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The Sodus Central School District is proud of our alumni, and we are pleased to showcase their accomplishments in the “Alumni Spotlight” on our Website. Please take a few minutes to read these interesting stories about your fellow classmates!
Know someone who would be great for an Alumni Spotlight? Email Karen Rawden.
Julio Chavez
Article compliments of The Times of Wayne County
SUNY Delhi culinary arts major Julio Chavez of Sodus, NY, won the national title of “Student Chef of the Year 2018” July 19th. The culinary competition, sanctioned and organized by the American Culinary Federation (ACF), was held at the “Cook. Craft. Create. National Convention & Show” in New Orleans, LA. The Student Chef of the Year recognizes an up-and-coming student who possesses a high degree of professionalism, culinary skill, and passion for the culinary arts.
Five student chefs representing the Northeast, Southeast, Western, and Central regions of America, as well as the U.S. Military, competed for the national title. Chavez earned his place in the finals by first winning the ACF Northeast Regional Student Chef of the Year competition in February in Buffalo, NY.
“Julio has demonstrated the skill, motivation, and determination necessary to earn this prestigious title,” said Dr. David Brower, Dean of the School of Business and Hospitality Management at SUNY Delhi. “He represents our institution exceptionally well and is a testament to the unparalleled education that our students receive at SUNY Delhi.”
“Working with Julio has been an unbelievable process,” said SUNY Delhi Culinary Instructor Chef Sean Pehrsson who coached and mentored Chavez in his ascent for the national title. “It is amazing to come from a small college in upstate New York, put our students up against the best students from around the country, and be victorious. Julio’s success speaks volumes about the quality of our culinary arts program.”
With input from Pehrsson, Chavez chose to compete with a Mexican-inspired lamb trio dish, highlighting his heritage with flavors and components indigenous to his cuisine and style of cooking. Chavez practiced and worked closely withPehrsson for weeks in order to perfect the dish and his technique. In
their critiques, the judges applauded the fact that Chavez leveraged his roots, incorporating contemporary interpretations of classical elements and featuring a variety of flavor profiles, color, and texture.
“The critique Julio received from the judges was one of the most positive I have heard,” said Pehrsson. “They loved how the flavors all complemented each other and how well composed the dish was. His dish and kitchen work were beautiful. He truly deserves to be the 2018 American Culinary Federation Student Chef of the Year.”
In his acceptance speech, Chavez thanked everyone who supported him during the competition process. “I want to give a huge shout out to my mentor Chef Pehrsson, my parents, my team who supported me every step of the process, and everyone who came to New Orleans to see me compete.”
Chavez dedicated his victory to his parents. “My parents really struggled to bring our family from Mexico to the United States when I was five years old. They worked hard to give me what they never were able to have: a good life and an education. My success is their reward.”
Chavez will graduate in December with a bachelor’s degree in Culinary Arts Management from SUNY Delhi. While at Delhi, Chavez has been actively involved in community service through various organizations and has been inducted into the Chi Alpha Epsilon National Honor Society. He is also a teaching assistant for Signatures by Candlelight, the student-operated restaurant class. “I already have great job offers to look forward to after graduation,” said Chavez. “The incredible culinary program at SUNY Delhi has changed my life.”
Carlos Thomas
Carlos Thomas, Class of 1995, Drummer, percussionist, music producer, dancer and choreographer of STOMP.
I was actually born in the town of Sodus, NY. The hospital is no longer there so that means not many people can say that they were actually born in Sodus. During my high school years I was always in the music Department. I was the director of my gospel choir. I stared the group FOOT SOLDIERS. I birthed and founded what you know as GRAFFITI! In 1995! This talent show is still going on today. I am master teacher for THE YOUNG AMERICANS. I am also a performer and rehearsal director for the show STOMP. I teach Music at an elementary school in NYC. My journey is still going strong. Never forgetting my beginnings. Always looking forward to new adventures.
Dr. Jayde Gray
Dr. Jayde Gray, Chiropractor, Class of 2008
Dr. Glickman and the staff of Fernandina Chiropractic Center in Florida would like to introduce their new associate chiropractor, Dr. Jayde Gray.
Dr. Gray grew up in a small farming town (Sodus) located in upstate New York. She received her Bachelor’s in Music from Nazareth College where she focused on vocal and piano performance. She stayed active by playing soccer and competing in ultimate Frisbee tournaments. Dr. Gray then completed her chiropractic degree at New York Chiropractic College in the Finger Lakes of NY. Through her clinical experience at NYCC, Dr. Gray worked as an intern where she managed an array of cases from low back complaints to complex neurological diseases. She was a member of the pediatrics club and also had the opportunity to work with young children during her internship. In just a few short weeks, she will officially be certified to specialize in pregnancy and pediatric care. Dr. Gray is dedicated to providing quality conservative spine care in a comfortable, professional environment.
In her spare time, Dr. Gray likes to sing in the Island Chamber Singers group and train to compete in bodybuilding shows. She is excited to start working with the people of Yulee FL, Amelia Island and the surrounding areas.
Devin Lawrence
Devin Lawrence (Writer/Director) Class of 1998 - A native of Sodus and Rochester, New York, Devin Lawrence received his film education at Emerson College where he was honored as best Director for his senior thesis film SACRIFICIAL YOUTH, which made its world premiere at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Promptly after making his west coast pilgrimage, Devin had several television series and feature-length screenplays optioned and put into development by Atlas Entertainment, Anonymous Content, Autumn Entertainment, Fylmar Productions, and Sobini Films. Several of these projects were then brought in for packaging by Creative Artists Agency. Devin also has written/produced/edited documentaries for Authentic Entertainment and Musical Circus Entertainment, and he currently writes/edits GHOST ADVENTURES, the top-rated show on Travel Channel. SYMPATHY, SAID THE SHARK stands to be Devin’s feature-length directorial debut.
SYMPATHY, SAID THE SHARK is playing at The Little Theatre in Rochester, NY on Wednesday, January 13 and Devin will be in attendance. Tickets are $8.00 and can be ordered online.
A young couple reluctantly answers their door during a rainstorm and in rushes a soaked, bloodied, and estranged friend who insists that someone is trying to kill him. This triggers a non-stop night that forces all three of them to confront their own darkest secrets as well as an even larger threat that comes knocking. We are all prisoners of our own subjective views and experiences. The majority of Sympathy, Said the Shark is told from the explicit point-of-view of its three main characters. Every time the POV switches there is an overlap of time where we see or hear something that the previous character missed, thus continuously changing the opinion of who's good, who's bad, and what is really going on...
To get more information about this film, click here.
Neil Paprocki
Neil Paprocki, Class of 2003, joins the HawkWatch team in September 2014 as the organization's Conservation Biologist. Originally from the east coast, he earned his BS in Animal Behavior from Bucknell University in central Pennsylvania. Upon graduation, Neil immediately immersed himself in ornithological fieldwork for over three years. He has worked with Ptarmigan in Alaska, and songbirds in New Hampshire and Nevada. Eventually he made his way into the raptor community by working with the federally endangered California Condor for 2 and a half years in southern California, northern Arizona, and southern Utah. Neil went on to earn his MS degree in Raptor Biology from Boise State University studying the effects of climate and habitat change on wintering raptors in southwest Idaho.
Neil arrives at HawkWatch International having recently spent the summer of 2014 studying Gyrfalcons on the Seward Peninsula of northwest Alaska. In addition to his love of raptors he helped co-found a small wildlife conservation filmmaking non-profit, Wild Lens Inc., during his time at Boise State University. In 2013 he co-directed his first film, Bluebird Man, about the role of citizen scientists in the recovery of North American bluebird populations. Neil also enjoys backpacking, hiking, photography, birding, homebrewing, and skiing.
Favorite raptor: Rough-legged Hawk
E-mail Neil
Amanda Lucieer
Amanda Lucieer earned her Associates Degree in Culinary Arts and Restaurant Management at the Pennsylvania School of Culinary Arts at YTI Career Center in Lancaster, PA.
Amanda is now a Full Time Cook & Prepared Foods Team Leader at Wegmans in Montgomeryville, PA.
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Son Dambi is a Natural in “Cosmopolitan” Pictorial
by Soompi_Intern2
Singer Son Dambi, famous for her addictive dance hits “Crazy” and “Saturday Night,” was featured in a pictorial and interview in fashion magazine “Cosmopolitan.” The photographs show Son Dambi looking comfortable and relaxed. But, it should really come as no surprise that Son Dambi is a natural in front of the camera with her lean, good looks and sexy, tousled waves.
Below are selected excerpts from the interview.
On acting in her first drama, Son Dambi said: “As opposed to other things, the thing that I remember the most is all the good advice I received from my senior actors and directors who worked with me on the drama. I very much felt the warmth and affection [from working with everyone].”
On acting and music, Son Dambi said: “I would like to act [again], but as my album is scheduled to be released [soon], I don’t think I can continue to do acting activities at the same time [as my album promotional activities]. I don’t have the personality to do two things at the same time.”
On roles she would like to play, Son Dambi said: “First, I don’t want to play anymore one-sided loves and I would like to have a role where I receive love. I would also really like to try a role with a lot of action scenes. Why those kind of roles don’t come to me, I don’t know. I really could do it well! [laughs]”
On wanting to show a different natural image, Son Dambi said: “I’ve already lived 5 years as a singer, and, no matter how you look at it, I’ve only showed a cultivated, dressed-up image always on a stage. In Korea, while doing entertainer activities, though, aside from variety/reality programs, there is no other way to show an uncultivated, undressed-up, and natural image, I don’t really go on variety/reality programs. I sort of lack the self-confidence [to go on those programs].”
Son Dambi had not released a new album in two years and was scheduled to make her long awaited comeback this September, but it was later announced that she would be delaying her comeback to October as she was not satisfied with the present state of her album work and choreography.
Most recently, Son Dambi starred in the MBC drama “Lights and Shadows” which also stars Ahn Jae Wook, Nam Sang Mi, and Lee Pil Mo.
To view the photographs, click through the gallery on Soompi.
Can’t get enough of Son Dambi? Make sure to check out Son Dambi’s Thread on Soompi Forums!
KPLG
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IDF destroys 6th Hezbollah tunnel, declares end of Operation Northern Shield
Judah Ari Gross
Sun, 13 Jan 2019 17:40 UTC
© Israel Defense Forces
Israeli troops search for attack tunnels dug into Israel from southern Lebanon that the Israeli military believes Hezbollah planned to use in future wars, in January 2019.
The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday declared that its effort to find and destroy Hezbollah cross-border attack tunnels was coming to an end, following the discovery of another such underground passage over the weekend.
"With the discover of this terror tunnel, the effort to locate the passages dug by Hezbollah that crossed the border into Israeli territory has been completed. The neutralization of this passage will be completed in the coming days," the army said in a statement.
"According to our intelligence and our assessment of the situation there are no longer any cross-border attack tunnels from Lebanon into Israel," army spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus told reporters.
On December 4, the IDF launched Operation Northern Shield to find tunnels that it says the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group had dug into northern Israel from towns in southern Lebanon.
The military confirmed discovering at least six tunnels during the month-long operation.
"In addition, the IDF is monitoring and is in possession of a number of sites where Hezbollah is digging underground infrastructure that has yet to cross into Israeli territory," the army said.
An IDF official said the military also noted that Hezbollah had stopped digging along the northern border during the past month, since the start of Operation Northern Shield.
The army said the operation "removed the threat from the citizens of Israel."
The sixth tunnel was found by Israeli troops on Saturday. According to the IDF, it originated in the Lebanese village of Ramyeh, where another tunnel had earlier been found.
The military said the tunnel extended some 800 meters (2,600 feet), penetrating several dozen meters into Israeli territory, and was dug at a depth of 55 meters (180 feet), making it the deepest tunnel uncovered by the IDF and likely the most valuable one to Hezbollah.
The tunnel had electricity, a rail system to move equipment and garbage, exit stairs and other aspects that made it more sophisticated than the other tunnels found, the army said.
"This was a highly advanced tunnel," IDF Spokesperson Ronen Manelis told reporters.
Israel has said it believes the tunnels were meant to be used by the Shiite terrorist group as a surprise component of an opening salvo in a future war, to allow dozens or hundreds of its fighters into Israel, alongside a mass infiltration of operatives above-ground and the launching of rockets, missiles, and mortar shells at northern Israel.
Comment: Israel is the party most likely to start any future war. Aside from that, though, they're probably right about the purpose: if Israel were to launch a new war of aggression against Lebanon, Hezbollah would use these tunnels to get behind enemy lines.
The military said it notified the UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL of the new tunnel discovered over the weekend, as well as the heads of local governments in the area.
UNIFIL confirmed in mid-December that at least two tunnels crossed into Israel and were therefore in violation of the UN resolution that ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War, but did not confirm Israel's allegations they were dug by Hezbollah. United Nations peacekeepers have stepped up patrols since the launch of the operation to ensure the frontier remains calm.
UN Resolution 1701 requires all armed groups besides the Lebanese military to remain north of the country's Litani River. Despite the stipulations of the resolution, Hezbollah maintains vast forces, including an arsenal of rockets and missiles estimated at over 130,000 projectiles, in the country's south, Israel believes.
With the end of Northern Shield, the IDF said it was moving to a defensive effort along the border to ensure that future tunnels are not dug into Israel from Lebanon.
"In addition, IDF troops and the tunnel-finding laboratory will continue serving permanently along the Lebanese border," the army said.
The military on Sunday said it was also continuing with the construction of a border wall, which Lebanon protests.
Lebanon on Friday said it would issue a complaint at the UN Security Council over Israel's building of the wall along their shared border.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency quoted Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil as calling the Israeli move a violation of a UN Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 war.
The report said the complaint was about a part of the wall that was being built on the edge of the Lebanese border village of Kfar Kila.
Work on the security barrier began at the start of last year, with the joint IDF-Defense Ministry Borders and Security Fence Directorate having been cleared and received funding to build 13 kilometers (8 miles) of concrete walling along the approximately 130-kilometer (80-mile) border in order to protect the 22 adjacent Israeli villages.
Eventually the plan is to construct a barrier along the entire border - a project that would cost NIS 1.7 billion ($470 million).
The concrete barrier is designed to serve two main functions: protect Israeli civilians and soldiers from sniper attacks, and prevent infiltration into Israel by Hezbollah operatives.
The Lebanese government has contested the construction of the new border wall from the onset, arguing that it violates Lebanese sovereignty in some locations. Lebanon has filed those complaints with UNIFIL, which acts as a liaison between Israel and Lebanon.
Some areas around the Israeli-Lebanese border are contested, with each country claiming the territory as its own - for instance, the strip of land known by Israel as Mount Dov and by Lebanon as Sheba'a Farms.
Comment: See also:
Presence of 4 Hezbollah tunnels near Israeli border confirmed by UN spokesman - two cross 'Blue Line'
Ex-Israeli defense minister admits to lying about Hezbollah's underground tunnels for years
IDF operation against Hezbollah tunnels is all popcorn - Bibi needs a distraction from bribery case against him and his wife
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Dartmouth drawing near to medical marijuana zoning overlay
Steve Urbon @SteveUrbonSCT
Aug 10, 2018 at 6:01 PM Aug 10, 2018 at 6:02 PM
DARTMOUTH — After months of discussion, a zoning overlay district governing recreational marijuana will go before a public hearing at 7 p.m. Aug. 20, leaving Town Meeting approval on Oct. 16 to be the last step in the process.
The proposed overlay district, which spans a large portion of Faunce Corner Road, mirrors the one passed four years ago to regulate the siting of medical marijuana treatment centers and dispensaries.
Subsequently the voters of Massachusetts voted to legalize recreational marijuana, and it became necessary to create an overlay for that, or risk that the siting process is vulnerable to being a free-for-all, town officials have said.
Under this process, marijuana establishments must obtain a special permit that shows they are following the tight restrictions on just where such entities are allowed. The overlay map shows the same pattern as the earlier one, with the objectives being the same. They include:
— Designate areas where facilities would have the least impact on the community’s character.
— Site establishments close to highway access and public transportation.
— Locate sites away from residences and places where children congregate.
— Limit the number of facilities to the extent allowed by the state.
The overlay would prevent facilities from being less than 1,000 feet away from another one. Proposed conditions would include the securing of a community host agreement from selectmen, submission of the operations guidelines required for state licensing, and a review by the police chief.
The proposal also addresses the minimum number of parking spaces, and the color of any fences or barriers.
No facility would be allowed within 500 feet of a school, college or university, day care, library, in addition to the avoidance of children.
Any proposal to sell marijuana for consumption on-site would require that there be a referendum in accordance with state law. The state Department of Public Health governs medical use permits, and the Cannabis Control Commission handles the recreational aspect.
Follow Steve Urbon on Twitter @SteveUrbonSCT.
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SUSIE AND BEN LONDON
“It’s the idea that the Temple will be here even when we are not.”
For Susie and Ben London, proud parents of two young sons, Raif and Lane; making the decision to give to the Legacy Campaign was born out of a personal philosophy that’s been handed down through the generations. Ben tells us that “people often give to big organizations they know little about; charity is more meaningful when it’s personal. It’s a part of your daily life. Put your dollars where your heart is.”
Interestingly enough, Ben’s connection to his Jewish heritage began with a few bumps along the road. Born and raised reform in New York City, his family belonged to Temple Shaaray Tefila, of which, as he recollects, he was not a huge fan, having been kicked out of religious school and having had to beg his way back in to have a Bar Mitzvah. “I’ve always been interested in Jewish history rather than the religious part of Judaism. My grandmother came over from Poland in the 1930s, and always drilled home the importance of being Jewish.” He fondly recalls that all of his grandparents were charitable to Jewish causes, their synagogue and other charities. He adds that the family real estate business started by his paternal grandparents is one both his father, who was brought up Orthodox, was involved in, and to this day, he is.
Susie, a school psychologist at Hebrew Academy, is a Miami native, whose mother was raised in Cape Town, South Africa by an Orthodox family and whose father hailed from Rhodesia, growing up reform. She says, “There was never a part of my life that I was without Temple. I grew up in an insulated Jewish community with a love for Israel, which I visited for the first time when I was 17. I consider myself a Jewish American, not an American Jew.”
Ben’s most cherished youthful memory is visiting Israel prior to his Bar Mitzvah. He was impressed by the armed tour guide’s stories of the Golan war, thus strengthening his attachment to the Jewish homeland in both a cultural and national manner. He eventually focused on Middle Eastern history coursework in college. Later on, while Ben was attending law school in New York and Susie was attaining her Master’s Degree, they were set up by a mutual friend.
After marrying and moving from New York back to Miami; they inquired about joining a Temple and were referred by Susie’s friend to Temple Beth Sholom. “It just seemed ideal, warm and loving, when I walked in,” she says. Before long, their son Raif was attending the Foundation School, Rabbi Pomerantz performed Lane’s Bris, and the family participated in Tot Shabbat, annual Mitzvah Day activities and forged a meaningful closeness to Rabbi Pomerantz, as well as the entire synagogue.
Ben concludes, “To Susie and me, to honor our family’s memory and their history of giving, this gift was a combination of continuing that family legacy, as well as giving to a worthy cause that has personal significance to us.”
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Kent Rathbun takes his Jasper's fried chicken to mixed-use village in Richardson
By Theresa Gubbins
Dallas CultureMap
Photo courtesy of Jasper's
Chef Kent Rathbun will open a fourth branch of Jasper's, his regional American restaurant concept, in Richardson. It will be located at a new mixed-use village called CityLine, at the intersection of Plano Road and George Bush Turnpike.
Colin Fitzgibbons, vice president for developer KDC, called Jasper's "a perfect fit" for CityLine. The restaurant is scheduled to open in summer 2015.
Jasper's focuses on the best of America's regional cuisine, with dishes such as rotisserie chicken, steak and seasonal salads. The first location opened 10 years ago in Plano; there are also branches in Austin and The Woodlands.
"When I first created the Jasper's concept, my goal was to develop a restaurant where guests could enjoy an unforgettable meal whether looking for a casual or high-end dining experience," Rathbun says.
The Richardson Jasper's will be located at the corner of Plano Road and State Street. It'll be open for lunch and dinner, and it will have a board room and private dining room for presentations, social events or business meetings. It'll also feature an outdoor dining area, bar and lounge.
KDC broke ground on CityLine in June 2013. It's a 186-acre mixed-use development with offices, hotel, cinema and apartments. State Farm will lease 1.5 million square feet in three office towers and possibly an additional 500,000-square-foot building. The development will also include a 489,000-square-foot office complex for Raytheon.
The initial phase includes an Aloft hotel, Look Cinemas, Whole Foods Market, 935 apartment units, fitness facility, medical office building and 3.5-acre park with trails.
KDC forecasts that CityLine will eventually have 6 million square feet of office space; two hotels; 3,925 multi-family residential units; 300,000 square feet of grocery, restaurant, entertainment and retail space; and three parks.
KDC is a Dallas-based commercial real estate development and investment company. It also has offices in Austin; Houston; Atlanta; and Charlotte, North Carolina.
To read this article on the Dallas CultureMap website, click here.
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Family Medicine & Primary Care Review
Original paper
Caregiver burden and the role of social support in the care of children with cystic fibrosis
Grażyna Dębska, Irena Milaniak, Dorota Domańska, Lucyna Tomaszek
Family Medicine & Primary Care Review 2019; 21(2): 98–103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/fmpcr.2019.84543
Dębska G, Milaniak I, Domańska D, Tomaszek L. Caregiver burden and the role of social support in the care of children with cystic fibrosis. Family Medicine & Primary Care Review. 2019;21(2):98-103. doi:10.5114/fmpcr.2019.84543.
Dębska, G., Milaniak, I., Domańska, D., & Tomaszek, L. (2019). Caregiver burden and the role of social support in the care of children with cystic fibrosis. Family Medicine & Primary Care Review, 21(2), 98-103. https://doi.org/10.5114/fmpcr.2019.84543
Dębska, Grażyna, Irena Milaniak, Dorota Domańska, and Lucyna Tomaszek. 2019. "Caregiver burden and the role of social support in the care of children with cystic fibrosis". Family Medicine & Primary Care Review 21 (2): 98-103. doi:10.5114/fmpcr.2019.84543.
Dębska, G., Milaniak, I., Domańska, D., and Tomaszek, L. (2019). Caregiver burden and the role of social support in the care of children with cystic fibrosis. Family Medicine & Primary Care Review, 21(2), pp.98-103. https://doi.org/10.5114/fmpcr.2019.84543
Dębska, Grażyna et al. "Caregiver burden and the role of social support in the care of children with cystic fibrosis." Family Medicine & Primary Care Review, vol. 21, no. 2, 2019, pp. 98-103. doi:10.5114/fmpcr.2019.84543.
The effort involved in caring for a patient suffering from cystic fibrosis lies with its parents/caregiver, becoming the cause of excessive burden. In such a situation, social support is an important strategy for coping with chronic illnesses.
The aim of the study was to assess the level of burden and social support for parents of children with CF and to establish a relationship between them.
The study involved 88 parents of patients with cystic fibrosis. The study utilized the standardized Caregiver Burden Scale (CB) and the Berlin Social Support Scale (BSSS).
The study group experienced an average burden level, which is dependent on the level of education. The highest level of burden was found in two subscales: disappointment and general effort, and the lowest was in the emotional involvement subscale. The level of support in the studied group was high. The largest was observed in the subscale perceived support and received support, and the lowest in the subscale seeking support. Analysis of the regression of the dependent variable of the caregiver’s level of burden showed that the level of burden determines the need for support. It has been observed that as the level of the caregiver’s burden increases, the need for support also increases. In turn, the smaller the caregiver’s burden, the lower the need for support currently received.
The caregiver burden on the parent of a children suffering from CF and the received social support are important factors influencing each other in the care of a chronically ill child. This means that the more support received, the lower the sense of burden the caregiver experiences.
cystic fibrosis, caregiver, parent, burden, social support
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How to rejoin the legal workforce after taking time off.
By Leslie Goldman and Porche Jones
Gaps in employment occur for all levels of talent from junior attorneys to the most seasoned chief legal officers. Nowadays, more than half of the many hundreds of resumes we each see annually as search consultants show some type of time off in the work history timeline. These employment gaps—defined as periods of time when a job applicant is not employed—are often an uncomfortable topic for prospective employees and employers alike. The reality is, however, that lawyers find themselves taking time off from the practice of law for countless reasons—both personal and professional.
Most people would probably agree that attorneys, as a whole, are hard-charging Type A personalities who thrive on a challenge and embrace the adrenaline rush that accompanies a full plate. Given that, any deviation from this path and questions about an uncertain future can be traumatizing. These inquiries, however, are answerable, and will allow for successful re-entry into the workforce when the time comes.
Voluntary vs. Involuntary
When the time comes to rejoin the workforce, in an interview, a hiring manager will want to know the reason for the gap and the motivation for returning to practice, explains Amy Monroe, former internal recruiter for Sidley Austin and current Major, Lindsey & Africa legal search consultant. Whether voluntary or not, the key will be how the gap is explained, which is just as important as what caused it, if not more so.
Keep in mind that human resources executives are empathetic and simply want to understand the story behind the gap. The explanation does not need to be an apology or overly informative in nature; it simply needs to be concise and honest. Most hiring managers are familiar with the causes surrounding involuntary gaps. They’ve lived through market ebbs and flows from the dot-com bubble and subsequent bust, the 2008-2009 financial crash, the drop in oil prices, and other similar downturns. Pair that experience with consolidations and roll-ups and involuntary gaps become evident and relatable at every level in both companies and law firms. Downsizing, a change of control, a change of chief executive officer, restructuring, bankruptcy, etc., are all easily explainable.
A voluntary gap is no different. Most people have faced a personal crisis that requires their undivided attention away from the office or an existential crisis that requires time to reassess and re-evaluate. These situations are explainable and are becoming increasingly more common in today’s workforce. However, the story here needs to be told with the utmost confidence and conviction, emphasizing how the decision was made, how time was spent staying active during the break, and how that time was used as preparation for the future.
Navigating the Gap
The activities you pursued during the gap are important to successful re-entry into the legal workforce. This gap can be used to traverse many paths: furthering education, developing relationships, volunteering, etc. This time should be looked at as an opportunity for growth. However, if your goal is to ultimately return to practice, a period should be set aside each day to return calls and emails, set appointments and interviews, and read up on the latest trends and developments.
The legal landscape is constantly transforming, and staying on top of what is happening in the profession will make the transition back smoother no matter how much time passes. Continuing education courses are one way to stay abreast of changes and keep at the forefront of the profession. Opportunities also exist through local bar associations, giving members access to resources and services that will keep them active and in touch with trends, colleagues, and opportunities. The ultimate goal should be keeping a hand in the industry, developing new skills, and building connections. Experience shows that the longer someone is out of practice, the harder it is to get back into the workplace. During this time, it is vital to maintain connections and build new ones, which is where old-fashioned, in-person networking becomes imperative. Done right, it can broaden your opportunities while significantly easing the actual job search process.
Of the many candidates with gaps on their resumes, those most successful at getting back into the industry have remained active in the legal community in some manner. Often, a former colleague or networking connection will be the key to identifying that next opportunity. In fact, most of the in-house attorneys we interviewed for this article found their path back in through their networks. One of them, currently working as a senior attorney in a large corporation, had taken an eight-year gap to care for family. Another current general counsel of a public company had taken two years off after serving in the same position in an entirely different industry. Another general counsel had a shorter gap, but nevertheless, like the others, continued to let people know she was ready and available and to keep their eyes and ears open for her.
Some choose to explore nontraditional work opportunities to remain involved and fulfilled until they are ready to re-enter the legal ranks in full force. These could include part-time positions that might require more routine work but may offer more manageable hours and greater work-life balance. For some, this could mean teaching law school classes. Others choose to volunteer for nonprofit organizations supporting the legal industry. All of these opportunities help keep skills fresh and keep a lawyer relevant in the profession.
When the time comes to return to the workforce, “the job search should be treated like a job itself,” explained the general counsel for a global Fortune 200 corporation who had been displaced earlier in her career due to an acquisition of her company. She said it requires drive, passion, and energy and ultimately found her current general counsel role by focusing on networking. Like another Fortune 200 general counsel we interviewed, she wasn’t sure she’d land another general counsel role, so she was somewhat flexible in her search.
Alternative career opportunities should still be considered, especially for those higher up in the corporate hierarchy. Keep in mind that fewer job openings exist at the top, while opportunities abound for associate-level attorneys, especially those willing to explore something new. This does not mean more experienced lawyers should not consider something new. For example, those who previously served as in-house counsel could return to a law firm. The firm gains the benefit of the former in-house counsel’s savvy from the client perspective, while the lawyer gets back into the profession.
Sometimes the career change means permanently becoming a contractor or working part time—both of which can be highly appealing thanks to flexible work schedules. Contract work consists of working in a law firm or in-house legal department for a specified period of time. Some contract roles may be ongoing, depending on the need. It is ideal for attorneys who may have been out of work for a period of time and want to sharpen their skills or those who prefer a flexible work schedule. Some attorneys also take on contract work after retirement. It allows the flexibility to work short periods of time to make extra money while also enjoying life after a full-time job. Another perk is the ability to work remotely. Some employers prefer having a contractor work out of office to reduce costs. Additionally, some attorneys accept contract-to-permanent jobs because it allows the employee to learn more about the role and the culture of the team and to determine whether the fit is a good one before making a permanent decision.
The best move may even be to take a step back in your career, whether it’s a different title or smaller company. Whatever it is, the name on the door should not be a hindrance to a position that could be a better fit. This was the approach taken by one general counsel who was let go after a change in management and worked her way back to the top legal position.
Getting Back In
Personal stories can allow candidates to win their way back into the legal world. Time and again, persistence and drive gets you in the door. Remember that those hiring will still want to understand a resume gap, which you can explain during the interview process.
Hang Bower, former chief human resources officer for Chicago-based BDO USA and current executive search consultant for Allegis Partners, suggests approaching an interview by:
• Being clear, honest, and concise with your explanation.
• Concentrating on accomplishments during the time off (i.e., kept up on certifications, went to industry events, and volunteered at a local nonprofit) and connecting them to the job at hand.
• Focusing on passion for why you do what you do—making it clear that you are back and ready to go full throttle.
In a life filled with competing priorities and unpredictable work environments, gaps on resumes are becoming more common—whether they are caused by caring for young children or an ailing parent, pursuing another passion, a change of control or CEO, or just moving beyond an ill-fitting job. Once it’s time to return to the workforce, a gap should not define you. In the words of a successful senior associate reentrant: “It hasn’t been hard to get back into the permanent workforce because I have a good story to tell—I was a great employee and I have great recommendations.” If you want it, know your story and the rest should follow.TBJ
LESLIE GOLDMAN is a managing director in Major, Lindsey & Africa’s in-house practice group, focusing on in-house legal searches from mid-level attorneys to senior executives. She is the former vice president and general counsel of Fisher HealthCare.
PORCHE JONES is a director in Major, Lindsey & Africa’s solutions practice group, specializing in interim and permanent placements of lawyers and other legal professionals. She holds a J.D. from Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
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Artists James Abbott McNeill Whistler Biography and Legacy
James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Biography and Legacy
American Painter
Movements and Styles: Aesthetic Art, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism
Born: July 11, 1834 - Lowell, Massachusetts
Died: July 17, 1903 - London, England
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"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano."
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
"An artist's career always begins tomorrow."
"A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared."
"Nature contains the elements, in color and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artist is born to pick and choose...that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony..."
"Art should be independent of all clap-trap--should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.'"
Biography of James Abbott McNeill Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was the oldest son of engineer George Washington Whistler and his devoutly Episcopalian second wife Anna McNeill. As a child Whistler was temperamental and prone to mood swings. His parents quickly discovered that drawing soothed him and so they encouraged his artistic inclinations. When in 1842 Whistler's father was recruited by Tsar Nicholas I to design a railroad, James moved with his father, mother, and younger brother William (later a surgeon for the Confederate army) to St. Petersburg in Russia. There, the precocious youth insisted on showing his drawings to Sir William Allan, a Scottish painter hired by the Tsar to create a portrait of Peter the Great. Allan encouraged the youth to cultivate his talents and in 1845, at age 11, Whistler was enrolled in the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. This, Whistler's first formal art instruction, ended just four years later when his father died from cholera and the family returned to the United States, settling in Pomfret, Connecticut.
Whistler's mother strove to keep her children morally grounded and to give them every opportunity, despite their precarious financial situation. She sent James to Christ Church Hall School and read Bible verses to him every morning in the hope that he would pursue a career as a minister. But her son would not be deterred from pursuing art. Whistler enrolled in the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1852, where he studied drawing under Robert W. Weir, but his aversion to authority and poor academic performance led to his expulsion shortly thereafter. Map-making, a skill developed at West Point, helped Whistler acquire his first job upon leaving school as a topographical draftsman for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. During his brief two-month tenure, the artist learned about the etching process, a skill that he would later use to create 490 etchings, drypoints, and mezzotints. Intent on pursuing art as a profession, Whistler left for Europe in 1855. He would never return to the United States.
Early Training
Paris provided a solid training ground for Whistler in more ways than one, the confident youth was briefly a student at the Ecole Imperiale before attending the atelier of Swiss painter Charles Gabriel Gleyre, later teacher to Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. Finding himself far removed from his mother's religious influence, the 21-year-old quickly fell into the manner of a bohemian artist. He adopted the casual air of the carefully coiffed flâneur, idly strolling along Parisian boulevards and taking in every detail of his urban surroundings. "Jimmy," as he was known to friends, spent his funds lavishly on clothes, tobacco, food, drink, and art supplies. He was often reduced to pawning possessions or relying on the generosity of friends to cover his mounting debt. An admirer of 17th-century Dutch and Spanish masters, Whistler copied their works on view in the Louvre and sold them to help alleviate his financial burden.
Whistler's true artistic development began in 1858 when he became friends with French painter Henri Fantin-Latour and through him met Realist painters Gustave Courbet, Alphonse Legros, and Édouard Manet, as well as the poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire who is credited with defining the term "modernity" as the fleetingness of the urban experience. Whistler's painting style at this early juncture was deeply influenced by Courbet's realism, as seen in the earthy colors and finely textured surfaces of At the Piano (1859). Created the same year the artist relocated to London, At the Piano depicts a mother and child, the artist's half-sister and niece, in the music room of their London home. The painting was well received when exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1860. And yet within a few years, Whistler abandoned this Realist perspective in favor of a whimsical style more closely aligned with Aestheticism in terms of its decorative quality. His incorporation of oriental props and adherence to Japanese aesthetic principles further separated him from the Realists, while catapulting him to new heights within the Aesthetic movement.
Mature Period
Whistler settled permanently in London in 1859, but visited and exhibited his work in continental Europe, particularly France, frequently, though not always with the success he sought. For example, the portrait of his mistress Joanna Hiffernan titled Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl (1862) was rejected by both the Royal Academy in London and the French Salon. The rejected painting instead appeared under the title The White Girl in the Salon des Refusés in 1863, along with work by other avant-garde artists, including Édouard Manet. Though derided by more conservative viewers at the time, The White Girl, like Manet's Le dejeuner sur l'herbe (1863), is now considered an important early example of modern art. It is the first of many works by Whistler that relied on color to explore spatial and formal relationships in a visually stimulating manner consistent with the Aesthetic belief in "art for art's sake."
The painter was as adventurous in his travels as he was with a brush. In 1866 Whistler unexpectedly set sail for Valparaiso, Chile. Some scholars have speculated that he was sympathetic to the Chilean army then at war with Spain and ventured there to support the Chilean war effort. Regardless of his reason for making the trip, once there Whistler painted three seascapes that marked a shift in his artistic repertoire. These evening harbor scenes initially titled "moonlights" and later changed to "nocturnes," inspired similarly titled impressionist views of the Thames River and Cremorne Gardens created upon the artist's return to London.
Whistler became aware of Impressionism thanks to fellow artists Claude Monet and Camille Pissaro, who in 1870 had temporarily relocated to London to avoid the Franco-Prussian War. During these years, Whistler created his nocturnes by applying thin layers of paint peppered with flecks of bright color to suggest distant lights or ships. Japanese aesthetic principles, such as simplified forms and expressive lines, evident in these paintings, were a revelation for English Aesthetic artists unfamiliar with Asian prints and porcelain collected by Whistler and his French contemporaries. Similar to his portraits and consistent with French Impressionist principles, Whistler's nocturnes also show his modernist preoccupation with creating an overall effect at the expense of specific details and accurate representation. In fact Edgar Degas invited Whistler to join the Impressionist's first group exhibition in 1874, but Whistler declined.
Although Whistler painted maritime nocturnes for the next 10 years, his production of portraits did not wane. It was during this period that he created his best-known work, a portrait of his mother titled Arrangement in Gray and Black or Portrait of the Artist's Mother (1871). The painting brought him great success, but the arrival of his mother in 1864 had put a severe crimp in the carefree life he had been living in London. When he learned of her plans to stay with him, the twenty-nine year old Whistler was forced to straighten-up his life, which included moving his then mistress Joanna Hiffernan out of his house and into an apartment.
As Whistler grew in recognition as an artist, so too did his reputation as a witty, opinionated man. He once bested Oscar Wilde at a party by calling attention to the author's habit of plagiarizing clever phrases (including some of Whistler's own). But the artist also suffered from volatile mood swings and a considerable temper, maladies he had been grappling with since childhood. Indeed it was anger and jealousy that caused Whistler's relationship with his mistress Joanna Hiffernan to fall apart after she posed nude for his friend Gustave Courbet.
Whistler's dominant personality at times adversely affected his career as an artist. Now celebrated as the greatest example of Anglo-Japanese artistic fusion and the most significant contribution to Aesthetic interior design, Whistler's Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (1876-77) caused considerable strife between the artist and his patron Frederick Leyland. Whistler was an avid collector of Japanese prints and porcelain. So when Leyland asked him to make some minor changes to his dining room designed to showcase his own collection of porcelain, Whistler eagerly accepted. The artist's modifications, however, proved to be more extensive than expected and a payment dispute ensued.
Whistler also argued with art critics. By way of explaining his approach to painting, he developed his own theory of art that he described in 1873 as "the science of color and 'picture pattern'." Upset by what he viewed as an attack on Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1874) in the form of a poor review by John Ruskin, Whistler sued the art critic for libel. Although the artist won, the judge's award of a single farthing, the equivalent of mere pennies, made a strong statement about the value the court placed on the case. Whistler's need to pay his expensive court costs forced him into financial ruin.
Late Period
In 1879 a bankrupt Whistler was forced out of his London home. He and his new mistress, Maud Franklin, traveled to Venice where he fulfilled a commission from the Fine Art Society to create a series of etchings. During his fourteen-month sojourn, Whistler also created many pastel and watercolor paintings along with more than fifty etchings of scenes from Venice. His etchings of the Italian city were well received when exhibited in London in 1880 and 1883 and demand developed for his pastels.
During the later years of his life he continued to paint portraits, experimented with color photography and lithographs, and published two books; Ten O'clock Lecture (1885) and The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (1890). Ever cognizant of his public persona, Whistler worked hard to cultivate his image as a successful artist. He could often be seen wearing a monocle, bamboo walking stick in hand, sporting a single white forelock in his otherwise brown hair, a distinction friends attributed to his "wickedness." Always striving for control, he was known to advise women what to wear to his exhibitions so that their outfits would not clash with the colors in his works. By the 1890s, Whistler had also created his own unique signature: a butterfly formed from his initials with a stinger for a tail - an allusion, perhaps, to his delicate touch and sharp tongue.
In 1888 Whistler married his former pupil and friend Beatrix Godwin. A reputable woman, her connections helped him secure more commissions for work. The couple eventually moved to Paris where Whistler established a studio and had a period of productive output before suffering the loss of his wife to cancer in 1896. Later, Whistler founded an art school but his failing health made the project unmanageable. The school closed in 1901, just two years before Whistler's death in 1903.
The Legacy of James Abbott McNeill Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, like Courbet, adopted an artistic persona and staunchly defended his work in a manner that would inspire later generations of artists to challenge art authorities. Although his painting style was too radical for many Victorians, by the time of his death the artist had been credited with introducing modern French painting to England, as noted in London's Daily Chronicle: "It is twenty-five years since the famous case, 'Whistler versus Ruskin,' was tried. In the history of art it might be two hundred years, so completely has the point of view of the critics and the public changed, so completely has the brilliant genius of the man whom Ruskin called a 'coxcomb' been vindicated."
The influence of Whistler's work is most apparent in the paintings of his American contemporaries and later generations of modern artists. John Singer Sargent, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Albert Herter are among other American painters who admired and at times imitated Whistler's approach to color and even the arrangement of forms within his pictures. The artist's Nocturnes marked the beginning of art's movement toward abstraction, which would culminate in the gestural Action Paintings of Abstract Expressionists Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. By envisioning and titling his works in abstract musical terms, Whistler helped spearhead a new modern approach to painting in which the medium itself is the subject, not the sitter or landscape pictured.
Most Important Art
Symphony in White, No.1: The White Girl (1862)
Originally titled The White Girl, this painting depicts a young woman, Whistler's mistress and model Joanna Hiffernan, with long, flowing red hair and wearing a simple white cambric dress. She stands on a similarly colored bearskin rug as she grasps a white flower at her side, her distant gaze lending her a doll-like quality. Indeed, Whistler treats her as a toy or pawn of sorts in that that artist is here less concerned with the accuracy of portraiture as he is with using the canvas as a means of exploring tonal variations. That Whistler later re-titled the painting Symphony in White, No.1: The White Girl to draw attention to the varying white tones of the work and suggest a comparison between them and music notes, clarifies this objective.
The painting bears the distinction of being the first work to truly achieve fame for the artist. Rejected by London's Royal Academy and the French Academy's Salon for its inappropriate subject matter that seemed to suggest the loss of innocence, the painting appeared in the Salon des Refuses in 1863, where it was greatly admired by Édouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, and Charles Baudelaire, among others. Symphony in White denotes Whistler's shift from mimicking Courbet's realism to developing his own signature abstract style in which he focused on using subtle color variations, texture, and the careful balancing of forms or shapes to convey a mood that would appeal to the senses.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler Artworks in Focus:
James Abbott McNeill Whistler Overview Continues Below
Edited and revised, with Synopsis and Key Ideas added by Sandy McCain
First published on 22 Mar 2016. Updated and modified regularly.
Aesthetic Art
The Aesthetic Movement emerged first in Britain in the late-nineteenth century. Inspired by a rejection of previous styles in both the fine and decorative arts, its adherents were committed to the pursuit of beauty and the doctrine of 'art for art's sake'. Believing that art had declined in an era of utility and rationalism, they claimed that art deserved to be judged on its own terms alone.
Realism is an approach to art that stresses the naturalistic representation of things, the look of objects and figures in ordinary life. It emerged as a distinct movement in the mid-nineteenth century, in opposition to the idealistic, sometimes mythical subjects that were then popular, but it can be traced back to sixteenth-century Dutch art and forward into twentieth-century styles such as Social Realism.
A movement in painting that first surfaced in France in the 1860s, it sought new ways to describe effects of light and movement, often using rich colors. The Impressionists were drawn to modern life and often painted the city, but they also captured landscapes and scenes of middle-class leisure-taking in the suburbs.
Post-Impressionism refers to a number of styles that emerged in reaction to Impressionism in the 1880s. The movement encompassed Symbolism and Neo-Impressionism before ceding to Fauvism around 1905. Its artists turned away from effects of light and atmosphere to explore new avenues such as color theory and personal feeling, often using colors and forms in intense and expressive ways.
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Teaching Kids to Code During the Summer—for $1,000 a Week
Are private summer camps exacerbating tech's diversity problem?
Lindsay Gellman
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On a humid morning in June, classrooms along a third-floor corridor in a New York University building hummed with high-pitched chatter. The space serves as the hub for summer programs in computer science run by the California-based company iD Tech Camps. In one room, a group of children, ages seven to nine, knelt on the carpet next to small white robots, which they were learning to program with handheld tablets. Nearby, other kids worked on laptops, recording YouTube videos or designing video games. Down the hall, a group of teenagers jotted notes as an instructor diagrammed a linear-regression algorithm on a whiteboard. While some planned to return the following week, several told me they were squeezing in a few days of programming instruction before heading off to sleepaway camp or on family vacations.
Kids don’t learn much coding in school, which can leave them unprepared to tackle computer science in college or in a career. There are more than 540,000 open computing jobs, yet fewer than 50,000 computer-science majors graduated into the workforce last year, according to Code.org, a nonprofit that seeks to expand computer-science instruction in schools. Summer camps like iD Tech are stepping in to fill the gap, positioning themselves as a potential entry point to a career in tech down the road. iD Tech, which operates on more than a hundred campuses in the United States and abroad, has established itself—along with competitors like Digital Media Academy—as a dominant player in the niche market of summer tech programs for children and adolescents. More than 50,000 students plan to attend its camps this summer. At roughly $1,000 a week, though, these programs remain out of reach for many families, raising questions about how for-profit enrichment programs might shape access to tech education for a generation of young people—and whether they perpetuate patterns that exclude underrepresented candidates.
While many classmates at her New York City private school spend the summer at sleepaway camp, Brie Friedman, 15 years old, told me that she would rather learn to encrypt a file or dismantle a computer’s hardware to peek inside. So for the past six summers, she’s attended iD Tech’s NYU program to build on her interests in math, science, and tech. Friedman, who wore a charcoal-colored hoodie that morning, told me that last summer, she modeled a white miniature computer and used the camp’s 3D printer to create a physical version that now lives on her desk at home. This summer, she’s enrolled in the full seven weeks of iD Tech programs on offer.
Friedman’s mother, Wendi Friedman Tush, who runs a New York branding consultancy, acknowledged that the camp is expensive, but says she found it comparable to some other summer options like sleepaway camp. She credits iD Tech with helping her daughter, who is dyslexic, channel what had been an early interest in playing video games into an aptitude and passion for computer science. “It’s given her a whole new set of skills,” she says.
Pete Ingram-Cauchi, iD Tech’s CEO, says that the summer programs help ignite early interest in children who might one day go on to consider a career in STEM. “We’re trying to create the next generation in the pipeline of these tech-savvy kids,” he says.
That pipeline, though, has traditionally been leaky for low-income students. In general, the weeks of summer break between school years tend to exacerbate achievement gaps between students from affluent and poor families. While students across the board lose about a month’s worth of the previous year’s lessons, students from lower-income families tend to slip further than their wealthier classmates, who are more likely to attend enrichment programs or benefit from more frequent adult supervision. While there are plenty of free online coding classes, in-person programs aren’t as accessible: Free and low-cost coding camps run by nonprofits like Girls Who Code and Kode With Klossy tend to be reserved for girls, and are often oversubscribed.
In the absence of widespread coding instruction in schools, some educators and activists are expressing concerns about a system where expensive summer programs, available to the privileged few, serve as on-ramps to early computer-science proficiency, and ultimately, technology jobs. That prospect is particularly worrisome in a sector where women and some minorities have been underrepresented. Women make up 24 percent of people in computing occupations, according to an analysis of 2017 data from Code.org. About 8 percent of computing employees are black, and 7 percent are Hispanic.
The future of AI depends on high-school girls
“At a time when Americans worry about opportunity and the ‘American Dream,’ there is no better equalizer than computer science,” Hadi Partovi, the CEO of Code.org, says. “The idea that it would be limited to elite summer camps is just un-American.”
Of course, paid summer camps are part of an American tradition stretching back more than a century. Ingram-Cauchi says factors like employing one staffer for every eight campers, offering intensive employee training, and letting students use top-of-the-line laptops drive up iD Tech’s operating costs. “It’s tricky, because we would love to be able to say, ‘Every single kid can come to one of our camps,’’’ he says. “We want to be able to provide the absolute best STEM experience on the planet for our kids, but that means it’s not inexpensive.”
He says the company is working to significantly expand access to its summer programs to families who can’t afford the price. Since its founding in 1999 through last year, the company provided about $3 million in tuition help. This year, Ingram-Cauchi says, it plans to provide nearly $1 million in need-based scholarships and tuition assistance, including tuition aid of about $740,000 already granted to around 880 campers. iD Tech also runs some free weeklong camps called “outreach weeks” in partnership with nonprofits for students from low-income families. This year, they will operate at five of its roughly 150 locations.
iD Tech doesn’t track campers by socioeconomic status or race. Ingram-Cauchi believes the STEM-pipeline issue iD Tech is best positioned to address is that of gender imbalance. In 2014, the company launched a specialized girls-only program called “Alexa Café” to recruit more female campers, with the goal of achieving gender parity across its camp programs. Since then, the share of girl campers has risen from 12 percent to 28 percent, he says.
Yet steps towards gender parity in tech too often leave behind girls of color and girls from low-income families, says Tarika Barrett, the chief operating officer at Girls Who Code. The organization offers free after-school and summer coding programs and recruits girls primarily from underserved communities. About half of the girls in its free seven-week summer-immersion program are black, Latina, or eligible for free or reduced-price lunches, she says. Since its launch in 2012, almost 90,000 girls have participated in its programs. Most of them, Barrett says, had no—or very little—prior experience with computer science. “The exposure they gain is often the moment where they think to themselves for the first time, ‘Oh, I could see myself as a computer scientist,’” she says.
Extracurricular enrichment is only part of the picture. Code.org’s Partovi is among those calling for more computer-science instruction in schools, arguing that basic computer-science literacy has become fundamental to a well-rounded education and preparedness for the workforce. Thirteen states mandate that high schools offer computer-science courses, according to Code.org. Just five states require courses starting in elementary school. Among principals at K-12 schools, 40 percent reported that their school offered at least one computer science class where students could learn programming or coding, according to a 2016 survey commissioned by Google and conducted by Gallup.
That’s still a long way from incorporating computer science as a basic element of the educational experience. Code.org, Girls Who Code, and other organizations are working to train more teachers in computer science so that they can bring tech instruction into the classroom. Code.org, which is funded in part by tech firms including Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook, runs teacher-training programs. After attending, elementary-school teachers typically incorporate about an hour of computer science classes into their weekly curriculum for 10 to 15 weeks; middle- and high-school teachers finish the training equipped to teach year-long courses. Since the programs’ launch in 2014, roughly 75,000 teachers have attended. Code.org has also made policy proposals at the federal and state levels suggesting, for example, that schools be required to eventually offer computer science, and allow computer science to satisfy a core graduation requirement. Since January, 25 states have passed new laws or initiatives that support the expansion of computer science in schools.
“Everybody learns in school how a light bulb works, how the digestive system works, how photosynthesis works,” Partovi says. As computing reshapes virtually every industry, all students should also be learning how technology works. “These aren’t things that we want only the elites to know.”
Lindsay Gellman is a writer based in New York.
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Christie First Post-Scandal Town Hall Meeting Was Awkward
Chris Christie's latest town hall—the first since it was revealed that members of his administration had organized a traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge—was reportedly pretty awkward.
Brian Feldman
Chris Christie's latest town hall—the first since it was revealed that members of his administration had organized a traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge—was reportedly pretty awkward. What was once a forum for Christie to effortlessly interact with his constituents turned into a slightly contentious affair.
In his four years as governor, Christie has hosted more than 100 town hall meetings, with his staff often splicing the best bits to put on YouTube later. It became an integral part of his administration's public relations strategy. But now, as The New York Times puts it, "The man who once commanded these rooms just by walking into them seemed unmistakably mortal."
The conversation mostly focused on ongoing Sandy recovery. One audience member told the Times that she resented Christie for invoking her daughter as a way to score points when talking about the recovery. Another audience member grabbed the mic back from Christie in order to continue speaking. Nobody actually asked Christie about the bridge scandal, although one audience member who brought a sign reading "RESIGN CHRISTIE" had it taken away from her.
Ouch! This greets @GovChristie at his 1st town hall in 8 months. pic.twitter.com/oJaP1mfql9
— Matt Katz (@mattkatz00) February 20, 2014
Bruce Springsteen, the governor's not-at-all-secret love, ended up being a topic of the discussion. At one point, a man asked the question on everyone's mind: "When you go home tonight would you please destroy all of your Bruce Springsteen CDs? He’s not a friend of yours."
"The CDs could be destroyed," Christie responded. "I have it all on my iPhone now." Ya burnt? I guess? The governor went on to add that he hoped that he and Bruce could patch things up eventually. Springsteen had famously brushed off the governor until the Hurricane Sandy recovery when they finally came together—for Jersey's sake. Then Fort Lee happened, and Springsteen made fun of Christie on Late Night, and that made the governor sad. Now, the two men compose America's foremost "will they or won't they?" couple.
The town hall was certainly not a total disaster. According to WNYC's account, the governor still managed to win over the crowd. Yet Christie, post-scandal, has shown more vulnerability than ever, and the crowd was clearly seizing on it.
Brian Feldman is a writer based in New York.
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Even More Nuclear Waste Could Be Buried Beneath New Mexico's Desert
The Department of Energy has long been burying plutonium waste beneath the surface of New Mexico's desert. The DOE stashes it inside carved-out salt beds, which act as a sealant. Plutonium, which has an extremely long half-life, is not that radioactive. But the DOE is eyeing the underground plant as a potential storage facility for much more radioactive nuclear waste.
Danielle Wiener-Bronner
The Department of Energy has long been burying plutonium waste beneath the surface of New Mexico's desert. The DOE stashes it inside carved-out salt beds, which act as a sealant. Plutonium, which has an extremely long half-life, is not that radioactive. But the DOE is eyeing an underground plant in Southeastern N.M. as a potential storage facility for much more radioactive nuclear waste.
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) located 25 miles east of Carlsbad, is considered a safe way to dispose of plutonium waste. The New York Times explains that the salt slowly -- at a rate of roughly six inches per year -- seals the containers of waste into the ground. Last week a salt-bearing truck caught fire in the mine, but officials said no harm was done and that all radioactive material was untouched. One engineer told the New York Times that the waste will be safely sealed away for an "eternity."
Legally the plant is only permitted to store plutonium waste, but officials are considering tweaking WIPP's regulations to allow it to store more potent waste, years after a plan to store more harmful nuclear waste products in Nevada's Yucca Mountain was quashed. The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, conceived in 1987, was never realized thanks to opposition from Nevada residents and leaders, who convinced the federal government to shut it down in 2009. The nuclear storage vacuum has been highly problematic for the U.S. nuclear program, as Slate explains:
Since America's commercial reactors started opening in the 1960s and ’70s, nuclear waste has been piling up. At first, it was stored in spent fuel pools—swimming pools you'd never, ever want to swim in. That was fine for a time, but by the 1980s, the pools started to get crowded. So the utilities began putting old fuel rods in something they call dry cask storage, and I'll call nuclear dumpsters. They're big, they're white, and they're literally kept out back like the rest of the trash.
Now, officials hope to replace the Yucca plant with the WIPP. Per the Times:
Experts say that proper testing and analysis might show that the salt beds at WIPP are a good home for the radioactive waste that was once meant for Yucca. Some people despair of finding a place for what officials call a high-level nuclear “repository” — they shy away from “dump” — but Allison M. Macfarlane, a geologist who is chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and who served on a presidential study commission established after the Yucca plan was canceled, said WIPP proves it can be done. “The main lesson from WIPP is that we have already developed a geologic repository for nuclear waste in this country, so we can in the future,” she said. The key, she said, is a site that is acceptable to both scientists and the local community.
If the government is looking for a nuclear-friendly audience, they may have found one in New Mexico. According to the Times, leaders are pushing for the program to expand. The Head of the Nuclear Opportunities Task Force, John A. Heaton, argues that a nuclear storage plant would help the regional economy, saying "nobody comes in and helps rural areas. You have to live by your wits." And Rev. David Wilson Rogers of Carlsbad's First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) said "this facility has the opportunity to give a blessing tot he world by having a safe repository."
Some, however, fear that the growing prevalence of fracking in the region could mean that the waste materials could leak during drilling, and would end up being buried for far less time than planned. The Southwest Research and Information Center's safety director, Don Hancock, told the Times that he has been opposing the WIPP since the 1970s, adding, "If WIPP really is a pilot plant, as its name says, we should have WIPP do what it’s supposed to do, and operate safely for 25 or 30 years, and then safely decommission it to demonstrate to us and the world that in fact geologic disposal does work.”
Danielle Wiener-Bronner is a former staff writer for The Wire. Her work has appeared in The Huffington Post and Reuters.
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Aides Do Not Believe That Clinton Will Drop Out Tomorrow Night
Everywhere, there are rumors of an imminent drop-out by Sen. Hillary Clinton, and I have indeed fanned some of those flames. But there's no real evidence that tomorrow night's speech will be the moment.
Maybe it will, maybe it won't -- who knows how the reality of the results tomorrow will factor into Clinton's thinking at 6:00pm, 7:00pm, 8:00pm Tuesday night.
(1) Senior staffers swear that Clinton has not told them she will drop out and that she has not hinted to them that she will drop out.
(2) The idea to invite major donors and allies to New York was generated by a senior staffer and not by the Clintons.
(3) Donors are being asked to come up; they're not being urged; they're not being pressured; they're not being given information to suggest that tomorrow is a last hurrah.
(4) Tomorrow night's speech is being billed as a celebration of Clinton's campaign and what it and its 17 million supporters have accomplished.
What happens beyond Tuesday is unknowable. Aides are prudently and predictably preparing to leave, but none have been told to. Expense receipts are being gathered by the finance department, which is something that a smart finance department would do in this case.
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230 dead in nightclub blaze
A victim of the fire is carried in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. [AP]
A massive fire claimed at least 230 lives and injured 200 others after a pyrotechnics malfunction at a nightclub in the southern Brazilian city of Santa Maria – an investigation is now underway.
Santa Maria is near the borders with Argentina and Uruguay, some 300km west of the state capital of Porto Alegre.
Victims died of asphyxiation or from being trampled, said Major Gerson da Rosa Ferreira, a member of the military police that was overseeing rescue efforts.
He said there were as many as 500 people inside the club when the fire broke out – mostly teenagers and college students.
Police Major Cleberson Braida Bastianello said officials counted 232 bodies that had been brought for identification to a gymnasium after the blaze erupted early on Sunday.
Police official Sandro Meinerz told the Agencia Estado news agency that manslaughter charges could be filed against the band, at least one of whom died in the fire, or their crew.
Brazilian President Dilma Roussef, Brazil’s cancelled a series of meetings she had scheduled at a summit of Latin American and European leaders in Chile’s capital of Santiago.
She headed to Santa Maria where she visited the make-shift morgue for the fire victims.
She was visibly moved by the sight of the bodies and tried to console the grieving families, according to the Brazilian foreign ministry.
“It is a tragedy for all of us. I am not going to continue in the meeting [in Chile] for very clear reasons,” she said before arriving in Santa Maria, where she met with families of the victims.
Luiza Sousa, a civil police official in Santa Maria, told the Reuters news agency the blaze started when a member of the band or its production team ignited a flare, which then set fire to the ceiling. The fire spread “in seconds”, Sousa said.
Guido Pedroso Melo, commander of the city’s fire department, told the O Globo newspaper that firefighters had a hard time getting inside the club because “there was a barrier of bodies blocking the entrance”.
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Affidavit details what happened in days leading up to, after Kelsey Berreth’s death
Posted: 12:23 PM, Feb 20, 2019
After Tuesday’s hours-long preliminary hearing for Patrick Frazee , who is accused of murdering his 29-year-old fiancee Kelsey Berreth, more information about the days around the Woodland Park mother’s death have come to the surface in an affidavit released Wednesday morning.
TELLER COUNTY, Colo. — After Tuesday’s hours-long preliminary hearing for Patrick Frazee , who is accused of murdering his 29-year-old fiancee Kelsey Berreth, more information about the days around the Woodland Park mother’s death have come to the surface in an affidavit released Wednesday morning.
To recap: On Dec. 31, 2018, Frazee was charged with first-degree murder , first-degree murder after deliberation, three counts of solicitation for first-degree murder, tampering with a deceased body and two crime of violence sentence enhancers. According to details from Tuesday’s preliminary hearing , he killed her with a baseball bat in her home and solicited Krystal Lee Kenney, whom he had previously dated, of Idaho to help him.
MORE: Kelsey Berreth case: A timeline of everything investigators have uncovered in woman's murder
The case started on Dec. 2, when Berreth’s mother contacted the Woodland Park Police Department and told them she hadn’t been able to communicate with her daughter for more than a week. She asked them to check on her daughter.
About two and a half months later, investigators had arrested Frazee , charged Kenney and announced they believed Berreth had been brutally murdered.
Read the full affidavit here and the charging document here.
Kenney spills details on scene in Berreth’s home
On Nov. 22 around 4:30 p.m., while she was in Idaho, Kenney received a text from Frazee: “You need to get here now. You’ve got a mess to clean up.”
She told authorities that when she received that text, she “understood that as Berreth had been killed,” according to the affidavit.
While Kenney wasn’t present for the alleged murder, she said Frazee described it in detail. He said he had blindfolded Berreth to have her guess the scents of different candles. While she was distracted, he hit her with a baseball bat in the face, killing her.
When she arrived at Berreth’s home, Kenney said it was a horrific scene with blood everywhere.
“Blood was on the curtains, pillows, books, baby toys, stuffed animals, oven mitts, Berreth’s purse, and other items,” according to the affidavit.
Blood had also been splattered on the floor of the kitchen, walls, ceiling, TV, pictures, couch and books.
Kaylee, Frazee and Berreth’s 1-year-old daughter, was in a playpen in a back bedroom at the time of the alleged murder.
In a white suit that covered her whole body, plus a hair net, booties and gloves, Kenney spent hours cleaning the residence. She used the shower to help clean the scene, she told authorities.
Kenney packed up bloodied items and removed them from the home, she said.
While cleaning, she also found a tooth on the ground. Frazee had told her he was concerned that a tooth had been left behind because he had hit Berreth in the face with the bat.
Kenney said she disposed of the tooth as well.
Despite her cleaning efforts, crime scene investigators found blood on the base of a toilet, towel rack, door handle, ceiling and other areas in the home after Berreth’s family members, who were living in the apartment, told authorities about a substance they had found on the toilet. They also said it was odd for Berreth to leave her toiletries behind if she’d gone on a trip.
Investigators found unknown male and unknown female DNA in the apartment, and they said the male profile is unlikely to be Frazee, based on lab reports.
Getting rid of the body in Florissant
Frazee moved Berreth’s body from her home in a black plastic tote, according to the affidavit. He drove to Nash Ranch in Park County on Nov. 22 and, using a tractor, placed the bag on top of a haystack.
In the afternoon or early evening of Nov. 24, Frazee and Kenney moved the tote from the ranch and drove it in his pickup back to his home in Florissant. Between 5:01 p.m. and 6:14 p.m., cell phones from both of them, as well as Berreth’s phone, pinged off a cell tower outside Cripple Creek, which is about 30 minutes south of Florissant.
Kenney told investigators that Frazee put the tote and other items from the house in a large trough — one that could hold about 100 gallons. Using motor oil and at least five gallons of gasoline, Frazee set the tote on fire.
Frazee asked Kenney to bring the body back to Idaho, but she refused. He said that as an alternative, she had to bring Berreth’s firearm back home. He told her he wanted authorities to believe she had killed herself, according to the affidavit.
On Nov. 24 and 25, Kenney traveled back to Idaho and at the direction of Frazee, texted Berreth’s supervisor, mother and Frazee “with the intent of distracting law enforcement at the direction of Frazee,” according to the affidavit.
Frazee allegedly tried to have Kenney carry out murder
Planning Berreth’s murder had been on Frazee’s mind since as early as September, Kenney told investigators during an interview on Dec. 20. He had asked for Kenney’s help on several occasions to kill the woman.
He claimed Berreth was an abusive mother toward their child and that he wanted her dead. Authorities have said they didn’t find any evidence of abuse.
The duo planned several attempted murders — Kenney was always the person to kill Berreth at the direction of Frazee. On one occasion, he asked her to bring Berreth poisoned coffee. On another, he gave her a metal pipe and told her to hit Berreth in the back of the head. Kenney did not follow-through on either of the plans.
Still, Kenney “took specific and significant steps toward accomplishing the murder,” the affidavit read.
Between Sept. 1 and Nov. 22, 2018, Frazee solicited Kenney on at least three separate occasions, according to the affidavit.
Authorities started to become suspicious of Frazee after talking with him on Dec. 2 . On Dec. 13, they were granted a search warrant to search his home. A bottle of bleach and a Swiffer were found with positive test for blood, though lab results are pending. They also found a document dated Dec. 12, 2018 with a list of five people who could provide medical care for Berreth and Frazee’s daughter. It was only signed by Frazee.
Cell phone data starts to paint a picture for authorities
On Nov. 22 around 12:30 p.m., Berreth’s phone missed a call from Frazee. Both devices pinged a nearby cell tower in Woodland Park, indicating they were in the area of Berreth’s home.
Later that day, the phones were pinged by towers Cripple Creek, and were likely traveling together, according to the affidavit.
The following day, on Nov. 23, both phones used a cell tower in Florissant, along a sector that faced Frazee’s home. He called her phone that morning before the phones traveled toward Cripple Creek again, and then back to the Florissant home.
Both phones used the cell tower again near Cripple Creek on Nov. 24.
Analysis after this showed that Berreth’s phone likely moved from Colorado on I-70 through Salt Lake City, Utah and into Idaho.
The last known activity on Berreth’s phone was on Nov. 25 at 6:13 p.m. from a tower in Gooding, Idaho. The Gooding County Sheriff’s Office was unable to find the phone.
Authorities start to question Kenney
On Dec. 14, the FBI contacted Kenney to ask her about the case. When asked, she said she had talked with Frazee within the past month or month and a half, and had visited his home in Florissant on Nov. 24 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. She said she visited to look at a horse and then drove back home.
Kenney also told them she had had no idea who Berreth was until she heard the news that she was missing. She added that Frazee never instructed her to get rid of a phone.
Investigators learned that Frazee had made up this story for Kenney to tell FBI agents if they called her. They also learned that on Nov. 24, the day Kenney claimed to be in Florissant, the two had called each other multiple times, which was odd since they were likely at the same residence, according to the affidavit.
Shortly after this, authorities were granted a search warrant for call records and historical cell site information related to Kenney’s phone.
On the day that Frazee’s phone was seized — Dec. 4, 2018 — Kenney set up a new phone number after telling her ex-husband she had lost her phone and needed a new one.
On Dec. 17, CBI and FBI agents interviewed Kenney at her home in Idaho. While she said she wanted to be cooperative, she wanted to speak with her attorney before talking with investigators more.
Kenney’s ex-husband, friends notice something odd
FBI agents talked with Kenney’s ex-husband during the investigation. He said they had been married for eight years and divorced in the summer of 2018. They still shared a home in Idaho and have two children.
On Nov. 24 and 25, a few days after the alleged murder, Kenney told him that she was going to a birthday party at a friend’s house and then was helping one of her friends move out of her home. Kenney’s ex-husband said he found out later that these were lies.
The FBI called Kenney on Dec. 14 and she appeared nervous after that, he said. She admitted to him that she had actually gone to Colorado to see a horse that she and Frazee owned. She thought somebody had set her up and that’s why the FBI had called, her ex-husband said.
Frazee and Kenney had dated in College, he said, and had been involved in a sexual relationship until at least 2016. He didn’t provide any other details on the affair to the interviewing authorities.
Investigators also talked with Kenney’s friend, who has known her for about 10 years. The women had traded cars, as they often did, since Kenney owned a pickup truck and the friend needed one because she was moving.
While Kenney was allegedly in Colorado — having driven in her friend’s car — helping to clean the scene of the crime, she texted her friend asking if she could spend the night at her house because she had had too much to drink. Her friend told authorities the text was fake and was sent to establish an alibi in case her ex-husband checked her phone.
A few weeks later on Dec. 14, Kenney called her friend and said she had been contacted by the FBI and they might contact her friend with questions.
When the friend started to see news stories on Berreth, she checked her firearm in her car and noticed the previously empty chamber had one round in it and the magazine, which had eight rounds when she gave it over to Kenney, had only six. She told authorities she was suspicious of this.
Some time later, Kenney called the friend to apologize for lying and said she was going to cooperate with authorities.
Lastly, according to the affidavit, authorities interviewed another friend of Kenney who is a paralegal at a personal injury law firm in Twin Falls, Idaho. She told authorities that on Oct. 22, Kenney told her that Frazee had asked for her help killing Berreth.
The friend said she urged her friend to call the police and report Frazee, but didn’t think Kenney ever did.
Neither of Kenney’s friends nor her ex-husband called police.
Possible next moves for Frazee’s defense attorney
Dan Recht, a criminal defense attorney out of Denver, said he has been following the case closely. While he’s not involved, he shared some ideas with Denver7 on what Frazee's defense attorney could present in court.
“The prosecution is clearly depending on the testimony of Kenney, not just at this preliminary hearing, but if there’s ever a trial,” he said.
She will be the state’s “star witness,” he said. The defense will likely say that Kenney committed the homicide and is trying to pin it on Frazee, he said. After all, she never did call police to report Frazee’s actions or planning.
The defense could argue that Kenney took the plea bargain to tampering with evidence to save herself from a first-degree murder charge and convictions for other homicide-related crimes, Recht said. Had she not taken the plea deal, she could have been charged with much more serious offenses.
“I mean, she admits that she was involved in the planning of a homicide, she talks about coming close to doing a homicide and then backing out of it and having a weapon and going to Berreth’s house,” Recht said. “So, at a minimum, Kenney is very involved. And I suppose the prosecution will take the perspective: If she was going to lie, why would she create a lie that convicts her of a crime? So, they’re going to argue her testimony has the ring of truth because she implicates herself and Frazee.”
He said one or both of them thoroughly planned out the days leading up to and after Berreth’s death, which begs the question: Who did the actual killing?
If the defense decides to argue that Kenney committed the homicide, they will have to not only poke holes in her story, but show that she’s not a truthful person.
“One of the two of them committed this homicide and it’s going to be really interesting to watch both sides try to flush out how they’re going to prove the other person did it,” he said.
Frazee will face a murder trial in the death of Berreth at an unknown date.
