mexico's 'Chente' Brings Music to the U.S.
June 19, 2007 Singer Vicente Fernandez has long been Mexico's king of mariachi music. A new, bilingual boxed CD set celebrates four decades of his work, just as he makes his biggest U.S. tour ever.
Hip-Hop's Reach Goes Global
June 18, 2007 Hip hop culture has exploded from its New York birthplace into a worldwide art form. Culture critic Jeff Chang discusses rap's growing global appeal.
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The History and Legality of Mix Tapes
June 15, 2007 We take our hip-hop series for a spin with one of today's hottest DJs, DJ Drama, and explore the art of mixing and the legal ramifications of it.
Aretha Franklin's 'Respect' Celebrates 40th Birthday
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Artists Making Deals Outside the Studio
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Class of 2008 is an observational documentary series following six up and coming young talented people in London on their creative journeys as they strive to successfully establish themselves in their fields of fashion, music, design, acting, DJing and entrepreneurship.
The six are a unique group of friends led by Daisy Lowe, a top model with Select Model Management who is set to move to New York and go global in 2008. Daisy’s boyfriend Will Cameron is the lead singer of up-and-coming indie band Blondelle. Daisy and Will’s friend is club promoter and DJ - Flash Louis who is hoping to launch a big new club night in London. Louis brought Kesh into the fold, a fashion designer, stylist, dancer and DJ who is already making a name for herself among the fashion elite. Daisy’s friend Portia Freeman also at Select, is well on her way to becoming one of the most unique and successful models of her generation. Portia brought in budding actor Daryl Fox-Huxley. East end boy Daryl had given up his beloved boxing career and is auditioning for stage and screen.
The eight episode series follows the group and their ups and downs as they try to land record deals, modelling contracts, acting roles, show fashion collections and launch club nights.
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Wannabe parents search for redheaded men
omg 20/07/2017
The sperm game has heated up, with an increase in demand from women wanting red-headed babies.
Australian-based Co-ParentMatch says only two percent of its sperm donors are gingers and it's not enough to keep up with demand.
It's put out the call for redheads to bust one out for the sake of those trying to conceive.
The rise of the redhead is a sharp contrast to around six years ago. Demark-based Cryos International, one of the world's largest sperm banks, closed its doors on gingers in 2011, saying there wasn't enough demand.
But now the world has begun to see the light, potentially thanks to the growing popularity of superstar Ed Sheeran and Prince Harry.
However while having a ginger parent does increase your chances of sprouting ginger spawn, it's still not a guarantee unless both parents are red.
Otherwise, as a recessive gene, a red-haired child could pop out in a family which had no other gingers to be seen.
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Lawmaker aims to lower blood alcohol limit
by: Louis Finley
Posted: Apr 11, 2019 / 01:48 AM EDT / Updated: Apr 11, 2019 / 03:34 AM EDT
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A bill to lower the legal blood alcohol content from .08 to .05 is circulating the New York State Assembly.
The National Transportation Safety Board is urging all states for this standard in order to lower crashes, injuries and fatalities. But not everyone is supporting the move.
“Just to lower this? How is this going to help? What kind of solution is this?” said Anna Russo.
Russo lost her daughter to a drunk driver, but she says lowering the limit doesn’t work.
“If he wants to lower it, then double up the size of the officers and talk to the judges and see if the judges are serious enough to actually put these people away, but this is not going to happen,” Russo said.
“If it’s going to make the general population a bit of a safer place, it is a good move,” said Bombers General Manager Paul Tracy.
Though it’s a move Tracy says could hurt sales.
“If you’re going to hit a breathalyzer at .08, you’d be like, uh, I shouldn’t drive. You know you’d be cognitive of that, but .05 isn’t much,” he added.
This isn’t the first time the bill’s been introduced, and other states are entertaining the idea with Utah becoming the first state to lower its alcohol limit to .05.
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