A motions hearing has been scheduled for March 4 and an arraignment was set for April 8 at 8:30 a.m., which will give Frazee’s defense attorneys time to go through the more than 3,300 pages of evidence in the case.
Frazee is expected to enter a plea in the case at his arraignment.
Kenney pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence on Feb. 8.
Berreth’s body has not been found.
You can read the full affidavit here .
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Cruisers no more: Gardner eatery renamed G-Vegas Cafe
Andrew Mansfield Reporter
Feb 26, 2019 at 7:14 PM Feb 26, 2019 at 7:14 PM
GARDNER — For many years, the downtown eatery at 280 Central St. was called Cruisers Malt Shoppe and was known for its 1950s-era décor and the nostalgia that came with it.
But owner Cheryl Johnson, who took over the restaurant last year, has slowly been making changes and recently renamed the establishment The G-Vegas Café.
“I wanted to make it my own,” she said. “I’ve put my heart and soul into this place.”
A 1989 graduate of Gardner High School and current resident of the city, Johnson said she considered several different ideas for renaming the restaurant to her liking.
During her childhood in the 1980s, she recalls the downtown was the place to be for walking around and socializing, noting poker machines were popular during that period and Gardner was commonly referred to by its “G-Vegas” nickname.
“Growing up, I hated that name,” she said.
As times have changed, so has her attitude toward the name. She said calling her restaurant The G-Vegas Café was the one option that “really stuck” for her.
Johnson is well aware that some of the regulars at Cruisers were not pleased with the name and stylistic changes, saying she received backlash including on social media.
“You can’t please everyone,” she said.
While some longtime patrons of Cruisers no longer go to what is now The G-Vegas Café, she said she has brought in new customers.
“I’ve built up my own clientele,” she said.
The signage outside has been changed as part of the renaming, but the painting is still that of Cruisers – for example the old school cars on display – which Johnson said she plans to repaint in the spring.
Inside the restaurant, she plans to have it display Gardner-related items, saying she is seeking pictures, paintings and articles that will fit that theme and is welcome to donations.
One thing that has largely stayed the same since Johnson took over is the menu, which contains a large variety of items for breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with appetizers, specials and dessert treats such as frappes.
An experienced cook, which remains a big part of her job as owner, Johnson points out her emphasis on making sure that everything on the menu is homemade – nothing comes from a can.
“I make everything from scratch,” she said.
The business is open seven days a week, and Johnson said she has worked every single day since she bought it a little over a year ago.
A candid personality, she is very upfront about the fact that there have been struggles, including being able to rely on kitchen workers and also numerous issues with equipment that have come up and required significant investment to replace.
The restaurant is a small operation but has been consistent in drawing a crowd, both under Johnson’s leadership and in prior years under the name Cruisers.
Another change Johnson plans to make though is to no longer have patrons be served in what is now the main, front entrance customers walk into. She said that room is triangular-shaped and gets too crowded.
There is also a back room that is currently being renovated that she said is rectangle-shaped and can accommodate about 50 people, which she plans to have be the only room for patrons to be served in the near future.
While she indicated that the business does at times attract enough people to fill two rooms, the reality is that the small staff and kitchen can’t accommodate that many people at once.
First and foremost, Johnson is in the restaurant business to cook, joking that she can “flip eggs in my sleep.” Her ownership responsibilities have certainly not reduced the time she spends in the kitchen.
Among her former jobs, Johnson said she used to own a West Street eatery known as Cheryl’s Place which has since become the Hen House under different ownership.
“I’ve been doing this for over 25 years. It’s my passion, it’s what I like to do,” she said of cooking. “I’ve tried doing other things… I always come back to this.”
The G-Vegas Café is small and nothing fancy, and people may or may not like the new name. But Johnson is betting you’ll enjoy the most important thing – the food.
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Fri., July 12, 2019
How Iowa City police, schools are ramping up to assess threats of violence
University of Iowa already has team gauging potential risks on campus
Iowa City police Neighborhood Response Officer Adam Schmerbach heads Wednesday to an appointment with an Iowa City housing and building inspector. He is one of four officers and a sergeant in the department who have been trained in threat assessment, with an eye toward preventing potentially violent crimes in the community. “In the Iowa City area we have been fortunate enough to not have that major incident, say, in the schools,” Schmerbach said. “But, obviously, it can happen anywhere.” (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
Iowa City police Neighborhood Response Officer Adam Schmerbach meets Wednesday with Iowa City Housing and Building Inspector Brian Jensen to follow up on code violations found at a home. Schmerbach said sharing information back and forth with other agencies is vital for the success of a threat assessment team. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
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IOWA CITY — For more than a decade, the University of Iowa has employed a team trained to assess potential threats and prevent violence on campus.
Now, two other entities in the Iowa City area are in various stages of adopting a threat assessment model of their own.
The Iowa City Community School District has applied for a grant to hire a threat assessment coordinator and train school personnel. And the Iowa City Police Department has trained a sergeant and four officers with an eye on creating a multidisciplinary approach to preventing potentially violent crimes in the community.
“In the Iowa City area we have been fortunate enough to not have that major incident, say, in the schools,” said Adam Schmerbach, one of the Iowa City police officers trained in threat assessment. “But, obviously, it can happen anywhere.”
While depending on members of the community to report concerns, a threat assessment team typically also reviews information it has developed or that its officers have observed.
The UI established a threat assessment team in 2008 in the aftermath of the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech that left 33 people dead, said Eli Hotchkin, director of the university’s threat assessment program.
Initially made up of two threat managers — a police officer and a mental health professional — the team now resides within the human resources operation at the UI and includes representatives from the UI Department of Public Safety, UI Health Care and the office of the Dean of Students.
“We’ll take any reports of concern,” said Hotchkin, a former UI police officer. “We’ll assess them depending on if we think someone possess a risk to violence and implement interventions to mitigate any situations that could escalate to violence.”
Hotchkin said the team assesses threats made to harm others and mental health crises, and looks into sensitive campus terminations, suspensions or expulsions.
From there, the team follows a process of collecting information, interviewing witnesses, assessing if the subject is an imminent threat to him or herself or others and developing an intervention or prevention strategy if needed.
Interventions can range from welfare checks to mental health commitments to arrests.
But “that’s not our goal,” Hotchkin said of arrests. “They are used only if needed. Our team does not try to use those unless we absolutely have to.”
Hotchkin likens the threat assessment approach to going to see a cardiologist. Just as a cardiologist cannot predict if or when a patient will have a heart attack, the threat assessment team cannot say with certainty if an act of violence will occur.
Instead, like a cardiologist, the team identifies potential risk factors.
“We’re not going to say, ‘Oh yeah, they’re doing it,’ unless we have evidence they are planning an attack,” he said. “What does this person need? How can we resolve this problem? If we can’t resolve this problem, how do we mitigate the risk of violence?”
Like the university, the Iowa City school district’s interest in threat assessment followed a tragedy. In summer 2018, months after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., left 17 dead, the district’s administration created a 15-member safety advisory committee made up of community members, district employees, parents and students and tasked with making recommendations to the school board.
“Developing threat assessment was one of eight recommendations,” said Kate Callahan, director of Student Services for the district.
The district since has applied for federal grant funding from the School Violent Prevention Office through the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. If the district receives the funding, it will use the money to hire a threat assessment coordinator on a two-year basis as well as cover training costs for school staff. The district is exploring other funding opportunities should it not get the grant.
Callahan said threat assessment within the schools would have a “twofold process.” First, the student body as a whole would be monitored for concerns, taking into consideration things such as declines in attendance or performance, changes in behavior, withdrawal or isolation, drug or alcohol use and erratic or emotional behavior. Monitoring social media to catch concerning behavior is also under consideration, Callahan said.
If a potential threat is identified, the team would work with the student to offer resources and support to the student and family. Callahan said some supports could include social and family services, tutoring, mentoring or working with other community partners.
The team would meet monthly to review student behavior, Callahan said.
“Also, we would have that team meet anytime there is a threat or possible threat to the school and follow a systematic process to determine the level of threat the student poses and take appropriate action,” she said. “That is often in the form of support.”
Callahan said the district plans to implement a “say something” campaign to encourage students to report any concerns they see. The campaign would also educate students on what to look for, how to report it and what kind of information to provide.
“We don’t want to overreact, but we don’t want to underreact,” Callahan said.
Iowa City Police Sgt. Jorey Bailey, who has trained in threat assessment, said the police department’s threat assessment team will try to assist someone who may be going through a mental health crisis, made a direct threat or who has displayed threatening behaviors. Bailey said someone going through a tumultuous divorce could be one example.
“They’re going through a crisis because of that and don’t see another way out, other than violence,” he said. “It could be somebody who is having suicidal ideations or a mental health crisis and they’re having thoughts of violence.”
Though the department is a law enforcement agency, its threat assessment team won’t always have a law enforcement response to a potential threat, Bailey said.
“The possibility of law enforcement intervention is a small piece of that intervention,” he said. “The first and most important thing we can do is get that person assistance if they’re in a mental health crisis. That will be better, long-term outcome for our community. Law enforcement isn’t always the best, long-term outcome for an individual or community. We certainly recognize that.”
With that in mind, Bailey — who has relied upon Hotchkin for guidance as Iowa City developed its threat assessment team — said the hope is to create a multidisciplinary threat assessment team, similar to what the university uses. He also wants to foster a climate of reporting concerning behavior.
“We want to encourage the public that if they see something, say something,” said Bailey. “That’s the beginning. We rely on that community approach to obtain information about risk and threat.”
Schmerbach said one of the best aspects of threat assessment is the multidisciplinary approach. As the department’s Neighborhood Response Officer, he works with the Housing Authority and Neighborhood Development Services to address neighborhood disputes and issues. He said sharing information between the entities is vital and something the threat assessment process does, too.
“There’s a lot of information out there, especially with mental health stuff, that we have no clue about (when dealing with a subject) because you don’t know what you don’t know,” he said. “The multidisciplinary approach is important to me. I think we’re getting there.”
Ultimately, the UI and Iowa City police threat assessment teams — along with others — could join to create a countywide team, said Bailey and Hotchkin.
“Threat assessment doesn’t work if we’re not all in it together,” Hotchkin said. “If we’re not collaborating, then the process really has a gap and we need to fill that. That’s part of why I began the work with Iowa City, to make sure all of our community members feel safe.”
Added Hotchkin, “We have threats that aren’t just coming from internally. How can we work together to resolve some of these situations and work together to figure it out? Being siloed doesn’t work.”
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REPORTING CAMPUS THREATS
While the Iowa City Police Department and the Iowa City Community School District are in various stages of launching threat assessment programs, the University of Iowa has been running one for more than a decade. If you see suspicious or threatening behavior on campus, contact (319) 384-2955 or uitat@uiowa.edu.
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Mon., January 08, 2018
Republicans vow 'chapter 2' of conservative agenda for Iowa
100-day legislative sessions kicks off today
The Grand Stairway at the Iowa State Capitol building in Des Moines on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
Sen. Matt McCoy, D-Des Moines: ”I think Iowans were pretty disgusted with what happened in the last legislative session.”
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DES MOINES — Majority Republicans return today to the Statehouse ready to deliver “chapter two” of a conservative agenda that Senate leader Bill Dix said would “change Iowa for the best” by creating an environment with tax cuts and other enticements for more investment and growth.
The first year of the 87th Iowa General Assembly saw the GOP enact significant changes in workplace rules, possession of firearms and fireworks, election laws, abortion restrictions and public safety. Dix, a Shell Rock Republican, assured his backers “we are not done” as the new session convenes.
“We need to keep the momentum going in 2018,” said House Speaker Linda Upmeyer, R-Clear Lake, as Republicans who hold majorities of 58-41 in the Iowa House and 29-20-1 in the Iowa Senate continue to push “common-sense conservative legislation” during a two-year run that began when they took control of the Statehouse in the 2016 election. “What a difference one election can make,” she noted.
Iowans saw a change in command at the top of state government during the interim when former Gov. Terry Branstad stepped down in May to become President Donald Trump’s ambassador to China and his lieutenant, Kim Reynolds, was sworn as Iowa’s first female governor.
Reynolds has indicated her priorities for the upcoming session will include making the state’s tax code simpler, fairer and more competitive; training Iowans so they have the skills needed for successful careers; educating the state’s children to meet the demands of modern employment; and further developing the state’s energy plan to continue to maximize renewable energy sources such as wind and biofuels.
Legislative Republicans say much of their focus will be on tax relief and reform and dealing with a current budget shortfall projected at more than $36 million before formulating a new fiscal 2019 spending plan.
Other issues that could get attention this session, scheduled for 199 days, include expanding school choice for parents, further restricting access to abortion, reinstating the death penalty and requiring local authorities to cooperate with federal officials on immigration laws.
Democrats who are in the minority in both legislative chambers say they are bracing for another volatile session.
“I don’t know how it could get more politically charged or more politically divisive or polarized than last year,” said Sen. Matt McCoy, D-Des Moines. “What you saw last year will continue on into this year and I think you’re going to see very deep polarization and I think you’re going to see very strong ideological positions on both the left and the right, and I think that very little is going to be accomplished that’s in a bipartisan, consensus manner.”
The fact that Republicans are calling 2018 “chapter two” of the General Assembly’s biennium “makes me very nervous,” McCoy added.
“But, frankly, I think that kind of kicking the door in on government is going to backfire on them because I think Iowans were pretty disgusted with what happened in the last legislative session,” he said, “and I think if they repeat that before an election, I think that that’s a bad move on their part.”
Senate President Jack Whitver, R-Ankeny, sees it very differently.
He said Republicans are very proud of what they accomplished last year — calling it the most historic and productive session in decades — and he believes they are energized “to keep pushing forward” this year.
“So we expect to have some bold ideas and continue to do big things,” he noted.
One change took place over the interim: Sen. Bill Anderson, R-Pierson, left the Iowa Senate to take a full-time job leading the Cherokee County economic development effort, and was replaced in a special Senate District 3 election by Rep. James Carlin, R-Sioux City. A special election is slated Jan. 16 in House District 6 to fill the seat vacated when Carlin moved across the Statehouse rotunda from the House to the Senate.
Top issues facing Iowa lawmakers
DES MOINES — New laws and spending will be crafted over the next four months as lawmakers convene today for the 2018 session of the Iowa Legislature.
Here are a half-dozen key issues facing them:
Tax rewrite
Enacting some kind of income tax change, or tax cuts, remains one of the top priorities for Republicans who gained unfettered lawmaking control after the 2016 election. Senate President Jack Whitver, a Republican from Ankeny, called it a once-in-a-generation opportunity.
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Federal tax changes will provide the state with some extra revenue: an estimated $106 million in the fiscal 2019 state budget that will be crafted during the session, plus another $138 million in the ensuing budget year.
Multiple top Statehouse Republicans have said that extra money should go back to state taxpayers in some form of tax relief. Although Rep. Pat Grassley, who leads the House’s budget committee, cautioned against treating the windfall like the state has “won the lottery.”
Republicans have given few details about what their tax plan will look like, but they promised one is coming.
“In my opinion, this won’t be a successful session unless we have a significant tax bill get accomplished,” said Bill Dix, leader of the Senate Republicans.
One key challenge facing Republicans is a tight state budget. According to numbers produced by Grassley, the state has little new money for the next state budget, and most of that already has been spoken for in automatic increases and department requests, although those can be tweaked or rejected.
Democrats in the minority say they are willing to support tax cuts, but not at the expense of busting the budget or if the proposal benefits wealthy wage-earners more than middle-class and low-income workers.
“Their tax packages that we have seen in the past have not been beneficial to everyday Iowans,” said Janet Petersen, leader of the Senate Democrats. “With the budget our state is facing, knowing that all of us will be coming back and Republicans will have to fix the budget mess we’re in, it seems like this is not a wise time to be cutting taxes when they’re busy cutting essential services that Iowans count on and our public education system.”
Revenue coming into the state continues to increase but at a rate lower than projected. As a result, for a second year, the governor and lawmakers must make spending cuts in the middle of the budget year.
More than $30 million in adjustments must be made to the current state budget year, which runs through June 30.
And the state is already on the hook for more than $100 million to repay to its reserve accounts funds that were used to close a budget hole in the previous year.
“I’m expecting another tight year,” said Charles Schneider, a Republican who leads the Senate Budget Committee.
Few issues facing the state are more polarizing than the privatized management of the state’s Medicaid program for low-income Iowans and those with severe disabilities. Providers have complained they are not being reimbursed sufficiently or in a timely fashion, and patients and caregivers say some services have been reduced or eliminated.
Republican leaders, including Gov. Kim Reynolds and House Speaker Linda Upmeyer, R-Clear Lake, said they are open to legislative solutions to improve the managed care program. But Reynolds is steadfast that the program not return to state management.
“We’ve made mistakes. The rollout was not perfect. But it’s the right thing to do,” she said. “While mistakes have been made, I believe we can work with the Legislature and I look forward to working with the legislature.”
Medicaid reimbursement also figures into mental health care access, another issue Statehouse leaders hope to address during the session.
“The problem is that in many areas in the state, there are no services in the community to support their needs,” said Rep. David Heaton, who leads the House’s health care budget committee. “There’s no housing, there’s no community services available.”
The governor and a panel of lawmakers during the interim conducted separate examinations into how to address opioid addiction, a growing issue in Iowa. During the session, they will consider such measures as requiring physicians and prescribers to check a database to prevent addicts from getting addictive painkillers from multiple places, and a “good Samaritan” law that protects anyone who seeks help for an addict in crisis.
Another bleak budget year likely means a small increase in state funding for public K-through-12 school districts, if any increase at all.
K-12 public school funding increased by 3 percent or more just six times in the first 38 years under the state’s current funding formula; it has increased by that much only once in the past eight years.
Despite that, Iowa is bucking a national trend: only three states increased public school funding by a higher rate between 2008 and 2015, according to an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Last year’s increase was 1.1 percent.
“We’re hearing everything from a 0 to 2 percent increase. I’m anticipating more toward the zero end because of what we’re dealing with the budget,” said Rep. Mary Mascher, a Democrat from Iowa City who serves on the House education committee.
Legislators have spent the past few sessions trying to find new or redirected funding for programs and projects designed to improve the quality of the state’s rivers and lakes. Iowa is one of the biggest contributors of pollutants flowing down the Mississippi River and killing marine life in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Senate and House each approved their own proposals in 2017, and leaders have pitched their chamber’s as the best. Whether the two sides, both Republican-led, can agree on a compromise remains to be seen. And Reynolds, also a Republican, said she does not plan to say which plan she prefers.
The Senate version would have appropriated $744 million split among several pots for water quality, nutrient reduction and water and wastewater treatment. The House plan called for $513 million and included a bonding feature designed to expand funding opportunities.
Boosting the credentials of Iowa’s workers remains a top priority for Reynolds and legislative leaders as they continue efforts to address the state’s skills gap: half of the jobs in Iowa require “middle skills,” but only a third of workers possess them, according to a 2012 state report.
Reynolds continues to promote her Future Ready Iowa program, which has the goal of 70 percent of the state’s workforce having post-high school education or training by 2025. She hopes to propose new funding for the program to support grants and apprenticeships, and promote more partnerships between educational institutions and businesses in need of workers.
The governor’s goal has bipartisan support, although the parties must find common ground in supporting programs designed to achieve the goal.
“One of the things that Iowans are asking for is the ability to help them move their skill set up to the next level, to be able to build their career and increase their earning capacity for themselves and their families,” Petersen said.
— Compiled by Erin Murphy of The Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau
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The Farr Side: The ongoing success of Pink
Few artists can boast about the kind of success singer Pink has had. Next year marks the 20th anniversary of her debut album, “Can’t Take Me Home.” That might seem trivial to some, but if you think about all she has achieved since the flaming pink-haired siren hit with “There You Go,” you’ll understand why.
Pink has 36 charting singles, including four No. 1s, sold in excess of 42 million albums, received numerous industry awards and has toured extensively. The moment one of her songs comes on the radio, you instantly know its her, the sound is so distinct. Her success can be attributed to a number of things, mainly impeccable vocal skills. Couple that with cleverly written songs and a stylish image and you have magic.
Last week, Pink, now 39, released her eighth studio album, “Hurts 2B Human.” Eighth studio album? That’s insane by today’s standards. What’s cool is, her albums don’t suck. They’re just a continuation of her musical journey, loosely based on life experiences.
At first listen, “Hurts 2B Human,” covers all of what’s currently hot. It’s great pop, fantastic lyricism and spiked with some crossover appeal. It worked for Taylor Swift, Maren Morris and Kacey Musgraves, so leave it to Pink to flip it in reverse and catch some country flair. Why not? I think Pink and Kelly Clarkson are artists who could sing just about anything and come across as winners.
“Walk Me Home” is the lead-off single. It’s typical Pink, although there’s a sense she’s letting her guard down a little. Some of that tough-girl exterior she showed on earlier albums is giving way to a warmer-hearted Pink. That isn’t a bad thing. She’s a mom now and her music is striking a more universal chord. First-time listeners and longtime admirers will appreciate her authenticity even more.
In response to where she is now in music and life, Pink said this: “It doesn’t matter where you’re from or what you look like or how much money you have, or what you do with your time. We’re all putting one foot in front of the other trying to figure it out. And, that’s what it is. That’s what poetry is, that’s what writing is, that’s what journaling is, that’s what songwriting is. This is my experience, and I’m sure somebody else is gonna be able to relate to it.”
“Hurts 2B Human” is filled with dance-friendly spars like “Can We Pretend” and ”(Hey Why) Miss You Sometime” and its fair share of guitar and piano-laden gems like “Happy,” “My Attic” and “Courage.”
As much as I like her stand-alone anthems, I Iove her in collaborative form just as much. This album boasts some spectacular duets, including the emotionally-charged title track with Khalid and the album’s shining moment for me, “Love Me Anyway” with country superstar Chris Stapleton. “Love Me Anyway” is a phenomenal track, which, I’m sure, will be the talk of Nashville for the next year.
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Church-run education center helps create a better future for Myanmar March 11, 2019
About 130 young Catholics are currently taking a 3-year residential course at the Mandalay Archdiocesan Higher-Education Center.
The center is in the compound of St. John’s Catholic Church.
The youths come from 10 dioceses. Their ethnicities are Kachin, Kayah, Karen, Chin, Burmese and Akha.
The center has seven full-time and 10 part-time staff.
Among the subjects that students learn are English, computer technology, business administration and ethics.
They can also attend various seminars on subjects such as leadership, interfaith dialogue, human trafficking, and conflict resolution.
On weekends, some of the students teach at Buddhist monastic schools and orphanages. Some also visit old people’s homes and a leper colony as part of an exposure program.
The program seeks to help the students to become mature and responsible adults one day who work for the common good of the country and the Church.
With the backing of emeritus Bishop Paul Zinghtung Grawng, the center was founded by Father Neil Magill, an Irish Columban priest, in 2010.
Since then the center has produced about 250 graduates and now some of them work with Karuna (Caritas), church-run boarding schools and non-governmental organizations.
Six former students are doing further studies in the Philippines and three have got MBA degree from a university in Bangkok.
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Friday Capitol Letter
Not a great week here in the capital, though, the Medicare vote was a silver lining. Here’s round-up from DC intern Bobby Allyn:
In the House … Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced a resolution to impeach President Bush for lying to the American public when he sought approval in 2002 for taking military action against Saddam Hussein. Speaker Pelosi said Thursday that she expects the House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on an impeachment resolution. The House announced a vote on a new energy bill could happen as early as next week. The bill would seek to speed the development of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, force US oil companies to relinquish unused land, and prohibit oil companies from obtaining the rights to drill on new public land. Speaker Pelosi said, “This call for drilling in areas that are protected is a hoax. It’s an absolute hoax on the part of the Republicans and this Bush administration.” House Republicans threatened to keep Congress in session this summer until they pass an energy bill that ensures more drilling.
In the Senate … Sen. Obama joined the majority in the Senate to pass a new FISA bill that would grant retroactive immunity to telecom companies that participated in the White House’s illegal domestic wiretapping. (Sen. McCain supported to the bill but didn’t show up for the vote). The Democratic leadership hailed the bill’s passage as a compromise; however, opponents in the Senate, including Russ Feingold, denounced it as “capitulation.” “Instead of cutting bad deals on both FISA and funding for the war in Iraq,” Feingold said in an official statement, ” Democrats should be standing up to the flawed and dangerous policies of this administration.” The Senate passed a a Medicare bill Wednesday that would prevent doctors from receiving a 10 percent cut in Medicare payments. In a surprise visit to the chamber’s floor, Sen. Edward Kennedy, who has been undergoing cancer treatment since May, gave the bill a decisive “aye” vote. The Democrats were joined by 18 Republicans, giving the bill a final passage of 69-30. The White House threatened to veto the bill, but the Senate maintains a majority that would overturn the President’s veto. Senate Republicans successfully stymied the bipartisan
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Preaching Moderation
Egypt’s proposal to license only trained imams may prevent the spread of extremism
Egypt’s top Muslim scholars have announced proposals for a new religious school, overseen by the state, whose graduates would be the only clerics allowed to preach. This is the latest measure in the fight to tackle rising extremism in Egypt and counter the stream of effective propaganda put out by Islamic State and other Islamist terror groups which have proved alarmingly effective in winning young Muslims across the world to the cause of violent jihad. It is long overdue.
The plan is a compromise between the Egyptian government and al-Azhar, the ancient Muslim university in Cairo that offers the only acknowledged theological leadership throughout Sunni Islam. President Sisi wanted something much more restrictive. The ministry of religious endowments originally insisted that all Friday sermons should…
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Ken Auletta
Publish and Perish
VTR Date: October 8, 1997
Guest: Auletta, Ken
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THE OPEN MIND
Host: Richard D. Heffner
Guest: Ken Auletta
Title: “Publish and Perish”
VTR: 10/8/97
I’m Richard Heffner, your host on The Open Mind. And as a longtime college professor, I’m quite familiar with the old saw, “Publish or perish.” The trouble is that these days the idea seems to be “Publish and perish.” Indeed, in its March 17, 1997 issue, The Nation magazine ran a major cover story titled “The Crushing Power of Big Publishing,” indicating in no uncertain terms that it’s the book as we once knew it that’s being crushed, perhaps being squeezed out of existence by nothing more or less surprising than greed.
Then, in its October 6, 1997 issue, The New Yorker devoted its cover to the many elements that today plague publishing. And its media correspondent, my guest, author Ken Auletta, further frightened old-fashioned devotees of the book as we’ve known it with his account of the publishing world as what he calls “the impossible business.”
Well, there had even been a kind of inside-the-shop conference of “bookies” at the New York Public Library, billed as Book Publishing: Dead or Alive? The New York Times reported it as a “rare family confrontation, notable for some blunt sentiments, with much pandering, hand-wringing, word-wringing and declarations of despair and hope.”
Well, I suspect that despair must have prevailed. But I ought to ask my guest, because the peripatetic Ken Auletta was very much there as moderator and very savvy participant. Ken, was there despair or hope ringing?
AULETTA: Both. I think there are people in book publishing who are depressed, and who think that the current decline in book sales, trade-book sales, over the last two years, that decline about nine percent, that that will continue, and that, in fact, the changing nature of the reader will take hold as people divert to the Internet and more television choices, and therefore will buy fewer books.
There are others who think that this crisis is just like other crisis [sic] in publishing of the last hundred years: temporary.
HEFFNER: Well, you had written in the New Yorker, you began your piece, “Two things have always been true about the book-publishing world: everyone who is in it loves to complain about it; and there is always someone, somewhere, who wants to get into it.” And in terms of the two kinds of posture, or even posturing, on this subject, where does Ken Auletta set?
AULETTA: I am simultaneously pessimistic and optimistic. Let me tell you why, what I mean by that. I am pessimistic because I see the business pressures in publishing pushing for more big books, more big first printings, more Hollywood-type celebrity books that they think will achieve a magic mass-market that I think they will never achieve in book publishing. But they will push that, and the accountants, who have increasingly a larger voice at book-publishing houses, will push to make the decision making process more rational, and therefore push out some of those backlist valuable books that they shouldn’t be pushing out and, in fact, that often make money for the publishing house in the long run but not in the short run. So I’m depressed about that.
And what I’m not depressed about is that I think there’s some real opportunities because of technology. To introduce other things to change the economics of book publishing. That is to say: the threatened, midlist or backlisted book that doesn’t sell like a bestseller, and that increasingly is having a hard time finding a publishing house, may well — I’m not saying it will, but may well — find it easier to find a publishing house if you don’t have to keep inventory, and if you have online book sales and immediate printing. You take out some of the bad economics from the business, potentially, and you make it possible for people to keep books in stock.
If, in fact, Amazon.com has access, as they do now, to two and a half million books, they can keep books around without having them on anyone’s shelves for a longer period of time. That’s encouraging.
Also, things like the Internet, a vehicle like the Internet, allows us, as authors, to self-publish. And then if, obviously you can figure out some way to charge for what we’re self-publishing, you make it possible to keep more people in print, and maybe earn a little money from it. But I think it’s a given that reading will go down. I worry about that. I think it’s a given that big publishing houses will get bigger. But I also think simultaneously there’s a contradictory given, which is that more people will get in the business, there’ll be more competition from smaller houses, and perhaps books that now go out of print will stay in print.
HEFFNER: This question of reading going down, please tell me what you mean by that.
AULETTA: Well, if you think about your kids (I have a 15-year-old), think about her day, she comes home from school after playing soccer at 6:00, 6:15. She’s got to eat. She takes a shower after the game. It’s now 7:30. She’s had her family dinner with us. She’s got a lot of homework to do. She doesn’t have any time for leisure reading during the week. She’ll say she wants to watch a program like Mad About You, as she did last night, and I said, “No, you’ve got too much homework to do.” She wants to go online and check whether she’s gotten any mail. “Get your work done.” She got her work done. Last night she went online. So instead of reading a book she checked the correspondence she had from friends from all over the country: the people she went to camp with, people she knows from childhood. So, just looking at her, it’s harder for her to read certainly during the week. On the weekend you can catch up. But do you ever really catch up? And the truth is surveys show that young people are reading less today than they once did. And part of the reason for that is they have many more choices of what to do in their leisure time, and many more pressures. Not just school pressures, but Internet pressures, channel-choice pressures.
And also, if you think about what television does to someone’s brain, it attenuates their attention span. Reading is a linear experience that takes patience and work. You’ve got to stay with it. Everything about television is not about staying with it. It’s using that remote control quickly to keep switching.
HEFFNER: By “television” you mean modern communications, electronic media.
AULETTA: I do. I do. I think electronic media often subverts reading. And not just because it’s an alternative choice, but I think the very process, it is a nonlinear experience. Reading is a linear experience which takes patience and time and work and effort. And television doesn’t always take, usually doesn’t take, time and work and effort.
HEFFNER: What does that do, that nonlinear leaning that you see, what does that do, in your estimate, to larger questions of public-policy questions, citizen-participation questions, interest-in-principle questions?
AULETTA: I think it undermines the civic culture potentially, and I worry a lot about that. For instance, the television culture is one that demands instant gratification. “Give me the answer. Get to the point.” You watch television, and you watch kids. They’re not only watching television, they’re listening to, you know, a CD player in their ear, a Walkman, and maybe they’re reading a magazine or reading a book at the same time. They don’t focus fully on any one thing. In fact, they feel they can grasp everything in part because it’s not so complicated.
Well, public-policy issues are very complicated, and they don’t lend themselves to the people-ization. I’m talking about People magazine and celebrity-kind of journalism and quick takes of television and movies and too much of print today. So I think that what is happening with television and magazines and journalism in general, and in much of book publishing, because celebrity books and Lady Di instant books and Kitty Kelly’s latest best-selling book about the royal family, is we’re asking people to have sharp points of view, sum it up quickly in a very short period of space.
Being a citizen in a democracy takes time and patience and effort. Most decisions and public-policy issues are very complicated, and they demand more than yes or no answer. And I think we have a yes or no culture.
HEFFNER: Then what? What into the next century?
AULETTA: You get less voting behavior, which we already have.
HEFFNER: Absolutely.
AULETTA: Among Western democracies, I think, we have the lowest voting participation rate. You get more cynicism. “They all do it. They’re all a bunch of crooks.” In fact, the cynicism is so think that no one’s upset about what the Democrats and Republicans do in Washington. In a sense, they say, “Oh, they’re all a bunch of thieves [sic] and crooks.” So you don’t hold people accountable the way you should.
I think those are the dangers for our culture, our civic culture. I think you can make an alternative argument and come out a little more hopefully, and I don’t dismiss it, which is that technology will allow, for instance, you to register to vote at home. Will allow you to vote at home without having to tax yourself by walking to the polling place. Technology will allow you, and does allow you, to get instant information on anything you want when you want it. Not having to wait for some network programmer to program the evening news at 6:30. And technology allows you many more choices. You have over 200 online newspapers in America today, online.
So if I want information, I have many more sources of information as a journalist today or as a citizen today than I had five or ten years ago. That’s hopeful.
HEFFNER: That’s the hopeful aspect of it, but what you described first undermines all of that. You have more choices; but you’re not educated then to choose.
AULETTA: And also the choices may be more plentiful but they may not be better. That is to say, if you have more entertainment news, is it better? Or more crime news on local TV stations, is it better?
HEFFNER: When we’ve spoken before about Three Blind Mice, about communications futures, I never before had the sense — not of despair; it’s not in your nature to be a despairing person — but you’ve never before, it seems to me, put together the negatives in terms of public policy of the civic society of the future as you do now. Obviously, you’re moving further and further along those lines. What’s pressed you into the kinds of observations you’re making now?
AULETTA: Well, actually, you know, I would mildly disagree with that, that point, in that, if you read the book, the last chapter and the foreword to Three Blind Mice, which was published in ’91, I talked about some of these issues there.
HEFFNER: Right.
AULETTA: As I do in the foreword to my last book, The Highwayman, that came out this spring. I have a graduate degree in political science, so I’ve always had that schooling, and been imbued with looking at questions or wanting to look at questions from what are the public policy implications or what are the civic implications of this. So I actually think I always have thought about it.
Now, as you suggest, also suggest, and I think this is fair, as you go along and you report more, and as the consequences of technology and other changes, as you steep yourself in them more and more, you come to new realizations and clearer realizations, and I think I’m learning all the time, and I probably have, it is fair to say that I probably have a more acute sense of some of the pessimistic sides of this potential future today than I did five years ago or two years ago.
But I am, as you also say, by nature optimistic. So I am a guy who finds myself gravitating to that Christopher Morley aphorism, which is, “The truth is a liquid; not a solid.” And I think that it is very liquid on my mind. And some days I wake up and I’m pessimistic, and other days I wake up and I’m optimistic. And most days I’m both at the same time.
HEFFNER: You know, over the years (and this program has been going for 41 years now), over the years, people who have sat opposite me, I’ve put the question to them, and there’s been reason to do so for these four decades plus: Mustn’t we experience then (because so many of them have had a bit of that concern about the future), mustn’t we then experience some kind of transvaluation of values in order to survive with more rather than less of what was good about the past? No one seems to want to deal with that. You seem so realistic. I wonder whether, when you get to the prescription-writing stage, whether you see some way of conceding that it’s going to be a very, very different world in the 21st Century, holding on to as much of the past as possible.
AULETTA: I think it will be a different world. And as part of my beat at The New Yorker, trying to write about that different world, be it publishing or Microsoft or whatever. But I do think, and I actually think it’s a theme that runs through a lot of what I’ve done, a kind of conservative theme, if you will, a searching for conservative, not in the political sense, but in a values sense, searching for the continuity, searching for a way to hold onto those values that are dear and important. That is to say, I want publishers to not just think about profits, but think about their public obligations. When I write critiques of press coverage of events, I want reporters to remember, and I want to remind them, as a writer, of their public-trust obligations. When I write about the networks, I want them to think not just about their profits, but what do they promise when they receive their license in public trust. I want Rupert Murdoch, when I ask him, “Why did you move Melrose Place to the family hour at 8:00, and would you allow your 13-year-old to watch it?” and when he says, “I wouldn’t, when she was 13, allow her to watch it,” and so I said, “So why’d you move it to 8:00, the family hour?” Well, they’re all moving these salacious shows to 8:00. But I want to hold them accountable for that.
And if that’s a way of trumpeting traditions and values that I don’t want to lose, so be it. I think it is.
HEFFNER: You say, “If that’s a way of trumpeting them.” Yes, trumpeting them. But is it a way of accomplishing anything? The movement takes place to 8 p.m. It’s an astonishing move.
AULETTA: It is. You know, my attitude is that, since I don’t want government to, and you don’t want government to pass laws that seriously infringe upon the First Amendment, unless they seriously… The First Amendment is not an absolute right; you can’t cry “Fire” in a crowded theater, for instance. And you’ve got other rights that can sometimes conflict with it, like the right to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence. But I think that, I come to the view increasingly that one of the ways you change behavior is to change the peer pressure or the culture. But which is hard, and not something that lawmakers can do overnight, and maybe even not even do.
But that is to say, if you want to change the way journalists behave, you’ve got to shame them to behave better. And you’ve got to shame them by criticism, and you’ve got to shame them by asking the Rupert Murdochs who own these journalistic institutions, whether Bob Wright’s the president of NBC or the head of CBS, or Michael Eisner at Disney, you’ve got to put them on the spot and hold them accountable for their behavior. And if they do something that is salacious or that is doing something that may be harmful to children, make them think about that. Just as we’ve gotten people to think about cigarette smoking, and altered behavior in the process.
So I think somehow you’ve got to address the peer-group pressures. And one of the things that we don’t do enough… I went, for instance, to an Aspen Institute conference this summer about journalism and privacy and tabloid journalism. The usual questions that…
HEFFNER: The usual…
AULETTA: …we media critics like to address. Well, you looked around that room, and there were 18 or 19 of us, and all of us agreed. But who wasn’t in that room were people like Murdoch and Eisner, people who own these journalistic institutions. And until they’re in that room and exposed to the arguments that journalists like to make about responsibility, they’re not going to hear anything.
HEFFNER: But when they’re in the room, Ken, what do you accomplish? What do we accomplish? What can be accomplished when, primarily in our lives, we look to the notion of profit?
AULETTA: You do, but you look, also look to the notion of not being embarrassed. I mean, it’s very tribal. It goes back, as that many centuries. You’re talking about someone who wants respectability, not just profits. Maybe they want to be perceived as powerful. Maybe they want to be perceived as something, as Larry Tisch did. Larry Tisch did some terrible things to CBS in the name of profitability. But Larry Tisch was also a man who was very concerned about how his grandchildren thought of him. He’s just a human being. I mean, he may be a mogul, he may be a billionaire, but he’s a human being. And that human element you can sometimes get to by shaming these people into behaving in a proper way. Larry Tisch tried to cut CBS news and was forced, he did, in many respects, but some of the cutbacks he wanted to do, he couldn’t do. Why? Because he didn’t have the power? He had the power to do it. But he was embarrassed that it was creating front-page headlines in The New York Times, and embarrassing him in his building and his family. He didn’t want that to happen.
HEFFNER: Let’s go back then to the first days, when you began to write Three Blind Mice about Larry Tisch and the others in the media. Have you seen progress? Have you seen a response, a positive response to “Shame on you?”
AULETTA: I don’t think there’s enough “Shame on you.” No. So I think things have worsened; not gotten better. But I would argue that that may be — and I emphasize the word “may be,” because I am, as you said earlier, a realist as well — it may be because people are not shamed enough, and there’s not enough criticism and not enough people…
I remember, one of the favorite things I’ve done for The New Yorker is a piece I did in 1993 where I went around and interviewed 20 leading moguls, the heads of the entertainment divisions of the networks, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Eisner, Michael Ovitz, etcetera, and Jack Welsh, the head of General Electric, Jones, NBC. And I asked them all the same question, surprised them all with the same question. And the question was, “What won’t you do?” And what I loved about doing that was they were totally stunned by the question. And suddenly they had to grapple with the reality, which I think is reality, which is they, by day they produce products that sometimes they would never, by night, allow their own children or grandchildren to consume. And somehow you have to bring those two worlds together and present that to them, and say, “How do you justify doing this?” And you have to do some research, as I tried to do, to have some examples of some of the things they did that maybe they should be embarrassed by.
So I think that’s a valuable thing to do, to at least get them for a period of time to think twice, or maybe, when someone is proposing a new Basic Instinct movie to them at the studio, maybe, “Do we really want to do this kind of salacious movie again?”
HEFFNER: Now, I come back to the question — and I know what your answer is: “There hasn’t been enough of the ‘Shame on you.'” — any indication at all that the moguls you referred to back away from not doing, not putting on the air what they would expose their 13-year-old daughters and sons to.
AULETTA: Well, I mean, Rupert Murdoch, who, in many ways, leads the pack in airing salacious and tabloid journalism and salacious, you know, sex and violence, he killed a show that was doing reasonably well on the Fox network called In Living Color, because he though it was off-color. And look at the tabloid presses pulling back on Lady Di, and saying they were going to give a zone of privacy to the two royal grandchildren. There is some evidence, at times, that people pull back.
Now, in the Lady Diana, in the wake of her death, they pulled back, in part, because they felt that the public would not support them if they did this, and it would be anti-business. Somehow you got to make that connection. And the public bears some responsibility. It’s not just, you know, “Blame them,” the other guy, you know, those moguls. The public is buying, are buying, in many cases, the products that these moguls are producing.
HEFFNER: Well, no one would deny that ultimately the responsibility, or the blame (I don’t know why I don’t want to use the word “responsibility”), but the blame is there with the public. It’s the public that’s buying the material. If the public weren’t buying, consuming the material, they wouldn’t be creating this material. But the public is what it is. It does buy it. It is appealed to. And we constantly hear the notion of, “Well, I’m a media mogul; I’m not a parent, except in my own home. I’m not a teacher, except in my own home.”
AULETTA: Well, that’s, there are many people in the media, including some moguls, who would challenge that. Frank Stanton, when he was president of CBS, and Bill Paley, who was his boss, sometimes challenged that. The networks which ran documentaries which didn’t get high ratings, but did them because they thought they were important, were the McCarthy hearings, which may not have gotten the highest ratings, but they ran them because they were important, or The New York Times, which prints the “news that’s fit to print,” in their judgment, and they print on their front page usually what they think is important, not what they think is the most popular or celebrity-oriented. So I think there are examples of people upholding and trying to do their job, say, in journalism, as educators.
HEFFNER: Ken, we’ve reached the end of our time today. But I want to have the last word and point out that most of those instances are taken from the past, and the fairly distant past: my day in broadcasting. At any rate, we’ll have to continue this discussion. Ken Auletta, thank you so much for joining me today on The Open Mind.
AULETTA: My pleasure.
HEFFNER: And thanks too, to you in the audience. I hope you join us again next time. And if you would like a transcript of today’s program, please send $4 in check or money order to: The Open Mind, P.O. Box 7977, FDR Station, New York, NY 10150.
Meanwhile, as another old friend used to say, “Good night, and good luck.”
N.B. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this transcript. It may not, however, be a verbatim copy of the program.
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Elizabeth Crooke
Professor Elizabeth Crooke
Professor of Museum and Heritage Studies
Magee campus
em.crooke@ulster.ac.uk
Room MA105
BT48 7JL
Professor Crooke is active in the academic area of museum studies as well as working with museums and everyday museum practice. She is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College.
Elizabeth has been invited to speak at museum and academic events at the University of Toronto, Victoria and Albert Museum, University College Dublin and University of Antwerp and has examined PhDs at Universities of Cambridge, Cardiff and Newcastle.
She is closely involved in the museum sector in Ireland. For a number of years was on the Board of Directors Northern Ireland Museums Council and previously a member of Museums and Archives Committee of Heritage Council.
Elizabeth is currently a member of the Museum Standards Programme advisory committee of the Heritage Council and Judge of the Museum of the Year Awards.
In 2006 she curated Passions and Possessions: Collecting Past and Present with Fermanagh County Museum and is currently involved in the project Connection and Division, which is a partnership between Fermanagh County Museum, Inniskillings Museum and the Tower Museum, Derry.
1999 PhD (British Academy) Cambridge University
1994 M.Phil. Archaeological Heritage and Museums Cambridge University
1993 BA (Hons) Geography and Economics Trinity College Dublin
Elizabeth's first major publication considered impact of nationalism on how archaeology was valued in nineteenth century Ireland, particularly how it influenced the development of a national antiquities collection and the creation of what is now known as the National Museum of Ireland.
She continues to research cultural, political and identity issues in relation to museums. This is evident in her work on museums and community and that on the representation of contested histories in Northern Ireland's museums.
She is currently working on the area of museums and biography, which considers themes such as material culture studies, identity, representation and memory. This research includes interviewing families who donated artefacts to the Free Derry Museum.
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'Narco' Sub Built By Homeland Security Mimics The Real Thing
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A siezed narco-sub. credit Dept of Justice, Drug Enforcement Agency
FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida -- The erstwhile planet Pluto (now officially an asteroid) was known for decades as a small, dark planet—hidden, difficult to spot, and on a quiet, determined course all its own. And so, when the DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) needed a target semi-submersible to detect the hidden but determined maritime smuggling operations of the South American drug cartels, it created its own vessel and called it "PLUTO," after the planet that is so difficult to spot. S&T's PLUTO is a small, semi-submersible that is representative of what are popularly called "narco subs," and serves as a realistic practice target for the detection systems of DHS and its national security community partners.
In the early 90's, South American drug cartels came up with a new tactic to transport narcotics destined for the United States: small, radar-dodging, self-propelled, semi-submersibles (SPSSs). Although clandestine semi-submersibles were rumored to exist in the mid-1990s, many believed them to be a myth, hence their name Bigfoot. Then in 2006, an actual Colombian semi-submersible was captured by the U.S. Coast Guard in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Today, drug cartels continue to build their "narco subs." With low profiles and low radar reflectivity, these illegal, stealthy, drug-running semi-submersibles cut through the water at wave height and are nearly impossible to detect.
S&T built PLUTO in 2008 to serve as a surrogate SPSS with many of the same features as the vessels built by the cartels. It is used as a target by DHS and its national security community partners to help test the performance of detection systems and give operators of those systems real world experience under controlled conditions. This testing helps develop new concepts of operation for seaborne, airborne, and space-borne technologies to spot illegal vessels.
"Small surface vessels, self-propelled semi-submersibles, and now the most recent innovation of fully submerged vessels (FSVs), pose significant challenges to maritime security," says Tom Tomaiko of S&T's Borders and Maritime Security Division. "While some small boats sitting low in the water have legitimate purposes, there are many that are used for illicit purposes
Dozens of these boats have been captured by the U.S. and partner nation law enforcement agencies in the last few years, sometimes with their cargo still on board, sometimes after it has been thrown overboard. "When the crews become aware they've been spotted, they will typically scuttle the boat immediately, knowing they'll be rescued by us anyway," says Tomaiko.
Meanwhile, cramped living conditions within the illegal SSPSs can be horrendous. There is generally only 3" of space above the waterline, meaning the ride can be very rough. The small crews of 3 or 4 have little to eat, poor air quality, no toilet facilities, operate with little rest until they reach their destination, and are sometimes watched over by an armed guard.
If the mission is undetected and the drugs successfully delivered, the vessel is typically scuttled and not reused. "Drug-running is lucrative. It is cheaper to simply build another vessel than to run the risk of trying to get a vessel and its crew home," says Tomaiko.
In a typical operation, PLUTO will operate at SPSS cruising speeds of 4 to 8 knots while remote sensor platforms from sea to space attempt to detect and track it at various distances and observation angles.
S&T's PLUTO is home-ported at Eglin Air Force Base, near Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and is maintained by the Air Force's 46th Test Squadron. Various civilian and military agencies, including the U.S. Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection/Air and Marine (CBP/OAM), U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and other national agencies have tested their remote sensing capabilities against PLUTO in the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic, and the Pacific.
In 2009, Customs and Border Protection tested its Dash 8 maritime surveillance aircraft against PLUTO at the Eglin range and near Key West, Florida. These results helped gauge the performance of the Dash 8's SeaVue radar against PLUTO and helped determine detection distances and aspect angles for optimal mission performance. In addition, the U.S. Navy tested one of its P-3 aircraft equipped with maritime surveillance radar system against PLUTO. All such tests were instrumental in helping to verify the performance of sensor capabilities, and provided operators with real-world training which will help determine future tactics.
PLUTO is just over 45 feet long, can run roughly 10 knots at maximum speed and can hold a crew of 3 to 4, although it usually operates with only one for safety reasons. It has VHF and HF radios, and the 46th Test Squadron can install other types of radios and maritime automated identification system (AIS) equipment to meet testing or safety requirements. Conditions onboard, however, were primarily influenced by the need for crew safety, so PLUTO's design does not exactly mimic that of illegal SSPSs.
Technical capabilities such as PLUTO are necessary to counter and stay ahead of threats to the country. Admiral James Stavridis, former Joint Commander for all US forces in the Caribbean, Central and South America, wrote, "Criminals are never going to wait for law enforcement to catch up. They are always extending the boundaries of imagination, and likewise, we must strive to push forward technology and invest in systems designed specifically to counter the semi-submersible. We need to be able to rapidly detect and interdict this new type of threat, both for its current effects via the drug trade, and – more troublingly – for its potential as a weapon in the hands of terrorists."
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Bernard Gagnon - Own work View of Palmyra with the Temple of Bel, Syria
Now that Palmyra Has Been Liberated, A Pathway to Stop ISIS?
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By: Sam Fouad on March 30, 2016
Palmyra was one of the best preserved sites of antiquity of the last 1,500 years. That was, until ISIS overran the city last May. Now that the city has been liberated, the international community is taking stock of the damage done and trying to assess whether or not the strategy that worked in Palmyra can be replicated across ISIS-held territory.
ISIS and the Damage Done
The arches, before they were destroyed
The Syrian army retook the ancient city of Palmyra, also known as the Venice of the Sands, on March 27, purging the city of Islamic State militants, who had occupied its historical ruins for nearly 10 months. During their reign of terror there, they destroyed and looted various artifacts erected during the rule of the Roman Empire. One of the most widely publicized acts of destruction was that of the triumphal arches, which had been built to celebrate a Roman victory over the Persians. In addition to blowing up the arches, ISIS had also infamously destroyed the temples of Baalshamin and of Baal, as well as using the amphitheater to execute nearly two dozen Syrian soldiers in one of their propaganda videos. ISIS had also beheaded and strung up the body of the city’s archaeological director, Riad al-Assad, on a pillar after he refused to tell them where he had hidden many of the city’s treasures.
The damage in Palmyra since its liberation by the Syrian army has been described as less extensive than expected, with more than 80% of the city remaining in good condition. The Syrian government’s antiquities director predicts that the ruins of the city can be restored in five years with the help of the international community. The director also states that, with fleeing ISIS militants still in surrounding areas, and the presence of land mines laid during their escape, it would be difficult for UNESCO and other archaeological organizations to visit the city anytime soon.
On to Raqqa? And Mosul?
The loss of Palmyra to Syrian forces backed by heavy Russian air support is one of the group’s largest setback since it first declared its caliphate in 2014 across parts of Syria and Iraq. A Syrian army general described the retaking of Palmyra as “a launchpad to expand military operations” and promising to “tighten the noose on the terrorist group and cut supply routes… ahead of their complete recapture”.
The way in which Palmyra was liberated is suggests a pathway in which ISIS can eventually be purged from cities across Syria. The combination of international airstrikes and local forces seemed to overwhelm ISIS. (The problem, at least from an American perspective, is that the airpower was Russian. And the forces were those loyal to Assad.) Still, it worked. Now, the Syrian army also vowed to begin its campaign to liberate the rest of the country from ISIS militants. “Palmyra will be the central base to broaden operations… against Daesh in numerous areas, primarily Deir Ezzor and Raqqa,” said Defense Minister Fahed Jassem al-Freij. (Deir Ezzor and Raqqa are other regions in the east of Syria; Raqqa being the self-proclaimed capital of its caliphate.)
Across the border in Iraq, this dynamic can’t be replicated.
The campaign against ISIS in Iraq presents greater problems than in Syria because the Iraqi army lacks the discipline and expertise that the Syrian army has.This manifestation of the Iraqi army was the same one that fled from ISIS when they overtook Mosul. This is also partly due to the fact that many of the experienced generals under Saddam Hussein’s army are themselves in the ranks of ISIS.
The kind of close air support the Russians provided to Assad is also not likely to be replicated with coalition forces backing the Iraqi army for the simple fact that Russia has more to fight for in Syria than the US-led coalition has in Iraq. This is partly due to Syria holding one of Russia’s only military bases in the region and on the Mediterranean Sea. Vladimir Putin is more intent on keeping Assad in power than President Obama is on removing Assad. This is translating into how much each nation is willing to fight for their respective side.
Finally, the retaking of Palmyra by the Syrian army could change the international diplomatic climate by making Western nations less inclined to suggest that Assad must not be included in a future political transition for the country. It also signifies that the fight against ISIS may need to be tweaked in a way in which the West and Russia put aside old differences and realize that they are fighting a common enemy.
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Written by Sebastian Whale on 1 December 2016 in Culture
James Graham's latest political project will look back on the run-up to the historic vote on 23 June.
One of Britain’s most renowned political playwrights is penning a TV drama about the EU referendum campaign.
James Graham’s latest project will “specifically tackle” what happened during the run-up to the vote on 23 June.
It comes on the back of his short play A Strong Exit, published in the Guardian, which analysed how ministers are preparing for the UK's exit from the European Union.
Graham’s critically acclaimed political drama This House has also just moved to the West End following its run at the Chichester Theatre.
When asked about his next venture on BBC News, Graham said: "I'm working on a TV drama about the referendum campaign."
He argued Brexit “is going to be the main occupying idea in all writers' heads for the next five or 10 years”.
"That doesn't mean necessarily writing a dramatic re-enactment of referendum night, I think it just means the new mood we're living in, which is very different, a bit scary, very divisive, very angry, very confused,” he added.
The move comes four years after This House first premiered at the National Theatre, where it enjoyed two sell-out seasons at the iconic London venue.
The play delves into the wheeling and dealing that underpinned the hung Labour parliament of 1974-79.
It has garnered rave reviews since its move to the Garrick Theatre, gaining five stars from the Guardian while the Telegraph branded it "lucid, fascinating and well-staged".
Its director, Jeremy Herrin, told the BBC he was “delighted” by the reception the play has received.
"We haven't really changed much of it, James has kept the same script," he said.
"When we first did it, the audience's obsession was much more about the coalition government in 2010 and how that was working out, and now it's much more about what's happening in the Labour party."
Graham’s other works include Coalition, a 2015 TV film about David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s horse trading in government.
He also recounted the story of David ‘Screaming Lord’ Sutch in his play Monster Raving Loony, which ran at the Soho Theatre earlier this year.
Total Politics interviewed the playwright back in May. Read the full feature here.
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A least developed country, Kiribati's per capita GDP is about $1,500. Although 63.6% of Kiribati’s population above the age of 15 are economically active, only 23% participate in the formal wage economy and over 60% of all formal jobs are in South Tarawa. The monetary economy of Kiribati is dominated by the services sector, representing a GDP share of 63.4%, and the public sector which provides 80% of monetary remuneration. The end of phosphate revenue from Banaba in 1979 had a devastating impact on the economy. Receipts from phosphates had accounted for roughly 80% of export earnings and 50% of government revenue. Per capita GDP declined by more than half between 1979 and 1981. The Revenue Equalization Reserve Fund (RERF), a trust fund financed by phosphate earnings over the years, is still an important part of the government's assets and contained more than U.S. $500 million in 2009. However, with the declining returns on offshore investments in the RERF, lower drawdowns from the fund to meet fiscal deficits is vital for the long-term welfare of the country. In one form or another, Kiribati gets a large portion of its income from abroad. Examples include fishing licenses, development assistance, tourism, and worker remittances. External sources of financing are crucial to Kiribati, given the limited domestic production ability and the need to import nearly all essential foodstuffs and manufactured items. Historically, the I-Kiribati were notable seafarers, and today about 1,400 I-Kiribati are trained, certified, and active as seafarers. Remittances from seafarers are a major source of income for families in the country, and there is a steady annual uptake of young I-Kiribati men to the Kiribati Maritime Training Institute. Remittances from Kiribati workers living abroad provide more than $11 million annually. Fishing fleets from South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, and the United States pay licensing fees to operate in Kiribati's territorial waters. These licenses produce revenue worth U.S. $20 million to $35 million annually. Kiribati's exclusive economic zone comprises more than 3.55 million square kilometers (1.37 million square miles) and is very difficult to police given Kiribati's small land mass and limited means. Kiribati probably loses millions of dollars per year from illegal, unlicensed, and unreported fishing in its exclusive economic zone. The largest donors of development assistance to Kiribati are Japan, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan. U.S. assistance is provided through multilateral institutions. Tourism is a relatively small, but important domestic sector. Attractions include World War II battle sites, game fishing, and ecotourism. The vast majority of American tourists only visit Christmas Island in the Line Islands on fishing and diving vacations. Most islanders engage in subsistence activities such as fishing and growing of food crops like bananas, breadfruit, and papaya. The leading export is the coconut product, copra, which accounts for about two-thirds of export revenue. Other exports include pet fish, shark fins, and seaweed. Kiribati's principal trading partners are Australia and Japan. Transportation and communications are a challenge for Kiribati. Air Pacific, Our Airline, and Air Kiribati provide international air links to the capital of Tarawa. Air Kiribati provides service to most of the populated atolls in the Gilberts using small planes flying from Tarawa. Small ships serve outlying islands, including in the Line Islands, with irregular schedules. A joint venture between Air Pacific and the government of Kiribati operates a flight linking Christmas Island to Fiji and Honolulu. Telecommunications are expensive, and service is mediocre. Economy (all figures in U.S. $) GDP (2010 est.): $152 million. GDP per capita (2010 est.): $1,522. GDP composition by sector (2008): Services 66.1%, agriculture 26.4%, industry 7.5%. Industry: Types --tourism, copra, fish. Trade (2007): Exports --$9.8 million: fish, seaweed, shark fins. Export markets --Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, United States, Australia, Belgium, Denmark. Imports --$70.2 million: food, manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment. Import sources --Australia, Fiji, Japan, New Zealand, United States, China, Taiwan. Currency: Australian dollar (A$).
Geography of Kiribati
Capital: Tarawa. Terrain: Archipelago of low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive reefs. Climate: Hot and humid, moderated by trade winds. Location: Oceania, group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator and the International Date Line, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to Australia Map references: Oceania Area: total area: 717 sq km land area: 717 sq km comparative area: slightly more than four times the size of Washington, DC note: includes three island groups - Gilbert Islands, Line Islands, Phoenix Islands Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 1,143 km Maritime claims: exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: none Climate: tropical; marine, hot and humid, moderated by trade winds Terrain: mostly low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive reefs Natural resources: phosphate (production discontinued in 1979) Land use: arable land: 0% permanent crops: 51% meadows and pastures: 0% forest and woodland: 3% other: 46% Irrigated land: NA sq km Environment: current issues: NA natural hazards: typhoons can occur any time, but usually November to March; occasional tornadoes international agreements: party to - Biodiversity, Endangered Species, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection; signed, but not ratified - Climate Change Note: 20 of the 33 islands are inhabited; Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean - the others are Makatea in French Polynesia and Nauru
Government of Kiribati
The constitution promulgated at independence establishes Kiribati as a sovereign democratic republic and guarantees the fundamental rights of its citizens. The unicameral House of Assembly (Maneaba) has 45 members: 43 elected representatives, one appointed member by the Banaban community on Rabi Island in Fiji, and the Attorney General on an ex officio basis. All of the members of the Maneaba serve 4-year terms; the present Maneaba term will end in late 2011. The speaker for the legislature is elected by the Maneaba from outside of its membership and is not a voting member of Parliament. After each general election, the new Maneaba nominates at least three but not more than four of its members to stand as candidates for president. The voting public then elects the president from among these candidates. The president appoints a cabinet of up to 10 members from among the members of the Maneaba. Although popularly elected, the president can be deposed by a majority vote in Parliament. If a no confidence motion passes, a new election for President must be held. An individual can serve as president for only three terms, no matter how short each term is. As a result of this provision, former Presidents Tabai and Tito are constitutionally forbidden from serving as president again. The judicial system consists of the Court of Appeal, the High Court, and Magistrates' Courts. The president makes all judicial appointments. POLITICAL CONDITIONS Political parties exist but are more similar to informal coalitions in behavior. Parties do not have official platforms or party structures. Most candidates formally present themselves as independents. Campaigning is by word of mouth and informal gatherings in traditional meetinghouses. President Anote Tong won re-election by a comfortable margin in late 2007 and enjoys a comfortable majority in Parliament. The biggest political issue today is employment opportunities for a crowded and growing population. Principal Government Officials Head of State/Government--President Anote Tong Vice President--Teima Onorio Ambassador to the United States--vacant
History of Kiribati
The I-Kiribati people settled what would become known as the Gilbert Islands between 1000 and 1300 AD. Subsequent invasions by Fijians and Tongans introduced Melanesian and Polynesian elements to the Micronesian culture, but extensive intermarriage has produced a population reasonably homogeneous in appearance and traditions. European contact began in the 16th century. Whalers, slave traders, and merchant vessels arrived in great numbers in the 1800s, fomenting local tribal conflicts and introducing often-fatal European diseases. In an effort to restore a measure of order, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands (the Ellice Islands are now the independent country of Tuvalu) consented to becoming British protectorates in 1892. Banaba (Ocean Island) was annexed in 1900 after the discovery of phosphate-rich guano deposits, and the entire group was made a British colony in 1916. The Line and Phoenix Islands were incorporated piecemeal over the next 20 years. Japan seized some of the islands during World War II. In November 1943, U.S. forces assaulted heavily fortified Japanese positions on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilberts, resulting in some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign. The battle was a turning point for the war in the Central Pacific. Britain began expanding self-government in the islands during the 1960s. In 1975 the Ellice Islands separated from the colony and in 1978 declared their independence. The Gilberts obtained internal self-government in 1977, and became an independent nation on July 12, 1979, under the name of Kiribati. Post-independence politics were initially dominated by Ieremia Tabai, Kiribati's first President, who served from 1979 to 1991, stepping down due to Kiribati's three-term limit for presidents. The tenure of Teburoro Tito, Kiribati's second-longest serving President, was from 1994 to 2003. His third term lasted only a matter of months before he lost a no confidence motion in Parliament. (See the next section for an explanation of Kiribati's unique presidential system.) In July 2003, Anote Tong defeated his elder brother, Harry Tong, who was backed by former President Tito and his allies. Tong was re-elected for a second term as president in October 2007.
People of Kiribati
Kiribati (pronounced "keer-ah-bhass") consists of 32 low-lying atolls and one raised island scattered over an expanse of ocean equivalent in size to the continental United States. The islands straddle the Equator and lie roughly halfway between Hawaii and Australia. The three main groupings are the Gilbert Islands, Phoenix Islands, and Line Islands. In 1995 Kiribati unilaterally moved the International Date Line to include its easternmost islands, making it the same day throughout the country. Kiribati includes Kiritimati (Christmas Island), the largest coral atoll in the world, and Banaba (Ocean Island), one of the three great phosphate islands in the Pacific. Except on Banaba, very little land is more than three meters above sea level. The original inhabitants of Kiribati are Gilbertese, a Micronesian people. Approximately 90% of the population of Kiribati lives on the atolls of the Gilbert Islands. Although the Line Islands are about 2,000 miles east of the Gilbert Islands, most inhabitants of the Line Islands are also Gilbertese. Owing to severe overcrowding in the capital on South Tarawa, in the 1990s a program of directed migration moved nearly 5,000 inhabitants to outlying atolls, mainly in the Line Islands. The Phoenix Islands have never had any significant permanent population. A British effort to settle Gilbertese there in the 1930s lasted until the 1960s when it was determined the inhabitants could not be self-sustaining. Nationality: Noun and adjective --I-Kiribati (for both singular and plural, pronounced "ee-keer-ah-bhass"). Population (2010 est.): 100,835. Age structure (2010 est.)--35.2% under 15; 5.59% over 60. Population growth rate (2010 est.): 1.8%. Ethnic groups: Micronesian 99%. Religion: Roman Catholic 55%, Kiribati Protestant 36%, other 9%. Languages: English (official), Gilbertese/I-Kiribati (de facto). Education (2005): Adult literacy --92%. Health (2005): Life expectancy --61.0 years. Infant mortality rate (2007)--46/1,000. Work force (2005): Labor force participation rate was 63.6%. Subsistence workers made up 37%, cash workers numbered 13,133.
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What Are SSL Stripping Attacks?
Guest Blogger: Anastasios Arampatzis
Note: This is the first of a two-part blog series. This post discusses the threat of SSL stripping attacks while the second post tries to examine whether the implementation of HTTPS on a site-wide scale is the answer to this threat.
The KRACK Attack effectively demonstrated that corporate users can’t blindly trust the medium that connects them to the internet. It also illustrates how encryption can be completely stripped away even if the site supports HTTPS.
Stripping away the encryption offered by HTTPS, called SSL Strip, is a serious cyber threat to many corporations since their employees are constantly on the move and require access to Internet on-the-go even through open non-secure Wi-Fi hotspots. Once attackers gain access to a network, they can act as a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) to intercept connections over the network. These interception tactics can also be deployed against wired networks, provided that someone gains access to an Ethernet port.
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The creator of SSL strip vulnerability is Moxie Marlinspike, a well-known American computer security researcher. In 2009, he spoke about this dangerous SSL weakness for the first time at the Black Hat information security event. According to Marlinspike’s presentation, the exploitation of this vulnerability is very serious threat for the privacy of our digital credentials since it can happen in real time, undetected, and targets whatever secure sites people are browsing to at any moment. It doesn't require multiple certificates and once the attacker gets his “dirty work” done, he can switch the victims back to a normal traffic stream.
A bit of theory
HTTP and HTTPS are the application-layer protocols in a TCP/IP model, as illustrated in the figure below. HTTPS uses a secure tunnel to transfer and receive data which is commonly called SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer / Transport Layer Security), and therefore the suffix ‘S’ is added to HTTPS.
SSL/TLS is a secure protocol used to communicate sensitive information. This protocol is used when exchanging sensitive data such as banking information and email correspondence for example. The protocol’s security is established by creating an encrypted connection between two parties (usually a client application and a server). Browsers and web servers regularly use this protocol when a secure connection is needed. In most scenarios the following events take place when establishing a secure connection:
The user sends an unsecured HTTP request.
The server answers via HTTP and redirects the user to a secure protocol (HTTPS).
The user sends a secure HTTPS request, and the secure session begins.
This process provides a reasonable guarantee of both privacy and integrity. In other words, we don't just encrypt the messages we're sending, we make sure the message we receive isn't altered over the wire.
How the SSL strip attack works
In order to “strip” the SSL, an attacker intervenes in the redirection of the HTTP to the secure HTTPS protocol and intercepts a request from the user to the server. The attacker will then continue to establish an HTTPS connection between himself and the server, and an unsecured HTTP connection with the user, acting as a “bridge” between them.
How can the SSL Strip trick both the browser and the website’s server? The SSL Strip takes advantage of the way most users come to SSL websites. The majority of visitors connect to a website’s page that redirects through a 302 redirect, or they arrive on an SSL page via a link from a non-SSL site. If the victim wants, for instance, to buy a product and types the URL www.buyme.com in the address bar, the browser connects to the attacker machine and waits for a response from the server. In an SSL Strip, the attacker, in turn, forwards the victim’s request to the online shop’s server and receives the secure HTTPS payment page. For example: https://www.buyme.com. At this point, the attacker has complete control over the secure payment page. He downgrades it from HTTPS to HTTP and sends it back to the victim’s browser. The browser is now redirected to http://www.buyme.com. From now onward, all the victim’s data will be transferred in plain text format, and the attacker will be able to intercept it. Meanwhile, the website’s server will think that it has successfully established the secure connection, which indeed it has—but with the attacker’s machine, not the victim’s.
Why are open Wi-Fi hotspots dangerous?
SSL Strip attacks can be implemented in a number of ways. The most common method is by creating a hotspot and allowing the victims to connect to it. Many attackers establish fake hotspots with names similar to legitimate hotspot names, for example, “Starbucks Coffee” instead of “Starbucks”. Unaware, the user connects to the malicious hotspot. Once the user tries to connect to the server, the attacker uses his control over the hotspot and attacks the user.
What is the threat of SSL stripping attacks?
After the successful implementation of an SSL strip attack, the victim’s information is transferred in plain text format and can be easily intercepted by anyone, including the attacker. This results in a breach in the integrity and confidentiality of personal identifiable information (PII) such as login credentials, bank accounts, sensitive business data, etc. Hence the threat of this vulnerability is easily understood and may have varying implications to your digital presence. Your business relies on encrypted communications to transact securely across the edge to the endpoint. But what if you can’t trust the identifying certificates on each end of the channel? Without this trust, you can’t engage in e-commerce web transactions and online banking that your consumers now rely on without having a second thought about security.<
The question to be answered now is this: what can we do to secure ourselves against this threat? Is the adoption of HTTPS and the Chrome updates a panacea?
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Brazil's Lula to Bow Out of Election; Poll Rattles Markets
12 Sep 2018, 05:05 GMT+10
CURITIBA, BRAZIL - Jailed former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will step aside on
Tuesday so his running mate can stand for the presidency in next month's election, party sources said, as leftist candidates' strong showing in a poll pulled markets lower.
Lula, by far Brazil's most popular politician, hoped the Supreme Court would agree to an appeal for more time to switch the head of the Workers Party (PT) ticket after the top electoral court last week banned him from running due to a corruption conviction and gave him 10 days to remove his name.
Two sources with knowledge of Lula's decision said Fernando Haddad will become the official PT candidate with an announcement outside Federal Police headquarters in the southern city of Curitiba, where the leftist icon has been jailed since April, serving a 12-year sentence for receiving bribes.
Despite appeals pending before the Supreme Court, Lula decided it was time to pass the baton to Haddad on the deadline set by the court and not run the risk of votes for his party's ticket being annulled by the electoral court.
Lula, who controls the PT he founded and determines its election strategy from his jail cell, has kept his candidacy alive for as long as possible, hoping to maximize the transfer of votes to Haddad, a former Sao Paulo mayor who is barely known in many parts of Brazil.
A Datafolha poll conducted on Monday showed that transfer has begun. While still in the single digits, support for Haddad increased from 4 percent to 9 percent, the biggest gain among the 13 candidates running for president.
The same poll also showed strengthening support for another leftist, Ciro Gomes, a former governor and finance minister, whose support rose to 13 percent from 10 percent.
Market favorites who say they will continue President Michel Temer's economic reforms had few gains, adding to investor anxiety.
The Datafolha survey showed far-right law-and-order candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who was the top vote-getter in first-round scenarios, increasing by 2 percentage points to 24 percent, less than many expected after he survived a near-fatal stabbing last week.
Former Sao Paulo Mayor Geraldo Alckmin, a center-right candidate, ticked up just 1 percentage point to 10 percent. Monday's poll confirmed previous surveys showing Bolsonaro would lose to every major candidate in a probable run-off vote - with the exception of Haddad, with whom he was in a technical tie.
The potential for a leftist run-off victory spooked financial markets on Tuesday, with the real currency slumping nearly 2 percent against the U.S. dollar and the Bovespa benchmark stock index losing 1.9 percent.
'Bottom line: one space in the run-off looks guaranteed for Bolsonaro,' Juliano Ferreira, a strategist at brokerage BGC Liquidez, said in a research note. 'Once he's there, his chances of losing look stronger, to whomever it might be.'
Lula's letter anointing Haddad will be read to supporters who have camped outside the police building for five months to protest his jailing, which they consider a plot to keep him from returning to power, a party official said.
Lula and Haddad huddled on Monday afternoon in his jail cell and began to draw up the letter, the source said.
The sources asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly about Lula's plans.
Lula served as president from 2003-2010. He is ineligible for office under Brazil's 'Clean Slate' law, which prohibits candidates from running if they have convictions that have been upheld on appeal.
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The VICE Guide to the 2016 Election
What Wisconsin Tells Us About the Inevitable Chaos at the Republican Convention
Last week's vote provides a glimpse into just how acrimonious—and potentially irreconcilable—the fight over the party's nomination might get.
by Grace Wyler
Apr 12 2016, 4:00am
The scene at Donald Trump's rally in Janesville, Wisconsin. Photo by Abazar Khayami
Looking back on the string of strange and ugly news bytes that augured Donald Trump's downward spiral in Wisconsin—the Heidi Cruz retweet, the inexplicable attacks on Scott Walker, the endless contradictions on abortion—there were two moments that, in hindsight, seem particularly instructive to understanding what went what the hell is going on in the Republican Party in 2016.
The first was during a campaign rally in Janesville, Wisconsin, when Trump mentioned the city's most famous resident, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. It wasn't clear what Trump planned to say about the Wisconsin congressman—whose district includes Janesville—but it didn't really matter: The crowd erupted in boos and hisses anyway. Even Trump seemed taken aback. "Wow. I was told be nice to Paul Ryan," he said. "I'm very surprised by this statement. Are you all Republicans?"
Outside, Beth Schmidt, chairwoman of the Rock County Republican Party, was wondering the same thing. "I don't know anybody here," she told me, looking over the impromptu overflow crowd that had gathered in the parking lot. After two heated gubernatorial elections and a recall, not to mention dozens of heated state legislative and judicial nominations, in the last five years, Schmidt, like most local party officials in Wisconsin, is pretty familiar with the area's Republican voters. But amongst the tailgating Trump fans in Janesville, she looked distinctly out of place.
"Clearly he is bringing in people," she said. "I just don't know who they are. They've never been involved in politics before." When I asked about the crowd's response to Ryan, Schmidt seemed bewildered: "That was very strange," she admitted. "I honestly can't tell you what that was about."
The circumstances were reversed a few days later, at Milwaukee's American Serb Hall, where Sarah Palin tagged in for Trump at a county GOP dinner featuring the three remaining candidates. Palin was characteristically crazy, rambling about gift baskets for illegal immigrants and the crimes of #Benghazi—but the lines that once ignited Republican crowds fell flat among Wisconsin's party activists. As she spoke, the audience was visibly restless, checking phones, and pushed coleslaw around on paper plates. A group of young volunteers seated near me snickered quietly. When Palin declared that "Trump is the only one who talks rationally" about foreign policy, a couple of people in the hall burst out laughing.
The reactions to both Palin and Ryan were startling. These are, after all, the GOP's two most recent vice-presidential candidates, each selected for a perceived ability to unite disparate wings of the conservative base. Together, the two incidents hinted at a hostile new polarization in the GOP primary, between the angry, "undocumented Republicans" supporting Donald Trump, and mainstream party activists turned off by the frontrunner and his fans.
Results from Wisconsin's primary last week confirmed this rift, revealing a Republican electorate deeply divided over the two candidates most likely to become the party's nominee. While Texas Senator Ted Cruz easily won Tuesday's vote, taking in nearly half of the Republican vote and all but six of Wisconsin's 42 delegates, exit polls showed that the victory wasn't so much the result of support for his own campaign, but a widespread fear of Trump among the state's conservative voters.
According to a CNN exit poll, a full 72 percent of Cruz voters in Wisconsin—and 55 percent of all Republican primary voters—said they would be scared or concerned if Trump was elected president. In contrast, 57 percent of Trump supporters said the same about President Cruz, which is still a More striking is the poll's finding that Wisconsin voters for both Trump and Cruz in Wisconsin would defect from the party if the other candidate won the nomination: In a race between Hillary Clinton and Trump, for instance, 66 percent of Cruz voters said they would pick a third-party candidate. Among Trump supporters, disinterest in the other Republican was even stronger, with 70 percent choosing a third-party candidate in a race between Clinton and Cruz.
All this suggests a pretty deep disconnect, and distrust, between supporters of the two leading Republican candidates. While it's difficult to draw big conclusions from Wisconsin's exit data alone, the numbers do offer a glimpse into just how acrimonious—and potentially irreconcilable—the party's split might be by the time it picks its nominee at the convention this summer.
With Cruz's win in Wisconsin, the race is now virtually guaranteed to drag on until the final primary, in June, and it's significantly less likely—though possible—that Trump will get the delegates he needs to lock up the nomination outright. The Cruz campaign is now systematically trying to fill the convention with his supporters, getting them elected as state delegates so they can vote for him on a second ballot.
So far, his campaign has been pretty effective at this, following up its Wisconsin victory by picking up 28 pledged delegates in Colorado and installing loyalists among the delegates in Iowa, South Carolina, and Michigan this past weekend. If the sentiments these delegates have about Trump is even close to the feelings seen in the Wisconsin polls, it's not hard to imagine a scenario in which Trump-fearing Cruz supporters throw up hurdles for the frontrunner at the convention, even if Trump manages to win the nomination outright.
By the same token, Trump and his supporters are equally committed to making sure that the Cruz campaign isn't able to out-strategize their campaign on the floor of the convention. And what Trump and his troops lack in organization, they seem to make up for in enthusiasm, at least according to the Wisconsin exit polls. The same CNN exit poll found that almost all of Trump's supporters—90 percent, if you're counting—feel "excited" about the idea of their candidate as president. By comparison, the number of Cruz supporters who said the same about their guy wasn't even high enough to register in CNN's exit results.
Moreover, according to an ABC News exit poll, an overwhelming 83 percent of Trump voters—and 56 percent of Wisconsin's Republican voters overall—think that in the event of a contested convention, the nomination should go to the candidate who won the most votes in the primaries, while just 14 percent said that it should go to the best candidate in the race. Combined, the results suggest that Trump's supporters will be ready for a fight for their guy on the floor of the convention, should the events call for that.
Trump's campaign seems to be preparing, and even galvanizing its supporters, for this outcome, promising "riots" in Cleveland if the Republican Party tries to nominate someone not named Donald Trump. In the week since the Wisconsin primary, reports suggest that Trump has retooled his campaign operation to focus on the more arcane elements of delegate selection, bringing on seasoned GOP operatives to handle convention strategy. As the campaign continues to bleed delegates, though, Trump's flaks have accused the campaign of using "Gestapo tactics" to win the nomination.
The Trump campaign's own statement on Cruz's win in the Badger State hints at the kind of batshit lunacy we can expect should the establishment mount a challenge to his coronation this summer. "Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet—he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination from Mr. Trump," his campaign said in a statement to reporters last week. "Mr. Trump is the only candidate who can secure the delegates needed to win the Republican nomination and ultimately defeat Hillary Clinton, or whomever is the Democratic nominee, in order to Make America Great Again."
Of course, it's too early to tell how the convention will go down when the primary races are said and done. The Trump campaign seems to have recovered, at least in some Trumpian sense of the word, from last week's disastrous defeat, and seems poised to lock up a sizable win in New York's primary next week. But last Tuesday's polls do hint at a more inflexible break between the frontrunner's supporters and the rest of the GOP. Considering that those two groups will be crammed together for hours on the floor of the Quicken Loans Arena, at this point it seems safe to expect chaos in some form when the race finally ends in Cleveland this July.
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Australia Urged to Accept More Syrian Refugees
By Phil Mercer
Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announces his new cabinet during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Sept. 20, 2015.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - In the center of Australia’s biggest city, protesters Saturday had a clear message for the government – do much more to help those fleeing the conflict in Syria.
One of the last acts of ousted Prime Minister Tony Abbott was to announce plans to grant asylum to 12,000 members of "persecuted minorities." And it seems that the new man at the top, Malcolm Turnbull, will be unwilling to offer sanctuary to more migrants.
The first of 12,000 Syrians should be in Australia by Christmas, but activists believe the wealthy, multicultural nation should be willing to offer a haven to more refugees.
“We are a country that was built on refugees and people who were from other countries. Yeah, for us not to welcome people in when that is predominantly the background of everybody who lives there is just abominable,” said a young woman.
Pro- and anti-refugee campaigners have clashed in recent weeks in Australia. In certain quarters there is vehement opposition to Middle Eastern asylum-seekers.
Changes?
So, will there be any major changes under new Prime Minister Turnbull to a hardline stance on immigration, where the military turns migrant boats away from Australia, or where detainees are sent for processing in remote camps in the South Pacific?
Experts said major policy changes are not likely, after Turnbull had earlier praised his predecessor’s efforts to stop asylum-seekers breaching the nation’s maritime frontiers.
"Restoring the security on our borders has been an extraordinarily important step enabling us, for example, to offer the increased and generous arrangements for Syrian refugees last week,” Turnbull said.
Immigration remains one of Australia’s most divisive issues, and Turnbull, who is known for his progressive views, will be aware that tough asylum policies helped the conservatives to a landslide win at the last election in 2013.
Turnbull Sworn in as New Australia PM
Malcolm Turnbull was sworn in Tuesday as Australia's new prime minister, becoming the country's fourth leader in just over two years.Turnbull emerged as leader of the Liberal Party following a surprise party vote late Monday that ousted Prime Minister Tony Abbott.The 60-year-old ex-banker, lawyer and journalist told reporters he was "filled with optimism" as he headed for his swearing-in ceremony."This is a turn of events I did not expect, I have to tell you, but…
Australian PM Ousted in Party Room Rebellion
Australia’s brutal political culture has another victim.The country has a new prime minister designate after Tony Abbott was ousted in a party room rebellion led by former communications minister Malcolm Turnbull. Abbott, who has suffered months of poor approval ratings and internal division, was defeated by 54 votes to 44. Abbott’s prime ministership has fallen apart because he lost the trust of the electorate, and ultimately the governing…
Australia to Resettle 12,000 Syrian and Iraqi Refugees
Australia has offered to resettle 12,000 refugees from the conflict in Syria and Iraq. Prime Minister Tony Abbott says those from “persecuted minorities,” including Christians, Yazidis and Muslims, will be given priority. Australian warplanes have also been authorized to hit Islamic State targets in Syria. Abbott said the refugees will be allowed into Australia to escape what he called a conflict “soaked in blood.” The resettlement…
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Alan Hill Named Dean
President Gregory D. Hess announced the appointment of Alan P. Hill as Dean for Professional Development at Wabash College. In this role, the veteran higher education administrator will oversee the Schroeder Center for Career Development, and the Center for Innovation, Business, and Entrepreneurship, while assuming the duties of Director of the Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies (MXIBS).
“Alan’s vast experience, skills, and connections across Indiana and the GLCA make him an ideal candidate to pull together our efforts for the enhanced personal and professional development of all Wabash students and set the course for the MXIBS.” said President Hess. “This move allows us to concentrate our efforts to better prepare our students for their lives and careers after Wabash.”
Hill boasts nearly 30 years of experience in higher education and comes to Wabash from Franklin College, where since 2000, he has served as Vice President for Enrollment and Student Affairs and, more recently, as Vice President of Enrollment and Marketing.
“I would like to thank Dr. Hess for the wonderful opportunity to work as the Dean for Professional Development for Wabash College,” Hill said. “My life’s work has been to serve, and I am passionate about serving young people through education. Wabash is blessing me with this wonderful opportunity to work with trustees, administrators, faculty, staff and alumni who are as passionate and committed as I am about transforming the lives of young men. I very much look forward to working tirelessly to make sure that all Wabash students truly realize the full benefits of the liberal arts experience, while at the same time achieving the College’s mission of educating men to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely.”
A 1981 graduate of DePauw University, he also earned his master’s degree from DePauw before beginning his career in marketing with IBM. He spent a decade at DePauw in positions with the Provost’s office, admissions, financial aid, and student life. He left DePauw to become Vice President of Enrollment and Student Affairs at Alma College in Michigan. Since 2000, he has served Franklin College as Vice President for Enrollment and Student Affairs and, more recently, as Vice President of Enrollment and Marketing.
“Alan is a respected leader in Indiana with deep connections to business, education, and non-profits, particularly in Indianapolis. For example, he has served on the boards of Park Tudor School and the Charles A. Tindley Accelerated High School. In hiring Mr. Hill, we have strengthened our leadership team immeasurably.”
Hill will begin his tenure at Wabash on July 1.
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Charles Harrison Clark, a member of Boy Scout Troop 63 at Canterbury United Methodist Church, was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout in a Court of Honor ceremony Jan. 24.
For his Eagle project, Clark designed and constructed a covered pavilion with a picnic table, along with two extra benches, for the day school playground at East Lake United Methodist Church.
After raising funds to cover the cost of construction, Clark completed the project with the assistance of many scouts from Troop 63, plus much help from family and friends. Funds remaining at the end of the project were donated to the church to assist them with other upcoming playground projects.
As a member of Troop 63, Clark earned 24 merit badges, served as Eagle patrol leader, and troop webmaster. He was inducted into Order of the Arrow, the national honor society of the Boy Scouts of America.
The Mountain Brook High School sophomore participates on the Varsity Cross Country/Track team, is a member of the Interact Club, and serves as the SGA Vice President of the sophomore class.
He is also involved in BigTime ministries and is an active member of his church youth group at the Cathedral Church of the Advent.
Having attained the rank of Eagle, Clark is honored to be joining other family members who have reached this prestigious rank: his grandfather Gary Underwood, his uncle Eric Underwood, and his cousin Evan Underwood.
Clark is the son of Jill and David Clark of Mountain Brook. He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Clark, Jr. of Mountain Brook, Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Underwood of Hoover, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Bailey, Jr. of Tuscaloosa.
– Submitted by Jill Clark.
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Shortly after the establishment of the Tbilisi State University, the Department of Psychology was opened under the guidance of Dimitri Uznadze. Initially, the branch of psychology was represented only by one psychologist, Dimitri Uznadze. Due to his huge efforts, a psychology lab was established in 1923 under the department. In 1926 the society of psychologists was established in Georgia uniting the university alumni. Dimitri Uznadze’s Theory of Set was created and developed just at the Department of Psychology. Moreover, he established the Georgian School of Psychology. Dimitri Uznadze led the Department of Psychology until the end of his life.
From 1950 the Department of Psychology was led by Uznadze’s follower, Academician Revaz Natadze. The range of research activities carried out at the department was extremely wide. Research topics covered all the branches of psychology: general psychology, differential, child and genetic psychology, educational psychology and defectology. Despite the diversity of problems, the department based its activities on Uznadze’s experimentally justified theory of set. Thus, experimental research activities were widely undertaken. The Department of Psychology was regularly presenting its scientific products to local and international forums.
Back in the thirties Uznadze started to put in practice the scientific achievements in the field of psychology. Psycho-technical laboratories, psychological and methodological departments for child education as well as clinical psychology departments at hospitals were opened. But this success failed to develop during Uznadze’s lifetime, because under the government order dated 1937, psychology could only have developed as a fundamental science. Although orientation to fundamental psychology brought international recognition to a lot of research activities in this field, the fields of practical and applied psychology significantly lagged behind the world level. By the sixties, when the opinion ripened in the society about the significance of achievements in psychological science for improving production efficiency and the opportunities for its introduction were created, it became necessary to further develop relevant branches and train relevant staff. Just during the tenure of Academician Natadze at the university, the Department of Industrial and Engineering Psychology (in 1971, head of the department – Prof. G; Kechkhuashvili), later in 1981 the Department of Social Psychology (head of the department – Assistant Professor R. Kvartskhava) and the Department of Pedagogy and Age Psychology (head of the department – Prof. A. Baindurashvili) were separated from the Department of General Psychology.
Although students were taught psychology since 1918, the Faculty of Psychology was established as an independent unit only in 1990. The newly established Faculty of Psychology was led by Prof. G. Mchedlishvili.
In the nineties the Faculty of Psychology was preparing students in four specializations: general psychology, social psychology, age and pedagogy psychology and industrial and organizational psychology.
In 2005 the Faculty of Psychology, along with other faculties and departments, merged with the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences as the department. Since 2008 it was represented as the psychological direction of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
Pedagogical science has existed at the university since its foundation. The Institute of Pedagogy led by Dimitri Uznadze was functioning at the university since 1919. It was just in 1919 when the university started to prepare teachers. The pedagogical faculty was set up at the university in 1922 and Professor Korneli Kekelidze became its dean. The department of pedagogy was functioning under the faculty of philosophy since 1930 and the course of pedagogy was delivered at all the faculties of the university. At various times the department of pedagogy was led by famous scientists, including Giorgi Tavzishvili, Shalva Sikharulidze, Konstantine Chkuaseli, Giorgi Kiknadze, Davit Lortkipanidze, etc.
From 1930 to 2002 all alumni, along with their basic specializations, were awarded a qualification of a teacher.
In 1990 the Department of Pedagogy joined the newly established Faculty of Psychology and in 2006 the Teaching and Research Institute of Pedagogy was created, which joined the Faculty of Humanities
In October 2014 the direction of psychology was separated from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, and the Teaching and Research Institute of Pedagogy was separated from the Faculty of Humanities. Thus, the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences was established as a result of merger of the above mentioned educational directions.
Presently about 1400 students are undergoing their studies at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (three stages of education) and about 60 professors are teaching them; 4 bachelor’s degree programs and up to 15 master’s and doctoral degree programs are being implemented at the faculty.
The faculty has educational and scientific laboratories, computer center, library, material and financial resources, which ensure high level of teaching and research activities.
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A Titan Of Science Fiction Who Poured His Own Helplessness Onto The Page
Jonathan Letham is one of Philip K. Dick’s biggest fans. He's the guy behind the Library of America's three volume set of Dick's work. And he says the writer himself had mixed feelings about literary fame.
He was a very divided soul about whether or not he had accomplished what he initially set out to do as a writer. He had very strong ambitions as regards the literary mainstream. He wanted to become legitimate and worked very, very hard and quite hopelessly in the 1950s and early 1960s writing a string of realist novels that went unpublished at the time.
And when he finally gave up that attempt and put all of that energy completely into the science fiction — which he thought of as a kind of way to pay the bills or kind of a slightly embarrassing side career — suddenly the books become much, much better. It's as though he's merged his mainstream ambition with his science fictional imaginative material, and so he very quickly becomes a writer unprecedented in that field, or anywhere. Someone with a lot of emotional and psychologically realistic impulses, and very strong confessional impulses. I mean he writes autobiographically again and again and again, without it being obvious that he's doing so.
But he demonstrates one of the most extraordinarily weird imaginations ever given to a literary writer. You know you can look to [Franz] Kafka or [Jorge Luis] Borges, or someone like Kobo Abe or or Salman Rushdie, but there's really almost no one with as many simply wild ideas and wild images available to them as Dick had.
I think that the form of character that Dick specialized in, truthfully, was almost a helpless symptom of his own personal intensity. He wrote about angry, confused, overwhelmed, sensitive, yearning, little men who felt at the mercy of this future that was coming, and that he was describing. And he did so because in many ways, he was a very turbulent, very sensitive, very helpless individual. And he poured himself onto the page. And so that's the kind of realism that he specialized in.
I've written about Dick again and again and never felt that I'd completely gotten it right because he's such an important presence in the constellation of my own influences. I could never stop thinking about him in a way. In some ways, essay by essay, I'm backing into writing some huge, completely unsatisfying book about Philip K. Dick in all of these attempts. But this is the most recent one.
Dick tended to give his main characters powerful but unsteady father figures, often resembling Dick's boss Herb Hollis at Art Music — this is a shop that Dick worked at when he was briefly employed before becoming a full-time writer. Men both bullying and charismatic, generous and treacherous. Another version of this archetype recurs in the films of Orson Welles, with the "big father" often played by Welles himself as Falstaff or Kane or Hank Quinlan.
I fooled with this motif myself — most obviously in in the Frank Miller character from "Motherless Brooklyn" — but more often have defaulted in my writing to a primary relationship more like siblings or friends. Pairs linked by bonds of guilt, yearning, and mutual betrayal. This may be typical of the difference between the post-war Boomer generation of which Dick was part, those whose parents were toughened by the Depression and World War II, and my generation — we who experienced the questing, self-revising boomers as our parents.
For myself and my friend Jake, there were times when our parents were less like parents and more like crazy friends. As a result, our friendships involved a measure of mutual parenting, or at least since mutual parenting was really impossible, the impulse to rescue one another from our parents squishy legacies.
And truly for all my reverence, I never really looked at Philip K. Dick as a literary father. More like a brilliant older brother whose brave and also sometimes half-assed forays charted wild paths for me to follow.
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HomeHistoryHistory of Greeks
● In this post we are only Reading about Greek People
● In this reading we understand origin of the greek peoples at different times period.
✏️ The Greeks peopls history so old and long. They belongs to an ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Turkey, Egypt and, southern Albania, as an extent, There are many other countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world.
✏️ According to history Greek colonies and communities were established on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, but the Greek people have always been centered on the Aegean and Ionian seas, where the Greek language has been spoken since the Bronze Age.
✏️ Before 20th century, Greeks were
distributed and divided between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of Asia Minor, the Black Sea coast, Cappadocia in central Anatolia, Egypt, the Balkans, Cyprus, and Constantinople the Many of these regions coincided to a large extent with the borders of the Byzantine Empire of the late 11th century and the Eastern Mediterranean areas of ancient Greek colonization. The cultural centers of the Greeks have included Athens, Thessalonica, Alexandria, Smyrna, and Constantinople at various periods.
Nowadays Most ethnic Greeks live within
the borders of the modern Greek state and Cyprus. The Greek genocide and
population exchange between Greece and Turkey nearly ended the three millennia-old Greek presence in Asia Minor. Other longstanding Greek populations can be found from southern Italy to the Caucasus and southern Russia and Ukraine and in the Greek diaspora communities in a number of other countries. Today, most Greeks are mostly influenced by the culture and Religion they officially registered himself as a members of the Greek Orthodox Church.
● From the Ancient period Greeks people have greatly influenced and
contributed to culture, arts, exploration,
literature, philosophy, politics, architecture, music, mathematics ie; Pythagoras, science and technology, business, cuisine, and sports, both historically and contemporarily.
✏️Origins and History
Origin and History of the greek peoples are revolving around the different time period at different civilization , peoples were same but outside invasion make his status of civilization . Greeks speaks the greek language which make it's own unique branch with the indo European family of language.
● The Proto-Greeks probably arrived at the area now called Greece, in the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, at the end of the 3rd millennium BC. The sequence of migrations into the Greek mainland during the 2nd millennium BC has to be reconstructed on the basis of the ancient Greek dialects, as they presented themselves centuries later and are therefore subject to some uncertainties.
● There were at least two migrations, the first being the Ionians and Aeolians, which resulted in Mycenaean Greece by the 16th century BC and the second, the Dorian invasion, around the 11th century BC, displacing the Arcadocypriot dialects, which descended from the Mycenaean period. Both migrations occur at incisive periods, the Mycenaean at the transition to the Late Bronze Age and the Doric at the Bronze Age collapse.
An alternative hypothesis has been put forth by linguist Vladimir Georgiev, who places Proto-Greek speakers in northwestern Greece by the Early Helladic period (3rd millennium BC), i.e. towards the end of the European Neolithic. Linguists Russell Gray and Quentin Atkinson in a 2003 paper using computational methods on Swadesh lists have arrived at a somewhat earlier estimate, around 5000 BC for Greco-Armenian split and the emergence of Greek as a separate linguistic lineage around 4000 BC.
Mycenaean Greeks and Civilization
In 1600 BC, the Mycenaean Greeks borrowed from the Minoan civilization. They developed their own syllabic script known as Linear B, providing the first and oldest written evidence of Greek. The Mycenaeans quickly penetrated the Aegean Sea and, by the 15th century BC, had reached Rhodes, Crete, Cyprus and the shores of Asia Minor.
● In 1200 BC, the Dorians, another Greek-speaking people, followed from Epirus.
Traditionally, historians have believed that the Dorian invasion caused the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization, but it is likely the main attack was made by seafaring raiders (Sea Peoples) who sailed into the eastern Mediterranean around 1180 BC.
The Dorian invasion was followed by a poorly attested period of migrations, appropriately called the Greek Dark Ages.
● Mycenaean period as a glorious era of heroes, closeness of the gods and material wealth.The Homeric Epic i.e. Iliad and Odyssey were especially and generally accepted as part of the Greek past and it was not until the time of Euhemerism ( that scholars began to question Homer's historicity). As part of the Mycenaean heritage that survived, the names of the gods and goddesses of Mycenaean Greece e.g. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades.
Classical Greeks and Civilization
In 8th century BC ethnogenesis of the Greek nation is linked to the development of Pan-Hellenism.
● According to some scholars, the foundational event was the Olympic Games in 776 BC, when the idea of a common Hellenism among the Greek tribes was first translated into a shared cultural experience and Hellenism was primarily a matter of common culture.
● The works of Homer and Hesiod were written in the 8th century BC, becoming the basis of the national religion, ethos, history and mythology.
● The Oracle of Apollo at Delphi was established in this period.
● The classical period of Greek civilization covers a time spanning from the early 5th century BC to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC (some authors prefer to split this period into "Classical", from the end of the Greco-Persian Wars to the end of the Peloponnesian War, and "Fourth Century", up to the death of Alexander). It is so named because it set the standards by which Greek civilization would be judged in later eras.
● The Classical period is also described as the "Golden Age" of Greek civilization, and its art, philosophy, architecture and literature would be instrumental in the formation and development of Western culture.
● While the Greeks of the classical era understood themselves to belong to a common Hellenic genos, their first loyalty was to their city and they saw nothing incongruous about warring, often brutally, with other Greek city-states.
● The Peloponnesian War, the large scale civil war between the two most powerful Greek city states Athens and Sparta and their allies, left both greatly weakened.
● Alexander the Great, whose conquests led to the Hellenistic Age.
Most of the feuding Greek city-states were, in some scholars' opinions, united under the banner of Philip's and Alexander the Great's Pan-Hellenic ideals, though others might generally opt, rather, for an explanation of "Macedonian conquest for the sake of conquest" or at least conquest for the sake of riches, glory and power and view the "ideal" as useful propaganda directed towards the city-states.
● Many Greeks settled in Hellenistic cities like Alexandria, Antioch and Seleucia.Two thousand years later, there are still communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan, like the Kalash, who claim to be descended from Greek settlers.
Colonies established across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.
Defeat of the Persians and emergence of the Delian League in Ionia, the Black Sea and Aegean perimeter culminates in Athenian Empire and the Classical Age of Greece; ends with Athens defeat by Sparta at the close of the Peloponnesian War.
4th century BC
Rise of Theban power and defeat of the Spartans; Rise of Macedon; Campaign of Alexander the Great; Greek colonies established in newly founded cities of Ptolemaic Egypt and Asia.
2nd century BC
Conquest of Greece by the Roman Empire. Migrations of Greeks to Rome.
4th century AD
Eastern Roman Empire. Migrations of Greeks throughout the Empire, mainly towards Constantinople.
Slavic conquest of several parts of Greece, Greek migrations to Southern Italy, Roman emperors capture main Slavic bodies and transfer them to Cappadocia. The Bosphorus is re-populated by Macedonian and Cypriot Greeks.
Roman dissolution of surviving Slavic settlements in Greece and full recovery of the Greek peninsula.
Retro-migrations of Greeks from all parts of the Empire (mainly from Southern Italy and Sicily) into parts of Greece that were depopulated by the Slavic Invasions (mainly western Peloponnesus and Thessaly).
Roman Empire dissolves, Constantinople taken by the Fourth Crusade; becoming the capital of the Latin Empire. Liberated after a long struggle by the Empire of Nicaea, but fragments remain separated. Migrations between Asia Minor, Constantinople and mainland Greece take place.
Conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire. Greek diasporainto Europe begins. Ottoman settlements in Greece. PhanariotGreeks occupy high posts in Eastern European millets.
● 1830s Creation of the Modern Greek State.Immigration to the New World begins. Large-scale migrations from Constantinople and Asia Minor to Greece take place
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Milwaukee Trauma Conference Brings Together Experts From 17 States
Intersection Of Race And Trauma Among The Topics Discussed
By Ximena Conde
Thursday, September 27, 2018, 1:10pm
Almost 1,200 health, human services and education providers from 17 states are gathering in Milwaukee Thursday and Friday for a conference discussing the root causes of trauma and how to help the communities who have experienced or are experiencing such events.
The Healing Trauma, Healthy Communities Conference continues calls to treat collective trauma as a public health issue.
"(Trauma) has a role in how your mind and body develop and the type of stress that your body is under," said Michelle Sieg, marketing and communications director at SaintA, a family-centered, foster care, education and mental health services provider — and host of the event.
The idea of providing trauma-informed care has gained momentum in Wisconsin, and especially in Milwaukee, with support from politicians like Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. The conference aims to put organizations working to provide this kind of care in one room to discuss how communities can move past generational and historical trauma.
Trauma-informed care works off of three basic principles, said Sumaiyah Clark of Milwaukee's Office of Violence Prevention: recognizing the root causes of trauma, stopping what’s causing harm, and promoting healing.
Clark said in Milwaukee, these ideas translate to acknowledging the effects of policing and housing practices that reinforce segregation have on communities of color.
Part of the challenge is to get people to see trauma as more than a single event experienced by an individual, said Clark, adding that the conversation needs to be steered toward the environmental factors that pose challenges to neighborhoods.
According to Clark, there are ways the government can help with healing.
"That could be neighborhood investment, getting support from the state to have more investment in our schools and health care systems," she said.
Clark said it’s also important to empower the organizations and people that have been doing this kind of work for years.
Jameelah A. Love, a peer mentor at SaintA and someone who went through the foster care system, said she sees immense potential in the approach of looking at what causes people to "shut down" under certain circumstances.
"We can increase our outcomes and employment and education, decrease crime and really create some positive impact in our communities," she said.
A panel discussion — free to the public — kicked off the conference Wednesday night with a pre-recorded message by Oprah Winfrey.
The conference features several keynote speeches from experts and researchers, like psychiatrist Bruce Perry who focuses on childhood trauma and its lifelong impact. In addition, more than 50 workshops hosted by local educators, law enforcement and members of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court are scheduled.
Scaling Wellness in Milwaukee, a coalition of community groups working to address trauma put together by Marquette University President Mike Lovell, sponsored the event.
Organizers say they believe this is the largest gathering of its kind.
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3 IN YOUR TOWN: The history of Grundy County's Highlander Folk School
The history of the Highlander Folk School reflects the course of organized labor and Civil Rights movements in the South, as well as the struggles of southern activists between the 1930s and early 1960s.
Thursday, February 21st 2019, 4:20 PM EST by John Martin
Friday, March 29th 2019, 3:01 PM EDT
Highlander Folk School was established in 1932 by Tennessean, Myles Horton. The original purpose of the school was to educate the poor and offer courses in organized labor while providing on-campus jobs for those who attended.
The school gave no grades, credits, examinations, or degrees; the needs of the students largely determined the curriculum of the sessions. Faculty members refrained from imposing a preconceived set of ideas. Instead, they used visiting speakers, movies, audio recordings, drama, and music to identify common issues, offer broader perspectives, and introduce promising strategies. Workshop participants evaluated their findings, assessed their new understanding of their concerns, and made plans to initiate or sustain activities when they returned to their communities.
"What Myles Horton attempted to do when he started Highlander was to educate those people and give them a voice in what they considered was their role in American democracy,” David Currey, former chairman of the Tennessee Preservation Trust board of directors. “Because they were being left behind."
Highlander's teachers began holding workshops on public school desegregation in 1953, nearly a year before the U.S. Supreme Court's momentous decision in Brown v. Board of Education and the subsequent emergence of the Civil Rights movement in the South. This attracted names like King, Abernathy and Parks.
"It is a who's who in what becomes the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s,” says Currey. “Some of the origins and genesis of trying to learn about non-violence begins here at Highlander. Rosa Parks is here about four months before the Montgomery bus boycott and she's learning about non-violence. I mean people think this is a little seamstress that doesn't give up her seat on the bus. No, it was planned and some of that planning took place right here. Of course years later when Rosa Parks was asked about the role of Highlander and how it affected her, she said that Highlander was everything."
The conversations at Highlander sparked new ideas about social justice. College students gathered at the folk school to explore the possible directions and goals for a new era of black protest; they also learned “freedom songs” adapted by Highlander musicians.
"There were some cotton field workers that came here to Highlander around 1944 to ‘45 and they brought this song with them,” explains Currey. “In 1957 when Pete Seeger came back, it was finally introduced to Pete Seeger and so he changed a couple of the verses. And he changed it to, "We Shall Overcome." An eventually it becomes a significant part of the Civil Rights movement and it's literally the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement.
As the black civil rights movement exploded, the school became a lightning rod for segregationists who condemned it as a communist and radical breeding ground.
“And the reason they attacked it on that principal was that we are a democratic, capitalist society,” says Currey. “And anything that ran counter to that, anybody who objected to that system or did not feel like that they were part of that, were labeled counter to that. Of course in that times of the 1950s, the counter to that was communism…The Red Scare.”
Though letters sent to the State of Tennessee from the Department of Justice and 'Hoover's FBI' proclaimed Highlander innocent of all communistic accusations. But state and local officials still wanted the school closed.
The State of Tennessee was able to close Highlander on the technicality of ‘illegal' alcohol sales. They found out that workers were paying a quarter to buy beer out of a tub on the property at the end of their shift.
"That's what happened, says Currey. “And Highlander was operating... I don't want to say illegally, but counter to the Jim Crow laws in the state that did not allow for whites and blacks to be in the same school, to stay in the same facilities at night, to swim in the same lake.”
Although faculty members defended the school's ideology and pedagogy eloquently and often persuasively in the face of such attacks, their understandable, but loose institutional practices made them vulnerable in the 1950s. Following a headline-grabbing investigation by state legislators, a police raid, and two dramatic trials, the state of Tennessee revoked Highlander's charter and confiscated its property in 1962.
This did not mean the end of Highlander. Before the final court decision on the folk school's fate, Highlander officers secured a charter for a new institution to be named the Highlander Research and Education Center. First based in Knoxville, and since 1972 near New Market, the center continues to pursue, in a new context, the folk school's original purpose, as given in its mission statement: to educate “rural and industrial leaders for a new social order” while enriching “the indigenous cultural values of the mountains.
Though the original doors are closed at Highlander, Currey believes the progress that began there continues today.
"They are the people who are on the streets fighting for your rights as an individual. To be able to vote, to be able to go to school where you want to go to school, to be able to love who you want to love, to be able to marry who you want to marry. Those are individual choices that people make and I think that Highlander, even in the 1950s was right in the center of all of that. And we're still having those debates today. It was a very accepting place for displaced people. We fight that still today."
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Investigation after near drowning in Lake Lanier
By: Asia Simone Burns, AJC
Published: July 12 2019 5:23 AM
A man and his son are in serious condition after authorities pulled them from Lake Lanier on Thursday afternoon, officials said.
The pair went underwater at the beach area near Margaritaville at Lanier Islands, according to Hall County fire spokesman Zach Brackett. Crews were called to the lake just before 3 p.m., he said.
The father went into the water after he noticed his son had not surfaced, Brackett said. Then, he slipped under the water.
Lifeguards and bystanders on the beach found the 10-year-old boy, pulled him from the water and started trying to resuscitate him, Brackett said. The lifeguards then found the 30-year-old father in the water and started rending aid to him as well, he said.
They were taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, Brackett said. The child was then flown to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Brackett said.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources will be handling the investigation.
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The New Thought Police
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of PBS
PBS, January 1, 2009
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/nsa-police.html
The National Security Agency (NSA) is developing a tool that George Orwell's Thought Police might have found useful: an artificial intelligence system designed to gain insight into what people are thinking. The device will be able to respond almost instantaneously to complex questions posed by intelligence analysts. As more and more data is collected—through phone calls, credit card receipts, social networks like Facebook and MySpace, GPS tracks, cell phone geolocation, Internet searches, Amazon book purchases, even E-Z Pass toll records - it may one day be possible to know not just where people are and what they are doing, but what and how they think. The system is so potentially intrusive that at least one researcher has quit, citing concerns over the dangers in placing such a powerful weapon in the hands of a top-secret agency with little accountability. Known as Aquaint, which stands for "Advanced QUestion Answering for INTelligence," the project was run for many years by John Prange, an NSA scientist at the Advanced Research and Development Activity. A supersmart search engine, capable of answering complex questions ... would be very useful for the public. But that same capability in the hands of an agency like the NSA - absolutely secret, often above the law, resistant to oversight, and with access to petabytes of private information about Americans - could be a privacy and civil liberties nightmare. "We must not forget that the ultimate goal is to transfer research results into operational use," said ... Prange.
Note: Watch a highly revealing PBS Nova documentary providing virtual proof that the NSA could have stopped 9/11 but chose not to. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on intelligence agency corruption and the disappearance of privacy.
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U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
2001-05-01, ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662
In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's ... Fidel Castro. America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years. The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba. Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof … that the fault lies with the Communists." The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after.
Note: Why was ABC the only major news source to report on this highly revealing story? Read the shocking declassified documents on Operation Northwoods. Many military and political leaders look at the world as a grand chessboard. Sacrificing pawns (innocent civilians) is sometimes necessary to capture the queen. Explore revealing news articles on military corruption. Then check out eye-opening 9/11 news articles.
Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group
2005-09-29, BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4290944.stm
How much influence do private networks of the rich and powerful have on government policies and international relations? One group, the Bilderberg, has often attracted speculation that it forms a shadowy global government. Every year since 1954 [they have brought] together about 120 leading business people and politicians. At this year's meeting in Germany, the audience included the heads of the World Bank and European Central Bank, Chairmen or Chief Executives from Nokia, BP, Unilever, DaimlerChrysler and Pepsi ... editors from five major newspapers, members of parliament, ministers, European commissioners ... and the queen of the Netherlands. The chairman ... is 73-year-old Viscount Etienne Davignon. In an extremely rare interview, he played down the importance of Bilderberg. "I don't think (we are) a global ruling class because I don't think a global ruling class exists." Will Hutton ... who attended a Bilderberg meeting in 1997, says people take part in these networks in order to influence the way the world works, to create what he calls "the international common sense". And that "common sense" is one which supports the interests of Bilderberg's main participants. For Bilderberg's critics the fact that there is almost no publicity about the annual meetings is proof that they are up to no good. Bilderberg meetings often feature future political leaders shortly before they become household names. Bill Clinton went in 1991 while still governor of Arkansas, Tony Blair was there two years later while still an opposition MP. All the recent presidents of the European Commission attended Bilderberg meetings before they were appointed. Informal and private networks like Bilderberg have helped to oil the wheels of global politics and globalisation for the past half a century.
Note: Why is this meeting of top world leaders kept so secret? Why, until a few years ago, was there virtually no reporting on this influential group in the major media? Thankfully, the alternative media has had some good articles. And a Google search can be highly informative. Explore many other revealing major media news articles on powerful secret societies. And for those interested, check out reliable, eye-opening information covering the big picture of how and why these secret societies are using government-sponsored mind control programs to achieve their agenda.
[9/11] Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm
Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the [9/11] suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well. The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt. Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September. His photograph was released, and has since appeared in newspapers and on television around the world. He told journalists there that he had nothing to do with the attacks. He has contacted both the Saudi and American authorities. He acknowledges that he attended flight training school at Daytona Beach in the United States, and is indeed the same Waleed Al Shehri to whom the FBI has been referring. But, he says, he left the United States in September last year [and] became a pilot with Saudi Arabian airlines. Abdulaziz Al Omari, another of the Flight 11 hijack suspects ... says he is an engineer with Saudi Telecoms, and that he lost his passport while studying in Denver. Meanwhile ... a London-based Arabic daily says it has interviewed Saeed Alghamdi. He was listed by the FBI as a hijacker in the United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. And there are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Al Midhar, may also be alive. FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged on Thursday that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt.
Note: The deceptions in the 9/11 official story are clearly shown in this key story. The FBI never revised its list of alleged hijackers. These four are all listed in the official 9/11 Commission report as the hijackers. Click here and scroll down a little over half way to see their photos in the official report. For more, see this webpage. Explore also concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles with evidence of a 9/11 cover-up from reliable major media sources. Then examine an abundance of reliable information suggesting a major 9/11 cover-up.
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Vaccine no match against flu bug that popped up near end
2019-06-27, ABC News/Associated Press
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/vaccine-match-flu-bug-popped-end-6398...
The flu vaccine turned out to be a big disappointment again. The vaccine didn’t work against a flu bug that popped up halfway through the past flu season, dragging down overall effectiveness to 29%, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. The flu shot was working well early in the season with effectiveness put at 47% in February. But it was virtually worthless during a second wave driven by a tougher strain, at just 9%. There was “no significant protection” against that strain, said the CDC’s Brendan Flannery. Flu vaccines are made each year to protect against three or four different kinds of flu virus. The ingredients are based on predictions of what strains will make people sick the following winter. This season’s shot turned out to be a mismatch against the bug that showed up late. That pushed down the overall effectiveness to one of the lowest in recent years. Since 2011, the only season with a lower estimate was the winter of 2014-2015, when effectiveness was 19%. A mismatch was also blamed then. Vaccines against some other infectious diseases are not considered successful unless they are at least 90% effective. But flu is particularly challenging, partly because the virus can so quickly change. Overall, flu vaccine has averaged around 40%. Flu shots are recommended for virtually all Americans age 6 months or older.
Note: This article was strangely removed from the website of ABC News. It is still available here. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on vaccines from reliable major media sources.
Who is Jeffrey Epstein, and why has he been arrested again?
2019-07-11, NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/who-jeffrey-epstein-why-has-he-been...
Jeffrey Epstein, the millionaire financier, registered sex offender and acquaintance of presidents of both parties, was expected to appear in federal court in New York on Monday in connection with federal sex trafficking allegations, multiple law enforcement officials said. Epstein, 66, of Palm Beach, Florida, was being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan after he was arrested Saturday in Teterboro, New Jersey, in a joint investigation by the FBI and New York police. The arrest stems from incidents spanning from 2002 to 2005. Epstein has been in the news for more than a decade since he pleaded guilty in 2008 to procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and felony solicitation of prostitution, according to his plea agreement on charges brought in Florida. Epstein is registered as a sex offender in Florida under a non-prosecution agreement he signed with the office of the U.S. attorney for Miami. Epstein's non-prosecution agreement ... limits the scope of the agreement to only the Miami area. If Epstein is alleged to have committed illegal acts in other parts of the country, the agreement would no longer protect him. Federal prosecutors in New York allege that from at least 2002 through 2005, Epstein paid girls as young as 14 hundreds of dollars in cash for sex at either his Manhattan townhouse or his estate in Palm Beach. Epstein is being charged with one count of sex trafficking conspiracy and one count of sex trafficking, and faces up to 45 years in prison if found guilty.
Note: For lots more, see this Miami Herald article and this one. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on Jeffrey Epstein from reliable major media sources.
Jeffrey Epstein's arrest shows the power of one newspaper's investigation
2019-07-08, CNN News
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/media/jeffrey-epstein-julie-brown-miami-herald...
In the past year the Jeffrey Epstein case was catapulted onto the national news radar by one newspaper, the Miami Herald, and by one reporter in particular, Julie K. Brown. The paper's "Perversion of Justice" series came out last November, and Brown has stayed on the story ever since. As soon as The Daily Beast broke the news that Epstein had been arrested on Saturday evening, fellow journalists and other observers credited Brown and thanked her for the tenacious investigation. Law enforcement officials are also giving credit to the reporting. "We were assisted" by "some excellent investigative journalism," Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said at a Monday morning press conference. William Sweeney, the assistant director-in-charge of the FBI's New York office, added, "We work with facts. When the facts presented themselves, as Mr. Berman hinted at, through investigative journalists' work, we moved on it." While they didn't cite Brown or the newspaper by name, Berman said in response to a question about the Herald, "we are certainly aware of that reporting." Brown was ... actually scheduled to interview another one of Epstein's accusers on Monday. But after he was arrested, she cancelled that flight and booked a ticket to New York. True to form, she sought to shift the spotlight, away from her own work and toward her subjects. "The REAL HEROES HERE were the courageous victims that faced their fears and told their stories," she tweeted Sunday.
Note: Explore an in-depth article from New York Magazine giving a thorough and balanced view of the Epstein case. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on Jeffrey Epstein from reliable major media sources.
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An ‘expensive’ placebo is more effective than a ‘cheap’ one, study shows
By Lenny Bernstein
Lenny Bernstein
Reporter covering health and medicine
Former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali has suffered from Parkinson's disease since the 1980s. (AFP photo / Robyn Beck)
Parkinson's Disease patients secretly treated with a placebo instead of their regular medication performed better when told they were receiving a more expensive version of the "drug," researchers reported Wednesday in an unprecedented study that involved real patients.
The research shows that the well-documented "placebo effect" -- actual symptom relief brought about by a sham treatment or medication -- can be enhanced by adding information about cost, according to the lead author of the study. It is the first time that concept has been demonstrated using people with a real illness, in this case Parkinson's, a progressive neurological disease that has no cure, according to an expert not involved in the study.
"The potentially large benefit of placebo, with or without price manipulations, is waiting to be untapped for patients with [Parkinson's Disease], as well as those with other neurologic and medical diseases," the authors wrote in a study published online Wednesday in the journal Neurology.
But deceiving actual patients in a research study raised ethical questions about violating the trust involved in a doctor-patient relationship. Most studies in which researchers conceal their true aims or other information from subjects are conducted with healthy volunteers. This one was subjected to a lengthy review before it was allowed to proceed, and, in an editorial that accompanied the article, two other physicians wrote that "the authors do not mention whether there was any possible effect (reduction) on trust in doctors or on willingness to engage in future clinical research."
Nor would such a ruse be allowed in clinical practice, said Ted J. Kaptchuk, director of the Program in Placebo Studies and Therapeutic Encounter at Harvard Medical School. "I don't think it has a direct practical application," Kaptchuk said. "Telling people something is expensive, that's deception. That's not allowed in clinical practice."
Nevertheless, he said, the research is "provocative" and adds to the body of proof about how the placebo effect augments treatment of disease, especially when medication is provided. While most people think of a placebo as a sugar pill that replaces a real medication, the impact more commonly comes from "the engagement between patients and clinicians," in particular the way doctors create expectations that their efforts will help, Kaptchuk said. That includes a good relationship between doctor and patient; certain medical rituals, such as taking blood pressure and a medical history; and the "color, shape, number and cost" of the placebo drug, according to the institute's Web site.
In a 2008 survey of internists and rheumatologists, half said they regularly prescribed placebo treatments, and 62 percent agreed they are ethically permissible. Only two percent acknowledged using sugar pills, but 41 percent said they prescribed over-the-counter painkillers, and 38 percent said they prescribed vitamins.
In the study released Wednesday, 12 Parkinson's patients were told they were receiving injections of a new drug to help their brains produce dopamine, the neurotransmitter deficient in Parkinson's patients, instead of their regular drug, levodopa. They were told that one injection was a $1,500 version of the drug and another was a $100 version. In fact, they were given common saline both times.
The researchers found that the patients performed better on motor skills tests when they believed they were on the expensive drug, an effect that increased when they were given the expensive placebo first. Neither placebo was quite as good as levodopa, but the expensive version came close. There was no follow-up to determine how long the improvements lasted because the patients were put back on their regular drug regimens.
"I attribute this to patients' perception of greater quality intervention when cost is higher than what they would have been accustomed to," said Alberto Espay, director of the Gardner Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders at the University of Cincinnati, who led the study.
When the researchers looked at functional MRI tests of the participants' brains, however, they found that the cheap placebo activated certain areas more than the expensive one, a result they did not expect. Espay suggested that patients might have been trying harder when they believed they were on a less costly medication.
The study noted that "our findings complement the well-known patient preference of brand name over generic, as recently confirmed in a study of similar design to ours."
Espay said the challenge now is to "harness" the knowledge in patient care. Because outright deception is ethically impermissible, other ways of enhancing the effectiveness of medication should be explored, he said.
"There is a lot that we can explain to patients about the benefits of medication that will enhance the benefit that they will get from them," Espay said.
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Lenny Bernstein Lenny Bernstein covers health and medicine. He started as an editor on The Washington Post’s National desk in 2000 and has worked in Metro and Sports. Follow
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UPDATE: One person dead following motorcycle crash
by: McKenzie Konop
SUNDAY 5/26/19 8:14 P.M.
TOWN OF SCOTT, Wis. (WFRV) — The Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Office says the person involved in the motorcycle accident from Saturday evening has passed away.
As a result of the injuries received in the accident the operator, identified as 30-year-old Charles Rigsby of Sheboygan died later on at Froedtert Hospital.
One person injured after crashing motorcylce
SATURDAY 5/25/19 9:08 P.M.
TOWN OF SCOTT, Wis. (WFRV) — The Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Office says one person sustained life-threatening injuries after crashing their motorcycle Saturday evening.
On Saturday, May 25, 2019, at around 6:52 p.m., the Sheboygan County Emergency Communication Center received several 911 calls in reference to a motorcycle crash in the west 7800 block of County Road W in the Town of Scott.
Police say evidence at the scene revealed there was a single motorcycle operating east on County Road W at the time of the accident.
Police say there was no passenger on the motorcycle. No other vehicles were involved and no other property was damaged.
The operator sustained life-threatening injuries and was transported via Orange Cross Paramedic Ambulance to Aurora Grafton with Flight for Life medics assisting them.
There is no other information being released at this time.
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Settlement construction (archives)
Israel's UN envoy says only peace can halt settlements
Sinai settlements did not prevent 1979 peace treaty with Egypt, Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, Meron Reuben says, adding Palestinians 'looking for pretexts to put obstacles in road'
AFP|Published: 10.17.10 , 19:14
Israel will only stop its disputed settlement building when the Palestinians make a peace agreement, its UN ambassador said ahead of new Security Council talks Monday on the Middle East conflict.
But Israel would be concerned if Arab nations pressed ahead with a campaign to get United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state before any accord, the envoy, Meron Reuben, told AFP in an interview.
Peace process a disgrace
Op-ed: Why is Israel offering concessions in return for what was agreed to in past deals?
Reuben will face new international pressure when he appears before a UN Security Council meeting on Israeli-Palestinian hostilities. The United States and most world powers have backed Palestinian demands that Israel renew a freeze on settlement building in the occupied territories.
"People understand," Reuben declared. "I don't think they agree with the way we are going, but they definitely understand the fact that settlements are not a burden on the peace process and not something that will stop the peace process."
Palestinian negotiators withdrew from new US-brokered talks with Israel two weeks ago when Israel's 10-month moratorium on settlement construction ended. The Israeli government faced new protests on Friday when it approved 238 new homes in east Jerusalem.
"The other side is only looking for pretexts to put obstacles in the road, because they were never an obstacle in the road" in the past, Reuben said.
The ambassador said Israeli settlements in the Sinai desert did not prevent the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt -- "and they were dismantled" -- nor Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.
"They were not an obstacle when we dealt with the Palestinians year-in and year-out since 1993" when the Oslo accords were made.
He highlighted that the moratorium launched at the end of 2009 was unilateral and that the Palestinians and Arab leaders did not accept it at the time.
"They thought it would not help one iota," said Reuben. "And here we are 10 months later and it is the only game in town. Wow! The settlements are the most important thing and they have become a pre-condition."
'Very great difference'
He added: "The only way may to stop settlements is to come to an agreement. That would be ... if the Palestinians set up a Palestinian state in a demarcated area, then I presume the settlements in that area would definitely stop."
According to Reuben, the settlements, like the borders of any new Palestinian state and refugees from the conflict, must be settled in talks. And the ambassador highlighted that it was barely six weeks into the one year that the United States has sought to relaunch peace efforts.
Some Arab nations have indicated they will ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state if these negotiations remain deadlocked.
In an interview with Palestinian newspaper, Al-Ayyam, published last week, French Foreign Minister Bernard also did not rule out possible UN Security Council discussion of a Palestinian state, if the deadlock is prolonged.
"It is still talk at the moment," said Reuben. "One would hope that we would not get to that."
"These are hearsays at the moment. I am not so sure that it is not something that is being used to pressure different places, but if you look at the Palestinian Authority, it is already recognized by so many tens of nations around the world.
"Officially there would be a very great difference. It will be interesting to see how the world body deals with that because that would be totally different to anything we have seen before on the world stage."
When asked how Israel would react, he said: "I will be frank with you. At this moment I don't know."
Israel "would prefer a Palestinian state to be set up under mutual agreement and not under unilateral declaration. But if it is set up as a unilateral declaration we will have to deal with it.
"We would prefer to see agreement reached between the two sides and not imposed," he said.
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VEGEPOLYS: International Cluster
Martine Joly - 15-févr.-2016 10:48:13
Horticulture and Timber
VEGEPOLYS : A unique force in Europe 4 000 companies – 30 000 jobs – 450 researchers – 2 500 students – 25 higher training courses Born on the territory of the Pays de la Loire, the French state gave the label "competitiveness cluster" in July 2005 to VEGEPOLYS. As a competitive cluster with worldwide reach, VEGEPOLYS is open to the world, is developing its own international network and making partnerships with other French and non-French clusters. VEGEPOLYS is founded on a historical tradition of production in the Pays de la Loire region of France. The pedoclimatic conditions in the region and the vitality and know-how of its companies have attracted national and local government support for several decades, enabling the region to become the leader in the specialised plants field. The Pays de la Loire region is alone in Europe in bringing together in a single geographical area both private enterprise and public research and training establishment a major European force in the plant world , on which VEGEPOLYS is based. Making businesses more competitive The creation of value does not just involve product innovations, but also all other kinds of innovation: human resources management, production processes, marketing, logistics... VEGEPOLYS’ role is to organise and provide an impetus, in order to identify common problems and lead project groups. These activities take the form of workshops and strategy meetings. International events VEGEPOLYS’ reputation is growing thanks to its presence at numerous events with its partners, and its actions toward key players: · Participation in international exhibitions in France : SIVAL, Salon du Vin, Salon du végétal · Participation in well-known international shows abroad : Hortifair, Fruit Logistica, IPM Essen, VitaFood, IBMA · Participation in international congresses worldwide: In Vino, JAS, HIE, MexicoBio, SHE, Hydrangea... - Official website : http://www.vegepolys.eu/en/home/ - Business France and VEGEPOLYS jointly organize international partnership Missions . More information: renaud.zurfluh@businessfrance.fr - VEGEPOLYS : The specialized plant sectors : http://export.businessfrance.fr/Galerie/Files/Divers/VEGEPOLYS_specialized-plant-sectors.pdf - French companies on youbuyfrance.com : Agri-food Sector > Horticulture and Timber, clic here Agri-food Sector > Fresh fruit & vegetables and processed vegetable products, clic here
VEGEPOLYS : A unique force in Europe
4 000 companies – 30 000 jobs – 450 researchers – 2 500 students – 25 higher training courses
Born on the territory of the Pays de la Loire, the French state gave the label "competitiveness cluster" in July 2005 to VEGEPOLYS. As a competitive cluster with worldwide reach, VEGEPOLYS is open to the world, is developing its own international network and making partnerships with other French and non-French clusters.
VEGEPOLYS is founded on a historical tradition of production in the Pays de la Loire region of France.
The pedoclimatic conditions in the region and the vitality and know-how of its companies have attracted national and local government support for several decades, enabling the region to become the leader in the specialised plants field. The Pays de la Loire region is alone in Europe in bringing together in a single geographical area both private enterprise and public research and training establishment a major European force in the plant world, on which VEGEPOLYS is based.
Making businesses more competitive
The creation of value does not just involve product innovations, but also all other kinds of innovation: human resources management, production processes, marketing, logistics... VEGEPOLYS’ role is to organise and provide an impetus, in order to identify common problems and lead project groups. These activities take the form of workshops and strategy meetings.
VEGEPOLYS’ reputation is growing thanks to its presence at numerous events with its partners, and its actions toward key players:
· Participation in international exhibitions in France : SIVAL, Salon du Vin, Salon du végétal
· Participation in well-known international shows abroad : Hortifair, Fruit Logistica, IPM Essen, VitaFood, IBMA
· Participation in international congresses worldwide: In Vino, JAS, HIE, MexicoBio, SHE, Hydrangea...
- Official website: http://www.vegepolys.eu/en/home/
- Business France and VEGEPOLYS jointly organize international partnership Missions.
More information: renaud.zurfluh@businessfrance.fr
- VEGEPOLYS : The specialized plant sectors : http://export.businessfrance.fr/Galerie/Files/Divers/VEGEPOLYS_specialized-plant-sectors.pdf
- French companies on youbuyfrance.com:
Agri-food Sector > Horticulture and Timber, clic here
Agri-food Sector > Fresh fruit & vegetables and processed vegetable products, clic here
Tags: cluster,fruit & vegetables,horticulture,plant,Vegepolys
A unique exhibition of low carbon solutions during COP21
RAMHIT Emilie - 16-déc.-2015 16:33:50
The Paris Climate Conference 2015 (COP21) this December is intended to result in an international climate agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. This agreement must be capable of driving forward the reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions so as to restrict the rise in the Earth’s mean temperature by the end of the century to 2°C above the pre-industrial level. Against this background, Reed Expositions France has been working with the General Secretariat of COP21 to organize the Galerie des Solutions [Solutions Gallery] from 2nd to 9th December in the Museum of Air and Space at Le Bourget. Intended to support the diplomatic negotiations, the Gallery will be an exhibition of low carbon solutions exclusively reserved for professionals, and its mission will be to demonstrate that solutions do exist and to accelerate their market uptake. Occupying an area of 10,000 m2, running for seven days, and accessible from the Blue Zone (COP negotiations zone), the Galerie des Solutions [Solutions Gallery] will present innovative solutions developed and applied by companies, industries or territories that are designed to reduce the impact of economic activities on the climate: equipment, technologies, new models of organization and reproducible best practices… Over twenty countries will be represented including: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Japan, Morocco, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, the United Kingdom,… More specifically, the Ivory Coast, one of the African countries most committed to climate questions, will have a strong presence through a stand presenting initiatives and projects in the country, a broadcast from the TV studio, and visits by numerous officials from the country. As host country, what France has to offer will take pride of place in a dedicated space at the heart of the exhibition. It is therefore planned to demonstrate solutions – including clean vehicles in a dedicated outdoor space – and to stage special events, such as themed days that are integrated into the schedule of COP21, broadcasts and interviews with companies in a TV studio (eg. daily transport programme with Fer de France), guided tours and site visits for UN delegations. Other highlights will be prestige events such as networking sessions in a dedicated lounge, business lunches, VIP receptions in the heart of Paris… It will also host the official awards ceremonies for two sets of awards. The first Climate Solutions Awards, which will carry the COP21 label. Organized by Orée, AdEME, C3D, Crédit Coopératif, Solutions COP21, the Shift Project and World Efficiency, these will provide recognition for innovative solutions put forward by French SMEs or major groups to reduce energy consumption, limit greenhouse gases and preserve resources. There will also be the ceremony for the international Green Building Solutions Awards, which will be presented for outstanding examples of sustainable construction (building, technical solutions or materials) undertaken in countries covered by Construction21 or in its partner countries. Over 20,000 professional visitors are expected: participants in COP21 (heads of state, ministers, UN delegations from 197 countries), professionals (private and public sector decision makers and specifiers, delegations invited by the organizers…) and representatives of the media (printed press, radio, television, blogs).
The Paris Climate Conference 2015 (COP21) this December is intended to result in an international climate agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. This agreement must be capable of driving forward the reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions so as to restrict the rise in the Earth’s mean temperature by the end of the century to 2°C above the pre-industrial level.
Against this background, Reed Expositions France has been working with the General Secretariat of COP21 to organize the Galerie des Solutions [Solutions Gallery] from 2nd to 9th December in the Museum of Air and Space at Le Bourget. Intended to support the diplomatic negotiations, the Gallery will be an exhibition of low carbon solutions exclusively reserved for professionals, and its mission will be to demonstrate that solutions do exist and to accelerate their market uptake.
Occupying an area of 10,000 m2, running for seven days, and accessible from the Blue Zone (COP negotiations zone), the Galerie des Solutions [Solutions Gallery] will present innovative solutions developed and applied by companies, industries or territories that are designed to reduce the impact of economic activities on the climate: equipment, technologies, new models of organization and reproducible best practices…
Over twenty countries will be represented including: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Japan, Morocco, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, the United Kingdom,… More specifically, the Ivory Coast, one of the African countries most committed to climate questions, will have a strong presence through a stand presenting initiatives and projects in the country, a broadcast from the TV studio, and visits by numerous officials from the country. As host country, what France has to offer will take pride of place in a dedicated space at the heart of the exhibition.
It is therefore planned to demonstrate solutions – including clean vehicles in a dedicated outdoor space – and to stage special events, such as themed days that are integrated into the schedule of COP21, broadcasts and interviews with companies in a TV studio (eg. daily transport programme with Fer de France), guided tours and site visits for UN delegations. Other highlights will be prestige events such as networking sessions in a dedicated lounge, business lunches, VIP receptions in the heart of Paris… It will also host the official awards ceremonies for two sets of awards. The first Climate Solutions Awards, which will carry the COP21 label. Organized by Orée, AdEME, C3D, Crédit Coopératif, Solutions COP21, the Shift Project and World Efficiency, these will provide recognition for innovative solutions put forward by French SMEs or major groups to reduce energy consumption, limit greenhouse gases and preserve resources. There will also be the ceremony for the international Green Building Solutions Awards, which will be presented for outstanding examples of sustainable construction (building, technical solutions or materials) undertaken in countries covered by Construction21 or in its partner countries.
Over 20,000 professional visitors are expected: participants in COP21 (heads of state, ministers, UN delegations from 197 countries), professionals (private and public sector decision makers and specifiers, delegations invited by the organizers…) and representatives of the media (printed press, radio, television, blogs).
Tags: COP21,clean vehicles,climate conference,climate agreement
Durham’s Bowes Museum extends Yves Saint Laurent exhibition
Vimla HUNT - 14-oct.-2015 11:29:11
Clothes, Fashion accessories, Jewelry
The first exhibition in the UK on Yves Saint Laurent’s work and life, sponsored by Foundation Pierre Bergé, has been extended at the Bowes Museum in Durham following a massive attendance. The show, which according to local media has welcomed more than 55,000 visitors since it launched on July 11, will be open until November 8. The museum expects to reach 70,000 visitors by the time the exhibition closes, and merchandise sales have tripled in that time, informed the newspaper Chronicle Live. The exhibition is the first in the United Kingdom to present a comprehensive display of the French designer’s work. It features fifty iconic pieces designed by Saint Laurent, including garments from the Russian collection, the Mondrian Dress and the Tuxedo. When “Yves Saint Laurent: Style Is Eternal” opened, Pierre Bergé, president of the Foundation Pierre Bergé: said “The Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent is committed to the promotion of the work of Yves Saint Laurent internationally, and as such it is extremely exciting to work on this first exhibition in the UK. The Bowes Museum is a natural destination given its exceptional work with fashion and textiles; the museum and its location also clearly reflects Yves Saint Laurent’s and my own passion for inspiring, timeless places. It is the perfect setting for us – a museum built as a French Chateau, in the age of the Second Empire”.
The first exhibition in the UK on Yves Saint Laurent’s work and life, sponsored by Foundation Pierre Bergé, has been extended at the Bowes Museum in Durham following a massive attendance. The show, which according to local media has welcomed more than 55,000 visitors since it launched on July 11, will be open until November 8. The museum expects to reach 70,000 visitors by the time the exhibition closes, and merchandise sales have tripled in that time, informed the newspaper Chronicle Live.
The exhibition is the first in the United Kingdom to present a comprehensive display of the French designer’s work. It features fifty iconic pieces designed by Saint Laurent, including garments from the Russian collection, the Mondrian Dress and the Tuxedo.
When “Yves Saint Laurent: Style Is Eternal” opened, Pierre Bergé, president of the Foundation Pierre Bergé: said “The Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent is committed to the promotion of the work of Yves Saint Laurent internationally, and as such it is extremely exciting to work on this first exhibition in the UK. The Bowes Museum is a natural destination given its exceptional work with fashion and textiles; the museum and its location also clearly reflects Yves Saint Laurent’s and my own passion for inspiring, timeless places. It is the perfect setting for us – a museum built as a French Chateau, in the age of the Second Empire”.
Tags: Collection,Exhibition,Fashion,French designer,media,Textiles,Yves Saint Laurent,visitors,Foundation Pierre Bergé,Bowes Museum,Durham,attendance,museum
SPACE 2015: the international livestock trade fair
Elisabeth Fosso - 15-sept.-2015 16:53:58
Livestock, Meat, Processed meat products
The 29 th international exhibition of livestock production takes place in Rennes (France) from September 15 th to 18 th in the midst of the agricultural crisis. The estimated 100,000 visitors will discover the full range of equipment; services and other latest developments that will help improve the competitiveness of farms. The exhibition will focus on innovation in the livestock sector as well as the cooperation with international agricultural industries. 1441 exhibitors coming from 39 countries are expected today. The ever-growing number of foreign exhibitors points out the huge international impact of the trade fair. Despite the crisis, farmers want to find solutions and create synergies as they understand the importance of looking ahead to the future. Sources : SPACE.fr, Francebleu.fr
The 29th international exhibition of livestock production takes place in Rennes (France) from September 15th to 18th in the midst of the agricultural crisis. The estimated 100,000 visitors will discover the full range of equipment; services and other latest developments that will help improve the competitiveness of farms.
The exhibition will focus on innovation in the livestock sector as well as the cooperation with international agricultural industries. 1441 exhibitors coming from 39 countries are expected today. The ever-growing number of foreign exhibitors points out the huge international impact of the trade fair.
Despite the crisis, farmers want to find solutions and create synergies as they understand the importance of looking ahead to the future.
Sources : SPACE.fr, Francebleu.fr
Tags: agriculture,Exhibition,Livestock,crisis
Bijorhca gets ready for September
Vimla Hunt - 03-sept.-2015 13:02:26
The up-coming edition of the international fine, fashion jewellery and watches show will be held from 4th to 7th September at Pavilion 5 of the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, in synergy with the Whos Next show, back again in September. Bijorhca is set to welcome nearly 550 brands, of which about one hundred are new exhibitors. As always the show comprises four exhibition areas: Elements, for jewellery suppliers, Cream, for the edgier labels, fashion jewellery, which brings together 280 brands and which, for the first time, will feature a Precious Village, reserved to silver and vermeil 4 m² booths, and fine jewellery (30% of exhibitors), occupying the very first section of the show, on the first floor. The watches area grows, numbering about a dozen brands, highlighted by the return of Ice Watch, featuring a 54 m² booth. The trend areas, stage-designed by Elizabeth Leriche and featuring Trends for fashion jewellery and Precious Gallery for fine jewellery, will be as ever the visitors main stops. Bijorhca will once more present a series of talks centred around themes such as how to generate well-being inside the shop. Also notable is the presence for the first time of an anti-counterfeit office, offering advice and orientation on the subject of intellectual property rights. In France, in 2014, the jewellery and watches market amounted to €5.1 billion. The figure represents a slight decrease, -1%, while the number of retail outlets too has decreased, from 6,600 in 2013 to 6,200 in 2014.
The up-coming edition of the international fine, fashion jewellery and watches show will be held from 4th to 7th September at Pavilion 5 of the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, in synergy with the Whos Next show, back again in September. Bijorhca is set to welcome nearly 550 brands, of which about one hundred are new exhibitors. As always the show comprises four exhibition areas: Elements, for jewellery suppliers, Cream, for the edgier labels, fashion jewellery, which brings together 280 brands and which, for the first time, will feature a Precious Village, reserved to silver and vermeil 4 m² booths, and fine jewellery (30% of exhibitors), occupying the very first section of the show, on the first floor. The watches area grows, numbering about a dozen brands, highlighted by the return of Ice Watch, featuring a 54 m² booth.
The trend areas, stage-designed by Elizabeth Leriche and featuring Trends for fashion jewellery and Precious Gallery for fine jewellery, will be as ever the visitors main stops.
Bijorhca will once more present a series of talks centred around themes such as how to generate well-being inside the shop. Also notable is the presence for the first time of an anti-counterfeit office, offering advice and orientation on the subject of intellectual property rights.
In France, in 2014, the jewellery and watches market amounted to €5.1 billion. The figure represents a slight decrease, -1%, while the number of retail outlets too has decreased, from 6,600 in 2013 to 6,200 in 2014.
Tags: brands,exhibitors,jewellery,Paris,PORTE DE VERSAILLES,trade show,suppliers,Silver,Whos Next,Bijorhca,precious,metals,vermeil,watches
Who’s Next-Première Classe: details for September show
Vimla Hunt - 10-avr.-2015 13:44:01
Two significant changes will affect the Parisian fashion and accessories trade show this fall. First, and most obviously, there will be the change in dates. Instead of in July, Whos Next-Première Classe will be held from September 4-7. The second change concerns the distribution of areas among the available halls at Porte de Versailles. "Available", since the Parisian Exhibition Center is undergoing major renovations that began this month, meaning that certain halls, including hall 7, which is usually occupied by the fashion show, will remain closed. Finally, for some visitors and exhibitors, it will actually be a kind of déjà vu with the more cutting-edge fashion area Fame and the accessories area Première Classe both in hall 1. Before acquiring Prêt-à-Porter Paris in 2011, this is where WSN organized these two flagship areas - in general, quite successfully. It remains to be seen if the organizer will be able to successfully put together several areas in halls 2.2 and 3, which share a different location (see map). Private will be located in hall 2.2, while Studio, Urban and Trendy will be in hall 3. Finally, From, which includes sourcing exhibitors, will be located in 2.1, now with a greater degree of independence. To facilitate the arrival of visitors, there will be two receptions, one between hall 2 and hall 3, and the other in hall 1 between Fame and Première Classe. Obviously, WSN is working to provide a more dynamic customer experience so as not to lose and bore certain visitors! As for exhibitors, how to fill the halls? WSN insists that the majority of exhibitors and visitors who were interviewed were in favor of the new dates. Neither Sophie Guyot for Fame, Sylvie Pourrat for Première Classe nor Camille Descollonges for Trendy, Urban and Private seem worried despite, in the case of certain areas, the fact that the shows’ second session will follow soon after. "If you look closely, its not much different than in January and the last edition was encouraging," said Boris Provost, director of brand strategy and international development. Among WSN’s list of participating exhibitors at Première Classe: Atelier Voisin, Tatoosh, Mellow Yellow, Buffalo, Faguo, United Nude, Nart & Nin, Serafini, etc. At Fame, meanwhile, there will be American Vintage, Bella Jones, Gat Rimon, Street White, Orla Kiely, Essential, etc. As for the other areas, one will be able to count on the participation of Derhy, Lauren Vidal, Coffee Break, Tricot Chic, The little French, Sarah Pacini, etc. The lists that have been released indicate dozens of exhibitors registered for each area. In any case, the surface area for each sector should be equal to that at the January edition. Consider, for example, the nearly 100,000 ft² set aside for Première Classe and more than 43,000 ft² for Fame. The other ready-to-wear areas will total around 140,000 ft². The goal is to keep the number of exhibitors steady! Teams are hard at work.
Two significant changes will affect the Parisian fashion and accessories trade show this fall. First, and most obviously, there will be the change in dates. Instead of in July, Whos Next-Première Classe will be held from September 4-7. The second change concerns the distribution of areas among the available halls at Porte de Versailles. "Available", since the Parisian Exhibition Center is undergoing major renovations that began this month, meaning that certain halls, including hall 7, which is usually occupied by the fashion show, will remain closed.
Finally, for some visitors and exhibitors, it will actually be a kind of déjà vu with the more cutting-edge fashion area Fame and the accessories area Première Classe both in hall 1. Before acquiring Prêt-à-Porter Paris in 2011, this is where WSN organized these two flagship areas - in general, quite successfully. It remains to be seen if the organizer will be able to successfully put together several areas in halls 2.2 and 3, which share a different location (see map).
Private will be located in hall 2.2, while Studio, Urban and Trendy will be in hall 3. Finally, From, which includes sourcing exhibitors, will be located in 2.1, now with a greater degree of independence.
To facilitate the arrival of visitors, there will be two receptions, one between hall 2 and hall 3, and the other in hall 1 between Fame and Première Classe.
Obviously, WSN is working to provide a more dynamic customer experience so as not to lose and bore certain visitors!
As for exhibitors, how to fill the halls? WSN insists that the majority of exhibitors and visitors who were interviewed were in favor of the new dates. Neither Sophie Guyot for Fame, Sylvie Pourrat for Première Classe nor Camille Descollonges for Trendy, Urban and Private seem worried despite, in the case of certain areas, the fact that the shows’ second session will follow soon after. "If you look closely, its not much different than in January and the last edition was encouraging," said Boris Provost, director of brand strategy and international development.
Among WSN’s list of participating exhibitors at Première Classe: Atelier Voisin, Tatoosh, Mellow Yellow, Buffalo, Faguo, United Nude, Nart & Nin, Serafini, etc.
At Fame, meanwhile, there will be American Vintage, Bella Jones, Gat Rimon, Street White, Orla Kiely, Essential, etc.
As for the other areas, one will be able to count on the participation of Derhy, Lauren Vidal, Coffee Break, Tricot Chic, The little French, Sarah Pacini, etc.
The lists that have been released indicate dozens of exhibitors registered for each area.
In any case, the surface area for each sector should be equal to that at the January edition. Consider, for example, the nearly 100,000 ft² set aside for Première Classe and more than 43,000 ft² for Fame. The other ready-to-wear areas will total around 140,000 ft². The goal is to keep the number of exhibitors steady! Teams are hard at work.
Tags: private,Parisian fashion and accessories trade show,Whos Next-Première Classe,Fame,Prêt-à-Porter Paris,Urban and Trendy
Paris to invest 57 million euros in the fashion sector
Vimla Hunt - 09-mars-2015 18:24:40
At the opening on Friday of the Jeanne Lanvin exhibition at the Palais Galliera, Anne Hidalgo paid warm tribute to the fashion sector, which represents 60,000 direct jobs in the French capital. The mayor also announced that Paris will be investing 57 million euros in the sector from now through 2020. "Because fashion is also all those trades that are in inseparable from artistic creation. I myself was raised by a seamstress and very quickly learned the precious value of artisanal work. Embroiderers, trim-makers, designers, jewellers and jewellery-makers, leather craftsmen, shoemakers, parfumers...numerous are these artisanal trades that other capitals envy us for. We decided to reaffirm our full support for this vital industry by investing 57 million euros in the fashion sector over the next 6 years. By mobilizing this considerable sum, we will give ourselves the means to consolidate our position as the global capital of fashion."
At the opening on Friday of the Jeanne Lanvin exhibition at the Palais Galliera, Anne Hidalgo paid warm tribute to the fashion sector, which represents 60,000 direct jobs in the French capital. The mayor also announced that Paris will be investing 57 million euros in the sector from now through 2020.
"Because fashion is also all those trades that are in inseparable from artistic creation. I myself was raised by a seamstress and very quickly learned the precious value of artisanal work. Embroiderers, trim-makers, designers, jewellers and jewellery-makers, leather craftsmen, shoemakers, parfumers...numerous are these artisanal trades that other capitals envy us for. We decided to reaffirm our full support for this vital industry by investing 57 million euros in the fashion sector over the next 6 years. By mobilizing this considerable sum, we will give ourselves the means to consolidate our position as the global capital of fashion."
Tags: Fashion,investment,Paris,support
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Welcome, Colchester!
By Tom Butler, 05/07/12, 12:56PM EDT
The Newest YES Partner
Last Tuesday evening I drove to the Starbucks in Colchester, Connecticut to meet Pat O'Leary, Colchester Youth Soccer's Director of Coaching. We drank coffee (medium latte), talked soccer, and signed a club development contract for the next three years.
I really don't know much about "sales" or "the sales process." But I love to listen, to talk soccer, and to help soccer clubs solve their problems. And I truly value relationships.
Pat has become a friend of mine over the past five months, as we worked together to customize a development plan for CYS that will engage its players, parents and coaches in a fresh soccer direction.
I first sat down with Pat back in December, at the same Starbuck's. He told me that the CYS board felt that the club's development had plateaued, and that they were looking for a company to help them figure out what they needed to do next.
"We had soccer companies tell us that they could do whatever we wanted them to do. But we didn't know what we wanted to do." Pat said. "We needed someone to partner with us, to tell us what to do."
As a YES Regional Manager, I have found that humility to be common among New England's soccer community. Many boards are comprised of good people and good parents who are not soccer "lifers." They are involved in soccer because their kids love soccer, and because they love their kids.
They realize that unless their club's development plan engages and improves the parent-coaches, the players will have a hard time translating good practice into good game-performance.
And so YES developed a Long Term Player Development Pathway in partnership with CYS that will focus on engaging its parent-coaches through clinics, co-operated practice sessions, YES Session Reviews, and game-day analysis and feedback. YES will deliver this through its YESAmbassador program, by installing a full-time international coach to work with CYS starting this Fall.
From the players perspective, the Pathway will nurture, guide and excite players from rec-level soccer through their high school careers. Our goal is to start by teaching "Fundamentals" as early as U5, showing young players how to "think less, and imagine more."
Along the Pathway YES will help CYS cultivate a true love for the game. Not just robotic learning at two practices a week. Our YESAmbassador will create pick-up games, "Watch and Learn" video clips, teaching sessions from televised games, skills challenges...
At the end of the Pathway CYS aspires to feed Colchester's Bacon Academy with skillful, creative players. We will meet with Bacon's coaches to discuss the types of players they are looking for, and to see how YES and CYS can develop those players. YES works with all of its partner clubs to seek an integrated, community-wide approach.
Until then, I have gone to work straightaway on the CYS three-year plan. I was on the field for last weekend's CYS Try-Outs, meeting with players, parents, coaches, and old friends from the area. Registration for the CYS YESCamp in July opens today...
YES has developed an emerging talent program for all levels of players that focuses on a Long Term Player Development (LTPD) pathway. YES believes in promoting imagination, creativity and freedom in players whilst addressing 5 key pillars (Technical, Tactical, Physiological, Psychological and Social) that form the foundation of a players growth and development.
The YES Philosophies are a set of concepts that define our attitude to working with each individual player. It is both age and gender specific and follows five key stages of long term player development (LTPD) from FUNdamentals at 3 years old to Training to Win at 18+
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When A Child Sexual Offender’s Conviction Triggers Your Past
TRIGGER WARNING Material on Child Abuse
Yesterday Cardinal George Pell, third most senior man in the Catholic Church was convicted of being a paedophile. It was very triggering for me as I was abused by Catholic priests in the paedophile ring I was involved in the 1960/70s in Ireland. His crimes were in 1996 in Melbourne, Australia. It saddens me deeply that paedophiles have gone unchecked in the Church throughout that time. I am so pleased he has finally been convicted. The police have done an excellent job under difficult circumstances. They were under great pressure to drop the charges.
I know the current Pope is trying to address the issue but he has a mammoth task ahead of him. For those of you interested in the case here is The Guardian’s Report on Pell’s conviction.
“Cardinal George Pell, once the third most powerful man in the Vatican and Australia’s most senior Catholic, has been found guilty of child sexual abuse after a trial in Melbourne.
A jury delivered the unanimous verdict on 11 December in Melbourne’s county court, but the result was subject to a suppression order and could not be reported until now.
A previous trial on the same five charges, which began in August, resulted in a hung jury, leading to a retrial.
Pell, who is on leave from his role in Rome as Vatican treasurer, was found guilty of sexually penetrating a child under the age of 16 as well as four charges of an indecent act with a child under the age of 16. The offences occurred in December 1996 and early 1997 at St Patrick’s Cathedral, months after Pell was inaugurated as archbishop of Melbourne.
He is due to be sentenced next week but may be taken into custody at a plea hearing on Wednesday, having been out on bail since the verdict and recovering from knee surgery.
Pope Francis, who has previously praised Pell for his honesty and response to child sexual abuse, has yet to publicly react, but just two days after the unreported verdict in December the Vatican announced that Pell and two other cardinals had been removed from the pontiff’s council of advisers.
Pell’s conviction and likely imprisonment will cause shockwaves through a global Catholic congregation and is a blow to Francis’s efforts to get a grip on sexual abuse.
It comes just days after an unprecedented summit of cardinals and senior bishops in the presence of the pope at the Vatican, intended to signal a turning point on the issue that has gravely damaged the church and imperilled Francis’s papacy.Timeline
The suppression order covering the case was lifted by county court chief judge Peter Kidd on Tuesday morning.
Pell walked from the Melbourne courtroom to a waiting car surrounded by a phalanx of police and press. He was jeered by survivors of sexual abuse who had gathered outside.Advertisement
“You’re going to burn in hell. Burn in hell, Pell,” one man yelled.
Pell did not comment but a statement released by his solicitor Paul Galbally said the cardinal “has always maintained his innocence and continues to do so.”
“An appeal has been lodged against his conviction and he will await the outcome of the appeal process.”
Brutal and dogmatic, George Pell waged war on sex – even as he abused children
David Marr
One of the complainants at the centre of the case, who cannot be named, asked for privacy in the wake of the suppression order being lifted, saying he was “a regular guy working to support and protect my family as best I can.”
“Like many survivors I have experienced shame, loneliness, depression and struggle,” he said in a statement.
“Like many survivors it has taken me years to understand the impact upon my life.
“At some point we realise that we trusted someone we should have feared and we fear those genuine relationships that we should trust. I would like to thank my family near and far for their support of me, and of each other.”
Before returning to Australia to face the charges, Pell was for three years prefect of the secretariat for the economy of the Holy See, making him one of the most senior Catholics in the world. He was one of Francis’s most trusted advisers, and was handpicked to oversee the Vatican’s complex finances and root out corruption.
On the day of the dramatic verdict, after a four-and-a-half-week trial, Pell stood in the dock showing no reaction and staring straight ahead. The room was silent as the foreman told the court that the jury had found the cardinal guilty on all charges. Pell’s defence barrister, Robert Richter QC, when asked by journalists if he would appeal, responded: “Absolutely.”
Pell will now almost certainly face jail time.
‘Disgraceful rubbish’: the moment George Pell reacted to child abuse allegations
The jury found that in the second half of December 1996, while he was archbishop of Melbourne, Pell walked in on two 13-year-old choirboys after a Sunday solemn mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral and sexually assaulted them.
The complainant, who is now aged 35, said he and the other choirboy had separated from the choir procession as it exited the church building. The prosecution’s case hinged on his evidence, as the other victim died in 2014 after a heroin overdose. Neither victim told anyone about the offending at the time.
After leaving the procession, the complainant said, he and the other boy sneaked back into the church corridors and entered the priest’s sacristy, a place they knew they should not be. There they found some sacramental wine and began to drink. The complainant alleged that Pell had walked in on them and told them something to the effect that they were in trouble.
Pell manoeuvred his robes to expose his penis. He stepped forward, grabbed the other boy by the back of his head, and forced the boy’s head on to his penis, the complainant told the court.
Pell then did the same thing to the complainant, orally raping him. Once he had finished, he ordered the complainant to remove his pants, before fondling the complainant’s penis and masturbating himself. The complainant said the attack lasted only a few minutes, and the boys left the room afterwards, hung up their choir robes and went home.
Being in the choir was a condition of the complainant’s scholarship to attend St Kevin’s College, an elite independent school in the affluent inner-Melbourne suburb of Toorak, the court heard.
“I knew a scholarship could be given or taken away even at that age,” the complainant told the court. “And I didn’t want to lose that. It meant so much to me. And what would I do if I said such a thing about an archbishop? It’s something I carried with me the whole of my life.”
Up to 100 journalists accused of breaking Pell suppression order face possible jail terms
The complainant alleged that either later that year in 1996, or in early 1997, Pell attacked him again. He said he was walking down a hallway to the choristers’ change room, again after singing at Sunday solemn mass at the cathedral, when Pell allegedly pushed him against the wall and squeezed his genitals hard through his choir robes, before walking off.
The complainant told the court that after the attacks he could not fathom what had happened to him and that he dealt with it by pushing it to the “darkest corners and recesses” of his mind.Advertisement
In his police statement, the complainant said he remembered Pell “being a big force in the place”.
“He emanated an air of being a powerful person,” he said. “I’ve been struggling with this a long time … and my ability to be here. [Because] I think Pell has terrified me my whole life … he was [later] in the Vatican. He was an extremely, presidentially powerful guy who had a lot of connections.”
In his closing address, the crown prosecutor Mark Gibson told the jury their verdict would come down to whether they believed the complainant beyond reasonable doubt. They should find the complainant an honest witness, Gibson said.
Pell pleaded not guilty from the beginning. He was interviewed by a Victorian detective, Christopher Reed, in Rome in October 2016, and the video of that interview was played to the court. In that interview Pell described the allegations as “a load of garbage and falsehood”.
Five times guilty: how George Pell’s child-abusing past caught up with him in courtroom 4.3
When Reed said the attacks were alleged to have occurred after Sunday mass, Pell responded: “That’s good for me as it makes it even more fantastically impossible.”
Pell’s defence team told the jury there were so many improbabilities in the prosecution’s case that they should conclude the abuse could not have happened. Richter said it was unlikely that two boys could leave the choir procession after mass unnoticed or that the sacristy would be unattended or left unlocked, or that Pell would be able to manoeuvre his robes to show his penis in the way described by the complainant. The robes were brought into the court for jurors to view.
Richter used a PowerPoint presentation in the retrial during his closing address to the jurors, something he did not do in the first. One of the slides read: “Only a madman would attempt to rape two boys in the priests’ sacristy immediately after Sunday solemn mass.”
In his directions to the jury, Kidd told them that the trial was not an opportunity to make Pell a scapegoat for the failures of the Catholic church.
The jury took less than four days to reach their unanimous verdict.
As many as 100 journalists accused of breaching the suppression order have been threatened with a charge of contempt of court and could face possible jail terms. Letters were sent to journalists from major media outlets which published or broadcast pieces in relation to the trial including News Corp, Nine Entertainment and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in February.
The reason for the strict order was that Pell faced a second trial in relation to separate alleged historical offences. The first trial was suppressed temporarily so information from it would be less likely to influence the jury in the second. Suppression orders are not unusual in such cases.
But Kidd has now ordered that reporting restrictions be liftedafter the Department of Public Prosecutions dropped the second set of charges. Kidd had ruled that key evidence was inadmissible and could not be used, significantly weakening the prosecution’s case.
President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Mark Coleridge, said the case had shocked many across Australia and around the world, “including the Catholic Bishops of Australia.”
“The bishops agree that everyone should be equal under the law, and we respect the Australian legal system. The same legal system that delivered the verdict will consider the appeal that the Cardinal’s legal team has lodged.”
“Our hope, at all times, is that through this process, justice will be served.”
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Gore Concedes
Thirty-six days after election day, Al Gore conceded the 2000 presidential election to his Republican opponent, Texas Governor George W. Bush. From a podium in his office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and with an uncharacteristic smile and buoyant demeanor, Gore said that despite disagreeing with the Supreme Court's decision to stop the recount in Florida, he would respect it. He also urged the nation to come together to support the 43rd president, and thanked his supporters, family and vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman for their support.
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Eight USGA Championships to be Broadcast Live in 2016 April 13, 2016 | FAR HILLS, N.J.
2016 USGA Championship Broadcast Schedule
Fans across the globe will have unprecedented access to USGA championship action in 2016, as Fox Sports will air more than 120 hours of live coverage across eight 2016 USGA championships, including more than 40 hours on Fox, FS1 and Fox Deportes and continuous live streaming on Fox Sports Go from the U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. Fox Sports will also provide live coverage from the U.S. Women’s Open, U.S. Senior Open and five USGA amateur championships.
Additionally, the USGA will live stream approximately 164 hours from the U.S. Open, U.S. Women’s Open, U.S. Senior Open, U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women’s Amateur on usopen.com, usga.org and the U.S. Open app. The Association's global digital coverage begins with exclusive live action on three channels – two featured groups channels and a featured holes channel – on usopen.com and the U.S. Open app from 7:30-10 a.m. EDT during the first and second rounds of the U.S. Open (June 16-17). The 116th U.S. Open will also be broadcast to more than 170 countries and territories on six continents through international broadcast partners.
“We are grateful for the commitment and dedication of our partners at Fox Sports to enhance the coverage of our national championships through innovative storytelling,” said Mike Davis, USGA executive director/CEO. “We also look forward to sharing another year of golf history and engaging with fans throughout the season with live digital streaming on usga.org, usopen.com and the U.S. Open app.”
Building up to the U.S. Open, FS1 will present six hours of preview programming, including the U.S. Open Sectional Qualifying Show, which follows the conclusion of domestic sectional qualifying and airs at 12:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 7. Live championship coverage will begin at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Friday, June 10 when groupings and starting times are announced on FS1’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd, featuring Fox Sports’ lead golf analyst Paul Azinger. Next, FS1 will go live with “Wednesday at the U.S. Open” on June 15 from 10 a.m.-noon EDT.
The first and second rounds of the U.S. Open, June 16-17, will air on FS1 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. EDT, followed by coverage on Fox from 5-8 p.m. EDT each day. Fox will provide coverage of the third round on Saturday, June 18, from 11 a.m.- 7 p.m. EDT and of the fourth round on Sunday, June 19, from 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. EDT. Fox Deportes will also televise the third and fourth rounds in Spanish from 4-7 p.m. EDT on June 18 and 4:30-7:30 p.m. EDT on June 19. Additionally, FS1 will air 30-minute wrap-up shows following each round of the U.S. Open. If necessary, an 18-hole playoff will be contested on Monday, June 20, starting at noon EDT, and Fox will provide coverage through the playoff’s completion.
The first two rounds of the 71st U.S. Women’s Open at CordeValle in San Martin, Calif., will be televised on FS1 from 3-8 p.m. EDT on July 7-8. Fox will air the third and fourth rounds, July 9-10, from 3-7 p.m. EDT.
The first and second rounds of the 37th U.S. Senior Open at Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio, will air on FS1 on Aug. 11-12 from 1-6 p.m. EDT. Fox will broadcast the third and fourth rounds, Aug. 13-14, from 2-6 p.m. EDT.
Fox and FS1 will cover the 116th U.S. Amateur Championship at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. FS1 will provide coverage of the first round of match play on Aug. 17, followed by second- and third-round matches on Aug. 18 and quarterfinal matches on Aug. 19, all from 3-6 p.m. EDT. Fox will air the semifinal matches on Aug. 20 and the 36-hole championship match on Aug. 21, both from 3-6 p.m. EDT.
Coverage of the 116th U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship at Rolling Green Golf Club in Springfield, Pa., will air on FS1, beginning with the first round of match play on Aug. 3 and continuing through the quarterfinal matches on Aug. 5 from 3-6 p.m. EDT each day. The coverage will continue Aug. 6-7 from 1-4 p.m. EDT each day, with coverage of the semifinal and championship matches.
FS1 will also provide coverage of the second U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., the 68th U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship at The Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J., and the 36th U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship at Stonewall Links in Elverson, Pa. Coverage from the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball quarterfinal matches on May 24 and semifinal and championship matches on May 25 will air from 3-5:30 p.m. EDT each day. U.S. Girls’ Junior semifinal coverage will air July 22, followed by the championship match on July 23, both from 2-4 p.m. EDT. The 2016 schedule will conclude with semifinal and championship match coverage of the U.S. Mid-Amateur on Sept. 14-15 from 3-5 p.m.
2016 USGA Championship Viewing Schedule
2nd U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship
Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaroneck, N.Y. (May 21-25)
Date/Day Time (EDT) Channel Program
May 24/Tuesday 3-5:30 p.m. FS1 Quarterfinals
May 25/Wednesday 3-5:30 p.m. FS1 Semifinals and Championship Match
116th U.S. Open Championship
Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club (June 16-19)
June 16/Thursday 7:30 a.m.-7 p.m. usopen.com/U.S. Open app First Round: featured groups (2)
7:30 a.m.-7 p.m. usopen.com/U.S. Open app First Round: featured holes
10 a.m.-5 p.m. FS1 First Round
5-8 p.m. Fox First Round
June 17/Friday 7:30 a.m.-7 p.m. usopen.com/ U.S. Open app Second Round: featured group (2)
7:30 a.m.-7 p.m. usopen.com/ U.S. Open app Second Round: featured holes
10 a.m.-5 p.m. FS1 Second Round
5-8 p.m. Fox Second Round
June 18/Saturday 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Fox Third Round
11 a.m.-6 p.m. usopen.com/U.S. Open app Third Round: featured groups (2)
11 a.m.-6 p.m. usopen.com/U.S. Open app Third Round: featured holes
June 19/Sunday 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Fox Fourth Round
11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. usopen.com/U.S. Open app Fourth Round: featured groups (2)
11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. usopen.com/U.S. Open app Fourth Round: featured holes
If necessary, playoff coverage will air Monday, June 20 on Fox from noon through its completion.
71st U.S. Women's Open Championship
CordeValle, San Martin, Calif. (July 7-10)
Date/Day
Time (EDT) Channel Program
July 7/Thursday 11 a.m.-1 p.m. usga.org First Round: full coverage
3-8 p.m. FS1 First Round
3-8 p.m. usga.org First Round: featured group
July 8/Friday 11 a.m.-1 p.m. usga.org Second Round
3-8 p.m. FS1 Second Round
3-8 p.m. usga.org Second Round: featured group
July 9/Saturday 3-7 p.m. Fox Third Round
3-7 p.m. usga.org Third Round: featured group
July 10/Sunday 3-7 p.m. Fox Fourth Round
3-7 p.m. usga.org Fourth Round: featured group
68th U.S. Girls' Junior Championship
The Ridgewood Country Club, Paramus. N.J. (July 18-23)
July 22/Friday 2-4 p.m. FS1 Semifinals
July 23/Saturday 2-4 p.m. FS1 Championship Match
116th U.S. Women's Amateur Championship
Rolling Green Golf Club, Springfield, Pa. (August 1-7)
Aug. 3/Wednesday 3-6 p.m. FS1 Round of 64
Aug. 4/Thursday 10 a.m.-noon usga.org Round of 32
3-6 p.m. FS1 Round of 32 and Round of 16
Aug. 5/Friday 3-6 p.m. FS1 Quarterfinals
Aug. 6/Saturday 1-4 p.m. FS1 Semifinals
Aug. 7/Sunday 10 a.m.-noon usga.org Championship Match
1-4 p.m. FS1 Championship Match
37 U.S. Senior Open Championship
Scioto Country Club, Columbus, Ohio (Aug. 11-14)
Aug. 11/Thursday 9-11 a.m. usga.org First Round
Aug. 12/Friday 9-11 a.m. usga.org First Round
Aug. 13/Saturday 2-6 p.m. Fox Third Round
Aug. 14/Sunday 2-6 p.m. Fox Fourth Round
116 U.S. Amateur Championship
Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (Aug. 15-21)
Aug. 17/Wednesday 3-6 p.m. FS1 Round of 64
Aug. 18/Thursday 11 a.m.-1 p.m. usga.org Round of 32
Aug. 19/Friday 3-6 p.m. FS1 Quarterfinals
Aug. 20/Saturday 3-6 p.m. Fox Semifinals
Aug. 21/Sunday 11 a.m.-1 p.m. usga.org Championship Match
3-6 p.m. Fox Championship Match
36th U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship
Stonewall Links, Elverson, Pa. (Sept. 10-15)
Sept. 14/Wednesday 3-5 p.m. FS1 Semifinals
Sept. 15/Thursday 3-5 p.m. FS1 Championship Match
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United Way Designates Board Leadership Programs to Local Non Profits
At United Way, we believe strongly in connecting solid leaders to opportunities to serve on boards of directors of our local non-profit organizations. For many years, United Way offered this opportunity through BOLD — Board Orientation & Leadership Development. A more recent initiative, BoardBank was launched by United Way and a number of community partners in late 2017.
Progress on Our Path Forward
I’ve spent much of the past few months listening to our donors, corporate partners, agencies, and community leaders. Despite coming from diverse perspectives, every person has shared one common message: our community needs United Way.
A Wish Come True
Bryce Foster is a 23 year old mother in our community who, up until last year, was working a job in retail and caring for her daughter, Kaysen. The family’s dynamic changed drastically when Kaysen was diagnosed with a genetic disorder that led to significant health challenges, including developmental delays and seizures.
Innovation in the Workforce
Partners for a Competitive Workforce, one of United Way of Greater Cincinnati’s key initiatives, recently began implementation of an innovative approach to making higher wage jobs accessible to more workers in our community. Career Bridge is currently in the pilot stage, with initial participation from businesses including Chick-fil-A and VEGA Americas.
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Barbara Castle
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Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn (October 6, 1910 – May 3, 2002), British left-wing politician, was born Barbara Anne Betts in Bradford, Yorkshire, and adopted her family's politics, joining the Labour Party.
After an education at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, she was elected to St. Pancras Borough Council in 1937, and in 1943 she spoke at the annual Labour Party Conference for the first time. She was a senior administrative officer at the Ministry of Food and an ARP warden during the Blitz.
Following her marriage to Ted Castle in 1944, Barbara became a journalist on the Daily Mirror, which by this time had become strongly pro-Labour. In the 1945 general election, which Labour won in a landslide, she became MP for Blackburn, Lancashire. The fiery redhead soon achieved a reputation as a left-winger and a rousing speaker. During the 1950s she was a high-profile Bevanite and made a name for herself as a vocal advocate of decolonisation. In the Wilson government of 1964-1970, she held a succession of ministerial posts. As Minister of Transport, she introduced the breathalyser to combat drink-driving, and as Secretary of State for Employment, she was never far from controversy which reached a fever pitch when the trade unions rebelled against her proposals to reduce their powers in her 1969 white paper, 'In Place of Strife'.
In 1974, after Harold Wilson's defeat of Edward Heath, Castle became Secretary of State for Social Services, but lost her place as a minister after clashing with the new prime minister, James Callaghan, who took over from Wilson in 1976. Despite having taken an anti-European stance in the 1975 referendum debate, she later became a Member of the European Parliament (1979-1989). In 1990, she was created a baroness in her own right (having previously enjoyed the courtesy title of "Lady" as a result of her husband's life peerage, but having refused to use it). She remained active in politics right up until her death, attacking Chancellor Gordon Brown's refusal to link pensions to earnings at the Labour party conference in 2001.
Barbara Castle's autobiography, Fighting All The Way (ISBN 0330328867), was published in 1993.
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Home // About APEGA // Past-Presidents // 1952: Herbert H. Moor, P. Eng.
1952: Herbert H. Moor, P. Eng.
Born in 1898 in Toronto, Herb Moor was educated there, graduating with a bachelor of applied science and master of applied science in chemical engineering.
In 1923 he joined Imperial Oil Limited and by 1947 he was assistant superintendent of the Sarnia, Ont., refinery. That same year he was transferred to Edmonton to oversee the construction of a refinery for the newly discovered Leduc, Alta., oilfield.
In January 1950 he transferred membership from the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario to Alberta, and succeeded Harold Randle as president of the association in 1952. In 1955 he was again transferred (as was his membership – from Alberta to Nova Scotia), this time to Halifax as superintendent of Imperial Oil's Dartmouth refinery.
He retired in Oakville, Ont., in 1959. In the late 1960s, Moor was granted Honorary Life Membership in the Association of Professional Engineers of Alberta (APEA; now The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta).
Moor was always a most active member of the profession, an ardent supporter of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and was honoured by his peers by his election as a fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada. In 1992 he died in his 94th year after a long illness.
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That Time the Beatles Met the Maharishi
By Dave Swanson February 15, 2016 9:28 AM | Ultimate Classic Rock
By the second half of 1967, the Beatles were searching for answers to some of life’s larger questions. This search would lead them to meditation, Eastern philosophy and, eventually, to Rishikesh, India, where, on Feb. 15, 1968, they began a period of study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
“We’d been into drugs. The next step is you’ve got to try and find a meaning then,” said Paul McCartney in the Anthology documentary. It was George Harrison, already a casual student of Eastern ways, who got the ball rolling. He, McCartney and John Lennon went to see a lecture given by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in London in the summer of 1967. “That’s where I really went for the meditation,” said Harrison in Anthology. “There’s this thing called a mantra. Through the mantra you can follow a technique that helps you to transcend, that is, to go beyond the waking-sleeping-dreaming state.”
Following the lecture, the three met Maharishi. “I said to him, ‘got any mantras?” said George. The band were enamored with the mystic one, and the feeling appeared to be mutual. “They are the ideal of energy and intelligence in the younger generation,” the Maharishi told a reporter after the lecture.
In February 1968, the Beatles took their interest a large step forward by traveling to the Maharishi’s home base in northern India. Lennon and wife Cynthia, and Harrison and Pattie Boyd arrived first (Ringo Starr and Paul would soon join them) along with other notable friends such as Beach Boy Mike Love, Donovan and actress Mia Farrow.
During their stay, they would learn more about meditation and would also find time to write many of the songs that would ultimately end up on The Beatles (aka the White Album). “Back in the U.S.S.R.,” “Dear Prudence” (written about Farrow’s sister, also in attendance), “Mother Nature’s Son,” and “Sexy Sadie” were just a few of the songs born out of their experiences there.
“I was really impressed with the Maharishi. I was impressed because he was laughing all the time,” said Ringo. “It was another point of view. It was the first time we’re sort of getting into Eastern philosophies.” McCartney described the stay in India as “very much like a summer camp,” with Starr adding, “It was pretty far out.”
Both McCartney and Starr cut their stay short, while others hung out for close to two months. The harmonious vibes of the trip, however, would soon come to an end when allegations arose about the more earthly interests of the Maharishi in one or more of the females in attendance as well as questions surrounding the Maharishi seeking financial involvement from the Beatles. Upon their return, a reporter asked Lennon if the Maharishi was “on the level.” Lennon quipped, “I don’t know what level he’s on, but we had a nice holiday in India and came back rested.”
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Bilderberg 2014 Uncovered: Secretive Elite to Meet in Denmark
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Power brokers return to Europe for annual confab
The 2014 meeting of the Bilderberg Group – a secretive organization of global power brokers – will take place in Denmark at the end of May.
The announcement was made today on the official ‘Bilderberg Meetings’ website, which states simply, “The 62nd Bilderberg meeting will take place at the end of May 2014 in Denmark.”
No city or hotel has yet been identified as the location of the meeting, although the group always holds its conferences at luxury resorts either in or nearby major cities or exclusive remote tourist resorts.
The 2014 confab marks Bilderberg’s first return to Scandinavia since the group met in Sweden in 2001 and the first time the conference has been held in Denmark since 1969.
The elitist organization, which meets on an annual basis in either Europe, the United States or Canada, is comprised of some of the most powerful heavyweights of industry, banking, politics, royalty, academia and technology. Last year, the likes of Jeff Bezos, Timothy Geithner, Christine Lagarde, Henry Kissinger, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, and British Prime Minister David Cameron were all in attendance.
While the mainstream media habitually fails to afford Bilderberg the press coverage it demands – characterizing the group as a mere “talking shop” – innumerable examples of the organization having a direct impact on global policy have been documented in recent years, leading to charges that the group is fundamentally undemocratic in nature.
This has led to bigger and bigger anti-Bilderberg demonstrations in recent years, including last year in Watford, UK when thousands of people attended an event that was held in the grounds of the Grove Hotel, where Bilderberg was holding its meeting.
Prior to last year’s meeting, Infowars reporters who had booked to stay at the Grove Hotel days before Bilderberg members arrived had their reservations canceled due to unspecified “security” concerns.
In 2010, former NATO Secretary-General and Bilderberg member Willy Claes’ admitted that Bilderberg attendees are mandated to implement policy decisions that are formulated during the meeting.
There are innumerable other examples of how Bilderberg has influenced major global events ahead of time, picking Presidents and Prime Ministers on a regular basis with total contempt for the democratic process.
Last year, Italian lawyer Alfonso Luigi Marra requested that the Public Prosecutor of Rome investigate the clandestine organization for criminal activity, questioning whether the group’s 2011 meeting in Switzerland led to the selection of Mario Monti as Prime Minister of Italy.
In 2009, Bilderberg chairman Étienne Davignon even bragged about how the Euro single currency was a brainchild of the Bilderberg Group.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bilderberg-2014-uncovered-secretive-elite-to-meet-in-denmark.html
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Victims of the Great Plague 'discovered' at Liverpool Street station
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From the section London
Archaeologists said the wooden coffins had rotted away leaving a "distorted mass grave"
A mass burial site that may contain 30 victims of the Great Plague has been discovered in the City of London.
The skeletons were found during excavation of the Bedlam burial ground at Liverpool Street, which will serve the cross-London Crossrail line.
A headstone found nearby was marked 1665. Scientists hope to establish whether bubonic plague or some other pestilence was the cause of death.
The skeletons will be analysed by the Museum of London Archaeology.
Archaeologists said the fact the individuals appear to have been buried on the same day suggest they were victims of the Plague.
Crossrail lead archaeologist Jay Carver said: "This mass burial, so different from the other individual burials found in the Bedlam cemetery, is very likely a reaction to a catastrophic event.
"We hope this gruesome but exciting find will tell us more about one of London's most notorious killers."
The burial ground was in use from 1569 to at least 1738 with recent research suggesting up to 30,000 Londoners were buried there during that time.
Archaeologists have so far excavated 3,500 skeletons from the site and are expected to complete their work in September.
So far Crossrail has found more than 10,000 artefacts spanning 55 million years over 40 construction sites in London.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-33886570
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Irish Coast Guard S-92 helicopter crashes with four on board
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The Irish Coast Guard has confirmed that one of its search-and-rescue helicopters, a Sikorsky S-92 operated by CHC Helicopters, was involved in an accident off the west coast of Ireland.
The Coast Guard has launched a major sea search operation off the county Mayo coast approximately six miles west of Blacksod. The search continues for three missing Irish Coast Guard crew members after it confirmed that one of its most senior pilots, Captain Dara Fitzpatrick, died in the accident.
Two SAR helicopters, as well as a number of vessels, have been searching for the missing crew members.
CHC Helicopters said in a statement:
“Earlier today, there was an accident involving one of our S92 search and rescue aircraft off the west coast of Ireland. At approximately 0100 local time, contact with the aircraft was lost and a major search and rescue operation commenced off the County Mayo coast, approximately six miles west of Blacksod. That search continues.
“Today is a very sad day for all of the CHC family, but particularly for our team in Ireland. We are devastated by this morning’s tragic accident and our hearts are with the crew and the families of the crews involved.
“On behalf of everyone at CHC, we would like to extend our gratitude to all of the emergency services and organizations involved in the search, rescue and recovery mission underway, including the CHC team in Ireland as they participate in the search for their colleagues.
Brian Strutton, BALPA General Secretary, said:
“We’re shocked and saddened by the news of the coastguard helicopter crash off the coast of Ireland and our thoughts are with the crew and their families, as well as all of our Irish colleagues who will be affected by this tragedy.
“All pilots will now want to ensure that the Irish accident investigators, the AAIU, can thoroughly and speedily get to the bottom of the cause of this accident, especially given the type of aircraft involved, so as to ensure future flight safety in the helicopter sector across Europe.”
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California Election System in Mayhem
December 27, 2018 Staff Archive, National News 3
Ballot harvesting and jungle primaries have made the Golden State ripe for vote fraud.
Voter fraud and corruption is a very real problem, even in so-called “advanced democracies,” such as the United States. For example, changes made in 2016 to AB1921, a California state law dealing with collecting and submitting voter ballots, may have exacerbated the problem in the Golden State, at least according to some political experts.
Prior to 2016, California election laws stated that voters wishing to vote by mail had to either mail their ballot in or have a family or household member submit the ballot on their behalf at their local polling place. The changes made to AB1921 and signed into law in 2016 by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown updated the law to allow anyone to return mail ballots on behalf of other voters. Called “ballot harvesting,” the updates allowed third parties—really anyone—to collect ballots from voters and submit them to election officials with little oversight.
The changes were instigated and supported by California Democrats, while Republicans largely opposed the updates.
In the 2018 mid-term election, Democrats in California exploited the new law, befuddling state and national Republican leaders, especially considering that many Republican contenders for various congressional seats around the state were winning on election day. After all ballots were finally counted—weeks after the election—Republicans ended up losing to Democrats in most races, as ballots submitted by third parties were finally counted and factored into the race.
“California just defies logic to me,” outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan stated shortly after the election results were in. “We were only down 26 seats the night of the election, and three weeks later, we lost basically every California contested race. This election system they have—I can’t begin to understand what ‘ballot harvesting’ is.”
At least six Republican congressional contenders in California were leading their races on election night, but eventually lost after all votes were finally counted. In Orange County, where Democrats won every single House seat, “the number of Election Day vote-by-mail drop-offs was unprecedented—over 250,000,” Fred Whitaker, the chairman of the Orange County Republican Party, noted shortly after the election. “This is a direct result of ballot harvesting allowed under California law for the first time. That directly caused the switch from being ahead on election night to losing two weeks later.”
Ryan called California’s voting system “really bizarre” and appeared quite suspicious of the final vote tallies.
The point is, Ryan stated, “when you have candidates that win the absentee ballot vote, win the day of the vote, and then lose three weeks later because of provisionals, that’s really bizarre.”
Democrats insist they are simply taking advantage of the updated laws and working their hardest to get the vote out, while some Republicans have conceded that they were ill-prepared to take advantage of the updated laws.
“One of the lessons that the GOP needs to learn out of this election cycle is how to work within all of the new rules, same-day voter registration, motor voters,” Rep. Jeff Denham, a Republican congressman who lost in the mid-term election to a Democrat this year, told reporters. “There have been a lot of changes in laws that I think have caught many in the Republican Party by surprise. You can’t just run a traditional campaign as you did before.”
Other GOP leaders indicated that it is time for Republicans to adapt to the new rules in order to compete with Democrats, who were well prepared to exploit the updated laws.
“The Democrats are creating a new, highly efficient tool to turn out voters,” Dale Neugebauer, a Republican consultant in California, stated shortly after the election. “If Republicans can’tfind a way to match it, we’re going to lose more elections all over the country.”
California Republicans have their work cut out for them, as Democrats continue to solidify their power in the state at the local, state and national level.
John Friend is a freelance author based in California.
California’s ‘Jungle Primary’ Primed Golden State for Vote Scam
By AFP Staff
As if California’s new laws allowing “ballot harvesting” aren’t bad enough, the Golden State’s so-called “jungle primary” before the mid-term election in November made the voting even more chaotic and suspicious.
Back in May 2018, the San Diego Tribune published a lengthy article that explained the state’s jungle primary. “California is one of three states that employ an election process known as the ‘jungle primary’ that leaves the top two vote getters, regardless of political party, facing off in runoff elections in November,” reported the Tribune. “That means in theory a Democrat could compete against another Democrat, or a Republican could compete against another Republican instead of having the top vote getter in each party’s primary advancing.”
The Tribune noted that this was supposed to open the primaries to third parties and independents. In reality, what Californians witnessed was the Democratic Party taking advantage of this chaotic system to advance even more of its candidates.
For example, this explains why there was no Republican candidate for Senate on the ballot. Instead, voters were only able to choose between two Democrats: Dianne Feinstein and Kevin de León.
Typically, in primaries, registered Democratic voters can only vote for Democrats while registered Republican voters can only vote for candidates from their own party. This usually translates into a general election where a Democrat, a Republican, and anyone else who can get on the ballot is listed for voters. California’s jungle primary, however, opens the primary race to all of the candidates, regardless of political party affiliation.
This has been going on since 2012, and the results are in for independents and third parties. In the past six years, only a handful of candidates who are neither Democrat nor Republican have been able to get on ballots for federal offices.
According to the Tribune, what they have seen, instead, are races flooded with candidates from the two major political parties, drowning out independents and third parties.
Nebraska and Washington are the only other states in the U.S. that have jungle primaries.
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3 Comments on California Election System in Mayhem
Jesse February 10, 2019 at 15:25
Republicans are the ones pushing for stronger legislation to prevent convicted felons who abuse our most vulnerable citizens from having their criminal records expunged. Kamala Harris, a Democrat, appears to care less about our most vulnerable citizens. As with many politicans who favor protecting stakeholders from liablity after someone abuses a defenseless 90 year old, Harris is only concerned with protecting her donors who may be sued in a lawsuit after an elderly person is abused. This is NOT the kind of woman we need as President or even as a Senator. Cold. Heartless. Can’t protect us. Wont’,
M Edward December 27, 2018 at 14:04
I was born in California in 1963. I’ve lived out of state for 20 years but I’ve been back a few times and I’m disgusted by what has happened to a once great place to live.
It’s overrun by illegal immigrants from Mexico and crazy communists from every square inch of the planet.
I fear it is a lost cause and American would be best served if it did “fall into the ocean”.
Nick December 27, 2018 at 10:50
California is a single party rule state (sound familiar?) The communists will create laws to benefit themselves and strike down any that doesn’t. No one else has a say in that state. We can’t let the cancer spread. The bought and paid for republicans haven’t done anything to stop it, either.
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Glorious revolution – or a sordid little stitch-up?
On November 5, 1688, William of Orange, landed in Devon with 15,000 armed men. James Stuart, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, mustered his own army to meet the Dutch invaders. But, instead of fighting the foe, large numbers of the English officer corps defected to the Dutch. The English Army disintegrated. James fled into exile in France and William and his English wife Mary (pictured below) were crowned joint monarchs. This was the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688 – and it is the subject of my novel Blood’s Revolution. But was it really a revolution, I ask myself, or just a coup by a foreign prince with the connivance of the Establishment?
James II and his illegal faith
The problem was James’s religion. He was a Catholic and that was a serious political issue for his subjects. Since the days of Henry VIII, religion had divided the British Isles with successive monarchs wrangling over the inhabitants’ immortal souls. Bloody Mary burnt hundred of Protestants at the stake for their faith; Elizabeth I was plagued by dozens of Catholic plots. But by the latter part of the 17th century England, at least, was a largely (90%) Protestant country, and Catholics were viewed with suspicion and sometimes outright loathing. There were new laws that made Catholic forms of worship illegal unless a special dispensation was granted by the Crown. Catholics (and dissenting Protestants) were barred from serving in any of the machinery of government. They could not be judges or Justices of the Peace, they could not teach at universities, they could not be MPs or ministers, or Army and Navy officers; they could not, in fact, hold any official positions at all.
James Stuart’s royal family had mostly been Catholics, either secretly like his elder brother Charles II, or openly like his wife and his mother. When he came to the throne in 1685, James was determined to give Catholics more freedom. He wanted to lift the statutes that penalised Catholics and dissenting Protestants and allow them equality under law with members of the Church of England.
The Establishment digs in its heels
He set about doing this by trying to persuade the Establishment to change the law. But he faced almost universal resistance to his plans. The university dons opposed him and resented having Catholics appointed to senior roles in their colleges. While Parliament was in abeyance, James met and tried to cajole hundreds of prospective MPs into supporting his repeal of the anti-Catholic laws – most refused. Seven senior bishops of the Church of England (see below) declined to read out a proclamation in every pulpit in every church the land that granted freedom of worship to Catholics and were duly sent to the Tower of London. In Ireland, Protestant Army officers were dismissed wholesale – some losing money they had paid for their commissions – and replaced by Catholic men.
Most people were outraged by James’s actions. His popularity plummeted. James was, without a doubt, a difficult man to deal with, autocratic and tactless, who believed that as King it was his right to rule as he pleased. But the civil wars that destroyed his father, the first King Charles, had changed that model of governance for ever in Great Britain. The rule of autocratic kings who governed by their Divine Right could no longer tolerated. For the British people, Parliament was sovereign. And the laws of the land were made by this gathering of (wealthy Protestant) representatives of the folk who were to be governed. James’s attempt to change the anti-Catholic laws by decree was a step too far.
Birth of a Catholic heir
Despite all this, most of James’s subjects were initially prepared to do nothing and leave James be. After all, he had no legitimate male children, the wiser ones pointed out, and when he died the throne would pass to this eldest daughter, Mary, who was a staunch Protestant. No king lives for ever. All this changed, however, when in June 1688 his Italian wife Mary of Modena gave birth to a son – James Francis Edward Stuart, who would in future be known as the Old Pretender, and who would also be the father of Bonnie Prince Charlie. This birth changed everything. The boy, now the heir to the thrones of the Three Kingdoms, would certainly be raised as a good Catholic and Britain was looking at the prospect of a Catholic dynasty. The horror!
Brutal French dictatorship
It is difficult for us in the 21st century to imagine how terrible this prospect looked. But to the man in the street in England in June 1688 it was genuinely frightening. The British were proud of their Parliamentary system of government and thought of it as a mark of freedom. Few other countries enjoyed such political liberty. Across the Channel, Louis XIV had taken his country on another path. He was busy concentrating all power in his own hands. Louis was a genuine dictator, appointed by a Catholic God to rule France as he saw fit, and most people in Britain did not wish to be governed in this way. Catholicism, for many British Protestants, meant absolute rule by a brutal tyrant.
The Army contemplates treachery
So they acted. The Army and Navy met in secret little cabals, in clubs and restaurants they plotted the betrayals they would enact if William invaded. The grand Protestant noblemen looked at their options and decided that they would actually invite William of Orange to come and take over the country. They wrote him a formal letter expressing their support of his coup and signed by seven leading grandees. On the surface this seems an extraordinary thing to do – to invite a Dutch prince to come over, push out the incumbent and become King of England. But while unusual it isn’t that outlandish.
William was both the nephew of James II and his son-in-law. He was married to Mary, who had been the heir to the thrones of the Three Kingdoms before the birth of James Francis Edward. He had a pretty good claim to the thrones in his own right (his grandfather was Charles I) and through his wife.
Blood’s Revolution
But I still feel that James was treated very badly. And I hope that comes through in the pages of Blood’s Revolution, which comes out on October 18, 2018, in hardback. You can buy a copy here. James wanted toleration for his co-religionists. He wasn’t trying to become another Sun King; he did not seek absolute power; he was merely trying to introduce more tolerance in Anglican Britain for Catholics and other dissenting groups such as Quakers and Baptists, etc. And he was stabbed in the back by his own subjects, by his Army officers who had sworn an oath of personal loyalty to him, and by the noblemen and great landowners, many of whom had been made rich by him or his family. While these men might have had their reasons, they did without a doubt betray him and they facilitated the outright coup d’état that brought the Protestant monarchs William and Mary to power.
Today we prize tolerance highly. But it was a genuine attempt to foster religious tolerance in the Three Kingdoms that brought about James’s downfall in the so-called Glorious Revolution.
Tagged: revolution; 17th century, war, William of Orange
Dave McCall September 17, 2018 at 4:59 pm
Superb, Angus. We seem to be covering the same ground but from different angles. I’m just finishing writing a trilogy about the life of Catherine Yale – wife of nabob philanthropist (and slave trader) Elihu Yale. The end of the first novel and beginning of the second, sees them viewing the “Glorious Revolution” from faraway Madras and the East India Company outpost at Fort St. George. Catherine’s from a long Dissenter background and, while she’s superficially attracted by the idea of more tolerance for those who share her beliefs, her frenzied animosity towards the Catholic Church – and the examples of what had happened in France in not too dissimilar circumstances – convince her that James’s “genuine attempt to foster religious tolerance in the Three Kingdoms” can only be skin-deep and that, if the Papists ever fully regain control, that veneer of tolerance will disappear again very quickly – that she and folk like her will be the first to face the Inquisition. For me it was interesting to see the way this played out in people’s minds – even when they were half-way round the world. Looking forward to “Blood’s Revolution” though! Good luck with it.
admin September 18, 2018 at 9:14 am
How interesting! I found it very difficult when I was writing Blood’s Revolution (and to a lesser extent Blood’s Game) to get into the anti-Catholic mindset. As an atheist, all religions seem to me to be equally ludicrous. But I got there by thinking about the totalitarian nature of France under Louis XIV, the persecution of the Huguenots, police spies, and all that. I channeled how we might feel about the threat of another Hitler. Anyway, good luck with your series! The East India Company perspective sounds like a refreshingly original take on the period.
Dave McCall September 21, 2018 at 6:43 am
Ah, here were the things that helped me with the anti-Catholic mindset too (also as an atheist). First, growing up in Liverpool in the 50s and 60s within a fairly liberal-minded family – but one in which a Catholic was never allowed across the threshold! And, second, the India background to the story – the permanent ravages of religious wars in the 1680s between Hindu and Muslim plus, of course, within the Muslims themselves, between Sunni and Shia. There’s a short section in which the two main female characters, one Indian, one English, try to respectively explain the animosities between Catholic and Protestant on the one hand, Sunni and Shia on the other – and of course it doesn’t quite work. Blood makes a brief appearance in the first novel, of course, but only in a “news from home” context.
Oh, I’m so glad Blood gets a mention! Good luck with the book
Nick Brett October 8, 2018 at 9:22 pm
I’m enjoying these bite size bits of history and the context they give to your books. Many thanks!
admin October 10, 2018 at 9:25 am
Thanks Nick!
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The Blue Frontier
Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire
Part of Cambridge Oceanic Histories
Author: Ronald C. Po, London School of Economics and Political Science
In this revisionist history of the eighteenth-century Qing Empire from a maritime perspective, Ronald C. Po argues that it is reductive to view China over this period exclusively as a continental power with little interest in the sea. With a coastline of almost 14,500 kilometers, the Qing was not a landlocked state. Although it came to be known as an inward-looking empire, Po suggests that the Qing was integrated into the maritime world through its naval development and customs institutionalization. In contrast to our orthodox perception, the Manchu court, in fact, deliberately engaged with the ocean politically, militarily, and even conceptually. The Blue Frontier offers a much broader picture of the Qing as an Asian giant responding flexibly to challenges and extensive interaction on all frontiers - both land and sea - in the long eighteenth century.
Proposes a fresh interpretation of Qing history from the perspective of oceanic studies, as well as Chinese, trans-regional, and global history
Demonstrates the Qing Empire's multi-faceted strategies toward the maritime world
Updates our knowledge of the nature of the Qing imperial polity and its continental and maritime frontiers
'Ronald C. Po’s well-researched monograph about the Chinese naval forces in the early modern period finally provides maritime China with the history it deserves.' Leonard Blussé, Universiteit Leiden
'This engaging study, rejecting common assumptions of China’s inwardness and isolation, stresses the significant attention that the Qing paid to sea power. The author provides a refreshing new look at China’s coastal military strategy. Recommended for anyone interested in the roots of China’s engagement with the world today.' Peter C. Perdue, Yale University, Connecticut
'The Blue Frontier opens our eyes to the Qing's management of its maritime frontier, a management that was crucial to China’s economic success during the High Qing. Showing that it had a deep and sustained engagement with the sea, the book makes clear that it was never just a continental power. Now that China is recovering its maritime role, this book is timely and important.' Hans van de Ven, University of Cambridge
'The temptation to read back from a major triumph or disaster and rewrite history to account for that outcome is irresistible. The rapid decline of late Qing Chinese power has produced some spectacular rewrites. Ronald C. Po takes on the myth of China’s neglect of maritime affairs and explores the careful thinking behind Qing policies. Through meticulous scholarship and unrelenting questioning, he discovers how simplistic it was to attribute China’s fall to its inattention to threats from the sea. His close examination of contemporary records provides us with a major corrective to the received wisdom laid down by our teleological urges.' Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore
contains: 18 b/w illus. 2 maps
1. Setting the scene
2. Modeling the sea
3. The dragon navy
4. Guarded management
5. Writing the waves
Appendix 1. 'Inner sea' and 'outer sea' in imperial documents
Appendix 2. A chronicle of sea patrol regulations in the long eighteenth century
Appendix 3. Glossary of Chinese characters.
Ronald C. Po, London School of Economics and Political Science
Ronald C. Po is Assistant Professor in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Abdu’l-Bahá - Animals
A cat purring beside His chair would amuse Him: this cat, He remarked, is indeed joyous, so carefree, so free of fear.
H. M. Balyuzi, 'Abdul'l-Baha: The Centre of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah, p. 415
One of interesting incidents I remember well is about a parrot which was presented to the Master. He had put it in the Pilgrim House. My uncle, who was the steward of the Pilgrim House taught the parrot to say ‘Allah-u-Abhá’ to whoever approached it. Also, he had trained it to say, ‘say, say, say O Bahá.’ The people, who heard the parrot’s voice and didn’t see it, thought that a person was there. One day ‘Abdu’l-Bahá called my uncle and told him, ‘Muhammad Hassan, bring the parrot to me tomorrow. I intend to present it to the governor of Akka.’ Muhammad Hassan took the cage containing the parrot to the Holy House and put it beside the window of the hall. His Holiness ‘Abdu’l-Bahá used to get up early morning, walk for a while and would chant prayers while walking. When, that day, He got up and approached the cage of the parrot, it said, ‘say, say.’ The Master was very happy and, smiling, advanced towards to parrot and asked, ‘what should I say?’ The parrot said, ‘O Bahá!’ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá exulted too much and later told my uncle, ‘Hassan, this parrot saved itself. Since it said to me, “say, say” and when I asked it what to say, it fluently said, “Say O Bahá!” Take it back to the Pilgrim House. I do not desire to send it out of this place.’ When the parrot was dead, my uncle took its feathers and wrote down, ‘these are the feathers of a parrot which belonged to His Holiness ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and He has admired several times its fluency.’ This was the effects of training which had some positive outcomes even for a parrot.
Persian Source: Ahang-i-Badi, vol. 29, no. 327, p. 37
When ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was first in Chicago it, was Spring and He was eager to go to the zoo. He had never seen a large city zoo, and He was very merry over the prospect. Then it was explained to Him that, this being the Spring of the year, most of the animal-mothers would be bearing litters and, at the first approach of a stranger, they'd rush their babies into safe hiding. This did not perturb ‘Abdu’l-Bahá at all. He wanted to go anyhow. So a group of five or six of the Friends took Him. He motioned to them to stay a little behind and He went forward all alone. And, as He approached each cage, the small animal-mother brought out all her babies to show Him, then hurried them back to safety and protection from the following Friends.
Reginald Grant Barrow, Mother's Stories: Stories of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Early Believers told by Muriel Ives Barrow Newhall to her son, p. 38-39
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Campaign Press Release – Issues on Education Matters, 4-7-19
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In First Official TV Appearance, N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction
Candidate James Barrett Highlights How to Rebuild Respect, State’s Great Public Education
CHAPEL HILL, NC—In his first official television appearance, James Barrett, 2020 candidate for N.C. state superintendent of public instruction, explained on Saturday’s “Education Matters” what he will bring to the job as superintendent and leader of the state’s department of public instruction (DPI).
“I believe that every student can be successful,” said Barrett, who is in his eighth year on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education, including two years as chair. “As a school board member, sometimes we see kids at their lowest, because they’re appealing some suspension or something. When I get to see those same kids walk across the graduation stage, or get some award for some achievement, I know that every kid can be successful, and that motivates me. That motivates me every day in the work of the school board.”
Research consistently shows how much relationships matter in education, Barrett said—between students and teachers, among the teaching staff, and between teachers and administrators.
“The state superintendent can’t force every teacher to have a great relationship with every student, but we can be a model within DPI,” Barrett said. “And so [with] my management experience, I know that I can restore the relationships that exist with the department of public instruction. I know that my policy experience, listening to teachers, the background that I have in that—I know that we can do a lot to restore respect for teachers, and build a relationship with all of the teachers across the state. And then I also have an advocacy background, and I believe strongly that the state superintendent should be an advocate for all of our schools across the state, and rebuild the relationship that exists between the schools and the community, and when we do that, we will once again have the greatest public school system in the country.”
Responding to questions from show host Keith Poston, president and executive director of the Public School Forum of North Carolina, Barrett touched on:
Testing: “I think we need to take a step back and think about what assessments are for. The first thing that we need assessments for is that students know where they stand—it’s a motivation factor for them. Second, teachers need to know where our students are so they can guide instruction. And public policy is really the third reason we do assessments, and it is the least important reason. Unfortunately, all the conversations we have today are how we measure schools, how we give them grades—that’s the least important reason to do testing. It’s not about how we allocate money, it shouldn’t be about how we pay teachers. It should be about the kids knowing the motivation for what they need to do, and teachers need to know what they need to do next.”
Challenges he hears from the teachers he listens to around the state: “The biggest thing that comes up these days is mental health resources. Mental health is a huge challenge across all the schools across the state.” Barrett said he hears concerns about students living in poverty and the trauma linked to that, and the stress on students in high-achieving schools to constantly achieve more. “We need mental health support in each and every one of our schools.”
The five issues teachers are focusing on for May 1 planned teacher protests: “I think they’re all very reasonable asks. They address the mental health issues; they also address paying our classified staff that don’t get paid enough and bringing them up to a living wage, which the state did for other employees outside of schools. There are a lot of really important things in there, and I support all those asks. If our legislature was really listening to teachers, they wouldn’t have to be marching. It may be disruptive for families, but it’s for the long-term benefit of all of our schools.”
Taxpayer money for private school vouchers: “I don’t understand why that’s even constitutional. We have a constitution that says the General Assembly will provide for a single public school system, and now we’ve got a completely unaccountable, separate [place] where public money [is] going. That is not the same as a common good, and I don’t support that at all.”
Charter schools: “I think we have to focus on quality for all of our schools. Charter schools have to be high-quality, and one of the ways they claim they can get the high quality is because they have flexibility. Why do district schools not have that same exact flexibility, in order to be able to serve all kids?”
Barrett attended elementary, middle, and high school in public schools in North Carolina, as did his wife and children. The son of a public high school teacher, he jokes that he’s “been listening to teachers all my life.” But the need to listen, he says, is no joke.
“From well before my first campaign for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board, I was advocating for improvements and equity in education for our students and teachers. I’ve always said I’ll meet with anyone who asks, and I frequently seek out opinions, especially on issues that affect those who are least-empowered in our schools. Beginning with that first campaign, I give out my phone number everywhere I go—919-590-5754—and truly believe in the power of listening to and then advocating for those in our schools.”
Alongside his elected office and longtime volunteer experience as a youth group leader, basketball and baseball coach, school tutor, and community organizer for social justice, Barrett has spent his career in corporate information technology leadership, managing large teams and projects with significant budgets—crucial skills for a state superintendent overseeing more than $13 billion in public school spending across the state and 1,000 employees in DPI.
Education is the foundation of North Carolina’s economy, education is a common good, and every child has a right to receive a quality public school education, Barrett said.
For more information, please visit BarrettForSchools.com; to interview James Barrett, email campaign@barrettforschools.com or call or text 919-590-5754.
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Battista & 2014 Bentley Women’s Basketball Team Tabbed for Northeast-10 Hall of Fame
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The Northeast-10 Conference announced its 2019 inductees into its Hall of Fame Monday night during its annual awards banquet at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the honorees included the 2014 NCAA Division II national championship Bentley University women's basketball team and its star player, Lauren Battista (North Easton).
The 2013-14 season was a remarkable one for coach Barbara Stevens and her team, one that saw the Falcons complete a perfect 35-0 campaign by overcoming deficits of nine with 5:37 left and six with 3:04 to play to dispatch West Texas A&M University, 73-65. That made Bentley only the second NCAA Division II women's basketball program to be undefeated national champions.
The comeback featured two steals four seconds apart by point guard Christiana Bakolas (Manchester, N.H.), two game-tying free throws with 2:47 left by Bakolas, a go-ahead three from Battista with 2:14 remaining and six free throws by Courtney Finn (Winthrop) in the final 41 seconds.
Stevens' usual starting lineup during that incredible season included Battista, Finn, Bakolas, Jacqui Brugliera (Holden, Mass.) and Caleigh Crowell (Harwich). All were seniors or graduate students. Off the bench, the top performers were freshman Jen Gemma (Milton), junior Kelsey Mattice (Cicero, N.Y.), graduate student Chrystal Guarin (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and senior Tyler Parker Kimball (New Britain, Conn.).
Before wrapping up the championship with the win over West Texas A&M, Bentley posted wins over Drury and Cal Poly Pomona during the Elite Eight, which was held in Erie, Pa.
Battista had a remarkable four-year career for the Falcons with her list of achievements including WBCA Division II National Player of the Year, Division II Capital One Academic All-America of the Year for all sports, Division II Capital One Academic All-America of the Year for women's basketball and the Honda Division II Athlete of the Year.
Battista, on the national championship team, averaged over 17 points, five rebounds and three assists while shooting .575 overall, .417 from three and .819 at the line. The two-time Northeast-10 Player of the Year and three-time Academic All-America finished her career with 2,112 points, a Bentley record at the time, as well as the Falcons' career leader in field goals, field goal attempts, games started and games played.
Battista, the seventh Bentley women's basketball player voted into the NE10 Hall of Fame, and the rest of the 2014 national championship team will be honored during a 2019-20 Falcon home game.
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Menachem Begin - Refugee
From the JDC archives, Polish Jewish refugees receiving JDC aid, after they had moved eastward to Vilna, Lithuania in 1940 to escape the Nazi regime and Begin's name appears:
And his future September 1940 chess partner, Israel Scheib - Eldad:
(with thanks to Chaim F.) ^
Post-Facto Praising of Menachem Begin
From Shimon Shiffer's January 2, 2015 op-ed
Between Begin and Netanyahu
It was 3:30 am on May 18, 1977 when Likud leader Menachem Begin walked into Metzudat Ze'ev, the party's headquarters in central Tel Aviv, in order to deliver the election night victory speech.
"Today is a turning point in the history of the Jewish people and the Zionist Movement, the likes of which we have not known for 46 years," he declared, after shocking the elites and political commentators and winning 43 Knesset seats with the Likud, compared to only 32 Knesset seats gained by the Labor Alignment headed by Shimon Peres.
"We reached this day out of full faith in democracy – aspiring to change things in our country through the ballot, and only through the ballot."
That was Begin – the biggest democrat among Israel's prime ministers in the past four decades, and the modest of them all. He never forgot, not even for a second, that his first commitment was to serve all of Israel's citizens, without making any distinction between secular and religious, Jews and Arabs, his supporters and his opponents.
...Unlike Begin, who managed to appeal to diverse audiences, the list led by Netanyahu marks fixation, obsolescence.
...in the Likud, which for several decades turned to the center of the public stage and aimed to take what we remember as the Liberal Party under its wings, Netanyahu is focusing on only one issue: The settlements. In other words, the Likud has become a party which represents only one sector. No more talking about solving the housing crisis and an equal share of the burden. There is one direction: Judea and Samaria.
...we'll reach the conclusion that the current prime minister failed to hold on to proven talents and offer them a place in his garden.
...Even if we agree that these are different times, the comparison to Begin's strong Likud is inevitable.
I remember the excitement in the audience which gathered at Metzudat Ze'ev that night in 1977, when Begin asked his wife Aliza to join him on the podium for the victory moment.
"I remember the devotion of your youth, your love for me as a bride, how you followed me into the wilderness, through a land sown with mines," he said in a paraphrase of a famous verse from the Book of Jeremiah.
It wasn't "come on, Sara" and "the first lady." They stood there without hair designers, without royalty etiquette from other places – a couple which really walked the entire way, made the entire journey, together.
But even more than that, Begin taught us that a leader must take responsibility for his moves, both for his successes and for his failures. That's another thing we can only yearn for.
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Former Arizona State, Penn State guard Jermaine Marshall died of natural causes
Former Arizona State and Penn State guard Jermaine Marshall died last month of natural causes, according to his family.
Marshall, 28, was found dead on Jan. 18 at his home in France, where he was playing for Nantes in the country's second division.
Ex-Arizona State, Penn State guard Marshall dies
French authorities performed an autopsy and determined the cause of death as heart complications which had gone undetected, according to his family.
Marshall played three seasons at Penn State from 2010 to 2013 before transferring to Arizona State for his final year of eligibility. His clutch performances led the Sun Devils to an NCAA tournament berth in 2014, averaging 15.1 points per game. One of his finest performances that season came against ASU rivals Arizona, who was ranked No. 2 when Marshall scored eight of his 29 points in the second overtime to lead his team to a 69-66 win.
"Our family was exceptionally blessed to know and love Jermaine. Incredibly talented, funny, thoughtful, a fierce competitor and a superb athlete who had an unbelievable work ethic and reputation," his family said in a statement. "Jermaine fell in love with the game of basketball at an early age. He went on to fulfill a life-long dream of playing at the college level and professionally for the Hermine Nantes basketball team in Nantes, France. Jermaine was loved by teammates and fans all over the world."
Funeral services will be held on Feb. 9 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes
Deep learning has a terrible carbon footprint.
by Karen Hao
The artificial-intelligence industry is often compared to the oil industry: once mined and refined, data, like oil, can be a highly lucrative commodity. Now it seems the metaphor may extend even further. Like its fossil-fuel counterpart, the process of deep learning has an outsize environmental impact.
In a new paper, researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, performed a life cycle assessment for training several common large AI models. They found that the process can emit more than 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent—nearly five times the lifetime emissions of the average American car (and that includes manufacture of the car itself).
It’s a jarring quantification of something AI researchers have suspected for a long time. “While probably many of us have thought of this in an abstract, vague level, the figures really show the magnitude of the problem,” says Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, a computer scientist at the University of A Coruña in Spain, who was not involved in the research. “Neither I nor other researchers I’ve discussed them with thought the environmental impact was that substantial.”
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The carbon footprint of natural-language processing
The paper specifically examines the model training process for natural-language processing (NLP), the subfield of AI that focuses on teaching machines to handle human language. In the last two years, the NLP community has reached several noteworthy performance milestones in machine translation, sentence completion, and other standard benchmarking tasks. OpenAI’s infamous GPT-2 model, as one example, excelled at writing convincing fake news articles.
But such advances have required training ever larger models on sprawling data sets of sentences scraped from the internet. The approach is computationally expensive—and highly energy intensive.
The researchers looked at four models in the field that have been responsible for the biggest leaps in performance: the Transformer, ELMo, BERT, and GPT-2. They trained each on a single GPU for up to a day to measure its power draw. They then used the number of training hours listed in the model’s original papers to calculate the total energy consumed over the complete training process. That number was converted into pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent based on the average energy mix in the US, which closely matches the energy mix used by Amazon’s AWS, the largest cloud services provider.
They found that the computational and environmental costs of training grew proportionally to model size and then exploded when additional tuning steps were used to increase the model’s final accuracy. In particular, they found that a tuning process known as neural architecture search, which tries to optimize a model by incrementally tweaking a neural network’s design through exhaustive trial and error, had extraordinarily high associated costs for little performance benefit. Without it, the most costly model, BERT, had a carbon footprint of roughly 1,400 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent, close to a round-trip trans-America flight for one person.
What’s more, the researchers note that the figures should only be considered as baselines. “Training a single model is the minimum amount of work you can do,” says Emma Strubell, a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the lead author of the paper. In practice, it’s much more likely that AI researchers would develop a new model from scratch or adapt an existing model to a new data set, either of which can require many more rounds of training and tuning.
To get a better handle on what the full development pipeline might look like in terms of carbon footprint, Strubell and her colleagues used a model they’d produced in a previous paper as a case study. They found that the process of building and testing a final paper-worthy model required training 4,789 models over a six-month period. Converted to CO2 equivalent, it emitted more than 78,000 pounds and is likely representative of typical work in the field.
The significance of those figures is colossal—especially when considering the current trends in AI research. “In general, much of the latest research in AI neglects efficiency, as very large neural networks have been found to be useful for a variety of tasks, and companies and institutions that have abundant access to computational resources can leverage this to obtain a competitive advantage,” Gómez-Rodríguez says. “This kind of analysis needed to be done to raise awareness about the resources being spent [...] and will spark a debate.”
“What probably many of us did not comprehend is the scale of it until we saw these comparisons,” echoed Siva Reddy, a postdoc at Stanford University who was not involved in the research.
The privatization of AI research
The results underscore another growing problem in AI, too: the sheer intensity of resources now required to produce paper-worthy results has made it increasingly challenging for people working in academia to continue contributing to research.
“This trend toward training huge models on tons of data is not feasible for academics—grad students especially, because we don’t have the computational resources,” says Strubell. “So there’s an issue of equitable access between researchers in academia versus researchers in industry.”
Strubell and her coauthors hope that their colleagues will heed the paper’s findings and help level the playing field by investing in developing more efficient hardware and algorithms.
Reddy agrees. “Human brains can do amazing things with little power consumption,” he says. “The bigger question is how can we build such machines.”
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Trump says his words on immigration were misrepresented by 'Senator Dicky Durbin'
The meeting was convened to consider a bipartisan immigration deal to protect the "dreamers" - young immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children, including the 690,000 now enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that Trump has canceled.
Sen. Cotton: Dems Must Make Concessions to Get DACA Deal
It's not groundbreaking at this point to say that among the key reasons Donald Trump was elected president was his appeal to those voters who were vulnerable to a dog-whistling (and worse) demagogue. Despite what he said were concerns about Trump's weight, diet and exercise levels, Jackson declared the President in "excellent" health, which he predicted would hold up for the remainder of his term.
Trump's Doctor Says He'll Live To 200 With Some Slight Dietary Adjustments
According to CNN, a score of 26 is normal. "In light of the president's comments, I'm forced to question whether the decision to terminate protected status for Haitian nationals was in fact racially motivated", said Feinstein. The test did not assess his psychiatric fitness and his doctor said he didn't undergo a psychiatric evaluation. But the president requested he be tested, anyway.
Kenyans react to KNH rape reports
The allegations, posted in a Facebook group known as Buyer Beware said the hospital is "a hotspot of all kinds of criminal activities". At that time, some of the victims say, not even a scream can save you because to security guards, a facility filled with hurting patients, screams are inevitable and they cannot respond to every cry.
Women's March sets new sights: 'Power to the Polls'
Hollis adds that while the rallies draw mainly progressive women and their allies, the event is open to everyone, including conservatives. Vancouver Island communities are rallying for Saturday's Women's March in solidarity with dozens of towns and cities across the country and beyond.
Immigration Debate Stalled After Trump's 'S***hole Countries' Comment
Perdue described the reports that Trump used the word as a "gross misrepresentation". "They twist it. Whatever is said, it comes [out a] totally different way". Ivana, 68, also said she believes her daughter Ivanka, 36, could be the first female U.S. president in an interview with Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid on today's Good Morning Britain .
Trump Got A Perfect Score On A Cognitive Assessment Test
Jackson said the president enjoyed good health despite a subpar diet and no exercise routine . Because Trump has blustered about his health before, there had been suspicions among some critics that the White House might hide evidence that he is mentally or physically unfit for office.
Hicks appearance before House intel committee delayed
Steve Bannon refused to answer questions from the House Intelligence Committee during a closed-door session, even after he was issued a subpoena to testify by the committee on Tuesday, saying that the White House had told him not to. The protection of the privilege is a matter for the White House, not the President's legal team, because it relates to the office. Sheldon Whitehouse said, "As someone who served in the Justice Department, I would love to know what he is talking about".
'US Has to Deal with Kim Jong
Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump told Reuters that he still wasn't ruling out military action. Eight people, including Teruaki Masumoto, whose sister Rumiko is said by North Korea to have died, will travel to The Hague to urge the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for human rights abuses because of his refusal to provide information about their family members.
Trump's Doctor Says Cognitive Test President Requested Is Normal
A serious accusation that riled Jennifer Rubin who writes the "Right Turn" blog for The Washington Post . Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, and Lindsey Graham , R-South Carolina, introduced their bill Wednesday afternoon with Sens. Asked about Trump's comments, Durbin said, "Politics ain't beanbag". "In - I don't - I don't specifically remember a category - categorization of countries in Africa", she said, explaining that "there were a lot of cross conversations".
US Backpedals on New Kurdish Force as Turkey Prepares for War
The U.S. -led coalition recently said it is planning a 30,000-strong Kurdish-led border force, further angering Turkey . " More Arabs will serve in areas along the Euphrates River Valley and along the border with Iraq to the south", he said.
CNN's Sanjay Gupta Mocked on Twitter for Declaring Trump Has Heart Disease
Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.), who attended the meeting in question, said they didn't recall Trump making such a comment. Sen. A summary of President Donald Trump's health report was released by the White House , with not only his weight being doubted, but concerns raised over his cholesterol.
Colorado Springs police on scene of an active shooter situation
Emergency notifications were sent to residents near Lynmar Apartments, warning them to shelter in place. Police are looking for a Caucasian male in his 30s, about 6 feet tall, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and light blue jeans. As of 9 p.m., police were still searching for the gunman, according to their tweets. Citizens in the area have been asked to stay inside and away from windows.
I want to focus on the match, says Mourinho
Mkhitaryan's agent Mino Raiola are believed to have been in detailed talks with both clubs in the last 48 hours, with the Armenian global believed to be entitled to a settlement payment from United before he moves to Arsenal. "With a match tomorrow, I want to switch off and focus on what is the most important thing". Sanchez's proposed move to Old Trafford would cost the club a reported £180 million (S$330.6 million) when fees and salaries are factored in and involves midfielder Henrikh ...
Trump supports bill to avoid government shutdown; White House
Mr Bannon refused to answer questions in his Congressional hearing about what he had leaked to the news media, according to Democratic committee member Adam Schiff. "The difference is that if you're in front of a grand jury, you don't have your lawyer present", Dershowitz said. While Trump can tussle with Congress, he has less power to block special counsel Robert Mueller , who is leading the criminal investigation into Russian meddling and whether the president or his aides helped the ...
US Embassy Eyes Move to Jerusalem by 2019
Hey, Trump had warned Abbas long ago that PA funding was at risk if its leaders refused to engage in peace talks with Israel. Abbas in his PCC speech also referred to the possibility of pushing the International Criminal Court (ICC) to initiate investigations into alleged Israeli war crimes.
Canadians urged to be cautious in Jamaican resorts
The government advises anyone staying at a resort to stay on the property. The Jamaican government has declared a state of emergency in the St James parish, after a number of "shooting incidents". Sunwing says it sends approximately 5,000 visitors through Montego Bay airport each week, and more than 95 per cent of vacationers choose all-inclusive resorts.
Sen. Durbin disputes Republicans' account of what Trump said
Trump has been seen out on the golf course, and the guidelines do say that "some activity is better than none", but if his doctor has any say in the matter, Trump will be exercising more . "That's what struck me", Nielsen said. I had no intention of doing one, ' Jackson recalled. Lindsey Graham brought a plan to Trump that involved cutting the visa lottery in half and, at the behest of the Congressional Black Caucus, the rest would go to underrepresented countries in Africa and ...
Did the government shut down?
Among Republicans, 62% would blame the Democrats in Congress , while 43% of Democrats would blame Republicans on Capitol Hill and 29% would blame Trump. Any one event happening in January may have no meaning for voters in November. The longer a shutdown lasts, he said, the worse it gets. "They're in charge", Schumer said Friday.
White House defends Donald Trump's 'lies and deceit' remarks about Pakistan
Hitting back at countries alleging that safe havens for terrorists are present in Pakistan , she remarked: "indeed, with its safe havens inside the country and income from the narcotics trade, the insurgency doesn't really need any outside assistance or support centres to sustain itself".
White House Doctor: President Trump Physically, Mentally Fit For Office
The 10-minute exam is created to detect mild cognitive impairment, such as dementia, generally in older patients. The question arose after a week of speculation about Trump's mental fitness for office, spurred by the publication of a damaging book that suggested Trump's own aides worry about his stability.
Trump's physician says he's in excellent health
There appears to be little difference in meaning between the two words. The debate continued to play out Tuesday as Washington was gripped with uncertainty over whether the government would shut down at midnight Friday, when temporary government funding is set to run out, in the absence of a deal on immigration and other matters.
N. Korea Cancels Orchestra Chief's Visit to Olympic Concert Venues
However, North Korea and South Korea will still discuss matters concerning next month's Pyeongchang Winter Olympics via the hotline between the two Koreas throughout the weekend, and the issue of the delegation's sudden change in schedule could be discussed, the official added.
House Passes Government Funding Bill; Senate Delays
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney slammed Democrats Friday for opposing the bill, which does not contain anything they are in opposition to. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). "That same fixation has them threatening to filibuster funding for the government". As soon as the House passed a short-term spending measure to avoid a government shutdown .it was onto the Senate, where a blame game quickly ensued.
Albemarle Breaks Below 200-Day Moving Average - Notable for ALB
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Trump Blames Democrats for Stalled Immigration Negotiations Amid Backlash for 'Shithole' Comments
The Trump administration has resumed processing DREAMer applications under DACA for those who missed an October deadline after a leftist judge in San Francisco ruled last week that Trump couldn't end the program that President Obama created with the stroke of a pen.
Exercise? I get more than people think, Trump says
Ronny Jackson said at the daily White House press briefing. One person briefed on the meeting said when Durbin got to Haiti, Trump began to ask why we want people from Haiti and more Africans in the United States and added that the United States should get more people from countries like Norway.
Government Shutdown Looms if Lawmakers Can't Agree on Spending Bill
The House of Representatives is due to vote on the spending measure on Thursday afternoon. "It is risky, it is reckless and it is wrong". "The discussions will continue". "We want to move forward, we want to get something done, we don't want to keep kicking the can down the road", Schumer said. "We do not want a shutdown", Mulvaney said.
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James Carville
James Carville is an American political commentator and media personality who is a prominent figure in the Democratic Party.
Carville gained national attention for his work as the lead strategist of the successful presidential campaign of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton.
25th October, 1944
"I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn’t willing to defend itself."
― James Carville
Topic(s): Trust
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"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way." ― Iris Murdoch
"Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it." ― Mary Wortley Montagu
"We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way." ― Ibrahim Rugova
"I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day – I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year." ― R. Lee Ermey
"It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me." ― Jodie Foster
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Engr. Oscar A. Tuason
is a Chemical Engineer who earned his bachelors’ degree from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines in 1966.Before joining Cebu Doctors’ University he has imparted his expertise in various administration and engineering positions here in the Philippines and abroad.
His experiences include Technical Research and Production Management at Philippine Refining Company in Manila (now UNILEVER), Technical Services Engineering and Packaging Management in Stroh Brewery Company in Michigan, USA and Plant Management and Vice Presidency for Engineering in Hanover Foods, Inc. in Pennsylvania, USA.
Currently, he is the Vice President for Administration in Cebu Doctors’ University as well
as the Hospital Administrator for the Cebu Doctors Group of Hospitals which includes
Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital, Mactan Doctors’ Hospital, North General Hospital,
South General Hospital, Ormoc Doctors’ Hospital and San Carlos Doctors’ Hospital. He
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Geoffrey de Costentin and family in Thirteenth Century Ireland
The Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169 and subsequent partial conquest of the country (Ireland was not fully conquered until 1607) introduced into the country many settlers from England, Wales and France. These settlements were part of an expanding European population that wanted more living space. One of these new comers was Geoffrey de Costentin who got land in modern-day County Westmeath and north County Dublin.
Early history of Geoffrey de Costentin
It would appear from early documents and later settlements that Geoffrey de Costentin came from Lincolnshire. In 1155-66 a person called Geoffrey de Costentin was a witness to a grant of Legsby church in Lincolnshire to Sixhills abbey by Robert, son of Robert de Thweng.[1] The Costentin family were owners of Bonby manor in Lincolnshire from at least the first half of the thirteenth century. Yet in 1201-2 a person called Geoffrey de Costentin was paying fines in Lancastershire, Wiltshire and in the honor of Gloucester.[2] Geoffrey de Costentin also held the manor of Thorp in Staffordshire from the Earl of Lancaster. This place later took on the name of Thorp Costentin.[3]
Land in Westmeath
Sometime before the death in 1186 of Hugh de Lacy, lord of Meath, Geoffrey de Costentin received a grant of Kilbixy in the barony of Moyguish. In 1192 Geoffrey de Costentin erected an oblong shape mote to secure this new estate. The attached bailey and town beyond have not survived the ravages of war and time.[4] Many of the sub-tenants of Anglo-Norman Ireland, like Geoffrey de Costentin, appear to have connections to their overlord in England or France.[5] Somewhere in Geoffrey’s past life before he came to Ireland must have been a connection with the de Lacy family.
Later Walter de Lacy confirmed the grant to Geoffrey de Costentin of Kilbixy with its castle and five knight’s fees along with the land of Conemake beside it with fifteen knight’s fees and the land beyond the River Inny with four knight’s fees.[6] Kilbixy became a town of importance but its location on the marches between the English and Irish sphere of influence made its future growth uncertain. In 1450 the son of MacGeoghegan plundered the English lands of Westmeath including the area around Kilbixy.[7] Thereafter it appears the town went into decline.
Ballynacargy in Kilbixy by Sarah777
Balrothery in north County Dublin
Sometime before 1200 Geoffrey de Costentin got land at Balrothery in north County Dublin. This property stayed with the Costentin family for many generations. In July 1295 Richard de Costentin paid 50s for relief on his lands of Balrothery and in Michaelmas 1297 Richard de Cotentin paid 20s towards the army services called for at Castledermot from his lands of Balrothery.[8]
Long after the life and property of Geoffrey de Costentin had faded from living memory some connections continued across the centuries. In 1641 Lady Peirse of Tristernagh was the owner of sixty acres at Newhouse in the parish of Balrothery along with twenty-four acres in Balrothery townland in the same parish.[9] Tristernagh in Westmeath was where Geoffrey de Costentin founded an Augustinian priory.
Tristernagh priory
An important feature of the lives of the early Anglo-Norman conquerors and settlers was the foundation and endowment of religious houses.[10] In about 1200 Geoffrey de Costentin founded Tristernagh priory near Kilbixy for Augustinian canons. The priory of St. Mary, as it was called, was richly endowed with lands and seven churches.[11] One of these churches was Balrothery in County Dublin. In 1181-1212 Geoffrey de Costentin gave the church of Balrothery to Tristernagh abbey by Kilbixy. From this church Tristernagh was to pay Lusk church 40s per year as Balrothery was an ancient subdivision of Lusk. Another 100s was to be paid for a ‘fit priest’ to serve at Balrothery.[12] The revenues of Balrothery were greater than these amounts so as to give Tristernagh some profit but these profits were shortly reduced.
In 1219-28 the two prebendaries at Lusk complained of not getting enough. By way of compromise Tristernagh had to pay Lusk £10 sterling per year in two payments of 100s each. If one of the prebendaries died then Tristernagh was free from paying 100s for that year.[13] Tristernagh priory continued until the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII and the abbey buildings were destroyed in 1783. In 1941 the Register of Tristernagh priory was published under the editorship of M. Clarke.[14]
Tristernagh priory by JohnArmagh
Grant of land on west side of Athlone
In November 1200 King John granted Geoffrey de Costentin a cantred of land near Athlone called the Fews of Athlone, otherwise Tirieghrachbothe, for the service of five knight’s fees. This was in exchange for the lands of Leis and Honkreuthenan wish King John desired to give to Meiler Fitz Henry.[15]
In April 1201 Geoffrey received the additional cantred of Tirmany. These grants of land across the Shannon in Connacht were possible by the English recognition of Catha Crovderg as king of Connacht in return for the surrender to the English of land round Athlone. On 2nd November 1201 Geoffrey de Costentin along with Meiler Fitz Henry and William de Burgh was commission secretly to tell the barons of Meath of the recognition of Cathal Crovderg as king. To execute these royal commands Geoffrey de Costentin was giving legal protection on his English property while he was in Ireland.[16]
In May 1205 Geoffrey de Costentin was in England and King John sent instructions to Meiler Fitz Henry to give legal protection for Geoffrey’s Irish estates. By January 1208 Geoffrey had returned to Ireland and got legal protection for his English estates.[17]
In 1210 Athlone castle was rebuilt in stone as a royal castle guarding the crossing point into Connacht and located in the cantred belonging to Geoffrey de Costentin who was entrusted with the responsibility as first constable of the new castle. He was reappointed constable in July 1215.[18] In August 1214 Geoffrey de Costentin was given another cantred of equal value to that in which Athlone castle was situated. This order was executed in July 1215 when he got Trithweth to hold by the service of four knight’s fees.[19]
In September 1215 King John granted Connacht to Richard de Burgh excluding the King’s cantred where Athlone castle was situated and the cantred given to Geoffrey de Costentin. In this grant Geoffrey was not totally free from Richard de Burgh and instead had to do homage for his cantred. In July 1229 King Henry III gave Geoffrey de Costentin 30 knight’s fees to use in his canted of Trithweth of which 10 fees could be use deep into the Irish sphere of influence.[20]
Temporary justiciar and royal responsibility
In December 1201 Geoffrey de Costentin along with Master Humphrey de Tikehull was given temporary justiciary powers in Ireland after the justiciar, Meiler Fitz Henry, was removed after not prosecuting William de Breouse.[21]
After the de Lacy rebellion Geoffrey de Costentin was entrusted with the castles of Loxhundy and Hincheleder. In July 1215 he was ordered to deliver these castles to Walter de Lacy after the latter made his peace with King John.[22]
In about 1224 Geoffrey de Costentin was a member on the jury panel holding an inquisition into the manor of Crumlin and other property around Dublin following the upheaval of the de Lacy rebellion.[23]
In April 1225 Geoffrey de Costentin was allowed to acquire £20 worth of land in Ireland as a reward for his services to the crown in that country. This was part of a reward scheme made to several people associated with Ireland. In May 1225 Geoffrey de Costentin was granted £20 a year from the Dublin Exchequer for his maintenance.[24]
In July 1229 Geoffrey de Costentin along with Geoffrey de Turville, Archdeacon of Dublin, were entrusted with the vacant see of Dublin. For this service Geoffrey got legal protection for his English estates. By October 1229 there was a new Archbishop of Dublin, Luke by name, and Geoffrey’s administration came to an end.[25]
Geoffrey de Costentin in the documents
Over the years Geoffrey de Costentin appeared as a witness in various documents. In about 1185 Geoffrey de Costentin was a witness to the grant by Prince John to Peter Pipard of the land in Uriel (Louth) which Peter’s brother, Gilbert Pipard, had conquered.[26] In about 1198 Geoffrey de Costentin was a witness to the grant by Milo le Bret of the ville of Stagory to the Hospital of St. John the Baptist outside the Newgate of Dublin.[27]
In October 1200 Geoffrey de Costentin was in Gloucester to witness the grant of land in Ireland to Thomas, abbot of Glendalough.[28] In the early thirteenth century Geoffrey de Costentin was one of the witnesses to the grant of a charter of rights by Walter de Lacy to the burgesses of Kells.[29]
In August 1220 Geoffrey de Costentin was in Oxford to witness the appointment of Geoffrey de Mariscis as the new justiciar of Ireland. But the new justiciar failed to send the profits of Ireland to England and in July 1221 was dismissed. A letter appointing Henry, Archbishop of Dublin, as the new justiciar was sent to all the magnates of Ireland including Geoffrey de Costentin.[30]
Early in the reign of Henry III Geoffrey de Costentin was a witness to the grant by Robert de Curzon of Diseworth in Leicestershire to Stephen de Sedgrave in exchange for the land of Kilculy (Kilkenny?) in Ireland which Stephen gave to Robert. Geoffrey also witnessed the confirmation grant by Stephen de Curzon, brother of Robert, in return for a rent of 2s per year.[31]
Death and successors
In 1229-30 Geoffrey de Costentin was allowed to repay a debt of 50 marks that he owed to the king by instalments of 5 marks at Michaelmas and 5 marks at Easter until the debt was paid.[32]
Sometime between 1230 and 1232 Geoffrey de Costentin died. In May 1232 the king took the homage of Geoffrey Costentin for the lands that his father held in capite in Ireland.[33] By June 1244 Geoffrey de Costentin junior was dead leaving a minor as heir. King Henry granted Richard de Dover the lands held in capite by Geoffrey in Ireland along with the lands Geoffrey held of Walter de Lacy until the age was of age.
Geoffrey de Costentin the third
Geoffrey de Costentin the third came of age in December 1252. In March 1253 Geoffrey de Costentin was given seisin of Balrothery on payment to the king of one year’s income (£33 9½d).[34]
But Geoffrey de Costentin the third didn’t live long to enjoy his inheritance. In the 37th year Henry III (1252-3) Geoffrey de Costentin died leaving his son Geoffrey as heir. The young 21 year old succeeded to various properties in Ireland. These were Balyrothery (7 carucates of land held of the king by service of one archer and worth £33 9½d), Kilbixy (worth £18 and 2,400 eels worth £6) and Kenkelly (worth nothing due to the default of the tenant, William de Dene, and Irish attacks) held of Walter de Lacy by service of 4 knights.[35] In 1252 the lands of Geoffrey de Costentin at Kenkelly in present-day County Longford, were subject to attack by the Irish. The attack resulted in a decline in the prosperity of the manor with waste and uncultivated fields becoming more common.[36]
Geoffrey de Costentin also had one knight’s fee at Dromiskyn (worth 2s per year) which was held of the Archbishop of Armagh by a rent of two pounds of wax.[37] Dromiskin was previously held by Ralph of Mutton. This Ralph was in dispute with Luke de Netterville, Archbishop of Armagh, over the ownership of the manor.[38]
Geoffrey de Costentin the fourth
Little is known about Geoffrey de Costentin the fourth. In 1263-4 Geoffrey Costentin died leaving his brother John Costentin (aged 29 years) as heir. John Costentin succeeded to the land of Bonby in Lincolnshire formerly held by Geoffrey de Costentin and to the Irish lands.[39]
John de Costentin
In 1271 John Costentin held 4 knights fees at Kenkilly in the honor of Fore from Geoffrey de Geneville.[40] This place was in waste in 1253. It is unknown if John de Costentin was able to restored its prosperity but does appear that John had ambitions to develop his Irish property. Around 1281 John de Costentin enfeoffed his brother Richard de Costentin of the manor of Bonby in exchange for certain lands in Ireland. For this Richard was to pay John a pair of gilt spurs at Easter.[41]
Sometime before 14th February 1291 John de Costentin died and was found seized at his inquisition post mortem of a capital messuage, 11 bovates of land in demesne along with free tenants holding a further 22 bovates of land in the manor of Bonby. Geoffrey Costentin, son of John, was aged 30 years plus and was heir to Bonby.[42]
Bonby church by David Wright
Geoffrey de Costentin the fifth
Little is known of Geoffrey de Costentin the fifth. In February 1291 Geoffrey de Costentin was fined a half mark because he failed to appear at the Dublin county court.[43] Sometime in the next two or three years Geoffrey de Costentin died without no direct heirs and was succeeded in his Irish property by his cousin (uncle), Richard de Costentin. His inquisition post mortem for Balrothery was taken in 1294-5.[44]
Richard de Costentin
In October 1293 Richard de Costentin was given legal protection in England as he travelled to Ireland with Adam de Botyndon.[45] In December 1299 Richard de Costentin was given further legal protection in England and Ireland through his attorney Thomas Tracy. This allowed Richard de Costentin to make homage to King Edward for the lands in Ireland held by Geoffrey de Costentin, his deceased cousin, as Geoffrey’s heir.[46] These lands were taken into the king’s hands because Richard failed to do homage for same in a reasonable time. In December 1299 John Wogan was instructed to restore the lands to Richard Costentin.[47]
Over the succeeding years Richard de Costentin appointed many attorneys to administrate his Irish lands. In February 1301 Reginald de Dene and John de Altaribus were appointed Irish attorneys for Richard de Costentin as he returned to England.[48] It appears that Richard soon fell out with Reginald over money. A note in February 1301 said that Reginald de Dene acknowledged that he owed Richard Costentin the sum of 500 marks and that Richard could enter Reginald’s lands in Ireland if he defaulted.[49]
In February 1302 Richard remained in England and appointed Robert Crispin and Geoffrey de Stretton as his Irish attorneys. In 1303 Richard’s Irish attorneys were Walter de Hereford and John Fitz Stephen. In 1305 his Irish attorneys for the following two years were William de Whethelesburgh and Hugh de Foalmethely.[50] Clearly Richard had trouble retaining constant Irish attorneys or he was just a hard task master.
It seems from the records that Richard Costentin often went to Ireland on extended visits. In 1303 he was living in Ireland when he asked for a writ that Sir Richard de Exeter, chief justice of the Dublin Bench, would receive his English attorneys for three years. Richard Costentin was too ill at the time to go in person to the Dublin Bench.[51]
By 1318 Richard de Costentin still retained some property interest in Ireland as in that year he held the manor of Ballyfermot, Co. Dublin, of Robert de Clahull.[52] But his was dead by September 1318. Before that Richard de Costentin and Matilda his wife made an enfeoffment of Bonby to John de Hothum, Bishop of Ely. In September 1318 the Bishop made a grant to Matilda (then a widow) of 10 marks yearly in return for her grant to the Bishop of her dower lands at Bonby.[53] By December 1318 John de Hothum, Bishop of Ely, held Bonby and did homage for same to the king.[54] This John de Hothum was an important figure in early fourteenth century Ireland.[55]
Geoffrey de Costentin the sixth
Although the Costentin family had left Bonby some members of the family still retained property in Ireland. In 1323-4 Geoffrey de Costentin paid £1 for a half service for Balrothery in the army service of Tylagh issued by John de Arcy.[56] It is not clear if this Geoffrey de Costentin the sixth was a son of Richard de Costentin or some other relationship. Clearly he was some relation to Richard as Balrothery was an ancient property of the family since the days of King Richard.
After Geoffrey de Costentin the sixth the family appears to have died out or certainty disappeared from the surviving records. There was a person called Adam de Costentin living in County Kerry in 1295 but it is unknown if he was any relation.[57] Thus after near 150 years, another Anglo-Norman family disappears into the mists of an Irish day.
Although the connections between their property in Westmeath and Dublin continued up until 1641 and the priory ruins of Tristernagh stood until the late eighteenth century little now remains except the records. By 1324 the Irish were well on their way to recovery large parts of Ireland from the English. Thus the arrival of Geoffrey de Costentin in Ireland in the reign of Henry II and the demised of the family in the reign of Edward II covers the rise and the beginning of the fall of Anglo-Norman Ireland.
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[1] Farrer, W., and Clay, C.T. (eds.), Early Yorkshire Charters: Volume 11, The Percy Fee (Cambridge, 2013), 206
[2] Anon, Rotulus Cancellarii, Vel Antigraphum Magni Rotuli Pipæ, de Tertio Anno Regni Regus Johannis (London, 1833), pp. 56, 120 234
[3] http://www.british-history.ac.uk/staffs-hist-collection/vol5/pt1/pp105-109 accessed on 4th May 2017
[4] Orpen, G.H., Ireland under the Normans (Dublin, 2005), volume II, p. 88
[5] Frame, R., Colonial Ireland, 1169-1369 (Dublin, 1981), p. 76
[6] Orpen, Ireland under the Normans, volume II, p. 88, note 53
[7] Sheehan, J., Westmeath: as others saw us (Moate, 1982), pp. 16, 200
[8] Sweetman, H.S. (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland (5 vols. Liechtenstein, 1974), volume 4, 1293-1301, p. 138, no. 442
[9] Simington, R.C. (ed.), The Civil Survey A.D. 1654-1656 Vol. VII County of Dublin (Dublin, 1945), pp. 14, 15
[10] Otway-Ruthven, A.J., A history of Medieval Ireland (London, 1980), p. 121
[11] Gwynn, A., and Hadcock, R.N., Medieval Religious Houses Ireland (Blackrock, 1988), p. 196; Brooks, E. St. John, Knights’ fees in Counties Wexford, Carlow and Kilkenny, 13th-15th Century (Dublin, 1950), p. 199n
[12] McNeill, C. (ed.), Calendar of Archbishop Alen’s Register, c.1172-1534 (Dublin, 1950), p. 33
[13] McNeill (ed.), Calendar of Archbishop Alen’s Register, c.1172-1534, p. 59
[14] Gwynn and Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses Ireland, pp. 196, 197
[15] Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, volume 1, 1171-1251, no. 137; Otway-Ruthven, A history of Medieval Ireland, p. 75
[16] Orpen, Ireland under the Normans, volume II, pp. 189, 190; Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, volume 1, 1171-1251, nos. 137, 153, 157, 158; Otway-Ruthven, A history of Medieval Ireland, p. 76
[17] Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, volume 1, 1171-1251, nos. 261, 390
[18] Orpen, Ireland under the Normans, volume II, p. 284; Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, volume 1, 1171-1251, no. 615
[19] Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, volume 1, 1171-1251, nos. 508, 580; Warren, W.L., ‘King John and Ireland’, in Lydon, J. (ed.), England and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages (Dublin, 1981), pp.26-42, at p. 30
[20] Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, volume 1, 1171-1251, nos. 653, 1719
[21] Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, volume 1, 1171-1251, no. 160
[23] Nicholls, K.W., ‘Inquisitions of 1224 from the Miscellanea of the Exchequer’, in Analecta Hibernica, no. 27 (1972), pp. 103-112, at p. 107
[24] Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, volume 1, 1171-1251, nos. 1272, 1295
[25] Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, volume 1, 1171-1251, nos. 1717, 1722, 1723, 1745
[26] Curtis, E. (ed.), Calendar of Ormond deeds, volume one, 1172-1350 (Dublin, 1932), no. 863
[27] Brooks, E. St. John (ed.), Register of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist without the New Gate, Dublin (Dublin, 1936), no. 290
[29] https://chancery.tcd.ie/document/patent/11-richard-ii/2 accessed on 4th May 2017
[31] Wells-Furby, B. (ed.), A catalogue of the medieval muniments at Berkeley Castle, Volume two (Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2004), pp. 749, 750, 821
[32] Dryburgh, P., and Hartland, B. (eds.), Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the reign of Henry III, Volume II, 1224-1234 (London, 2008), no. 14/255
[33] Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, vol. 1, 1171-1251, no. 1942
[34] Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, vol. 1, 1171-1251, no. 2682; Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, vol. 2, 1252-1284, nos. 146, 158
[35] Sharp, J.E.E.S. (ed.), Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem (Liechtenstein, 1973), vol. 1, no. 277; Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, volume 2, 1252-1284, no. 146
[36] Down, K., ‘Colonial society and economy’, in Cosgrove, A. (ed.), A new history of Ireland, volume II: medieval Ireland, 1169-1534 (Oxford, 2008), pp. 437-491, at p. 448
[37] Sharp (ed.), Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 1, no. 277; Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, volume 2, 1252-1284, no. 146
[38] Hagger, M. The Fortunes of a Norman Family: The de Verduns in England, Ireland and Wales, 1066-1316 (Dublin, 2001), p.201
[39] Sharp (ed.), Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 1, no. 574
[40] Mills, J., and McEnery, M.J. (eds.), Calendar of the Gormanston Register (Dublin, 1916), p. 11
[41] Sharp, J.E.E.S. (ed.), Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem preserved in the Public Record Office (14 vols. Kraus-Thomson, reprint, 1973), vol. 2, no. 750
[43] Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, volume 3, 1285-1292, p. 384
[44] Hogan, J., ‘Miscellanea of the Chancery, London’, in Analecta Hibernica, 1 (1930), pp. 179-218, at p. 205
[47] Calendar Close Rolls, Edward 1, 1296-1302, p. 328
[50] Sweetman (ed.), Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, volume 5, 1302-1307, no. 26, 277, 278
[51] Connolly, P., ‘Irish material in the class of ancient petitions (sc8) in the Public Records Office, London’, in Analecta Hibernica, no. 34 (1987), pp. 1-106, at p. 82
[52] Brooks, Knights’ fees in Counties Wexford, Carlow and Kilkenny, 13th-15th Century, p. 59n
[53] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II, 1318-1323, p. 11
[55] Phillips, J.R.S., ‘The Mission of John de Hothum to Ireland, 1315-1316’, in Lydon, J. (ed.), England and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages (Dublin, 1981), pp.62-85; Curtis, E. (ed.), Calendar of Ormond deeds, volume one, 1172-1350 (Dublin, 1932), no. 677
[56] Forty Second Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Office, Ireland (Dublin, 1911), p. 53
[57] Mills, J. (ed.), Calendar of the Justiciary Rolls Ireland XXIII to XXXI Edward 1 (Dublin, 1905), p. 47
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UK Chart Roundup: All The Single Covers For PSY's "Gangnam Style" Are Fucking Creepy
PSY's "Gangnam Style" — aka this generation's "Macarena" — has inevitably topped the UK chart (it's currently #2 in the US), after already hitting #1 in countries like Australia, Canada, Finland, Norway and South Korea (duh!).
I just love how it's like the old days, when a single like this would have 4,028 different versions of the cover art.
And with every single one, PSY looks completely ridiculous and actually kind of menacing. Like, "I'm going to hop on my imaginary horse and bounce my tubby ass over to your house and give your children The Inappropriate Tickle" creepy.
This one is my favorite. It's Mermaid PSY, and, yeah — you can expect him to blow bubbles down your shorts in your nightmares while shoving the handle of the toilet scrubber up your can, starlet.
Heeeeeeeeeeeey, sexy lady!
The UK Top 10:
1. "Gangnam Style" - PSY *1 week*
2. "Hall Of Fame" - The Script feat. will.i.am
3. "I Cry" - Flo Rida
4. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" - Taylor Swift
5. "Let Me Love You" - Ne-Yo
6. "Say Nothing" - Example
7. "Some Nights" - fun.
8. "She Wolf (Falling To Pieces)" - David Guetta feat. Sia
9. "Turn Around" - Conor Maynard feat. Ne-Yo
10. "You Bring Me Joy" - Amelia Lily
Labels: PSY, U.K. chart
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Christina Aguilera's "Your Body" Video: Her Most Artistic Triumph To Date
Two years ago I had to spank Christina Aguilera when she released Bionic by giving her some sage career advice, and I'm glad she took it to heart and got back to basics — i.e. being a trailer park skank who looks like Barney (yes, that Barney) blew his load all through her rat wig while she was affixing her press-on nails with Elmer's Glue in the dumpster behind her trailer park.
"Your Body" is her classiest video to date, with some truly artistic shots that underscore just what a glamourous icon Aguilera has become over the years.
What Christina does here is not just ascend to the ranks of visionaries who came before her like Michael Jackson, Salvador Dali, I. M. Pei and Hoku — rather, she truly creates images that capture our minds in the culture we live in now, and will inspire generations that traverse this world long after we're gone.
Flawlesstina, take it away!
Labels: Christina Aguilera
US Chart Roundup: Christina Aguilera Returns From The Pop Hooker Graveyard
K-Pop fans hoping PSY's crossover smash "Gangnam Style" would fly to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week will be disappointed to see the song land in the runner-up position. I'm just annoyed that Maroon 5 are still at the top with their tuneless attempt at reggae, "One More Night."
A far better Max Martin/Shellback co-production is Christina Aguilera's "Your Body," which crashes into the chart at #34. This marks the curvy Voice ho's first Top 40 solo hit since "Not Myself Tonight" kicked off the disastrous Bionic campaign two years ago and peaked at #23. Of course, last year she made her way to #1 by chirping for about 14 seconds on Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger."
Next up we have Pink, whose second The Truth About Love single "Try" debuts at #56 while her current hit "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" is still soaring at #5. And speaking of the pink-wigged faux lezzer's latest album, it becomes her first to hit #1 on the Top 200 after moving 280,000 copies last week — the third-largest opening for an album in 2012 so far.
God bless vagina.
The U.S. Top 10:
1. "One More Night" - Maroon 5 *2 weeks*
2. "Gangnam Style" - PSY
5. "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" - Pink
6. "Whistle" - Flo Rida
7. "As Long As You Love Me" - Justin Bieber
8. "Good Time" - Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen
9. "Too Close" - Alex Clare
10. "Lights" - Ellie Goulding
Labels: Christina Aguilera, Maroon 5, Max Martin, Pink, PSY, Shellback, U.S. chart
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Steps To Release 'Light Up The World' Holiday Album In November
Christ, just what I need — for my dormant Steps obsession to be resuscitated once again, a la when that trash reality show first aired last fall. Turns out the UK pop act will release a Christmas album called Light Up The World on November 12, preceded by a same-titled single . The band will also play six live dates throughout the UK in late November and early December.
For those keeping track (i.e. me and two or three thirtysomething broads in the English countryside), this will mark Steps' first new material since 2000's Buzz.
Labels: Steps, U.K. chart
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Pet Shop Boys' "Leaving" Release To Come Packed With Several Goodies
Pet Shop Boys' second Elysium single "Leaving" gets its official UK release on October 15, and will arrive in several formats: three digital bundles, two CD singles and 12" vinyl.
What's interesting is that, in additional to the usual round of remixes, we'll get two new B-sides — "Hell" and "In His Imagination" — as well as the original demos for "Leaving" and the song "Baby," which was written for and recorded by Alcazar back in 2009.
Ah, "Baby" — such a hot tune. But, Jesus, where the fuck did the last three years go?
Labels: Alcazar, Pet Shop Boys
It's Rihanna's New Single "Diamonds"
Thank god Rihanna has chucked the generic dance thump of many of her previous singles (though I still dig "We Found Love") and switched up the sound for her lead offering from her 723rd album, which is due out this November.
Sia wrote "Diamonds" (it was produced by Stargate and Benny Blanco), and the lyrics therefore display a bit more maturity — and far less of a sexual overtone — than RiRi's more recent offerings. The mid-tempo beat reminds me of slower '70s disco like "Love To Love You Baby" for some reason.
Anyway, really loving this track. Nice switch-up for Rihanna. Don't fuck it up with the album like you did with that grating pile of cack Talk That Talk, though, hooker.
Labels: Rihanna, Sia
It's Ke$ha's "Die Young" Single: Listen
Soul icon Ke$ha's new single "Die Young" surfaced online this evening, and I have to say that, musically, it's a totally catchy synth-pop jam — albeit one that sounds not unlike Flo Rida's "Good Feeling"/Avicii's "Levels".
But as for the vocals, K-hole comes off sounding like she hasn't progressed an inch since the release of her debut smash "Tik Tok" three years ago. The verses are delivered with her signature talk-rap-singing, and unfortunately, she ain't really saying all that much new.
Ultimately, what saves "Die Young" are those synths. But other than that, it doesn't have me looking forward to Ke$ha's upcoming LP Warrior all that much. You?
Labels: Ke$ha, Kesha
UK Chart Roundup: The Script — More Like The Snooze
Can you believe we're living in such lobotomized times where The Script and will.i.am are having hits?
1. "Hall Of Fame" - The Script feat. will.i.am *2 weeks*
2. "Say Nothing" - Example *new*
7. "Wings" - Little Mix
8. "You Bring Me Joy" - Amelia Lily
10. "Good Time" - Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen
Labels: The Script, U.K. chart
One Direction Get Shirtless In "Live While We're Young" Video
Here's One Direction's video for "Live While We're Young," the first single off their upcoming sophomore album Take Me Home. Enjoy the boy banders as they sing about "getting some tonight," pile on top of each other, wave a giant banana in the air and get shirtless in a kiddy pool.
Labels: One Direction
Pet Shop Boys, 'Elysium': My Full Review
You may have caught my small writeup of Pet Shop Boys' new album Elysium in Instinct this month, but I finally got around to doing up a full review, which you can read over at Idolator.
Kylie Minogue Did Pink's "Try" Cover Art Better Five Years Ago
Above: Pink, 2012. Below: Kylie, 2007.
Labels: Kylie Minogue, Pink
Ke$ha's New Album 'Warrior' Out December 4
Look what Santa's going to be vomiting up this December, chyldryn!
1. Warrior
2. Die Young
3. C’Mon
4. Thinking Of You
5. Crazy Kids
6. Wherever You Are
7. Dirty Love
8. Wonderland
9. Only Wanna Dance With You
10. Supernatural
11. Beautiful Life
12. Love Into The Light
13. Last Goodbye
14. Gold Trans Am
15. Out Alive
16. Past Lives
Labels: Ke$ha
US Chart Roundup: Maroon 5's Worst Single Ever Is #1
One Max Martin and Shellback co-production replaces another atop the Billboard Hot 100 as Maroon 5's "One More Night" bumps Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" down from #1. And I have to say, it's probably one of the worst, blandest and most utterly shit songs to top the chart in recent memory. Then again, "Whistle" was pretty bad too.
This is Maroon 5's third #1 single, following "Makes Me Wonder" in 2007 and "Moves Like Jagger" last year. Clearly the pattern here is three-word titles with one of the words starting with the letter M. Fascinating.
Switching gears to the Top 200 album chart, Pet Shop Boys' Elysium debuts at #44. It's the duo's eighth of their 11 studio albums to place in the Top 50 in the US:
1. Please (#7, 1986)
2. Actually (#25, 1987)
3. Introspective (#34, 1988)
4. Behaviour (#45, 1990)
5. Very (#20, 1993)
6. Bilingual (#39, 1996)
7. Yes (#32, 2009)
8. Elysium (#44, 2012)
Their more floptastic streak in the US was with these albums:
1. Nightlife (#84, 1999)
2. Release (#73, 2002)
3. Fundamental (#150, 2006)
In the UK, Pet Shop Boys' 11 studio albums have all peaked in the Top 10.
1. "One More Night" - Maroon 5 *1 week*
7. "Lights" - Ellie Goulding
10. "Everybody Talks" - Neon Trees
Labels: Maroon 5, Pet Shop Boys, U.S. chart
It's Calvin Harris' '18 Months' Album Cover
Considering that Calvin Harris has been releasing high-charting singles from his upcoming third album 18 months since about March of 1946, it's going to play like a greatest hits by the time it arrives on October 30.
Included are the following previously-released tracks: "We Found Love" (with Rihanna), "Bounce" (with Kelis), "We'll Be Coming Back" (with Example), "Let's Go" (with Ne-Yo), "Awooga" and "Feel So Close."
Other broads featured are Florence Welch ("Sweet Nothing"), Ellie Goulding ("I Need Your Love") and Tinie Tempah ("Drinking From The Bottle").
Labels: Calvin Harris
UK Chart Roundup: Pet Shop Boys Land 14th Top 10 Album With 'Elysium'
Pet Shop Boys' Elysium has entered the UK album chart at #9, and thus becomes their 11th consecutive Top 10-charting studio album. As Elysium is, in fact, their 11th studio album, that means all of them have placed in the Top 10. Additionally, the duo also hit the Top 10 with their 1991 greatest hits compilation Discography, 1994 remix album Disco 2 and 1995 B-sides collection Alternative.
That said, Elysium is Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe's lowest-charting Top 10 album to-date. The breakdown is as follows:
* Please (#3, 1986)
* Actually (#2, 1987)
* Introspective (#2, 1988)
* Behaviour (#2, 1990)
* Discography (#3, 1991)
* Very (#1, 1993)
* Disco 2 (#6, 1994)
* Alternative (#2, 1995)
* Bilingual (#4, 1996)
* Nightlife (#7, 1999)
* Release (#7, 2002)
* Fundamental (#5, 2006)
* Yes (#4, 2009)
* Elysium (#9, 2012)
If we want to get even more technical, Liza Minnelli's 1989 album Results — which was not a Pet Shop Boys album, but was produced by the duo — peaked at #6 in the UK.
At any rate, above is a photo of my double-album vinyl copy of Elysium, which arrived in the mail this week. I spent the entire week driving around L.A. playing the LP in my car, and even zipped past Andrew Dawson's Soundeq studio, which is located on Sunset Blvd. in the Crossroads Of The World complex in Hollywood.
1. "Hall Of Fame" - The Script feat. will.i.am *1 week*
2. "You Bring Me Joy" - Amelia Lily *new*
9. "Bom Bom" - Sam & The Womp
10. "Some Nights" - fun.
Labels: Pet Shop Boys, U.K. chart
Christina Aguilera's "Your Body" Doesn't Suck
I'm glad Christina Aguilera learned a bit of humility over the past four years, came down off her high horse and realized people were bouncing fucks left and right from their account of caring about her retro smoky lady soul/late-in-the-game forays into electro pastiche. Because it's about time she got into the studio with Max Martin.
Personally, I became pretty much maxed out on Martin's sound once he starting doing watered-down, paycheck-whore productions for the likes of Usher and Maroon 5. But the 41-year-old producer and 31-year-old have truly created something memorable — at least in the context of Aguilera's discography — with "Your Body."
This is just straight up disco. It's brainless pop that's somehow smart and sexy — something Xtina lost sight of around the time of the try-hard "Dirrty." That said, I still love "Not Myself Tonight," off her massive flop Bionic LP from two years ago, but I think my standom for that trash was the kiss of death.
The best bit in "Your Body," aside from, obviously, the woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohs, is when the song seems to be concluding about three minutes in, then erupts again with the hooker yowls and electronic beats and trudges on for another 40 seconds.
"Your Body" is on iTunes next week, and will be the first single from Xtina's new album Lotus (out November 13).
Labels: Christina Aguilera, Max Martin
US Chart Roundup: Where Have I Been?
Sorry for the lack of updates here lately. I'm traveling this week and I've just been inundated with trash. Sexiness will resume tomorrow.
1. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" - Taylor Swift *3 weeks*
2. "One More Night" - Maroon 5
8. "Everybody Talks" - Neon Trees
10. "Too Close" - Alex Clare
Labels: Taylor Swift, U.S. chart
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Pet Shop Boys' 'Elysium' Out Today: Watch Their Olympics Parade Performance
Pet Shop Boys' new album Elysium is out today in the US. Here's a bit of a catch-up on their activities lately:
The Chris Lowe version of the "Leaving" single art. (Catch the Neil Tennant cover here.) I may actually have to go old-school and buy the physical CD singles for this class.
The duo performing outside Buckingham Palace yesterday during a victory parade for Great Britain's Olympics and Paralympics athletes:
PSB concert in Berlin from last week, which was streamed live on YouTube. They performed a bulk of the tracks off Elysium, as well as their cover of the Bee Gees' "I Started A Joke" and the Andrew Dawson Extended HappySad Remix of "Winner".
Labels: Pet Shop Boys
UK Chart Roundup: ...Because Clearly The World Needed More Ne-Yo In It
Mediocrity triumphs again!
1. "Let Me Love You" - Ne-Yo *new* *1 week*
2. "Hall Of Fame" - The Script feat. will.i.am *new*
3. "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" - Pink *new*
7. "Harder Than You Think" - Public Enemy
9. "How We Do (Party)" - Rita Ora
Labels: Ne-Yo, U.K. chart
US Chart Roundup: Flo Rida Blown Back To #1
A fairly ho-hum week on the Hot 100, as Flo Rida's oral sex hit "Whistle" flip-flops with Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and returns to #1. Meanwhile, Neon Trees' "Everybody Talks" (#6) becomes the band's first Top 10 hit, and Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen's "Good Time" crawls up one position to #8.
Outside of the Top 10, Alex Clare's "Too Close" and Demi Lovato's "Give Your Heart A Break" climb to new highs of #15 and #16, respectively.
And that, as they say, is that.
1. "Whistle" - Flo Rida *2 weeks*
7. "Wide Awake" - Katy Perry
10. "Call Me Maybe" - Carly Rae Jepsen
Labels: Alex Clare, Carly Rae Jepsen, Demi Lovato, Flo Rida, Neon Trees, Owl City, Taylor Swift, U.S. chart
Pet Shop Boys Live Streaming Concert In Berlin: Watch
This is happening right now in Berlin — Pet Shop Boys performing songs from new album Elysium in Berlin. The concert is being streamed globally.
Songs performed so far include "A Face Like That," "Leaving" and "Invisible."
Kylie Minogue To Release 'The Abbey Road Sessions' In October
Those orchestral versions of her past songs Kylie Minogue performed late last year at Abbey Road will finally get a proper release on October 29, via new album The Abbey Road Sessions. (Better late than never, eh?) According to Kylie's official site, there will be 16 tracks, including the following:
ALL THE LOVERS
BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
HAND ON YOUR HEART
COME INTO MY WORLD
FINER FEELINGS
THE LOCOMOTION
WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW
Labels: Kylie Minogue
Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Kiss' Sounds Like A Summer Album: Listen To Preview Clips
Carly Rae Jepsen's debut American album Kiss sounds like it should be released in the spring or summer, and, okay — technically September 18, when it will be out, is still summer. Still, the preview clips below indicate that this will be quite the pop blowout.
So far opening track "Tiny Little Bows", "Turn Me Up" and "Hurt So Good" appear to be standouts, while the Max Martin one, "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" seems like a surprising snooze. Still, these are only clips, so time will tell.
1. Tiny Little Bows
2. This Kiss
3. Call Me Maybe
4. Curiosity
5. Good Time (with Owl City)
6. More Than A Memory
7. Turn Me Up
8. Hurt So Good
9. Beautiful (with Justin Bieber)
10. Tonight I'm Getting Over You
11. Guitar String/Wedding Ring
12. Heart Is A Muscle
13. Drive (bonus track)
14. Wrong So Right (bonus track)
15. Sweetie (bonus track)
16. Almost Said It (bonus track)
Labels: Carly Rae Jepsen
UK Chart Roundup: Little Mix Land Second #1 Single
Just when you thought there wasn't enough slut paste in the world.
1. "Wings" - Little Mix *new* *1 week*
6. "Heatwave" - Wiley feat. Rymez & Ms D
7. "Spectrum (Calvin Harris Remix)" - Florence + The Machine
9. "Read All About It Pt. 3" - Emeli Sande
10. "Lost In Your Love" - Redlight
Labels: Little Mix, U.K. chart
Pet Shop Boys' 'Bilingual' At 16: Hit And Miss
Many Pet Shop Boys albums have been released in the fall, and several of them have arrived in September, including Actually, Very, Bilingual and the duo's upcoming LP Elysium. Today actually marks the 16-year anniversary of their sixth studio album Bilingual, which was released in the UK on September 2, 1996 (and in the US a day later).
Bilingual was an album I personally struggled to enjoy when it came out, though I did try for a good year or so. Very — which I've talked about at length before — arrived when I was still an impressionable teenager, a year away from going off to university. It was bright and exciting. Bilingual was darker and, in typical fashion, the PSBs had veered off in a completely different direction, musically. I was now starting my final year of college and, I think, feeling a bit divided over where I belonged — I felt exhausted after 17 years of education and eager to see it end; but I was also unsure of what the "real world" would be like.
Anyway, there was a record store on my university's campus called Vibes, and I stood in line at midnight to buy Bilingual. I stayed up till about 2 a.m. playing it in my room — a single, as it were — in my residence hall. Overall, I think I was hoping the album was going to be Very 2. Which, of course, it wasn't.
Oh, well — "A Red Letter Day" and "Up Against It" were, at least, instant classics to my ears, and I later grew to really enjoy tracks like "The Survivors", "It Always Comes As A Surprise" and "To Step Aside." And now, 16 years later, I think I've even found some appreciation — some — for lead single "Before."
It's Pet Shop Boys' "Leaving" Lyric Video
As mentioned, "Leaving" is the second single from Pet Shop Boys' upcoming album Elysium. And now there's a lyric video to go along with the song, which features a sun slowly setting — quite fitting given that the tune is about death.
By the way, check out the duo's new interview with The Arts Desk. This commentary alone is priceless:
NT: I looked at the chart the other day and I realised that since the last album, only three years ago, we’ve entered this strange world of somebody or other featuring somebody or other. Every other track is Calvin Harris featuring Nikki Minaj or with Snoop Doggy Dogg or someone.
CL: Or featuring three. David Guetta doesn’t just have one or two.
NT: Well, why would you? And I suddenly thought we are not in that world.
CL: Why not throw Jessie J in there?
NT: Why not throw in Jessie J, why wouldn’t you?
CL: Is it to get each other’s Facebook friends? I bet that’s what it is. You could accumulate everyone else's friend list.
NT: We’re not on Facebook. We think it’s sinister and horrible. Pet Shop Boys are but we’re not.
CL: It’s great watching their share price tumble, isn’t it? I have really been enjoying the schadenfreude.
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NORTH AMERICA: 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' Passes $90M Mark on Tuesday
By Daniel Garris
Fox's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes took in $9.62 million on Tuesday to lead the daily box office for a fifth consecutive day. In the process, the critically acclaimed 3D sci-fi action sequel surpassed the $90 million mark yesterday. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was up a very solid 17 percent over Monday. However, it should also be noted that represented one of the day's softer percentage increases among wide releases, as daily holds were especially strong on Tuesday. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes continues to run a bit ahead of its lofty expectations with a five-day take of $90.45 million. That places the film an impressive 33 percent ahead of the $68.13 million five-day start of 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Transformers: Age of Extinction held steady in second with $2.59 million. The fourth installment of Paramount's blockbuster sci-fi action franchise increased 29 percent over Monday and was down 50 percent from last Tuesday. Transformers: Age of Extinction has grossed $213.44 million in 19 days, which places the film a significant 29.5 percent behind the $302.88 million 19-day take of 2011's Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Warner's Tammy took in $2.12 million to remain in third. The Melissa McCarthy comedy vehicle was up a healthy 33 percent over Monday and down 37 percent from last Tuesday. Tammy surpassed the $60 million mark yesterday and has grossed a very solid $60.71 million through two weeks of release (especially with its modest price tag in mind).
Family films How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Earth to Echo both experienced very strong daily percentage increases on Tuesday. Fox's How to Train Your Dragon 2 was up 48 percent over Monday to remain in fourth with $1.50 million, while Relativity's Earth to Echo was up one spot and 44 percent to place in fifth with $1.33 million. Respective total grosses stand at $154.79 million in 33 days for How to Train Your Dragon 2 and at $26.83 million in two weeks for Earth to Echo.
Sony's 22 Jump Street was down one spot, but also up 27 percent from Monday to land in sixth with $1.27 million. The successful action comedy sequel has grossed $174.03 million through 33 days of release.
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NORTH AMERICA: Weekend Estimates: 'The Boss' ($23.48M) & 'Batman v Superman' ($23.44M) in Tight Race for First Place; 'Hardcore Henry' ($5.10M) Arrives Softly
NORTH AMERICA: Platform Watch: 'Everybody Wants Some!!' ($510K) & 'Miles Ahead' ($227K) Have Solid Expansions
NORTH AMERICA: Early Weekend Estimates: 'The Boss' ($23M) Looks to Dethrone 'Batman v Superman' ($21.3M); 'Zootopia' Adds $12.2M; 'Hardcore Henry' Guns Down $5.2M Bow
NORTH AMERICA: 'Batman v Superman' Totals $273.3M in Two Weeks After Leading Thursday with $2.72M; 'Zootopia' Remains in Second with $1.58M
Trailer: Disney & Lucasfilm Release First 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' Teaser
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4 Mowat, Min-Jee 7 0 5 5 0 0 0
12 Luk, Jason 3 3 1 4 2 0 0
36 Sze, Matt 10 3 0 3 12 0 0
18 Lawrence, Shawn 3 2 1 3 0 0 0
16 Yip, Gord 7 2 1 3 2 0 0
19 Tsang, Geoff 7 0 3 3 0 0 0
2 Burwell, Marcus 6 1 1 2 4 0 0
13 Jahqhys, Florian 3 1 1 2 0 0 0
58 Kung, Camillus 9 1 1 2 4 0 0
75 Chan, Brandon 8 0 2 2 2 0 0
27 Cheung, Stanley 10 1 0 1 0 0 0
17 Nacar, Jeff 1 1 0 1 0 1 0
6 Wu, Alex 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
33 Yao, Bernie 3 1 0 1 0 0 0
69 Nguyen-Spears, Ernie 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
69 Tong, Avery 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
0 Witheridge, Tim 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
61 Yu, Nicholas 2 0 1 1 0 0 0
69 Law, Justin 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
72 Leung, Andrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
25 Miller, Scott 6 0 0 0 4 0 0
21 So, Nicholas 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 White, Richard 3 0 0 0 2 0 0
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0 Yao, Bernie 4 3 1 0 10 2.5 5
35 Tsang, Andrew 10 3 7 0 56 6.109 0
33 Hsieh, Kevin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
33 Jung, Ryan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
31 Kuang, Deric 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
69 Kwok, Mike 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
69 Li, Wilson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 McCallister, Carlos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 T, Owen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 Tung, Kevin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
* GAA is calculated according to the following formula:
GAA = (Total Goals Allowed) x (Minutes Per Game) / (Total Minutes Played)
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NULR Of Note
Northwestern University Law Review Online
An Analysis of Catalonia’s Independence Movement
November 17, 2017 Peter Candel
Photo by David Tubau, CC BY-NC 2.0 License.
Catalonia is one of Spain’s wealthiest and most important regions, accounting for 16% and 19% of Spain’s population and economy, respectively. However, Catalonia has its own language and distinct culture, which is one of the many reasons the region has pushed for independence. Although it’s a popular topic in recent news, the independence movement is nothing new. During Francisco Franco’s dictatorship (1939–75), Catalan culture and autonomy was violently suppressed. It was not until democracy returned with the adoption of the Spanish Constitution in 1978 that Catalonia regained its status as an autonomous region. This autonomy was enhanced with the 2006 “Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia,” which stymied the independence movement. However, two events re-energized the movement. First, Spain’s Constitutional Court, which has the ultimate power in determining the constitutionality of government action and legislation, struck down and modified certain provisions of the 2006 statute, generally reducing Catalonia’s autonomy and specifically eliminating any legal significance of the word “nation” therein. Second, the financial crisis led to poor economic conditions that increased the Catalans’ frustration with contributing more in taxes than they receive in government aid.
The referendum from this past month is not unprecedented, as a similar referendum was held in November 2014, in defiance of Spain’s Constitutional Court and Parliament. The referendum had a 42% turnout, with 81% voting for independence. However, Catalonia’s bid for secession was struck down as unconstitutional in December 2015. Nonetheless, the movement was reinvigorated when staunch separatist Carles Puigdemont was elected to head the regional government in January 2016. In September 2017, as a result of Puigdemont’s efforts, the Catalan government called for a referendum to be held on October 1st, with a declaration of independence to follow if the referendum favored secession. Despite the Constitutional Court already ruling this referendum illegal on September 7th, the referendum was held, with a 38% turnout rate and 90% of the votes favoring independence. Thereafter, Catalonia issued an official declaration of independence on October 27th and the central government immediately ousted the Catalan government officials and imposed direct-rule after invoking Section 155 of Spain’s Constitution, for the first time ever. The Constitutional Court ruled the declaration illegal on November 8th.
Why was the referendum ruled illegal? The answer is that it expressly violated Spain’s Constitution. Section 92 permits consultative referendums, submitted to all citizens, on “[p]olitical decisions of special importance.” The referendum must be “called by the King on the President of the Government’s proposal after previous authorization by the Congress.” The Catalonia referendum was therefore unconstitutional because: (a) it was not submitted to all Spanish citizens, (b) it had a binding rather than consultative effect, by mandating a declaration of independence to follow if a majority favored independence, and (c) it did not follow the procedural requirements. Further, Section 149 grants Spain the “exclusive competence over. . . . [a]uthorization of popular consultations through the holding of referendums.” The Catalan government therefore exceeded its authority in passing legislation by referendum, in violation of Section 149.
Based on the unconstitutionality of the Catalan government’s actions, the “Code of Good Practice on Referendums,” adopted by the Council for Democratic Elections and Venice Commission in 2006, does not support the validity of the referendum. Pursuant to Part III, Section 1, “[t]he use of referendums must comply with the legal system as a whole, and especially the procedural rules.” As noted above, the Catalonia referendum expressly violates Spain’s Constitution and the procedural rules it requires for referenda. Further, Spain’s Constitution expressly precludes binding effects of a referendum. Thus, the binding effect of the Catalonia referendum violates the Code’s Part III, Section 8, which states that ““[t]he effects of legally binding or consultative referendums must be clearly specified in the Constitution or by law,” as the effect was not specified, and in fact was precluded. Lastly, Part II, Section 2 states “[t]he fundamental aspects of referendum law should not be open to amendment less than one year before a referendum.” For a referendum like Catalonia’s to be held, not only would Spain’s Constitution need to be amended, but the referendum would have to wait at least a year, which was not the case here.
Therefore, the Catalonia referendum goes against Spain’s Constitution and the Code of Good Practice on Referendums. If the mechanism behind the declaration of independence is unconstitutional, it should follow that the declaration itself is unconstitutional, particularly since it goes against the founding principle of Spain’s Constitution, found in Section 2—the “indissoluble unity of the Spanish Nation.”
Although Catalonia’s actions lack legality, there may be other grounds to support them. It appears the movement is grounded in four factors. First and foremost, there is an inequality in the amount of taxes paid by Catalonia in relation to government aid received. Second, there are significant cultural differences, principally language. Third, Catalonia believes there is an unequivocal political right to self-determination. Lastly, there is a general distrust against the central government because of embezzlement and other corruption allegations.
While those are all issues that should be addressed, they do not appear to rise to the “‘extreme cases’ and ‘carefully defined circumstances’ under which the privilege of secession exists,” as defined by Christopher Borgen in his analysis of Kosovo’s declaration of independence. His research found that for the privilege to exist, “state practice, court opinions, and other authoritative writings” require, at a minimum, three elements be met, including a showing of serious violations of human rights. It does not appear that any of the Catalans’ grievances or motivations for secession fall within that requirement.
Regardless of the merits of the movement, the political reality is that the friction between Catalonia and the central government remains. Spain’s attorney general has brought charges against the ousted Catalan officials. We will have to wait and see how those charges proceed and are carried out. Regional elections will be held in Catalonia on December 21st, where those elected will have the opportunity to continue this unfortunate chapter in Spain’s history, or re-write a new one.
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Palace Malice in Aiken | 2/14/2014
Palace Malice in Aiken
By Mary Jane Howell, Photography By Gary Knoll
There are close to 180 Thoroughbreds in training at the Aiken Training Track this winter, yet there is one horse that stands out from the crowd. Dogwood Stable's Palace Malice, winner of the 2013 Belmont Stakes, has been in Aiken since November 8, having a working vacation before he ships to Florida at the beginning of January. Perhaps it is the Belmont Stakes saddle towel that gives him away, or the lead pony that accompanies him to the track each morning. Chances are, however, it is the railside crowd that is present for his thrice-weekly gallops.
"We made the decision over the summer to bring Palace Malice back to Aiken after the Breeders' Cup," explains Cot Campbell, the President of Dogwood Stable. "I loved the idea of having him here for a couple of months and it certainly brightens up the winter.
"Palace Malice is a throwback to those tough runners of the past who ran often and ran hard - and then they were taken to winter quarters to get a break," Mr. Campbell continues, "Our trainer here in Aiken - Brad Stauffer - has been terrific in seeing to it that Palace Malice enjoys his life."
The colt spends time in his own round pen, where he gets to buck and play: is grazed in the afternoons; and heads to the track for some easy gallops three mornings a week.
"In mid-December we'll pick up the tempo and he'll train six days a week," says Campbell. "He'll have a serious workout around January 5 and then ship to trainer Todd Pletcher in Florida on January 8."
Besides Campbell, who visits Palace Malice every day, the colt's Aiken entourage includes Brad Stauffer and Ron Stevens from Legacy Stable, his groom, Daniel Negrete, his exercise rider Gene Tucker, and Mike and Kari Schneider, who are part-owners of the colt and live close by in Three Runs Plantation.
"It's obviously been great having him in the barn," Stauffer says. "For me personally it has been a very healing time. Palace Malice has been a balm of sorts - after the Legacy barn burned down in August, life seemed to be all about the fire. Now that event has been pushed aside and all anyone wants to talk about is this great horse who is in town, and I really appreciate being able to turn the page to a new chapter."
Stauffer says that life with Palace Malice is a little like having Elvis in the room. "Women of all ages hang over the fence and practically swoon," Stauffer laughs. "This horse knows that people are there to see him and he poses for photos and loves being fed peppermints."
Gene Tucker, Palace Malice's exercise rider, says that life is "surreal" these days, and he is enjoying each and every ride, knowing that life goes back to normal once Palace Malice leaves Aiken.
"I've been riding racehorses for more than 20 years and this is the highlight of my professional life," Tucker says. "I was fortunate to gallop Dogwood's champion filly Storm Song when she was in Aiken back in the 1990s, and to have another opportunity to ride a horse of that caliber is truly thrilling."
Tucker says that Palace Malice is an easy horse to ride and is very professional, yet he knows he is sitting on something very special.
"This horse is total class. He knows what he has to do each time we go to the track. I can feel him puff up when we go by all the people who are standing along the rail. It's like he says to himself - 'I'm the man and I know it!'"
Although the anticipation is already high for Palace Malice's 4-year-old campaign, Campbell still enjoys reviewing the colt's 2013 races.
"The year was wonderful, but I have to say that if Palace Malice had been as lucky as he was good, then he would have won two or three more races," he says. "The highlight, of course, was his victory in the $1 million Belmont Stakes on June 8. The Belmont is one of the greatest sporting events in America and the race is a superb test of both speed and stamina. Man o' War, Gallant Fox, Whirlaway, Native Dancer, Secretariat, Seattle Slew and Affirmed all won the Belmont Stakes, and to have Palace Malice's name included in that long list of winners means the world to me and to his partners."
Campbell says another of the year's highlights was heading to his beloved Saratoga with a horse who was a prime candidate to win the Travers Stakes, which is known as the summer Derby.
"Anyone who knows me (or is familiar with the Dogwood Stable newsletter) knows that Saratoga is one of my favorite places in the world," continues Campbell. "It was beyond thrilling to travel there in July and having the town abuzz with talk about our colt."
Palace Malice did not disappoint; he followed up his Belmont win with a commanding victory in the $600,000 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on July 27. The Travers Stakes on August 24 seemed to be his for the taking, but one should never trust the racing gods. After stumbling at the start and loitering at the back of the field, Palace Malice made a gallant run down the stretch to finish fourth, and a mere length was all that separated the top four finishers.
Palace Malice ran at Belmont Park on September 27 in another million-dollar race - the Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational. The Dogwood runner was second to the 6-year-old Ron the Greek, who literally run away from the field to win by more than six lengths. Palace Malice was nearly three lengths in front of the remaining runners.
The $5 million Breeders' Club Classic at Santa Anita on November 2 was Palace Malice's final race of the year. By now the outcome has been rehashed a thousand times - an unfortunate jockey switch (John Velazquez had been injured earlier in the day), a bad break and a wide run all played against Palace Malice on that California afternoon. The colt finished sixth - a disappointing ending to what had been a successful year. With $1,481,135 in purse earnings from 12 lifetime starts (threes wins, fours seconds, and a third), Palace Malice has definitely paid back his $200,000 purchase price from Keeneland's 2-year-olds in training sale in April of 2012.
And what will 2014 hold for this striking bay son of Curlin? In some respects Palace Malice will be following in his sire's hoofprints. Curlin, twice named Horse of the Year, won four major races in his 4-year-old year: the Dubai World Cup, the Stephen Foster at Churchill Downs, the Woodward at Saratoga, and the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park.
Cot Campbell will take aim at two of those races, and add a few more to the schedule as well.
"Although it's tempting to go to Dubai for the $10 million World Cup (the world's richest horse race) on March 29, we have decided to stay here where there are so many opportunities, and we don't have to ship halfway around the world."
Instead, Palace Malice's first race of 2014 will be the $400,000 New Orleans Handicap on March 29. "The timing of the race is perfect in that it will give Todd Pletcher ample time to tighten our horse up," says Campbell.
There are two major stakes at Saratoga that Campbell has added to his wish list (the Whitney and Woodward) and then a repeat performance in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. If all goes according to plan, the colt will finish the year with a return engagement in the Breeders' Cup Classic (held once again at Santa Anita).
"We have a few gaps in his schedule that need filling - a late spring/early summer race somewhere, but there's certainly time to figure that out," he says with a laugh.
A keen student of racing history, Campbell says he is "inclined to point Palace Malice toward those wonderful old races that the immortals have won."
Campbell has always said that Kelso was the greatest racehorse he ever saw, Kelso won the Woodward three consecutive years (1961-1963) and the Whitney Handicap three times as well (1961, 1963 1965). The mighty gelding also won the Jockey Club Gold Cup five years in a row (1960 - 1964). To have Palace Malice win these three races would give Campbell a thrill like no other.
Mike and Karl Schneider who are partners in Palace Malice were just about everywhere their colt was in 2013, and plan on doing the same in 2014.
"We are so excited about the upcoming year," says Mike. "Palace Malice is such a fun horse and we plan to be at each and ever one of his races. Having him in Aiken has been a thrill - the atmosphere is so much more relaxed and we can spend time just hanging out at the rail or by his stall. It's a real treat.
"This horse is a real celebrity in Aiken," Mike continues. "I love the fact that people can watch him gallop and experience in person what they were only able to see on television during the past year."
Everyone in the Palace Malice camp agrees that if you have a good horse, living in Aiken really embellishes the experience.
Posted by Three Runs Plantation at Friday, February 14, 2014
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America's Most Wanted Thoroughbred
Local Horse Eyes the Prize
By Pam Gleason, Photography By Gary Knoll
Who has “America’s Most Wanted Thoroughbred?” Katherine Gunter thinks that she might.
America’s Most Wanted Thoroughbred is a makeover contest for off-the-track racehorses that is being put on by the Retired Racehorse Project. Based in Maryland, RRP’s mission is to “increase demand for Thoroughbred ex-racehorses and build the bridges to second careers.” The contest itself is designed to showcase the trainability and versatility of former racehorses. Horses competing this year are required to have raced or been in race training any time between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2014.
Candidate horses may not have had any training beyond the racetrack before the start of the competition, although they may have had as many as 15 training rides as of January 15, 2015. Over the months, the horses are being groomed for various disciplines, culminating in the Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium held October 23-25, 2015 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. There, they will compete for $100,000 worth of prizes and the honor of being named America’s Most Wanted Thoroughbred.
Katherine Gunter, who is the professional huntsman for the Aiken Hounds, had heard about the Retired Racehorse Project and she was intrigued.
“I had been eyeballing the makeover stuff because I think it is kind of interesting,” she says. “And I needed another horse. My big horse is 20, the other one I have is 13. I love Thoroughbreds, and when they come right off the track, they are definitely in my price range.”
Over the winter, Katherine had another prospect, not a Thoroughbred, that wasn’t quite enough horse for her. When she sold that horse in Southern Pines, N.C., she happened to mention to the trainer there that she was interested in getting another horse.
“I told her I wanted to get one off the track and that I’m a bay gelding kind of girl. About two weeks later, she put a post on my Facebook page and said ‘Take a look at this horse. He’s still growing, so he’s still a little downhill, but I think he’ll even out.’”
The horse was a 5-year-old bay gelding, about 16.1 hands, with a solid build and a stout hind end. Katherine checked his bloodlines (“they were fantastic, with no Native Dancer crosses, which makes for a sounder horse, and his sire, Alluvial, was gorgeous;”) and she watched a short jog video of him. Although the video was in the snow (this was winter and he was training in West Virginia), she liked what she saw, and so she called his trainer, Eddy Clousten.
“There are only so many questions you can ask about a horse on the track,” she says. “So I asked ‘Does he need to be ponied to the track?’and the answer was ‘No.’ ‘Does he dump your exercise riders?’ The answer was ‘No.’ ‘Is he spooky?’ ‘No, not at all.’ ‘Are you negotiable on the price?’ ‘No. Not at all.’ So I said, ‘Okay I’ll wire you the money.’”
And that was how, $2,000 later, ($1,500 for the horse and $500 for the shipping) Alluring Devil (Diablo) came to Aiken.
“I decided if I rode him once and he didn’t flatten me, I would send in my entry to the makeover,” says Katherine, noting that the $100 entry fee was a pretty modest investment. She planned to enter him as a foxhunter, one of ten disciplines that will be showcased at the symposium. He would have to learn to ride out with the hounds, to go quietly in company, to jump and to stand calmly at checks. He would have to accept traveling and going new places as a regular part of his job. Although Katherine is looking forward to the competition in Kentucky, she says her main goal is to develop a sold, well-rounded horse to be her hunting partner for many years to come.
As soon as he got to Aiken, Diablo showed that he had the right stuff. First off, he loved the hounds. Second, he was very quiet and easy to handle: you could pet him everywhere, pull his mane, clip his ears and his whiskers and he never batted an eye. He did have some things to learn, however.
“He didn’t know about horse cookies when I got him,” says Katherine. “I had to push them in his mouth and show him how to chew them. But now he’s a cookie hound.” And it’s true – when she says that he is an “inyour- pocket” kind of a horse, she is not exaggerating, especially if you are carrying treats in your pockets.
Diablo was so pleasant to deal with on the ground that Katherine wasted no time, getting on and riding him almost as soon as he arrived. On her first ride, she and her husband, John Dunbar, went out together in the Hitchcock Woods, accompanied by three of Katherine’s retired hunting hounds, Vampire, Maverick and Nipper.
“We went cruising. He was very quiet, with a good mouth and a really comfortable canter. He didn’t want to do anything bad – he was more inclined to slow down and stop than anything. So when we got back from that ride, I sent my entry into the makeover. I've been working with him ever since, and he has just been great.”
In Diablo’s career on the track, he raced a total of 20 times, earning three wins, four seconds and four thirds for total lifetime earnings of $31,970. His last race was in October 2014, but if Katherine hadn’t purchased him, he would have raced this winter as well. He even had racing plates on his feet when he arrived in Aiken.
Aside from some minor hoof issues (easily corrected by farriers from Rood and Riddle, who were in Aiken to tend to some other horses), Diablo has had no soundness or other issues. He entered his first competition, the Aiken Hounds Hunter Pace, in March (his team finished third) and got his first taste of actual foxhunting in Camden, where Katherine rode him up in front with the huntsman. He is a natural jumper, hopping over logs and cantering down to his fences with a steady, easy rhythm.
“He's always very willing,” says Katherine. “He jumps an aiken like a million dollars.”
Katherine plans to continue his training this summer, using him for hound exercise and working on the basics. In September, she is going on a foxhunting trip, and plans to bring him in order to help expose him to new things and get him accustomed to going to new places. A few local horse shows are also a possibility. In addition, Katherine has ridden him in a stock saddle and is considering entering him in the competitive trail division as well as the foxhunting division.
“They encourage you to enter more than one discipline,” says Katherine. “The trail class includes a lot of footwork – you have to back through a keyhole, side pass over something, walk over a bridge, maybe a teeter-totter. All of that is good for getting a horse broke, and it’s good for foxhunting horses. After all, it’s just obedience.”
With all of this prep work, along with Diablo’s athleticism and calm, willing nature, Katherine thinks the trip to Kentucky will not faze her new horse at all. Although the exact format of the competition has yet to be published, the Masters of Foxhounds Association has agreed to run the foxhunting division, which will likely include a drag hunt and perhaps a small handy hunter course.
“We’re still working on the format of all the competitions,” says Kirsten Lagerquist, who is the director of the Retired Racehorse Project. “People with show organizing experience in each of the different disciplines will be helping us, and we expect to have a big update coming soon on our website.” So far, the event calls for a judged contest in each discipline, with the top three horses from each sport returning for the finale on Sunday afternoon.
“At that point, the competition becomes a little more subjective than just giving a horse a score,” continues Kirsten. “Popular vote will be incorporated into it as well.” In the past, the competition has counted input from the RRT website, but last year, one of the main deciding factors was an applause meter, which will probably be used again.
This is the third year of the America’s Most Wanted Thoroughbred competition, and the first that welcomed anyone who wanted to compete. The first two years, when the makeover was held at Pimlico racetrack in Baltimore, organizers invited about two dozen handselected professionals to enter. These included the two-time Olympic gold medalist Phillip Dutton, who cantered off with the top prize in 2014 aboard Graham and Anita Motion’s Icabad Crane, a stakes-winner turned event horse who finished third in the 2008 Preakness Stakes behind Big Brown. In 2015, when the event moved to a larger venue at the Kentucky Horse Park, the makeover was open to anyone with an eligible horse who got their entries in on time. The response has been overwhelming.
“We expected to see a slow trickle of applications and to end up with maybe 100 or 200 horses,” says Kirsten. “But we hit 300 horses back in March, so we closed things off by the first week in April and had to make a waiting list. We have about 345 horses entered right now, but we do expect to see some scratches.”
Entries have come in from juniors, amateurs and professionals from over 30 states and two Canadian provinces. There is even one entry from Great Britain: Louise Robson, who specializes in retraining former racehorses in dressage and works with former racers owned by HRH Queen Elizabeth. Louise will be coming over with a recently purchased gelding called Tinchy Ryder (“Ryan.”)
The makeover horses run the gamut from actual rescues to stakes winners obtained from some of the top racing outfits in America – Darley, Adena Springs, Phipps Stables. There is even million dollar winner (Eighttofasttocatch, who is being trained for eventing, dressage and showjumping). The most popular discipline is dressage with over 100 entries, followed by eventing and showjumping. Katherine and Diablo’s discipline, foxhunting, is one of the smallest, with just 17 entries. Some large racing stables have come on as sponsors, and several Thoroughbred rehoming organizations, such as CANTER and Turning For Home have become partners in the event.
“We’re pretty excited about it,” says Katherine, who says that most foxhunting people in the faster hunts are Thoroughbred devotees. “It’s great for the Thoroughbred industry. I think it really is encouraging people to get the Thoroughbreds off the track and do something with them. It’s the prize money; it’s the prestige. The Masters are excited – they’ll be coming to Kentucky to watch. I think this kind of competition is going to give the Thoroughbred industry the boost it needs to encourage people to get the horses off the track and take good care of them.”
Kirsten says that she is looking forward to the competition in October. “It’s going to be pretty amazing,” she says. The makeover competition is the featured event of the weekend, which also includes a trade fair, a series of seminars and a marketplace for retired racehorses – many horses entered in the competition are for sale, and Kirsten expects a good number to leave the Kentucky Horse Park with new owners. Admission to the preliminary competitions that weekend is free, but the finale on Sunday will cost $15.
“Buy your tickets now,” Kirsten advises. “There are only 1,500 seats, and we fully expect to be at capacity.”
For more information about the Retired Racehorse Project and America’s Most Wanted Thoroughbred, visit www.retiredracehorse.org. Or find them on Facebook. Follow Diablo’s progress on his Facebook page, Alluring Devil.
Posted by Three Runs Plantation at Thursday, August 27, 2015
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Category: ‘News’
The scars of the Second World War still line bomber country
This is the moving article written by Neil Tweedie in the Daily Telegraph on the 27 June 2012 explaining the role of WW2 RAF Bomber crews and how their sacrifices still affect families today. It features Patrick Otter whose father was a Lancaster Bomber Pilot with 9 Squadron based at RAF Bardney and flew during the “Battle of Berlin”. The Daily Telegraph and its readers raised 1 million pounds towards the cost of building the Bomber Command Memorial which was Unveiled by the Queen on 28 June 2012. Patrick Otter has also written an excellent book called ‘Lincolnshire Airfields in the Second World War’. (Countryside Books, £12.95)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/raf-bomber-command/9356538/The-scars-of-the-Second-World-War-still-line-bomber-country.html
Tags: Bomber Command, Bomber Command Memorial, chris keltie, Lost WW2 Aircrews, Patrick Otter, riding in the shadow of death, The Daily Telegraph
50/61 Squadron Memorial Day. 10 June 2012
PA474. BBMF Lancaster. Beautifully menacing.Treetop height, Skellingthorpe Village. (more…)
Tags: 50/61 Squadron, BBMF, Bomber Command, Lancaster, riding in the shadow of death
Bomber Command Memorial Unveiling Ceremony
The Bomber Command Memorial Unveiling Ceremony will take place in Green Park on the 28 June 2012 by HM the Queen. I am hoping to attend the event with Bill North’s Mid-Upper Gunner Dennis Bartlett. Dennis Bartlett’s friend Sgt George Moggridge was lost on Operations 21/22 June 1944 to Wessling in 619 Squadron Lancaster ME846, PG-C.
Sir Michael Beetham who is the president of the Bomber Command Association and 50/61 Squadron Association has worked tirlessly to get recognition for the ultimate sacrifice of the 55,573 lost Bomber Crewmen. Robin Gibb who sadly recently passed away was also a major contributer to this memorial. Sir Michael was a Lancaster Pilot with 50 Squadron during WW2, later becoming Marshal of The Royal Air Force. He masterminded Operation Black Buck, the long range Vulcan Bomber attack on Port Stanley airport during the Falklands Campaign. He has kindly contributed a foreward section to my book Riding In The Shadow Of Death.
I will also be attending the 50/61 Squadron Memorial Day in Skellingthorpe on 9/10 June to commemorate Bill and his crew and their lost commrades. There will also be a fly past by the BBMF (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight) Lancaster Bomber.
The book is in the last stages of editing now and will be available before 28 June. The launch venue will be at Newark Air Museum which is on the site of former RAF Winthorpe 1661 Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU). This is where Bill North and his crew had two near fatal crash landings in Stirling Bombers whilst training for Operations. It is also where the picture of Bill and his crew standing next to a Stirling was taken in March 1944. This was the photo that fascinated me me I was 7 years old in 1970 and has done ever since. RAF Winthorpe was the starting place and now the ending point for the long journey Bill and I have been on, so it is a perfect ending. As soon as the date is available for the launch I will let everybody know.
Thank you again, Chris.
Tags: Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, BBMF, bill north, Bomber Command Memorial, chris keltie, lancaster bomber, riding in the shadow of death
Sad news and book update.
Hi everybody, thank you for being patient with the book, we are nearly finished. The release day was due for 29 February 2012 and there is a slight delay.
We have some very sad news to pass on. On 15 December 2011 Bill North passed peacefully away at Basingstoke Hospital. His funeral was at the beginning of January 2012 and was a true celebration of his incredible life. The progress of the book was delayed while the family dealt with the funeral and his affairs.
We are now proofing, editing and sending it to print. We hope to have it available in paper, hardback and on Amazon Kindle in the next two weeks.
It is available as a pre-order on Amazon and Waterstones, but we will keep you all informed through the website of exactly when.
Thank you again and looking forward to sharing Bill’s amazing life with you all.
Best Wishes, Chris Keltie and the North family.
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Riding In The Shadow Of Death
My name is Chris and for the past few years I have been writing the book ‘Riding In The Shadow Of Death’, the true life story of Bill North, Lancaster Bomber Pilot from 61 Squadron.
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Again Jim Cramer & Rich Bernstein Will Be Proved Right and Warren Buffett Wrong
Posted on March 7, 2009 by MV / 0 Comment
Editor’s Note: This is an article about comments made on financial television and financial media in general. It is not an investment article and no one should base any investing decisions or conclusions based on anything written in or inferred from this article. Investing is a serious matter and all investment decisions that should only be taken after a detailed discussion with your investment advisor and should be subject to your objectives, suitability requirements and risk tolerances. .
On Monday, October 7, 2008, Jim Cramer surprised his viewers with his recommendation to take money OUT of the stock market if they needed it during the next 5 years. Ten days later Warren Buffet, heralded as the greatest investor in the world, wrote an opinion in the New York Times advocating buying American stocks. This must have come as a body blow to Jim Cramer. Here was the most admired investor in America asking Americans to begin buying stocks when Jim Cramer had just advised Americans to take their money out of the stock market. The “Power Lunch” show on his own CNBC network hyped the Buffett letter and made it the cornerstone of its campaign to urge its viewers to buy stocks. Kudos to Jim Cramer for staying true to his convictions.
Rich Bernstein of Merrill Lynch has been prescient in advising investors to underweight stocks long before Warren Buffett wrote that opinion in the New York Times. Mr. Bernstein remained true to his own convictions and steadfastly bearish despite the pressure from investors and from the Merrill Lynch retail brokerage force.
The Dow Jones Average has declined from around 11,000 (when Mr. Buffet wrote his opinion) to just above 6600 on Friday, March 6, 2009, a loss of about 40%. So, in this case, Jim Cramer and Rich Bernstein were right and Warren Buffet wrong.
We have written a series of articles on this blog about US Treasuries, the most recent being our article* on January 9, 2009. In this article, we laid out our case that US Treasuries were not in a bubble in December 2008.
So imagine our discomfort on Monday, March 2, 2009, when Warren Buffet wrote in his annual letter “When the financial history of this decade is written, it will surely speak of the Internet bubble of the late 1990s and the housing bubble of the early 2000s. But the U.S. Treasury bond bubble of late 2008 may be regarded as almost equally extraordinary.”
Not only did the greatest investor of our time say that Treasuries were in a bubble in December 2008 but that the Treasury Bubble may be regarded as crazy as the Internet and Housing Bubbles. CNBC’s Power Lunch, as usual, hyped this proclamation and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera paraded it during Power Lunch and during the evening Kudlow Report.
We remain steadfast in our opinion. But we were curious to see what Jim Cramer and Rich Bernstein would say about this new opinion from Warren Buffett. We did not have to wait long.
On the same day, Erin Burnett asked Jim Cramer in their daily conversation “Jim, what about Treasuries?”
Jim Cramer replied “There was a big bubble in Treasuries in 1932 which lasted a long time, until 1937-38. I can tell you that the Chinese own a lot of treasuries and that was really a great investment and it remains a great investment”. He added,“Think about Zero Coupon Bonds & what a better performer they have been than the S&P 500 since 1982 & you get a sense that bull markets in Treasuries can last longer than people realize”. (See this clip at http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1050147841&play=1).
We were relieved to hear this, especially we had extolled the virtues of Zero Coupon Treasuries in our original article** on August 23, 2008.
Now we wanted to know what Rich Bernstein would say. Again we did not have to wait long. A reader sent us Mr. Bernstein’s views that were published on March 3, 2009, a day after the Buffet opinion. Mr. Bernstein took a dim view of the current consensus that corporate bonds are a much better investment than US Treasuries. Mr. Bernstein said, “We find it odd that consensus shifted to investment grade bonds (essentially a move down in quality from Treasuries) at the exact time that corporate cash flows were deteriorating at a record pace. It seems to us that the risks are rising that high-grade bonds are downgraded.”
We find the paragraph in Mr. Buffett’s letter, just before his treasury bubble comment, revealing. It reads, “A few years ago, it would have seemed unthinkable (emphasis ours) that yields like today’s could have been obtained on good-grade municipal or corporate bonds even while risk-free governments offered near-zero returns on short-term bonds and no better than a pittance on long-terms.”
We would point out that a few years ago represented a totally different era. After all, a few years ago, it would have seemed unthinkable,
that the S&P 500 would suffer a decline of over 55%,
that all Global Markets would suffer brutal declines in a synchronized manner,
that stock prices of the large US banks would crater to single digits,
that US economy would be in the free fall that it seems to be in,
that S&P 500 earnings would be negative for the first time in the index’s history.
Today is not a few years ago and in today’s world of deflation or deep recession, the only safe ground is in the US Dollar and in US Treasuries.
We point out to readers that, a few years ago, Mr. Warren Buffett told his readers that the US Dollar was destined to fall a great deal in value and that he had established a large, short US Dollar position. Unfortunately Mr. Buffett’s analysis was not shared by the currency markets and, reportedly, Mr. Buffett had to close this position at a significant loss.
Mr. Doug Kass of Seebreeze Partners said on CNBC’s Kudlow Report that many of Mr. Buffett’s stocks have cratered in 2009 resulting in a $18 billion loss so far in 2009. (see this clip at http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1050400526&play=1 ). CNBC’s Fast Money pointed out on Friday, March 6, 2009, that the price of credit default swaps (cost of protection against default) on Mr. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway have risen above that of the emerging market of Vietnam.
A few years ago it would have seemed unthinkable that Mr. Buffett, the most admired investor in America, would suffer this fate. This is not to cast aspersions on Mr. Buffett but to simply remind readers that markets have a way of humbling the best investors in the world.
The lesson for investors is to speak often and in detail with their own investment advisors, read as much expert opinion as they can find and finally come to their own conclusions.
As far as we are concerned, our views on US Treasuries remain steadfast despite Mr. Buffett’s opinion. Our conclusion in our January 9, 2009 article was “The bottom line is US Treasuries are nowhere as cheap as they were in 2007 or when we began writing in August 2008. But, US Treasuries are NOT in a bubble.” We stand by what we said.
* See our article “CNBC & US Treasuries – More Things Change, More They Stay the Same” – January 9, 2009 – http://www.cinemarasik.com/2009/01/09/financial-media–more-things-change-more-they-stay-the-same.aspx
** See our article “Are CNBC Anchors on a Mission Against US Treasuries? – A Viewer’s Perpsectives” – August 23, 2009 – http://www.cinemarasik.com/2008/08/19/are-cnbc-anchors-on-a-mission-against-us-treasuries–a-viewers-perpsectives.aspx
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A Vision of God’s Glory
1:1 In the thirtieth year, 1 on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles 2 at the Kebar River, 3 the heavens opened 4 and I saw a divine vision. 5 1:2 (On the fifth day of the month – it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile – 1:3 the word of the Lord came to the priest Ezekiel 6 the son of Buzi, 7 at the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. 8 The hand 9 of the Lord came on him there).
1:4 As I watched, I noticed 10 a windstorm 11 coming from the north – an enormous cloud, with lightning flashing, 12 such that bright light 13 rimmed it and came from 14 it like glowing amber 15 from the middle of a fire. 1:5 In the fire 16 were what looked like 17 four living beings. 18 In their appearance they had human form, 19 1:6 but each had four faces and four wings. 1:7 Their legs were straight, but the soles of their feet were like calves’ feet. They gleamed 20 like polished bronze. 1:8 They had human hands 21 under their wings on their four sides. As for the faces and wings of the four of them, 1:9 their wings touched each other; they did not turn as they moved, but went straight ahead. 22
1:10 Their faces had this appearance: Each of the four had the face of a man, with the face of a lion on the right, the face of an ox on the left and also the face of an eagle. 23 1:11 Their wings were spread out above them; each had two wings touching the wings of one of the other beings on either side and two wings covering their bodies. 1:12 Each moved straight ahead 24 – wherever the spirit 25 would go, they would go, without turning as they went. 1:13 In the middle 26 of the living beings was something like 27 burning coals of fire 28 or like torches. It moved back and forth among the living beings. It was bright, and lightning was flashing out of the fire. 1:14 The living beings moved backward and forward as quickly as flashes of lightning. 29
1:15 Then I looked, 30 and I saw one wheel 31 on the ground 32 beside each of the four beings. 1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their construction 33 was like gleaming jasper, 34 and all four wheels looked alike. Their structure was like a wheel within a wheel. 35 1:17 When they moved they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved. 1:18 Their rims were high and awesome, 36 and the rims of all four wheels were full of eyes all around.
1:19 When the living beings moved, the wheels beside them moved; when the living beings rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up too. 1:20 Wherever the spirit 37 would go, they would go, 38 and the wheels would rise up beside them because the spirit 39 of the living being was in the wheel. 1:21 When the living beings moved, the wheels moved, and when they stopped moving, the wheels stopped. 40 When they rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up from the ground; the wheels rose up beside them because the spirit of the living being was in the wheel.
1:22 Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform, 41 glittering awesomely like ice, 42 stretched out over their heads. 1:23 Under the platform their wings were stretched out, each toward the other. Each of the beings also had two wings covering 43 its body. 1:24 When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings – it was like the sound of rushing waters, or the voice of the Almighty, 44 or the tumult 45 of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.
1:25 Then there was a voice from above the platform over their heads when they stood still. 46 1:26 Above the platform over their heads was something like a sapphire shaped like a throne. High above on the throne was a form that appeared to be a man. 1:27 I saw an amber glow 47 like a fire enclosed all around 48 from his waist up. From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire. There was a brilliant light around it, 1:28 like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. 49 This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the Lord. When I saw 50 it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.
1 sn The meaning of the thirtieth year is problematic. Some take it to mean the age of Ezekiel when he prophesied (e.g., Origen). The Aramaic Targum explains the thirtieth year as the thirtieth year dated from the recovery of the book of the Torah in the temple in Jerusalem (2 Kgs 22:3-9). The number seems somehow to be equated with the fifth year of Jehoiachin’s exile in 1:2, i.e., 593 b.c.
2 sn The Assyrians started the tactic of deportation, the large-scale forced displacement of conquered populations, in order to stifle rebellions. The task of uniting groups of deportees, gaining freedom from one’s overlords and returning to retake one’s own country would be considerably more complicated than living in one’s homeland and waiting for an opportune moment to drive out the enemy’s soldiers. The Babylonians adopted this practice also, after defeating the Assyrians. The Babylonians deported Judeans on three occasions. The practice of deportation was reversed by the Persian conquerors of Babylon, who gained favor from their subjects for allowing them to return to their homeland and, as polytheists, sought the favor of the gods of the various countries which had come under their control.
3 sn The Kebar River is mentioned in Babylonian texts from the city of Nippur in the fifth century b.c. It provided artificial irrigation from the Euphrates.
4 sn For the concept of the heavens opened in later literature, see 3 Macc 6:18; 2 Bar. 22:1; T. Levi 5:1; Matt 3:16; Acts 7:56; Rev 19:11.
5 tn Or “saw visions from God.” References to divine visions occur also in Ezek 8:3; 40:2
6 sn The prophet’s name, Ezekiel, means in Hebrew “May God strengthen.”
7 tn Or “to Ezekiel son of Buzi the priest.”
8 tn Heb “Chaldeans.” The name of the tribal group ruling Babylon, “Chaldeans” is used as metonymy for the whole empire of Babylon. The Babylonians worked with the Medes to destroy the Assyrian Empire near the end of the 7th century b.c. Then, over the next century, the Babylonians dominated the West Semitic states (such as Phoenicia, Aram, Moab, Edom, and Judah in the modern countries of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel) and made incursions into Egypt.
9 tn Or “power.”
sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s “hand” being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).
10 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
11 sn Storms are often associated with appearances of God (see Nah 1:3; Ps 18:12). In some passages, the “storm” (סְעָרָה, sÿ’arah) may be a whirlwind (Job 38:1, 2 Kgs 2:1).
12 tn Heb “fire taking hold of itself,” perhaps repeatedly. The phrase occurs elsewhere only in Exod 9:24 in association with a hailstorm. The LXX interprets the phrase as fire flashing like lightning, but it is possibly a self-sustaining blaze of divine origin. The LXX also reverses the order of the descriptors, i.e., “light went around it and fire flashed like lightning within it.”
13 tn Or “radiance.” The term also occurs in 1:27b.
14 tc Or “was in it”; cf. LXX ἐν τῷ μέσῳ αὐτοῦ (en tw mesw autou, “in its midst”).
15 tn The LXX translates חַשְׁמַל (khashmal) with the word ἤλεκτρον (hlektron, “electrum”; so NAB), an alloy of silver and gold, perhaps envisioning a comparison to the glow of molten metal.
16 tc Heb “from its midst” (מִתּוֹכָהּ, mitokhah). The LXX reads ἐν τῷ μέσῳ (en tw mesw, “in the midst of it”). The LXX also reads ἐν for מִתּוֹךְ (mitokh) in v. 4. The translator of the LXX of Ezekiel either read בְּתוֹךְ (bÿtokh, “within”) in his Hebrew exemplar or could not imagine how מִתּוֹךְ could make sense and so chose to use ἐν. The Hebrew would be understood by adding “from its midst emerged the forms of four living beings.”
17 tn Heb “form, figure, appearance.”
18 tn The Hebrew term is feminine plural yet thirty-three of the forty-five pronominal suffixes and verbal references which refer to the living beings in the chapter are masculine plural. The grammatical vacillation between masculine and feminine plurals suggests the difficulty Ezekiel had in penning these words as he was overcome by the vision of God. In ancient Near Eastern sculpture very similar images of part-human, part-animal creatures serve as throne and sky bearers. For a discussion of ancient Near Eastern parallels, see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:26-31. Ezekiel’s vision is an example of contextualization, where God accommodates his self-revelation to cultural expectations and norms.
19 sn They had human form may mean they stood erect.
20 sn The Hebrew verb translated gleamed occurs only here in the OT.
21 tc The MT reads “his hand” while many Hebrew mss as well as the Qere read “hands of.” Two similar Hebrew letters, vav and yod, have been confused.
22 tn Heb “They each went in the direction of one of his faces.”
23 tc The MT has an additional word at the beginning of v. 11, וּפְנֵיהֶם (ufÿnehem, “and their faces”), which is missing from the LXX. As the rest of the verse only applies to wings, “their faces” would have to somehow be understood in the previous clause. But this would be very awkward and is doubly problematic since “their faces” are already introduced as the topic at the beginning of v. 10. The Hebrew scribe appears to have copied the phrase “and their faces and their wings” from v. 8, where it introduces the content of 9-11. Only “and (as for) their wings” belongs here.
24 tn See the note on “straight ahead” in v. 9.
25 tn Or “wind.”
26 tc The MT reads “and the form of the creatures” (וּדְמוּת הַחַיּוֹת, udÿmut hakhayyot). The LXX reads “and in the midst of the creatures,” suggesting an underlying Hebrew text of וּמִתּוֹךְ הַחַיּוֹת (umittokh hakhayyot). The subsequent description of something moving among the creatures supports the LXX.
27 tc The MT reads “and the form of the creatures – their appearance was like burning coals of fire.” The LXX reads “in the midst of the creatures was a sight like burning coals of fire.” The MT may have adjusted “appearance” to “their appearance” to fit their reading of the beginning of the verse (see the tc note on “in the middle”). See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:46.
28 sn Burning coals of fire are also a part of David’s poetic description of God’s appearance (see 2 Sam 22:9, 13; Ps 18:8).
29 tc The LXX omits v. 14 and may well be correct. The verse may be a later explanatory gloss of the end of v. 13 which was copied into the main text. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:46.
tn Lit., “like the appearance of lightning.” The Hebrew term translated “lightning” occurs only here in the OT. In postbiblical Hebrew the term refers to a lightning flash.
30 tc The MT adds “at the living beings” which is absent from the LXX.
31 sn Another vision which includes wheels on thrones occurs in Dan 7:9. Ezek 10 contains a vision similar to this one.
32 tn The Hebrew word may be translated either “earth” or “ground” in this context.
33 tc This word is omitted from the LXX.
34 tn Heb “Tarshish stone.” The meaning of this term is uncertain. The term has also been translated “topaz” (NEB); “beryl” (KJV, NASB, NRSV); or “chrysolite” (RSV, NIV).
35 tn Or “like a wheel at right angles to another wheel.” Some envision concentric wheels here, while others propose “a globe-like structure in which two wheels stand at right angles” (L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:33-34). The description given in v. 17 favors the latter idea.
36 tc The MT reads וְיִרְאָה לָהֶם (vÿyir’ah lahem, “and fear belonged to them”). In a similar vision in 10:12 the wheels are described as having spokes (יִדֵיהֶם, yideyhem). That parallel would suggest יָדוֹת (yadot) here (written יָדֹת without the mater). By positing both a ד/ר (dalet/resh) confusion and a ת/ה (hey/khet) confusion the form was read as וְיָרֵה (vÿyareh) and was then misunderstood and subsequently written as וְיִרְאָה (vÿyir’ah) in the MT. The reading וְיִרְאָה does not seem to fit the context well, though in English it can be made to sound as if it does. See W. H. Brownlee, Ezekiel 1-19 (WBC), 8-9. The LXX reads καὶ εἶδον αὐτά (kai eidon auta, “and I saw”), which assumes וָאֵרֶא (va’ere’). The existing consonants of the MT may also be read as “it was visible to them.”
37 tn Or “wind”; the same Hebrew word can be translated as either “wind” or “spirit” depending on the context.
38 tc The MT adds the additional phrase “the spirit would go,” which seems unduly redundant here and may be dittographic.
39 tn Or “wind.” The Hebrew is difficult since the text presents four creatures and then talks about “the spirit” (singular) of “the living being” (singular). According to M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:45) the Targum interprets this as “will.” Greenberg views this as the spirit of the one enthroned above the creatures, but one would not expect the article when the one enthroned has not yet been introduced.
40 tc The LXX reads “when it went, they went; when it stood, they stood.”
tn Heb “when they went, they went; when they stood, they stood.”
41 tn Or “like a dome” (NCV, NRSV, TEV).
42 tn Or “like crystal” (NRSV, NLT).
43 tc Heb “each had two wings covering and each had two wings covering,” a case of dittography. On the analogy of v. 11 and the support of the LXX, which reads the same for v. 11 and this verse, one should perhaps read “each had two wings touching another being and each had two wings covering.”
44 tn Heb “Shaddai” (probably meaning “one of the mountain”), a title that depicts God as the sovereign ruler of the world who dispenses justice. The Old Greek translation omitted the phrase “voice of the Almighty.”
45 tn The only other occurrence of the Hebrew word translated “tumult” is in Jer 11:16. It indicates a noise like that of the turmoil of a military camp or the sound of an army on the march.
46 tc The MT continues “when they stood still they lowered their wings,” an apparent dittography from the end of v. 24. The LXX commits haplography by homoioteleuton, leaving out vv. 25b and 26a by skipping from רֹאשָׁם (rosham) in v. 25 to רֹאשָׁם in v. 26.
47 tn See Ezek 1:4.
48 tc The LXX lacks this phrase. Its absence from the LXX may be explained as a case of haplography resulting from homoioteleuton, skipping from כְּמַרְאֵה (kÿmar’eh) to מִמַּרְאֵה (mimmar’eh). On the other hand, the LXX presents a much more balanced verse structure when it is recognized that the final words of this verse belong in the next sentence.
49 sn Reference to the glowing substance and the brilliant light and storm phenomena in vv. 27-28a echoes in reverse order the occurrence of these phenomena in v. 4.
50 tn The vision closes with the repetition of the verb “I saw” from the beginning of the vision in 1:4.
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Celebrating 250 Years of the New York City
An American landmark will be reached in 2011, when New York City celebrates the 250th anniversary of its St. Patrick's Day Parade.
As part of the celebration around the 250th Parade, the NYC St Patrick's
Parade Committee launched a commerative book documenting 250 years of Irish heritage, culture and faith in New York at
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The first New York St Patrick's Day Parade was held on March 17, 1762,
fourteen years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
That heritage is uniquely presented in Quinnipiac University Press
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The Parade Committee are delighted to announce the launch of This beautiful book pays heartfelttribute to the Irish in America, descendants of the seven million who emigrated from Ireland over three centuries. The annual parade reflectstheir strength, their spirit, and their passion and contributes to the unique character of New York City.
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Held each year to honor Patrick, the Patron Saint of Ireland, the parade
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New York, a tradition dating from earlier days at the Old St. Patrick's
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In 2011, as in all 250 previous years, the parade will be organized by
volunteers from the community and AOH under the careful stewardship of the St. Patrick's Parade Committee who ensure that the parade retains
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the Grand Marshal of this historic parade is best-selling author
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"Recognizing the 250th Anniversary of the New York City St. Patrick's
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By publishing this signature book along with
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publication and all that it represents in our proud 250-year history of
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The New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade workers and committee members are volunteers. Some members and their families have helped run the parade for several generations. All take great pride in the work while encouraging others of Irish heritage and descent to join them in
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In a recent message Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, said, "Every
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family around the world to honor our patron saint and to celebrate all
the attributes that made us proud to be Irish. It gives us immense
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the parade's struggles and triumphs in an era of major challenges. As
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years of writing about the New York Irish in periodicals and books as
well as some up-close observations from his walking tours of
long-vanished Irish neighborhoods in the city. He is a past president
and current officer of the New York Irish History Roundtable. He is a
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The importance of understanding the target
For a campaign to be successful, one of the most important steps is to find and understand the target. Once you have figured out the right one, the path to the Buying-Decision Process maybe smoother. But if you have a campaign that is going to be seen in many places of the world, what would you do? There is one thing that you surely can disregard: social forces.
When big brands like Coca-cola and Dove think about their target profile around the world, sometimes they need to do adaptations on their campaigns, so that each ad can really relate to the people who live in each country. This attempt is essential not only to adapt the ad to consumer behavior in each market, but also to readjust the campaign to fit into the social and group forces of every target. After all, what would be the point of having the same ad been transmitted around the world if the audience couldn’t relate to their culture?
Coca-cola: Brother
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All this ads, despite been adapted to the country they would be distributed, they still share the same psychological needs: esteem and belongingness as their core emotional appeal.
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Canadian Watchdog Says It Doesn’t Regulate QuadrigaCX Exchange
The securities watchdog in the Canadian province of British Columbia has said that it has no remit to regulate troubled crypto exchange QuadrigaCX, which owes customers millions of dollars said to be frozen on an encrypted laptop.
According to Reuters, the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) spokesman Brian Kladko said Thursday that, as Vancouver, B.C.-based QuadrigaCX was not trading in securities or derivatives, the exchange does not come under its purview.
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) also told Reuters: “No crypto-asset trading platform had been regulated as a marketplace by Canadian securities regulators.” The CSA is a collective forum comprising the regional securities regulators of Canada.
Possibly as much as $190 million in both cryptocurrency and fiat owned by QuadrigaCX users have been unreachable since the firm’s founder and CEO, Gerald Cotten, died in December, leaving no a way for staff to access the computer apparently storing its funds.
Cotten’s death has been at the center of concerns and theories about the state of the exchange and the sequence of events leading up to the current situation.
The exchange has since sought creditor protection in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court as it seeks to find a way to refund users and access the locked funds. On Tuesday, a judge from the court granted the exchange its application, giving it a 30-day stay of proceedings to try and resolve the situation for users.
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Jimmy Slagle
Outfielder
Born: (1873-07-11)July 11, 1873
Worthville, Pennsylvania
Died: May 10, 1956(1956-05-10) (aged 82)
Batted: Left
Threw: Right
April 17, 1899 for the Washington Senators
October 3, 1908 for the Chicago Cubs
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James Franklin Slagle (July 11, 1873 – May 10, 1956), nicknamed both Rabbit and Shorty, was a professional baseball player who played as an outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1899 to 1908. In his 10 MLB seasons, he played for four different teams, all in the National League. Officially, he was 5'7" in height and weighed 144 lbs. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
Slagle began his professional career in minor league baseball (MiLB) in 1895. In 1898, he won the Western League batting title with a .378 average. He spent four seasons in MiLB before signing with the Washington Senators in 1899. He played one season in Washington, D. C. before signing with the Philadelphia Phillies when the Senators folded. Over the next two season, he played for the Phillies and, for a short time, the Boston Beaneaters. In 1902, he signed with the Chicago Cubs, and stayed with the team for seven seasons. He was the Cubs' starting center fielder for three of their NL championships, from 1906 to 1908, which includes two World Series victories. Slagle became the first player to successfully accomplish a straight steal of home in World Series play.
His last MLB season was in 1908, and later played two more seasons in MiLB in 1909 and 1910. He later settled in Chicago, where he died in 1956, at the age of 82.
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Date of birth July 11, 1873
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Navigating Through the Intersection of 9-11 and Civil War Memory
It’s always nice to have someone who can do a better job of expressing a thought that you are struggling to formulate. That’s how I feel about this editorial by John Hennessy, which appeared yesterday in the The Free Lance-Star. I heard John give a version of this essay a few months back as part of a keynote address at a conference on public history at North Carolina State University. I am pleased to see it in print. This particular passage jumped out at me:
Something else has shaped how Americans view the Civil War: their intensely personal relationship with it. Visitors to Civil War sites are often highly invested and possessed of information that reflects generations of conventional wisdom or family tradition. Spend time at a Civil War site, and before long a visitor will appear to assert his or her understanding of the war: “My great-great-grandfather didn’t own slaves–he sure as hell didn’t fight to preserve slavery. He fought to defend his home, the way of life of his community and state. You are wrong to tell people the war was about slavery.”
This sort of soliloquy highlights one of the salient facts about the Civil War’s place in American culture: In no other era of American history have we as a nation permitted the personal motivations of participants, often imperfectly remembered or revised over time, to define in the public’s mind the cause and national purpose of war. This is one reason why there is often a vast difference between the ongoing scholarship about the war–which consistently pegs slavery as a central cause and “cornerstone” (as Vice President Alexander Stephens said in 1861) of the Confederacy–and popular perception, more often shaped by our interpretations of personal narratives.
This highly personal investment in the men and events of the Civil War sometimes renders scholarship that sheds light on the causes of war not as academic exercise, but as an affront. To say the Confederacy went to war to sustain the institution of slavery often challenges a descendant’s understanding of the motivations of his ancestors. The response is sometimes the dismissal of solidly documented history as “politically correct” or “revisionist.”
This touches so much of what I experience here at Civil War Memory. On one level I can relate to the kind of identification with the past that John ascribes to a certain number of people, who embrace the personal and maintain a vigilant stance against perceived threats to that interpretation. At the same time I have little patience and even admit to a dismissive attitude when it comes to folks who embrace this perspective. Let me try to explain.
This coming September the nation will mark the 10th anniversary of 9-11. It will no doubt be a solemn day full of commemorations that recall the bravery of the firefighters and the lost lives of so many in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania. The most attention, however, will be directed at the families of the WTC victims and the firefighters. The parents, siblings, husbands, and wives play a crucial role in keeping the memory of those lost alive. My family will do its part to remember my cousin, Alisha Levin, with a run to raise money for a memorial fund in her name.
We give the families a great deal of influence over how the day is remembered and commemorated. They constitute an important link to that day. You will see them read the names of the victims at “Ground Zero”, address audiences in various venues, as well as provide advice and even approval for memorials at key places. It goes without saying that most of us believe that the families ought to have a certain amount of involvement and even control over 9-11 commemorations. Their relationship to the event is through a personal narrative and our collective memory of the day is constituted, in large part, by how we choose to weave those individual narratives together.
However, at some point the generation that lived through that day, including anyone who had a personal connection to the victims will no longer be around to tell those stories. At that point we as a nation will have taken a crucial step in our collective memory of 9-11. The storytellers will be further removed from the event in question and the agendas that drive decisions around various forms of commemoration will also evolve. The emotional connection will continue to dissipate and in its place will come a more “objective” form of remembrance. The personal connection will also grow weaker with each generation, to the point where families may lose any knowledge that an ancestor was directly involved in the events of that day.
However, even for those families and individuals that maintain some type of identification or connection I don’t know too many who would suggest, for example, that the great great granddaughter of a 9-11 family ought to be given a special status simply because she identifies or holds to a certain personal narrative. This is not to suggest that the personal narrative has no value. What I am suggesting is that we should not expect or demand that the personal be given a privileged status that other individuals and groups are expected to shape their own narratives around, regardless of whether we are talking about formal histories, interpretation of historic ground or memorials.
Kate Halleron Aug 10, 2011 @ 5:45
What intrigues me is the idea that a person’s ancestor can do no wrong – gg-granddaddy’s motivations must have been pure because he’s *mine*.
Yet everyone has petty family squabbles – ask the same people if they think their parents, siblings or cousins are all perfect and you’ll probably get a long tale of family wrongs and idiosyncrasies.
Yet there are thousands of us Southerners with perfect ancestors. It’s a puzzle.
Andy Hall Aug 10, 2011 @ 6:17
That’s a good point. I suspect that not having known those veterans personally — or in many cases, never having known anyone who did — actually feeds a lot of personal myth-making that goes on, both for individuals and collectively. When all you really have to go on is a microfilmed service record from the National Archives and a few anecdotes, filtered down through three or four generations, it’s easy to fill in the gaps with happy fanatasy, and build an entire persona around those things. I imagine most people aren’t even aware of doing this, but it’s nonetheless something that people need to be conscious of, and not to mistake that for actual history.
Ray O'Hara Aug 10, 2011 @ 7:57
It’s most often a case of confusing individual motives for the causes of the War.
That plays a role, too, but I’d submit that more often than not, they have no idea why their great-great granddaddy volunteered. Obviously some men left a contemporary record of their thoughts and motivations, and we can generally about the different things that drove soldiers as a group but that’s a different thing.
Meant to say, “we can generalize about the different things. . . .”
I envy those people who have a rich written record of an ancestors’ experience at an important point in the past, but I contend that the luck of possession does not grant that individual some kind of privileged access. They are in the same position as the rest of us who work to better understand history.
Margaret D. Blough Aug 10, 2011 @ 7:19
Kevin-There are a minority hard-core neo-Confederates who are so extreme that they’ll even defend slavery. IMHO, most Confederate descendants who care passionately about it are not that way. Many of the ones I’ve met accept that slavery is an evil institution. That, however, creates major cognitive dissonance in dealing with their need to feel proud of their ancestors. Their resolution of this dissonance generally comes by embracing a false syllogism:
1. Slavery is an evil thing.
2. My Confederate ancestor was a good man.
3. Good men do not fight to protect evil things.
4. Therefore, the Confederacy was not based on slavery.
You’ve posted this syllogism before. You need to post it at least once a month, because it bears repeating often.
London John Aug 10, 2011 @ 8:46
There are at least 3 separate fallacies here. The first is pointed out by Ray O’Hara above. The second is that all soldiers were sub jectively fighting for some cause, rather than say to try to stay alive when the other side was trying to kill him, or that he had joined up because his friends did and they were fighting for each other.
The third is that a Confederate soldier who didn’t own slaves couldn’t be fighting for slavery. Every observer from de Tocqueville on has noticed that Americans were exceptionally aspirational and optimistic. In the South, success in life meant owning slaves – even if not in a business using slave labour, any successful man would have to own domestic slaves. So a young soldier might be fighting for the slaves he expected to own later. This doesn’t prove he was, of course.
An individual could have volunteered to join the Marines in 1965 for any number of reasons that have nothing to do with national policy, but that does not preclude historians from arguing that the Vietnam War fit into its policy of containment.
Kevin, as I understand it that’s the same point Ray O’Hara made, that objectively the Confederate cause was slavery whatever the soldiers thought they were fighting for. I was trying to say that descendents are mistaken in thinking that since great-grandfather couldn’t have had an evil cause he must have had a good one.
Boyd Harris Aug 10, 2011 @ 8:49
Thanks for the post, Kevin. It is interesting to see your perspective, considering that I have encountered a bit of this “family thing” myself while working at Appomattox Court House NHP this summer. We always have people come into the park and say that their ancestor was at Appomattox Court House, particularly those with Confederate ancestors. We have the parole book available at the park, containing over 28,000 names. We allow these visitors to peruse it and find their ancestor. Unfortunately, from time to time, a visitor will not find their ancestor’s name. Some accept the new information and adjust their own conception of their ancestors, but a small few hold firm in their own understanding. It can be difficult, and a little awkward, when park rangers are put in the position of defending the historical record against “what Great-Grandaddy said.” For example, I had one lady tell me that the parole book was wrong, despite the fact that the only evidence she had of her ancestor’s presence at Appomattox C.H. was a pension application from 1908. She would not budge from that position and the conversation only ended with the observation that the parole list could be updated if new information came to light. It was, and I freely admit this here, a thin ray of hope. Yet, it was enough for her to continue to believe that her ancestor was at Appomattox C.H.
I agree with John Hennessy’s observation and would add that these personal stories seem to convey a power far beyond just having a connection to a historical moment. There seems to be other emotions wrapped up in these stories. Feelings of pride, belonging, or even a sense of worth are attached to these family stories. This occurs, despite the fact the actual event has not occured in their lifetime. This worth may seem under attack when they discover that the family story is not entirely true. It seems ridiculous in some respect. There is no prize for those visitor’s who can identify an ancestor at Appomattox C.H., yet these visitors have placed a great emphasis on this “truth.” It has equally fascinated and frustrated me during this summer, but overall it has reminded me that the Civil War remains a very intense site of collective memory in this nation.
As always, keep up the good work. Hope you are enjoying Boston and I look forward to your next post.
Thanks for the kind words, Boyd.
You said: “I agree with John Hennessy’s observation and would add that these personal stories seem to convey a power far beyond just having a connection to a historical moment. There seems to be other emotions wrapped up in these stories. Feelings of pride, belonging, or even a sense of worth are attached to these family stories. This occurs, despite the fact the actual event has not occured in their lifetime. This worth may seem under attack when they discover that the family story is not entirely true. It seems ridiculous in some respect.”
That’s the crux of the matter. The fact that there are so many emotions tied up in a personal identification with the past is interesting as a reflection of historical memory, but at the same time I don’t believe that others are obligated to honor it beyond their responsibilities as teachers, historians, and park interpreters. In the end, this is the individual’s personal baggage and they must choose how they are going to respond to others when there is a rub.
Ray O'Hara Aug 10, 2011 @ 10:39
Maybe her ancestor deserted or was taken in the period between Five Forks and the surrender..
I could see a vet not wanting to admit he took an early vacation
Edwin Thompson Aug 10, 2011 @ 10:23
On the subject of collective memory, today an article was published in the NY Times by an Israeli visiting his family burial site Khotyn, Ukraine. His ancestors were murdered there 70 years ago. At the end of the article, he asks the 60 year old graveyard caretaker why she tends the old Jewish cemetery. She replies: “You can’t begin to understand, you will never understand.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/opinion/revisiting-khotyn-70-years-after-a-holocaust-massacre.html?ref=opinion
Perhaps the civil war is a distant, foreign event beyond our understanding – how could some of our ancestors have fought to maintain the right to enslave people? Well – they did. People were murdered in Khotyn also. That is why we need historians to study and document the history.
Also – My sympathies on the loss of your cousin Alisha. Personnal losses are always difficult.
Lyle Smith Aug 10, 2011 @ 11:42
Obviously this also applies to the descendants of Federal soldiers and to the descendants of slaves. Although the descendants of slaves then had Reconstruction and segregation to go through to get to today. Which is why I try to avoid slavery in race discussions and instead focus on segregation, which was a nearer abomination experienced by a lot of people still alive today. I’d argue there is a connection between slavery and segregation though.
Condolences for Alisha Levin.
I think it applies to everyone who places value in historical understanding.
Dudley Bokoski Aug 11, 2011 @ 1:34
Is it not possible to have it both ways? Obviously the war was about slavery, how could anyone argue otherwise? But must all Southerners have gone to war because of a personal commitment to maintain slavery? Put another way, is there only one correct narrative of why soldiers fought for either side? If all Southerners fought to preserve slavery, by inference must all Northerners have fought to abolish slavery? Clearly, on that point the historical record is clear there were a range of motivations involved. Would we then argue that anyone who fought for the Union was capable of having had a range of personal reasons for doing so, but all soldiers for the Southern side had to hold a single perspective on the war?
Just because Southern soldiers did not all personally fight because they wanted to defend slavery does not take away from the fact that the preservation of slavery was why the Southern ruling classes took the South to war. Or, to go one step further, the South fought the war not only to defend slavery but also because of a fear of what would come after slavery. The 1860 census is suggestive on that point.
It was morally wrong, and unrealistic, to go to war to preserve slavery in perpetuity. But I believe there were soldiers who went to war not fully committed to slavery or believing it could be sustained, but driven by the sort of nationalism/sectionalism that has taken misguided populations to war through the ages. Mix in with that resentment of the North and the war can be seen as an overheated boiler which simply blew up in 1861. Slavery was the proximate cause, but sectionalism provided the heat.
We can recognize in history which side was in the right in a conflict, but at the same time history is context. That the South was in the wrong on slavery, whether your moral perspective and context is from 1861 or 2011 is unquestionable. But to judge the motives of the all too human participants of the events of 1861 based on the values and understandings of 2011 is less than fair.
Thanks for the comment, Dudley. I am in no way suggesting that the reasons individuals went to war can easily reduce to a desire to slavery. There is an incredibly rich literature out there on Confederate soldiers that focuses on why they joined as well as why some deserted and others stayed in the army even late in the war. Keep in mind that many were drafted. I would also suggest that people are motivated to do things for complex reasons. You may even want to focus on when Confederates joined the ranks. I found Ken Noe’s Reluctant Rebels to be particularly helpful.
Dudley Bokoski Aug 11, 2011 @ 13:14
There’s an old country story, milked beyond comprehension by one particular Southern comic years ago, about a man who went up a tree after a bobcat. There ensues snarling, yelping, and screaming for help until finally the man calls down to his friend and tells him to shoot up into the tree. His friends says, “But I might hit you just as easily as the cat.” To which the man up the tree replies “Fire amongst us, at least one of us will get some relief.”
I think of the coming of the Civil War like that. Passions were so inflamed that, even knowing the ruin which would come with war, the two sides just had to have some relief from the heat that had built up for so many years. It was rational, but going to war filled a deeply felt need North and South.
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Title: Mile
Subject: Conversion of units, Nambung River, 367943 Duende, United States customary units, Light-year
Collection: Ancient Roman Geography, Customary Units of Measurement in the United States, Imperial Units, Obsolete Scottish Units of Measurement, Surveying, Units of Length
mile type
international 1,609.344
U.S. survey 1,609.347200
nautical 1852
A milestone in London showing the distance in miles to two destinations.
A mile is a unit of length most commonly equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards (about 1,609 metres). The mile of 5,280 feet is also known as the statute mile or land mile to distinguish it from the nautical mile of approximately 6,076 feet (1,852 metres exactly).[1] There have also been many historical miles and similar units in other systems that may be translated into English as miles; they have varied in length from 1 to 15 kilometres.
The exact length of the land mile varied slightly among English-speaking countries until the international yard and pound agreement in 1959 established the yard as exactly 0.9144 metres, giving a mile exactly 1,609.344 metres. The U.S. adopted this international mile for most purposes, but retained the pre-1959 mile for some land-survey data, terming it the U. S. survey mile. In the United States, statute mile normally refers to the survey mile,[2] about 3.2 mm (1⁄8 inch) longer than the international mile (the international mile is exactly 0.0002% less than the U.S. survey mile).
While most countries replaced the mile with the kilometre when switching to the International System of Units, the international mile continues to be used in some countries such as Liberia, Myanmar,[3] the United Kingdom[4] and the United States.[5] It is furthermore used in a number of countries with vastly less than a million inhabitants, most of which are US or UK territories, or have close historical ties with the US or UK: Am. Samoa,[6] Bahamas,[7] Belize,[8] British Virgin Islands,[9] Cayman Islands,[10] Dominica,[10] Falkland Islands,[11] Grenada,[12] Guam,[13] The N. Mariana Islands,[14] Samoa,[15] St. Lucia,[16] St. Vincent & The Grenadines,[17] St. Helena,[18] St. Kitts & Nevis,[19] the Turks & Caicos Islands,[20] and the U.S. Virgin Islands.[21] The mile is even encountered in Canada, though this is predominantly in rail transport and horse racing, as the roadways have been metricated since 1977.[22][23][24][25][26]
Roman mile 2
Historical miles in the Arabic world and Europe 3
Historical miles in Britain and Ireland 4
Scots mile 4.1
Irish mile 4.2
Statute mile 5
Metric mile 6
Nautical mile 7
Related nautical units 7.1
Abbreviation and symbol 8
Grid system 9
Comparison table 10
The word mile originally derives from the Old English word mīl which in turn was ultimately derived from the Latin word millia meaning "thousand".[27] The English mile was based on what the Romans referred to as milia passuum (Latin, "one thousand paces"), but the cognate term in some other languages – for example, Meile in German, mijl in Dutch – was based on the Romans' miliarium spatium (Latin for "one thousand ‘intervals’"), a significantly longer unit.[28]
Various historic miles/leagues from a German textbook dated 1848 (given in feet, metres and fractions of a meridian
Roman mile
The Romans, when marching their armies through Europe, were the first to use the unit of long distance mille passuum (literally "a thousand paces" in Latin, where each pace or stride was two steps). When marching through uncharted territory, they would often push a carved stick in the ground after each 1000 paces. Well fed and harshly driven Roman battalions in good weather thus created longer miles. After attempts to standardize, it denoted a distance of 1,000 average paces or 5,000 Roman feet, and is estimated to be about 1,479 metres (4,851 feet or 1,617 yards). This unit, now known as the Roman mile,[29] spread throughout the Roman Empire, often with modifications to fit local systems of measurements.
Historical miles in the Arabic world and Europe
The Arab mile (or Arabic mile) was a unit of length used by medieval Muslim geographers. The Arab mile (Arabic: الميل) is a historical unit of length. Its precise length is disputed, lying between 1.8 and 2.0 km. It was used by medieval Arab geographers and astronomers. The predecessor of the modern nautical mile, it extended the Roman mile mille passuum (literally "a thousand paces") to fit an astronomical approximation of 1 minute of an arc of latitude measured along a north-south meridian arc. The distance between two pillars whose latitudes differed by 1 degree in a north-south direction was measured using sighting pegs along a flat desert plane.
The Danish mil (traditional) was standardized by Ole Rømer in the late 17th century to be 24,000 Danish feet or 7532.5 metres. Sometimes it was interpreted as exactly 7.5 kilometres. This standardized definition was also used in North Germany and Prussia as (see below).[30] Before the standardization different regions of Denmark had different definitions of mile, The Sjællandske miil, for instance, was 11.13 km.
The Meile was a traditional unit in German-speaking countries. It was 24,000 German feet; the SI equivalent was 7586 metres in Austria. Northern Germany and Prussia shared the definition with Denmark of 7532.5 metres. There was a version known as the geographische Meile, which was 4 Admiralty nautical miles, 7,412.7 metres, or 1/15 of a degree of latitude.[31]
The Hungarian mile (magyar) mérföld was the traditional unit in Hungary, equal to 8353.6 m (old times sometimes varied between 8937.4 m and 8379.0 m)
In Norway and Sweden, a mil is a unit of length equal to 10 kilometres and commonly used in everyday language. However in more formal situations, such as on road signs and when there is risk of confusion with English miles, kilometres are used instead. The traditional Swedish mil spanned the range from 6000–14,485 metres, depending on province. It was however standardized in 1649 to 36,000 Swedish feet, or 10.687 km.[30] The Norwegian mil was 11.298 kilometres. When the metric system was introduced in the Norwegian-Swedish union in 1889, it standardized the mil to exactly 10 kilometres.[30] Mil is still commonly used when measuring fuel consumption in vehicles; e.g., 0.5 litre per mil.
The Portuguese milha was a unit of length used in Portugal and Brazil, before the adoption of the metric system. It was equal to 2087.3 metres.[32]
The Russian mile (russkaya milya (русская миля)) was a traditional Russian unit of distance, equal to 7 verst, or 7.468 km.
The hrvatska milja (Croatian mile) is 11,130 metres = 11.13 km: the length of an arc of the equator subtended by 1/10 of a degree,[33] first used by Jesuit Stjepan Glavač on a map from 1673.
The banska milja (also called hrvatska milja) (mile of Croatian Ban, Croatian mile) was 7586 metres = 7.586 kilometres, or 24,000 feet (the same as the Austrian mile).[34]
Historical miles in Britain and Ireland
The statute mile (1593) of Elizabeth I was not the only definition of the mile in Britain and Ireland. Perhaps the earliest tables of English linear measures, Arnold's Customs of London (c. 1500) indicates a mile consisted of 8 furlongs, each of 625 feet, for a total of 5000 feet (1666⅔ yards, 0.947 statute miles, 1524 metres):[35] this is the same definition of the mile in terms of feet as used by the Romans. The "old English" mile of medieval and early modern times appears to have measured about 1.3 statute miles (1.9 km).[36] The 17th century cartographer, Robert Morden, had multiple scales on his maps—for example, his map of Hampshire showed two different miles that had a ratio of 1 : 1.23[37] and his map of Dorset had three scales with a ratio of 1 : 1.23 : 1.41.[38] In both cases, the smallest mile appears to be the statute mile.
Scots mile
The Royal Mile in Edinburgh is roughly a Scots mile long.
The Royal Mile in Edinburgh, i.e., from the Castle down to Holyrood Abbey, is approximately the same length as the Scots mile.[39] English miles were imposed in 1824 by an Act of Parliament.
Equivalent to:
Scottish measures: 320 falls; or 8 Scots furlongs
Metric system: 1.81 km
Imperial system: 1,976 yards (about 1.12 miles)
Robert Burns spoke of Scots miles in the first verse of "Tam o' Shanter":
While we sit bousing at the nappy,
An' getting fou and unco happy,
We think na on the lang Scots miles,
The mosses, waters, slaps and stiles,
That lie between us and our hame,
Where sits our sulky, sullen dame,
Gathering her brows like gathering storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
The Scots mile was longer than the English mile, but varied in length from place to place.[40] It was formally abolished by an Act of the Parliament of Scotland in 1685,[41] and again by the Treaty of Union with England in 1707,[42] but continued in use as a customary unit during the 18th century. It was obsolete by the time of its final abolition by the Weights and Measures Act 1824.[40] An estimate of its length can be made from other Scots units: in Scots, the rod was usually called the fall or faw, and was equal to six ells of 37 inches.[43] As there are 320 rods in a mile and 1.0016 Imperial inches in a Scots inch, this would make the Scots mile equal to 5,920 Scots feet (1,976.5 imperial yards, 1.12 statute miles). Other estimates are similar.[35][44]
Irish mile
The Irish mile (Irish: míle Gaelach) was longer still.[36] In Elizabethan times, four Irish miles was often equated to five English, though whether the statute mile or the "old English" mile is unclear.[36] By the seventeenth century, it was 2,240 yards (6,720 feet, 1.27 statute miles, 2,048 metres).[27][45][46] Again, the difference arose from a different length of the rod in Ireland (usually called the perch locally): 21 feet as opposed to 16½ feet in England.[45][47]
From 1774, through the 1801 union with Britain, until the 1820s, the grand juries of 25 Irish counties commissioned surveyed maps at scales of one or two inches per Irish mile.[48][49] Scottish engineer William Bald's County Mayo maps of 1809–30 were drawn in English miles and rescaled to Irish miles for printing.[50] The Howth–Dublin Post Office extension of the London–Holyhead turnpike engineered by Thomas Telford had mileposts in English miles.[51] Although legally abolished by the Weights and Measures Act 1824, the Irish mile was used till 1856 by the Irish Post Office.[52] The Ordnance Survey of Ireland, from its establishment in 1824, used English miles.[53]
In 1894, Alfred Austin complained after visiting Ireland that "the Irish mile is a fine source of confusion when distances are computed. In one county a mile means a statute mile, in another it means an Irish mile".[54] When the Oxford English Dictionary definition of "mile" was published in 1906,[55] it described the Irish mile as "still in rustic use".[27] A 1902 guide says regarding milestones, "Counties Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Antrim, Down, and Armagh use English, but Donegal Irish Miles; the other counties either have both, or only one or two roads have Irish".[56] Variation in signage persisted till the publication of standardised road traffic regulations by the Irish Free State in 1926.[57] In 1937, a man prosecuted for driving outside the 15-mile limit of his licence offered the unsuccessful defence that, since the state was independent, the limit ought to use Irish miles, "just as no one would ever think of selling land other than as Irish acres".[58] A 1965 proposal by two TDs to replace statute miles with Irish miles in a clause of the Road Transport Act was rejected.[59] The term is now obsolete as a specific measure,[60] though an "Irish mile" colloquially is a long but vague distance akin to a "country mile".[61]
Statute mile
The statute mile was so-named because it was defined by an English Act of Parliament in 1593, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The statute states: "A Mile ſhall contain eight Furlongs, every Furlong forty Poles, and every Pole ſhall contain ſixteen Foot and an half." (35 Eliz. cap. 6.)[62] It was thus 1760 yards (5280 feet, about 1609 meters).[35] For surveying, the statute mile is divided into eight furlongs; each furlong into ten chains; each chain into four rods (also known as poles or perches); and each rod into 25 links. This makes the rod equal to 5½ yards or 16½ feet in both Imperial and U.S. usage.
The exact conversion of the mile to SI units depends on which definition of the yard is used. Different English-speaking countries maintained independent physical standards for the yard that were found to differ by small, but measurable, amounts and even to slowly shorten in length.[63] The U.S. redefined the U.S. yard in 1893, but this resulted in U.S. and Imperial measures of distance having very slightly different lengths. The difference was resolved in 1959 with the definition of the international yard in terms of the meter by Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and the U.S.[64] The "international mile" of 1760 international yards is exactly 1609.344 metres.[65]
The difference from the previous standards was 2 ppm, or about 3.2 millimeters (⅛ inch) per mile. The U.S. standard was slightly longer and the old Imperial standards had been slightly shorter than the international mile. When the international mile was introduced in English-speaking countries, the basic geodetic datum in America was the North American Datum of 1927 (NAD27). This had been constructed by triangulation based on the definition of the foot in the Mendenhall Order of 1893, with 1 foot = 1200⁄3937 metres and the definition was retained for data derived from NAD27, but renamed the U.S. survey foot to distinguish it from the international foot.[66]
The U.S. survey mile is 5280 survey feet, or about 1609.347 218 694 metres.[67] In the U.S., statute mile formally refers to the survey mile,[68] but for most purposes, the difference between the survey mile and the international mile is insignificant—one international mile is exactly 0.999 998 of a U.S survey mile—so statute mile can be used for either. But in some cases, such as in the U.S. State Plane Coordinate Systems (SPCSs), which can stretch over hundreds of miles,[69] the accumulated difference can be significant, so it is important to note that the reference is to the U.S. survey mile.
The North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), which replaced the NAD27, is defined in meters. State Plane Coordinate Systems were then updated, but the National Geodetic Survey left individual states to decide which (if any) definition of the foot they would use. All State Plane Coordinate Systems are defined in meters, and 42 of the 50 states only use the metre-based State Plane Coordinate Systems. However, eight states also have State Plane Coordinate Systems defined in feet, seven of them in U.S. Survey feet and one in international feet.[69] State legislation in the U.S. is important for determining which conversion factor from the metric datum is to be used for land surveying and real estate transactions, even though the difference (2 ppm) is hardly significant, given the precision of normal surveying measurements over short distances (usually much less than a mile). Twenty-four states have legislated that surveying measures be based on the U.S. survey foot, eight have legislated that they be based on the international foot, and eighteen have not specified which conversion factor to use.[69]
The old Imperial value of the yard was used in converting measurements to metric values in India in a 1976 Act of the Indian Parliament.[70] However, the current National Topographic Database of the Survey of India is based on the metric WGS-84 datum,[71] which is also used by the Global Positioning System.
Metric mile
The term metric mile is used in sports such as track and field athletics and speed skating to denote a distance of 1500 metres (about 4921 ft). In United States high school competition, the term is sometimes used for a race of 1,600 metres (about 5249 ft).[72]
On the utility of the nautical mile
Each circle shown is a great circle– the analog of a line in spherical trigonometry– and hence the shortest path connecting two points on the globular surface. Meridians are great circles that pass through the poles.
The nautical mile was originally defined as one minute of arc along a meridian of the Earth.[73] Navigators use dividers to step off the distance between two points on the navigational chart, then place the open dividers against the minutes-of-latitude scale at the edge of the chart, and read off the distance in nautical miles.[74] The Earth is not perfectly spherical but an oblate spheroid, so the length of a minute of latitude increases by 1% from the equator to the poles. Using the WGS84 ellipsoid, the commonly accepted Earth model for many purposes today, one minute of latitude at the WGS84 equator is 6,046 feet and at the poles is 6,107.5 feet. The average is about 6,076 feet (about 1,852 metres or 1.15 statute miles).
In the United States the nautical mile was defined in the 19th century as 6,080.2 feet (1,853.249 m), whereas in the United Kingdom, the Admiralty nautical mile was defined as 6,080 feet (1,853.184 m) and was about one minute of latitude in the latitudes of the south of the UK. Other nations had different definitions of the nautical mile, but it is now internationally defined to be exactly 1,852 metres.[75]
Related nautical units
The nautical mile per hour is known as the knot. Nautical miles and knots are almost universally used for aeronautical and maritime navigation, because of their relationship with degrees and minutes of latitude and the convenience of using the latitude scale on a map for distance measuring.
The data mile is used in radar-related subjects and is equal to 6,000 feet (1.8288 kilometres).[76] The radar mile is a unit of time (in the same way that the light year is a unit of distance), equal to the time required for a radar pulse to travel a distance of two miles (one mile each way). Thus, the radar statute mile is 10.8 μs and the radar nautical mile is 12.4 μs.[77]
Abbreviation and symbol
There have been several abbreviations for mile (with and without trailing period): mi, ml, m, and M. The National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States now uses and recommends mi[78] to avoid confusion with metres, millilitres, etc., and in everyday usage (at least in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada) units such as miles per hour and miles per gallon are almost always abbreviated as mph or mpg (rather than mi/h or mi/gal).
Grid system
Cities in the continental United States often have streets laid out by miles. Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Miami, are several examples. Typically the largest streets are about a mile apart, with others at half-mile and quarter-mile intervals. In the Manhattan borough of New York City "streets" are close to 20 per mile, while the major numbered "avenues" are about six per mile. (Centerline to centerline, 42nd St to 22nd St is supposed to be 5250 feet while 42nd to 62nd is supposed to be 5276 ft 8 in.)
A comparison of the different lengths for a "mile", in different countries and at different times in history, is given in the table below. Leagues are also included in this list because, in terms of length, they fall in between the short West European miles and the long North, Central and Eastern European miles.
Country used
0960-1152 talmudic mil israel Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement
01,482 mille passus, milliarium Roman Empire Ancient Roman units of measurement
01,486.6 miglio[79] Sicily
06,240 Persian legue Persia
01,524 London mile England
0 1,609.3426 (statute) mile Great Britain 1592 1959 1760 yards Over the course of time, the length of a yard changed several times and consequently so did the English, and from 1824, the imperial mile. The statute mile was introduced in 1592 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
01,609.344 mile international 1959 today 1760 yards Until 1 July 1959 the imperial mile was a standard length worldwide. The length given in metres is exact.
01,609.3472 (statute) mile United States 1893 today 1760 yards From 1959 also called the U.S. Survey Mile. From then its only utility has been land survey, before it was the standard mile. From 1893 its exact length in meters was: 3600/3937 x 1760
01,820 Italy
01,852 nautical mile international today 1 minute of arc Measured at a circumference of 40,000 km. Abbreviation: NM, nm
01,852.3 (for comparison) 1 meridian minute
01,853.181 nautical mile Turkey
01,855.4 (for comparison) 1 equatorial minute Although the NM was defined on the basis of the minute, it varies from the equatorial minute, because at that time the circumferences of the equator was only able to be estimated at 40,000 km
02,065 Portugal
02,220 Gallo-Roman league Gallo-Roman culture 1.5 miles Under the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus’, this replaced the Roman mile as the official unit of distance in the Gallic and Germanic provinces, although there were regional and temporal variations.[80]
02,470 Sardinia, Piemont
02,622 Scotland
02,880 Ireland
03,780 Flanders
03,898 French lieue (post league) France 2000 "body lengths"
04,000 general or metric league
04,000 legue Guatemala
04,190 legue Mexico[81] = 2500 tresas = 5000 varas
04,444.8 landleuge 1/25° of a circle of longitude
04,452.2 lieue commune France Units of measurement in France before the French Revolution
04,513 legue Paraguay
04,513 legua Chile,[81] (Guatemala, Haiti) = 36 cuadros = 5400 varas
04,808 Switzerland
04,828 English land league England 3 miles
04,900 Germanic rasta, also doppelleuge
(double league)
05,000 légua nova Portugal[81]
05,196 legua Bolivia[81] = 40 ladres
05,152 legua argentina Argentina, Buenos Aires[81] = 6000 varas
05,154 legue Uruguay
05,200 Bolivian legua Bolivia
05,370 legue Venezuela
05,500 Portuguese legua Portugal
05,510 legue Ecuador
05,510 Ecuadorian legua Ecuador
05,532.5 Landleuge
(state league) Prussia
05,540 legue Honduras
05,556 Seeleuge (nautical league) 1/20° of a circle of longitude
3 nautical miles
05,570 legua Spain and Chile Spanish customary units
05,572 legua Kolumbien[81] = 3 Millas
05,572.7 legue Peru[81] = 20,000 feet
05,572.7 legua antigua
old league Spain[81] = 3 millas = 15,000 feet
05,590 légua Brazil[81] = 5,000 varas = 2,500 bracas
05,600 Brazilian legua Brazil
05,840[82] Dutch mile Holland
06,197 légua antiga Portugal[81] = 3 milhas = 24 estadios
06,277 Luxembourg
06,280 Belgium
06,687.24 legua nueva
new league, since 1766 Spain[81] = 8000 Varas
06,797 Landvermessermeile
(state survey mile) Saxony
07,400 Netherlands
07,409 (for comparison) 4 meridian minutes
07,419.2 Kingdom of Hanover
07,419.4 Duchy of Brunswick
07,414.9 Bavaria
07,420.439 geographic mile 1/15 equatorial grads
07,421.6 (for comparison) 4 equatorial minutes
07,448.7 Württemberg
07,450 Hohenzollern
07,467.6 Russia 7 werst Obsolete Russian units of measurement
07,480 Bohemia
07,500 kleine / neue Postmeile
(small/new postal mile) Saxony 1840 German Empire, North German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Russia
07,532.5 Land(es)meile
(German state mile) Denmark, Hamburg, Prussia primarlly for Denmark defined by Ole Rømer
07,585.9 Postmeile
(post mile) Austro-Hungary Austrian units of measurement
07,850 Milă Romania Actually, Romania uses the International Nautical Mile, i.e. 1,852m and called Milă Marină[83]
08,800 Schleswig-Holstein
08,888.89 Baden
09,062 mittlere Post- / Polizeimeile
(middle post mile or police mile) Saxony 1722
09,206.3 Electorate of Hesse
09,261.4 (for comparison) 5 meridian minutes
09,277 (for comparison) 5 equatorial minutes
09,323 alte Landmeile
(old state mile) Hanover 1836
09,869.6 Oldenburg
10,000 metric mile, Scandinavian mile Scandinavia still commonly used today, e. g. for road distances.; equates to the myriameter
10,044 große Meile
(great mile) Westphalia
10,670 Finland
10.688.54 mil Sweden 1889
11,299 mil Norway was equivalent to 3000 Rhenish rods.
Similar units:
1066.8 m – verst, see also Obsolete Russian units of measurement
Even in English-speaking countries that have moved from the Imperial to the metric system (for example, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand), the mile is still used in a variety of idioms. These include:
A country mile is used colloquially to denote a very long distance.
"A miss is as good as a mile" (failure by a narrow margin is no better than any other failure)
"Give him an inch and he'll take a mile" - a corruption of "Give him an inch and he'll take an ell" [84][85] (the person in question will become greedy if shown generosity)
"Missed by a mile" (missed by a wide margin)
"Go a mile a minute" (move very quickly)
"Talk a mile a minute" (speak at a rapid rate)
"To go the extra mile" (to put in extra effort)
"Miles away" (lost in thought, or daydreaming)
"Milestone" (an event indicating significant progress)
Anthropic units
Data mile
Fibonacci sequence for miles converting to kilometres
Four-minute mile
Geographical mile
Mile run
Scandinavian mile
Section lines
United States customary units
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Vladimir Kramnik
Title: Vladimir Kramnik
Subject: London Chess Classic, October 2008 in sports, Zurich Chess Challenge, Tal Memorial, Garry Kasparov
Collection: 1975 Births, Chess Grandmasters, Chess Olympiad Competitors, Living People, People from Tuapse, Russian Chess Players, Russian Chess Writers, Russian Writers, World Chess Champions, World Youth Chess Champions
Kramnik at the 2005 Corus chess tournament
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik
(1975-06-25) 25 June 1975
Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
2000–06 (Classical)
2006–07 (undisputed)
2783 (June 2016)
Peak rating
2811 (May 2013)[1]
No. 9 (December 2014)
Peak ranking
No. 1 (January 1996)
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Russian: Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007. He has won three team gold medals and three individual medals at Chess Olympiads.[2]
In October 2000, he defeated Garry Kasparov in a match played in London, and became the Classical World Chess Champion. In late 2004, Kramnik successfully defended his title against challenger Péter Lékó in a drawn match played in Brissago, Switzerland. In October 2006, Kramnik, the Classical World Champion, defeated reigning FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov in a unification match, the World Chess Championship 2006. As a result, Kramnik became the first undisputed World Champion, holding both the FIDE and Classical titles, since Kasparov split from FIDE in 1993. In 2007, Kramnik lost the title to Viswanathan Anand, who won the World Chess Championship 2007 tournament ahead of Kramnik. He challenged Anand at the World Chess Championship 2008 to regain his title, but lost.
Early career 1
Chess career 2
Early setbacks 2.1
2000 World Championship 2.2
After London 2.3
2004 title defense 2.4
2006 Reunification match 2.5
2007 world championship tournament in Mexico 2.6
2008 match 2.7
Deep Fritz match 3
Personal life 4
Notable tournament victories 5
World championship matches and qualifiers 6
Head-to-head record versus selected grandmasters 7
Assessment and legacy 8
Playing style 8.1
Contributions to chess 8.2
Chess books 9
Vladimir Kramnik was born in the town of Tuapse, on the shores of the Black Sea. His father's birth name was Boris Sokolov, but he took his stepfather's surname when his mother (Vladimir's grandmother) remarried; his mother is Ukrainian.[3] As a child, Vladimir Kramnik studied in the chess school established by Mikhail Botvinnik. His first notable result in a major tournament was his gold medal win as first reserve for the Russian team in the 1992 Chess Olympiad in Manila. His selection for the team caused some controversy in Russia at the time, as he was only sixteen years old and had not yet been awarded the grandmaster title, but his selection was supported by Garry Kasparov.[4] He scored eight wins, one draw, and no losses.
The following year, Kramnik played in the very strong tournament in Linares. He finished fifth, beating the then world number three, Vassily Ivanchuk, along the way. He followed this up with a string of good results, but had to wait until 1995 for his first major tournament win at normal time controls, when he won the strong Dortmund tournament, finishing it unbeaten.
In 1995, Kramnik served as a second for Kasparov in the Classical World Chess Championship 1995 match against challenger Viswanathan Anand. Kasparov won the match 10½–7½.
In January 1996, Kramnik became the world number-one rated player; although having the same FIDE rating as Kasparov (2775), Kramnik became number one by having played more games during the rating period in question. This was the first time since December 1985 that Kasparov was not world number one, and Kramnik's six month stretch (January through June 1996) as world number one would be the only time from January 1986 through March 2006 where Kasparov was not world number one. By becoming number one, Kramnik became the youngest ever to reach world number one, breaking Kasparov's record; this record would stand for 14 years until being broken by Magnus Carlsen in January 2010.
Kramnik continued to produce good results, including winning at Dortmund (outright or tied) ten times from 1995 to 2011. He is the second of only eight chess players to have reached a rating of 2800 (the first being Kasparov).
During his reign as world champion, Kramnik never regained the world number-one ranking, doing so only in January 2008 after he had lost the title to Viswanathan Anand; as in 1996, Kramnik had the same FIDE rating as Anand (2799) but became number one due to more games played within the rating period. Kramnik's 12 years between world number-one rankings is the longest since the inception of the FIDE ranking system in 1971.
Chess career
Early setbacks
In the mid- and late-90s, Kramnik, although considered one of the strongest players in the world, suffered several setbacks in his attempts to qualify for a World Championship match. In 1994, he lost a quarterfinal candidates match for the PCA championship to Gata Kamsky 1½–4½, and later that year, lost a semifinal candidates match for the FIDE championship to Boris Gelfand with the score 3½–4½. In 1998, Kramnik faced Alexei Shirov in a Candidates match for the right to play Garry Kasparov for the Classical World Chess Championship, and lost 3½–5½. In 1999, Kramnik participated in the FIDE knockout championship in Las Vegas, and lost in the quarterfinals to Michael Adams 2–4.
2000 World Championship
Suitable sponsorship was not found for a Kasparov–Shirov match, and it never took place. In 2000, sponsorship was secured for a Kasparov–Kramnik match instead. This was somewhat controversial, making Kramnik the first player since 1935 to play a world championship match without qualifying.
In 2000, Kramnik played a sixteen-game match against Garry Kasparov in London, for the Classical Chess World Championship. Kramnik began the match as underdog, but his adoption of the Berlin Defence to Kasparov's Ruy Lopez opening was very effective. With the white pieces, Kramnik pressed Kasparov hard, winning Games Two and Ten and overlooking winning continuations in Games Four and Six. Kasparov put up little fight thereafter, agreeing to short draws with the white pieces in Games 9 and 13. Kramnik won the match 8½–6½ without losing a game (this was only the second time in history that a World Champion had lost a match without winning a single game). This event marked the first time Kasparov had been beaten in a World Championship match.
Kramnik's performance won him the Chess Oscar for 2000; this was the first time he had received the award.
After London
In October 2002, Kramnik competed in Brains in Bahrain, an eight-game match against the chess computer Deep Fritz in Bahrain. Kramnik started well, taking a 3–1 lead after four games. However, in game five, Kramnik made what was described as the worst blunder of his career, losing a knight in a position which was probably drawn. He quickly resigned. He also resigned game six after making a speculative sacrifice, although subsequent analysis showed that he had drawing chances in the final position. The last two games were drawn, and the match ended tied at 4–4.
In February 2004 Kramnik won the Tournament of Linares outright for the first time (he had tied for first with Kasparov in 2000), finishing undefeated with a +2 score, ahead of Garry Kasparov, the world's highest-rated player at the time.
2004 title defense
From 25 September 2004 until 18 October 2004, Kramnik retained his title as Classical World Chess Champion against challenger Péter Lékó at Brissago, Switzerland, by barely drawing the match in the last game. The 14-game match was poised in favor of Lékó right up until Kramnik won the final game, thus forcing a 7–7 draw and ensuring that Kramnik remained world champion.[5] The prize fund was 1 million Swiss francs, which was about USD $770,000 at the time. Because of the drawn result, the prize was split between the two players.
2006 Reunification match
When Garry Kasparov broke with FIDE, the federation governing professional chess, to play the 1993 World Championship with Nigel Short, he created a rift in the chess world. In response, FIDE sanctioned a match between Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman for the FIDE World Championship, which Karpov won. Subsequently, the chess world had seen two "champions": the "classical" championship, claiming lineage dating back to Steinitz; and the FIDE endorsed champion.
When Kramnik defeated Kasparov and inherited Kasparov's title, he also inherited some controversies. Because the arrangements for the Kasparov Shirov match fell through, (it appears Shirov refused to play for what he considered too small a prize fund[6]) Kasparov decided to try to arrange a match with the highest rated player according to FIDE's rating list. At the time Anand was the highest rated player but Anand refused the match.[7][8] In the meantime Kramnik overtook Anand in rating and so he was offered the match. Kramnik accepted and ended up playing the match despite his loss of the qualifying match against Alexei Shirov in 1998.
At the next FIDE world championship (FIDE World Chess Championship 2005), Kramnik refused to participate, but indicated his willingness to play a match against the winner to unify the world championship. After the tournament, negotiations began for a reunification match between Kramnik and the new FIDE World Champion—Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria.
In April 2006, FIDE announced a reunification match between Kramnik and Topalov—the FIDE World Chess Championship 2006. The match took place in Elista, Kalmykia. After the first four games, Kramnik led 3–1 (out of a maximum of 12). After the fourth game, however, Topalov's coach/manager Silvio Danailov protested that Kramnik was using the toilet suspiciously frequently, implying that he was somehow receiving outside assistance whilst doing so. Topalov said that he would refuse to shake hands with Kramnik in the remaining games. The Appeals committee decided that the players' toilets be locked and that they be forced to use a shared toilet, accompanied by an assistant arbiter.
Kramnik refused to play the fifth game unless the original conditions agreed for the match were adhered to. As a result, the point was awarded to Topalov, reducing Kramnik's lead to 3–2. Kramnik stated that the appeals committee was biased and demanded that it be replaced. As a condition to continue the match, Kramnik insisted on playing the remaining games under the original conditions of the match contract, which allows use of the bathroom at the players' discretion.
The controversy resulted in a heavy volume of correspondence to Chessbase and other publications. The balance of views from fans was in support of Kramnik.[9] Prominent figures in the chess world, such as John Nunn, Yasser Seirawan, and Bessel Kok also sided with Kramnik.[10][11][12] The Russian and Bulgarian Chess Federations supported their respective players.[13]
After twelve regular games the match was tied 6–6, although Kramnik continued to dispute the result of the unplayed fifth game until the end of the match. On 13 October 2006 the result of this disputed game became irrelevant as Kramnik won the rapid tie-break by a score of 2½–1½.
Kramnik's victory helped him win the Chess Oscar for 2006, the second of his career.
2007 world championship tournament in Mexico
Kramnik, winner at Dortmund 2007
When Kramnik won the 2006 unification match, he also won Topalov's berth in the 2007 World Championship as the incumbent FIDE champion. Although the rationale behind his (and Garry Kasparov's) "classical" title is that the title should change hands by challenge match rather than by tournament, Kramnik stated that he would recognize the winner of this tournament as being the world champion.[14]
In the tournament, held in September 2007, Kramnik and Anand drew both of their games but Kramnik finished second. The tournament, and the world championship, was won by Viswanathan Anand.
2008 match
Pursuant to the agreement reached before the 2007 tournament Kramnik and Anand played a match of the World Championship title in 2008 in Bonn. He fell victim to Anand's superior preparation, and lost three of the first six games (two with the white pieces). Kramnik's play gradually improved, and although he managed a 29 move victory in game 10,[15] he did not win any other game, and lost the match to Anand by a score of 6½ to 4½ (three wins to Anand, one win to Kramnik, seven draws).
Kramnik had exceptionally good results in 2009, winning once again in Dortmund and then winning the Category 21 (average Elo = 2763) Tal Memorial in Moscow with 6/9 and a 2883 rating performance ahead of world champion Anand, Vassily Ivanchuk, Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Boris Gelfand, former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov, Peter Leko, Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich. At the time, the average Elo rating of the field made it the strongest tournament in history. Following this result, Kramnik stated that his goal was to regain the World Championship title.[16]
He also participated in the London Chess Classic in December, finishing second to Magnus Carlsen, losing their head-to-head encounter on the Black side of the English Opening. Kramnik's performance in 2009 allowed his rating (average of July 2009 and January 2010 ratings) to be high enough to qualify for the Candidates Tournament to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2012.
Kramnik began 2010 at the Corus chess tournament in the Netherlands, during which he defeated new world number one Carlsen with the Black pieces in their head-to-head encounter, ending Carlsen's 36-match unbeaten streak.[17] A late loss to Viswanathan Anand knocked him out of first place, and Kramnik finished with 8/13, tying for second place with Alexei Shirov behind Carlsen's 8½ points.
In May 2010 it was revealed that Kramnik had aided Viswanathan Anand in preparation for the World Chess Championship 2010 against challenger Veselin Topalov. Anand won the match 6½–5½ to retain the title.[18]
In April–May 2010 he tied for 1st–3rd with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Gata Kamsky in the President's Cup in Baku and won the event on tie-break after all finished on 5/7.[19]
Kramnik also participated in Dortmund, but had a subpar showing, losing to eventual champion Ruslan Ponomariov and finishing in joint third place with 5/10.[20]
He then participated in the Grand Slam Chess Masters preliminary tournament in Shanghai from September 3 to 8, where he faced world number four Levon Aronian, Alexei Shirov, and Wang Hao; the top two scorers qualified for the Grand Slam final supertournament from October 9 to 15 in Bilbao against Carlsen and Anand.[21] Scoring 3/6, Kramnik tied for second place with Aronian behind the winner Shirov's 4½/6. In the blitz playoff, Kramnik defeated Aronian to qualify along with Shirov for the Grand Slam final.[22]
Shortly after qualifying for the last stage of the Grand Slam, Kramnik played on board one for the Russian team in the 2010 Olympiad. He scored +2–0=7.
Following the Olympiad, Kramnik participated in the Grand Slam Chess Masters final in Bilbao where he competed against Anand, Carlsen and Shirov. The average rating of the field was 2789, the highest in history. After defeating world number one Carlsen for the second consecutive time, and then Shirov in his first two games, Kramnik drew his final four games to finish in clear first with 4/6. This gave Kramnik the distinction of having won the two strongest tournaments in chess history.
Kramnik's attempt to defend his 2009 title at the Tal Memorial in Moscow ended with a 7th place, while he finished 5th in the London Chess Classic in England.
2011 brought varied results. In Wijk aan Zee Kramnik shared fifth with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and in the Candidates he was eliminated by Alexander Grischuk. He won Dortmund for the tenth time, with Lê Quang Liêm in second place, and shared third behind Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich in the Russian Superfinal. Kramnik won the third London Chess Classic with four wins and four draws, and a rating performance over 2900 Elo. Hikaru Nakamura came second.[23] However, in the earlier 6th Tal Memorial 2011 Moscow he came 8th out of 10, with 2 losses (to Nepomniachtchi and Svidler) and 7 draws, with Magnus Carlsen winning the overall tournament on tiebreak from Levon Aronian.
Kramnik played a friendly match against Levon Aronian, which finished 3–3 (with a win for Aronian in a rapid game that didn't count as tiebreak). In Tal Memorial he shared fourth place behind Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and Teimour Radjabov. He finished second in the London Chess Classic behind Carlsen.
Kramnik played in the 2013 Candidates Tournament, which took place in London, from 15 March to 1 April. He finished with +4−1=9, sharing the first place with Magnus Carlsen, who won due to having better tiebreaks.[24]
In the 2013 Alekhine Memorial tournament, held from 20 April to 1 May, Kramnik finished seventh, with +2−2=5.[25]
In the 2013 Tal Memorial tournament, held from 13 June to 23 June, Kramnik finished tenth out of ten, with +0−3=6.[26]
In the Chess World Cup 2013, held in Norway from 11 August to 2 September, Kramnik finished in first place, defeating Dmitry Andreikin in the four-game final match 2½–1½.[27]
Kramnik did not succeed in defending his title in the Chess World Cup. In the third round he was defeated by Andreikin.
In the World Blitz Championship in Berlin with 15 points out of 21, he finished third. Half point behind the winner Alexander Grischuk and lost second place on tie break to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.
Deep Fritz match
Kramnik played a six-game match against the computer program Deep Fritz in Bonn, Germany from 25 November to 5 December 2006, losing 2–4 to the machine, with 2 losses and 4 draws. He received 500,000 Euros for playing and would have twice as much had he won the match. Deep Fritz version 10 ran on a computer containing two Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs. Kramnik received a copy of the program in mid-October for testing, but the final version included an updated opening book.[28] Except for limited updates to the opening book, the program was not allowed to be changed during the course of the match. The endgame tablebases used by the program were restricted to five pieces[29] even though a complete six-piece tablebase was widely available.
The first game ended in a draw.[30] A number of commentators claimed that Kramnik missed a win.[31] The second game was won by Deep Fritz, due to a mistake by Kramnik, who failed to defend against a threatened mate-in-one. Susan Polgar called it the "blunder of the century".[32] The third, fourth and fifth games of the match ended in draws. In the last game Fritz with the white pieces defeated the World Champion, winning the match.[33]
Vladimir Kramnik (right) playing chess with Vitali Klitschko, Dortmund, 2002.
On 30 December 2006 Kramnik married French journalist Marie-Laure Germon. They have two children: daughter Daria, and son Vadim Vladimirovich.[34]
Kramnik has been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, an uncommon form of arthritis. It causes him great physical discomfort while playing. In January 2006, Kramnik announced that he would skip the Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee to seek out treatment for his arthritis.[35] He returned from treatment in June 2006, playing in the 37th Chess Olympiad. He scored a +4 result, achieving the highest rating performance (2847) of the 1307 participating players.
Notable tournament victories
1990 Russian Championship, Kuibyshev (classical) I
1991 World Championship (U18), Guarapuava (classical) I
1992 Chalkidiki (classical) 7½/11 I
1994 Overall result PCA Intel Grand Prix'94 I
1995 Dortmund (classical) 7/9 I
1995 Horgen (classical) 7/10 I–II
1995 Belgrade (classical) 8/11 I–II
1996 Monaco 16/22 I
1996 Dos Hermanas (classical) 6/9 I–II
1996 Dortmund (classical) 7/9 I–II
1997 Dortmund (classical) 6½/9 I
1997 Tilburg (classical) 8/11 I–III
1998 Wijk aan Zee (classical) 8½/13 I–II
1998 Dortmund (classical) 6/9 I–III
1998 Monaco (blindfold and rapidplay) 15/22 I
1999 Monaco (blindfold and rapidplay) 14½/22 I
2000 Linares (classical) 6/10 I–II
2001 Match Kramnik vs. Leko (rapidplay) 7–5
2001 Match Botvinnik memorial Kramnik vs. Kasparov (classical) 2–2
2001 Match Botvinnik memorial Kramnik vs Kasparov (rapidplay) 3–3
2001 Monaco (blindfold and rapidplay) 15/22 I–II
2001 Match Kramnik vs. Anand (rapidplay) 5–5
2001 Dortmund (classical) 6½/10 I–II
2002 Match Advanced Chess Kramnik vs. Anand (León) 3½–2½
2003 Cap d'Agde (France)
2004 Handicap Simul (classical)
2004 Kramnik vs. National Team of Germany 2½–1½
2004 Linares (classical) 7/12 I
2004 Monaco (overall result) 14½/22 I–II
2006 Gold medal at Turin Olympiad with overall best performance (2847) 7/10
2007 Tal Memorial 6½/9 I
2009 Dortmund 6½/9 I
2009 Zürich (rapidplay) 5/7 I
2009 Tal Memorial 6/9 I
2010 President's Cup in Baku (rapidplay) 5/7 I–III
2010 Bilbao Grand Slam final 4/6 I
2011 Dortmund 7/10 I
2011 Hoogeveen 4½/6 I
2011 London Chess Classic 6/8 I
2013 Chess World Cup 2013
World championship matches and qualifiers
PCA Quarterfinals, June 1994, New York, Kramnik–Gata Kamsky (1½–4½).
FIDE Semifinals, August 1994 Sanghi Nagar, Kramnik–Boris Gelfand (3½–4½).
Classical WCC Candidates Match, 1998, Cazorla, Kramnik–Alexei Shirov (3½–5½).
FIDE WCC Knockout Quarterfinals, July 1999, Las Vegas, Kramnik–Michael Adams (2–4, including rapid playoff).
Classical World Chess Championship 2000, London, Kramnik–Garry Kasparov (8½–6½)
Classical World Chess Championship 2004, Brissago, Kramnik–Péter Lékó (7–7), Kramnik retains.
FIDE World Chess Championship 2006, Elista, Kramnik–Topalov (6–6, 2½–1½ rapid playoff), Kramnik unifies the title
FIDE World Chess Championship 2007 Runner up, Mexico City (loses the title to Anand, joint second Gelfand).
World Chess Championship 2008, Bonn, Kramnik–Anand (4½–6½), Anand retains
World Chess Championship 2012 Candidates Match Quarterfinals, April 2011, Kazan, Kramnik–Radjabov (2–2, 2–2 rapid playoff, 2½–1½ blitz playoff), Kramnik advances
World Chess Championship 2012 Candidates Match Semifinals, April 2011, Kazan, Kramnik–Grischuk (2–2, 2–2 rapid playoff, ½–1½ blitz playoff), Kramnik eliminated
World Chess Championship 2013 Runner-up, Candidates Tournament, March–April 2013, London, +4−1=9
World Chess Championship 2014 Third place, Candidates Tournament, Khanty-Mansiysk, +3-3=8
Head-to-head record versus selected grandmasters
(Rapid, blitz and blindfold games not included; listed as +wins −losses =draws as of 25 January 2014.)[36]
Players who have been World Champion in boldface
Michael Adams +8−4=25
Vladimir Akopian +1−1=5
Evgeny Alekseev +2−0=1
Viswanathan Anand +8−10=67
Alexander Areshchenko +0−0=2
Levon Aronian +7−3=19
Étienne Bacrot +0−1=3
Viktor Bologan +1−0=8
Lázaro Bruzón +1−0=1
Magnus Carlsen +4−4=12
Fabiano Caruana +1−2=5
Leinier Domínguez +0−0=2
Alexey Dreev +1−0=2
Pavel Eljanov +2−0=0
Vugar Gashimov +2−1=3
Boris Gelfand +6−3=38
Anish Giri +4−0=2
Alexander Grischuk +2−0=12
Vassily Ivanchuk +10−5=29
Dmitry Jakovenko +0−0=4
Gata Kamsky +1−4=10
Sergey Karjakin +0−2=8
Anatoly Karpov +2−3=10
Garry Kasparov +5−4=40
Rustam Kasimdzhanov +0−0=1
Alexander Khalifman +1−0=7
Peter Leko +11−6=53
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov +2−0=7
Luke McShane +4−1=1
Alexander Morozevich +4−3=8
Arkadij Naiditsch +6−2=7
Hikaru Nakamura +3−5=7
David Navara +0−0=2
Ian Nepomniachtchi +1−2=3
Judit Polgár +14−0=11
Ruslan Ponomariov +4−3=8
Teimour Radjabov +3−0=14
Alexei Shirov +15−11=28
Nigel Short +11−4=10
Ivan Sokolov +2−1=5
Peter Svidler +7−3=18
Veselin Topalov +14−9=32
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave +1−0=5
Rafael Vaganian +2−0=4
Francisco Vallejo Pons +0−0=5
Loek van Wely +8−3=6
Wang Hao +1−0=5
Assessment and legacy
Playing style
Garry Kasparov described Kramnik's style as pragmatic and tenacious, in the latter similar to Anatoly Karpov.[37] He is one of the toughest opponents to defeat, losing only one game in over one hundred games leading up to his match with Kasparov, including eighty consecutive games without loss.[38][39] Kasparov did not defeat Kramnik during their 2000 World Championship match, partly due to Kramnik's use of the Berlin Defence of the Ruy Lopez. Kramnik is renowned for his endgame skills.[40][41][42][43]
Contributions to chess
Kramnik has significantly shaped opening theory in chess. Viswanathan Anand has said of him "I don't know exactly how many lines he's established, but you get the impression that for the last 10 years we've only been using his ideas. ... His stamp on opening theory is much more significant than mine."[44] Kramnik's results with the white pieces against the King's Indian Defence made Kasparov drop the opening from his repertoire, and caused the opening to disappear from top-level play for many years.[45] Kramnik's use of the Berlin Defence in his 2000 match against Kasparov led to an increase in the opening's popularity.[46] Kramnik also revived the Catalan Opening.[47]
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Official website: biography and best games
List of chess games between Anand and Kramnik
List of chess games between Kasparov and Kramnik
^ Kramnik may have also reached 2811 in January 2002. This is the information provided on the FIDE site ([6]), but it is contradicted by FIDE's published ratings for January ([7]) and April ([8]) 2002, as well as by the reports in The Week in Chess for January ([9]) and April ([10]) 2002. The source of disagreement is whether FIDE rated or not his four-game match against Kasparov in December 2001.
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^ The last man vs machine match?, translated from Spiegel Online, 23 November 2006
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Title 7: Agriculture
PART 1221—SORGHUM PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION ORDER
Subpart A—Sorghum Promotion, Research, and Information Order
§1221.1 Act.
§1221.2 Board.
§1221.3 Calendar year.
§1221.4 Certified organization.
§1221.5 Conflict of interest.
§1221.6 Crop year.
§1221.7 Customs.
§1221.8 Department.
§1221.9 First handler.
§1221.10 Fiscal period.
§1221.11 Handle.
§1221.12 Harvest.
§1221.13 Importer.
§1221.14 Information.
§1221.15 Market.
§1221.16 Net market price.
§1221.17 Net market value.
§1221.18 Order.
§1221.19 Part and subpart.
§1221.20 Person.
§1221.21 Producer.
§1221.22 Production.
§1221.23 Promotion.
§1221.24 Qualified sorghum producer organization.
§1221.25 Referendum.
§1221.26 Research.
§1221.27 Secretary.
§1221.28 Sorghum.
§1221.29 State.
§1221.30 Suspend.
§1221.31 Terminate.
§1221.32 United States.
Sorghum Promotion, Research, and Information Board
§1221.100 Establishment and representation.
§1221.101 Nominations.
§1221.102 Nominee's agreement to serve.
§1221.103 Appointment.
§1221.104 Term of office.
§1221.105 Vacancies.
§1221.106 Removal.
§1221.107 Certification of organizations.
§1221.108 Procedure.
§1221.109 Compensation and reimbursement.
§1221.110 Powers and duties.
§1221.111 Prohibited activities.
§1221.112 Budget and expenses.
§1221.113 Financial statements.
§1221.114 Operating reserve.
§1221.115 Investment of funds.
§1221.116 Assessments.
§1221.117 Exemptions.
§1221.121 Programs, plans, and projects.
§1221.122 Independent evaluation.
§1221.123 Patents, copyrights, inventions, trademarks, information, publications, and product formulations.
§1221.124 Reports.
§1221.125 Books and records.
§1221.126 Use of information.
§1221.127 Confidential treatment.
Qualification of Sorghum Producer Organizations
§1221.128 Qualification.
§1221.129 Right of the Secretary.
§1221.130 Referenda.
§1221.131 Suspension or termination.
§1221.132 Proceedings after termination.
§1221.133 Effect of termination or amendment.
§1221.134 Personal liability.
§1221.135 Separability.
§1221.136 Amendments.
§1221.137 Rules and regulations.
§1221.138 OMB control number.
Act means the Commodity Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7411-7425), and any amendments thereto.
Board or Sorghum Promotion, Research, and Information Board means the administrative body established pursuant to §1221.100, or such other name as recommended by the Board and approved by the Secretary.
Calendar year means the 12-month period from January 1 through December 31.
Certified organization means any organization that has been certified by the Secretary pursuant to this part as eligible to submit nominations for membership on the Board.
Conflict of interest means a situation in which a representative or employee of the Board has a direct or indirect financial interest in a person or business that performs a service for, or enters into a contract with, the Board for anything of economic value.
Crop year means the time period by which the USDA reports crop production for sorghum and is indicated by the calendar year in which sorghum is normally harvested.
Customs means the U.S. Customs and Border Protection of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Department means the United States Department of Agriculture or any officer or employee of the USDA to whom authority has heretofore been delegated, or to whom authority may hereafter be delegated, to act in the Secretary's stead.
First handler means the first person who buys or takes possession (excluding a common or contract carrier of sorghum owned by another) of more than 1,000 bushels of grain sorghum; or 5,000 tons of sorghum forage, sorghum hay, sorghum haylage, sorghum billets, or sorghum silage from producers in a calendar year for marketing. The term first handler includes a producer who markets sorghum of the producer's own production directly to consumers. In any case in which sorghum is pledged as collateral for a loan issued under any Commodity Credit Corporation price support loan program and the sorghum is forfeited by the producer in lieu of loan repayment, the Commodity Credit Corporation will be considered a first handler.
Fiscal period means the 12-month period ending on December 31 or such other consecutive 12-month period as shall be recommended by the Board and approved by the Secretary.
Handle means to engage in the receiving or acquiring of sorghum and in the shipment (except as a common or contract carrier of sorghum owned by another) or sale of sorghum, or other activity causing sorghum to enter the current of commerce.
Harvest means combining or threshing sorghum for grain and/or severing the stalks from the land with mechanized equipment.
Importer means any person importing more than 1,000 bushels of grain sorghum; or 5,000 tons of sorghum forage, sorghum hay, sorghum haylage, sorghum billets, or sorghum silage into the United States in a calendar year as a principal or as an agent, broker, or consignee of any person who produces or purchases sorghum outside of the United States for sale in the United States, and who is listed as the importer of record for such sorghum.
Information means information and programs that are designed to develop new markets and marketing strategies; increase market efficiency; enhance the image of sorghum on a national or international basis; and assist producers in meeting their conservation objectives. These include, but are not exclusive to:
(a) Consumer information, which means any action taken to provide information to, and broaden the understanding of, the general public regarding the consumption, use, nutritional attributes, and care of sorghum;
(b) Industry information, which means information and programs that will lead to the development of new markets, new marketing strategies, or increased efficiency for the sorghum industry, and activities to enhance the image of the sorghum industry.
Market means to sell or otherwise dispose of sorghum into intrastate, interstate, or foreign commerce by buying, distributing, or otherwise placing sorghum into commerce.
Net market price means the sales price, or other value, per volumetric unit, received by a producer for sorghum after adjustments for any premium or discount.
Net market value means:
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b)and (c) of this section, the value found by multiplying the net market price by the appropriate quantity of the volumetric units or the minimum value in a production contract received by a producer for sorghum after adjustments for any premium or discount.
(b) For imported sorghum, the total value paid by the importer for the sorghum as reported on the appropriate Customs form; or
(c) For sorghum pledged as collateral for a loan issued under any Commodity Credit Corporation price support loan program, the principal amount of the loan.
Order means an order issued by the Secretary under section 514 of the Act that provides for a program of generic promotion, research, and information regarding agricultural commodities authorized under the Act.
Part means the Sorghum Promotion, Research, and Information Order and all rules, regulations, and supplemental orders issued pursuant to the Act and the Order. The Order shall be a subpart of such part.
Person means any individual, group of individuals, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or any other legal entity.
Producer means any person who is engaged in the production and sale of sorghum in the United States and who owns, or shares the ownership and risk of loss of, the sorghum.
Production, as used in §1221.100, means:
(a) for the purpose of establishing the initial Board in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) of §1221.100, the volume of grain sorghum produced during the last 5 crop years, excluding the high and low years, and
(b) For the purpose of reapportionment in paragraphs (e) and (f) of §1221.100, the total assessments collected by the Board during the last 5 crop years, excluding the high and low years.
Promotion means any action taken to present a favorable image of sorghum to the public and the end-user industry for the purpose of improving the competitive position of sorghum and stimulating the sale of sorghum. This includes paid advertising and public relations.
Qualified sorghum producer organization means a qualified State-legislated sorghum promotion, research, and education commission or organization, approved by the Secretary. For States without a qualified State-legislated sorghum promotion, research, and education commission or organization, qualified sorghum producer organization means any qualified organization that has the primary purpose of representing sorghum producers, has sorghum producers as members, and that is approved by the Secretary.
Referendum means a referendum conducted by the Secretary pursuant to the Act whereby producers and importers are provided the opportunity to vote to determine whether the continuance of this subpart is favored by a majority of eligible persons voting.
Research means any type of test, study, or analysis designed to advance the knowledge, image, desirability, use, marketability, production, product development, or quality of sorghum, including, but not limited to, research relating to yield, nutritional value, cost of production, new product development, inbred and hybrid development, nutritional value, health research, and marketing of sorghum.
Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, or any officer or employee of the Department to whom authority has heretofore been delegated, or to whom authority may hereafter be delegated, to act in the Secretary's stead.
Sorghum means any harvested portion of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench or any related species of the genus Sorghum of the family Poaceae. This includes, but is not limited to, grain sorghum (including hybrid sorghum seeds, inbred sorghum line seed, and sorghum cultivar seed), sorghum forage, sorghum hay, sorghum haylage, sorghum billets, and sorghum silage.
State means any of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or possession of the United States.
Suspend means to issue a rule under section 553 of title 5, U.S.C., to temporarily prevent the operation of an order or part thereof during a particular period of time specified in the rule.
Terminate means to issue a rule under section 553 of title 5, U.S.C., to cancel permanently the operation of an order or part thereof beginning on a certain date specified in the rule.
United States or U.S. means collectively the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories and possessions of the United States.
There is hereby established a Sorghum Promotion, Research, and Information Board, hereinafter called the Board. Representation includes, but is not limited to, fixed State seats determined by total production with at-large seats to allow representation from a broad geographical area. The Board shall initially be composed of 13 representatives, with the maximum number of producers from one State limited to 6, appointed by the Secretary from nominations as follows:
(a) The largest production State based on total production shall have 5 sorghum producers to serve as representatives.
(b) The second largest production State based on total production shall have 3 sorghum producers to serve as representatives.
(c) The third largest production State based on total production shall have one sorghum producer to serve as a representative.
(d) There shall be 4 sorghum producers to serve as at-large national representatives with at least two representatives appointed from States not described in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this section.
(e) If the value of assessments on imported sorghum reaches or exceeds the production of the third largest sorghum production State, there shall be one importer to serve as a representative plus an additional at-large national representative, with the maximum number of producers from one State being increased from six to seven.
(f) At least once every 5 years, the Board will review the geographical distribution of production of sorghum in the United States, the production of sorghum in the United States, and the value of assessments on sorghum imported into the United States. The review will be based on Board assessment records and statistics from the USDA. If warranted, the Board may recommend to the Secretary that representation on the Board be altered to reflect any changes in geographical distribution of domestic sorghum production. If, in the review, the Board determines that the value of assessments on sorghum imported into the United States exceeds 15 percent of the production of sorghum, the Board shall recommend to the Secretary that the nomination procedures and appointments to the Board be altered as necessary or appropriate to facilitate the equitable representation of importers on the Board.
All nominations authorized under this section shall be made in the following manner:
(a) Nominations for State-specific and at-large national seats shall be obtained by the Secretary from eligible organizations certified under §1221.107. Certified eligible organizations representing producers in a State, or when making nominations for at-large seats, shall submit to the Secretary at least two nominees for each vacant seat. If the Secretary determines that a State is not represented by a certified eligible organization, then the Secretary may solicit nominations from other organizations or other persons residing in the State.
(b) If so required pursuant to §1221.100(f), at least two nominations for the importer representative shall be submitted by the Board to the Secretary.
(c) After the establishment of the initial Board, the Secretary shall announce when a vacancy does or will exist. Nominations for subsequent Board representatives shall be submitted to the Secretary not less than 90 days prior to the expiration of the terms of the representatives whose terms are expiring, in the manner as described in this section. In the case of vacancies due to reasons other than the expiration of a term of office, successor Board members shall be appointed pursuant to section 1221.105.
(d) When there is more than one certified eligible organization representing a State or when the Secretary solicits nominations from organizations and persons residing in that State, or when eligible certified organizations are nominating persons for at-large positions, eligible certified organizations may caucus and jointly nominate two qualified producers for each position on the Board for which a representative is to be appointed. If joint agreement is not reached with respect to any such nominations, or if no caucus is held, each eligible organization may submit to the Secretary two nominees for each appointment to be made to represent that State, or to fill an at-large position.
Any producer or person nominated to serve on the Board shall file with the Secretary at the time of the nomination a written agreement to:
(a) Serve on the Board if appointed;
(b) Disclose any relationship with any sorghum promotion entity or with any organization that has or is being considered for a contractual relationship with the Board; and
(c) Withdraw from participation in deliberations, decision-making, or voting on matters that concern the relationship disclosed under paragraph (b) of this section.
From the nominations made pursuant to §1221.101, the Secretary shall appoint the representatives of the Board on the basis of representation provided in §1221.100.
(a) The term of office for the representatives of the Board shall be three years, except for the initial term, pursuant to paragraph (c) of this section.
(b) Representatives may serve a maximum of 2 consecutive 3-year terms.
(c) When the Board is first established, the Secretary shall establish staggered terms as follows:
(1) Largest Production State—2 representatives shall serve a 2-year term, 1 representative shall serve a 3-year term, and 2 representatives shall serve a 4-year term.
(2) Second Largest Production State—1 representative shall serve a 2-year term, 1 representative shall serve a 3-year term, and 1 representative shall serve a 4-year term.
(3) Third Largest Production State—The representative shall serve a 3-year term.
(4) At-large national—1 representative shall serve a 2-year term, 2 representatives shall serve a 3-year term, and 1 representative shall serve a 4-year term.
(5) States with multiple representatives shall have their staggered terms assigned by the Secretary. At-large national representatives shall also have their staggered terms assigned by the Secretary.
(6) Representatives serving initial terms of 2 or 4 years shall be eligible to serve a single term of 3 years after their initial 2- or 4-year term.
(d) Each representative shall continue to serve until a successor is appointed by the Secretary and has accepted the position.
(e) Any successor appointed pursuant to §1221.105 serving 1 year or less may serve two consecutive 3-year terms.
To fill any vacancy occasioned by the death, removal, resignation, or disqualification of any member of the Board, a successor for the unexpired term of such representative shall be appointed by the Secretary pursuant to §1221.103 from the most recent list of nominations for the position pursuant to §1221.101 or the Secretary shall request nominations for a successor pursuant to §1221.101, except that said nomination and replacement shall not be required if an unexpired term is less than 6 months.
If the Secretary determines that any person appointed under this part fails or refuses to perform his or her duties properly or engages in an act of dishonesty or willful misconduct, the Secretary shall remove the person from office. A person appointed under this part or any employee of the Board may be removed by the Secretary if the Secretary determines that the person's continued service would be a detriment to the purposes of the Act.
(a) The eligibility of State, regional, or national organizations to participate in making nominations for membership on the Board shall be certified by the Secretary. Those organizations that may seek certification include:
(1) State-legislated sorghum promotion, research, and information organizations;
(2) Organizations whose primary purpose is to represent sorghum producers within a State, region, or at the national level; or,
(3) Organizations that have sorghum producers as members.
(b) Such eligibility shall be based, in addition to other information, upon a report submitted by the organization that shall contain information deemed relevant and specified by the Secretary for the making of such determination, including the following:
(1) The geographic territory covered by the organization's active membership;
(2) The nature and size of the organization's active membership, proportion of active membership accounted for by producers, a map showing the sorghum producing counties in which the organization has active members, the volume of sorghum produced in each such county, the number of sorghum producers in each such county, and the size of the organization's active sorghum producer membership in each such county;
(3) The extent to which the sorghum producer membership of such organization is represented in setting the organization's policies;
(4) Evidence of stability and permanency of the organization;
(5) Sources from which the organization's operating funds are derived;
(6) The functions of the organization; and
(7) The ability and willingness of the organization to further the purpose and objectives of the Act.
(c) The primary consideration in determining the eligibility of an organization shall be whether its sorghum producer membership consists of a sufficiently large number of sorghum producers who produce a relatively significant volume of sorghum to reasonably warrant its participation in the nomination of State specific and national at-large members to the Board. Any sorghum producer organization found eligible by the Secretary under this section shall be certified by the Secretary, and the Secretary's determination as to eligibility shall be final.
(a) At a Board meeting, it will be considered a quorum when a simple majority of the voting representatives are present.
(b) At the start of each fiscal period, the Board will approve a chairperson, vice chairperson, and secretary/treasurer who will conduct meetings throughout that period.
(c) All Board representatives and the Secretary or the Secretary's designee will be notified at least 30 days in advance of all Board and committee meetings, unless an emergency meeting is declared.
(d) Each voting representative of the Board will be entitled to one vote on any matter put to the Board, and the motion will carry if supported by a simple majority of the total votes of the Board representatives present at the meeting.
(e) It will be considered a quorum at a committee meeting when a simple majority of those assigned to the committee are present at the meeting. Committees may consist of individuals other than Board representatives, and such individuals may vote in committee meetings. Committee members shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for reasonable travel expenses, as approved by the Board.
(f) In lieu of voting at a properly convened meeting and, when in the opinion of the chairperson of the Board such action is considered necessary, the Board may take action if supported by a simple majority of the Board representatives by mail, telephone, electronic mail, facsimile, or any other means of communication. In that event, all representatives must be notified and provided the opportunity to vote. Any action so taken shall have the same force and effect as though such action had been taken at a properly convened meeting of the Board. All telephone votes shall be confirmed promptly in writing. All votes shall be recorded in Board minutes.
(g) There shall be no voting by proxy.
(h) The chairperson shall be a voting representative.
(i) The organization of the Board and the procedures for conducting meetings of the Board shall be in accordance with its bylaws, which shall be established by the Board and approved by the Secretary.
The representatives of the Board shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for reasonable travel expenses, as approved by the Board, incurred by them in the performance of their duties as Board representatives.
The Board shall have the following powers and duties:
(a) To administer the Order in accordance with its terms and conditions and to collect assessments;
(b) To develop and recommend to the Secretary for approval such bylaws as may be necessary for the functioning of the Board, and such rules as may be necessary to administer the Order, including activities authorized to be carried out under the Order;
(c) To meet not less than annually, and organize, and select from among the representatives of the Board a chairperson, other officers, committees, and subcommittees, as the Board determines appropriate;
(d) To employ persons, other than the representatives, as the Board considers necessary to assist the Board in carrying out its duties and to determine the compensation and specify the duties of such persons;
(e) To develop programs, plans, and projects, and enter into contracts or agreements, which must be approved by the Secretary before becoming effective, for the development and carrying out of programs, plans, or projects of research, information, or promotion, and the payment of costs thereof with funds collected pursuant to this subpart. Each contract or agreement shall provide that: Any person who enters into a contract or agreement with the Board shall develop and submit to the Board a proposed activity; keep accurate records of all of its transactions relating to the contract or agreement; account for funds received and expended in connection with the contract or agreement; make periodic reports to the Board of activities conducted under the contract or agreement; and, make such other reports available as the Board or the Secretary considers relevant. Furthermore, any contract or agreement shall provide that:
(1) The contractor or agreeing party shall develop and submit to the Board a program, plan, or project together with a budget or budgets that shall show the estimated cost to be incurred for such program, plan, or project;
(2) The contractor or agreeing party shall keep accurate records of all its transactions and make periodic reports to the Board of activities conducted, submit accounting for funds received and expended, and make such other reports as the Secretary or the Board may require;
(3) The Secretary may audit the records of the contracting or agreeing party periodically; and
(4) Any subcontractor who enters into a contract with a Board contractor and who receives or otherwise uses funds allocated by the Board shall be subject to the same provisions as the contractor.
(f) To prepare and submit for approval of the Secretary fiscal period budgets in accordance with §1221.112;
(g) To maintain such records and books and prepare and submit such reports and records from time to time to the Secretary as the Secretary may prescribe; to make appropriate accounting with respect to the receipt and disbursement of all funds entrusted to it; and to keep records that accurately reflect the actions and transactions of the Board;
(h) To cause its books to be audited by a competent auditor at the end of each fiscal period and at such other times as the Secretary may request, and to submit a report of the audit directly to the Secretary;
(i) To give the Secretary the same notice of Board and committee meetings as is given to representatives in order that the Secretary's representative(s) may attend such meetings;
(j) To act as intermediary between the Secretary and any producer, first handler or importer;
(k) To furnish to the Secretary any information or records that the Secretary may request;
(l) To receive, investigate, and report to the Secretary complaints of violations of the Order;
(m) To recommend to the Secretary such amendments to the Order as the Board considers appropriate; and with the approval of the Secretary, to make rules and regulations to effectuate the terms and provisions of this subpart;
(n) To work to achieve an effective, continuous, and coordinated program of promotion, research, consumer information, evaluation, and industry information designed to strengthen the sorghum industry's position in the marketplace; maintain and expand existing markets and uses for sorghum; and to carry out programs, plans, and projects designed to provide maximum benefits to the sorghum industry;
(o) To provide not less than annually a report to producers and importers accounting for the funds expended by the Board, and describing programs implemented under the Act; and to make such report available to the public upon request; and
(p) To invest funds in accordance with §1221.115.
The Board may not engage in, and shall prohibit the employees and agents of the Board from engaging in:
(a) Any action that is a conflict of interest;
(b) Using funds collected by the Board under the Order to undertake any action for the purpose of influencing legislation or governmental action or policy, by local, State, national, and foreign governments, other than recommending to the Secretary amendments to this part; and
(c) Any advertising, including promotion, research, and information activities authorized to be carried out under the Order that is false or misleading or disparaging to another agricultural commodity.
(a) Prior to the beginning of each fiscal period, and as may be necessary thereafter, the Board shall prepare and submit to the Secretary a budget for the fiscal period covering its anticipated expenses and disbursements in administering this subpart. Each such budget shall include:
(1) A statement of objectives and strategy for each program, plan, or project;
(2) A summary of anticipated revenue, with comparative data for at least one preceding year (except for the initial budget);
(3) A summary of proposed expenditures for each program, plan, or project; and
(4) Staff and administrative expense breakdowns, with comparative data for at least one preceding year (except for the initial budget).
(b) Each budget shall provide adequate funds to defray its proposed expenditures and to provide for a reserve as set forth in this subpart.
(c) Subject to this section, any amendment or addition to an approved budget that increases the budget must be approved by the Secretary. Shifts of funds that do not result in an increase in the Board's approved budget and that are consistent with this subpart and the Board's governing bylaws need not have prior approval by the Secretary.
(d) The Board is authorized to incur such expenses, including provision for a reasonable reserve, as the Secretary finds are reasonable and likely to be incurred by the Board for its maintenance and functioning, and to enable it to exercise its powers and perform its duties in accordance with the provisions of this subpart. Such expenses shall be paid from funds received by the Board.
(e) With approval of the Secretary, the Board may borrow money for the payment of administrative expenses, subject to the same fiscal, budget, and audit controls as other funds of the Board. Any funds borrowed by the Board shall be expended only for startup costs and capital outlays and are limited to the first fiscal period of operation of the Board.
(f) The Board may accept voluntary contributions, but these shall only be used to pay expenses incurred in the conduct of programs, plans, and projects in accordance with the Order. Such contributions shall be free from any encumbrance by the donor and the Board shall retain complete control of their use.
(g) The Board shall reimburse the Secretary for all expenses incurred by the Secretary in the implementation, administration, and supervision of the Order, including all referendum costs in connection with the Order.
(h) The Board shall determine annually an allocation amount no less than 15 percent but no more than 25 percent of the total assessments collected on all sorghum available for any fiscal period, less the expenses pursuant to paragraph (i), for use by qualified sorghum producer organizations pursuant to §1221.128 for State programs of generic promotion, research, and information. Amounts allocated by the Board for State generic promotion, research, and information programs will be based on requests submitted to the Board by qualified sorghum producer organizations when it is determined that these requests meet the goals and objectives stated in the Act and Order. The request shall include detailed programs, plans, or projects with budgets. Qualified sorghum producer organizations shall not submit requests for State generic promotion, research, and information programs that exceed the annual allocation amount determined by the Board which shall be the product of:
(1) The State's proportional contribution based on reports submitted by first handlers pursuant to §1221.124(a) to total assessments remitted on all sorghum for the previous fiscal period; multiplied by
(2) The total assessments collected on all sorghum for the previous fiscal period less expenses pursuant to paragraph (i) of this section.
(i) The Board may not expend for administration, maintenance, and functioning of the Board in any fiscal period an amount that exceeds 10 percent of the assessments and other income received by the Board for that fiscal period except for the initial fiscal period. Reimbursements to the Secretary required under paragraph (i) of this section are excluded from this limitation on spending.
(j) The Board shall allocate all other funds available for any fiscal period, to the extent practicable, subject to paragraphs (g), (h), (i), (j), and (k) of this section on programs, plans, or projects, as provided for in §1221.121.
(k) The Board shall determine annually the allocation of total funds pursuant to this section, with the approval of the Secretary.
[73 FR 25407, May 6, 2008, as amended at 83 FR 35106, July 25, 2018]
(a) As requested by the Secretary, the Board shall prepare and submit financial statements to the Secretary on a monthly basis. Each such financial statement shall include, but not be limited to, a balance sheet, income statement, and expense budget. The expense budget shall show expenditures during the time period covered by the report, fiscal period-to-date expenditures, and the unexpended budget.
(b) Each financial statement shall be submitted to the Secretary within 30 days after the end of the time period to which it applies.
(c) The Board shall submit annually to the Secretary an annual financial statement within 90 days after the end of the fiscal period to which it applies.
The Board may establish an operating monetary reserve and may carry over to subsequent fiscal period excess funds in a reserve so established, provided that funds in the reserve shall not exceed one fiscal period's anticipated expenses.
The Board may invest, pending disbursement, funds it receives under this subpart, only in obligations of the United States or any agency of the United States; general obligations of any State or any political subdivision of a State; interest bearing accounts or certificates of deposit of financial institutions that are members of the Federal Reserve system; or obligations that are fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States.
(a) The funds to cover the Board's expenses shall be paid from assessments on producers and importers, donations from any person not subject to assessments under this Order, and other funds available to the Board and subject to the limitations contained therein.
(b) First handlers of domestic sorghum shall be responsible for collecting assessments from producers on all domestically handled sorghum. This includes sorghum of the first handler's own production. Grain pledged as collateral for a Commodity Credit Corporation price support loan program shall be considered handled sorghum. A first handler shall not collect an assessment on sorghum from a producer when said producer presents documentation demonstrating that an assessment has previously been collected on said sorghum.
(c) The following assessment rates for sorghum shall apply:
(1) Grain sorghum shall be initially assessed at a rate of 0.6 percent of net market value received by the producer pursuant to paragraph (e) of this section; and
(2) Sorghum forage, sorghum hay, sorghum haylage, sorghum billets, and sorghum silage shall be initially assessed at a rate of 0.35 percent of net market value received by the producer pursuant to paragraph (e) of this section.
(d) Importers of sorghum shall pay an assessment to the Board through Customs on sorghum imported into the United States. The following apply to imported sorghum:
(1) The assessment rates for imported sorghum shall be the same or equivalent to the rates for sorghum produced in the United States.
(2) The import assessment shall be uniformly applied to imported sorghum that is identified by the numbers 1007.00.0020 and 1007.00.0040 in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.
(3) The assessments due on imported sorghum shall be paid when the sorghum enters the United States.
(4) If Customs does not collect an assessment from an importer, the importer is responsible for paying the assessment to the Board.
(e) The Board will review the assessment rates and may make recommendations to modify the assessment rates to the Secretary. Assessment rates may be raised or lowered no more than 0.2 percent of net market value received by producers and importers in any one calendar year. The maximum assessment rate cannot exceed 1 percent of the net market value received by producers and importers.
(f) Each person responsible for collecting assessments under paragraph (b) of this section shall remit the amount due to the Board in such a manner as required by regulations recommended by the Board and prescribed by the Secretary.
(g) Any unpaid assessment due to the Board pursuant to this section shall be increased 2 percent each month beginning with the day following the date such assessments were due. Any remaining amount due, which shall include any unpaid charges previously made pursuant to this paragraph, shall be increased at the same rate on the corresponding day of each month thereafter until paid. For the purposes of this paragraph, any assessment determined at a later date than the date prescribed by this subpart because of a person's failure to timely submit a report to the Board shall be considered to have been payable by the date it would have been due if the report had been filed timely. The timeliness of a payment to the Board shall be based on the applicable postmark date or the date actually received by the Board.
(h) An additional charge shall be imposed on any person subject to a late payment charge in the form of interest on the outstanding portion of any amount for which the person is liable. The rate of interest shall be prescribed by the Secretary.
(i) Persons failing to remit total assessments due in a timely manner may also be subject to actions under Federal debt collection procedures.
(j) The Board may authorize other organizations to collect assessments on its behalf with the approval of the Secretary.
(k) The collection of assessments pursuant to this section shall begin with respect to sorghum handled on or after the effective date established by the Secretary and shall continue until terminated or suspended by the Secretary.
(l) If the Board is not in place by the date the first assessments are to be collected, the Secretary shall have the authority to receive assessments and invest them on behalf of the Board, and shall pay such assessments and any interest earned to the Board when it is formed. The Secretary shall have the authority to promulgate rules and regulations concerning assessments and the collection of assessments, if the Board is not in place or is otherwise unable to develop such rules and regulations.
(m) Payment remitted pursuant to this subpart shall be in the form of a negotiable instrument made payable to the Board. Such remittances and the reports specified in §§1221.124 and 1221.125 shall be mailed to the location designated by the Board.
(a) Any importer of less than and including 1,000 bushels of grain sorghum or 5,000 tons of sorghum forage, sorghum hay, sorghum haylage, sorghum billets, or sorghum silage per calendar year may claim an exemption from the assessment required under §1221.116.
(b) An importer desiring an exemption shall apply to the Board, on a form provided by the Board, for a certificate of exemption. An importer shall certify that the importer will import less than and including 1,000 bushels of grain sorghum or 5,000 tons of sorghum forage, sorghum hay, sorghum haylage, sorghum billets, or sorghum silage.
(c) Upon receipt of an application, the Board shall determine whether an exemption may be granted. The Board then will issue, if deemed appropriate, a certificate of exemption to each person who is eligible to receive one. It is the responsibility of these persons to retain a copy of the certificate of exemption.
(d) Importers who receive a certificate of exemption shall be eligible for reimbursement of assessments collected by Customs. These importers shall apply to the Board for reimbursement of any assessments paid. No interest will be paid on the assessments collected by Customs. Requests for reimbursement shall be submitted to the Board within 90 days of the last day of the calendar year the sorghum was actually imported.
(e) Any person who desires an exemption from assessments for a subsequent calendar year shall reapply to the Board, on a form provided by the Board, for a certificate of exemption.
(f) The Board may require persons receiving an exemption from assessments to provide to the Board reports on the disposition of exempt sorghum and, in the case of importers, proof of payment of assessments.
(g) A producer or importer who operates under an approved National Organic Program (7 CFR part 205) (NOP) organic production or handling system plan may be exempt from the payment of assessments under this part, provided that:
(1) Only agricultural products certified as “organic” or “100 percent organic” (as defined in the NOP), or certified as “organic” or “100 percent organic” under a U.S. equivalency arrangement established under the NOP, are eligible for exemption;
(2) The exemption shall apply to all certified “organic” or “100 percent organic” (as defined in the NOP) products of a producer or importer regardless of whether the agricultural commodity subject to the exemption is produced or imported by a person that also produces or imports conventional or nonorganic agricultural products of the same agricultural commodity as that for which the exemption is claimed;
(3) The producer or importer maintains a valid certificate of organic operation as issued under the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6501-6522) (OFPA) and the NOP regulations issued under OFPA (7 CFR part 205); and
(4) Any producer or importer so exempted shall continue to be obligated to pay assessments under this part that are associated with any agricultural products that do not qualify for an exemption under this section.
(h) To apply for an exemption under this section, the applicant shall submit a request to the Board on an Organic Exemption Request Form (Form AMS-15) at any time during the year initially, and annually thereafter on or before January 1, for as long as the producer or importer continues to be eligible for the exemption.
(i) A producer or importer request for exemption shall include the following:
(1) The applicant's full name, company name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address;
(2) Certification that the applicant maintains a valid certificate of organic operation issued under the OFPA and the NOP;
(3) Certification that the applicant produces or imports organic products eligible to be labeled “organic” or “100 percent organic” under the NOP;
(4) A requirement that the applicant attach a copy of their certificate of organic operation issued by a USDA-accredited certifying agent under the OFPA and the NOP;
(5) Certification, as evidenced by signature and date, that all information provided by the applicant is true; and
(6) Such other information as may be required by the Board, with the approval of the Secretary.
(j) If the applicant complies with the requirements of this section, the Board will grant an assessment exemption and issue a Certificate of Exemption to the producer or importer within 30 days. If the application is disapproved, the Board will notify the applicant of the reason(s) for disapproval within the same timeframe.
(k) The producer or importer shall provide a copy of the Certificate of Exemption to each first handler. The first handler shall maintain records showing the name and address of the exempt producer or importer and the exemption number assigned by the Board.
(l) The exemption will apply at the first reporting period following the issuance of the exemption.
[73 FR 25407, May 6, 2008, as amended at 80 FR 82032, Dec. 31, 2015]
(a) The Board shall receive and evaluate, or on its own initiative develop, and submit to the Secretary for approval any program, plan, or project authorized under this subpart. Such programs, plans, or projects shall provide for:
(1) The establishment, issuance, effectuation, and administration of appropriate programs for promotion, research, and information, including consumer and industry information, with respect to sorghum; and
(2) The establishment and conduct of research with respect, but not limited to: The yield, use, nutritional value and benefits, sale, distribution, and marketing of sorghum, and the creation of new products thereof, to the end that the marketing and use of sorghum may be encouraged, expanded, improved, or made more acceptable; and to advance the image, desirability, or quality of sorghum.
(b) No program, plan, or project shall be implemented prior to its approval by the Secretary. Once a program, plan, or project is so approved, the Board shall take appropriate steps to implement it.
(c) Each program, plan, or project implemented under this subpart shall be reviewed or evaluated periodically by the Board to ensure that it contributes to an effective program of promotion, research, or information. If it is found by the Board that any such program, plan, or project does not contribute to an effective program of promotion, research, or information, then the Board shall terminate such program, plan, or project.
(d) No program, plan, or project including advertising shall be false or misleading or disparaging to another agricultural commodity. Sorghum of all origins shall be treated equally.
Pursuant to the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7401), the Board shall, not less often than every five years, authorize and fund, from funds otherwise available to the Board, an independent evaluation of the effectiveness of the Order and other programs conducted by the Board pursuant to the Act. The Board shall submit to the Secretary, and make available to the public, the results of each periodic independent evaluation conducted under this paragraph.
(a) Any patents, copyrights, inventions, trademarks, information, publications, or product formulations developed through the use of funds collected by the Board under the provisions of this subpart shall be the property of the U.S. Government, as represented by the Board, and shall, along with any rents, royalties, residual payments, or other income from the rental, sales, leasing, franchising, or other uses of such patents, copyrights, inventions, trademarks, information, publications, or product formulations, inure to the benefit of the Board; shall be considered income subject to the same fiscal, budget, and audit controls as other funds of the Board; and may be licensed subject to approval by the Secretary. Upon termination of this subpart, §1221.132 shall apply to determine disposition of all such property.
(b) Should patents, copyrights, inventions, trademarks, information, publications, or product formulations be developed through the use of funds collected by the Board under this subpart and funds contributed by another organization or person, ownership and related rights to such patents, copyrights, inventions, trademarks, information, publications, or product formulations shall be determined by agreement between the Board and the party contributing funds towards the development of such patents, copyrights, inventions, trademarks, information, publications, or product formulations in a manner consistent with paragraph (a) of this section.
(a) Each first handler, on a State-by-State basis, will be required to provide to the Board periodically such information as may be required by the Board, with the approval of the Secretary, which may include but not be limited to the following:
(1) Number of bushels or tons of domestic sorghum within the State that were marketed to the first handler;
(2) Number of bushels or tons of domestic sorghum within the State on which an assessment was paid;
(3) The amount of assessments remitted on sorghum within the State;
(4) Date that any assessments were paid within the State;
(5) The explanation, if necessary, to show why the remittance is less than the applicable assessment rate multiplied by the net market price multiplied by the number of bushels or tons within the State that were marketed to the first handler; and
(6) The first handler's tax identification number.
(b) Each importer will be required to provide to the Board periodically such information as may be required by the Board, with the approval of the Secretary, which may include but not be limited to the following:
(1) Number of bushels or tons of sorghum imported;
(2) Number of bushels or tons of imported sorghum on which an assessment was paid;
(3) The amount of assessments remitted;
(4) Date that any assessments were paid;
(5) The explanation, if necessary, to show why the remittance is less than the applicable assessment rate multiplied by the net market value; and
(6) The importer's tax identification number.
(a) Each first handler, producer, or importer subject to this subpart shall maintain and make available during normal business hours for inspection By employees or agents of the Board or the Secretary such books and records as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this part, including records necessary to verify any required reports. Such records shall be maintained for at least 2 years beyond the fiscal period of their applicability.
(b) Each first handler responsible for collecting assessments pursuant to this subpart is required to give the producer from whom the assessment was collected, written evidence of payment of the assessment paid pursuant to this subpart. Such written evidence serving as a receipt shall include, but not be limited to, the following information:
(1) Name and address of the first handler,
(2) Name of producer who paid the assessment,
(3) Total number of bushels or tons of sorghum on which the assessment was paid,
(4) Total assessment paid by the producer,
(5) Date on which assessments were paid, and
(6) Such other information as the Board, with the approval of the Secretary, may require.
Information from records or reports required pursuant to this subpart shall be made available to the Secretary as is appropriate to the administration or enforcement of the Act, subpart, or any regulation issued under the Act. In addition, the Secretary may authorize the use, under this part, of information regarding producers, first handlers, or importers, that is accumulated under laws or regulations other than the Act or regulations issued under the Act.
All information obtained from books, records, or reports under the Act and this part shall be kept confidential by all persons, including all employees and former employees of the Board, all officers and employees and former officers and employees of contracting and subcontracting agencies or agreeing parties having access to such information. Such information shall not be available to Board representatives, first handlers, producers, or importers. Only those persons having a specific need for such information to effectively administer the provisions of this subpart shall have access to such information. Only such information so obtained as the Secretary deems relevant shall be disclosed by them, and then only in a judicial proceeding or administrative hearing brought at the direction, or on the request, of the Secretary, or to which the Secretary or any officer of the United States is a party, and involving this subpart. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit:
(a) The issuance of general statements based upon the reports of the number of persons subject to this subpart or statistical data collected there from, which statements do not identify the information furnished by any person; and
(b) The publication, by direction of the Secretary, of the name of any person who has been adjudged to have violated this part, together with a statement of the particular provisions of this part violated by such person.
(a) Organizations receiving qualification from the Secretary will be entitled to submit requests for funding to the Board pursuant to §1221.112(h). Only one sorghum producer organization per State may be qualified.
(b) State-legislated sorghum promotion, research, and information organizations may request qualification and will be considered first for qualification by the Secretary.
(c) If a State-legislated sorghum promotion, research, and information organization does not elect to seek qualification from the Secretary within a specified time period as determined by the Secretary, or does not meet eligibility requirements as specified by the Secretary, then any State sorghum producer organization whose primary purpose is to represent sorghum producers within a State, or any other State organization that has sorghum producers as part of its membership, may request qualification.
(d) Qualification shall be based, in addition to other available information, upon a factual report submitted by the organization that shall contain information deemed relevant and specified by the Secretary for the making of such determination, including the following:
(2) The nature and size of the organization's active membership, proportion of active membership accounted for by producers, a map showing the sorghum-producing counties in which the organization has active members, the volume of sorghum produced in each such county, the number of sorghum producers in each such county, and the size of the organization's active sorghum producer membership in each such county;
(5) Sources from which the organizations operating funds are derived;
(e) The primary consideration in determining the eligibility of an organization shall be whether its sorghum producer membership consists of a sufficiently large number of sorghum producers who produce a relatively significant volume of sorghum to reasonably warrant its qualification to submit requests for funding to the Board. Any sorghum producer organization found eligible by the Secretary under this section will be qualified by the Secretary, and the Secretary's determination as to eligibility shall be final.
[83 FR 35106, July 25, 2018]
All fiscal matters, programs, plans, or projects, rules or regulations, reports, or other substantive actions proposed and prepared by the Board shall be submitted to the Secretary for approval.
(a) For the purpose of ascertaining whether the persons subject to this part favor the continuation, suspension, or termination of this part, the Secretary shall conduct a referendum among persons subject to assessments under §1221.116 who, during a representative period determined by the Secretary, have engaged in the production or importation of sorghum.
(1) The referendum shall be conducted not later than 3 years after assessments first begin under this part.
(2) This part will be approved in a referendum if a majority of those persons voting vote for approval.
(b) The Secretary shall conduct a subsequent referendum:
(1) Not later than 7 years after assessments first begin under this part;
(2) At the request of the Board; or
(3) At the request of 10 percent or more of the sorghum producers and importers eligible to vote to determine if the persons favor the continuation, suspension, or termination of this part.
(c) The Secretary may conduct a referendum at any time to determine whether the continuation, suspension or termination of this part or a provision of this part is favored by sorghum producers and importers eligible to vote.
(d) The Board shall reimburse the Secretary for any expenses incurred by the Secretary to conduct referenda.
(e) A referendum conducted under this section with respect to this part shall be conducted in the manner determined by the Secretary to be appropriate.
(a) The Secretary shall suspend or terminate this part or subpart or a provision thereof if the Secretary finds that the subpart or a provision thereof obstructs or does not tend to effectuate the purposes of the Act, or if the Secretary determines that this subpart or a provision thereof is not favored by persons voting in a referendum conducted pursuant to the Act.
(b) The Secretary shall suspend or terminate this subpart at the end of the fiscal period whenever the Secretary determines that its suspension or termination is approved or favored by a majority of the producers and importers voting who, during a representative period determined by the Secretary, have been engaged in the production or importation of sorghum.
(c) If, as a result of a referendum the Secretary determines that this subpart is not approved, the Secretary shall:
(1) No later than 180 days after making the determination, suspend or terminate, as the case may be, collection of assessments under this subpart; and
(2) As soon as practical, suspend or terminate, as the case may be, activities under this subpart in an orderly manner.
(a) Upon the termination of this subpart, the Board shall recommend not more than five of its representatives to the Secretary to serve as trustees for the purpose of liquidating the affairs of the Board. Such persons, upon designation by the Secretary, shall become trustees of all of the funds and property then in the possession or under control of the Board, including claims for any funds unpaid or property not delivered, or any other claim existing at the time of such termination.
(b) The said trustees shall:
(1) Continue in such capacity until discharged by the Secretary;
(2) Carry out the obligations of the Board under any contracts or agreements entered into pursuant to the Order;
(3) From time to time, account for all receipts and disbursements and deliver all property on hand, together with all books and records of the Board and the trustees, to such person or persons as the Secretary may direct; and
(4) Upon request of the Secretary, execute such assignments or other instruments necessary and appropriate to vest in such persons, title and right to all funds, property and claims vested in the Board or the trustees pursuant to the Order.
(c) Any person to whom funds, property or claims have been transferred or delivered pursuant to the Order shall be subject to the same obligations imposed upon the Board and upon the trustees.
(d) Any residual funds not required to defray the necessary expenses of liquidation shall be turned over to the Secretary to be disposed of, to the extent practical, by qualified organizations pursuant to §1221.128 in the interest of continuing sorghum promotion, research, and information programs.
Unless otherwise expressly provided by the Secretary, the termination or amendment of this part or any subpart thereof, shall not:
(a) Affect or waive any right, duty, obligation or liability which shall have arisen or which may thereafter arise in connection with any provision of this part; or
(b) Release or extinguish any violation of this part; or
(c) Affect or impair any rights or remedies of the United States, or of the Secretary, or of any other persons with respect to any such violation.
No representative or employee of the Board shall be held personally responsible, either individually or jointly with others, in any way whatsoever, to any person for errors in judgment, mistakes, or other acts, either of commission or omission, as such representative or employee, except for acts of dishonesty or willful misconduct.
If any provision of this subpart is declared invalid or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this subpart or the applicability thereof to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Amendments to this subpart may be proposed from time to time by the Board or by any interested person affected by the provisions of the Act, including the Secretary.
The Secretary may prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectively carry out the provisions of this subpart.
The control number assigned to the information collection requirements of this part by the Office of Management and Budget pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, is OMB control number 0581-0246.
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Five bills passed amid lack of Quorum
ISLAMABAD, June 7, 2012: Starting an hour and 35 minutes behind schedule, the third sitting of Punjab Assembly’s 38th session passed five Bills amid lack of Quorum.
Only 22 legislators present at the outset of the sitting and 59 when it was
Only three out of 104 Senators Speak on Budget
ISLAMABAD, June 7, 2012: Starting 50 minutes late, the fifth sitting of Senate’s 82nd session, which met for two hours and 10 minutes, debated budget amid low attendance by Senators on Thursday.
Two bills passed; MQM walkout over law and order
ISLAMABAD, June 7, 2012: Starting an hour and 20 behind schedule, the first sitting of Sindh Assembly’s 36th session passed two Bills as the MQM legislators walked out of the House over the issue of law and order in Karachi. The House, which met for two hours and 10 minutes on Thursday, also unanimously passed…
Only Six Legislators take part in Budget Debate
ISLAMABAD, June 7, 2012: Legislators’ low attendance persisted during the fifth sitting of the ongoing National Assembly’s budget session. Only 65 legislators were present at the start of the sitting while 70 were there when it was adjourned. Starting 25 minutes late, the House met for three and 38 minutes.
13 Bills on the Agenda remain unaddressed
ISLAMABAD, June 6, 2012: Starting an hour and 25 minutes behind schedule, the second sitting of Punjab Assembly’s 38th session left 13 Bills appearing on the Orders of the Day unaddressed.
The sitting witnessed low attendance with only 14 legislators present at the
Only two Senators debate budget; low attendance
ISLAMABAD, June 6, 2012: Starting 45 minutes late, the fourth sitting of the Senate’s 82nd session, which met for an hour and 27 minutes, witnessed low attendance and a protest by PMLN. Only eight legislators present at the start and 26 when the sitting was adjourned. A maximum of 42 Senators were observed at any time of the sitting.
Fruit prices register hike in May
ISLAMABAD, June 6: The price of monitored fruit registered a hike in May as compared to April 2012 with kinnow registering the highest increase of 30% followed by bananas (28%), dark red apples (25%) and golden apples (11%), says a Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) report.
The report released Wednesday
ISLAMABAD, June 6: The price of monitored fruit registered a hike in May as compared to April 2012 with kinnow registering the highest increase of 30% followed by bananas (28%), dark red apples (25%) and golden apples (11%), says a Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN)
Low interest in budget session
ISLAMABAD, June 6, 2012: The fourth sitting of the National Assembly’s budget session was marked by low attendance. Only 35 legislators were present at the start of the sitting while 158 were there when it was adjourned.
Low attendance marks first sitting of PA
ISLAMABAD, June 5, 2012: Starting two hours and 20 minutes behind schedule, the first sitting of Punjab Assembly’s 38th session witnessed low attendance with 52 legislators present at the outset and only 27 when it was adjourned.
Additionally the Chief Minister and the
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Category : Scholars
Iran’s power today is due to Islam and Wilayat al-Faqih
Rasa – Ayatollah Namazi said, “The power of the people, managers and officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran is due to Islam, Wilayah al-Faqih and the Supreme Leader.”
RNA – Speaking at a meeting of the General Culture Council of Kashan, Ayatollah Abdonnabi Namazi referred to the letter of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic in which he expressed willingness to negotiate with Iran and said, “The stance of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Khamenei] in response to Trump’s letter is greater than land power.”
The representative of the Supreme Leader in Kashan added that the Supreme Leader’s response to Trump’s letter had a greater affect than one atomic bomb on public opinion and among government officials, politicians, analysts, academics and international researchers.
He described the Supreme Leader’s statements in response to the United State’s position and Trump’s letter as “hard-hitting and decisive” and said, “God bestowed upon us the greatest blessings – Islam and faith – and we must appreciate Islam, Wilayah al-Faqih [Guardianship of the Jurisprudent], the Supreme Leader, the Islamic Revolution, system and the country.”
Ayatollah Namazi described the people of Iran as “good, grateful, patient and resistant” and said, “The heroic people of Iran have endured all the hardships of eight years of war and martyrdom and after that, they endured the imposition of sanctions, threats and economic warfare by the enemies and the economic problems of the country and stand firmly in support of the Islamic Revolution, the system, wilayah and Islam.”
His Eminence stated, “For various reasons, we can’t make use of all of the divine rulings. The dignity that the heroic people of Islamic Iran have today is due to their practice of some of the divine rulings, one of which is the subject of martyrdom. For this reason, Imam Khomeyni said that the nation that has martyrdom isn’t captive.”
He continued, “Those who were educated and trained in the culture of Karbala and Ashura, don’t fear any other power besides God and the enemies can’t force a people who seek martyrdom to surrender.”
Ayatollah Namazi emphasized, “If the command of ‘enjoining the good and forbidding the wrong’ is isolated or marginalized and eliminated in an monotheistic and Islamic society, nothing will remain of Islam. For this reason, Imam al-Sadiq said, ‘The command to enjoin the good and forbid the wrong has two great precepts such that even prayer is revived in the light of the command of enjoining the good and forbidding the wrong.”
In conclusion, His Eminence noted, “If Islam is correctly understood and it’s rulings are properly implemented, it will be automatically and naturally exported, since understanding the truth of the divine rulings will lead to a tendency toward Islam.”
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Working meeting with Alexander Galushka and Yury Trutnev
May 4, 2016, The Kremlin, Moscow
Vladimir Putin discussed the operation of the Far East Priority Development Areas at a meeting with Minister for Far East Development Alexander Galushka and Deputy Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoy in the Far East Federal District Yury Trutnev.
Among the main items on the agenda were the implementation of decisions enabling Russian citizens to obtain plots of land currently in state or municipal ownership in the Far East Federal District, and the application of incentives, including tax incentives, for investment projects in the Far East regions.
Other subjects of discussion included international investment cooperation, prospects for expanding the free port regime to other Far East ports, and measures to bring energy costs down to the national average.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: We agreed earlier to meet to discuss several matters. I spoke with Mr Trutnev just recently about the priority development areas in the Far East. There is progress overall. Work will start soon to implement the decisions to allocate [Russian citizens who want it] a hectare of land [in the Far East]. The Duma has before it a draft law on additional incentives, including tax breaks, for people wishing to work or start up a business in the Far East.
Who would like to begin?
Minister for Far East Development Alexander Galushka: Mr President, in Blagoveshchensk on April 27, we had the chance to meet the first investors in the priority development areas and hear how their projects are progressing and what kinds of facilities they are building. I can tell you that, in accordance with your instruction, these new mechanisms are functioning now not only in Amur Region, but in all of the Far East regions.
This map shows the new growth spots that have been established in the Far East. We have the priority development areas, the Vladivostok free port, and the investment projects that are receiving state subsidies for infrastructure development. The Far East Development Fund is also up and running now. All of this today is reality in the Far East, not just plans on paper or proposals.
Over the past year, we have established 12 priority development areas and ten projects are receiving infrastructural support from the state. Seven projects have received financing from the Far East Development Fund.
To date, total investment brought in through the new development mechanisms comes to 1.3 trillion rubles, of which 950 billion rubles is private investment and 80 billion rubles is state investment. There is thus a multiplication effect of one to twelve: for every ruble from the budget we receive, we attract 12 rubles of private investment. These projects will create 55,000 new jobs.
We have every reason to hope that we can bring the investment level up to 2 trillion rubles by the end of the year. To date, this investment represents 200 new enterprises, 200 new production facilities.
It would be wonderful if you could see for yourself the new facilities built as part of the projects in Amur Region, the clinker brick plant, for example.
Vladimir Putin: A cement plant?
Alexander Galushka: Yes, a cement plant producing clinker bricks in Amur Region. The total investment is 1.6 billion rubles.
Then there is a bakery complex in Belogorsk. This is not a big project, only 18 million rubles in investment, but it is very important for us to have small businesses working in the priority development areas too.
Outside of Amur Region, the large Inaglinsky mining and enrichment plant will soon become operational in Yakutia. A private investor has put 22 billion rubles into this project, which has also received 560 million rubles in state subsidies for infrastructure development.
Khabarovsk Territory also has its share of modern new facilities. There is, for example, a plant producing construction materials and heat insulation materials, and a private investor has put almost 3 billion rubles into the Khabarovsk priority development area. Japanese investors have also come to Khabarovsk to build a greenhouse facility worth 500 million rubles. They are all happy with the priority development areas and would like to invest another 1.5 billion rubles now to develop this investment project.
We also have a plant producing plastic packaging in Primorye Territory. This project is worth 200 million rubles and is already underway. These are all projects that you can already see.
Vladimir Putin: Is this the Europlast plant?
Alexander Galushka: Yes. You can already see it with your own eyes.
Deputy Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoy in the Far East Federal District Yury Trutnev: Mr President, these will all be commissioned by the end of this year.
Alexander Galushka: Mr President, I have just listed the facilities that are about to start operation. We plan to have 16 new plants up and running by the end of the year. This is 16 new enterprises incorporating the new look and instruments that have been developed. Next year, 41 new projects are set for launch, 70 new projects will get underway in 2018, and in 2021–2023 we will have a total of 200 new plants in the Far East.
This is not the limit. We have organised work to promote these mechanisms here and among investors abroad. In accordance with the decisions taken, we have established the Agency for Far East Investment, which is working actively to publicise these opportunities to potential investors. Looking at the structure of the 200 companies we have today, 40 percent are manufacturing companies, 20 percent are in the transport and logistics sector, 20 percent are in agriculture, and 10 percent in tourism and services. Therefore, this will also help to diversify the economy of the Far East, which is also very important.
Mr President, we hope that the second Eastern Economic Forum will demonstrate this potential clearly to our own country and to the international community.
Rather than us listing our accomplishments, we would have the investors themselves telling everyone about their experience working in the priority development areas, how quickly they get connected to power grids, obtain building permits, build their facilities and invest with success in our Far East. We want to put the emphasis on practice.
Vladimir Putin: How are the preparations proceeding?
Alexander Galushka: Very well. Mr Trutnev as chair of the organising committee has held several meetings, the programme is clear to us, and it is ready. A delegation to Vladivostok has done everything necessary, and everything is proceeding as planned. It is very important that we have things to discuss and ideas to present.
Vladimir Putin: What about the allocation of land plots? How should this process be organised?
Alexander Galushka: In addition to the mechanisms that have been gradually introduced during the past year – the programme was launched in April-May last year – a number of strategic systems have been created as per your instructions and will become operational soon.
The free allocation of land plots will initially begin in nine municipalities in nine Far Eastern regions on June 1. At the next stage, the programme will be open to residents of all Far Eastern regions on October 1, and it will be accessible to all Russian citizens without exception as of February 1, 2017. During the first five years, people will be able to use this land free of charge. Those who develop their plots as planned by the end of this period and have this properly documented will be able to register these plots as their property. Please note that this opportunity is only available to Russian citizens and that foreign nationals cannot take part in this programme. Moreover, these plots cannot be sold to foreigners even after Russian citizens become their full owners.
Besides, we are completing the trial stage of a special information system in all the nine regions. It is open for use at the надальнийвосток.рф website. We are completing the system’s trial and launching it for commercial use. The idea is that anyone who has a computer with internet access can easily choose a land plot on the map of the Far East and send an online application, after signing in, of course. Moreover, everything can be done without leaving home, but only if you have an electronic digital signature. If you do not, and not all Russian citizens have an electronic digital signature, you can go to the nearest integrated government service centre, which will offer this service.
Vladimir Putin: You must work with the regional heads, of course, to make sure that land is allocated in places where at least some infrastructure already exists.
Alexander Galushka: Yes, Mr President. The law’s provisions state that if more than 20 plots in total are developed, the regional authorities help with infrastructural support. We have already started promoting this project, publicising it, and are organising a competition for the best idea for developing these plots of land. We have all kinds of proposals coming in now. People say they will get together, 200–300 people, to work in cooperation. They say they will take the land, and if they are 200–300 in number, it becomes more realistic to build up the infrastructure, even if it is not so developed. These are proposals coming in from people, not things we have dreamt up ourselves. The important thing is that this law has been passed now.
The second law you mentioned has gone through its third reading in the State Duma now and the adoption process is near completion. We welcome all investors in the Far East. Not everyone comes to the priority development areas or to the Vladivostok free port, but all are welcome, in all regions, even the smallest investors. Under the law’s provisions, anyone who invests 50 million rubles or more in the Far East over three years is entitled to a 10-year holiday on profit tax and tax on subsoil resources use. This is another incentive that applies to all investors without exception.
There are a number of other important projects that are about to get underway.
Vladimir Putin: What are the incentives?
Alexander Galushka: Exemption from profit tax and tax on subsoil resources use.
Yury Trutnev: Mr President, these were the instructions you gave at the State Council.
Vladimir Putin: Yes, I remember, but has it already been passed?
Alexander Galushka: It has already gone through the third reading, Mr President. The process is near completion. We hope that you will be able to sign this law very soon.
I already mentioned that we are actively developing our international cooperation as well. We are working with foreign investors from all over the world and invite them here. The quality of investment is very important, so we create new jobs for our people and develop the economy.
In this area in particular, there has been a major development with our Chinese partners. We have signed a legally binding joint stock agreement on establishing a Russian-Chinese agricultural fund in the Far East with a total investment of up to 650 billion rubles, or $10 billion.
What were the terms of our agreement with our Chinese partners? They will finance 90 percent of the project, and the remaining 10 percent will come from our Far East Development Fund, a VEB affiliate, our sovereign fund. That said, the Russian Federation will own 51 percent in the managing company, and 49 percent will belong to our Chinese partners. Land may be granted only to Russian companies for agricultural production. As for workforce, no less than 80 percent will be Russian citizens. Yes, it is possible to employ foreigners but no more than 20 percent – a reservation has been made to this effect. Russian suppliers of agricultural equipment and machinery for agrarian projects in the Far East will take priority. If we do not have producers in the Far East, we put it down in the agreement that we are ready to create conditions for the localisation of producers so they come to us to launch production. On June 1, the fund will start operating. We also hope that at the Eastern Economic Forum we will present the first serious agricultural projects that it is financing.
Now the fourth point, Mr President. On your instructions, we are prioritising the most diverse state programmes for accelerating the development of the Far East. Naturally, we pay great attention not only to jobs and the economy but also to the social sphere and transportation facilities.
Working on your instructions, the Government endorsed a list of 27 programmes, each of which should have Far Eastern sub-programmes. These have already been drafted for the first five projects: transport, culture, healthcare and ship and aircraft building. More than 700 billion roubles will be allocated from the budget for these five Far Eastern sub-programmes in the next decade. We are now working on allocations for the remaining 22 programmes.
In addition, on your instructions we approved two special programmes. I am referring to a new federal targeted programme for the development of the Kuril Islands in 2016–2025. The Government has endorsed it and we have already launched its implementation this year. Its funding amounts to 68.9 billion roubles. This programme continues the previous one.
We know the problems of the Kuril Islands and we are resolving them. The islands are developing and their population is growing. Transport, energy and social infrastructure facilities and housing construction are the main goals of the new federal targeted programme.
In your annual Address to the Federal Assembly, you set the goal of turning Komsomolsk-on-Amur into another Far Eastern rapid growth hub. The Government approved a comprehensive development plan for the city on April 18. It covers the period from 2016 to 2025 and includes 60 different activities, of which 27 are primary projects, capital construction work, and 33 are in other areas. The first three activities in this programme will be carried out this year. They are the reconstruction of the city’s drama theatre, the construction of a water treatment facility to remove iron and manganese, and the construction of a professional skills development centre. These will be completed this year.
Besides, there are two more draft laws on the Far East. They are with the Government right now, which is getting them ready for submission to the State Duma. The first is a draft law that would extend the free port regime to other key Far East ports, namely Vanino, Sovietskaya Gavan, Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Korsakov, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Pevek, and Anadyr. All of these ports are listed in the draft law. The second draft law concerns the recent decision to lower energy costs to the national average.
Vladimir Putin: In those regions where they are higher than the national average.
Alexander Galushka: Yes, that is right. They are higher everywhere, though in some regions only slightly, by 5–10 percent, while in others they are 65 percent higher, or even twice as high, which is the case in Chukotka, for example. This draft law has already been prepared and the Government is currently discussing it. Mr Trutnev held a coordination meeting to speed up its submission to parliament.
Meeting on developing Amur Region
April 27, 2016 , Blagoveshchensk
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A Skeptical Perspective on the “Anthropocene Movement”
“Keeping The Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth”
Edited by George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, and Tom Butler
Published, 2014 by Island Press. 271 pages.
By Steve Glass
Keeping the Wild is a collection of essays brought together in response to Anthropocene-boosters, who, in the view of the contributors, “claim that wild nature is no more, that human-caused extinction is no big deal, and that “novel ecosystems” are an adequate replacement for natural landscapes.” The volume is comprised of 20 essays, and divided into three sections (Clashing Worldviews, Against Domestication, and The Value of the Wild) plus an introduction and an epilogue. All of the essayists are well-known, long-time conservationists, historians, writers, academic scholars, researchers, deep ecologists, and scientists. Among the more widely known contributors are David Ehrenfeld, Dave Foreman, Curt Meine, Kathleen Dean Moore, Roderick Frazier Nash, Michael Soule, and Terry Tempest Williams.
“Keeping the Wild” is the product of a meeting of leading conservationists, sponsored by the Weeden Foundation, hosted by Michael Soule, and held in Denver, Colorado—the
To those of us in restoration ecology this sounds eerily like the concerns that are voiced about “novel ecosystems.
Acknowledgments section does not reveal the date of the meeting, but a Google search indicates that it was held in 2012—the purpose of which was to discuss the “increasing prominence of voices who are promoting the ‘Anthropocene’ and using it to frame conservation in terms of a human-dominated Earth” (page 222). Tom Butler, one of the editors, refers to this conservation influence when he notes, in the introduction, that the book was “Conceived to confront the notion of human hegemony and also to join the growing conversation within the conservation movement about the so-called Anthropocene.” Butler goes on to say of the Anthropocene movement: “That word describing the age of human domination of Earth has been embraced by some academics, journalists, and environmentalists and is increasingly used to conceptualize, and often to justify, further domestication of the planet.”
Wilderness…or garden? The John T. Curtis Prairie at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. The result of restoration efforts dating back 80 years, but also a representation of an ecosystem prevalent in the area centuries ago, it raises the question… Photo by Steve Glass
To those of us in the restoration ecology field, this sounds eerily like the concerns that are voiced about the “novel ecosystems” concept and what many fear would be the result if the proponents’ arguments were carried to their logical extreme. If you have not been following this discussion, restorationists like Richard Hobbs, Eric Higgs, Carol Hall, and James Harris, among others, have been drawing attention to the fact that the ecology of some sites has been so altered as a result of recent human influence that it may be impossible, for all practical purposes, to return them to any clearly defined historic condition, and that all of them will sooner or later be subject to novel—or “no-analogue”[1]— conditions as a result of climate change in any case. With this in mind, they espouse land management goals that allow for the emergence, and even deliberate creation, of novel systems adapted to these altered conditions. While they do not generally propose this as a substitute for restoration, their position on this point is at least consistent with the idea that we might as well give up on the admittedly challenging task of restoration and focus on attempts to create novel, presumably more or less self-sustaining systems for the future. If the editors and authors are aware of this discussion, however, they do not mention it. (To read more about the novel ecosystems concept, see the 2013 book by Hobbs, Higgs, and Hall “Novel Ecosystems: Intervening in the New World Order”)
It’s relevant, however, because “Keeping The Wild” is a book about the age-old dichotomy or conflict between wilderness conservation and natural resource exploitation. As Curt Meine reminds us in his essay, the domestication versus wildness debate is not new, and each generation must have its “great new wilderness debate.” Surprisingly, in this book, which sets out to argue against the Anthropocene boosters, the one thing that a reader might well think is crucial, but that is missing, is a critical discussion of the arguments for the Anthropocene point of view. I would have both enjoyed and appreciated a rigorous examination of the strengths and weaknesses of the Anthropocene philosophy, or at least an acknowledgement of critiques say, in the style of that offered by commentators like Murchia, et al (2014) in their examination of the novel ecosystems concept.
Filed Under: Ecological Restoration Tagged With: Anthropocene, Ecological restoration, Extinction, No-analogue conditions, Novel ecosystems, Wilderness
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Interview: Devil May Cry 5’s Producer On The Game’s Development And Possible Future Projects
We turned to Capcom to find some of the answers and one of the producers of DMC5, Matt Walker, took the time to tell us more about the development of the game and possible future of the series.
[added 5/3/2019 for PC,XBOX ONE,PS4 by Tanya]
Devil May Cry has returned with its fifth installment in grand style and captivated critics and players alike. The game’s sales only confirmed that all the hard work put into its development paid off and after the release of Bloody Palace the dev team can enjoy some rest before working on another project. But with the success of Devil May Cry 5, many questions arose about future plans of its creators. We turned to Capcom to find some of the answers and one of the producers of DMC5, Matt Walker, took the time to tell us more about the development of the game and possible future of the series.
Since its release, Devil May Cry 5 has been a huge success both critically and commercially. But most importantly, it managed to enthrall a wide audience of both older fans and newcomers to the franchise. But the fans of the original series had to wait more than 10 years for this installment. Why was there such a long gap between DMC4 and DMC5 and how was the development different compared to the previous games which were being developed back-to-back?
After DMC3, Itsuno-san fully intended to start working on an idea he had for an action RPG, but then his boss asked him to start work on a new Devil May Cry for the new consoles that were coming out then. Once he was finished with DMC4, he had exhausted all of the ideas he had for a Devil May Cry game, and finally got the chance to work on his RPG, which came to be known as Dragon’s Dogma. After a few years, he started having ideas for Devil May Cry 5, and so with the CEO’s approval, he set out to make the game a reality.
When you first started working on DMC5, did you expect it would be such a hit or were you more skeptical, particularly after the series took a slight detour in the form of the reboot – DmC: Devil May Cry?
Whenever we work on something we hope that people will receive it well which validates the hard work that goes into making it. Before DMC5’s announcement, some of us were concerned with how fans would receive the more realistic look of the game – particularly now that we were scanning real people for the characters. Luckily as soon as we announced we found that people responded well to everything we had done with the game, which we’re very thankful for.
Are there any ideas that weren’t implemented in DMC5 and you would like to see them in future installments?
Although it took us more than 3 years, we had our hands full trying to create the best DMC5 we could within schedule and budget. We were so focused on making it the best it could be, that we didn’t really spend much time thinking up any ideas that wouldn’t be feasible within those constraints. Once the game was released, though, we had a lot of really passionate fans start asking us for what they would like to see further in the game, so I think that it would make sense to reference those wishes first and foremost if we get a chance to make more in the future.
After the much awaited update which included Bloody Palace, many players are asking, what’s next? Do you consider DMC5 a closed chapter and you’re ready to work on another project, or do you want to add new content to the game?
As much as we’d like to add more content to the game, we aren’t working on anything and don’t have any plans to. Itsuno-san has started work on a new project, so hopefully when the time is right we’ll hear about that. In the meantime we on the dev team look forward to jumping online and seeing how players are enjoying Bloody Palace, and seeing the other discoveries they make about the game.
Prior to the release of DMC5, there were talks that the game would include co-op multiplayer, however in the final game, we can only see other players in the background or their recorded gameplay and the game is primarily a singleplayer experience. Was there ever a possibility during development, that players would be able to fight together side-by-side in certain missions or perhaps even in Bloody Palace?
DMC5 was always meant to be the best single player experience that it can be, but with the Cameo System, players will find certain points in the game where they can see each other playing through ghost data or in real time, and there are even certain sections where players will indeed play together online if they’re available to match at the same point in the stage.
After five installments, the story of the series is somewhat complicated, especially for new players. There have been some changes to the story’s timeline over the years with DMC2 now taking place before DMC4 and DMC5. Why have you made these changes and could that bring more possibilities in terms of storytelling? Can we expect that you might fill some of the plot holes throughout the series or would you like to see the story progress more into the future?
When we started making DMC5 Itsuno-san had a vision for how the game would play out – particularly the end of the game. In order to see that vision come to fruition, we decided that it would make the most sense to change around the continuity a little. In addition to the games, there are a couple novels and manga that have been released under the Devil May Cry license, and Itsuno-san personally oversees the writing for these, so that we can consider them canon. The latest was a prologue to DMC5 called “Before the Nightmare”, and in that we’ve done our best to fill in most of the plot details, though it’s unfortunately not available in any language other than Japanese currently.
With every new Devil May Cry game, you’ve introduced a new playable character with a different playstyle and thanks to great character design, they all have their own fanbase. Do you plan to continue with this strategy of adding new characters to introduce new gameplay mechanics or would you like to focus more on some of the established characters? Vergil’s appearance in the DMC5 trailer was a huge selling point for many fans and there’s also a large portion of players, who would like see the ladies of Devil May Cry more in action. Would you consider making them all playable again, or are you more inclined to introduce a new character?
We don’t currently have any plans to create anything past what’s already out, so whether or not we ever add any new characters to the franchise is something that has yet to be seen. We have indeed seen lots of fans wish for Lady, Trish and Vergil to be playable, so I personally hope that if we ever make anything new – whether that’s additional content for DMC5 or a separate title, that we can address those wishes.
Hideaki Itsuno has mentioned in previous interviews, that he actually liked the reboot and wanted to make a sequel. Why was the idea scraped later on and has the mood changed after DMC5? Do you still think that DmC should get a sequel and if so, should it be another collaboration, or do you think it should be in the hands of a single studio?
As you mentioned, on the dev side we certainly wanted to and thought we would work with Ninja Theory again to create a sequel to DmC, but that unfortunately didn’t get off the ground. We’d still love to see a sequel, but we think it absolutely has to be made by Ninja Theory – so much of the amazing style and substance in that game was only possible because they have such a knack for what’s cool. It wouldn’t be DmC without Ninja Theory.
With so many Capcom titles coming to Nintendo Switch, do you plan to release any Devil May Cry games on the platform as well?
I’m the type that likes to play everything on the Switch, so I personally hope that we can put more titles on it, though I’m not currently working on any. I guess we’ll see what happens!
Not only are players expecting another Devil May Cry game, but many fans are waiting for a sequel to Dragon’s Dogma. If you could immediately start working on a sequel to either Devil May Cry or Dragon’s Dogma, which one would you choose?
I’d personally love to see another Itsuno IP resurrected – Rival Schools. I always thought the ideas and character designs in that series were top notch, and high school is such a perfect setting for a fighting game – with all kinds of different possibilities for characters and environments!
Thanks for the interview!
You can find the original version of this interview in Slovak at www.sector.sk.
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FOOD 0721; Our funny food song festival takes over the whole show this week (except for the Demented News) with dozens of rare and delicious delights from Dr. Demento's personal pantry. Appetizers include "I Love Onions," "I Like Stinky Cheese" and "Cheese Boogie Deluxe"...for the main course, "She Dances With Meat" along with "Call Any Vegetable" and "I Will Not Smooch The Pickle"...and for dessert (along with "Cheesecake") we'll have an all time all funny food song Funny Five. Bon appetit! May 27, 2007
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Home Whoever you are, I love you The merely individual, subjective claim to dignity is an empty academic game, or madness. Jean Améry
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The merely individual, subjective claim to dignity is an empty academic game, or madness. Jean Améry
The NYT interview with Edward Baptist ends with a mention of how upsetting it could be to research the violence against enslaved people. There was the interview with the daughter of a woman “whose enslaved mother toiled in the fields of a small Kentucky farm in the 1850s, sometimes returning home to discover that another child of hers had been sold away.” In 1850, there was no end in sight for this mother. Baptist wondered how it was that enslaved people just did not give up.
Laura Hillenbrand argues that it was Louis Zamperini’s maintenance of his innate dignity that enabled him to survive unending torments in Japanese POW camps. Jean Améry says he doesn’t know what “dignity” means in such a situation, similar to his situation as “an inmate who went hungry, but did not starve to death, who was beaten, but not totally destroyed, who had wounds, but not deadly ones.” Yet, this inmate “objectively still possessed that substratum on which, in principle, the human spirit can stand and exist.” (9)
Améry does not explicitly or systematically pursue what he thinks this “substratum” is. Implicitly he examines how it works in his first chapter concerning the question: “did intellectual background and an intellectual disposition help a camp prisoner in the decisive moments?” (5) He quickly concludes:
In any event, it is clear that the entire question of the effectiveness of the intellect can no longer be raised where the subject, faced directly with death through hunger or exhaustion, is not only de-intellectualized, but in the actual sense of the word dehumanized. (8-9)
If a prisoner was not a Mussulman, as the walking dead were called in Auschwitz, there were definite differences in survival strategies between the intellectual and the non-intellectual. The intellectual who had “always and everywhere … been totally under the sway of power” struggles to acknowledge, much less accept, “unimaginable conditions as a given fact.” The intellectual’s “long practice in questioning the phenomena of everyday reality” interferes with “adjusting to the realities of the camp,” realities which do not include civil discourse or logical rules of behavior. The intellectual’s initial reaction that “what surely may not be, cannot be” gradually morphs into resignation and then “acceptance not only of the SS logic but also of the SS system of values.” (11)
The non-intellectual, for whom “there had never been a system of humane logic” understands the logic of self-preservation and stands “more stiffly at attention” before the SS and then fights “them more spontaneously and effectively through systematic skulking and cleverly executed thefts.” Part of the problem with Hillenbrand’s interpretation of how Zamperini survived is that dignity is an intellectual’s virtue and Zamperini was not an intellectual, however intelligent he was.
In his chapter on how he was tortured, Améry dismisses the concept of dignity, saying that he doesn’t know exactly what human dignity is. (27) On the other hand, he devotes the entire last chapter of At the Mind’s Limits to his efforts to maintain and restore his dignity, which he defines there as “the right to live granted by society.” (xiv) He even comments on this seeming contradiction in his Preface to the First Edition.
The quote I’m using as the caption for this post comes from that last chapter and expresses the core of Améry’s disagreement with the Kantian notion of dignity we have seen before in Laura Hillenbrand’s theorizing about Louis Zamperini and Bishop Kamphaus’ distinction between worth and dignity. The key words for Améry are “merely individual, subjective.” This view of dignity finds illusory comfort in degrading situations in the thought that “I am what I am for myself and in myself, and nothing else.” (90)
Rather than existing prior to thinking or doing, dignity for Améry expresses how society treats us, how we treat ourselves, and specifically how we respond physically to threats to our life. He is consistent on these issues. When he says that he doesn’t know what “dignity” is, he is talking about the individual, subjective view of dignity.
He finds this view particularly unhelpful “when someone who has never been beaten makes the ethical and pathetic statement that upon the first blow the prisoner loses his human dignity.” The problem is that this individual, subjective “dignity” can mean all sorts of things, from not being able to take a bath everyday or other physical inconveniences, to not being able to use one’s native language for official business or restrictions on free speech, to restrictions on which sexual partners one can have (this last being a very progressive point for someone writing in the early 1960s).
In his contemplation on that first blow by the policeman, Améry explores what it is that the victim loses. Rather than something thought to be inherent in oneself, he posits that the victim loses “trust in the world.” When we trust in the world, we imagine and order how we live, where we begin and where others end, and how others will behave. Imagining this order can include belief in causality or in “the validity of inductive inference.”
But more important as an element of trust in the world, and in our context what is solely relevant, is the certainty that by reason of written or unwritten social contracts the other person will spare me. … The boundaries of my body are also the boundaries of my self. My skin surface shields me against the external world. If I am to have trust, I must feel on it only what I want to feel. (28)
Beyond respect for our bodily boundaries, trust in the world also includes expecting that others will come to our aid. We learned this trust and expectation from our earliest days from the care of our mothers. The policeman’s blow and other forms of torture leave the victim completely alone and destroy this trust in the world. Améry doesn’t connect the dots here, but he’s really describing the intellectual’s trust in the world. The non-intellectual’s trust in the world includes the expectation of injustice, violence, an illogical social system that always leaves her at the bottom of the heap, and the understanding that in the end she can only place trust in herself, in her will and her wiles. This seeming focus on herself actually provides the non-intellectual with more social resources than the intellectual who “remains alone with his intellect, which was nothing other than pure content of consciousness … [with] … no social reality that could support or confirm it” in the camps. (6) (I’m using the feminine personal pronoun here because Améry’s definition of “intellectual” in on page 2 is explicitly what we would call today “old white men” and their canons of literature, art and philosophy.)
Améry does describe two other groups of people whose “trust in the world,” based on different expectations and experiences, based on living in worlds different from the intellectuals’ world, does not immediately shatter with the first blow. The first group consists of workers and poor people for whom “camp logic was merely the step-by-step intensification of economic logic.” They can, therefore, oppose “this intensification with a useful mixture of resignation and the readiness to defend oneself.” The second group are the believers, whether they be theist Jews and Christians or atheist Marxists, who “survived better or died with more dignity than their irreligious or unpolitical intellectual comrades.”
Our religiously or politically committed comrades were not at all, or only a little, astonished that in the camp the unimaginable became reality. … [A]lready on the outside [they] had taken a very subjective view of concrete reality, detached themselves from it here too in a way that was both impressive and dismaying. … The grip of the horror reality was weaker where from the start reality had been placed in the framework of an unalterable idea. Hunger was not hunger as such, but the necessary consequence of atheism or of capitalistic decay. A beating or a death in the gas chamber was the renewed sufferings of the Lord or a natural political martyrdom. (13)
Améry entered and exited Auschwitz as a committed agnostic. He never could bring himself to believe in God’s grace. He continued to see through “the errors and false conclusions” of Marxism. As much as he wanted to be like his “believing comrades … unshakable, calm, strong,” he never wanted to join them in their faith. His “believing comrades” had two other attributes that helped them survive. First, their fixation on a future salvation both distanced them from the reality they were living and at the same time enabled them to see this reality up close. Because of this “Finalistic attitude,” they did not let reality overwhelm them and could actually strongly affect the conditions under which they lived. Secondly, his believing comrades did not merely survive the horror, they resisted. Améry quotes a practicing Jew as saying “I have the certainty that our God will avenge us.” And a radical leftist who had been in the camps for ten years already: “We still know that after we’re gone our comrades are going to line the whole pack of them up against the wall.”
Améry’s admiration for this trust that they will be revenged is somewhat at odds with his disavowal of revenge and eye-for-an-eye punishment. What Améry really admires is resistance against all odds. His own definition of dignity as “the right to live,” which “can be bestowed only by society,” creates a dilemma for him when that society wants to deprive him of his life because he is a Jew. Should he just roll over because it’s “senseless to argue against the social body that deprives us of our dignity” so defined as the right to live? No, Améry asserts that “the degraded person, threatened with death, is able” to rise in revolt against society and, thereby, to convince “society of his dignity.” (89)
To illustrate what he means by his dignity, Améry tells about the time he took it upon himself “to be a Jew.” In Auschwitz “the prisoner foreman Juszek, a Polish professional criminal of horrifying vigor” hit Améry in the face over something insignificant. So Améry punched Juszek in the jaw. Even though Améry was then “woefully thrashed,” he was satisfied with himself, not for displaying “courage and honor,” but because he had understood
that there are situations in life in which our body is our entire self and our entire fate. I was my body and nothing else: in hunger, in the blow that I suffered, in the blow that I dealt. My body, debilitated and crusted with filth, was my calamity. My body, when it tensed to strike was my physical and metaphysical dignity. In situations like mine, physical violence is the sole means for restoring a disjointed personality. In the punch, I was myself—for myself and for my opponent. (90-91)
Améry is writing after the war when by all rights his dignity, by any definition, should have been seen to be restored. Antisemitism before the war had threatened his life, his dignity. Antisemitism continued after the war. So, in his continuing struggle to assert his dignity, his right to life, Améry felt the necessity to be a Jew. This was an impossibility since he had been raised as a Catholic. In Améry’s view “one acquires one’s self” in one’s youth when one learns a language, shares cultural traditions, and develops “childhood memories.” In his case, none of these had Jewish associations so he did not have a Jewish self in that sense. Instead he had to find “solidarity with every Jew whose freedom, equal rights, or perhaps even physical existence is threatened” and make this solidarity “part of my person and a weapon in the battle to regain my dignity.” (98)
There are at least two interesting aspects of Améry’s pursuit of his dignity through “the necessity and impossibility of being a Jew.” First, the question of how ethnic identity affects who-we-think-we-are, our “selfhood.” Améry’s identity as a Jew caused the Nazis to threaten his right to live, his dignity. There are other ways to link the two. Second, the relation between memory and who-we-think-we are.
We will return to these issues in subsequent posts under the category of “Whoever you are, I love you.” Here I just want to close by noting that we have circled back to the strong connections between the concept of dignity and the concept of a self, which I noted in the post on Sophie’s Fallacy.
Tags: #Améry, #dignity, #selves
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It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.
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Fernando González , one of the Cuban Five, returned to Cuba
madrugada54 May 7, 2016, 10:57pm #1
The antiterrorist fighter and Hero of the Republic of Cuba Fernando González Llort came to the country at noon today, after fully meet the long and unjust sentence to which he was subjected in the United States.
Fernando was greeted by his mother at the airport.
He left yesterday the federal correctional center Safford, Arizona, and was made available to the immigration services to begin the process of deportation to Cuba.
It is the second of the internationally known as the Cuban Five that meets the sentences after René González.
Fernando, René, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero and Ramon Labañino were arrested in 1998 when they gave follow up on U.S. soil groups planned and executed terrorist actions against Cuba.
The last three are prisoners in U.S. prisons, despite a worldwide campaign demanding his release.
CubaDebate is at the airport and offer new details about the country to welcome Fernando
http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2014/02/28/fernando-gonzalez-ya-esta-en-la-patria/ - .UxDknCj6T2M
Spunky May 8, 2016, 1:42am #2
Thank goodness, 3 to go…
Good news thanks for sharing madrugada. So after 16 years he is released … 3 more to go … how long before they release the rest of them anyone knows?
eeeefarm May 8, 2016, 1:42am #4
That is good news. Hopefully the other three will follow him soon.
madrugada54 May 8, 2016, 1:43am #5
@admin:
how long before they release the rest of them anyone knows?
They were arrested in 1998 and sentenced in 2001.
Gerardo Hernández was sentenced to two life sentences plus 10 years; which was reduced in 2009 to 30 years.
Ramón Labañino was sentenced to life plus 18 years; which was reduced in 2009 to 30 years.
Antonio Guerrero was sentenced to life plus 10 years; which was reduced in 2009 from life to 21 years and 10 months (Sept. 18, 2017).
Fernando González was sentenced to 19 years; and was released on Feb. 28, 2014.
René González was sentenced to 15 years, and was released from prison in Sept 2011 and returned to Cuba in 2013.
http://www.freethefive.org/index.htm
A very readable account of the Cuban Five was written by Cdn author Stephen Kimber, “What Lies Across The Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five”:
What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five: Stephen Kimber: 9781552665428: Books - Amazon.ca
What Lies Across the Water recounts the events leading up to the arrest of the Cuban Five, five Cuban anti-terrorism agents wrongfully arrested and convicted of “conspiracy to commit” espionage agains ...
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cubajack May 8, 2016, 1:43am #6
http://granma.cu/ingles/news-i/28febre-Raul%20receives.html
From the day before yesterday.
Mother and son reunited …
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Nice photo madrugada thanks!! It is amazing to see expression on their faces after so many years. He made it to see his mother and spend more time with her.
A couple more articles:
http://granma.cu/ingles/cuba-i/4marzo-10heroe.html
http://granma.cu/ingles/cuba-i/4marzo-10mensajes.html
madrugada54 May 8, 2016, 1:43am #10
[font size=“3”]That was quite the line up for the welcoming concert on March 1 in Havana. One of the musicians mentioned, Gerardo Alfonso, will be coming to Canada for an (almost) cross-country tour in late March /early April (Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Edmonton, Vancouver & Victoria).
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yvrck May 8, 2016, 1:43am #11
[quote=@madrugada][ One of the musicians mentioned, Gerardo Alfonso, will be coming to Canada in late March /early April (Vancouver & Victoria).
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Regardless to the government�s majority ruling in the Parliament, political rift between two factions, support and anti Thaksin Shinawatra, was going on and no reconciliation is foreseeable.
Polls done by academic research revealed dismal values among Thai youth and violence in the south is still unsolved.
At least 3 public policies; the Rice Pledging, the First Car and the Tablet PCs were strongly criticized but the first one significantly affected the economy. While export sector was impact by the world economy shrank, the other private sectors were not doing well also.
Significant incidences in 2012 is grouped in 3 main topics; politics, social and economy. They have sub-incidence that were inter-relating. They are:
Political incidences were; Constitutional amendment, reconciliation, public policy, the government, political parties and civil society.
Social incidences were; environment, social values, health program, and southern violence.
Economy incidences were; national and private sector economy, pay increase.
Constitutional amendment.
The amendment of the 2007 Constitution was starting in December 2011 when three bills were submitted by the Government, Phue Thai MPs and Chart Thai Pattana MPs. They passed the Parliament on 25th February and a committee comprises of both the government and opposition party sections, was appointed to deliberate within 30 days. All three drafts have similar principle; to revise Article 291 and to set up a Constitutional drafting assembly (CDA). There were oppose several groups including the Law School at the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) reasoning the revision will lead to parliamentary dictatorship by monopolistic capitalists under the guise of democracy.
The CDA number and its mean of election was hotly debated in the Committee since of n 28th March, the Committee voted for 200 elected members, favoring the opposition party, but it was re-voted on the next day and changed to 99 members, with 77 being elected from 77 provinces and 22 appointed, favoring the Phue Thai. Qualifications of its members, the election date of the CDA and election regulations were later decided.
The Bill sailed through its second reading in May until five groups of people including senators petitioned the Constitutional Court, on 1st June, to rule whether the establishment of CDA might lead to a revocation of the Constitution and violate Section 68. The Court voted by 7 to 1 accepted the petition and informed the House of Representatives to suspend its third reading, scheduled for 5th June, until the Court�s ruling.
The Court�s decision has resulted in criticisms; some viewed is as judiciary interference with legislative process. The petitions were also submitted to the Attorney General, who had not taken any action. Former Phue Thai party leader, Chaturon Chaisang commented that the Constitution Court�s decision is equivalent to a coup d�etat by judicial review and thate there were groups and political parties who wish to overthrow the government. The Court announced it has authority to accept the petitions. Under Section 68 of the Constitution, the Court is to guard against the type of government change not authorized by the Constitution. In any event, the petitions are unrelated to the case of the dissolution of political parties.
On 13th July, the Constitution Court ruled that the contentious constitutional amendment bill is constitutional. Allegation against the breaching of the Constitution and seeking to overthrow the constitutional monarchy were rejected on no sufficient evidence. The verdict added that Parliament could amend the constitution, but not completely rewrite it. The Court advised the government to hold a referendum should it wish to rewrite the Constitution.
In December, the coalition parties panel resolved they would proceed on the Constitutional revision of Article 291. It was anticipated that the third or final voting would take place in February2march.
Before the Court�s verdict was read, some few Red Shirt leaders including 5 Phue Thai MPs, strongly commented the Court�s acceptance to ruling in public and threatened judges and their families. As they were charged with offences of violence in April-May 2010 and were on conditional bail, the Secretary-General of Constitutional Court. Chaowana Traimas applied the Criminal Court to revoke their bails.
On 22nd August, the Criminal Court lifted all revocation attempts except one, against Yoswarit Chooklom, a.k.a. Jeng Dokjik, reasoned that he incited public disorder and violated rights of the constitutional judges� families. However, after two months back to jail, Jeng revocation was lifted. In September, he was bailed with additional conditions that he must not leave the country, incite unrest and violates other people rights. He was also reminded on his previous conditions; not to give public speech and interference with politics.
Lastly, the government decided to hold a nationwide referendum. The law stated the referendum effective when more than half of the eligible voters casted ballots and their majority agreed to amend the constitution.
On 10th January 2012 the Cabinet approved compensation for victims of violence from the coup in September 2006 to the riots in April 2010. All victims; including state officials, reporters, protestors and families of deceased persons will get a monetary compensation. The deceased and disabled will each get Bt. 4.5 million plus the amount of actual loss such as funeral, medical and rehabilitation expenses, making a maximum of Bt. 7.75-7.95 million per person. Morefurther, a budget of Bt. 43 million will be allocated to bail detainees arrested during the 2010 violence.
Though the resolution was in conformity to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the compensation per person is different from the Truth Panel recommendation. The Panel recommended a Bt. 3.24 million compensation for the deceased and actual expense plus minimum wage daily for the loss of working opportunity. The Panel was appointed by former Democrat administration and chaired by former Attorney-General Kanit Na Nakorn.
On 5th June, the Truth Panel published an open letter warning Thai society to unite before the current political rift becomes a national crisis. Six measures, including a reconsideration of the enactment of the Reconciliation Bill, should be taken by the government, parliament and Phue Thai party. All parties; political groups and interest groups must not arouse more conflict and violence. They should cooperate in bringing reconciliation to society.
On 17th September 2012, the Kanit Na Nakorn's Truth And Reconciliation Committee unveiled its final report of nearly 300 pages with details on the evidence of the April-May 2010 violence that caused 26 deaths and 864 injuries. The committee found evident that several armed men in black outfits were among the protestors and military weapons were used and caused casualty to the officers. They also found connection between these men and some Red Guards familiar with Seh Daeng or Maj. Gen. Kattiya Sawasdiphol. However, no evident was found between relation of the �Men in Black� and the Red Shirt leaders except the leaders made no attempt to prevent those violence.
The committee also commented that military deployment was inappropriate for handling civilian unrest. The CRES (Centre for the Resolution of Emergency Situation) was defectively and lacking of monitoring and evaluation measures on the operation. Most of all, some high rank officers thought the soldiers were using exercising bullets.
Following the House of Representatives appointed an extraordinary panel, chaired by Matubhum Party leader General Sonthi Bunyaratglin, to find solutions for reconciliation and resolution for political conflict following the 19th September 2006 coup. The Sonthi Panel asked the King Prechatipok Institute (KPI) to study how to conciliate the different warring groups. The study came out with short and long term measures including to enact an amnesty bill applicable to 1.) all political violence cases, or 2.) applicable to only offenders of the emergency law excluding other criminal cases even motivated by political purposes. The KPI also recommended to void all acts of the Asset Examination Committee (AEC) , appointed by the coup�s Council for Democratic Reform (CDRM). Regardless to the panel members� controversy on whether the amnesty bill will be used to free Thaksin Shinawatra, on 5th April the Parliament voted to submit the study to the House and later 4 Reconciliation Bills were submitted to the Parliament. All 4 bills aim to give a general pardon to offenders who breached laws enacted by the CDRM, specially, Thaksin Shinawatra, executive members of dissolved political parties and state officers involving in disbanding Red Shirt protests in April 2009 and May 2010. The parliamentary session, due to end on 19th April, was extended and on 31st May, they were expedited from the 27th up to the first rank on the parliamentary agenda. Regardless to strong opposed within and outside the House, the bills passed its second reading incited the House disorder while outside, in front of the Parliament, hundreds of protesters gathered demanding the bills be dropped from consideration. On 2nd June the third the House Speaker cancelled a reading of the Reconciliation Bills, scheduled for 5th-7th June due to many MPs were unable to attend Parliament.
Public policy.
Among all public policies implemented, only 3 received most criticism and they were ranked among the worst policies by Bangkok Poll, carried out between21st to 28th August among 70 economists from 27 leading institutions. They were:
RICE PLEDGING PROGRAM. Started on 7th October 2011, the Rice Pledging Scheme principle to allow farmers to pledge their 2011-2012 crops for 4 months started from 7th October 2011 to 29th February 2012 at Bt. 15,000 to Bt. 20,000 per ton according to the rice. These prices were 40 percent higher than market prices. A Bt. 435,547 million was allocated.
Normally yields during this period are rain-rice of best quality. However, by December 2011, a few irregularities were report on cheaper rice of Bt. 10,000 per ton was smuggled from neighboring countries. A profit was divided between mills, rice farmers and state officers. They could be rice from mills� stock, bought at Bt. 10,000 per ton, too. The government assigned the Division of Special Investigation (DSI) to look into this matter but no big player was caught except the amount of pledged rice in some provinces was higher than what was endorsed on the certificates.
The off-season or second crop rice pledging season started from 1st March to 15t September 2012. The price was Bt. 15,000 per ton similarly to the price of rain �rice. There will be no limit as to the total quantity. Analyst observed that this policy encourages farmers to produce quantity rather than quality, as better quality rice takes longer to cultivate. Total yield was expected at approximately 11.11 million tons and another Bt. 166,650 million will be spent for this off-season rice pledging project.
By May 2012, the responsible agency Bank of Agriculture and Agriculture Co-operatives reported a total of 6.8 million ton of paddy rice had been pledged at Bt. 15,000 per ton, Bt. 2,500-30,000 higher than market price and anticipated a loss of Bt. 17-20.4 billion since the project was launched.
During December 2011 to May 2012, rice export was decreasing because Thai prices were higher than similar rice from other countries. The US Agriculture Ministry reported that Thailand would export only 6.5 to 7 million tons of rice in 2012, losing to India its leading position as rice exporter.
In July, the Thai Rice Exporters Association announced that during the first 6 months of 2012, Thailand exported 3.45 million tons of rice, that is only 45% of the same period last year. The value of rice export was Bt. 71,438 million, also a decrease of 34% against Bt. 107,644 million in 2011. Anticipation of another 3.05 million tons, equivalent to Bt. 50,000 million, would be exported in the next 6 months, making target of 6.5 million tons, against 10.65 million tons in 2011. The anticipated 6.5 million tons represent a decrease of 39%. The decline pushed Thailand down to third on the rank of rice exporters, after India and Vietnam.
In October, the Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) sent two letters, each signed by the Finance Minister and Deputy Finance Minister, warning the cabinet over public expenditure and public debt. The Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Co-operatives was mentioned on its expenditure in the 2012/13 Rice Pledging Scheme anticipated at Bt. 405 billion. Since the government is liable to guarantee the Bank�s Bt. 113 billion debt refinance, therefore, the PDMO recommended the only Bt. 150 billion new loans should be guaranteed by the government, making a total of Bt. 260 billion and equivalent to 55 percent of the total state enterprises government guaranteed debt.
In November, Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom said the government signed 6 MOU with 4 countries and a total of 7.5 million tons will be sold on the G-to-G basis. Moreover, 2 million tons had been delivered. His statement was commented on the lack of supporting evidence; packaging supply, shipment, etc. He later announced the Republic of China government agreed to buy 5 million ton of rice on a G-to-G basis but it was later confirmed that the actual amount was only 500,000 ton.
The Rice Pledging Program became one of the hottest issues the censure debate on 25th November. The opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva pointed that the policy leads to a state monopoly of rice trading. Cited the National Economic and Social Development Board, a Bt. 570 billion was used in 2012, therefore, if the program continues for another 6 years the public debt would rise to a critical of 60% of GDP foreseeing an unavoidably of tax increase and public expenditures reduce. Moreover, the program loopholes enhanced corruptions in all levels.
Prime Minister Yingluck ensured transparency and assured that the lost would not exceed than Democrat�s prices guaranteed program. Admitted Thailand fell from the first, to a third ranking of global rice exporters, but average selling price was higher than the first and second ranked. She argued the program�s achievement was on the monetary income, not the export tonal.
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Kittiral Na Ranong disclosed his concern over the government rice supply. He suggested Thai farmers should turn to other cash crops, tapioca, cane sugar etc., if Thai rice, in the long run, is not competitive in the global market.
ONE TABLET PCS PER CHILD. Firstly, a Bt. 1,632 million budget was estimated for purchasing of tablet PCs for 477,561 which were 62% of the grade 1 students nationwide but revised to Bt. 1,900 million and 860,000 students according to the cabinet resolution on 22nd February 2012. Each PC was estimated at Bt. 3,400 and will be purchased from China. The policy was strongly critics since it was announced that grade 1 students are too young for the PCs.
A study on the use of tablet PCs by grade 1 and grade 4 pupils in 5 schools in different parts of the country revealed that the older grade 4 pupils were able to use the devices more efficiently and were quicker to learn. It recommended that tablet PCs should be provided to grade 4 students and should be rotated amongst pupils in each class instead of individually distributed. The study also found that in spite of training provided to teachers, they were still unable to solve technical problems and needed assistance from technicians.
Distribution of tablet PCs started on the first semester of 2012 in spite of criticism.
FIRST CAR POLICY. The policy is to refund excise tax of maximum Bt. 100,000 to people who buy their first car of maximum 1,500 cc. or pick-up or double cap truck locally assembled. Buyers will get tax refund after 12 months of purchase. After one month of implementation, great flood swept across the central region where most vehicle industry locate so the buying period extended from 31st December 2011 to 31st December 2012, for the purchase order, while the delivery can be extended indefinitely.
The policy was overwhelmed and beyond anticipation. At 31st December, there were more 1.3 million first car-buyers entitled to get tax refund. The number was exceeded than the estimated 500,000 units, therefore, the Excise Department must seek an extra budget to cover the surplus expenditure.
On May, the World Bank warned that the government should reconsider populist policies which were high-cost-low-return such as rice-pledging program, one tablet PCs per student etc. since they cost 3% of the national budget and a loss of 1.5 % to 2012 GDP. The Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Kittirat Na Ranong, argued these policies are not only about giving money but they empowered the people to think about and solve their own problems. When people pay less tax they have more money to spend on goods. However, on October, he seemed to realize that these populist policies put enormous burden to financial balance.
The Cabinet.
After 5 months in office, in January 2012, the Yingluck administration made its first reshuffled and the second one was made in October. However, there was no significant change since it was a balance of gratitude to all fractions under Thaksin Shinawatra�s patronage. The cabinet is dutiful to approve budget according to Phue Thai party election campaign policy.
In August, Suan Dusit Poll of the Rajabhat Suan Dusit University disclosed its nationwide study of public opinion of Yingluck administration. The Prime Minister received 6.95 and 6.41, out of 10, for her intention and accomplishments respectively. These were higher than the whole cabinets� that received only 6.25 out of 10. The Poll also revealed the government�s best performance, 35.58% and 26.76% on fighting against drugs and salary increase respectively. The worst were solving economic problems and flood management, 32.12% and 19.45% respectively.
The opposition Democrat submitted no-confidential motion towards the Prime Minister and three cabinet members and the censure debate was held between 25-27 November. Despite evidence on irregularities in the Rice Pledging Scheme, the flood relief budget and the procurement of military equipment, the four received more than half of the votes and survived. The Democrat then sought other means to monitor the administrative power. They petitioned the independence authority; the Ombudsman and the National Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate these cases.
Political parties.
2012 was not a good year for Phue Thai party despite of their majority votes in the Parliament always outnumbered the opposition, Democrat. The bye-election in Pathum Thani constituency 5 on 21st April came out with Democrat�s victory although the seat belonged to former Phue Thai MP. The day after, on 22nd April, in the Provincial Administration Organization election, this resigned Phue Thai MP was unable to defeat his rival, the former head of PAO. Prathum Thani was always Phue Thai stronghold.
On 20th June, the Election Commission disqualified Phue Thai MP for Bangkok Constituency 12, Karun Hosakul, for defaming Democrat candidate during the 2011 election campaign.
Democrat has nothing much to do in the Parliament due to its minority votes. On 25-26 November, the 155 Democrat and 2 Rak Prathet Thai MPs sought impeachment and held censure debate retroactively against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and 2 cabinet members; Defence Minister Sukampol Suwannathat and Deputy Interior Minister Chatt Kuldilok. It was noted that Bhum Jai Thai and Machima faction did not join their opposition since there was a rumour that they were seeking a chance to join the coalition.
2012 was a turbulence year for Democrat leader Abhisit Vejjajiva since shortly after the 2011 flood, he was charged of distributed government flood relief bags during the flood. The petition was submitted to the Constitution Court through the House Speaker. The Court, on 20th April, rejected the petition reasoned the distribution was not for Abhisit�s nor Democrat�s benefits.
In 8th November, one day before the censure motion submitted, the Defense Minister Sukampol Suwannathat endorsed a ministerial proposal to strip Abhisit from his military rank, acting second lieutenant, acquired when serving as a lecturer in the Military School after graduated from Oxford University. Abhisit was charge of violating military discipline on producing false certificate when he applied to the School. The certificate certified Abhisit was exempted from recruitment while he was studying abroad and has minor error on its date. Abhisit�s new accusation could lead him to a nullification of the House membership and political ban forever according to violating officer disciplinary is banned by the Constitution from running MP election. Abhisit�s petitioned to the Administration Court was accepted.
Abhisit and former Deputy Prime Minister also faced another criminal charge due to their command during the April-May 2010 violence. The Department of Special Investigation is investigating the causes of civilians� death. This accusation has the highest live penalty if the court ruled the two Democrats guilty.
Civil Society.
In December 2011, a few hundreds of flood victims filed suits in the Administration Court against the Prime Minister and 10 heads of state agencies over failing to provide proper flood management and proper flood relief operation. They asked for compensation for their lost. No legal procedural was disclosed yet.
Similar case was made to but to the Civil Court asking for compensation on 19th May 2010 violence. The petition was filed by a group of traders in the Ratchaprasong shopping area against state agencies and some Red Shirt leader. On 28th September 2012, the Court dismissed the petition reasoning there is no evidence that these accused agents and persons related to the fire that damaged their properties. The court advised the traders to seek remediation from the government.
Displeased over the government escalating to its peak in October/November when more than 30,000 people assembled to express their call for Yingluck administration resignation. However, there seemed to be no clear roadmap on what would be done if the government overthrown.
On 28th October the Pitak Siam group led retired general Boonlert Kaewprasit held an anti-government demonstration at the Nang Leung racecourse to show their displeased over Yingluck administration that they failed to protect the monarchy and not react properly over defamation. Another two reasons were the politicians� lack of ethics and corruption. As the first demonstration received an overwhelming support; more than 30,000 people registered, and few thousands more attended without registration. The Pitak Siam held its second demonstration on 24th November 2012 at King Rama IV statue near the parliament. A few days earlier, the Emergency Law was declared to counter demonstration and 50,000 police officers were summoned from all over the country to guard barriers along the roads leading to every public building in that area including the government house and the parliament. Checkpoints were also set on highways into Bangkok to delay provincial supporters.
The attempt was a success since only less than 20,000 made their way through the police barriers to the venue. There were two clashes with the police resulted in a few injuries and 130 arrested. Gen. Boonlert cancelled the demonstration immediately, resigned from the leader position and said he would no more involve in popular politics.
Regardless to no violence happened among civil society groups in 2012, a rift widened and escalated to hatred without any endeavor to reconcile.
Flooding in 2011 led to the approval of 4 financial bills by the emergency decree allowing the government to seek Bt. 350 billion for water management. Two executive boards were also appointed, by the Prime Minister, to responsible water management and flood prevention. Private sector was invited to submit proposal on flood management plan of Bt. 300 billion turn-key project. A Bt. 50 billion was allotted for repairing and upgrading of existing waterway facilities.
As industrial sector were badly affected by the flood, there were attempts to prevent flooding by construction walls around industrial estates. State enterprise, the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand, got Bt. 5,000 million loans from the Government Saving Bank and state subsidies.
The natural catastrophe was in line with NASA request to use U-tapao airbase for atmospheric research in the south-east Asia region. Unfortunately, this proposal was opposed until the US government cancelled the operation.
There was no flood in 2012 but drought spread across more than 50 provinces particularly in the northeast region. In November, 18 provinces were officially declared drought-affected and the government inquired rice farmers in 4 provinces to cease from planting new crops. Without irrigation water, they must wait until May when raining season normally starts.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned that there were signs that drought was sweeping across the globe, from Africa to India and across the Pacific to the USA.
On 24th July, the Stop Global Warming Association Thailand and about 160 affiliations of supported groups, filed a complaint to the Central Administration Court asking the Court to nullify the Cabinet�s approval of the construction of the Mae Wong dam in Kamphaeng Phet province. While the government reasoned the dam is one of 21 dams, part of the government�s flood management scheme, the complaints said over 13,260 rais of fertile forest in the national park will be submerged under the water. They called for an alternative of several smaller dams and forest conservation.
The University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce unveiled its study in December 2011 that the private sector had to pay an additional 25-30 percent of the cost in order to get public contracts. These totaled more than Bt. 200 billion annually. The most corrupted projects were road/bridge construction, equipment procurement, flood compensation, crops and livestock compensation and other financial aids. There is an attempt to amend state contract regulations.
Bangkok Poll revealed its study between 21st-28th August 2012 among 70 economists from 27 leading institutions that 48.6% of the economists think Thai people are now addicted to populist policies and 47.1% think they are starting to be addicted.
For Thai youth, regarding to an attempt to promote public participation among the youth through establishing youth councils in every sub-district (tambon), a study in 10 provinces found that only 30 percent were successful. Their failures were due to lack of local administrators support, inappropriate activities, lack of time for participation, lack of initiative nor opportunity from the youth and lastly, no support from the public. The study stated that civic education is absent from the current educational system and youth council is an attempt to lead young people away from drugs, games, and sexual activity. Youth problems can be sustainably resolved only if their opinions are listened to and responded.
Thailand ranked the first in Asia with the highest teenage pregnancy rate and second worldwide after Africa. Pregnancy rate amongst teen was rising from 13.55% in 2011 to 13.76% in 2012. The average age of teenage mothers is between 13 and 15 years and unplanned pregnancy of the under 15 increased by 3.1% in 2010. Teenage pregnancy was 14% of all pregnancies nationwide.
Another study done by the National Economic and Social Development Board unveiled in August said that Thai students are disadvantaged in language skills and English compared to other students in ASEAN countries. It also found that they are at risk of mental problems, melancholy and irritability.
His Majesty King Bhumipol is donating Bt. 90 million to set up a foundation to promote civic education in schools. The foundation aims to promote and instilling ethics and morality among students as well as giving financial support to needy students.
From 1st April 2012, everyone insured under the 3 healthcare programs; the Civil Servants Benefits, the Social Security and the Universal healthcare programs are to be admitted to all public and private hospitals for emergency treatment.
Southern violence
After 9 years, the southern violence was not resolved and the emergency order was re-extended every 3 months until the end of 2012. In 2012 only, by 30th September, there were 843 violent incidents resulted in 513 deaths and 921 injuries. They were grouped into 1) state officers 9 54 deaths and 316 injured), 2) locals (353 deaths and 560 injured), 3) volunteers (35 deaths and 28 injured), 4) local leaders (38 deaths and 8 injured) and 5) terrorists (33 deaths and 9 injured).
The biggest casualty was on 31st March 2012 when 3 explosions occurred subsequently in Yala, Songkla and Pattani provinces. Houses and commercial buildings were shattered and torched. 11 deaths and 120 injured were reported.
In February 2012, the cabinet resolved the victims of the southern violence to the same rate compensation as for those affected by political unrest. They were victims of 1) the violence at Krue Se mosque and Saba Yoi on 28th August 2004, 2) the Tak Bai and Ayr Pa Yae, and 3) those missing, abused or tortured by state officers. Families of the deceased will receive Bt.7.5 million while those whose human rights were breached by state officers will each receive Bt.4 million and people affected by general violence, including Buddhist monks, Muslim clergy, international tourists and the locals, will receive compensation of Bt. 500,000.
In 2012 the economy grew at 5.5% against it anticipation of 5.7% due to shrinkage in export sector. It is expected to grow at 5.2% in 2013.
The 2013 fiscal budget is Bt. 2.4 trillion which is Bt. 20 billion, 0.8% higher than the 2012�s and is 19.1% of GDP.
Treasury reserve at September 2012 was Bt. 450 billion and expecting to reach Bt. 500-600 billion by December.
Public debt at 31st January 2012 was Bt. 4.36 trillion which was 41.06 % of GDP. It rose to Bt. 4.61 trillion or 42.40% of GDP and 5.01 trillion, or 44.89% of GDP in April and August respectively. Regarding to the 2013 fiscal budget, public debt is anticipated to rise to Bt. 9.59 trillion, or 47.5% of GDP.
Regardless to the economic growth rate, 5.5%, is very satisfactory due to the economy slow down due to the impact of flooding in 2011, Thai household average debt increased to Bt. 134,000. Small debts on credit cards also increased and its causes were the various populist policies: first home loan, first car loan, flood alleviation loan, debt re-structuring from non-formal to formal and vehicle leasing.
Private sector economy
In March 2012, private sector economy was recovering after the flood and 68.1% of the affected industries are at 68.1% of their normal capacity before the floods. The flooded factories have a corporate tax exempt for 8 years.
However, the value of the export sector had shrunk since June. The new business registration also dropped by 4% in the first 4 months of 2012. The trend in new registration is steadily declining. Between January to April, a total of 3,584 businesses were dissolved and it was 15 % higher than the same period in 2011.
Pay increase.
The Phue Thai pay increase policy was implemented on the civil servant group on 31st January 2012. The minimum salary of bachelor graduates was increased from Bt. 9,140 to Bt. 15,000 monthly. A Bt. 18,396 million was allocated and the budget was expected to increase in 2013. In September, the local authority pay also rose to a Bt. 15,000 monthly for the graduate and Bt.300 daily for the non-graduate, too. Local authorities without sufficient funds to cover the increase will get subsidiaries from the central government.
A Bt. 300 minimum wage will be applied nationwide on 1st January 2013. Previously, it was applied only in 7 provinces, including Bangkok and Phuket. The policy caused a crack among the Federal of Thai Industry as 139 members voted to strip its President Payungsak Chartsuthipol out from the position over his support to this nationwide application and failed to present the industrial sector�s difficulties to the government. They would like the effective date to postpone to 1st January 2015. Payungsak reacted he could be ousted either by two third of the 7,871 members, or by the Industry Minister upon severely offence.
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This Kips Bay studio has an updated kitchen and bathroom, and a dash of personality
It's not big, but it looks inviting.
February 6, 2018 - 10:00am
This co-op studio at 229 East 28th St. in Kips Bay is listed for $395,000, well below the $533,000 median price for a studio in Manhattan, according to a recent Citi Habitats market report. And price is not the only thing it has going for it. The apartment has three closets, as well as a dressing area with a built-in bureau just outside the bathroom.
The living space is small, but serviceable, with blonde-wood floors, green walls that add some personality, and a small seating area with a couch and coffee table. The apartment’s only window is in here, and despite the paucity of exposures, the room looks decently lit.
The sleeping area is separated from the living area by an open bookcase. It’s not quite a real bedroom, but there's enough room for a full-sized bed and a desk. There are also lots of shelves for books and baubles.
The kitchen has been recently renovated, with frosted glass cabinets, stainless steel appliances, a breakfast bar, and a cork floor. The breakfast bar actually seems to fit two chairs, as opposed to the wishful staging that you often see in studios for sale. There’s also a funky chalkboard paint backsplash for jotting down shopping lists or notes to someone special.
The bathroom has been remodeled as well, and features a vessel sink topping a white vanity, and off-white wall tiles that complement natural-hued tiles.
The apartment is in a seven-story co-op building with an elevator, a laundry room, a bike room, a storage room with individual storage lockers, and a full-time super. Maintenance is $876 a month. The board allows co-purchasing and small pets.
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Dr. Art Kaufman Receives National Award
Art Kaufman, M.D., chair of the UNM Department of Family and Community Medicine, was recently selected by the National Center for Primary Care to receive its 2006 Academic Leadership in Primary Care Award for his work in improving medical care throughout New Mexico . The award is one of three the Morehouse School of Medicine presents annualyl for excellence in primary care.
The Department of Family and Community Medicine has achieved international status for its training of medical professionals and innovative programs to improve access to the medically underserved in the state.
"As an academic leader in primary care, your specific contributions to create innovative education and service models to address community, indigent rural and population health needs has not gone unnoticed," said George Rust, M.D., MPH, interim director for the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine. "Through your work at the UNM School of Medicine and its Department of Family and Community Medicine, you have laid the ground work to improve health outcomes for many of our nation's under-served communities."
The award program, now in its sixth year, has honored a distinguished group of leaders in three categories of the medical arena:
Leadership in National Health Policy;
Clinical Leadership in Primary Care;
Academic Leadership.
The award will be presented at the Sixth Annual Morehouse School of Medicine Primary Care and Prevention Conference in Atlanta on September 11, 2006 .
Contact: Cindy Foster, 272-3322
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